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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
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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
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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'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's say the time spent "far" 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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/
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joejohnson
Can anyone point me to a relatively easy walkthrough on transferring my
domains away from GoDaddy (to namecheap, I guess)?
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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
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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
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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/
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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
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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
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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://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/proceedings?q=name:((17-108))
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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/
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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
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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
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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
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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'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
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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/
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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/
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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)
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kjs3
Grea... | {
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Salty diet makes you hungry, not thirsty - upen
http://exactlyscience.com/archives/12047.html
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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/)
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fpoling
This may explain why some d... | {
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There Are No Famous Programmers - suraj
http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1275989245.html
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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/
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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
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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/
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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
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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/
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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
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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/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
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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... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Book of dark arts: selective disclosure with CSS - ggeorgovassilis
https://blog.georgovassilis.com/2018/12/06/book-of-dark-arts-selective-disclosure-with-css/
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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/
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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/
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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
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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
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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/
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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/
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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
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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
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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
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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... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Seeking beta testers for iOS app to meet internet celebs, free during beta - verigeoff
http://veriapp.co
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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
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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... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Introducing GIFV - crabasa
http://imgur.com/blog/2014/10/09/introducing-gifv/?forcedesktop=1
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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
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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/
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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
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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/
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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
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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/
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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/
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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/
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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
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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
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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'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
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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
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_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
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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/
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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/
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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/
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jasonlbaptiste
Great post since live video is the next big "wave"
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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
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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
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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
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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/
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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
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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
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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/
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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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} |
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