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How Greg Lindsay Beat IBM's Watson at Jeopardy - fakelvis http://www.fastcompany.com/1726969/how-i-beat-ibms-watson-at-jeopardy-3-times ====== ugh This is also mentioned in the article but I think it is worth mentioning again: Those games were played a year ago. That’s a long, long time ago. IBM started building Wa...
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Thresholds - timf http://alumnit.ca/~apenwarr/log/?m=200901#01 ====== timf Summary: " _some kinds of transitions are easier to predict: the ones that follow something like Moore's law. Here are a few of those upcoming transitions. I won't try to tell you when they'll come, but perhaps they'll give you some ideas. Fo...
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Ask HN/PG: Video stream weekly YC speakers? - abbasmehdi I have noticed that YC is very generous with its advice, which includes advice to all (even non-YC) founders through HN and PG's essays, and with it's open application process/criterion that allows other accelerator programs to copy it openly. I was wondering ...
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Building a MVP at $0. Possible? - iprithvitharun We are a few weeks away from launching our MVP (themellow.work) and so far we&#x27;ve spent only $10<p>Hosting server backend (AWS) - $0 Email Server (AWS) - $0 Hosting website frontend (S3 Bucket) - $0 Website analytics (GTM, GA, and Hotjar) - $0 Customer support tools...
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Ask HN: Travel opportunities for software developers? - deanmoriarty Just out of curiosity, are you aware of employment opportunities for software developers that require a lot of traveling?<p>For the sake of it, let&#x27;s say the time spent &quot;far&quot; from home should be between 30% and 70%, preferably anothe...
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Geolocation: An App For “Proud Masturbators And Public Sex Act Aficionados” - AndrewWarner http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/15/fapmapper-masturbation-app/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&utm_content=Google+Reader ====== anigbrowl This begs for a mashup with the ...
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Lawrence of Arabia and the crash helmet - jgrahamc http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32622465 ====== cafard Lawrence's description of a motorcycle ride in his memoir of RAF training and service, _The Mint_ , suggests that recklessly was his favorite way to ride. (Or so I recall--it has been years since I read it, and...
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Darpa Wants to Perform Learning with Less Labels - juddydotg https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2018-07-11 ====== juddydotg Have there been Kaggle competitions to do this kind of thing before?
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Rsync.net – Cloud Storage for Offsite Backups - fgeorgy http://www.rsync.net/index.html ====== St-Clock A few quick notes about our experience with Rsync.net 1\. It is more expensive than S3/Glacier, but they offer "free" read-only snapshots, which can be very useful if your backup software or script does not perform...
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Bulgaria Passes a Law Requiring Open Source - bozho https://medium.com/@bozhobg/bulgaria-got-a-law-requiring-open-source-98bf626cf70a#.np5mz0heu ====== bluetomcat You wouldn't know the background motivating this decision unless you have been a frustrated user of the nearly non-functional software of Bulgarian state in...
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Why I Jumped Off the Ivory Tower - cantankerous http://zacharyernst.blogspot.com/2013/10/why-i-jumped-out-of-ivory-tower.html?m=1 ====== Anon84 Just a small datapoint when it comes interdisciplinarity, at least when it comes to Physics. I'm faculty in a Physics department working in an interdisciplinary field (Social...
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December 29th is Dump GoDaddy Day - mgrouchy http://betanews.com/2011/12/26/december-29-is-dump-go-daddy-day/ ====== joejohnson Can anyone point me to a relatively easy walkthrough on transferring my domains away from GoDaddy (to namecheap, I guess)? ~~~ raphael_lee I used this: [http://blog.jeffepstein.me/post/14629...
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This Google result can't possibly be right: - NSX2 Had fallout with partner over perceived workloads. To destress I thought I'd amuse myself by googling "lazy cofounder". 0 results. Tried "lazy co-founder" ... 4 results, all irrelevant. Tried "lazy business partner", only 5 results with the standard "search aga...
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Ask HN: What criteria helps focus your interests? - halfcat A few questions:<p>1) Should interests be limited in the name of doing something meaningful?<p>2) If interests should be limited, how do you determine what is worth spending time on so that you do not regret it after investing a significant amount of time?<...
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Errant cron task yields yearlong time lapse of nytimes.com - ChrisArchitect http://blog.joshuanguyen.com/post/7766138893/due-to-an-errant-cron-task-that-ran-twice-an-hour ====== zenpaul I created a web application and set of scripts late last year to snapshot sites like that on a daily/hourly/minutely interval. Also...
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13-Year-Old Password Security Bug Fixed [crypt_blowfish, ergo PHP et al.] - pasbesoin http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/20/2257229/13-Year-Old-Password-Security-Bug-Fixed ====== pasbesoin I'm not claiming expertise -- just a heads up. I gather this resource may already be avoided by some/many.
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Google "niche design sites" - kirillzubovsky http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&source=hp&q=niche+design+sites&pbx=1&oq=niche+design+sites&aq=f&aqi=g-v1&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=947l4257l0l4445l18l11l0l4l4l0l580l1715l2.4.1.5-1l8l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=ae1bafe2df197d5b&biw=1224&bih=706 Just as a mental note, thi...
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A Guide for Webmasters: How to Disable Ad Blockers from Your Site - Magicstatic http://www.wiyre.com/guide-how-to-disable-ad-blockers-for-webmasters/ ====== emocin [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock- origin/cjpa...](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock- origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiag...
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Free business advice by volunteers - zinosoufi http://www.score.org/explore_score.html ====== vlad I went to a SCORE workshop; it was lead by an egomaniac. You can get an advisor, but they won't take you seriously when you're 20; and, I wouldn't bother going now. My impression of SCORE is that they build businesses lo...
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The universal USB connector we’ve been waiting for is almost here - nkurz http://www.androidauthority.com/usb-3-1-type-c-specification-416890/ ====== pedalpete I would hope they would have work into their 'universal' design a 'reversible' USB. USB is regularly mocked for the amount of time we spend flipping the conn...
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Do you think this is a useful software tool? - Filestage http://www.filestage.io/ ====== toonies555 yes. especially for marketing people. 1) client calls you in. 2) you write brief. 3) you play it back. 4) you fix brief 5) repeat 3 & 4 6) deliver. most of this is necessary but filestage will make 5 go quick
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The story between VLC and Sourceforge - mafuyu https://blog.l0cal.com/2015/06/02/what-happened-to-sourceforge/ ====== frik Interesting is that Sourceforge doesn't even host the downloads themself, but just links to mirrors like HEANET. The mirrors should refuse to add any new binaries from Sourceforge and we need a ...
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Volvo admits its self-driving cars are confused by kangaroos - cromulent https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/01/volvo-admits-its-self-driving-cars-are-confused-by-kangaroos ====== jazoom The important part: >“When it’s in the air, it actually looks like it’s further away, then it lands and it looks closer...
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Net Neutrality Complaints to FCC Not Submitting - yosemite_pete Is anyone else having difficulty submitting complaints to the FCC with 503s being returned?<p>URL: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fcc.gov&#x2F;ecfs&#x2F;search&#x2F;proceedings?q=name:((17-108)) ====== Finnucane I'm sending Pai a postcard. He doesn't control the U...
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Creator of xkcd Reveals Secret Backstory of His Epic 3,990-Panel Comic - ghosh http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/08/xkcd-time-comic/ ====== eykanal This is what makes Munroe so awesome. It's one thing to be able to make nerd comics. It's another thing to put in the effort to make accurate time/location maps of vario...
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Why is programming an art - johngorse https://blooki.st/BlookElement/ShowTextPhoto?blookElementId=1962 ====== MetaCosm (On John Carmack) "It was written that his code is so ugly according to the best practices standards, that only he completely understands what he has written. And we all know that he is a genius." No...
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Valve Moves to Choke Off $7.4B Gambling Market - danso http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-13/game-maker-valve-moves-to-choke-off-7-4-billion-gambling-market ====== heifetz I think Valve has a bit of responsibility in this, because they created microtransactions for "skins" in the game in the first place......
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Ask YC: Learning to read code? - noahlt I'm a high schooler who has worked on a few small projects of my own. Recently I've started to work with a friend[1] and I've discovered that reading code really is an order of magnitude harder than writing it. What's the best way to learn to read code? If the solution is j...
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Show HN: KafkaLite – A simple message broker inspired by Kafka - flashgordon https://github.com/panyam/KafkaLite ====== sethammons I feel the readme is lacking; I would hope to see something about its use case, what makes it lite, etc. How is it like/unlike Kafka? It seems like it is only available as a c library and ...
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Ask HN: How to Improve My Team's Security Awareness? - ahmedk92 I&#x27;m your average developer in your average IT firm that makes your conventional products. But these days, we have a customer who has security as his TOP requirement.<p>I heard the summary of the first meeting with our project manager. He seems OBSESS...
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Pandora Spends $450M Remixing Its Business - paulsutter http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/10/13/pandora-media-inc-spends-450-million-remixing-its.aspx ====== rch Is there room for Pandora to sign artists directly, which would be similar to Netflix producing original content? Is it even permissible given how t...
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An employee whose job was to be sacked (2010) - hodder https://henrytapper.com/2010/01/09/an-employee-whose-job-was-to-be-sacked/ ====== wolfspider Yes, while working a telemarketing job for quick cash secretly I encountered just this sort of thing. I had spent all of my graduation gift money meant for my first apartm...
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Yasuke: The African Samurai - danso http://thedailybeagle.net/2013/03/07/yasuke-the-african-samurai/ ====== hardwaresofton Great story, definitely interesting -- as a black guy that has been to japan, I'm surprised I've never heard this story, and it seems super probable (the reactions/circumstances) ------ kjs3 Grea...
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Salty diet makes you hungry, not thirsty - upen http://exactlyscience.com/archives/12047.html ====== DrScump Blogspam of [https://insights.mdc-berlin.de/en/2017/04/mission-control- bo...](https://insights.mdc-berlin.de/en/2017/04/mission-control-bodys-salt- water-supplies/) ------ fpoling This may explain why some d...
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There Are No Famous Programmers - suraj http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1275989245.html ====== edw519 If you want to be famous, go be an entertainer, athlete, or politician. If you want to be a programmer, check your ego at the door. The two biggest roadblocks to success in programming are incompetence and attitude. B...
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Suggestion: HN should have a reddit-style AMA (ask me anything) - MatthewB It would be great to have a reddit-style AMA (Ask Me Anything), where interesting people come and answer questions asked by HN users.<p>I can only speak for myself but if there were a way to ask industry experts questions about...well anythin...
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Easter Island heads have bodies - timf http://seeker401.wordpress.com/2011/10/29/easter-island-heads-have-bodies/ ====== tripzilch Of course they have bodies! How is this news to anyone? A good part of these statues are well above ground _including_ their bodies, and we've known the sunken ones have bodies below the...
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How to Get a Raise - lionhearted http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/how-to-get-a-raise ====== jnovek At SI, we follow the Joel Spolsky tiered structure that Sebastian mentions -- you're hired at a salary based on your experience and talent and you can be promoted into a higher salary, but we only give cost-of-living rai...
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PipelineDB Releases Enterprise Version of Its Streaming SQL Database - Fergi http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/14/pipelinedb-releases-first-enterprise-version-of-its-streaming-sql-database/ ====== Fergi The main difference between PipelineDB and old CEP frameworks is that PipelineDB is based on the PostgreSQL 9.4 core, so...
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Apple iPen patent - maayank http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2012/05/apple-sheds-more-light-on-their-ipen-graphics-program.html ====== david_shaw Interesting concept, though I'm not sure it's novel (no sources for that at this time). It seems to be very similar to the Android way of doing things: small v...
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Containing UAVs – Technology and Regulatory Pathways - yoelf22 https://www.icconsulting.xyz/single-post/2019/01/01/ ====== yoelf22 [https://www.icconsulting.xyz/single- post/2019/01/01/Containi...](https://www.icconsulting.xyz/single- post/2019/01/01/Containing-UAVs---Regulatory-and-Technology-Pathways) #FAA #ICC
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Start-Up Slowdown – How the U.S. 
Can Regain Its Entrepreneurial Edge - hdivider http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/142498/robert-litan/start-up-slowdown ====== santoriv This article confuses the term "startup" and "new business". By their definition a new hot dog stand, a new independent pharmacy, or a new plu...
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Ask HN: Any downsides of programming in Haskell? - raphinou To anyone who developed a real world application in Haskell, what are the downsides of it?<p>What is in your opinion more laborious than needed? Are library sufficiently available and documented? Is doing I&#x2F;O fine? Is working with a DB easy? Please share...
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Tesla and Solar City Combine - chasingtheflow https://www.tesla.com/blog/tesla-and-solarcity-combine ====== icc97 Brand wise I can certainly see how this is beneficial to Solar City. Tesla as a brand has taken off hugely, so I can see it being easier to sell 'Tesla Solar' which is an easy benefit to Solar City as a co...
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Book of dark arts: selective disclosure with CSS - ggeorgovassilis https://blog.georgovassilis.com/2018/12/06/book-of-dark-arts-selective-disclosure-with-css/ ====== ggeorgovassilis Author here: I started a series of posts about rehabilitating unusual techniques for web development. This chapter is about showing and h...
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Go, robots and refactoring - mattetti http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2014/04/28/refactoring-go-code/ ====== enneff I would suggest naming the method "Device" instead of "GetDevice". The word "Get" is almost always redundant. ~~~ mattetti I totally agree, I found myself refactoring my own code and renaming "Get<>()" ...
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T1 is a language for constrained environments, embedded systems with little RAM - begoon https://t1lang.github.io/ ====== fromtheslides From the slides: T0 is a Forth-like language used to implement the handshake parser and the X.509 validation engine. • Compiled to threaded code • Uses two cus...
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Pay the obese to lose weight, says study - ksvs http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16233-pay-the-obese-to-lose-weight-says-study.html ====== makecheck So you can tell an obese person "hey, you'll probably die from this" and they do nothing, but offer them a few bucks and suddenly they shed pounds? Apparently so....
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A Microcluster-Based Anomaly Detector in Edge Streams - siddharthbhatia https://github.com/bhatiasiddharth/MIDAS ====== siddharthbhatia Given a stream of graph edges from a dynamic graph, how can we assign anomaly scores to edges in an online manner, for the purpose of detecting unusual behavior, using constant time a...
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New York's Uptown Rats Are Genetically Distinct from Downtown Rats - tooba https://www.citylab.com/environment/2017/11/new-york-city-has-genetically-distinct-uptown-and-downtown-rats/547088/ ====== astrodust > Rats, although abundant, are not easily fooled into traps. They’re wary of > new objects. To entice them, the...
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Trump “would never get in a self-driving car” - Tomte https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/03/report-trump-would-never-get-in-a-self-driving-car/ ====== LinuxBender I agree with Mr. Trump _in this specific case._ I work with developers that have the greatest of intentions, but they are human and bugs happen. Bugs provid...
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Milton Glaser, designer of ‘I ♥ NY’ logo, has died - wallflower https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/obituaries/milton-glaser-dead.html ====== simtel20 About 7 years ago, the brooklyn brewsers, a beer brewing club, got the tour of the brooklyn brewery. On that tour, the brewmaster, Garrett Oliver, told the story of how ...
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Statistical Rethinking and Nix - HaoZeke https://rgoswami.me/posts/rethinking-r-nix/ ====== xitrium > Unfortunately, the rethinking package which is a major component of the book > itself depends on the V8 engine for some reason. This is my fault, in a sense. In order to get the new Stan compiler (written in OCaml) d...
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Lovelace – The Origin (2009) - bootload http://sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/lovelace-the-origin-2/ ====== jordigh The printed book is truly delightful. It contains a mostly complete explanation of how the difference engine worked and how the analytical engine was supposed to work. It's also full of scholarly footnotes to...
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Reading List for Leaders in Uncertain Times - ozres1 https://a16z.com/2020/03/20/reading-list-founders-leaders-company-builder-uncertain-times/ ====== nav3en Really interesting article. Here's a related article on simple leadership lessons from Extreme Ownership that I had written - [https://medium.com/@brainstrained/...
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Where GREP Came from (ft. Brian Kernighan) - pdkl95 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTfOnGZUZDk ====== AdmiralAsshat So grep exists because someone wanted to do textual analysis on the Federalist papers.
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Brazil’s Digital Backlash - tysone http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/12/opinion/brazils-digital-backlash.html ====== matt_wulfeck My first impression when I read articles like this (and I'm sure many of you are thinking the same thing) is to come up with a distributed xmpp OTR/pgp blah blah. But the reality is that the l...
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Seeking beta testers for iOS app to meet internet celebs, free during beta - verigeoff http://veriapp.co ====== verigeoff We have some lofty goals as well as vision and such about disrupting traditional fame models and re-visting the monetization of fame on the internet. First things first, we need to make sure our a...
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MIT Closet Allegedly Used by Aaron Swartz - mrb http://cryptome.org/2013/01/swartz/mit-closet-swartz.htm ====== gregholmberg When I clicked on the link, I expected to see an unlocked closet primarily used to store mops, floor wax and boxes of copier paper. Instead, I saw a small carpeted room containing a half-full r...
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Introducing GIFV - crabasa http://imgur.com/blog/2014/10/09/introducing-gifv/?forcedesktop=1 ====== jawns "With all these improvements, Imgur will now denote converted MP4s with a .gifv extension. The intention is to signal to users throughout the Internet that these links will feature a GIF experience that incorporat...
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When your turn comes, will you “Name Names?” - charliesome http://braythwayt.com/2017/02/12/will-you-name-names.html ====== basicplus2 Now thinking of... backing up my entire phone to my own server, enter the US with No phone, buy a new phone, download backbackup and reinstall, use while there, wipe it, throw it away,...
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Study Looks at Why Neolithic Humans Buried Their Dogs with Them - pseudolus https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/people-buried-their-dogs-them-4000-years-ago-180971502/ ====== revskill There's no answer to the "Why" question to be found here. ~~~ chrisseaton > some Paleolithic humans regarded some of their dogs ...
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GitHub’s Top Coding Languages Show Open Source Has Won - snehesht http://www.wired.com/2015/08/github-data-shows-changing-software-landscape/?mbid=social_fb ====== morey In my opinion "When Apple opens up, you’ll know the world has changed indeed" is a good last statement from the article and there is truth to it. ...
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Hello Cloud: Windows Azure brings Microsoft into the cloud - martinsz http://venturebeat.com/2008/10/27/windows-azure-brings-microsoft-into-the-cloud/ ====== tdoggette I'm less interested in MS press fluff than in what exactly Azure is. Is it just modified Windows Server (and if so, what version)? Does it entail using...
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Will Artificial Intelligence Take Your Job? - lukebrn_ https://medium.com/truncated/will-artificial-intelligence-take-your-job-2a5624488df ====== ClassyComedy Maybe automated processes yes, but not maintenance and quality assurance of certain jobs. Not to mention that quality assurance, customer care can be auto but I...
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Apple to become most profitable company ever - zacharye http://www.bgr.com/2012/06/18/apple-most-profitable-company-iphone-5-ipad-mini-itv/ ====== benologist wow bgr.com finally got some spam to the front page! <http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=kemper> <http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=zacharye> <ht...
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Ask HN: How and when to pitch an angel? - aditya There's a lot of info out there on pitching VCs and what the deck should include but not so much on pitching angels for smaller seed stage investments, so:<p>* What is the right time to pitch an angel? Is it after the alpha but before traction or after a good amount o...
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Show HN: Python on iOS Native Apps - jventura https://github.com/joaoventura/pybridge-ios ====== jventura This project is a base for which to add a python interpreter to a swift iOS project. It allows us to call python functions and get the resulting string, and then use the result in swift code (to update native widg...
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Ask HN: My MongoDB resources site Mongofu.com, good/bad? - sonnymai Hey HN'ers,<p>I'm a long time reader, first time contributor. Anyway, this is a little project of mine, a place where people can post MongoDB related tutorials and questions. http://mongofu.com/<p>I've been working on this to develop some of my skil...
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When Music Is Violence - pmcpinto http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/04/when-music-is-violence ====== kkoomi On a tangential note, my neighbor plays the same music daily outside for 1.5 hours and it actually infuriates me (musical torture). I end up needing to turn on my AC and some ambient noise videos to bloc...
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Why India wiped out over 80% of its cash overnight - Brajeshwar http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-37974423 ====== gus_massa From the bbc.com URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12952835](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12952835) (23 points, 18 hours ago, 11 comments)
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Show HN: IMDB and RT ratings on Netflix - josh_blum http://netflix.burtonthird.com ====== mdxn There are dozens of Greasemonkey scripts on userscripts.org dating back to 2005 that do exactly this and more (On Chrome, you can use the Tampermonkey extension; On Firefox, it's just called Greasemonkey). No to belittle you...
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How to Fold a Julia Fractal - rosstex http://acko.net/blog/how-to-fold-a-julia-fractal/ ====== jfarmer More than being an intro to Julia fractals, I think this post is a great introduction to complex numbers and functions of the complex plane[1]. The way this is presented is very similar to how most math-folk I know ...
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Ask HN: Should I care to support IE6? - satyajit According to the latest browser statistics (link below), the IE6 has a 17.1 market share. How many of those folks may care about the Web2.0 platform we are writing? May be about a fifth? So overall for those 2-3% of the entire market, is it worth spending your valuabl...
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Show HN: FreeSpace Previews w/ Ace Online Code Editor - akumpf https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace/issues/2478 ====== akumpf Also, out of curiosity, does anyone know of any other code editors that show URL previews inline?
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React JS Best Practices - lopatin http://blog.siftscience.com/blog/2015/react-applications-that-scale ====== girvo _> Flux is also quite verbose, which makes it inconvenient for data state, state that is persisted to the server._ We felt the same way, until we moved away from Facebook's Flux implementation and adopte...
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I quit my 100k a year job to learn programming from scratch. Ask me anything. - fttechfounder http://anyasq.com/47-i-quit-my-100k-a-year-job-to-learn-programming-from-scratch ====== theblueadept111 Hi, I'm a novice in your field. I've read about your field in the popular media, and have romantic notions about becom...
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Intel Real Sense Camera on Linux: 3D Camera Controls - teknotus http://solsticlipse.com/2015/02/10/intel-real-sense-on-linux-part-2-3d-camera-controls.html ====== barrystaes An article about a LIDAR, without calling it a LIDAR. How quaint! ~~~ teknotus I haven't found any definition for Lidar that isn't a speed of ...
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Does CSS Grid Replace Flexbox? - mirceasoaica https://css-tricks.com/css-grid-replace-flexbox/ ====== ajross As a systems guy who only occasionally pokes his head into this web stuff: have we now completed the circle? For well over a decade I've seen generations of web hackers rail on about the evils of tables for lay...
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Show HN: gist.io, blogless writing for hackers - idan http://gist.io ====== idan Author here. Generally, if you have features you want, file 'em here: <https://github.com/idan/gistio/issues> Stuff I'd like to do given the time: * Add RestructuredText support * Add a sign-in-with-github option, and turn this into...
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Lanyrd: From idea to exit – the story of our startup - simonw http://blog.natbat.net/post/61658401806/lanyrd-from-idea-to-exit-the-story-of-our-startup ====== simonw Natalie put a lot of work in to this (and we're suposed to be on holiday!). There's lots of great stuff in here - not just about the overall startup expe...
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Ask HN: What are the best practices for opening a single outbound connection? - millisecond In a world where most systems are architected to redundantly handle tons of inbound connections sometimes you need to start a single long-lived highly available outbound one.<p>For inbound, it&#x27;s pretty easy, run redundant ...
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U.S. Women Are Facing an Infertility Crisis - rbanffy http://fortune.com/2017/05/03/us-fertility-crisis/?xid=soc_socialflow_twitter_FORTUNE ====== bediger4000 I only had to temporarily allow fortune.com to load the text of the article. I'd also note that "Fortune" is an unabashed tool of the elite, and elite- wannabes...
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Naja Pitches on Shark Tank - majani https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL11e1eJ2mk ====== _RPM I think she gave off an arrogant feel. The sharks didn't like that she acted like she was smarter than everyone. When she said that she met the VC at a bar.. my immediate thoughts were related to all those stores of women cla...
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Ghost in the Shell Official Trailer - wslh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4VmJcZR0Yg ====== icanhackit The original soundtrack by Kenji Kawai, like Vangelis' Blade Runner soundtrack, is what helped make the film a timeless classic. I really hope the music in this clip was to merely engage people who aren't familiar ...
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Google working with Ryanair on airline price-comparison service - macarthy12 http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/oleary-reveals-ryanairgoogle-plan-to-change-how-we-buy-tickets-forever-29907730.html ====== BMarkmann I wonder if this based on Google's acquisition a while back of ITA Software ([http://www.itasoftw...
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Why No Saudi Arabians Made the Forbes Billionaires List This Year - krn https://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2018/03/06/no-saudi-arabian-billionaires-forbes-list-2018-alwaleed-alamoudi/ ====== anoncoward111 This article really hits the nail on the head about what is happening in Saudi Arabia. There's been some rea...
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InventHub – Visual version control for electronics design - Faizann20 https://inventhub.io/ ====== usamaabid Hi, I am the founder of InventHub. We just came out of private beta and we need your feedback on the product to help us improve. Just a bit of intro about InventHub: InventHub is a git based visual version con...
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FDA presses medical device makers to OK good faith hacking - walterbell http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Passcode/2016/0210/FDA-presses-medical-device-makers-to-OK-good-faith-hacking ====== SixSigma There is probably a lot to find, if the produce recall database [1] is anything to go by, QA can be a struggle. [1] [http...
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Show HN: Rate Elevator Pitch Videos - acremades https://rockthepost.com/pitch/browse ====== FajitaNachos I watched the first 5 or 6 videos and couldn't help but notice how unrefined they all were. Is that normal? While I liked a couple of the ideas, it just seemed like some of these were submitted after only a coupl...
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MySQL Local/Remote Account Password Cracking - ibotty http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2012-December/089076.html ====== ibotty previously by kingcope: <http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Dec/2> <http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Dec/4> <http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Dec/5> ...
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Promethea Unbound - _dps https://magazine.atavist.com/promethea-unbound-child-genius-montana ====== YeGoblynQueenne >> To Jasmine, a little girl with olive skin and dark eyes prone to faraway expressions, it felt like camping. This is a weird thing that I've noticed before, with the way non-Greeks perceive -or at lea...
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Social Marketing: How to Attract Viewers to Your Live Show - jasonlbaptiste http://www.ustream.tv/blog/2008/04/28/social-marketing-how-to-attract-viewers-to-your-live-show/ ====== jasonlbaptiste Great post since live video is the next big "wave" ------ schlichtm Basic but great info
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Prioritized Grammar Enumeration: Symbolic Regression by Dynamic Programming [pdf] - henning http://seminars.math.binghamton.edu/ComboSem/worm-chiu.pge_gecco2013.pdf ====== henning Thank you to verdverm for pointing this paper out. [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18766651](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=187...
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Extracting Secret Test Cases from the Google Foobar Challenge - aw1621107 https://medium.com/@mfe5003/extracting-secret-test-cases-from-google-foobar-challenge-6b0a0bea61c4 ====== CobrastanJorji > It turns out there are 48 exceptions, which means I can get 5 bits of > information out of a single test run that raises a...
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Apple buys Siri as war with Google heats up - fromedome http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-buys-siri-a-mobile-assistant-app-as-war-with-google-heats-up-2010-4 ====== gluejar This has more info than the Scoble article
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Emotions killing your intellectual productivity - joeyespo http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2009/01/20/emotions-killing-your-intellectual-productivity/ ====== wslh I love emotions and they challenge my intellectual sense of productivity. I don't see research without handling (but having) frustration. Emotions are good f...
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Gawker's Numbers Tanking - tgrass http://therawfeed.com/gawkers-redesign-is-killing-the-network ====== thechangelog I can explain part of it: the hash based URLs are completely broken in Canada (and presumably elsewhere). Any link I follow (e.g. gawker.com/#12345) redirects to ca.gawker.com. The hashes aren't preser...
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Jimmy Wales on Desert Island Discs (radio Interview) - DanBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05vstzl ====== DanBC IMO he comes across well in this interview. I fist-pumped when he mentioned the arbcom case about punctuation - I use a similar case when I describe how sub-optimal some bits of Wikipedia are.
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A lot of “idiotic” things have reasonable explanations (2011) - luu https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/12/if-everyone-else-is-such-an-idiot-how-come-youre-not-rich/249430/ ====== GlenTheMachine A similar story that I love regarding the infamous Van Halen brown M&M contract rider: “Van Halen was the fir...
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