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Japanese engineers develop flying robotic orb - ilamont
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/10/japan-flying-sphere.html
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algoshift
Not that impressive if you are familiar with the technology.
As someone mentioned, this is, at its simplest, an RC helicopter inside a
sphere.
RC helicopters have had... | {
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When the rules prevented Kenneth Cole from launching, he broke the rules - DanLivesHere
http://dlewis.net/nik-archives/the-birth-of-a-shoe-company/
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jpadvo
What is so impressive about the story is that he didn't break the rules, he
found a clever way to work within them. He was confronted with a brick wall
mos... | {
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Worshipping My White iPhone - founderama
http://founderama.com/2011/worshipping-my-white-iphone/
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mikhuang
your video is marked private, can't view it
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Company reaps $25,000,000 hacking TicketMaster & others . . . - aresant
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/01/BAK21C9544.DTL
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breck
On the surface, this looks ridiculous.
I don't see how this is a criminal suit and not a civil suit. What they did
was clearly against the wishes and TOS o... | {
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Ask HN: Why did my Cofounder Search post get flagged? - IamGhost
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minimaxir
From FAQ:
> Can I post a job ad?
> Please do not post job ads as story submissions to HN.
~~~
IamGhost
So where is the best place to submit if not on the story submissions?
Simply just a misunderstanding because I did read that before... | {
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Whole Earth Catalog Fall 1968 - Electronic Edition - jamesbritt
http://www.wholeearth.com/issue-electronic-edition.php?iss=1010
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gnu8
Another rubbish scribd link and there's no way to liberate the PDF without
paying.
Here's an useful link to a PDF preview:
[http://www.wholeearth.com/uploads/2/File/documents/sam... | {
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Etsy Wants to Give Female Programmers $5,000 to Attend Hacker School - 3lit3H4ck3r
http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/06/etsy-wants-to-give-female-programmers-5000-to-attend-hacker-school/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29
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tjic
I realize that I'm going to be in th... | {
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Ask HN: How do apps get posted on Product Hunt? - karimdag
I know that hunters post them but what I mean is .. How do they make it to the point they get noticed by someone?
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mtmail
[https://medium.com/@benjiwheeler/how-product-hunt-really-
wor...](https://medium.com/@benjiwheeler/how-product-hunt-really-
works-d... | {
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Is there a concept of safety trademark in ML black box models? - aptrishu
How would someone trust a black box model that it is not biased or things like that specially when it comes to its deployment in mission-critical applications such as health care? How do we manage the tradeoff between accuracy and intelligibilit... | {
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Red Programming Language 0.3.2: REPL release - 0x1997
http://www.red-lang.org/2013/03/032-repl-release.html
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reirob
If somebody like me is wondering what Red is about, here is a link to PDF
slides that explains it:
<http://static.red-lang.org/Red-SFD2011-45mn.pdf>
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Capturing and Retaining Customers for Your Subscription Business - cquijano
https://www.firmhouse.com/blog/capturing-and-retaining-customers-for-your-subscription-business
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masonic
8 self-submits per article is a bit extreme.
[https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=firmhouse.com](https://news.ycombinator.com/fr... | {
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Facebook Ads Can Still Discriminate, Despite a Civil Rights Settlement - sapski
https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-ads-can-still-discriminate-against-women-and-older-workers-despite-a-civil-rights-settlement
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Excel_Wizard
> Nevertheless, the composition of audiences can still tilt toward demographic
> g... | {
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Using Amazon EC2 - amrithk
Hi everyone,
We are currently using PHP as our server scripting language and MySQL as our database backend.<p>We have read about the benefits of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service. I was wondering if anyone in this forum has used this service? What are your thoughts on switching f... | {
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Ask HN: What is the best way to enter VC? - tomrod
I've been interested in the VC world for a long time, and would love to jump into the industry.<p>Would you recommend the best way to get into VC & the VC world is to work for a VC fund, or is the best method limited to having a successful startup?
======
pro... | {
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Spacewar on an emulated PDP-1 - salgernon
http://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/
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TehCorwiz
This is great! I love seeing in-depth digital preservation. While I'm way too
young to remember the original Spacewar, the DOS decedent of the same name
will forever be a fond childhood memory.
On a completely unrelated note... | {
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Norwegian Supreme Court rules police cannot force suspect to unlock TouchID - semi-extrinsic
https://www.nrk.no/rogaland/politiet-far-ikkje-tvinga-den-sikta-til-a-opna-telefonen-1.13121331
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semi-extrinsic
The link is in Norwegian, but this is a ruling from the Supreme Court
(following appeals from lower courts) ... | {
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How we bootstrapped a startup - addictedcs
https://medium.com/swlh/how-we-bootstrapped-a-startup-ea7142933a87
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addictedcs
Hello HN, here is a short summary of how we (3 co-founders from Eastern
Europe) bootstrapped a startup. Hope you find it interesting!
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Show HN: Silicon Feelings - bradleygriffith
http://silicons.co
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jboggan
This may sound silly but seeing this makes me feel more empathetic and
connected to people outside of my culture. These people are extremely
separated from me by distance and language but seeing these simple little
emotions play out across... | {
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We can only cut debt by borrowing - chrismealy
http://blogs.ft.com/martin-wolf-exchange/2010/09/26/we-can-only-cut-debt-by-borrowing/
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ctdonath
Absurd. Upshot is a continuation of what got us into this mess: denial of
risk.
He starts with the misguided notion that net debt is zero. The point of
interest-bear... | {
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Ask HN: Thoughts on Facebook - stevenj
There's been a lot of news lately regarding Facebook. I'm curious to hear what people think about Facebook the company -- its current and future potential as a company, etc. (i.e. possible enduring business models).
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swombat
Facebook is going to make shitloads of money, b... | {
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Google's questionnaire response to Article 29 Working Party - jontro
http://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8syaai6SSfiT0EwRUFyOENqR3M/edit
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Shinkei
I really have to rant about the idiocy of this law. For full disclosure, I am
American.
They call it a "right to be forgotten," but guess what, I have a right to
informat... | {
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Mdoc(7) – semantic markup language for formatting manual pages - beefhash
http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man7/mdoc.7
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brynet
mdoc is the language used for all BSD system manuals, which is certainly more
consistent than writing man(7)/roff source.
At least mandoc(1) lets you convert cleaner mdoc(7) into ... | {
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GitLab 8.14 Released with Time Tracking Beta and Chat Commands – GitLab - seanclayton
https://about.gitlab.com/2016/11/22/gitlab-8-14-released/
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sanswork
Got the mattermost integration working with one of our repos today and it
seems pretty great. Probably going to move over from Slack to it as I try to
consolid... | {
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Don't look now, but Gmail is on the verge of getting major upgrades daily - technologizer
http://technologizer.com/2009/02/11/mighty-morphin-gmail-dawn-of-the-daily-upgrade/
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peregrine
It seems Google has had these small updates waiting for the big time. And now
that times are bad pushing them harder, to bring... | {
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The Death Star would't be that expensive - sutterbomb
http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/02/death-star-surprisingly-cost-effective-weapons-system
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padobson
My problem with this article is that it seems to assume that every world
represented in the Galactic Republic has the same GDP as Earth.
I could agree... | {
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Feedback welcome: Current project - Salesforce.com Cloud Backup - bobx11
http://www.datatrailer.com
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bobx11
We use CouchDB and Python to backup your salesforce.com data which allows us
to capture all your history and then when you're ready to take a local mirror,
we can just use the CouchDB mirror function to... | {
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The BBC is getting back into the computer business - wdding
http://qz.com/446839/the-bbc-is-getting-back-into-the-computer-business/
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mostlystatic
I was wondering about the cost or pricing, but the answer is they won't say
yet.
[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33427816](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technolog... | {
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Analyzing mbostock's queue.js - bryansum
http://bsumm.net/2013/03/31/analyzing-mbostocks-queue-js.html
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mbostock
This is great! Thank you for the code review. One of the aspects of Google
culture that I enjoyed the most were the asynchronous, detailed code reviews.
Knowing that someone you look up to will pore o... | {
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Ask HN: Can any iOS Developers answer me this? - markcrazyhorse
As part of my iOS Development journey I want to create an app that will find users of the app within a specified radius of the current user. The best way I can describe this is like dating apps when you specify how far you want to search. How would I go... | {
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Smalltalk, just take a look - mpweiher
https://hackernoon.com/smalltalk-just-take-a-look-d0a0052ed5e4
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scroot
For anyone interesting in trying out, here are the open source Smalltalk
implementations available:
Pharo [1] Squeak [2] Cuis [3]
Note that these implementations have FFI and which you can modify / bui... | {
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Pro Rata - craigkerstiens
http://blog.ycombinator.com/pro-rata
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grellas
We live in an era where major founder leverage is a fact of life in the
startup world. Unlike the bubble era, founders today - or at least those that
are among the most talented - have substantial power in determining the
direction of their ... | {
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Why Rails will Reign Supreme - luccastera
http://pivots.pivotallabs.com/users/chris/blog/articles/417-why-rails-will-reign-supreme
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omarseyal
Ironically, one of the best places for Rails right now, lies in a place you
rarely see innovation -- the big-company-internal-portal market.
Most of these sites are built... | {
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Pitch yourself, not your idea - madmotive
http://cdixon.org/?p=1893
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sharpn
Or rather, pitch your idea - but be aware that the person to whom you are
pitching may be primarily assessing _you_.
------
stevenj
Your market and distribution model may be even more important
~~~
lrm242
Your market is a gate. The bes... | {
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Red-black trees revisited - kinetik
http://t-t-travails.blogspot.com/2010/04/red-black-trees-revisited.html
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ssp
My current favourite balanced tree is the treap:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treap>
In a treap the shape of the tree is uniquely determined by it being heap-
ordered according to a random number... | {
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Why China’s Deleveraging Has Faltered - petethomas
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-chinas-deleveraging-has-faltered-1542964998
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tivert
Partial paywall bypass:
[https://outline.com/e96Z82](https://outline.com/e96Z82)
It seems a few paragraphs from the top of the article are missing in the
outline.
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In 2018, Windows died at home and nobody cared - Tuldok
https://www.zdnet.com/article/in-2018-windows-died-at-home-and-nobody-cared/
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Nullabillity
> Necessary Cookies are required for our sites, products, and services to
> function properly. Necessary Cookies cannot be disabled on our sites using
> the “Opt-Out"... | {
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Show HN: ObjectCropBot – Interactively Crop Objects from Photos with AI - andreyk
http://www.andreykurenkov.com/projects/hacks/objectcropbot/
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andreyk
I post this now (the project is a few months old) purely inspired by this
post: [https://blog.photoeditorsdk.com/deep-learning-for-photo-
edit...](https://blog.ph... | {
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Auto change wallpaper on linux from reddit (A Ruby Script) - blazeeboy
this script will get a new image from reddit every period and write it to an ixisting image on you Hard drive, if you set this image as your wallpaper you will have a constantly changing desktop wallpaper from the amazing subreddit called EarthPo... | {
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Website review - javamber
http://flyamber.com.au/
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javamber
Hi Would like some feedback on my site about the design, quality, if you would
purchase from the site or not. Thanks!
| {
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Facebook reveals holographic optics for thin and light VR headsets - lopespm
https://venturebeat.com/2020/06/29/facebook-reveals-holographic-optics-for-thin-and-light-vr-headsets/
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oedmarap
A logical next step I would imagine is Facebook acquiring/partnering with
existing manufacturers of prescription lenses (or... | {
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Apple Logo Is an Agnostic's Crucifix, Star of David: Study - rblion
http://www.fastcompany.com/1692055/why-the-apple-logo-is-like-a-crucifix-or-star-of-david-for-mac-lovers
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antareus
> "Brands are a signal of self-worth," said Gavan Fitzsimons, professor of
> marketing and psychology at Duke. "We're signaling... | {
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Obama administration to tighten regulation on VCs? - quilby
http://venturebeat.com/2009/03/26/obama-administration-to-tighten-regulation-on-vcs/
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pedalpete
Why would they do this? What is the issue they are trying to solve?
Particularly at a time when the administration is trying to figure out how to
enable g... | {
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Tell HN: Sell More Software IRC channel (freenode #sellmore) - makerops
Hey,<p>I created an IRC channel on freenode called #sellmore (just now...I am the only one in there) for anyone interested in chatting about selling software. Funnel optimization, conversion, marketing etc etc. I hope some experts would like t... | {
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Postcards from Big Brother: The Curious Propaganda of a Brutal Soviet Era - prismatic
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/curious-propaganda-of-a-brutal-soviet-era/
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smacktoward
I know we're meant to look at the subjects of these postcards and marvel at
how horrible they are, but some of them actually look... | {
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Startups: "I Have No Idea What I Am Doing" by Buffer's CEO - geopsist
http://open.bufferapp.com/no-idea/
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geopsist
"Looking back to when I started Buffer, even though I had learned a lot from
my past startup experiences, I truly didn’t know what I was doing and I
approached everything with that mindset. I was ... | {
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Notes from a job hunter - itgoon
I've been doing contracting for about ten years now, and here's what I've been seeing. This isn't about the good recruiters, or the bad recruiters. It's about the normal, everyday recruiters.<p>- Recruiters aren't looking for the best match, or even a go... | {
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Top 9 Lies of Venture Capitalists - DanielBMarkham
http://www.entrepreneur.com/magazine/entrepreneur/2009/february/199626.html
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jacquesm
That's surprisingly candid.
A few more:
\- we have to think about this for a while (that translates as 'no')
\- we'll sign a letter of intent first (that translates as 'yo... | {
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Ask HN: How do you create a sample DB from your LIVE DB? - gumuz
Our LIVE database is too large to be running on our dev machines, but we do need good data sample to test & develop on.<p>Does anyone know of a good solution to this problem?
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Piskvorrr
We have always solved this by having a large dev databas... | {
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DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use - braythwayt
https://www.bitlog.com/2020/03/06/duckduckgo-is-good-enough-for-regular-use/
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burlesona
A few years ago I switched my desktops to use DDG while leaving my phone using
Google. At first I had to !g all the time. Now that’s rare.
Now I’m starting to have the o... | {
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List of Unsolved Scientific Problems with Large Monetary Prizes - pancero
http://scienceprizes.org/
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Jun8
No need to be hopeless about winning one of these! The "easiest" ones to
target, I think for the general HN crowd, will be the EFF Cooperative
Computing Awards, i.e. finding primes with 100 million and a bil... | {
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ASK HN: All the VC Blogs that I read, in one place. Thoughts? - shafqat
http://vcblogs.newscred.com/
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shafqat
Is this useful? For those of you who follow these blogs, how do you do it?
I just got tired of RSS readers. While a lot of news comes to me via twitter,
this seems to work well for me.
EDIT: I'm the ... | {
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Ask HN: What Stage Is My Business At? - onlyrealcuzzo
Morning HN,<p>I've done some market research by asking ~30 developer/manager friends to take a survey. I found that there's definitely a demand for my product. I've built an MVP. I'm currently showing it to prospective business clients and ... | {
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Linode Security Advisory - scub
https://blog.linode.com/2016/02/19/security-investigation-retrospective/
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tptacek
_Update: also, read this comment_ right away.
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11136948](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11136948)
I find this update very hard to follow. Can someone tell ... | {
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Taping of Farm Cruelty Is Becoming the Crime - praptak
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/us/taping-of-farm-cruelty-is-becoming-the-crime.html
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edw519
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or
of the press;... | {
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Breaking the web with hash-bangs - Terretta
http://www.isolani.co.uk/blog/javascript/BreakingTheWebWithHashBangs
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raganwald
I accept the brittleness of a content-oriented site switching to a javascript-
driven SPI implementation, however I'm confused by the assertion that the
strongest reason to switch is beca... | {
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Bad mouse took down a network, and almost got us banned - bcaa7f3a8bbc
https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/5hzvx3/bad_mouse_took_down_a_network_and_almost_got_us/
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luizfzs
From the looks of it, the issue could have been avoided by writing the invoice
in a proper way, like: replaced cables that... | {
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} |
Congress Introduces Bill to Ban Federal Agencies from Using Facial Recognition - elsewhen
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qj4jkx/congress-introduces-bill-to-ban-federal-agencies-from-using-facial-recognition
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president
It's not so cut and dried. Some of this tech will benefit society by
identifying bad actors... | {
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Azure Service Fabric now on Linux - balakk
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/azureservicefabric/2016/06/16/service-fabric-preview-on-linux/
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vonklaus
I respect Microsofts push towards reculturing into a developer first company.
They have open sourced a lot of code and seem to be making a conscious effort
towards ... | {
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} |
Scientific data analysis on a high-performance cluster using Free Pascal - pjmlp
http://ziotom78.blogspot.com/2015/01/lfi-data-analysis-with-fpc.html
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nurettin
>Both make an heavy use of templates, so that they cannot be compiled
separately but instead literally copied into each of my source file by the C++
prep... | {
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A Sad 'Victory' – On Eich Stepping Down - jimrhoskins
http://www.teamrarebit.com/blog/2014/04/03/a-sad-victory/
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moskie
Well, this is silly of them.
They were being naive if they took the approach they took, while thinking that
the only form of success (or intended result) would be Eich saying the things
they... | {
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} |
NASA Can't Explain What Made This Strange, Deep Hole on Mars - SirLJ
http://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-doesn-t-know-what-made-this-deep-hole-on-mars
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RikNieu
I'm no expert, but that looks like a gas pocket of some sort ruptured, created
a cavity and collapsed in on itself. Kind like those methane craters in
Siber... | {
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} |
Ask: Anyone else annoyed with digital software downloads? - andrewhillman
As someone who formats their laptop 1-2 times per year I am completely frustrated with digital software downloads. I want the actual disk so I can reload the software without worrying that I will not be able to reinstall the purchased software... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Using drones, scientists found 8,000 more orangutans in Sumatra - Jerry2
http://howtoconserve.org/2016/03/11/drones-orangutan-conservation/
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therobot24
I got the opportunity to spend a few days in Bukit Lawang in North Sumatra and
would highly recommend it to anyone traveling in the South Pacific.
| {
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Font Awesome 4.6 released – accessibility improvements and 23 new icons - fortawesome
https://articles.fortawesome.com/font-awesome-4-6-released-d7213342698a
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emdd
This is great. There is a slowly growing emphasis on accessibility in the web,
and tools like this make it just a little bit easier!
Tangentially, a... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How to make $800/mo from three lines of code - jmduke
http://jmduke.com/blog/2013/12/6/how-to-make-800mo-from-three-lines-of-code
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lubujackson
That's a very programmer way of looking at it. People don't pay for
highlighting, they are paying for more traffic from an ad. Ultimately, they
are paying for all the o... | {
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Silent Disco - gorm
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Silent_disco
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gigorbust
If anyone has any questions, I'd be more than happy to answer them!
George Silent Storm Sound System www.silentdis.co/main
| {
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My Drop Shipping Business' Fulfillment Process - spiredigital
http://www.ecommercefuel.com/drop-shipping-fulfillment/
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spiredigital
There are a ton of shopping carts available for "traditional" warehouse-based
merchants, but hardly any designed with the drop shipper in mind, which is
crazy given the huge numbe... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Cotton totes are pretty much the worst replacement for plastic bags - Reedx
https://qz.com/1585027/when-it-comes-to-climate-change-cotton-totes-might-be-worse-than-plastic/
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WheelsAtLarge
No wonder people freeze and change nothing to help the environment since the
solutions are too hard to figure out. Who would ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Twitter and VMware cut pay for remote workers - sna1l
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-11/vmware-twitter-cut-pay-for-remote-workers-fleeing-bay-area
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matrixagent
Interesting, I've always wondered about the very different approaches of
Basecamp and GitLab when it comes to remote salaries. Basecamp ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Which license for a language for take over the world? - mamcx
So I'm ready to start serious with my toy language, and of course, I'm already thinking how will take over the world :).<p>So, I'm thinking which license? Is clear must be open source, and because I wanna it to be usefull for iOS and ... | {
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Why I Still Use Windows 95 - edw519
http://www.andrew-turnbull.net/tech/windows95.html
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ctkrohn
There's a definite pleasure in using old, well-designed pieces of technology
that were state-of-the-art in their time and have managed to remain
competitive with newer equipment. I love my record player, I still use a... | {
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Profile of Lars Bak (2009) - callum85
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/03775904-177c-11de-8c9d-0000779fd2ac.html
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octetta
I've grown curious about Bak's implementation of Smalltalk (OOVM A/S) that was
mentioned in this article. Has anyone here had a chance to tinker with it?
~~~
igouy
Unfortunately not. afaik the tech... | {
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Show HN: Hacker News, automagically organized - bravura
http://metaoptimize.com/projects/autotag/hackernews/
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tsycho
Awesome stuff! I tried a couple of searches, and the search ranking looks
decently good (at first glance, atleast).
I also like the fading of text as the results become less relevant.
What kin... | {
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Ask YC: What tools do you use for performance testing your web-application? - mattjung
I would like to do some performance tests on my application before getting beta. Do you know any good tools, preferably open-source, to measure response times during concurrent access? I tried out openSTA, but find it unstable and... | {
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CSSbutton Generator - franze
http://www.cssbutton.me/
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jayfuerstenberg
Very nice!
What does the 'font stack' property do?
| {
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Earth-Size, Habitable Zone Planet Found Hidden in Early NASA Kepler Data - vishesh92
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1637/earth-size-habitable-zone-planet-found-hidden-in-early-nasa-kepler-data/
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rurban
I thought the nearest one, only 4 light years away, Proxima Centauri b is
quite habitable, with water and suc... | {
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} |
Autofill: What web devs should know, but don’t - callumlocke
http://blog.cloudfour.com/autofill-what-web-devs-should-know-but-dont/
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Jaruzel
I am seriously uncomfortable storing any personal information in my Browsers
settings. I have absolutely no guarantee that the data will not be compromised
somewhere along ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What do you care about most when looking for a new job? - onlyrealcuzzo
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tbirrell
In no particular order...
Flexibility. It is a hard 8-5? Or can I swing it either way an hour or two if
need be?
Commute. It needs to be a reasonable drive in the morning. Work already takes
enough of my day, I don't want ... | {
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Facebook sinks as Nasdaq scrambles to square trades - nextstep
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/21/net-us-facebook-struggle-idUSBRE84J0D620120521
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joezydeco
_"As the stock fell, there was a long list of questions -- ranging from
whether the underwriters priced the shares too high..."_
I understand there... | {
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} |
More expensive Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket After Killing Mercurial Support - Svoka
https://www.atlassian.com/licensing/future-pricing/cloud-pricing/faqs
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mister_hn
move to Phabricator!
[https://phacility.com/phabricator/](https://phacility.com/phabricator/)
| {
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Ask HN: What's the difference between a Startup and a Small Business? - lionheart
So I've never been really clear on this.<p>What's the difference between starting a startup and starting a small business?<p>Is it just what you call it? Or is there some definable criteria? Does a startup have to have investors and a ... | {
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Good Evening, Kraftwerk / Guten Abend Kraftwerk, Guten Abend Stuttgart [video] - CaliforniaKarl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCQEzgtWv-E
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ranc1d
Can’t believe this doesn’t have more upvotes! This site gives a bit more
behind what was involved behind the scenes [http://cdm.link/2018/07/watch-
kraftwerk-jam-wit... | {
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Earth’s Water Is Older Than the Sun - acak
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2014/09/25/earths-water-is-older-than-the-sun/#.VCSWtSldUnR
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dalore
Woah, think of the impact this has on homeopathy! With water having memory,
that memory goes back to older than our sun.
~~~
adwf
Cue a hunt for the oldest wat... | {
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} |
Show HN: A Project Board built for remote teams - delgiudices
https://shipped.dev?ref=hn
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matchbok
Neat idea, but anything that ties into slack or threads in slack is asking for
lost or complicated work. Slack threads are probably the worst tool for
getting any work done.
~~~
Brendinooo
I don't think that's som... | {
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Ask HN: Has anyone become a licensed realtor just to save 3% on commission? - react_burger38
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pcvarmint
Where do you live?
Because in most jurisdictions, at least in North America, it is legal to list
your house "For Sale By Owner" without a real estate license. [0][1]
[0] [https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Getting foot in door as a Software Engineering Student - WickerM
Looking for advice from others who might have gone or going through what I am doing.<p>Currently, I have a full time job as a mechanical engineer who regrets the industry I've gotten myself into. I've decided to go back to University an... | {
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} |
Cloudflare’s IPFS Gateway - jgrahamc
https://avc.com/2018/09/cloudflares-ipfs-gateway/
======
detaro
Your original announcement of this already is on HN, please stick to the rules
and don't submit additional thin posts about it.
| {
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Introducing a new, advanced Visual C++ code optimizer - nikbackm
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/05/04/new-code-optimizer/
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kibwen
Undefined behavior notice:
> Historically, Visual C++ did not take advantage of the
> fact that the C and C++ standards consider the result
... | {
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How I Killed A Startup In 4 Hours (And Why I Don’t Regret It) - adrianmsmith
http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/28/how-i-killed-a-startup-in-4-hours-and-why-i-dont-regret-it
======
ColinWright
Discussion:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7664523](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7664523)
| {
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Neural Arithmetic Logic Units – Learning Numbers & Arithmetic End-To-End - williamtrask
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00508
======
epberry
I just came here to submit this. Really cool paper! The counting thing has
been devilishly hard for neural networks.
~~~
williamtrask
Thank you!
| {
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Nona.Care launches a babysitter platform merging AI with personal touch - NonaCare
Nona.Care launches the first babysitter platform where AI algorithm is to match parents with personally selected babysitters based on pre-set requirements. AI is to solve issues parents face when looking for childcare, such as time-cons... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The High Price of Multitasking - pseudolus
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/14/opinion/multitasking-brain.html
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tonystubblebine
A simple change I'd like to see in tech culture is to change how we refer to
the notifications feature. We should call them interruptions instead.
Do I want my meeting interrupted if my... | {
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The Problem with Threads - davi
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2006/EECS-2006-1.pdf
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viraptor
I've found this part really amusing (re. nondeterminism of multithreaded
programs in a real environment):
"To offer a third analogy, a folk definition of insanity is to do the same
thing over and over aga... | {
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Recovering partially lost Ethereum private keys for fun and profit - jkilpatr
https://github.com/jkilpatr/partial-eth-key-cracker
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permatech
I have 75ETH (from pre-sale) and a rough idea of my password. I still have the
JSON file and have tried script based brute force attempts with no luck -- is
this tool for m... | {
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Elon Musk: The mind behind Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity ... (TED interview video) - ColinWright
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IgKWPdJWuBQ
======
DiabloD3
Mod should change title to mention this is a TED interview.
~~~
ColinWright
Or the submitter. Which I did. Thanks.
| {
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Transit starts crowd-sourcing real-time transit times as official feed breaks - ant6n
https://medium.com/transit-app/san-franciscos-real-time-transit-data-just-went-offline-so-we-re-going-live-9ebe78f89ea1
======
Animats
NextBus is an old system that uses 2G cellular links. It doesn't need much
data, so that's fine. N... | {
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} |
Brave Caught Revising URLs with Affiliate Links - totaldude87
https://decrypt.co/31522/crypto-brave-browser-redirect
======
noble_pleb
Brave is perhaps the only platform which is trying to compensate the ads
viewer by giving them a part of that revenue pie (in terms of BAT crypto-
currency). No other browser or even a... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A programming language based on the one-liners of Arnold Schwarzenegger - aloukissas
https://lhartikk.github.io/ArnoldC/
======
tgv
Here's the hello world of technical interviews in ArnoldC:
IT'S SHOWTIME
HEY CHRISTMAS TREE JOHN
YOU SET US UP @NO PROBLEMO
HEY CHRISTMAS TREE S... | {
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} |
Good news – mass testing can work (Covid-19) - photawe
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/18/scientists-say-mass-tests-in-italian-town-have-halted-covid-19
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melling
“A study in Vò, which saw Italy’s first death, points to the danger of
asymptomatic carriers”
Imagine what’s happening in NYC now.
~~~
pho... | {
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} |
Bethesda blocks resale of used game - detaro
https://www.polygon.com/2018/8/11/17661254/bethesda-sell-used-games-amazon-block
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ikeboy
Vorys is corrupt. I've received threatening letters from them as well, that
came to my physical address despite it not being listed anywhere on my Amazon
store. It also contained ... | {
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} |
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