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Intel Quark D1000 Microcontroller (MCU) - throwaway000002
http://www.mouser.com/new/Intel/intel-quark-d1000-mcu/
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2bluesc
About 2x+ more expensive then a Cortex-M0. Still insist on CISC arch. Why?
[http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/embedded/products/qua...](http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/embedded/p... | {
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RFC 7049 Concise Binary Object Representation - stevewilhelm
http://cbor.io/
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donavanm
came up a while back
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6632576](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6632576)
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Ask HN: Websocket/Node on local loop, why so slow? - netgusto
https://gist.github.com/netgusto/0920eda110121eb7fdb382345c7db5d2
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netgusto
What: Node server asking 100 clients to update once per second via websocket
on a localhost loop.
Context: Server maintaining state for remote clients, clients issuing
operat... | {
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Ask HN: What questions to ask to evaluate a tech lead? - kartickv
I'm good at interviewing engineers, but what questions do I ask to determine how good someone is as a tech lead / people manager? For example:<p>"Tell me about a time when someone under you came to you with a problem they couldn't so... | {
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Show HN: Emojwe – Create emojis that include everyone - brensudol
http://emoj-we.com
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module0000
On the surface...this looks great. The goal of "make _everyone_ happy" doesn't
seem that bad does it? Then why do I hate this so much?
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etherealmachine
Is there any way to use these, let's say in a Facebook po... | {
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Ask HN: How to performance test React webapps for rendering speed regressions? - janci5243
As React webapps get large and start to contain a lot of complex components, they often do not perform well and manifest low FPS in browser. As a result, engineers add strategies such as memoization (React.memo, shouldComponentU... | {
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Comparison on Application Virtual Machines - mdzkhan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_application_virtual_machines
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JackQuack
Wish someone would add the Ruby ones.
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A Few Android App Developers Rake in Millions - garribas
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/03/android-devs-profits/
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rudiger
More than a few _lottery winners_ rake in millions of dollars every week.
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schultzi
The fact that you can only browse apps by total popularity or most recently
submitted sure makes... | {
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Human Artifacts on the Moon - richev
http://history.nasa.gov/humanartifacts.html
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Arjuna
Some other interesting artifacts left on the Moon:
_Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment_ arrays [1][2]. These are retro-reflectors
that were left during the Apollo program. They are used for laser ranging.
This is always good... | {
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The Benefits and Risks of Brewed Tea: Toxic Element Contamination (2013) - helloworld
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jt/2013/370460/
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exceptione
Any studies about Rooibos? I miss that in this article.
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A Raytracer Implemented in LOLCODE - davvid
https://github.com/LoganKelly/LOLTracer
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TuringTest
Dude you're doing it wrong...
OBTW Convert a binary number into a decimal number. The binary number must be
provided in the format return by decimal_to_binary. TLDR
...variable numbers and procedure names are too re... | {
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Walkthrough of a D2C rebrand - shwinnabego
https://medium.com/@shwinnabego/rebranding-modern-mammals-e32bdfe966f1
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shwinnabego
I operate a small digital studio that focuses on branding, design and dev for
direct-to-consumer brands. This was our first effort managing all of the
pieces end-to-end, so thought I'd s... | {
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Show HN: Crypto Asset Arbitrage Discovery - yungookim
http://alphanomic.ai
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gitgud
This is an interesting endeavour that I also investigated. In my case, the
dream of making millions via crypto _arbitrage_ fell apart with many different
problems.
1\. Stale pricing data; exchanges rate limit their api's to check... | {
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A cash crunch at the Gnome Foundation - chiachun
https://lwn.net/Articles/594583/
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teacup50
Some more background:
[https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/CurrentBudgetFAQ](https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/CurrentBudgetFAQ)
[https://gnome.org/opw/](https://gnome.org/opw/)
Reading this, I don't understand... | {
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Reasons to get excited about KDE in 2018 - jrepinc
https://dot.kde.org/2018/01/16/reasons-get-excited-about-kde-2018
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binaryapparatus
Is 'Wayland only' result of valid reasoning? Is Wayland successfully replacing
X11 on Linux? I am not using Linux for some time now so I am not sure.
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ryandvm
I don't know abo... | {
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Covid-19 infection-fatality rates: review and meta-analysis of research - marojejian
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.03.20089854v1
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marojejian
This appears to be the most broad analysis I've seen. the last two studies I
posted were more narrow.
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ASK HN: Book recommendations on mindfulness or EQ? - zwallman
anything?
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nabla9
Mindfulness in Plain English by Ven. Henepola Gunaratana
[http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64369.Mindfulness_in_Plai...](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64369.Mindfulness_in_Plain_English)
[http://www.mindfulvalley.org/files/b... | {
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David Graeber: Anarchism, work and bureaucracy - georgecmu
http://www.eurozine.com/anarchism-work-and-bureaucracy/
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ue_
If anyone is interested in more of David Graeber, I can really recommend his
well-known book "Debt: The First 5000 Years", which has become a staple in
anarchist or Communist circles.
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e... | {
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My Roommate's a Genius - FarhadG
http://www.farhadg.com/post/33834177117/genius-roommate
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tzs
That is far more impressive than my one attempt at modifying my bed, which no
one would attach the word "genius" to...the most likely word I would have
earned was "special".
I was living in a small rectangular room at ... | {
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Thread from Foone on statistics and warfare by other means - philshem
https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1193942666058166272
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philshem
Yes, twitter threads are horrible. But please read another twitter thread to
understand why @foone uses them:
[https://twitter.com/foone/status/1066547670477488128?s=21](https://t... | {
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Ask HN: What is -2^2? - laujen
Is -2^2 equal to 4 or -4? which has precedence, the negate or the power? TI algebraic calculators do it one way while HP's algebraic calculators do it another.
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_delirium
I believe the most common answer is -4, due to exponentiation having a higher
precedence than negation. I'm n... | {
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Apple stock drops to under $400. No longer most valuable company. - AlexMuir
https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AAAPL
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AlexMuir
I don't see much talk about Apple these days (dispute if you like, but it's
not long since half the front page was dominated). The stock is down 33% over
six months, with no si... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Why or why not should I use Elm instead of vanilla JS? - todd_wanna_code
I am a programming noob. Recently after learning about paradigms, I found the functional approach easier to grasp than OOP. I have been using Haskell and JS for learning primarily. So is there any reason to learn Elm? I know Elm is a doma... | {
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Hey Twitter: Give us our Tweets - holman
http://zachholman.com/2010/09/hey-twitter-give-us-our-tweets/
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moron4hire
If I whisper the most beautiful poem over the telephone to my lover today, am
I going to complain about the phone company not archiving that call properly
when I want to revisit it 20 years from now... | {
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} |
Chocolatier: A 3D Chocolate Printer - compiler-guy
https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/evan-and-chocolate-factory
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cjbenedikt
For once a REALLY useful startup!
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Coursera Model Thinking Course Now Live - Kopion
http://www.modelthinking-class.org/
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waveman
Only the preview videos are live. The course is subject to the same delays as
the other Stanford courses.
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rohitarondekar
You can sign up for a coursera account. Many more video lectures are up.
Discussion forum i... | {
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Falsehoods programmers believe about networks - kiyanwang
http://blog.erratasec.com/2012/06/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about.html#.WA2xdpMrJ-V
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rvense
It'd be great if someone wrote three lines explaining why one would believe
each of those, why it's wrong, and why that's important.
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Vendan
I tried to wr... | {
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Programmers and Poi - earthcreature
https://medium.com/better-humans/ed57794db602
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earthcreature
boy does medium format text nice!
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New artificial intelligence beats tactical experts in air combat simulation - velodrome
http://magazine.uc.edu/editors_picks/recent_features/alpha.html
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brudgers
News discussion:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11993366](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11993366)
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Ask HN: Why snapchat clones did not launch or take off or succeed? - garupgarup
$SNAP had a huge IPO yesterday. Tbh,app is dramatically simple to create and equally simple to use.<p>I am really curious to understand why someone did not clone snapchat?<p>If someone did, why it did not succeed like flappy bird clones?
=... | {
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Talk write-up: How to build a PaaS for 1500 engineers - srvaroa
https://srvaroa.github.io/paas/infrastructure/platform/kubernetes/cloud/2020/01/02/talk-how-to-build-a-paas-for-1500-engineers.html
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seslattery
I really enjoyed that write up. The focus on a good UI/UX in platform teams is
definitely something that ... | {
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Ask HN: Website advice on Drilling Down fast... - spoiledtechie
The problem I have is I want to drill down very fast for the user in a web based environment.<p>Exp:<p>I have an organization I need to find located in Daytona Beach, Florida, USA.<p>If I gave the user a list or a map of countries they can look at, what... | {
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The Fight to Save Japan’s Young Shut-Ins - executive
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fight-to-save-japans-young-shut-ins-1422292138?mod=WSJ_hp_EditorsPicks
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patio11
One reason for this is the primacy of the workplace/school, to the total
exclusion of any third place. If you don't have a job or are harassed out... | {
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Ask HN: What are some great online Masters Programs? - leoh
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uberman
What discipline?
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Scientists Map 5,000 New Ocean Viruses - treefire86
https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150521-ocean-viruses/
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dj-wonk
> "In the few decades since viruses were first found in the oceans, scientists
> have only been able to identify a handful of species. A new survey has
> uncovered nearly all the rest."
My first... | {
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HackrTrackr: 3 Days, 300 Users Who Want a Forum = Dilemma - dottertrotter
3 Days ago I launched hackertrackr and since that time 300 y combinator readers have submitted their information in order for other readers to find them. The problem now is how do those readers communicate with each other in a public forum? ... | {
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Trump on Coming Debt Crisis: ‘I Won’t Be Here’ When It Blows Up - AliCollins
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-on-coming-debt-crisis-i-wont-be-here-when-it-blows-up
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Digory
This has been the default position of every administration in my lifetime. If
times are bad, we need stimulus. If times are good, we can s... | {
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Teapot Ninja: a VR tribute to the popular iOS/Android game Fruit Ninja - hamgav
http://jona.than.biz/projects/teapotninja
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jon4than
Hey, I was one of the developers of Teapot Ninja, thanks for posting this --
it was a lot of fun to make, and really awesome to play!
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ddayan
@ddayan here, the coolest proj... | {
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Do modern tech companies ever move to mainframes? - greenhouse_gas
In my mind, mainframes are associated with either:<p>1. Old software<p>2. Large not-tech companies who outsource their IT department.<p>Do any modern tech companies actually migrate to mainframes?
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twunde
I've never heard of one doing so. I'd att... | {
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Twitter is opening up its full archive to the broader developer community - kbullaughey
https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/01/twitter-is-opening-up-its-full-archive-to-the-broader-developer-community/
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subdane
We got really burned, multiple times, by Twitter. After the first time, shame
on us, right? Never again.
~... | {
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Okasaki: Purely Functional Data Structures (1996) [pdf] - tosh
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/theses/okasaki.pdf
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Verdex
The book by the same title and author (which is heavily based off of this
paper) was actually one of the first books on functional programming I read. I
don't think I would suggest it as an int... | {
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Selenium Rectifier - kfichter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selenium_rectifier
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herogreen
"During the 1960s they began to be superseded by silicon rectifiers, which
exhibited lower forward voltage drop, lower cost, and higher reliability.[6]
They are still manufactured for exact replacement purposes, but are not... | {
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} |
Jason Fried has a good reason why you should ditch your free plan - mfieldhouse
“… The majority of the revenues for our products come from people who sign up
for the paid versions upfront. So we definitely have people upgrading from free
to paid, but the majority of people who are on pay started on pay... of cours... | {
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} |
Ubuntu became the most popular Linux distribution for web servers - MarionG
http://w3techs.com/blog/entry/ubuntu_became_the_most_popular_linux_distribution_for_web_servers
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bsharitt
I've always been a fan of Debian-based distos over Red Hat based, so I've been
quite happy to see the shift from Red Hat to Ubuntu ... | {
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} |
A cartoon guide to Flux - snehesht
https://medium.com/code-cartoons/a-cartoon-guide-to-flux-6157355ab207
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TheAceOfHearts
Another commenter mentioned it, but I'm going to +1 using Redux [0] as well.
If you need to pick up a framework, Redux is a great choice to consider, it's
tiny and very simple. It pushes you t... | {
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} |
Exact Exponential Algorithms - Hitchhiker
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2013/3/161189-exact-exponential-algorithms/fulltext
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dmbaggett
Like learning about the physics of the very large and very small, the study of
computational extremes will change your intuitive sense of the laws governing
the universe -- esp... | {
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} |
Pebble Launches Dictation API to boost apps with voice recognition - digital_ins
http://venturebeat.com/2015/10/15/pebble-launches-dictation-api-to-boost-apps-with-voice-recognition/
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digital_ins
Being an NLP guy myself, I think this is a big BIG BIG deal and was really
hoping that it would be Apple that would p... | {
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Ask HN: Should I learn to program old machines? - jwdunne
Often take the time to read the stories of great programmers. One thing I note, especially in Coders at Work, is that they all seemed to learn on an old machine. I get the impression that writing useful software under those constraints shaped their outlook fo... | {
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Oracle should buy HP and rename itself HP - prashanthr
after HP completes autonomy cleanup, Oracle/SAP should pick it up. I think it makes more sense for Oracle, from a branding standpoint.<p>(disclaimer: I was at Oracle doing M&A. these views are entirely mine and not representative of my past employers or know... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Google Reconsideration Requests and Disavow Lists, an entrepreneurs struggle. - jjkmk
http://www.scottofford.com/2012/11/experience-with-google-reconsideration-request/
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offordscott
This is my site. I hope Google and friends can offer some insight. Let me know
what you think.
~~~
jjkmk
Hi Scott, saw this on ... | {
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1 in 4 Hackers is an FBI informer. - vegasbrianc
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/06/us-hackers-fbi-informer?mobile-redirect=false
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JosephK
I suppose it would be asking too much to ask for some explanation of how
Corley arrived at his "one in four" estimation? And when is a "hacker" a
hacker, any... | {
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} |
When you have a nail in your eye, everything looks like a nail - robheaton
http://robertheaton.com/2013/07/15/when-you-have-a-nail-in-your-eye/
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beat
As I often say, a mixed metaphor is worth two in the bush.
Seriously, though, as I keep watching the startup community, what I want to
tell every wannabe techni... | {
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Data Cloud for Life Science - ltioiela
https://www.lifesfabric.com/
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ameliequilich
Congrats on the job!
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Ayoub_HAMDI
Great platform!
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MeziadiChouaib
Great job!
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5 Reasons Why You Should Keep Your Domains at a Single Registrar - pier0
http://domainate.wordpress.com/2012/03/03/5-reasons-why-you-should-keep-your-domains-at-a-single-registrar/
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pbhjpbhj
Summary: Suggests using a single registrar, says in comments:
"Many domain investors might stick with 2 or 3 registrars... | {
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} |
Man protests airport security - naked - pwg
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/KATU-147866735.html
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jambo
It's pretty strange to me that the very act of non-lascivious public nudity
would be illegal. In more liberal parts of the world(and I would've guessed
Portland), this sort of protest is considered protect... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: How do you make decisions between cofounders? - zaidf
Cofounder A thinks you should do something using method 1. Cofounder B thinks you should use method 2. How would you do decide?<p>I know the ideal winner would be the cofounder who just does it. And in most cases, that is how decisions are made. But this ... | {
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Show HN: Get your startup now - roberta
http://getstartupnow.com/
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ADanFromCanada
Who are you? Why should I have any confidence that you're going to help move
my project forward? What does being a geek/tutor have to do with starting a
business? Why would I think that 1 session per month costing $69/month is
en... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Indian engineers are so bad that a tech giant wants to hire high school grads - hourislate
https://qz.com/941399/indian-engineers-are-so-bad-that-hcl-technologies-wants-to-hire-high-school-graduates/
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fellellor
More like HCL is so cheap they don't even want to spend the pittance they give
their fresh engineering... | {
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IPad 2 factory explosion kills two - sambeau
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13476800
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allwein
It sounds like iPad sale are _(puts on sunglasses)_ booming.
YEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHH.
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For Sushi Chain, Conveyor Belts Carry Profit - asnyder
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/31/business/global/31sushi.html?hp=&pagewanted=all
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asnyder
More and more menial jobs being eliminated by technology. Clearly our current
social order is not sustainable.
| {
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Russian Hackers Stole NSA Data on U.S. Cyber Defense - NwmG
https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-hackers-stole-nsa-data-on-u-s-cyber-defense-1507222108
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indubitable
I find these allegations are deserving of some scrutiny. The entire story is
quite bizarre when you begin to consider it. The NSA is apparently leak... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
USPS API bug exposed user data of 60M users - ZoomStop
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/11/usps-site-exposed-data-on-60-million-users/
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ZoomStop
This is the site that last year had a password reset bug also. When resetting
your password the system would generate a random password and email it. During
the reset p... | {
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} |
Ukraine bans Steven Seagal as threat to national security - sndean
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/may/05/ukraine-bans-steven-seagal-national-security-russian-citizenship
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hoodoof
Puffy, saggy, ageing blowhards do certainly seem to be threatening national
security everywhere.
| {
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Netflix's business opportunity - male_salmon
http://www.slideshare.net/reed2002/netflix-business-opportunity
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frossie
Slide 21 I found particularly interesting in that they are testing micro-
innovations by releasing them to specific user segments.
I'll say upfront that this is a great idea, but as a longtime... | {
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} |
Senate Republicans are getting ready to declare war on patent trolls - ghosh
http://www.vox.com/2014/11/20/7251877/republican-patent-troll-fight
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lsiebert
Yeah, mostly senate republicans want to limit trial lawyers, and strengthen
large businesses. Trial lawyers serve as one of the ways that people in the US
c... | {
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} |
Surface RT an “Unmitigated Disaster”, Says Class Action Suit - pearjuice
http://allthingsd.com/20130813/surface-rt-an-unmitigated-disaster-says-class-action-suit/
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lutusp
This lawsuit is stupid. I'm not at all a fan of Microsoft, but they obviously
needed to avoid calling the Surface RT a failure in advance of... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Prodeus: Get Your Degree from YouTube - jamesharr
http://www.prodeus.co
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aiscapehumanity
It's definitely a fascinating idea, I could see it fit as even an embedded
service in online classes(Of trad university, or even new-age course-
suppliers) where professors who make videos or have cleared-videos on a class
p... | {
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} |
Go-carpet – simple tool for viewing test coverage for Go source files - mpg123
https://github.com/msoap/go-carpet
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pkaye
How does this differ from the built in Go coverage viewer?
~~~
mpg123
The builtin Go coverage viewer:
\- generates in two steps: "go test -coverprofile" and "go tool cover"
\- generates onl... | {
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Optimizing React Apps in Practice - alexwolfe
http://marmelab.com/blog/2017/02/06/react-is-slow-react-is-fast.html
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regecks
A few choice websites have definitely colored my view of React (e.g. Airbnb,
multi-second delay clicking onto a form text field on current generation
Android and iPhone? I hope they see som... | {
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} |
Taichi: A Language for High-Performance Computation on Spatially Sparse Data [pdf] - matt_d
http://taichi.graphics/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/taichi_lang.pdf
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joe_the_user
Looks like cool stuff.
Am I right this language compiles to GPU code?
I'm thinking of a similar project myself and I'm curious what conside... | {
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} |
GitPitch – Markdown Presentations for Devs on GitHub and GitLab - gitpitch
https://github.com/gitpitch/gitpitch
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didibus
I highly recommend pandoc for this use case. Pandoc is amazing. I recommend it
for all your markup. To write tech docs, books, presentations, blog posts,
etc.
It lets you use Markdown to gene... | {
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} |
More than 60 women consider suing Google, claiming sexism and a pay gap - dberhane
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/08/google-women-discrimination-class-action-lawsuit
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trentnix
Here is a clue for everyone: you aren't paid according to the value you bring.
You are either paid according to some ps... | {
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Why mobile is way bigger than you realize - danielodio
http://go.danielodio.com/waybigger
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marknutter
What part of "Never Show Again" do you not understand?
~~~
danielodio
What browser & OS are you using? When you say "never show", a cookie should be
placed in your browser called "swoopshow" (like this one
<h... | {
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Python-powered "real-world" interface pyMCU giveaway - robotico
http://www.jcopro.net/2013/05/05/free-pymcu-giveaway/
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tcdowney
This would be a whole lot cooler if the Python code was actually executed on
the MCU itself. As it stands it needs to be tethered to a PC.
~~~
robotico
I see what you're saying, but ... | {
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Apple Stores Will Sell Lightbulbs You Can Control With Your iPad - tdrnd
http://www.businessinsider.com/demo-of-philips-hue-light-bulbs-2012-10
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brackin
This is interesting, not sure that I'd pay $200 for a lightbulb and $60 for
every additional bulb, which is actually worse. I estimate that it'd cost
about $1... | {
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Show People - ryanseys
https://ryanseys.com/blog/show-people/
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dhurls99
What may seem easy and intuitive to you may not be so obvious to your
potential user. Their feedback could help you build a better product as well.
Could you imagine profs using Top Hat without someone showing them first? haha
cool post.
... | {
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U.S. Now Says All Online Gambling Illegal, Not Just Sports Bets - cohaagen
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-15/u-s-now-says-all-online-gambling-illegal-not-just-sports-bets
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cphoover
Sheldon Adelson = Big GOP money.
"Adelson's newspaper, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, was the only major
newspaper ... | {
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Parts of Model 3 Were Being Made by Hand - petethomas
https://www.wsj.com/articles/behind-teslas-production-delays-parts-of-model-3-were-being-made-by-hand-1507321057
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rco8786
> Unknown to analysts, investors and the hundreds of thousands of customers
> who signed up to buy it, as recently as early September maj... | {
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Fixing the Turn-based Strategy genre - bpierre
http://www.lostgarden.com/2005/06/space-crack-fixing-turn-based-strategy.html
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wuest
There's not a lot in the way of new ideas here, but it's a nice distillation
of bits and pieces that I've seen incorporated into other games.
The web-based half RTS/half TBS genre ... | {
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Computer science is the key to America’s skills crisis - dineshp2
http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/04/computer-science-is-the-key-to-americas-skills-crisis/
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dbcurtis
And the article talks about teaching coding. I'm tired of seeing that. We need
to teach kids to _think_ , to _question_ , to be _creative problem sol... | {
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Ask HN: How's this for a launch page/viral loop? - NickC_dev
Background info: I'm launching an image sharing site (http://lolstack.com) this coming Tuesday and I'd like to get some momentum coming out of the gate. In a nutshell, lolstack is cool because it encourages quality content through duplicate detection, comm... | {
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Zynga's IPO filing shows utter dependence on Facebook - ignifero
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/07/zyngas-ipo-filing-details-risk-dependence-on-facebook.ars
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sek
I would say that on the other hand Facebook is also dependent on Zynga: They
get a big part of their revenue from them and the games are a big... | {
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The New Gamer - venturefizz
http://venturefizz.com/blog/new-gamer
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frossie
_I casually ‘pitched’ the idea to a respectable consumer-tech focused VC who
immediately commented that he didn’t think the people who like to play games
were the same people who like to win rewards/deals or shop period_
They don't nee... | {
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} |
CI is a timesink, and it is our fault - laszlocloud
https://laszlo.cloud/ci-is-a-timesink-and-it-is-our-fault
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laszlocloud
Hi, the author here. I've been thinking for some time whether the complexity
in CI is essential to the domain, or we just add a bunch of accidental
complexity as we have no better place to p... | {
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SerenityOS: A love letter to '90s user interfaces with a Unix-like core - bpierre
http://serenityos.org/
======
akling
Hello friends! It's always nice to see SerenityOS posted. :)
(Note: The serenityos.org website is pretty barebones, there's a lot more
information over in the GitHub repo.[1])
I'm the principal auth... | {
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Single Logout: the other half of the identity equation - danw
http://www.sociallipstick.com/2009/05/logout-the-other-half-of-the-identity-equation/
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anshul
I would not want my application to be able to tell if I am logged in or out at
the openid provider.
I like the way things work with openid. It's simple, ele... | {
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} |
Lying and Hiding in the Name of Privacy - mixedbit
http://customercommons.org/2013/05/08/customer-commons-research-92-of-people-engage-in-some-behavior-to-hide-personal-data/
======
xtraclass
Really a high percentage of people who lie on such sites. But I can understand
them :-)
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New Hire to First Commit in Minutes - bavidar
https://www.lob.com/blog/new-hire-to-first-commit-in-10-minutes#1
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nsfyn55
I like it but on boarding is about more than how quickly you can get a person
to where they can commit. I'd like to hear more about how and more importantly
how long it takes for you get a p... | {
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Ask HN: What's the next innovation in computer languages? - aaronsnoswell
What's the next innovation in the computer language landscape?
- Punch cards
- Machine instructions, Assembler
- C and native languages
- Managed, Interpreted and Garbage Collected systems<p>What do you envision as the next step in this jo... | {
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You’re Not Managing a Team of Software Engineers, You’re Managing Writers - ohjeez
https://medium.com/coaching-notes/youre-not-managing-a-team-of-software-engineers-you-re-managing-a-team-of-writers-b263d3a10cc7
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thinkingkong
No youre managing a team of software engineers, one skill they have is
writing.
The pr... | {
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Monadic Programming in Scheme - gnosis
http://okmij.org/ftp/Scheme/monad-in-Scheme.html
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omaranto
I don't like the use of the word monad in the sentence "The bind operator,
>>=, makes a "bigger" monad out of a monad m and a function f (which yields a
monad when applied to a value)." (I think all his other uses... | {
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} |
Monetizing game apps - mistertee
I posted this on reddit and got a little beat up - would love some HN opinion. The complete thread is here: http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/23rql4/question_for_game_developers_monetizing_your_app/<p>Hi All - I'm wondering how game... | {
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High Performance Ruby in RPython - renlinx
http://docs.topazruby.com/en/latest/
======
marktangotango
For anyone interested in learning more about RPython, Laurence Tratt has an
indepth blog post here:
[http://tratt.net/laurie/blog/entries/fast_enough_vms_in_fast...](http://tratt.net/laurie/blog/entries/fast_enough_v... | {
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We have to wake up: factory farms are breeding grounds for pandemics - cageface
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/20/factory-farms-pandemic-risk-covid-animal-human-health
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aaron695
This is crap, it's extensive farming that's the problem.
How could you think a 'factory' where all variable are me... | {
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Recently Launched: The best way to set goals with a group and stay accountable - bmumma
https://www.weachieve.io
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qnsi
I don't like the design. This is a number one thing I am analyzing, when
checking out a new product, so I suggest you work on that
~~~
bmumma
Thanks qnsi - appreciate the feedback. Which part i... | {
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The psychiatrist will see you online now - bookofjoe
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/health/virtual-therapy-psychiatry-coronavirus.html
======
bookofjoe
>Treatment Outcomes in Depression: Comparison of Remote Treatment Through
Telepsychiatry to In-Person Treatment (August 1, 2020)
[https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org... | {
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lazymake: make for the rest of us - GitHub - bound008
https://github.com/anemitz/lazymake
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anemitz
Jason stole my HN love here, but basically lazymake is a top-down recursive
build mechanism that's (hopefully) simpler to use than writing lengthy
makefiles for all the sub-components in the project.
At the hear... | {
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Yahoo Tech - goronbjorn
http://www.yahoo.com/tech/
======
rtpg
This is actually pretty interesting site. The prose is really down-to-earth
(easy for non-tech types), the videos are high-quality productions (at least
the ones that I clicked through). It helps that the site is fun to use.
Really hope this catches on.... | {
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} |
Sanitation and Health Rights in India (YC W16 Nonprofit) - dang
http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/24/sanitation-and-health-rights-in-india-launched-its-non-profit-for-sanitation-and-water-purification-services/
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tn13
Sanitation is the proverbial uphill battle in India. West and affluent Indians
often do not understa... | {
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} |
G-WAN - Web Application Server - hendler
http://gwan.ch/
======
eropple
I get bad vibes whenever I see server software that isn't permissively
licensed at least far enough that I can see the code. So I go look at their
FAQ to see what they say about getting source access:
<http://gwan.ch/faq#license>
WTF? I mean, in... | {
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} |
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