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Ask HN: How do I get out of the procrastination abyss? - codeknight11
I have been struggling with my productivity for 8 months now. It has nothing to do with the pandemic.
It just happened slowly. I was studying and learning (programming and ML) almost daily.
But suddenly lost my pace and have been unable to go back... | {
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“Full understand”: The new language of the Lesvos refugee camp - colinscape
https://www.newstatesman.com/2017/11/full-understand-new-language-lesvos-refugee-camp
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Havoc
Reminds me of Fanagalo [0] - South African mines employed workers from all
over the place - tower of babel type. Fanagalo even means literally "... | {
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Lie More, as a Business Model - spsaaibi
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/05/lie-more-as-a-business-model/?smid=tw-share
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moocow01
I used to buy into the MBA mentality.
Now I really think MBA / todays managerial wisdom is slowly destroying the
world. The business climate in most corporations is plain a... | {
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5G specs announced - perseusprime11
https://www.itu.int/md/R15-SG05-C-0040/en
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Nokinside
\- minimum 100 MHz bandwidth all time availability
\- peak data rate downlink 20 Gbit/s
\- peak data rate uplink 10 Gbit/s
\- minimum million connected devices per 1 km^2
\- standard requirements for connection speeds fr... | {
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How the Wind Waker Defined Cel Shading [video] - kibwen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnxs6CR6Zrk
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kibwen
The graphics techniques discussed in the video aren't particularly advanced,
but I was impressed at the live visualizations that update in real-time as the
author tweaks values to illustrate various effect... | {
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Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers in (2014) - runesoerensen
http://paulgraham.com/95.html
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runesoerensen
This essay didn't fare well when it was initially posted:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8799572](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8799572)
The discussion left me with the impression that the... | {
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On "Custom XML" (Microsoft patent lawsuit) - tlrobinson
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/12/22/On-Custom-XML#p-1
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RiderOfGiraffes
See also:
<http://searchyc.com/microsoft+word?sort=by_date>
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1010543>
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China Hacks Australian Weather Bureau Computer; Breaches Government Networks - empressplay
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-02/china-blamed-for-cyber-attack-on-bureau-of-meteorology/6993278
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empressplay
Cyber attacks on government agencies are routine and the "adversaries" range
from thrill-seeking hackers, th... | {
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Sam Wang Is This Year's Unsung Election Data Superhero - bilifuduo
https://www.wired.com/2016/11/2016s-election-data-hero-isnt-nate-silver-sam-wang/?mbid=social_fb
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nanis
See also
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12897169](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12897169)
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An Exploration of ARM TrustZone Technology - 2bluesc
http://genode.org/documentation/articles/trustzone
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Quequau
This is a really interesting article and it touches on an recurring wish of
mine that these newer, and for most part unused, security features actually
get exposed in such ways that the end user/ ow... | {
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} |
Ask HN: 120M rows Postgres – how can I speed up queries? - dbnewbie
The table is flat (no related), but many queries we make (including aggregates) take hundreds of milliseconds.<p>Forgetting the specific queries for a moment (basically all queries in this table are relatively slow):<p>How would you handle such a scen... | {
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Easy jQuery Share Buttons - chromedude
http://sharrre.com
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latchkey
This looked excellent until I realized that the code isn't on Github. Sure, I
can download it, but I'd rather be able to fork it.
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Crazy Work Hours and Lots of Cameras: a group from Silicon Valley visits China - awad
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/05/business/china-silicon-valley-technology.html
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salmonfamine
This attitude of "tech for tech's sake" at the cost of everything human is so
absurd on its face that I have a hard time believing t... | {
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Eradication of spontaneous malignancy by local immunotherapy - bookofjoe
http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/10/426/eaan4488.full
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bookofjoe
Extended analysis: [https://www.genengnews.com/gen-news-highlights/novel-
immunot...](https://www.genengnews.com/gen-news-highlights/novel-
immunotherapeutic-approach-prevent... | {
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Show HN: Australia Quiz (Sound) - gaving
https://terraaustralis.herokuapp.com/
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gaving
Weekend(ish) project to play with React.
[https://github.com/gaving/terra](https://github.com/gaving/terra)
Related:-
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7178358](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7178358)
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sim... | {
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EFF Launches Panopticlick 2.0 - clumsysmurf
https://panopticlick.eff.org/#2
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dang
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10753087](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10753087)
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newscracker
I have used the previous version several times over the years across
computers, operating systems and browsers. My w... | {
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Large Hadron Collider scuttled by birdy baguette-bomber - amduser29
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/05/lhc_bread_bomb_dump_incident/
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JCThoughtscream
Murphy loves French pastry, apparently. Loves it enough to share with
multibillion dollar high-energy projects.
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gfodor
Does someone with a little mo... | {
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Silicon Valley after a Microsoft/Yahoo merger: a contrarian view - __
http://blog.pmarca.com/2008/02/silicon-valley.html
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apathy
god bless Andreesen. As someone who actually used to use Mosaic, I feel
vaguely vindicated that he is not, in fact, a dumbass.
Disney, in particular, looks to be set to go on a ramp... | {
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Ask YC: How would you teach a Facebook Apps course? - bkrausz
A while back I was given permission to run a course at Carnegie Mellon entitled "Creating Facebook Applications". I have free reign to do what I want with the course, but from conversations with people in the industry, I have narrowed down a few specific... | {
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Show HN: QR Code Based Traveler Identity for Seamless Immigration - ajaviaad
TownChat is going to create seamless travel experience for tourists by generating Traveler Identity QR Codes for documentless identification, facilitating navigation through airports using Indoor Positioning through connectors and providing i... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Newborn Mice’s Hearts Can Heal Themselves, Study Finds - DavidSJ
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/science/01obmice.html
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QuasiPreneur
Why is this news? We know our bodies have the ability to regen but we lose it
almost immediate upon birth. We all do..every living thing has the ability to
regen and lose it at v... | {
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Ask HN: What do you think the successor to Flash will be? - rsnor
It seems like we are in a dark age in terms of web applets, which depending on your point of view could be great or horrible.<p>With Chrome dropping support for Flash in January, and there being no universal support for any other standard yet, I was cur... | {
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Path(v2) fly out menu already recreated and open sourced. - jjcall
https://github.com/levey/QuadCurveMenu
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dajobe
It is not open sourced, at least not yet. Putting something on github
generally means it can be openly distributed. The source code says "all rights
reserved" and there is no license file.
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Ask HN: Review my Startup - Dead Simple Monitor - cracell
Dead Simple Monitor alerts you when your website is down via email, SMS and/or a phone call.<p>http://www.deadsimplemonitor.com<p>And here's a special link for you guys so you can signup to check it out without putting in a credit card http://www.deadsimplemo... | {
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Show HN: Near native C++ speeds with barcode scanning with WebAssembly - chkuendig
https://websdk.scandit.com/
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chkuendig
Disclosure: I work for Scandit.
This is a project we have been working on for a while and just launched. Feel
free to ask me anything regarding barcode scanning or porting large and
optimize... | {
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} |
Arduin-o-Phone - ptorrone
https://learn.adafruit.com/arduin-o-phone-arduino-powered-diy-cellphone
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hga
2G, T-Mobile only in the US (says AT&T is not selling 2G SIMs anymore and is
shutting down its 2G network), but otherwise looks very tasty.
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yellowapple
It appears to be equivalent to a feature/dumbphone,... | {
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What Happens If Health-Care Workers Stop Showing Up? - jseliger
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/were-failing-doctors/608662
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jseliger
I know a lot of doctors and some other healthcare workers. This question isn't
getting enough play in the media, particularly because many hospitals aren't
doing... | {
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} |
The Stanford Multi-Camera Array - DanBC
http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/array/
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DanBC
There's links to a paper here.
[http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/CameraArray/](http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/CameraArray/)
And there's an Instructables page here: [http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-
Camera-Arr... | {
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} |
A 1938 subway ride led to the invention of the video game console - danso
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/12/08/the-subway-ride-that-led-to-the-invention-of-video-games/
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rmason
Six years after Odyssey I bought a 'pong' game that was the size of maybe the
size of two packs of cigarettes ... | {
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Unlock MacBook Air Using WhatsApp - nautical
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A25kCyofvRk
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fuckedup
Set up screensaver to lock mbp
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dkverma
Care to opensource ?
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ForFreedom
How is it done?
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nautical
Blog will be posted soon , imagine walking away from your laptop and you
forgot to lock it ....... | {
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This is Parrot: Clean up your MVC views (Parrot vs Razor) - c0deporn
https://www.bitcast.io/v/this-is-parrot-clean-up-your-mvc-views
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titan2782
This is a very interesting look into not only a new MVC view engine, but also
looks at what the Razor vie engine was supposed to be and where it actually
failed to mee... | {
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} |
In defense of hiring based on side projects - barry-cotter
https://diff.substack.com/?r=4uveo
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ErrantX
My take is; there is nothing wrong with looking for this stuff but relying on
it is short-sighted.
Personal experience of mine is; people who spend a lot of non-work time on
side projects and open source bring... | {
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} |
'Neopets': Inside Look at Early 2000s Internet Girl Culture - rbanffy
http://www.rollingstone.com/glixel/features/neopets-a-look-into-early-2000s-girl-culture-w509885
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thisisfineagain
Yeh I'm a girl I was into Neopets. But I never considered it a girl thing.
What interested me about Neopets was that I flew to Ca... | {
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Introduction to Algorithms (2011) - ColinWright
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP61Oq3tWYp6V_F-5jb5L2iHb
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ryeights
Related: [https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-
compu...](https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-
science/6-006-introduction-to-algorithms-... | {
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Surprisingly, Younger Users Care More About Privacy - wheels
http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/01/11/surprisingly-younger-users-care-more-about-privacy/
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swapspace
I don't really find it that surprising. I think average privacy concern will
be just about same for all age groups. It's just that older users don'... | {
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} |
Show HN: Your dedicated server provider is ripping you off. Here's how - lnguyen
http://blog.serversearchtool.com/are-you-getting-ripped-off-on-your-dedicated
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ollybee
Few customers compare dedicated server providers purely on server spec and
price. If that was genuinely all you were looking at then colocation... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Unboxing a vintage gear set - mhb
https://www.evilmadscientist.com/2018/unboxing-a-vintage-gear-set/
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jacquesm
Those look fresh as the day they were made. The real engineering is not in the
gears by the way, but in the cutting machine that cuts the spiral gears.
Cutting straight gears is hard enough, spiral driv... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Best SaaS for handling billing (subscription)? - fratlas
I'm trying stripe, but I'd love to have a service which has their own checkout, and can provide an API where I can detract credit-like usage from a users account etc.
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Gammarays
[https://www.diffur.com/what-are-the-best-payment-
apis](htt... | {
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The Sierpinski triangle page to end most Sierpinski triangle pages - JohnHammersley
http://www.oftenpaper.net/sierpinski.htm
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dvirsky
The Sierpinski triangle was what made me realise I have some talent as a
programmer and is part to blame for my career:
When I was about 11 (mid 80s) our school got a shining n... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Psychological Cost of Boring Buildings - whocansay
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/04/the-psychological-cost-of-boring-buildings.html
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rjett
"So the trick, it seems, is to design a world that excites but doesn’t overly
assault our faculties with a constant barrage of information"
I just got back from my f... | {
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Ask HN: How to teach my five-year old electronics? - fastbeef
Starting next month I'm going to have a 30 hour work week. I want to take this extra time and spend with my family and one of the things I would like to do is to encourage my five-year old sons interest in electricity and electronics.<p>I've chose... | {
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Unlike Babies, the Best Managers Come with Instructions - vinnyglennon
https://torch.io/unlike-babies-the-best-managers-come-with-instructions/?hss_channel=tw-983379969773420544
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PragmaticPulp
Manager READMEs start out with good intentions, but every example I've seen is
flawed for multiple reasons:
1) It's man... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Suspect jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt hard drives - hvo
http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/04/child-porn-suspect-jailed-for-7-months-for-refusing-to-decrypt-hard-drives/
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sandworm101
Those Americans who believe that persons cannot be held without trial are
completely naive and need to spend ... | {
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I want to share my design assets I created during last years (royalty-free) - miacod
https://gumroad.com/l/uziui/?design
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herbst
Looks exactly like
[http://qrohlf.com/trianglify/](http://qrohlf.com/trianglify/)
| {
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} |
Show HN: SQLSite – serve simple websites, APIs and files directly from SQLite - j4mie
https://github.com/j4mie/sqlsite
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CyberFonic
I too wrote something similar in Python a couple of years ago. BUT that's not
the point. Your contribution is well documented and effectively shared with
whomever might want to use i... | {
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} |
DigitalGlobe satellite imagery launch for OpenStreetMap - bhousel
http://blog.digitalglobe.com/news/digitalglobe-satellite-imagery-launch-for-openstreetmap/
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niftich
The blog post is... not so much misleading, but it doesn't clearly communicate
the impact of this. It's a press release that's light on facts and i... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
What subscriptions have you kept paying for during lockdown? - louisblythe
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runawaybottle
Sadly, WeWork. They make you have to call in to cancel your subscription (I
have the cheapest possible one to squat a office every now and then).
Wish they’d just put a simple ‘Cancel’ button, being a ‘tech’ company and all... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Just Eat's Business Model (2014) - nns
http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/opinion/1291205/just-eat-id-rather-not-says-luke-johnson/
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richmarr
I think Just Eat are going to have trouble competing with Deliveroo, who are
in a position to offer a far better customer experience.
That's going to drive their margin (an... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ashley Madison hack is not only real, it’s worse than we thought - ghosh
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/08/ashley-madison-hack-is-not-only-real-its-worse-than-we-thought/
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willtheperson
Doesn't reporting stats from this leak imply you have the data or access to
it? I was under the impression that it was il... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Rebuilding Civilization from Scratch? - perfmode
A long time ago, I came across a set of resources intended for use in the event of collapse of civilization. It consisted of farming, engineering, blacksmithing, construction technique, etc.<p>Is there such a guide for the bootstrapping of computation from first princip... | {
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Ask HN: How to structure coaching/mentoring for best results - meta_AU
I've been asked to provide some coaching to a junior developer to increase their proficiency in a couple of languages (I am external to the developer's company). While we could just sit down once a fortnight and pair program solutions to ... | {
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How to use py2exe and py2app - adammichaelc
http://warp.byu.edu/site/node/151
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cturner
I have more success with pyinstaller than py2exe because it's not targeted at
a particular target platform. There is a complication where you need to
configure pyinstaller itself for the target platform and then build the app.... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Tesla sales 'misleading' says Audi blog post - arepb
http://www.audiusanews.com/progress/blog.do;jsessionid=1CB391A6F1EDD976E0F71A0199B241E0?id=254&p=entry
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tptacek
They're right, of course, but I'm not sure this is a great marketing move,
because it dignifies the metric Tesla has chosen as their strongest. Th... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: How do you use a database when prototyping a web application? - networked
I wonder how other HN users approach data storage when iterating on a web application product early in its development. Please share your approach here.<p>To elaborate on the question in the title:<p>* Do you use a "traditional"... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Physicists planning to build powerful lasers that could rip apart empty space - ohjeez
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/01/physicists-are-planning-build-lasers-so-powerful-they-could-rip-apart-empty-space
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eggy
Don't have sufficient background, but could a chain reaction of electron-
positron splitting and ga... | {
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} |
Get .bot - lotkowskim
https://amazonregistry.com/bot
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zebraflask
$3,750 per year?
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Darpa robotics challenge - organicelephan
http://www.theverge.com/2015/6/12/8768871/darpa-robotics-challenge-2015-winners
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melling
We need a consumer robot where Apple, Google, and Microsoft can throw their
vast resources into future development.
| {
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Bodycams improperly used after woman shot near Yale - mindgam3
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-haven-police-shooting-bodycams-improperly-used-shooting-near-yale-n997201
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HarryHirsch
How come that police bodycams even have an off-switch? They somehow are always
off when things get heated. The argument th... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Media Temple Hacked? - mdink
What is it with all the hosting companies get assaulted? Or maybe it was something they did (have not searched extensively). Anyways just wanted to throw this out there in case anyone has to do damage control (like me..)<p>www.mediatemple.net
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antidaily
Media Temple grid server has... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Linux Foundation Unites the JavaScript Community for Open Web Development - fagnerbrack
https://js.foundation/announcements/2016/10/17/Linux-Foundation-Unites-JavaScript-Community-Open-Web-Development/
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ysavir
I thought this was interesting at first. An effort to push the JS environment
towards standardizati... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A Centrist Blueprint for Immigration Reform - whack
https://outlookzen.com/2019/03/20/a-centrist-blueprint-for-immigration-reform/
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masonic
we should strive to emulate early 1900s immigration levels
That would mean a 65% _reduction_ from present levels.
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How 'horrendous failure' led to Rock Band - UsNThem
http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/03/smallbusiness/harmonix_rock_band_startup_story/?postversion=2009090304
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ezy
Since when do you _make_ music with Rock Band? Their PR may say otherwise, but
I think they kind of lost the plot on the way to finger-DDR.
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Ask HN: Google Analytics Realtime down for me - the-dude
Is anybody else seeing this too?
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sankalp_sans
Yes, it is down indeed.
[https://twitter.com/googleanalytics/status/77375324625492787...](https://twitter.com/googleanalytics/status/773753246254927873)
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the-dude
Ah, thanks. I did not know that!
edit: su... | {
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Lightning fast left-right movement in Vim - alexfreska
https://github.com/unblevable/quick-scope
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zander312
This looks like a faster, less intrusive alternative to EasyMotion!
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Fix this stupid fucking issue already - azeirah
http://martijnbrekelmans.com/fix.html
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zck
Isn't Dropbox or similar programs a solution for this issue? You don't have to
do anything after installation, it works cross-device, and you have the
history.
It doesn't have the "my phone is the server" feature, but nei... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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What happens when you introduce 29 reindeer to an isolated island? - FiReaNG3L
http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/3246/201102stmatthewisland.png
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pg
While a touching parable, this is not a story about resources so much as the
size of herd you need for a species to survive a disaster that kills off most
of the... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Supreme Court Rules for American Express in Swipe-Fee Antitrust Case - sidhanthp
https://www.wsj.com/articles/supreme-court-rules-for-american-express-in-swipe-fee-antitrust-case-1529936932
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mikece
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17394019](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17394019)
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98.6 Degrees Fahrenheit Isn’t the Average Anymore - lunchbreak
https://www.wsj.com/articles/98-6-degrees-fahrenheit-isnt-the-average-any-more-11579257001
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dredmorbius
Unpaywalled alternate: [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/human-body-
tempera...](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/human-body-tem... | {
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Changing San Francisco is foreseen as a haven for wealthy and childless (1981) - raldi
http://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/09/us/changing-san-francisco-is-foreseen-as-a-haven-for-wealthy-and-childless.html?l=0
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ucaetano
San Francisco has 50% more land area than Manhattan, 15% more area than Paris.
It has half the po... | {
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Wasting time on things that really don't matter - Sam_Odio
http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2007/06/wasting-time-on-things-that-really-dont.html
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dpapathanasiou
So tempting to comment on the irony that this is posted by someone who seems
to spend every waking hour on news.yc ;)
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juwo
yes!
my comment on the ... | {
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Using the big freeze to deny climate change stupidity or cynicism? - pseudolus
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/02/using-the-big-freeze-to-deny-climate-change-stupidity-or-cynicism
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vivekd
To be fair this kind of thing goes both ways. Things like tornados and heat
waves are being increasingly b... | {
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Aspell and Hunspell: A Tale of Two Spell Checkers - djsumdog
http://penguindreams.org/blog/aspell-and-hunspell-a-tale-of-two-spell-checkers/
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tiff
I'm using the open source LanguageTool for my spell checking service
[https://www.spellboy.com/check_spelling/](https://www.spellboy.com/check_spelling/)
Unlike aspel... | {
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Q&A with Aaron Levie - dwaxe
http://www.themacro.com/articles/2016/07/aaron-levie/
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doctorpangloss
> startups with zero baggage
Well, a megalomaniacal founder who wants to hire 10,000 people and run a huge
company has the exact same baggage as his large competitors. The baggage is
just cultural, rather than bus... | {
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India locates lander lost on final approach to moon - oblib
https://apnews.com/8533918d2dd348d6819057968182c6f4
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dang
All: please don't take this thread, or any other HN thread, into nationalistic
flamewar. It breaks the site guidelines and is off topic here.
If your comment might contain flamebait, please edit... | {
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Java is just fine for your online service startup development - ppolsinelli
http://pietro.open-lab.com/2009/12/05/java-is-just-fine-for-your-online-service-startup-development/
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raju
Good advice. If you know a technology well, then run with it. Focusing on
actually delivering value vs. bragging rights to the l... | {
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Ask YC: Rigorous CS curriculum with dedicated students? - s_baar
I am beginning my college search and it seems that the most important thing (in the long run) for a college experience is a wide, rigorous curriculum and an involved student body. I am looking for a school that has demanding courses as well as at least t... | {
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Ask HN: Do coding interviews accurately assess candidates? - unclebucknasty
Is asking applicants to write code to solve a random problem while the interviewer watches a good way to assess the applicant's abilites?
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davismwfl
Yes and no.
Yes it can help understand where a candidate is confident or weak, b... | {
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Ask HN: You $10,000 to Invest into 1 CryptoCurrency, What would it be? - acob
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fujipadam
hmm none! The Cryptocurrency market is very unstable right now. This is
different from usual stock market instability. When stock indices fall, given
enough time they will bounce back. However, Crypto's very viability is in
q... | {
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Social sharing service Buffer has been hacked, pauses all shares temporarily - uladzislau
http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2013/10/26/social-sharing-service-buffer-hacked-pauses-shares-temporarily/
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kmfrk
Already discussed here:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6618915](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id... | {
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The Dukes: 7 years of Russian cyber-espionage - isido
https://labsblog.f-secure.com/2015/09/17/the-dukes-7-years-of-russian-cyber-espionage/
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djhn
Where can one read more on government cyber-espionage on a level above popular
journalism/non-fiction targeted at a lay-audience?
~~~
agopaul
I ordered this a few da... | {
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Bitcoin Payments by Pedophiles Frustrate Child Porn Fight - T-A
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-09/bitcoin-payments-by-pedophiles-frustrate-child-porn-fight.html
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anonbanker
Classic anti-$TOPIC hitpiece; link $TOPIC to pedophilia, then discuss the
"controversy" of $TOPIC afterwards.
What a surprise, a p... | {
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} |
[PDF] Exploiting Coroutines to Attack the “Killer Nanoseconds” - matt_d
http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol11/p1702-jonathan.pdf
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wahern
> This requirement renders many existing multithreading techniques useless,
> including light-weight, user-mode threads, known as fibers [4] or stackful
> coroutines
A fiber is not ... | {
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Show HN: Free placeholder logos for side projects - vsax
http://thelogo.site
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mtmail
"This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Zero License. This
means you can download and use or modify and use the logos for free, without
asking permission or providing attribution. Just don't sell them."
The ... | {
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} |
McCarthy leads GOP charge against Silicon Valley - rhapsodic
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/404642-mccarthy-leads-gop-charge-against-silicon-valley#.W41kDP-75FA.twitter
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api
Looks like someone grafted half a headline from the 1950s onto a modern one.
| {
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Google's dropping H.264 from Chrome a step backward for openness - mycroftiv
http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/01/googles-dropping-h264-from-chrome-a-step-backward-for-openness.ars/
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mycroftiv
I personally disagree with the thesis of the article, but this is still the
best commentary I have seen written on ... | {
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Ask HN: How much of Techcrunch's reporting is just re-blogs of stories from HN? - nighthawk
Is it just me or are other people noticing that a lot of TechCrunch's content showed up on HN several hours before it shows up on TechCrunch?<p>Which leads me to wonder, how much longer will mainstream media outlets be releva... | {
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“I'm not smart enough.” - acoleman616
https://yourfirst.io/im-smart-enough/
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hedgew
Many people are genuinely not "smart" enough. Saying they are, is likely to
cause suffering and waste resources, on both personal and societal levels.
It's also insulting towards the intellectually disabled.
"I'm not smart enoug... | {
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Show HN: Discussions everywhere - discusi
http://discusi.co/?utm_content=link&utm_medium=social&utm_source=HN&utm_campaign=submit2
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discusi
This is early prototype. I think what that system can join the audience of the
sites and extension/bookmarklet users. You can write something on page and all
visitors (wi... | {
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Can helplines survive our growing fear of the phone call? - wjossey
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/nov/19/helplines-advice-survive-fear-phone-calls-samaritans-childline
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clavalle
Characterizing the dwindling preference for phone calls as 'fear' is taking it
a few steps too far.
It just turns out that p... | {
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A Message About Vanguard From Our Security and Privacy Teams - houzi
https://www.riotgames.com/en/news/a-message-about-vanguard-from-our-security-privacy-teams
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smoyer
Explaining your rationale doesn't change the fact that gamers (many
unwittingly) are potentially giving the keys to their computer kingdom to
Rio... | {
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Jest – Painless JavaScript Testing - huan9huan
http://facebook.github.io/jest/
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orta
I'm a big fan of Jest - if you're using Jest with Visual Studios Code, I'd
recommend looking at my extension that gives you a mode IDE-like experience.
[https://github.com/orta/vscode-jest](https://github.com/orta/vscode-jest)
... | {
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} |
What If We Put Warnings on IoT Devices? - robin_reala
https://www.troyhunt.com/what-would-it-look-like-if-we-put-warnings-on-iot-devices-like-we-do-cigarette-packets/
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seanmcdirmid
In California, there is a law that basically everywhere (e.g. all apartment
complexes) must have a sign that specifies that the comp... | {
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} |
Subscribly-Dashboard for Subscriptions - stormbuster
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zriton.subscribly
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stormbuster
Subscribly is an one-stop solution for all your active subscriptions.
With a simple and intuitive UI, adding subscriptions is very easy. You can
choose from the popular services ... | {
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} |
67% of workers earning over $100k see themselves quitting in the next 6 months - DoreenMichele
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/19/67percent-of-workers-earning-over-100000-plan-to-quit-in-the-next-6-months.html
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icotyl
The last time I made my case for a promotion, the director said "Sorry, no
promotions right now, t... | {
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} |
We've Already Surpassed Last Year's Patent Totals - yanw
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101007/02100011321/we-ve-already-surpassed-last-year-s-patent-totals.shtml
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Unseelie
A slightly less positive tagline would be appropriate... This, at first sight,
sounded like a brilliant thing
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noonespecial
They ... | {
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Bruce Schneier: Risk Intuition - gaika
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/08/risk_intuition.html
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drewr
Not the focus of the article, but very poignant:
_Children have surprisingly perceptive risk intuition. They know when parents
are serious about a threat and when their threats are empty. And they ... | {
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} |
Shazam-like technology used to identify bars illegally streaming soccer games - rexbee
https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/12/18662968/la-liga-app-illegal-soccer-streaming-fine
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kelnos
This has the same solution as any other story around copyright infringement.
If you provide people with easy, convenient, legal met... | {
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} |
Why you need IPv6 - telmich
https://blog.ungleich.ch/en-us/cms/blog/2018/05/23/why-you-need-ipv6/
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gerdesj
Bugger off! I am an IPv6 evangelist by the way but feel sold short and here's
why:
IPv6 out of the box is not able to safely cope with multiple links to the rest
of the internet. For example, you have a 10... | {
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} |
Syfy has canceled the Expanse, but its producers want to find it a new home - waits
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/05/syfy-has-canceled-the-expanse-but-its-producers-want-to-find-it-a-new-home/
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gamblor956
SyFy's not at fault here. They don't produce _The Expanse_ , they only have
limited first-run distribu... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Why Should a Startup Operate as a Nonprofit? - pdog
In light of the news that YC will now fund nonprofits[1], why should a business or organization choose to operate as a nonprofit instead of as a for-profit company? What advantages are there to being a nonprofit? What are the disadvantages?<p>What's di... | {
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} |
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