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Oracle sues Google over use of Java in Android - jbarham
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/oracle-sues-google-for-patent-infringement-2010-08-12?reflink=MW_news_stmp
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cscotta
The biggest issue I see with Oracle's lawsuit is not with Android itself, but
the future of Java as an open platform.
The claims are prett... | {
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GitHub Removes BSD2/3 Clause Licenses - deadgrey19
When creating a new repository on github.com (https://github.com/new), it is no longer possible to automatically generate BSD2/3 clause licenses.
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darkengine
They also don't have an option for GPLv2, because it would introduce
"cognitive over... | {
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Ask HN: How do you organize and share information within your company? - EpiphanyMachine
We are looking for a place to put all the knowledge we share into one place. The idea would be that when someone asks you a questions you answer in this place and send them a link to your answer. With a culture of always checkin... | {
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Automated Python 2 to 3 code translation - julox
http://pythonconverter.com/
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mherrmann
I don't mean to be negative, but how is this better than just using the `2to3`
tool that already ships with Python?
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mathnode
But this web-2to3 is monetised with ads. The python community didn't think of
that.
~~~
raverb... | {
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} |
Show HN: BidOnMyDay, bid to have me fly to you and do anything - driverdan
Looking for feedback on my newest project, BidOnMyDay: http://bidonmyday.com<p>I came up with this idea a few weeks ago when JetBlue reopened sales of their BluePass. You bid to have my fly to you, using my BluePass, and do whatever work you ... | {
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Let's be real about dependencies - steveklabnik
https://wiki.alopex.li/LetsBeRealAboutDependencies
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marcus_holmes
Really interesting article, but it does treat Go and Rust dependency cultures
as equivalent. Whereas there is a _strong_ preference in Go culture to use as
few dependencies as possible, and preferabl... | {
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} |
"Potentially rogue binary" in Sprint Evo - jchonphoenix
http://www.unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/unrevoked1_disclosure
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mmastrac
I'm part of the team that found this backdoor. A few points:
1\. "Never Trust Sprint Again" is editorializing on the part of the submitter,
not our stance. It's a very, ver... | {
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} |
Step inside your photos with Cardboard Camera - modeless
https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/12/step-inside-your-photos-with-cardboard.html
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mortenjorck
According to a friend's analysis, this appears to be using a rather ingenious
dual slit-scan technique where it's gathering the leftmost and rightmost
columns ... | {
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} |
Why Micro-Location iBeacons May Be Apple's Biggest New Feature For iOS 7 - jimiasty
http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2013/08/29/why-micro-location-ibeacons-may-be-apples-biggest-new-feature-for-ios-7/
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jimiasty
This is Jakub, co-founder of Estimote (YC S13).
I will add to this article that few weeks ... | {
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Of emoji, Hanzi and alchemy (2015) - mountainplus
https://jealousmarkup.xyz/texts/of-emoji-hanzi-and-alchemy/
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telotortium
I wonder how the visual density of Hanzi vs. Pinyin (or English) compares. On
the one hand, each hanzi is approximately equivalent to about 4 letters of
Pinyin, and Hanzi text uses no spacin... | {
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} |
Why Rust for Low-Level Linux Programming? - pieceofpeace
http://groveronline.com/2016/06/why-rust-for-low-level-linux-programming/
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ktamura
As a long-time developer marketing person, I must say Rust is kicking ass, not
just as a language but as a community. They are deeply strategic.
1\. Clear audience target: ... | {
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Study says standardized testing is overwhelming nation’s public schools - antigizmo
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/study-says-standardized-testing-is-overwhelming-nations-public-schools/2015/10/24/8a22092c-79ae-11e5-a958-d889faf561dc_story.html
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douche
No shit. Public school is all about teaching... | {
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Understanding Event Driven Architecture - kiyanwang
https://hackernoon.com/understanding-event-driven-architecture-ub1k3umo
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chadcmulligan
Images don't appear in safari on the Mac - the webp ones are displayed as
broken images, works fine on chrome (naturally enough)
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Drug Decriminalization in Portugal: Lessons for Successful Drug Policies - agbell
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10080
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stretchwithme
its completely impractical to try to control what people do with their own
bodies. impractical and immoral.
cato is great on drugs (so to speak). I first used their... | {
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} |
Amazon Should Acquire Netflix - Here's Why - dell9000
http://ryanspoon.com/blog/2009/01/02/why-amazon-should-acquire-netflix/
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catone
The argument I've always heard against Amazon acquiring Netflix is that
Netflix has distribution centers in something like 45 states, whereas Amazon
only has them in a handful. So... | {
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} |
TripIt insecurely broadcasts sensitive travel details in calendar feeds - jyujin
http://httpshaming.tumblr.com/post/94950343491/tripit-insecurely-broadcasts-sensitive-travel-details
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donkeyd
The case of using the info at a hotel to get your room key is pretty
reasonable. On the home break-in story however ther... | {
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} |
BitMessage - Bitcoin Inspired Peer to Peer Encrypted Messaging - ericb
https://bitmessage.org/wiki/FAQ
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Sami_Lehtinen
I have found several issues with current implementation. Address spoofing and
Inventory injection attacks, crashing listener thread with stateless
connection flood etc. There are several ways t... | {
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} |
How to create your own SMTP server in 20 minutes - sameercharles
https://sameercharles.com/how-to-create-your-own-smtp-sever/
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panpanna
Thought I would see some really cool and simple smtp implementation. All I
found was
npm install $stuff
$stuff run
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sameercharles
Yeah, but thats a po... | {
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Project Logos - natmaster
http://www.dellsocialinnovationcompetition.com/apex/ideaView?id=087800000005GwJAAU
I want to fix news. Please give me feedback.
(Note: a lot of details have been omitted in the public entry to protect the execution of my idea - if you need more information, feel free to ask and I might revea... | {
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} |
"The only man who has ever visited Dune" has passed away - davi
http://www.bpib.com/illustra3/Schoenherr/Draft.html
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davi
A little more: [http://ianschoenherr.blogspot.com/2010/04/john-
schoenherr-19...](http://ianschoenherr.blogspot.com/2010/04/john-
schoenherr-1935-2010.html),
[http://blogs.discovermagazine.... | {
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Show HN: Israel has been rocket-free for ... - BrandonMarc
http://israelhasbeenrocketfreefor.com/
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embro
Nice try...
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Air Force Shoots Down [Unresponsive] Drone Over Afghanistan - chaostheory
http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-amp-space/article/2009-09/when-drones-go-wild-air-force-shoots-them-down?page=
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TrevorJ
"If communications cannot be restored and the failsafe measures fail (as they
appear to have here), current dro... | {
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Hardware RNG via cheap USB SDR - ac29
https://pthree.org/2015/06/16/hardware-rng-through-an-rtl-sdr-dongle/
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ac29
This appears to be useable as an additional source of entropy in linux via
rtl-entropy[0] and rng-tools[1].
[0] [https://github.com/pwarren/rtl-entropy](https://github.com/pwarren/rtl-
entropy)
[1]... | {
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} |
Order of Operations - ph0rque
http://adam.blog.heroku.com/past/2009/3/18/order_of_operations/
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jerf
I disagree strongly with making "security" step 4. By the time you finally get
around to making the app functional you may have fallen into several
fundamental traps that require massive work to get out of the hol... | {
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} |
Google's geographer-in-chief - pastalex
http://www.fastcompany.com/3060811/most-creative-people/google-map-quest
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adrianN
I find it weird that people contribute to Google maps. I use OSM most of the
time and contribute whenever I find a path that is missing, but I would never
contribute to a closed data silo lik... | {
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} |
Dear Apple, I’m leaving you - superchink
http://www.businessinsider.com/dear-apple-im-leaving-you-2012-11
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Karunamon
Headline is pretty much my stance. This recent bit of flat-out patent trolling
(the whole slide to unlock thing, more recently their downright childish
conduct wrt. a court order) evaporated wha... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What is the best advice I can give my wife on finding freelance work? - krmmalik
My wife was a practising Solicitor in the UK until recently. She's now lost her job and using this change in circumstance as an opportunity to re-assess her life. She has previous experience in Copywriting, and is very artistic ... | {
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Why Sapience built an all-seeing eye for employee productivity - gameface
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-sapience-built-an-all-seeing-eye-for-employee-productivity/
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gameface
This has just been installed on all the developer PCs where I work. You can't
turn it off.
I guess it's another aspect of the su... | {
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} |
Employers Choose Bonuses Over Raises - JumpCrisscross
https://www.wsj.com/articles/benefit-gains-exceed-wage-growth-new-labor-data-shows-1537289455
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newscracker
I wonder if there's a need to read the entire article, because anyone who
thinks a little bit about continuous costs and one off costs will arrive at
th... | {
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} |
On St. Augustine's Confessions - tintinnabula
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/10/26/sarah-ruden-augustine-dialogue-god/
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ezekg
I'm surprised and happy to see something like this posted and upvoted on HN.
The first time I read through Confessions and City of God, I thought they were
both _very_ tough reads (... | {
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"SMS of Death" Could Crash Many Mobile Phones - raphar
http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/27021/
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dkersten
Nothing new here. I used to work on an anti-fraud and anti-spam platform for
SMS and we performed various checks on messages passing through the mobile
network to prevent these kinds of messages... | {
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} |
Cephaloponderings - lelf
https://putanumonit.com/2019/07/26/cephaloponderings/
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cgio
If you find this interesting “other minds” by Peter Godfrey Smith is an
excellent book.
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pvaldes
> the males that detach their mating arms to keep from being eaten, and
> generally they really can’t mate again after that ... | {
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AWS CodeBuild – Build and test code with continuous scaling - Trisell
https://aws.amazon.com/codebuild/
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St-Clock
I'm trying to find if they offer or plan to offer these features:
1\. Caching. CircleCI and Travis cache intermediate build artifacts (e.g.,
virtualenv in python) to reduce build time.
2\. Github p... | {
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} |
A Change to Google Code Download Service - gigiduru
http://google-opensource.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/a-change-to-google-code-download-service.html
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claudius
You know that something is wrong with a website if it is worth loading a
spinning gears icon to show as an animation while the rest of the page loads.
Why... | {
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} |
Show HN: PrefaceCSS – A CSS Boilerplate for Minimalists - giancarlostoro
https://github.com/cluzier/PrefaceCSS
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ahpearce
I've been looking for something like this. I really dig the aesthetic. Great
job!
~~~
giancarlostoro
Hey thanks, I'm not the author, but I did contribute a bit by fixing up some
of the README... | {
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} |
“AI bookkeeper” startup that raised $100M and failed used humans instead of AI - ilarum
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2020/07/20/scalefactor-raised-100-million-in-a-year-then-blamed-covid-19-for-its-demise-employees-say-it-had-much-bigger-problems
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teruakohatu
There has been faked AI ever since the inv... | {
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Ask HN: Economics of Uber Eats - ycombonator
Do you think Uber Eats is profitable ? Does the driver just gets paid a buck or two ? Recent order https://imgur.com/a/GGiPqzN
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NotPaidToPost
Uber Eats, Deliveroo, etc. are like Uber, Lyft, etc. : Throwing massive mounts
of money to 'grow' at huge ... | {
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} |
Flask 0.5.1 Released - Python WSGI microframework - enduser
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Flask/0.5.1
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enduser
From the mailing list:
"And two hours later: the 0.5.1 point release. Why that? Because when you had
a module named A without templates in A but the application's template folder
in the subfolder A, Fl... | {
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} |
Airbnb hosts are building their own direct booking websites in revolt - dionmanu
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/06/airbnb-hosts-are-building-their-own-direct-booking-websites-in-revolt.html
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rogerkirkness
Similar to sellers leaking from Amazon > Shopify. Reintermediation is the
first step to digital enablement. No... | {
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} |
Tell HN: Flesh out your profiles please - jacquesm
There's an old internet joke, that on the internet, nobody knows you're a dog.<p>The way to let people know that you're not a dog, is to establish an identity, maybe a short blurb about yourself and a way to contact you out-of-band.<p>Lots of HN profiles are blank, an... | {
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Review My App: Mides IDE - heat_miser
Hey HN, I've been grinding away on this app for a couple of years, trying to build the best mobile IDE that I could on the iPhone / iPod Touch. I have recently ported it to iPad and wanted to get some feedback.<p>Thanks!
- Irvin
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heat_miser
<http://itunes.apple.com/us/ap... | {
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If you’re not terrified about Facebook, you haven’t been paying attention - annadane
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/26/with-facebook-we-are-already-through-the-looking-glass
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jjgreen
... and next to the article, a "share on Facebook" button
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nix23
Activate the anti-social filter-list in u... | {
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Is Using Twitter Paying Off For You? Check Out Buffer - jameshicks
http://www.thetechscoop.net/2011/03/23/is-using-twitter-paying-off-for-you-check-out-buffer/#axzz1HM8SDcPN
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jameshicks
extremely useful means of scheduling your twitter stream
| {
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Why Do We Only Care About Programmers? - balac
http://modelviewculture.com/pieces/why-do-we-only-care-about-programmers
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lugg
Ahh survivors guilt. Dont worry, it'll pass.
On a little more serious note I believe it has a lot to do with supply and
demand. Good programmers just think differently. Whether that wa... | {
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} |
Supreme Court seek Obama administration views on Google-Oracle dispute - drallison
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/12/us-usa-court-copyright-idUSKBN0KL1IB20150112
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drallison
This dispute centers upon whether APIs can be copyrighted. This case has broad
implications for everyone who builds and uses softw... | {
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} |
Indenting Cond Forms in Clojure - nathell
http://blog.danieljanus.pl/2020/02/10/cond-indentation/
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kimi
Worth checking out - it would be nice to see what cljfmt thinks of this.
| {
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What Critics Don't Understand About Gun Culture - tntn
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/gun-culture/554351/?single_page=true
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rabboRubble
I grew up in a family with a lot of guns around. As an adult, I've never felt
the need to waste my money on them. For me it's just another thing I have no
... | {
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} |
Google Research: From Words to Concepts and Back - ot
http://googleresearch.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/from-words-to-concepts-and-back.html
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mark_l_watson
I am grabbing the data accompanying the blog post (<http://www-
nlp.stanford.edu/pubs/crosswikis-data.tar.bz2/>) right now. Looks to be a
great resource for tex... | {
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} |
$50k competition to spot icebergs off the coast of Newfoundland - kirillzubovsky
http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/ship-iceberg-competition-kaggle-1.4405021
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toomuchtodo
All ships over a certain gross tonnage or in commercial service must use AIS
to announce themselves. Seems straightforwa... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
U.S. Economy Sees Sharp Downturn Amid Covid-19 Crisis - OrganizedChaos
https://www.cybercoastal.com/u-s-economy-sees-sharp-downturn-amid-covid-19-crisis/
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masonic
Plagiarized from Felix Richter's article:
[https://www.statista.com/chart/18839/quarterly-real-gdp-
grow...](https://www.statista.com/chart/18839/qua... | {
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This experiment proved that anyone could design a nuclear weapon - DanielRibeiro
http://io9.com/this-experiment-proved-that-anyone-could-design-a-nucle-510618426
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Mvandenbergh
>In the 1960s World War II was well over, and the United States and the Soviet
Union were both settling into a nice, long, cold war. Both... | {
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} |
Escher – Build beautiful interactive Web UIs in Julia - Lofkin
https://shashi.github.io/Escher.jl/
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benhamner
Beautiful! Appears inspired by RStudio's Shiny
[http://shiny.rstudio.com/](http://shiny.rstudio.com/)
~~~
FractalNerve
I'm currently working a lot with Matlab and seeing a beauty like Escher for
Julia i... | {
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Programmer's Bill of Rights - roachsocal
http://victorgarcia.me/programmers-bill-of-rights/
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eplanit
I really want to _not_ criticize this post. It's from a new programmer who is
early in his career. He has a lot to learn -- so did all of us at that stage.
I'm not trying to be condescending.
I must, however, ... | {
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} |
Ubuntu made in CSS = Mind-Blown - gdi2290
http://www.ubuntu.com/tour/en/#
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tejask
This is awesome!
~~~
gdi2290
my thoughts exactly
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Qualcomm Said to Seek U.S. Import Ban for iPhones - niftich
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-03/qualcomm-said-to-seek-u-s-import-ban-for-iphones
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PhantomGremlin
Dumb move by Qualcomm. They just put a bullet thru the head of any remaining
modem business they had with Apple.
But maybe it had alread... | {
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} |
Why Apple’s Frightened of Female Sexuality - lkrubner
http://www.twinfinite.net/2014/06/08/apples-orgasms-female-sexuality-frightens-apple/
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mwfunk
I came very close to missing the fact that there was a page 2 here, but to
anyone that wants to read the whole thing: there's a page 2.
I strongly agree with much o... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What are your favorite board games? - martian
Hackers tend to have great taste in board games, especially ones involving complex strategy. So, what games do you like to play?
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andy_wrote
I can't believe that I'm the first to mention One Night Ultimate Werewolf,
which has been the consensus favorite among... | {
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} |
Ask HN: moving my Django app away from GAE, where do I go? - fchollet
Hi HN,<p>So I have this Django app (http://www.wysp.ws) that has gathered 1500 signups in 3 months of un-publicized beta, and is growing at an accelerating pace. It's hosted on Google App Engine (and user-submitted pictures are sent to S3).<p>I wa... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Spielberg to Propose Oscars Rule Change That Would Disqualify Netflix Films - smacktoward
https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2019/03/steven-spielberg-may-propose-oscars-rule-change-to-disqualify-netflix-films
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arikr
Netflix should create their own awards show.
| {
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} |
Ask HN: How Much Are Bloggers At Mashable, TechCrunch Paid? - momzpie
These blogs <i>- - TechCrunch, Mashable, Gizmodo, Engadget etc - -</i> are really popular, as you all know. I would like to know how much the bloggers at these websites are actually paid.<p>-------------------------------------<p>PS: This is my fi... | {
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Make_windows10_great_again.bat - Kristine1975
https://gist.github.com/IntergalacticApps/675339c2b805b4c9c6e9a442e0121b1d
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Jaruzel
Whereas I commend the effort that has gone into this script, the end result
for most users will be an unusable Windows 10 installation. The script is VERY
aggressive, and does not exp... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Lawmakers Issued License Plates 'Invisible' To Traffic Cams - kilroy123
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130805/08323124067/lawmakers-issued-license-plates-that-make-them-invisible-to-traffic-cams-parking-tickets.shtml
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vxNsr
Well this comes as a surprise to no one.
Though I am slightly taken aback that a p... | {
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} |
Snoopers' Charter: Government Wins Vote on Investigatory Powers Bill - dubwubz
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/12194441/Snoopers-Charter-Parliamentary-vote-on-the-investigatory-powers-bill-live-updates.html
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beedogs
Coming soon to a Western "democracy" near you. We've already got it down in
Australia.
... | {
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} |
Game of Life, Implemented in Game of Life - joss82
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2em5t7/game_of_life_implemented_in_game_of_life/
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ColinWright
Discussion:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4644679](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4644679)
Videos:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=... | {
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John Conway: Discovering free will (2011) - monort
https://plus.maths.org/content/john-conway-discovering-free-will-part-i
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dekhn
If you're an armchair quantum theorist, I have a suggestion. Rather than
sitting around positing how the world works, build an actual quantum
experiment, and spend some time just thin... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Possible to get Rust job without C++ background? - jetti
I have been learning Rust in my free time for the past 6 months. I would love to be able to find a job that works with Rust full time as I'm bored with the .NET stack that I have been doing for the past 8 years. My worry is that, from my understandi... | {
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} |
The GitHub Arctic Code Vault - gingernaut
https://github.blog/2020-07-16-github-archive-program-the-journey-of-the-worlds-open-source-code-to-the-arctic/
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tw4l
As David Rosenthal (formerly of Sun, NVIDIA, and Stanford) explains, the
actual Arctic Code Vault is a PR stunt, and has almost no chance of helping
anyo... | {
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} |
Why is violent crime so rare in Iceland? - bsg75
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22288564
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visarga
My insight: it's the degree of integration of society. No disenfranchised
sections.
Besides Iceland, two other countries stand up: Japan an Switzerland. In the
former, not even police or yakuza bear fire arms, ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
We Need More Alternatives to Facebook - submeta
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604082/we-need-more-alternatives-to-facebook/?set=607909
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kem
This touches on so many issues at once I don't even know where to start
(private versus public, social medial popularity cycles, distributed versus
centralized services... | {
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New Facebook Android App - reviews scare me - vividmind
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.katana
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macleanjr
It's possible that these reviews are for the update that was pushed out on
12/6, and not the native app that is supposed to be released today.
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Pr0
They are. The new native a... | {
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How Long Before VPNs Become Illegal? - nthitz
http://torrentfreak.com/how-long-before-vpns-become-illegal-120615/
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ChuckMcM
Never of course. To make them illegal would force the question of a
constitutional right to privacy. So in the US at least it won't happen.
That being said, I expect various people to cont... | {
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} |
Why do many people feel the Chinese can't possibly be OK with their government? - w1ntermute
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-many-people-feel-that-Chinese-cant-possibly-be-basically-ok-with-their-government-or-society?share=1
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throwaway90446
Because the brainwashing of Western education is that the values of the
... | {
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Understanding Image Virality [pdf] - sytelus
https://www.cv-foundation.org/openaccess/content_cvpr_2015/papers/Deza_Understanding_Image_Virality_2015_CVPR_paper.pdf
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M_Bakhtiari
I'd be impressed if they could find an algorithm to determine the dankness of
a meme.
| {
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Daggerfall: Now available for free - tom9729
http://www.bethblog.com/index.php/2009/07/09/daggerfall-now-available-for-free/
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troygoode
If by "now" you mean July of 2009 - check the URL.
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tom9729
Oops, didn't realize how old this was. I saw a link posted in the Amazon
forums for Skyrim and thought I'd shar... | {
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Show HN: Listen to Interview with Derrick Mar of Pathrise (YC W18) - jacobpedd
https://anchor.fm/hs/episodes/26-Pathrise-w-Derrick-Mar-e2j55p
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mtmail
Blog posts aren't part of Show HN
([https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html](https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html))
so I'd argue interviews shouldn't either.... | {
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CLisp needs maintainers - ghostDancer
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.clisp.general/14256
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616c
You will see that a few people ask: why care in the face of such impressive
native code compilers: Steel Bank, Clozure, and Embedded (although maybe ECL
is short for something else; ironically they also needed a n... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Patent US6368227 - Method of swinging on a swing - gojko
http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US6368227
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jchung
To be fair, the patent was filed by a five year old whose patent-attorney
father was trying to educate on how the patent process works.
[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/13/business/patents-patent-
of...](htt... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Have a free tool for devs and digital designers? Submit here. Is free - Mike_Andreuzza
https://www.colorsandfonts.com/submit
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nh2_amine
Colors and Fonts Extractor
A firefox extension that does just that and exports them as CSS variables
[https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/colors-and-
fonts...](https:/... | {
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} |
The State of Desktop Applications in Node.js - callum85
https://nodesource.com/blog/node-desktop-applications
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doublerebel
There are a number of ways to make desktop apps with JS. TideKit/TideSDK uses
V8 IIRC. On Linux, Gnome has the GJS API. Tint and Quaxe are two more
promising newcomers. All of these use a JS... | {
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} |
Supermensch: What does the superhero craze say about our own times? - Hooke
https://aeon.co/essays/why-superheroes-are-the-shape-of-tech-things-to-come
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opportune
Way too complicated an explanation. I don’t think it has to do with technology
at all.
I think the reason superheroes are all the rage is that they p... | {
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} |
Huawei in early talks with U.S. firms to license 5G platform - thg
https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-usa-huawei-tech-licensing-exclusive/exclusive-huawei-in-early-talks-with-u-s-firms-to-license-5g-platform-huawei-executive-idUKKBN1WY010
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dang
"Early talks" probably isn't substantive enough to count as significa... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Silicon Valley's Saudi Arabia Problem - petethomas
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/12/opinion/silicon-valley-saudi-arabia.html
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joe_the_user
The problem is that the Saudi Regime has reached a point of not just murder
but instability and poor judgement. IE, they brutally murdered someone of
substance, in a lawles... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Awesome JS - xethorn
https://github.com/xethorn/awesome-js
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unoti
Hi! The title in the github repos maybe should say JavaScript, not Python. "A
curated list of awesome Python frameworks, libraries and software. Inspired by
awesome-php."
| {
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Moving from bash to zsh - DanielRibeiro
http://askubuntu.com/questions/1577/moving-from-bash-to-zsh
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crazydiamond
Recommend reading zsh-lovers (<http://grml.org/zsh/zsh-lovers.html>).
Also check the zsh reference card on the sourceforge website. Learn the
various techniques of globbing on the command line.
For... | {
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} |
Could ayahuasca have health benefits? - jeffwass
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-41333172
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dnc
While I was on a retreat this year in a Peruvian village, I was told by
several natives (Shipibo people) that, by their tradition (some estimations
are that Shipibo tribes have been using Ayahuasca for millenias), Aya... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Where to report bugs in HN? - JoshCole
I just noticed that one of the news items is appearing twice on the ask list (http://imgur.com/yVzSP.png). I'm guessing that this a bug, but couldn't find a Hacker News issue tracker.
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kazuya
I get to mind less about consistency of those web apps.
You don't get c... | {
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} |
Another Book on Data Science – Learn R and Python in Parallel - zelda_1
https://www.anotherbookondatascience.com/
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clarityPhone
I skimmed through the book, and think it does a very poor job at showcasing
how R and Python are juxtaposed in industry.
To be fair, the book advertises showing R and Python code side-... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Climate change, impacts and vulnerability in Europe 2012 - brutuscat
http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/climate-impacts-and-vulnerability-2012/
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brutuscat
Some very interesting maps I found in the pdf report which are forcing me to
read this.
Potential environmental and economic impact of climate change
<h... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Don't tell Google, Facebook or Twitter, Instant Search Hacked In 2+ Hrs - MII9
http://www.YTLatest.com
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Pewpewarrows
What exactly does this prove? Oh man, you used AJAX to call an API and pull up
a result from it.
Let me know when it scales to millions of people hitting your page every hour,
with it still ret... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
DHH (Rails) and Matt Mullenweg (Wordpress) talk about open source [notes] - kirillzubovsky
https://smashnotes.com/p/rework/e/open-source-and-power-with-matt-mullenweg
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AlchemistCamp
The entirety of the visible page is a signup form, a subscribe button and a
login button.
~~~
kirillzubovsky
Hi AlchemistCamp, Kir... | {
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} |
What’s Something That Was Said to You That’s Forever Changed the Way You Think? - jimsojim
https://upvoted.com/2015/12/12/whats-something-that-was-told-to-you-thats-forever-changed-the-way-you-think/?utm_content=bufferb40e2&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
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ourcat
This question.
| {
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} |
New Emoji include 'tiny p****' and 'period blood', according to the Internet - Varcht
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/02/06/tiny-penis-and-period-emoji-headed-your-keyboard/2792533002/
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towaway1138
Does anyone really want to receive tiny dick pics?
| {
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Reset your life - msvan
http://levels.io/reset-your-life/
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pearjuice
First and foremost: this was posted on Monday the 22nd of April, 2013.
Secondly, the guy writing this is extremely privileged yet implying he somehow
had a hard time and had to "escape" the system. If anything, his life was
getting monotonous ... | {
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} |
BedBudd - The answer to bed-based arguments - ryanSP
http://bedbudd.com
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ryanSP
Is this thing for real? Not sure, looks nice though!
| {
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} |
How I Reimplemented My Shopping Cart To Sell More Software, w/ Code - patio11
http://www.bingocardcreator.com/articles/developing-shopping-cart.htm
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patio11
Hiya guys. I recently redid the shopping cart for my business. Then I spent a
few hours writing it up for folks, with the hope somebody can use something.... | {
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} |
Avoid CloudAtCost - st3fan
I found the following email in my inbox today:<p>http://pastebin.com/gKfpWiWN<p>Note the following:<p>I never received the original initial email about this emergency maintainance. I doubt they actually sent that. I have a couple of accounts and none of them received the ini... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
North American vs. Japanese zoning - oftenwrong
http://devonzuegel.com/post/north-american-vs-japanese-zoning
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avar
Somewhat tangential: One of the things I was most disappointed in when
visiting Japan was discovering (at least in Tokyo, Kyoto etc.) that they don't
really seem to have the concept of a public gre... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Discovery of unpredicted stellar black hole in milky way galaxy - QueensGambit
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-11/caos-cao112519.php
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QueensGambit
Until now, scientists had estimated the mass of an individual stellar black
hole in our Galaxy at no more than 20 times that of the Sun. But, this stella... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A discussion of scientific python and the business of open source - mikeckennedy
http://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/34/continuum-scientific-python-and-the-business-of-open-source
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brudgers
The interviewee, Travis Oliphant, is primary developer of NumPy and a founding
contributor to SciPy.
| {
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} |
Real-time metric counter using Soviet-era Nixie tubes - misterkgb
http://tellaparteng.tumblr.com/post/51805124205/in-the-nix-of-time
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jacquesm
When I read these and see the general response I wonder how the average code-
jockey today would respond to the articles that were quite common in Elektor
and other 80'... | {
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} |
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