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How the Fleece Vest Became the New Corporate Uniform - msh
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-fleece-vest-became-the-new-corporate-uniform-1532442297
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neonate
[http://archive.is/2uw9H](http://archive.is/2uw9H)
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Ask HN: What podcast(s) are you listening to on a daily basis? - orschiro
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mcphail
Not all are daily releases, but here they are. a16z ESPN Baseball Tonight
Exponent Masters of Scale Recode Decode The Bill Simmons Podcast The Joe Rogan
Experience The Knowledge Project Ross Bolen Podcast
Also Tim Ferris and Found... | {
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How to deliver on Machine Learning projects - jakek
https://blog.insightdatascience.com/how-to-deliver-on-machine-learning-projects-c8d82ce642b0
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vjsc
So we had this idea of a new feature for our product. The only way to quickly
do it was to somehow implement a machine learning algo and that would give us
the re... | {
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The next housing crisis: chronic undersupply of homes for a growing country - jseliger
http://www.vox.com/2016/3/24/11299434/next-housing-crisis
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maerF0x0
> National Association of Realtors
Sounds like a group interested in a supply crunch. Afterall, prices rise in
low supply, and fear can drive more sales in t... | {
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} |
Everything Breaks, All the Time. - joshuacc
http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/2011/06/everything-breaks-all-time.html
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jng
This guy is wrong, plain and simple. Unforeseeable bit-copying errors caused
by cosmic rays and similar circumstances, which do exist, probably account for
less than a one out of every billion ... | {
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Why Facebook comments is a bad idea for your site - pytrin
http://www.techfounder.net/2012/08/15/dont-mix-business-and-personal-why-facebook-comments-is-a-bad-idea-for-your-site/
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alttag
I don't particularly like the trend of sites offloading their commenting
mechanisms to Twitter, Facebook, DISQUS, etc. If it's... | {
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The dangers of deflation - anigbrowl
http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21627625-politicians-and-central-bankers-are-not-providing-world-inflation-it-needs-some
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jandrewrogers
For those that do not understand why deflation is considered dangerous, let me
describe it this way:
It is effectively like cash ear... | {
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} |
H-1B Workers Not Best Or Brightest, Study Says - Libertatea
http://www.informationweek.com/global-cio/h1b/h-1b-workers-not-best-or-brightest-study/240149839#.UTXKPHIlC6o.hackernews
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stewie2
I think his study is biased if you check out his personal website:
<http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/matloff.html> He is a lon... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Focus and concentration - gdberrio
Maybe it's just me, but anyone else has troubles dealing with lack of Focus and concentration, ending in not getting things done and getting stuck in a "disfuncional perfectionism" with lots of ideas but zero execution? [It's doesn't help having fear of failure]<p>How did y... | {
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I Want a Verizon iPhone - DigitalBoB12
http://www.iwantaverizoniphone.com/
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gabea
From a design perspective I think they would probably get many more sign ups
if they had a better call to action for their sign up button.
It is hidden as a regular anchor tag and took me more then 5 seconds to even
think about ... | {
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} |
Our first patent troll - hysan
https://mycroft.ai/blog/troll-hunter-mycrofts-position-on-patent-trolls/
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PaulDavisThe1st
I hope they don't end up in court. I've been a fact witness in 3 patent troll
cases. The side I was a witness for won one, forced a settle-out-of-court for
the second, and lost the last one. T... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Icons for your web apps - coderdude
http://blog.iconspedia.com/icons/free-web-design-icons-282/
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aaronbrethorst
All well and good, but this line makes me stop cold: "Please check the license
specified by each author of an icon pack before using them."
I'd love to see a website that could track these licenses ... | {
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Bernie Sanders’ problem with Amazon - prostoalex
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/28/bernie-sanders-problem-with-amazon/
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pizzazzaro
The marketplace may "set the going rate for labour" and all, but oligopoly and
cartel-ism artificially depress wages.
Much like walmart, Amazon's wages do not respect the costs it t... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What benefits of quitting alcohol consumption? - throw51319
I've decided to do a "dry" January and if I can do it, will try to extent to all of 2020.<p>I didn't drink often, not more than once a week. But it was usually a binge episode, having at least 10 drinks.<p>Has anybody stopped? What... | {
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} |
Engineering tour de force births programmable optical quantum computer - rbanffy
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/09/engineering-tour-de-force-births-programmable-optical-quantum-computer/
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Strilanc
> _The [two qubit] gates are about as reliable as any others you will find in
> the quantum computing world, w... | {
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Benefits of Continuous Delivery - henrik_w
https://henrikwarne.com/2017/11/19/benefits-of-continuous-delivery/
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coldcode
I find continuous delivery to the mobile app stores to be rather silly and
wasteful, updating your app every two weeks for example consumes vast
bandwidth especially for people with automatic ... | {
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} |
Could a randomness machine help you fight procrastination? - arnejenssen
https://excelerity.com/blog/arne/randomness-jar
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UweSchmidt
I don't like convoluted schemes to make myself "productive". Hold a carrot on
a stick in one hand, a whip in the other and feel bad about myself? That's no
way to live.
I try to f... | {
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} |
I spent five years trying to learn all these bits I need to build full stack - andrewstuart
Here's what I know in some depth following a tangible decision five years ago to invest my free time in learning all the technologies I need to build my own applications end to end:<p><i></i> back end programming: Python 3... | {
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In Escape Rooms, Video Games Meet Real Life - ahamilton
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/arts/video-games/in-escape-rooms-video-games-meet-real-life.html
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schoen
I did the two permanent room escapes run by Real Escape Game/SCRAP in San
Francisco (in the New People mall in Japantown), namely Escape from the
My... | {
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Risks, Rewards, Stress: Early Employees & Founders - eladgil
http://blog.eladgil.com/2012/03/early-employees-versus-founders-risks.html
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autarch
I agree that founders take on much more risk and stress than the early
employees. I think the source of the discontent that some early employees
(like me) express is ... | {
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Elon Musk on the future of the future - akandiah
http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/02/elon-musk-on-the-future-of-the-future/
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cribbageisfun
Elon Musk is really awesome. Coming up with 3 products in completely different
industries. Especially electric cars and rockets. Amazing.
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How Are Infosec Pros Affected by Pentagon’s 46K Layoffs Plans? - grecs
https://www.novainfosec.com/2013/01/26/how-are-infosec-pros-affected-by-pentagons-46k-layoffs-plans/
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phaus
I would imagine that many Infosec positions would be safe, as there are
regulations in place that mandate many aspects of security, in... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Offer HN: Friendship in the Valley? - juiceandjuice
I kind of feel retarded for posting on here, but I'm starting to go out of my mind doing everything by myself, and looking for buddies on CL/okcupid seems weird to me. I'll try to keep this simple.<p>I just moved here to work at SLAC from SLC, Utah a month ago, ... | {
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Where are my flying... motorcycles? - Zak
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9494328/Aerofex-hover-bike-brings-Star-Wars-transport-closer-to-reality.html
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Zak
I remember seeing <http://hover-bike.com/> last year, but this one seems to be
closer to production-ready.
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Feeling sorry for machines is no joke - gilad
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2019/6/17/18681682/boston-dynamics-robot-uprising-parody-video-cgi-fake
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bryanrasmussen
I recently submitted Why do Children abuse robots?
([https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20195120](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20195120))
w... | {
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Friday Code Monkey Song - TheOrange
http://blog.crowdstorm.com/?p=154
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danielha
Coulton's stuff is great. And although this is one of my favorites, it's
important to remember that you don't HAVE to be a code monkey if you're a
software engineer. I think a lot of students are getting discouraged from the
computer... | {
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Ready Lisp version 20090130 now available - vrs
http://www.newartisans.com/blog/2009/01/ready-lisp-version-20090125-now-available.html
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DenisM
From site:
What is Ready Lisp? It’s a binding together of several popular Lisp packages
for OS X, including: Aquamacs, SBCL and SLIME. Once downloaded, you’ll have a
sin... | {
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9 Year Old Girl Becomes Microsoft Certified "Professional" - ojbyrne
http://gizmodo.com/5116747/9-year-old-girl-becomes-the-youngest-microsoft-certified-professional
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Eliezer
Jeeblus, what's wrong with you people? If she'd gotten a high score on the
SAT, would you be telling her how boring and useless the SAT is... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
New Rails-like Framework from 37signals for HTML5 Mobile Apps - abraham
http://thinkvitamin.com/mobile/new-rails-like-framework-from-37signals-for-html5-mobile-apps/
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sstephenson
Hey folks, there's nothing to see here right now. We spent three weeks
experimenting with some new tech to see what we could build, ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Clever Recruiting Techniques? - jack7890
For me, the biggest surprise about running a startup has been how difficult it is to recruit top-notch engineers. It is shockingly, bewilderingly, impossibly difficult to find qualified web developers. Granted, my notion of "qualified" is discriminating, but it's bee... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Starlink satellite-train visible with the naked eye - sagitariusrex
https://twitter.com/Marcin_Loboz/status/1132070509246652421
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thanatos_dem
Looks a lot like the cloud ark from Neil Stevenson’s hard science fiction book
”Seveneves”.
The long of the short of it is that moon goes boom, kills life on earth,
human... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Would you be interested in a Python to WebAssembly compiler? - syrusakbary
Hi HN!<p>I'm Syrus, from Wasmer (server-side WebAssembly runtime [1]). We are in the midst of prioritizing our next quarter and I thought it could be interesting to ask here if you would be interested in a Python to Wasm compiler.<... | {
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PostgreSQL 9.5 will have native sharding - sickpig
http://www.depesz.com/2015/04/02/waiting-for-9-5-allow-foreign-tables-to-participate-in-inheritance/
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unmole
So, it will be web scale?
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sickpig
I don't know about "web" scale, but it will definitely scale horizontally
without using any external tools/exten... | {
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Dow plunges 1100 points as coronavirus market tumbling into correction territory - koolba
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/26/dow-futures-fall-after-microsoft-issues-coronavirus-warning.html
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rogerkirkness
Ah yes, the old "use digital currency as an N95 mask" defense against pandemic
virality.
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UCite.it: beyond search - agibsonccc
http://ucite.it/
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agibsonccc
Feedback is appreciated.
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Ask HN: Did you turn golden handcuffs into your next sign-on bonus? - relaunched
Have you successfully used a closely impending bonus, retention bonus with vesting, stock vesting, or similar future compensation to effectively negotiate your next opportunity? If so, is that effective when negotiating with a well-funded... | {
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Girl unaware all her pictures are sent to journalist - lordlarm
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dagensit.no%2Farticle2596740.ece
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gcb0
I'm experiencing something that is obviously dumb users.
i have a first.last@gmail address and my name ... | {
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Evidence of Zika virus found in tears - upen
http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/4952.html
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binalpatel
Found this pretty informative answer to one of the questions I had (mainly,
whether Zika had always been this bad, or had mutated in some way to make it
worse).
[http://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/4289... | {
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Ask HN: Solutions to stop the pop under plague? - maximveksler
I seems that for now the spammers are winning.
What could work to kill this annoyance?<p>Am I mistaken in assuming that browser makers don't know how to fight the new pop under window advertising technique? How about window dependencies graph, where if... | {
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} |
Why have SVG images not yet replaced PNG on the web? - seky
http://blog.sekera.cz/2013/09/why-svg-images-did-not-replace-png.html
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jahewson
Nobody has mentioned the abandonment of SVG 1.2 as a factor. It was dropped by
the W3C and never implemented in any browsers. This not only stalled
improvements to SVG 1.1 b... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Jx9: A direct competitor to Lua - xtremejames183
http://jx9.symisc.net/index.html
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losnggenration
While the language & feature-set might be a direct competitor to Lua, the
license may make it a non-starter for many.
Lua: MIT: can be used in closed source software.
Jx9: Symisc Public License (basically the Sl... | {
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} |
How To Talk to Investors About Your Competitors - Cmccann7
http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/12/26/talking-to-a-vc-about-your-competitors/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BothSidesOfTheTable+%28Both+Sides+of+the+Table%29
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lionhearted
Love this quote, a great reminder:
> Remember... | {
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Ask HN: What are your thoughts about this goal tracker and time management tool? - deniza
Satistime (www.satistime.com) is an online tool that combines To Do List + Goal Planner/Tracker + Calendar. It streamlines the whole process from goal setting to daily routine - all the while being easy to use. What are you... | {
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} |
JQuery Cheatsheet - just found it, oh so useful - geuis
http://www.gscottolson.com/jquery/jQuery1.2.cheatsheet.v1.0.pdf
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thomasmallen
This one hangs in my cube: [http://colorcharge.com/wp-
content/uploads/2007/12/jquery12_c...](http://colorcharge.com/wp-
content/uploads/2007/12/jquery12_colorcharge.png)
-----... | {
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Ask HN: Rate my free group texting service with public API - geoffc
http://groupflier.com
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geoffc
I just launched the API today so any feedback on it would be greatly
appreciated. The direct link to the API is
<http://www.groupflier.com/api.html>
P.S. Click the phone image to watch the video easter egg
-----... | {
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Pre-trained neural networks? - gregw134
Has anyone compiled a list of pre-trained neural networks available for download? I'm hoping to contribute some ML to Apache Nifi. Thanks!
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malux85
You will need to be more specific, a trained neural network is heavily
dependent on implementation - for example a train... | {
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} |
How to Fire Non-Performers - terpua
http://www.readwriteweb.com/readwritestart/2009/07/how-to-fire-non-performers.php
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onreact-com
What about motivating your team? Caring for the people who work for you?
Assigning he right tasks? those that fit? When you're a misanthrope, people
won't "perform" for you.
| {
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Scale Fail (part 1) - ableal
http://lwn.net/Articles/441790/
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wccrawford
The bit about metrics really rang true.
At 1 company, we had a situation where 2 of the 3 webservers were out of
service for various reasons. I knew from past experience that even a single
web server should have a load less than 1 with all... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Today – Quantified self and habit tracker app - baronetto
https://neybox.com/today
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gherkin0
That looks neat. Is there anything similar (and good) for Android?
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Echo Linux : a social news site dedicated to Linux and related topics - fcambus
http://www.echolinux.com
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fcambus
For your information, the site is using the 8x16 BIOS format font (also
referred as IBM PC Code page 437) in order to mimic the look of textmode
terminals.
| {
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North Carolina May Ban Tesla Sales To Prevent “Unfair Competition” - smokinn
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/05/13/north_carolina_tesla_ban_bill_would_prevent_unfair_competition_with_car.html
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tonteldoos
Atlas Shrugged, anyone?
| {
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Microsoft Machine Learning Algorithm Cheat Sheet - breck
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/machine-learning-algorithm-cheat-sheet/
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ColinWright
It would be interesting to compare this in detail with the SciKit-Learn chart
that we've seen before here. It's not the same, so the question is ... | {
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} |
Show HN: Capital market analysis app - kausti
Sharing a MVP for visual interactive analytics of capital markets. At the moment it works on most liquid 500 stocks in NSE (National Stock Exchange India) and sector indices published on the exchange.<p>Please visit http://www.nirvana.market/
on a computer p... | {
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} |
How to Make Mistakes in Python (Free EBook) - Garbage
http://www.oreilly.com/programming/free/how-to-make-mistakes-in-python.csp
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maweki
Even here, in a O'Reilly(!) textbook from 2015(!), we get python2.7 advice.
No, since python 3 you (sensibly) can't "True, False = False, True" since True
and False are now ke... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Gin – Golang Martini-like web framework - manucorporat
http://gin-gonic.github.io/gin/
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Artemis2
Real-time code reloading from the author of Martini: Gin -
[https://github.com/codegangsta/gin](https://github.com/codegangsta/gin).
Quite an unfortunate choice of name.
~~~
manucorporat
As author of Gin, ... | {
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Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren - abhinav
http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf
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Jabbles
Launching Gmail on April fools' day was, for me, hilarious. At a time when
Yahoo! and Hotmail were offering 5/2 Mb, Google came out with 1Gb. It was so
obviously an April Fools' joke... but then... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Is it a good idea to sell my startup? - gamebak
I have been running my startup for a while, no seed funding and still was able get around ~$500 (ish) monthly profits.<p>Yet I was thinking that if I could sell it I would have more money to start something new plus to help me with my college.<p>I would like an... | {
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} |
Schizophrenic Brains Not Fooled by Optical Illusion - LogicHoleFlaw
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/schizoillusion.html
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joe_bleau
Impressive, especially the linked YouTube video. Reminds me a bit of the old
Alan Kay video lecture with the faces and scary inverted mouths. (I can't help
but think of ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
History of the Internet in ship years - zeynel1
Years ago I read about TRIZ in HN. (I couldn't find the article now but it was this article http://www.triz40.com/aff_Principles.htm)<p>The Principle 27 of the 40 principles is "Cheap short-living objects" eg, replace an inexpensive object with a multiple of inexpensiv... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Down Argentina Way - phreeza
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/down-argentina-way/
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pedalpete
I just got back from a trip to Buenos Aires. It's an amazing city, but this
article says absolutely nothing about the growth or stability in that country.
From my understanding (and I didn't dive to deeply int... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Famed Apple engineer rejected for job at the Genius Bar - Overtonwindow
http://www.businessinsider.com/jk-scheinberg-apple-engineer-rejected-job-apple-store-genius-bar-2016-9?yptr=yahoo?r=UK&IR=T
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wott
Wrong title. He _was_ rejected.
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Ask HN: Feedback on Scribnia - Everest
I am the co-founder of Scribnia, an online community where users can rate and review bloggers, journalists, and other online authors. Our site also allows users to discover new authors. We have an algorithm which provides tailored author recommendation and use AJAX filtering to... | {
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} |
Proving our universe is one among many would be a fourth Copernican revolution - pseudolus
http://nautil.us/issue/64/the-unseen/the-fourth-copernican-revolution
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lisper
> We can only see a finite volume—a finite number of galaxies. That’s
> essentially because there’s a horizon, a shell around us, delineating th... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What is the end game for cryptocurrency? - S_A_P
As crypto starts to enter the mainstream consciousness, Im curious what the killer app or utility crypto currency will provide? Aside from the theoretical, what is the end game of crypto? Is it just an elaborate digital pyramid scheme? Is there some near term ut... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
White House will not sign on to Christchurch call to stamp out online extremism - hirundo
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/15/white-house-will-not-sign-christchurch-pact-stamp-out-online-extremism-amid-free-speech-concerns/
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bediger4000
From the article: "U.S. concerns that it clashes with const... | {
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} |
Bracketed paste mode - falava
http://cirw.in/blog/bracketed-paste
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gjmulhol
Does this work otuside the terminal in interefaces like browser windows? I
could imagine a case where it makes sense for security purposes to not allow
pasting.
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} |
Announcing React Native 0.60 - stablemap
https://facebook.github.io/react-native/blog/2019/07/03/version-60
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mrlambchop
Expo released their support web (still in beta) at the start of the month,
bringing react native + API extensions to iOS/Android + web.
[https://blog.expo.io/expo-sdk-v33-0-0-is-now-
available... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
UBiome (YC S14) Raises $4.5M to Crowdsource Microbiome Research - katm
http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/18/ubiome-raises-4-5m-from-angel-investors-andreessen-horowitz-to-crowdsource-microbiome-research/
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untilHellbanned
This is similar to 23andMe in that lots of people can obtain this type of
genomic data. I know h... | {
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} |
Anyone else still using RSS? - jetgirl
https://jetgirl.art/2019/07/21/rss-is-better-than-reddit-twitter-and-email-subscriptions-for-updates/
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AdamGibbins
Yes, heavily. If your blog doesn't have an RSS feed, I won't read it. NewsBlur
is incredibly powerful and makes filtering 100s/1000s of feeds easy.
~~~
mcgrat... | {
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Kill Your Dependencies - StreamBright
http://www.mikeperham.com/2016/02/09/kill-your-dependencies/
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creshal
> Can I implement the required minimial functionality myself? Own it.
And now _you_ are responsible for tracking down and fixing every single bug
and security weakness in it. You and every other developer... | {
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} |
Did Functional Programming get it wrong? - bhoggard
https://medium.com/@reinman/monoids-to-groupoids-492c35105113
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sevensor
Despite traces of interesting ideas -- spreadsheets are underappreciated, so
is Multics -- this article is full of hot air. It implicitly equates Haskell
with functional programming. It hyp... | {
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Can you teach a man to fish who doesn't want to learn? - travisro
http://travisrobertson.com/leadership/can-you-teach-a-man-to-fish-who-doesnt-want-to-learn/
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jmount
Don't click on link- page hijacking overlays.
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travisro
My apologies for offending you with my "hijacking overlay." It's been turned
off. I'm... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Suggestions for writing a new compiler? - chm
I am a chemistry grad student and will be attending a graduate course in CS at my university in the coming weeks. The course is called "Programming languages and compilers" and its goal is to teach students about compilers by making them write one.<p>As I... | {
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Payments on the Solid Framework - jmunsch
https://docs.solidpay.org/
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ryanjshaw
Okay I'll bite. I've worked in both retail and corporate banking for over a
decade. I've been responsible for software that processes large payments and
receipts daily. I've cloned a few cryptocurrencies for fun and have a pretty
goo... | {
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} |
WBC to Picket Aaron Swartz's Funeral, Anonymous to Counter - eeirinberg
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/technology/anonymous-plans-defend-aaron-swartzs-funeral-westboro-baptist-church-protests
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tptacek
Although I may be depriving you of the humor value of reading a press release
that I swear to God reads for al... | {
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Xkcd: Orbital Mechanics - ColinWright
https://xkcd.com/1356/
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stevep98
There is a lot of opportunity to explain engineering concepts through gaming.
Especially training users in intuition, and in the applications of math.
Calculus and trigonometry have tons of applications in aiming mortars!
~~~
HNLurker2
Too ... | {
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New book on female advancement from founder of Girls Who Code - acjohnson55
http://www.womenwhodontwaitinline.com/
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acjohnson55
I don't expect this will get much attention around here, but I just got a mass
mail from Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code and recent primary
candidate for NYC Public Advocate... | {
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} |
Are we solving the same problem? - terpua
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/08/are-we-solving-the-same-problem.html
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ryansloan
I've got a lot of respect for Seth Godin, but sometimes I feel like his blog
posts are just regurgitating facts we already know. Yes, it's important to
talk to whoever will be... | {
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} |
15 Incredibly Stupid Ways People Made Their Millions - denzil_correa
http://www.mathfinance.cn/15-stupid-ways-people-made-their-millions/
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Dylanlacey
This seems to be a wee bit of "ideas which I didn't think of and don't appeal
to me, which I'm bitter are successful."
Or, to put it another way, people busy ma... | {
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} |
Scientists characterize a new shape using rubber bands - ABS
http://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2014/04/scientists-characterize-new-shape-using-rubber-bands
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bhouston
It is also known as the kinked phone cord (back when phones had cords between
the base station and the headset):
[http://i.imgur.com/AS7UI.jpg](h... | {
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} |
What it feels like to be in the zone as a programmer - dopeboy
http://dopeboy.github.io/in-the-zone/
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sktrdie
I get this too, but it's very draining - similar to doing an intensive
workout, or given a talk at a conference.
The negatives are obvious; less sociable, more easily irritated, wanting to be
by yoursel... | {
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} |
Liquid breathing - zacharyvoase
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_breathing
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augiehill
Reminds me of The Matrix
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IojqOMWTgv8&feature=playe...](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IojqOMWTgv8&feature=player_embedded)
~~~
StavrosK
That's a tube with air so the human can breathe _even... | {
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} |
WebCL – Heterogeneous parallel computing in HTML5 web browsers - matt42
https://www.khronos.org/webcl/
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kevingadd
Relevant Bugzilla bug for Gecko:
[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664147#c30](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664147#c30)
An interesting spec, certainly, but no traction so... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Charge in Euro or Dollars for an online service? - jontro
We are running an online service (http://decor-fb.com/) and are currently charging our customers in Euro.<p>Users subscribe with a monthly plan and we are using facebook payments.<p>Our customers are from all over the world, our top cou... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask YC: What options are available for sharing ad revenue with users? - ulfstein
Is anyone here aware of a way to share a site's ad revenue with a site's users?
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yourabi
I think for a smaller shop / startup the easiest way to go would be to have
users enter their own google adsense client number and use that a... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The chemfp project: problems selling free software - dalke
https://jcheminf.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13321-019-0398-8#Sec24
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dalke
I started the chemfp project in part to see if I could develop a self-funded
free/open source product in my field, cheminformatics. (In short, storing and
searching chemic... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: are you working on a commercial project with no sales ever? - andrewstuart
Curious to know how many people are working on projects that intended to make money but have never made a single dollar.
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LarryMade2
[http://www.doplaces.com](http://www.doplaces.com)
In a slow development phase and building a ... | {
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} |
Randall Munroe, XKCD Creator, Goes Back to High School - wesd
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/science/randall-munroe-xkcd-science-textbook.html
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jonahrd
I'm not a huge fan of the way he explains things with common vocabulary. Sure
it makes sense to me because I understand that he means "organs" by bags and
it'... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
My First Year as a Freelance AI Engineer - polm23
http://masatohagiwara.net/202002-my-first-year-as-a-freelance-ai-engineer.html
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mhagiwara
Wow, it's nice to see my post on the top page of Hacker News.
Note that I wrote this post back in February 2020 and there are a couple of
things that I would like to add:
... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Please give us your valid feedback to improve Skillendar. - sunsai
Skillendar is back! Now with more focus on you and your neighbourhood. Please have a look and give us your valid feedback on design, usability, features etc.<p>A bit about Skillendar:
Skillendar is a neighbourhood network for you to connect ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Apple closes as most valuable company - ashishgandhi
http://www.forbes.com/sites/briancaulfield/2011/08/10/as-stock-market-burns-apple-most-valuable-company-in-it/
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pyre
> iPods start at just $49. That’s less than a tank of gas. No
> wonder Apple is more valuable than Exxon Mobil right
> now... | {
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} |
I made a Halo 5 Web UI - decidertm
http://successbreak.net/halo/
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decidertm
I'm trying to develop my skills in UI and web development, would be nice to
hear your thoughts.
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benbristow
Looks great. I doubt Halo 5 will ever come out for PC though!
~~~
decidertm
One can only hope!
| {
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Output of Dutch solar bike lane exceeds expectations - Rafert
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=nl&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Ftweakers.net%2Fnieuws%2F102994%2Fopbrengst-fietspad-met-geintegreerde-zonnepanelen-is-boven-verwachting.html&edit-text=
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meric
Roads are quite a good place t... | {
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} |
Name Recessions After People - mariorz
http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Name_20Recessions_20After_20People#1223696557
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JacobAldridge
Where names have doubled up, I've used the most interesting surname or middle
name. This has prevented three Recession Williams (a tip when choosing the
next cabinet).
This titlin... | {
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} |
Bacterial molecule trains the immune system to tolerate infection - dnetesn
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-10-bacterial-molecule-immune-tolerate-infection.html
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DrScump
blogspam of:
[http://www.massgeneral.org/about/pressrelease.aspx?id=2001](http://www.massgeneral.org/about/pressrelease.aspx?id=2001)
| {
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SUSE: More Than Linux - CrankyBear
https://www.zdnet.com/article/suse-more-than-linux/
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sarcasmatwork
duplicate
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19548418](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19548418)
| {
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Mithril.js 2.0 Released - mesaframe
https://github.com/MithrilJS/mithril.js/releases/tag/v2.0.1
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keb_
Huge congrats to the Mithril team. Been using Mithril for over two years now.
I credit Mithril and its amazing community for making me the front-end
developer I am today. When the massive amount of tooling and p... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Wave Gigs - mrtron
http://www.wavegigs.com
======
mrtron
Just launched.
Site: <http://www.wavegigs.com>
Blog: <http://blog.wavegigs.com>
| {
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} |
Ask HN: Is Bitcoin split possible - tnt128
Similar to stock split. Seems both the sellers and buyers have the incentive for such event to occur. Can someone comment on how technically possible/impossible for that event to occur? And how would it impact the x-coin eco-system?
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sp332
Bitcoins are divisible do... | {
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} |
Netflix and Ch-Ch-Chilly - geodel
https://backchannel.com/the-internet-really-has-changed-everything-here-s-the-proof-928eaead18a8#.vrhmwhsi2
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enthdegree
Really interesting content, it is fascinating and somehow heartwarming to see
a picture of an environment like this one. Unfortunately this is in stark
contras... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
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