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KeePassXC 2.4.3 - louib
https://keepassxc.org/blog/2019-06-11-2.4.3-released/
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Jonnax
I was only aware of Keepass itself. What are the differences between
KeypassXC, KeepassX and Keepass?
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mrrsm
KeePass is the original project. It is an open source dotnet application. The
source code, as of the last time I c... | {
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An IRC chat about XP SP2 support in Firefox - yuhong
http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/developers/20140421#l-1393
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yuhong
BTW, XP SP3 requiring Genuine Advantage is a myth.
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Airships for the 21st Century - mhb
http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/airships-for-the-21st-century/?utm_source=techalert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=100710
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bediger
Airships: like flying cars, jetpacks and hydrogen fusion reactors, they're
always Just 10 Years Away! And They're So Gee Whiz I can h... | {
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} |
A presentation about optical networking [pdf] - aflam
https://www.nanog.org/sites/default/files/Steenbergen.Everything_You_Need.pdf
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crispyambulance
Having worked in that industry 8 years, I can say that's an excellent
practical introduction of key topics of the physical layer in optical
transport.
Most reading... | {
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} |
NYC real estate prices visualized - JumpCrisscross
https://medium.com/re-form/nycs-housing-cost-myth-9dce6052c139
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rmxt
Pretty cool visualizations, but I would take the accuracy of the data with a
grain of salt until I saw the source data. There's no universal map of
neighborhoods in NYC, and I think that ever... | {
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} |
Prepaid carrier Cricket is getting a pricier iPhone - fpgeek
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57444300-94/apple-iphone-enters-prepaid-world-with-cricket/
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andyakb
this (and the article) is a loaded title. the 16gb iphone is a full $150
cheaper than the no contract version at ATT. in an absolute sense it is sti... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Anyone use a stand up desk? - croucho
I’ve been struggling with weight loss for years. I find that every time I try and start a regime I get really hardcore for 2 weeks or a month and then fall off the wagon. I either get sick or busy working crunch and don’t have the discipline to stay at it.<p>I’ve been... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Is there an open-source clone of Metafilter.com? - xoxa
Basically, a site that allows multiple authors to log in and make posts, and other users to comment on the same.<p>No karma system necessary.<p>I am especially interested in Django-based projects that come close to Metafilter.com
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arkitaip
Not rea... | {
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} |
Dizzying Ride May Be Ending for Startups - thatcherclay
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/11/business/dealbook/dizzying-ride-may-be-ending-for-start-ups.html
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hvs
For those of you too young to remember, there were numerous articles written
about the bubble bursting before it finally did in 2000-01. It wasn't a
surp... | {
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} |
Find a Great Domain Name (Beta code is YCOMBINATOR) - bradpineau
http://www.domainhole.com
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magic5227
Its funny cause, domainhole is a terrible name
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sebkomianos
I quite like the name to be honest.
And I sure like the design as well.
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ksolanki
I too quite liked the name. It incites a strong reaction, ... | {
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} |
Disqus redesigned - Smotko
http://smotko.si/disqus-redesigned/
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Swizec
Actually ... all I really want from Disqus is to see the comments that fly in
through social media.
After posting I will often get tweets on the line of "Hey @Swizec, your last
blog really sucks because of <X>" ... I'd like those to appear... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Is auctions.godaddy.com a scam? - kull
Looking for your startup name with a good domain is hard. I found few nice options, 4 letter domain names with Buy Now option on auctions.godaddy.com. Those were domain names with words you can find in an English dictionary. So, I wanted to purchase them both, well, I can... | {
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Cryptocurrency is driving innovation in the financial sector - newman8r
https://www.theindy.us/crypto-success-is-driving-innovation-in-the-financial-sector/
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henrikschroder
There's absolutely zero evidence for the headline in the actual bulk of the
article.
SWIFT launched a new service last year, that is now ha... | {
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} |
Flagged/shadow banned on GitHub for praising s/w? - altCensored
they emailed me back 10 days after my first request for info:<p>"Your account was flagged following reports that you are posting unproductive comments in other users' repositories, specifically for unsolicited advertising."<p>i praise the s... | {
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The US startup is disappearing - bhuga
https://qz.com/1309824/the-us-startup-company-is-disappearing-and-thats-bad-for-the-economy/
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moorhosj
Very interesting chart in this article that shows more educated people
(masters, bachelor's, some college) are less entrepreneurial than they were 25
years ago. On the fli... | {
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} |
BBC - Music - Developers - iamelgringo
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/developers
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metade
/music and /programmes are implemented in Pinwheel, a Perl MVC framework
strongly inspired by Rails. More details are available here:
[http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2007/11/perl_on_rails.s...](http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/r... | {
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What3Words – three words identify each location on Earth - erehweb
https://map.what3words.com/
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HoopleHead
For fuck's sake give up on this pointless crap. Every few weeks it raises its
ugly head on HN. I'm sick of seeing it
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Is it acceptable to write C in C++? - AlexeyBrin
https://www.reddit.com/r/C_Programming/comments/5fhve7/is_it_acceptable_to_write_c_in_c/
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rahelzer
Acceptable? The whole point of a programming language is that you can do
whatever you want to with it.
Anything "Acceptable" has to be something which follows a pat... | {
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} |
How to self-publish a book: A handy list of resources - vharuck
https://blog.datascienceheroes.com/how-to-self-publish-a-book/
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ilamont
Indie publisher here. Nice job - it came out quite well, judging by the
images. Curious if the editor and proofreader were working with the same
software, or it had to be export... | {
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} |
Why HTTPS for Everything? - maxt
https://https.cio.gov/everything/
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maxt
Here's a Mashable article about adopting HTTPS served via plain old HTTP:
[http://mashable.com/2011/05/31/https-web-
security/](http://mashable.com/2011/05/31/https-web-security/)
It worries me that major websites like this have still not... | {
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} |
DI Containers Are Code Polluters - yegor256a
http://www.yegor256.com/2014/10/03/di-containers-are-evil.html?2014-39
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SchizoDuckie
Call me oldskool, but I wholeheartedly agree.
Dependency injection via settings files leads to 'magic' code that's a mess to
debug if you're new to a platform/stack (I'm looking at y... | {
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} |
Scribd Streamlines Embedded Docs With iPaper 2 - trip
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/10/scribd-streamlines-embedded-docs-with-ipaper-2/
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mattjaynes
Congrats JR!
I know that many folks on HN much prefer raw pdf's to a flash viewer, but JR
(sole programmer for iPaper) has done an amazing job single-handedly ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
At $3 Million, New Award Gives Medical Researchers a Dose of Celebrity - zt
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/20/science/new-3-million-prizes-awarded-to-11-in-life-sciences.html?hp
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amirmc
I'm impressed and anything that promotes and furthers fundamental science gets
a thumbs-up from me.
However, I do find the p... | {
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} |
Staple Food Vending Machines Serve Those Living on $4 a Day - ca98am79
http://www.psfk.com/2015/03/algramo-vending-machines-food-staples-feeds-the-poor.html#.VRVuVCCfTVo.twitter
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jsilence
In Germany the small beverage company "Premium" does not offer discounts on
larger orders. Instead they offer "Antimengenraba... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Golang automation for mining cryptocurrencies on the Spot Market - alexellisuk
https://github.com/alexellis/spotminer
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jlgaddis
Be careful with this kind of stuff.
Someone posted a link [0] to a GitHub repo here a few days ago that would fire
up a miner on some AWS GPU instances... except that they har... | {
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} |
Journey to Mars: Pioneering Next Steps in Space Exploration [pdf] - pp19dd
http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/journey-to-mars-next-steps-20151008_508.pdf
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hackuser
If you have any interest, I highly recommend reading this. It's not marketing
fluff; it has a creative and (seemingly) complete visi... | {
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} |
China's stock market crash: A red flag - anigbrowl
http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2015/07/chinas-stockmarket-crash
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Pyxl101
Limitations on short selling always concern and perplex me. Why is that a good
idea? Isn't that preventing the market from properly adjusting to whatever
circumstances have occ... | {
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} |
Concrete Steps To Combat Sexism At Tech Conferences - chrisyeh
http://chrisyeh.blogspot.com/2013/03/2-concrete-steps-to-combat-sexism-at.html
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gregjor
I think this is a slippery slope. No one has a right to _not be offended._ And
everyone has the right to say stupid things or act like a jerk.
Hate speech and ... | {
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} |
The Essential Tools of Scientific Machine Learning - ChrisRackauckas
http://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/the-essential-tools-of-scientific-machine-learning-scientific-ml/
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jofer
This is an aside to the main point of the article, but I have to take issue
with a couple of quotes:
> For a long time scientific compu... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How do I present my prototype to you? - dschmidt11
I'm the run of the mill wantrepreneur with a vision and a first draft business plan. (Hypothetically speaking) I get the funds raised to get the prototype built. What context should I present to you (the programmer) for what I want built? Eg. Powerpoint? Ske... | {
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} |
Tarot for Hackers - zephyrfalcon
https://christine.website/blog/tarot-for-hackers-2019-07-24
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juped
The use of tarot decks for divination dates back only to the 18th century,
well after magic stopped being useful (because all the skilled or talented
magicians rebranded to "scientists" or "naturalists"), so I'm s... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Java Deployment Toolkit Performs Insufficient Validation of Parameters - fogus
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Apr/119
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drowsydream
This is covered in InformationWeek Article 'Serious Java Flaw Surfaces'[
[http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2010/04/se...](http://www.informationweek.com/blo... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Cohorts: a simple, purely Javascript split test framework - jamesjyu
http://github.com/jamesyu/cohorts
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sync
This looks great for folks using heroku and taking advantage of the provided
Varnish full-page caching.
Other solutions (like A/Bingo) require you to have a dynamic part of the page.
~~~
patio11
A/Bin... | {
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A dataset of 1M programming solutions with state changes - FraserGreenlee
https://fraser-greenlee.github.io/2020/06/25/A-dataset-of-ran-code.html
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sharemywin
Pretty cool.
| {
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How YouPorn Tries To Hide That It's Spying On Your Browsing History - arturadib
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101130/21535012065/how-youporn-tries-to-hide-that-its-spying-your-browsing-history.shtml
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fab13n
the shifting-by-one is probably not intended to throw off people, but search
engine indexers. They pr... | {
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} |
The Slime Mole Is As Good an Economic Model as Any - chrismealy
https://medium.com/@katierosepipkin/the-slime-mold-is-as-good-an-economic-model-as-any-ebec4062acd7
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kseistrup
Somebody, please correct the title from “slime mole” to “slime mold”.
| {
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Why you need a degree to work at Bigco - byrneseyeview
http://weblog.raganwald.com/2005/07/why-you-need-degree-to-work-for-bigco.html
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Alex3917
There's two types of jobs. Those where what you do creates value for people
within the company, and those where what you do creates value for people
outside the company.... | {
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} |
Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn’t Suck - Baustin
http://blog.smartbear.com/devops/a-taste-of-salt-like-puppet-except-it-doesnt-suck/
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SandB0x
I'm not a web developer but I have a side-project that runs on a cobbled
together EC2 instance. The server state is in theory documented in a set of of
shell scripts an... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Deal alerts for products you want, curated from around the web - jodi
http://stingycoin.com
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kyu
The products I want will never go on sale...
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jodi
What kind of products?
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Ask HN: What's your preferred authentication method as an end-user? - horizontech-dev
To be clear, looking to hear whats your preferred authentication method as an end-user (not as a developer).<p>Example:<p>Phone Number
Gmail
Social (fb, linkedin, github etc)<p>Sorry, if there is already a discussion around this. Fee... | {
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Air Gaps - bostik
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/10/air_gaps.html
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wikiburner
Is there an effective way to "mostly" airgap, if you need Internet
connectivity for your work? This is a comment I posted on a similar thread a
few weeks ago.
=========================================
Just curious, how w... | {
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} |
InfiniteUSB-C - neverminder
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/668098663/infiniteusb-one-usb-port-unlimited-devices/description
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unwind
This is a quite nice design.
Obviously (?) this is a 2-port hub in the connector housing, with one port
going to the extension cable, and the other to the through-port.
Th... | {
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} |
How to Write a Maths Library in 2016 - ingve
http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/maths-lib-2016/
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fao_
In regards to the section on `vectorcall`, I think that the UNIX x64 ABI
specifies that any floating point/SSE parameters are passed in the XMM*
registers, so it _should_ stay in the registers the whole time.
OTO... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Improving LinkedIn endorsements using graph connections and weights - ipapikas
https://ratein.io
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dozzie
Improving something that has the underlying idea broken beyond repair? What?
O_o
Endorsements are an idea completely useless for showing that the endorsed
person really knows something. I've been en... | {
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} |
Blame ‘Amazon Effect’ for proposed bump in S.F. garbage bills - coloneltcb
http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Blame-Amazon-Effect-for-proposed-bump-in-11168558.php?cmpid=twitter-premium
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QuinnyPig
I'm wondering how long it will be until something replaces cardboard boxes for
shipping.
| {
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Ways You Can Help EFF - diziet
https://www.eff.org/helpout
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dottrap
Don't forget The Humble Bundle :)
| {
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Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac - forcer
http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/11_22/b4230064852768.htm
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atgm
It really bothers me how, over the last 10-15 years, caffeine has gone from
something people use to jump-start their day to some kind of... fad drug.
People brag about how many cups of coffee ... | {
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} |
Finland Writes History With Crowdsourced Copyright Law - Lightning
http://torrentfreak.com/finland-writes-history-with-crowdsourced-copyright-law-130722/
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container
There's even a diff file of the proposed changes to the law, although I'm not
sure if this version is official or current anymore. Google translatio... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Can Saccadic Eye Movements Enhance Implicit and Explicit Memory? (2018) - qrian
https://sciencetrends.com/can-saccade-eye-movements-sire-effects-enhance-implicit-explicit-memory/
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qrian
Just found out about saccade induced retrieval enhancement and wanted to share
here. It's about how moving eyes for a bit enhan... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How Should I Spend My Summer? - dschmidt11
My summer officially starts in 9 hours (eff you finals). I'm a business major meaning I have 0 code experience. My thoughts took a 180 degree turn when the idea for my startup hit. Being a broke college student, I would be bootstrapping this to the fullest extent. B... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
To Battle Yelp, Google Buys Appetas, A Website Builder For Restaurants - adidash
http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/07/to-battle-yelp-google-buys-appetas-a-website-builder-for-restaurants-will-shut-it-down/
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rahimnathwani
The title is misleading. From the Appetas blog:
_To focus on our new endeavors, we’ll be shutt... | {
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} |
Reviewing Zeppelin and Jupyter Notebooks - micheda
https://www.stratosphere.dev/posts/2019/Mar/16/reviewing-zeppelin-and-jupyter-notebooks/
======
PyroLagus
There's also Iodide from Mozilla, which is pretty cool:
[https://alpha.iodide.io/](https://alpha.iodide.io/)
GitHub: [https://github.com/iodide-project/iodide](h... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Metasploit – A Walkthrough of the Powerful Exploitation Framework - manishmshiva
https://medium.com/manishmshiva/metasploit-a-walkthrough-of-the-powerful-exploitation-framework-6974c4ed0ea7
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greenie_beans
one time i downloaded metasploit onto my computer and my anti-virus software
freaked out
~~~
0xdeadb00f
As ... | {
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Microsoft's GitHub account hacked, private repositories stolen - aspenmayer
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsofts-github-account-hacked-private-repositories-stolen/
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aspenmayer
“This evening, a hacker going by the name Shiny Hunters contacted
BleepingComputer to tell us they had hacked into t... | {
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} |
Split Tunnel SMTP Exploit Explained - sr2
https://blog.securolytics.io/2017/05/split-tunnel-smtp-exploit-explained/
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soetis1
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14441025](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14441025)
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USSR Believed a Top Secret Room was at center of Pentagon - was a hot dog stand - rb2e
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=1049
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SagelyGuru
> “They thought this was the Pentagon’s most top secret meeting room, and the
> entire Pentagon was a large fortress built around this hot dog stand.”
I like ... | {
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} |
Understanding Waiting Times Between Events in a Poisson Process - nicolewhite
http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/nicolewhite/notebooks/blob/master/Poisson.ipynb
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chejazi
A similar model applies to analyzing Bitcoin blocks. The "event" in this case
is a block that is at its maximum capacity:
[https://www.reddit... | {
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} |
Probability Theory — A Primer - nickmain
http://jeremykun.com/2013/01/04/probability-theory-a-primer/
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rgarcia
If this kind of stuff interests you, you should check out the lecture videos
from Harvard's Stat 110: <http://stat110.net>. Prof. Blitzstein is hilariously
nerdy but still has a very clear presentatio... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Recommend HN comments based on your comment history - nl
I love the HN community.<p>Too many third-party sites republish links to popular HN stories, but readers of those links miss the best part: the discussion on HN.<p>http://hnrecommender.qontex.com/ attempts to find comments and stories you may find int... | {
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Want To Give Pinboard A Try? You’ll Have To Pay $2.84 - jasonlbaptiste
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/12/want-to-give-pinboard-a-try-youll-have-to-pay-284/
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jsz0
Nah I'll just use one of the many other free alternatives. Charging for
something is fine but it helps to do something unique if you actually wan... | {
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} |
How do you validate an idea before you build it? Sell it - n_coats
I recently identified a market opportunity for a startup that I am interested in pursuing. Having made the mistake in previous ventures of building first and then realizing that no one wanted to pay for what I built, I promised myself to always valid... | {
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Show HN: Visual breakdown of S&P 500 companies - Omie6541
https://tijorifinance.com/us/company/AMZN
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siddharthhegde
We are extracting data from 10K’s, 10Q’s & other company filings to build out
a visual representation of S&P 500 companies & their metrics.
In this version we’ve tried to capture:
1\. Revenue bre... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How do you find AWS management tools? - veermanhas
I have been working on a project and wanted to get some feedback from the community to make sure, I am headed in the right direction.<p>CloudEgg.net<p>The whole idea is to have a repository of vendors, open-source solutions that are available for their use cas... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: The “New” page – bug or feature? - nsns
After lurking here for several years, I've come to realize that there's a basic problem with the manner in which this forum works: while posts that make it to the main page usually get up-voted according to their merit, the way they get there seems much more ra... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Landed (YC W16) on why teacher home-ownership is central to improving schools - lebanon_tn
http://blog.landed.com/teacher-homeownership-is-central-to-improving-americas-schools-3/
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gregatragenet3
If they focused on home ownership for educators teaching medicine they could
achieve the trifecta! Markets in which g... | {
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} |
Instant confirmation via Bitcoin payment protocol - HostFat
https://github.com/greenaddress/bips/blob/bip-payment-request-instant-confirmations/bip-payment-request-instant-confirmations.mediawiki
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BrokenPipe
Hello :) author of the proposal here, if you have any question or comment feel
free to ask!
Users that... | {
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} |
Enroll in the New Advanced Protection Program in an Instant - jdivo
https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/new-advanced-protection-program-account-security-instant/
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sarcasmatwork
And Cloudflare is pushing Galileo...
[https://www.cloudflare.com/galileo/](https://www.cloudflare.com/galileo/)
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} |
Talk to people pirating your products - arjunappdupe
http://appdupe.com/news/piracy-embrace-work
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arjunappdupe
Please share your approach to counter someone pirating your products. We could
all brainstorm on what works. Cheers!
~~~
patio11
I switched from downloadable software to SaaS. Not really much more to... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Western US 'literally out of firefighters and equipment,' fire official says - jelliclesfarm
http://katu.com/news/local/western-us-is-literally-out-of-firefighters-and-equipment-clackamas-fire-chief-says
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jelliclesfarm
Why can’t we use airships to douse fires?
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jelliclesfarm
To the anonymous users who are pr... | {
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} |
Industry pushes sugary products, while obfuscating the health hazards - laurex
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2018/12/412916/sugars-sick-secrets-how-industry-forces-have-manipulated-science-downplay-harm
======
foxfired
I started to notice that sugar content has increased in sodas.
I used to work in a grocery store 12/13 ... | {
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Open-sourcing bioinstruments - homarp
https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2019/01/18/open-sourcing-bioinstruments/
======
sinab
My name is Sina Booeshaghi a second year PhD student at Caltech and I built
and designed the poseidon system (with the help of Eduardo Beltrame, Jase
Gehring, Dylan Bannon, and Lior Pachter) in... | {
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} |
Switching from macOS: Hardware - Mayzie
http://blog.elementary.io/post/152750962276/switching-from-macos-hardware
======
JBReefer
I love the idea of a more polished Linux desktop experience but this is just
an ad for a few partner companies and then some guessing about what might
work.
------
alanfranzoni
What about ... | {
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} |
Give your side-projects a home on the web - isaacsu
http://www.makedock.com/
======
Mongoose
Any links to example pages? They offer little-to-no info about what the pages
actually look like. Why would I use this instead of GitHub?
~~~
isaacsu
I guess side-projects may not always have a coding element to it, or mayb... | {
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} |
Show HN: Placebo Button for android - paweln
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.nadolski.placebobutton
======
paweln
I created this app inspired by placebobutton.com website (see
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9686357](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9686357)).
It somehow motivated me to do... | {
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} |
The Noob Guide to Online Marketing - aymeric
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-noob-guide-to-online-marketing-with-giant-infographic-11928
======
rcavezza
To save time, here are the main points:
Set up your pages for SEO Have a blog Use Adwords Get your name on Twitter &
Facebook Submit blogposts to reddit, digg, hn, ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Affirmative Action - A Complicated Issue for Asian-Americans - lambtron
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/education/edlife/affirmative-action-a-complicated-issue-for-asian-americans.html
======
rorrr
Aren't we all of African descent?
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Atlassian’s HipChat user data breached - sunnykgupta
https://icodestartups.com/atlassians-hipchat-user-data-breached/
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tedmiston
From the email:
> According to our records, your HipChat account is inactive. As a precaution,
> we have deleted the password for your inactive HipChat account. No action
> related to... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The enigmatic complexity of number theory - monort
https://mathoverflow.net/questions/282869/the-enigmatic-complexity-of-number-theory
======
jimhefferon
Is there a name for the principle that the more interesting a topic is on a
Stack Exchange forum, the more likely it is to be closed?
~~~
monort
And Scott Aaronson ... | {
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} |
A Place To Store App Ideas - taylorkpotter
https://appsto.re/us/2WcC0.i
======
natch
How would I know that this app isn't siphoning off my ideas to its own server?
Not that I'm saying it does. Just curious how people might do traffic sniffing
ala lil' snitch on an iOS device.
I guess one way is to set up your own ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Amazon Upgrade: a really useful idea that nobody has heard of - camtarn
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jan/15/amazon-upgrade-google
======
camtarn
I've been wanting a feature like this for absolutely ages - I keep wanting to
do a full-text search of books I only own in physical format. Strange to find
tha... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Like VR but Don't Like Game Development - throwaway29292
I am about to graduate and want to decide which field I'll focus on in my career, and pursue post-graduation studies in. I've had an interest in VR since long but am not interested at all in Android/Unity/Game Development/3D math... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How to learn Flash - coliveira
During the last few years I have seen more and more web sites that use Flash not just for media, but also for UI interaction -- in the same way one would use Cocoa or Win32. It looks like Flash is becoming the "low level" API for web apps, that is, whenever something is not available a... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ghost in the Shell FUI Design - cryo
http://www.hudsandguis.com/home/2017/4/17/ghostintheshell-fui
======
d33
I couldn't easily find in the post what this FUI abbreviation stands for, so
here's a reddit on it:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/FUI/top](https://www.reddit.com/r/FUI/top)
~~~
FridgeSeal
Subscribed to that so f... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
India power plant fire: Nine reported dead in major blaze in Telangana - teacupnews
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-53861457
======
enlightenedone
Could also be a cyberattack,given the border tensions with country have one of
the most advanced cyber military,
You never know!
| {
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} |
Docker Says Absolutely Not to Collaboration on Standard Container Specification - Alupis
https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/9538#issuecomment-65967102
======
debacle
They didn't say no, they just said they wouldn't spend effort conforming to a
3 day old standard that no one was using.
That just makes business ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Is Facebook Becoming the New AOL? - buckpost
http://www.markevanstech.com/2010/11/27/is-facebook-the-new-aol/
======
jballanc
I think this is a classic example of hacker (or tech-savy types in general)
having a very different experience than the rest of the population. For
example, do you know when more households h... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
MIT nuclear fusion record marks latest step towards unlimited clean energy - danielmorozoff
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/oct/17/mit-nuclear-fusion-record-marks-latest-step-towards-unlimited-clean-energy
======
arcanus
Scientists are optimistic that the promise of fusion energy is only twenty
years away... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Twitter: An Open Love Letter - fields
https://medium.com/@fields/twitter-an-open-love-letter-efa256044a9c
======
chmaynard
> It’s too hard to find the right people to follow for your detailed
> interests.
I love to follow people who post creative, well-written, ironic, humorous
tweets. It almost doesn't matter what... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Is your Slack-based product profitable? - EtienneLem
Looking at the last few days on ProductHunt, I’m seeing about 8+ products for Slack. Some of them are a sub-product of the main one with either their own pricing or used to promote the main product. Some are a full-fledged startup, some even only seem to wor... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Uyghur woman forced to marry Han Chinese man in exchange for family's release - baylearn
https://twitter.com/WBYeats1865/status/1176865152676683776
======
baylearn
Related article “China coerces Uighur women into unwanted marriages” with more
context:
[https://share.america.gov/china-coerces-uighur-women-into-
un...]... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Mails from Twitter | XSS - ulf
"Hey there.<p>Due to concern that your account may have been compromised in a phishing attack that took place off-Twitter, your password was reset. Please create a new password by opening this link in your browser: [...]"<p>Now THIS is nice...at least now they seem to realize how they... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: I have $1200 to spend on gadgets, what should I buy? - bhoomit
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throwaway_yy2Di
A vacation.
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1474454](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1474454)
~~~
umrashrf
I think it exceeds his budget by the fact that he will also have to spend time
which he can otherwise ... | {
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} |
When the Mac mini goes pro, will the pros get Mac minis? - inostia
https://www.macworld.com/article/3300182/macs/when-the-mac-mini-gets-pro-will-the-pros-get-mac-minis.html
======
ksec
It is a funny situation, Apple wants most of the people to move to iPad, and
leave the Mac for pro uses. That is a perfectly fine stra... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Twitter gets its 'million dollar homepage' scheme - fromedome
http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-gets-its-million-dollar-homepage-scheme-2009-3
======
kbrower
$1 per tweet is a little cheap. $1 per character would be better
~~~
fromedome
Ha, yeah.
| {
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} |
Was Paul Feyerabend Really Science's "Worst Enemy"? (2016) - commons-tragedy
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/was-philosopher-paul-feyerabend-really-science-s-worst-enemy/
======
osullivj
His insistence that there is no scientific method is pro-science. Science’s
only method is “opportunism,” he said. ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
There's more to HTML escaping than &, <, >, and " - jamesbritt
http://wonko.com/post/html-escaping
======
nbpoole
...except when there isn't. ;-)
PHP's htmlspecialchars function, which is called out specifically in this
post, is actually fine for most use-cases. If you write code like this:
... | {
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} |
What do you miss about your country? Food? Cosmetics? - torimo
As Japanese expats abroad, we wanted to find a simpler + more cost effective way to access the products we love.<p>That's why we launch Torimo https://torimo.io/<p>Torimo matches shoppers searching for locally unavailable products with ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Do you use G Keep and Evernote together in your note taking workflow? - rodolphoarruda
In fact, this is a problem that I have. I started using Evernote years ago for virtually everything, a true swiss knife. One day I learned about G Keep and decided to give it try. I loved it. So simple and lean, but powerful... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
VICI.tv - Just turned YouTube into TV (just for fun) - ARolek
A buddy and I were playing with the YouTube chromeless player, Javascript API, and data API the last couple weeks and next thing you know we made essentially Pandora for Videos. Leveraging jQuery on the front end and a bunch of intelligent filtering, rec... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
What advertising can't fix - bdfh42
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/09/what-advertisin.html
======
DabAsteroid
First paragraph:
_If you spend more than a quarter of a billion dollars on an ad campaign for
a tech company, people will talk about it. If you give Jerry Seinfeld, the
most famous comedian e... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
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