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Don't Be a Sucker (1947) – U.S. War Department warning against populism - seycombi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag40XYIj4hE&feature=youtu.be
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dTal
This is a wonderful piece of work. It could even be called defining. So it's
curious that it says at the end:
"This film will not be shown to the general public w... | {
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How to Build Links Without Hoaxes, Whiteboards, or Other Tomfoolery - mattgratt
http://grattisfaction.com/2010/08/5-ways-to-build-links-without-hoaxes-whiteboards-or-other-tomfoolery/
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bingaman
Linkbait article is linkbait.
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mattgratt
Yes. It has everything - a cute girl, an Arrested Development reference, ... | {
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Who's to Blame for the 16 GB RAM Limit on the New MacBook Pros: Apple or Intel? - grzm
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/10/31/intel-mbp-ram
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pcurve
I'm a little bit surprised at this outrage considering there are very few PC
laptops that offer 32GB+ DDR4. XPS15 offers 32GB but its battery life is
rather poo... | {
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} |
Microsoft introduces free CI/CD for OSS projects - flyingswift
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/devops/azure-pipelines/
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LyalinDotCom
This is a duplicate with
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17952262](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17952262)
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CircleCI Insights: Helping You Understand Your Builds - craigkerstiens
http://blog.circleci.com/announcing-circleci-insights-helping-you-understand-your-builds/
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cburgmer
Great to see more data-driven approaches for optimising builds.
Erik has written a bit about his approaches in the past [1] and Graham [2] an... | {
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Web browser standards support - lucumo
http://www.webdevout.net/browser-support
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audionerd
_I am currently in the process of testing other browsers and versions,
including Safari and Konqueror. I do not yet have estimated dates for when
this information will be available._
Bummer. It would be interesting to s... | {
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} |
Inside Amazon.com warehouse workers complain of brutal conditions - aaronbrethorst
http://articles.mcall.com/2011-09-17/news/mc-allentown-amazon-complaints-20110917_1_warehouse-workers-heat-stress-brutal-heat
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potatolicious
Former Amazonian, the constant use of contractors, even in cases where the
jobs are anyth... | {
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Civil Forfeiture and the Supreme Court (2014) - martincmartin
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2014/02/civil-liberties-and-supreme-court?foo=bar
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Quanticles
In articles about "innocent until proven guilty" it is popular to say that it
is better to let 100 guilty go free than one innocent be erro... | {
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} |
Russian Tea How-to - borism
http://home.fazekas.hu/~nagydani/rth/Russian-tea-HOWTO-v2.html
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snitko
What makes "zavarka" so important is that it's easy to measure how
concentrated you want your tea to be. It's more difficult to achieve with a
teabag. Though, I must note, hardly anyone here makes zavarka anymore... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: UniFlow – methodology and iOS framework for writing perfect apps - max_khatskevich
https://xcessentials.github.io/UniFlow
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max_khatskevich
Every app has an architecture, good or bad. Since there is no universal set of
rules (methodology) about how to build an app, every developer/team has to
come up wit... | {
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Python REPL with syntax highlighting, autocomplete and multiline editing - tbrock
https://github.com/jonathanslenders/python-prompt-toolkit
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aidos
This is actually brilliant. It fixes my (relatively minor) gripes with the
standard iPython front-end. Namely the multiline mode is miles better, so so
much better.
... | {
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Ffwd: Delegation is much faster than you think - ingve
https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/12/04/ffwd-delegation-is-much-faster-than-you-think/
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jsnell
This felt like enough of a "devil is in the details" case that I needed to
read the original rather than a summary. Clicked through to the paper, to be
greeted by an A... | {
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Messaging apps shouldn't make money – Pavel Durov and Telegram - bndr
http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2015/03/features/messaging-apps
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textrmessenger
I think the key thing here is that Durov has the money from selling stock in
his previous company (12% w/valuation of 3-4 billion) which means he can
affor... | {
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} |
Try Erlang, a hands-on tutorial - sdp
http://www.tryerlang.org/
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rednum
Some notes after doing a few steps of tutorial:
\- a simple command history feature in the shell would be really nice
\- I wish the notification that I don't follow tutorial didn't appear there
each time I try to play with the shell - we... | {
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Site with future Vulkan tutorials for beginners - ibobev
https://learnvulkan.com/
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sevensor
The author's earlier project, learnopengl.com, helped me catch up to modern
OpenGL after having been away from OpenGL since shortly after it became Open.
(I learned iris GL first.) Looking forward to the Vulkan version.
... | {
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} |
Apple working on two new chips, A5X and A6 - techblock
http://www.thetechblock.com/articles/2012/rumor-apple-working-on-two-new-chips-a5x-and-a6/
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jonny_eh
"according to the evidence presented, it does appear that Apple has been
working on new chips"
Ya don't say!
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wmf
Standard rumorology; people care mor... | {
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Visual Studio Code extensions for productivity - ypkuby
https://kuby.ca/best-visual-studio-code-extensions-ive-found/
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JeanMarcS
Well it could have been a bit more usefull with a short explaination of what
each does, or at least a link to the module.
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ypkuby
Sorry, I've been tweaking my theme and it got hidd... | {
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} |
Amazon beats Netflix to new car show from Top Gear presenters - owenwil
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/07/30/amazon-beats-netflix-to-top-gear-presenters-new-car-show/
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wodenokoto
Is prime streaming even available outside the U.S.? I always thought top gear
was one of those international successes that were... | {
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HTTP Immutable Responses - okket
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8246
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edmorley
For more on the rationale behind this feature, see:
[https://www.ietf.org/mail-
archive/web/httpbisa/current/msg25...](https://www.ietf.org/mail-
archive/web/httpbisa/current/msg25463.html)
[https://bitsup.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/cac... | {
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Equatorie of the Planetis (1393) - pacaro
http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-PETERHOUSE-00075-00001/1
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pacaro
More descriptive information is at
[http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/heavens-
above](http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/heavens-above)
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Pentagon Expands Inquiry Into Intelligence on ISIS Surge - randomname2
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/us/politics/military-reviews-us-response-to-isis-rise.html?_r=0
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jimrandomh
People tend to think of there being a unified "US government", but the reality
is that there's a large number of mostly separate org... | {
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} |
A WebSocket Primer - caitiem20
http://caitiem.com/2013/12/02/a-websocket-primer/
An overview of the basics of the WebSocket protocol, what you need to get started
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pornel
It's funny that the article says _" This enables server sent events"_ without
actually referring to the HTML5 _Server Sent Events API_ :
[ht... | {
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Ask HN: Could we use Shellshock to patch vulnerable systems? - mperd
Since we know that it took weeks before most servers were fixed from the Heartbleed vulnerability, couldn't we use Shellshock to make a worm that would upgrade bash wherever it can? Are there legal issues about fixing a vulnerability in a system... | {
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The eerie otherworldliness of slow undersea life sped up to a human pace - YeGoblynQueenne
https://aeon.co/videos/the-eerie-otherworldliness-of-slow-undersea-life-sped-up-to-a-human-pace
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celias
Not sure why, but I had a flashback to watching Eraserhead in college while
watching this.
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It's Time to Disrupt Housing - joshuabaker2
https://medium.com/@josh_53953/its-time-to-disrupt-housing-2262bb88477c
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seeker61
And once we're done with that, let's disrupt food production and fire
protection!
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Titanium: Project to prevent criminal use of the dark web and virtual currencies - mbgaxyz
http://cordis.europa.eu/news/rcn/141335_en.html
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RichardHeart
tldr: "...develop efficient and effective forensics tools enabling the
reasonable use of different types of data from different sources including
virtual curren... | {
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U.S. Cattle Herd Falls to 1958 Low as Losses Climb - cwan
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-01-27/u-s-cattle-herd-falls-to-1958-low-as-losses-climb-survey-says.html
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frankus
Did anyone notice the little haiku (almost) at the end:
Beef Cows Dairy Cows
All Cattle Cows That That Hav... | {
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} |
Show HN the updated version of too-long-didnt-read.com - christophe971
Hi again!<p>In this thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2171135 I was lucky to have interesting feedbacks. I incorporated some of them this morning, I think you will like it:<p>* No more need to sign in with a Twitter account to create a s... | {
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Ask HN: What are good books for advanced topics in Python? - michelleclsun
I have been programming for almost a year and full time for 5 months. Looking to add to my holidays reading list. So far I've seen recommendations, eg Think Python(http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkpython.html) and Programming P... | {
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Yes, the "gigantic enormous" Windows really can run on a tablet - kenjackson
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/yes-the-gigantic-enormous-windows-really-can-run-on-a-tablet/3422
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bluekeybox
I bet that 100 years from now, in the post-Singularity wasteland with pockets
of humans surviving here and there, and with un... | {
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} |
Hyper-growth in SaaS - chrija
http://christophjanz.blogspot.com/2015/03/hyper-growth-in-saas.html
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dnevogt12
This was an awesome post - really enjoyed it!
| {
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Show HN: tubehaiku - streamlined viewing of poetic youtube videos - philipbjorge
http://tubehaiku.com
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bloggersway
nice
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Real Tennis World Champion will be decided tomorrow - cromulent
http://www.irtpa.com/index.php/realtennis/world_champs
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cromulent
Fahey has held the title for 16 years, but it's been hotly contested since
1740.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_real_tennis_world_champ...](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Network Man – Reid Hoffman’s big idea - burritofanatic
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/12/the-network-man
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dannypgh
Anyone else chuckling at the "big idea" of having a million people raise a
billion dollars... so that a billionaire politician can run for office?
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forgetsusername
But Michael Blo... | {
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A Woman Who Makes Prosthetic Pinkies for Ex-Yakuza Members - mhb
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-woman-who-makes-prosthetic-pinkies-for-ex-yakuza-members
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mmcconnell1618
From the article: 45% of members have at least one part of a digit amputated.
Those are probably not stats they tell you on recruitment da... | {
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} |
PSA: Use a CDN for external assets like HTML5shiv - acusti
http://www.acusti.ca/blog/2015/01/23/psa-use-a-cdn-for-external-assets-like-html5shiv/
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acusti
Advice for web developers on how to easily use a free CDN for loading open
source external assets or any GitHub-hosted resource. It’s actually old news,
but ... | {
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} |
AWS RoboMaker – Develop, Test, Deploy, and Manage Intelligent Robotics Apps - appwiz
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-robomaker-develop-test-deploy-and-manage-intelligent-robotics-apps/
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hcrisp
This looks like a cloud-enabled way to scale up agent-training for
reinforcement learning, am I correct? If so, thi... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
German WW2 code machine found on eBay - mhb
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-36401663
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Animats
If all they found was the teleprinter, and not the crypto machine, this isn't
a big deal. That is just the Lorenz version of the Teletype Model 14 tape
printer, built under license. These are not that rare. I have three of t... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
PyPy 1.6 Released - Full Python 2.7.1 Implementation - jparise
http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/08/pypy-16-kickass-panda.html
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lliiffee
Can I take advantage of this thread to ask the HN crowd a technical question?
Some time ago, I implemented an automatic differentiation tool. Using operator
overloading on a sp... | {
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} |
Do you really need a full-time hire for that? - antichaos
http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2012/03/do-you-really-need-a-full-time-hire-for-that.html
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ComputerGuru
I have the opposite problem - or more accurately, it's the opposite face of
the same problem: same issues, opposite approach. I have a lot of dif... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Theory of Mind for a Humanoid Robot [pdf] - lainon
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/lbr/hrg/2000/Humanoids2000-tom.pdf
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robotresearcher
This is over 15 years old. Title should probably reflect that. There are
several early versions of the paper: here is probably the definitive one,
published in 2002.
[https://link.s... | {
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} |
Get the Tipjoy Bookmarklet. Tip any site, while you're on it. - ivankirigin
http://tipjoy.com/bookmarklet/
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mdemare
It's actually kinda cool, going around the web, reading articles on my
favorite blogs, and for once, _leaving a tip_. It makes me feel good.
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ivankirigin
I love the internet
------
anewaccount... | {
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NYU Stern's Poster Boy – A Look into the 18 Year Old Hedge Fund Manager - startuppanel
http://www.startuppanel.co/sp-meets-julian-marchese-the-18-year-old-hedge-fund-manager/
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pfusiarz
I'd love to see this in 10 years when he actually has experience.
| {
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} |
Hi HN: Building a 'Group Buying' service - elboheme
My friend and I are building a 'we'-commerce platform (http://hopponit.com). We are aware that a couple of very well-funded startups (namely Mercata, funded by Paul Allen, and Mobshop, co-funded by Marc Andreessen) have failed in this area. However, there's plenty ... | {
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} |
Italian Video by CGTN (China GT Network) Just Before Pandemic Hit Europe - giardini
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNMdg4morQs&feature=youtu.be
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tpmx
Context: CGTN is owned by the chinese state. Used to be branded CCTV
International; I guess that brand got too much bad reputation.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wik... | {
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} |
Docker 1.0 Backed By IBM, Red Hat, Rackspace - WestCoastJustin
http://www.informationweek.com/cloud/platform-as-a-service/docker-10-backed-by-ibm-red-hat-rackspace/d/d-id/1269547
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nickstinemates
This is only the beginning:)
Thanks for submitting, Justin. If you're ever in SF I'd love to catch up and
just chat... | {
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} |
Economic Lessons the U.S. Forgot - robg
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/weekinreview/17goodman.html?hp
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ckinnan
The financial crisis was grand political theater-- namely banks, their
creditors, and derivative counterparties created a panic in order to stick
taxpayers with trillions of dollars in losses. The me... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Downside to Freelancing - arthurk
http://manwithnoblog.com/2008/07/14/the-downside-to-freelancing/
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simianstyle
I just quit my job and started freelancing, and one thing that I have to point
out is that although I'm working from home now, It still sometimes feels like
a 9-5 job. I can only handle one contr... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Make your iPhone app look beautiful - niico
http://www.uipsd.co/circles
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binaryorganic
"No design skills required!" is not something you should read when making
design decisions for your app. Period.
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mootothemax
_"No design skills required!" is not something you should read when making
design dec... | {
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} |
Ask HN: list of United States regions, state, county, city, zip list - hhimanshu
Where can I find the information about regions, state, county, city, zip for United states, I need this for building a geography dimension. I tried looking up various places but could not find the complete information, please help
=====... | {
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Saudi Arabia’s Arab Spring, at Last - zonotope
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/23/opinion/saudi-prince-mbs-arab-spring.html
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candiodari
I highly doubt that the king massacring half of the current power structure
for his own ends, and castrating the other half is an arab spring, and will
not bring increased freed... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Wallapatta static blog generator - vpj
http://vpj.github.io/wallapatta.html
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fiatjaf
I don't understand it.
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vpj
The setup or the syntax?
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Why some investors think more big falls are coming - samizdis
https://www.ft.com/content/cb31917c-fc08-487a-af0d-f9e54c8717dd
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samizdis
De-paywalled: [https://archive.is/waGv3](https://archive.is/waGv3)
| {
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} |
Michael Bloomberg Promises $500M to Help End Coal - uptown
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/climate/bloomberg-climate-pledge-coal.html
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vikramkr
Cheap natural gas is doing a great job ending coal without the need for big
flashy investments
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tomglynch
Not here in Australia unfortunately - the government and... | {
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} |
The press-release conviction of a biotech CEO and its impact on research - bqe
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-09-23/national/42314943_1_intermune-scott-harkonen-actimmune
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jonnathanson
Was this article written by Dr. Harkonen's publicist or something?
The case seems pretty clear: he knowingly misrepr... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Caring about things - romymisra
http://romymisra.com/caring-about-things/
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porker
I'd like this to be true, but I think it's a very utopian ideal. If people
care as much as the founders do about the company, they're going to get very
disillusioned when the founders head in a different direction to the one
they... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Min Slack – A Minimal Slack Client in a Chrome Extension Popup - nilch
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/min-slack/jiljhhmbanlpahbpfjfibcoggpfoanlf?hl=en
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rot25
I've been waiting for someone to make this. Multiple team support would be
amazing!
| {
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} |
Stop using so many divs An intro to semantic HTML - ingve
https://dev.to/kenbellows/stop-using-so-many-divs-an-intro-to-semantic-html-3i9i
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arkad
As a backend developer that occasionally needs to add a nice looking front-end
I can say that the biggest source of divs comes from the bootstrap templates I
use in my... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A Japanese Ghost Town in a Canadian Forest - pionerkotik
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/japanese-immigrants-in-canada
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walrus01
It's a logging camp. For anyone interested in the history of Japanese
immigration to the west coast, google "Steveston japanese history".
[https://www.google.com/search?client=u... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
California Franchise Tax Bureau - roccogen
I need some help! Can the California Franchise Tax Board hold a single owner personally liable for not paying the $800 annual fee for a foreign LLC formed in Florida and registered with the State of California. It was registered in California in 2012 and legally stopped in 20... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How can/should I publicize my startup? - joe
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staunch
This is really a great question. It's tough being isolated and tiny. At this
stage you would rather be hated than ignored, but one even cares enough to
hate you.
For your first users I think you have to do it "the hard way", by really
_selling_ the product.... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Clearview AI CEO: ‘over 2,400 police agencies’ are using its facial recognition - dmitrygr
https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/26/21402978/clearview-ai-ceo-interview-2400-police-agencies-facial-recognition
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Tostino
From everything I've seen and read about Clearview, I'm super uncomfortable
and wish there was some ho... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Why Smart People Are Stupid - mshafrir
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/frontal-cortex/2012/06/daniel-kahneman-bias-studies.html
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lmkg
The research is using SAT score as a proxy for general intelligence... I
wonder if this sort of heuristic short-cutting actually correlates with test-
taking ability more th... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Is app UI testing broken? - khitcher
I found that app UI test is usually really hard to set up. What do you think?<p>I'm currently working in an app company, where we spend most of the time creating new features. It becomes increasingly often that engineers break previous features, sometimes important ones.<p>Tes... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Asiana Airlines Flight 214 Final Report [pdf] - lsh123
http://www.ntsb.gov/doclib/reports/2014/AAR1401.pdf
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lsh123
TLDR;
The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of
this accident was the flight crew’s mismanagement of the airplane’s descent
during the visual approach, the pi... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Transcript from Elena Krasnoperova’s Learning Hacks for Bootstrappers - skmurphy
http://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2017/01/27/transcript-from-elena-krasnoperovas-learning-hacks-for-bootstrappers/
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e_krasnoperova
Hi, Elena here (the founder of Calroo). To answer your question of why we
started with iOS: 1. the install... | {
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} |
Apple: even its most banal features require a proficiency in machine learning - mpweiher
https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/19/apple-makes-the-case-that-even-its-most-banal-features-require-a-proficiency-in-machine-learning/
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davidkuhta
PSA: The article is about the "Hey Siri" functionality and not anything relate
t... | {
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} |
How to Create a Tab UI with Riot 2.0 - robertwpearce00
http://www.robertwpearce.com/blog/riotjs-example/
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bshimmin
Aside from the usual unpleasantness of muddling together views and logic (and
welcome back `onclick`, how I've missed you...), I find the idea of the
"parent" scope rather troubling. If you have s... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Grand Theft Auto IV’s First Week Sales: $500mm and 6mm Units - berecruited
http://ryanspoon.com/blog/2008/05/06/grand-theft-auto-ivs-first-week-sales-500mm-and-6mm-units/
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rrival
I wonder what Rockstar would do with a persistent GTA universe a-la WOW.
~~~
rms
God, I don't think I'd ever leave the house, that wo... | {
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The best way to present your company in 2010 (flash) - eagleal
http://www.atksolutions.com/
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eagleal
Someone wrote it on twitter
<http://twitter.com/paddydonnelly/status/13810325308>
| {
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Thinking This iPad Mini Thing Even Througher - raganesh
http://daringfireball.net/2012/08/ipad_mini_even_througher
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alwaysinshade
For anyone wondering why Daring Fireball is able to garner a lot of attention
(and for that matter, almost any article pertaining to Apple) I refer you to
two studies:
\- When, Why... | {
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} |
Documents Show How Goldman et al Engaged in 'Naked Short Selling' - llambda
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/accidentally-released-and-incredibly-embarrassing-documents-show-how-goldman-et-al-engaged-in-naked-short-selling-20120515
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casca
That naked short selling is allowed is an anachronism c... | {
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} |
Linguistic Cracking of Passphrases Using Markov Chains [pdf] - xxtesterxx
http://www.simovits.com/sites/default/files/files/PederSparell_Linguistic_Cracking_of_Passphrases_using_Markov_Chains.pdf
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wodenokoto
I thought passphrase was supposed to be a series of random words. If you use
natural sentences you limit ... | {
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SATA 3.0 Released, Solid-State Drives Rejoice - vaksel
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/20090528/tc_pcworld/sata30releasedsolidstatedrivesrejoice
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pmjordan
I can't seem to find info on this, but it doesn't look like the "trim" ATA
command made it into this spec, which is a bit of a shame. This would allow
the ... | {
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} |
An Interview With Eric Lippert - josette
http://www.i-programmer.info/professional-programmer/i-programmer/7154-c-guru-an-interview-with-eric-lippert.html
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fayyazkl
He has great insights and uses classical analogies to explain ideas. Here is
his stackoverflow profile
[http://stackoverflow.com/users/88656/eric... | {
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} |
PI Day 2015 - toddsiegel
http://www.piday.org/
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toddsiegel
Pi Day has been submitted before, but this year is a little special since Pi
Day has extra significant digits this year: 3/14/15 9:26.
Although I guess this does not fit in all date formats.
| {
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} |
Ask HN: Looking for Project for Quick Freelance Job - invinceable
Long story short, I need to make a few thousand dollars ($3,500) in a week. I'd like to build anyone's project (or add on pieces to an existing project) over the next few days/week at the most. Upon emailing me I will send you my LinkedIn, FB, and res... | {
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} |
PCall: Common Lisp library for parallelism at function call granularity using thread pools - scott_s
http://marijn.haverbeke.nl/pcall/
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scott_s
I'd also like to point out the background discussion, which talks about
multithreading in Common Lisp in general:
<http://marijn.haverbeke.nl/pcall/background.html>
(... | {
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} |
Show HN: Pest – Fast parser generator written in Rust - dragostis
https://github.com/pest-parser/pest
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jorams
I'm a bit confused by the benchmark. I looked through the benchmark code and,
without _really_ understanding what I'm looking at, the result of the nom
parser looks much closer to the "pest (custom AST)"... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Covid-19 Digital Rights Tracker - severine
https://www.top10vpn.com/news/surveillance/covid-19-digital-rights-tracker/
======
AshamedCaptain
The virus may come and go, but any of these draconian responses are here to
say. You know the drill.
~~~
kyuudou
But, 9/11? Oh wait, you don't remember that... Covid-19!! Covid-... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
EasyMVP – Android library with annotation processing and bytecode weaving - joblack33
https://github.com/6thsolution/EasyMVP
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StavrosK
Can someone explain what these are? I'm not familiar with Android code.
~~~
BoorishBears
The Android ecosystem is a few decades behind the rest of the development
world for desi... | {
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} |
Historical view of browser usage - peter123
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2009/06/historical_view.html
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adamc
Well, it's obvious that the trends cannot continue to be linear indefinitely.
But at the current rate, IE would drop below 50% market share in around 2
years.
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ramchip
No Opera?
| {
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} |
Lawsuit Filed to Prove Happy Birthday Is in the Public Domain (2013) - mpweiher
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/11165823451/filmmaker-finally-aims-to-get-court-to-admit-that-happy-birthday-is-public-domain.shtml
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dbbolton
What disturbs me somewhat about this copyright, besides its age and that is
co... | {
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} |
Ask HN: sites for getting alpha testers - Everest
Hi, my site is in private alpha and we are looking to recruit alpha testers to provide feedback/report bugs and more importantly add content. Are there sites that make it easy to recruit paid and unpaid alpha testers for web 2.0 sites?
======
barnaby
We're preparing... | {
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} |
Boostrap 5: Removing JQuery & dropping IE 10 & 11 support - themesberg
https://themesberg.com/blog/design/bootstrap-5-release-date-and-whats-new
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guitarist102
About time
| {
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} |
Justin Frankel: The world's most dangerous geek (2004) - bootload
http://74.220.215.94/~davidkus/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=82:the-worlds-most-dangerous-geek-&catid=35:articles&Itemid=54
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mvkel
FYI, his personal site is at <http://blorp.com>. It hasn't changed in at least
10 years.
| {
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} |
Ask HN: Does anyone use DB normal forms in their job? - bbcbasic
I learned about the different normal forms at uni and to be honest I don't remember them and have never used them explicitly in a job. Had some conversations where the word 'denormalize' has been used but that is about it?<p>Has anyone use... | {
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} |
Tiddlywiki – A non-linear personal web notebook - entelechy
https://tiddlywiki.com/
======
mih
Ever since the decline of Evernote, I've been looking for something as
convenient, but been pretty much disappointed in the alternatives. For a while
Qownnotes was my choice, but it's not without its drawbacks. Currenlty Jop... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Growth of Unpaid Internships May Be Illegal, Officials Say - tokenadult
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/business/03intern.html
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grellas
Federal law for unpaid interns in for-profit organizations requires that six
criteria be met: (1) the work or training should function as an extension of
the intern's educatio... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Is Berkeley DB a NoSQL solution? - yarapavan
http://blogs.oracle.com/berkeleydb/2011/01/is_berkeley_db_a_nosql_solutio.html
======
yarapavan
Some usecases mentioned in this article:
* MemcacheDB is a server that implements the Memcache network protocol but uses Berkeley DB for storage and HA to replicate the cache ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Facebook’s global lobbying against data privacy laws - sorokod
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/mar/02/facebook-global-lobbying-campaign-against-data-privacy-laws-investment
======
kartan
> I don’t think it’s a surprise that the UK chancellor would meet the chief
> operating officer of one of the world’s la... | {
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} |
Show HN: 6nomads – matching tool for remote devs and tech companies - 6nomads
https://6nomads.com
======
breck
I once got a couple of interviews through the
[https://weworkremotely.com/](https://weworkremotely.com/) site. Seemed like a
good selection there, and it was open, which was nice. Seems like this one is
aspir... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
England crime map website - kul
http://www.police.uk/
======
JacobAldridge
We had a kid shot in front of our house a fortnight ago (he survived, four
arrested, we spent a few hours nursing coffees in McDonalds while forensics
closed the street). So the numbers from this site were never going to look
good for us!
15... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How can I become a homeowner? - throwaway215
I'm a young-ish person, dreaming the American dream of purchasing a home.<p>Like a lot of people my age, I've had an almost pathological aversion to taking out loans or using credit cards extensively. I don't have suspect credit history, so much as li... | {
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} |
Double Pendulum Visualization - SiempreViernes
https://jnafzig.github.io/2018/02/05/double-pendulum.html
======
gus_massa
Nice graphics!
In the bottom graph of the time to flip:
The point of the white eruption to the right looks like a fractal. Is it a
fractal or it's only an artifact of the simulation? Can you post... | {
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} |
The Heroku & IndexTank “Build A Search-Based Webapp” Holiday Challenge - jhandl
http://www.rubyinside.com/the-heroku-indextank-build-a-search-based-webapp-holiday-challenge-4125.html
======
petercooper
It is somewhat weird to be doing this on a post pointing at your own site, but
still, this is a double dupe: <http:... | {
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} |
San Francisco Opens The City’s Data - vaksel
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/19/san-francisco-opens-the-city%e2%80%99s-data/
======
vaksel
Site doesn't seem that polished, since hitting the logo gets you an error
| {
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} |
Why Load Testing Ajax is Hard - rickharrison
http://ajaxian.com/archives/why-load-testing-ajax-is-hard
======
ars
I don't see how you can scale the solution. To actually load test you'd need
thousands of browser instances, which is not practical.
For example auto-complete has a built in delay of about half a second... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
America’s monopoly problem, explained by your internet bill - rahuldottech
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/2/18/21126347/antitrust-monopolies-internet-telecommunications-cheerleading
======
IXxXI
If america has an ISP/telecom monopoly issue, why didn't Donald Trump receive
more support when he tried to block the sa... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The 'premature optimization is evil' myth (2010) - jerf
http://joeduffyblog.com/2010/09/06/the-premature-optimization-is-evil-myth/
======
jasode
The _longer_ Knuth quote is _“We should forget about small efficiencies, say
about 97% of the time; premature optimization is the root of all evil”_
In the inevitable meme ... | {
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} |
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