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QEMU for iOS - funkaster
https://github.com/utmapp/UTM
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osy
Hi, author here. I’m here to answer any questions but also I want to advertise
the fact that it would be really really awesome if interested devs can join
the project. Currently it’s just me doing this on my spare time for the past
year. Specifically I’... | {
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The NCSC's first 'UK cyber survey' published alongside global password risk list - gcthomas
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/news/most-hacked-passwords-revealed-as-uk-cyber-survey-exposes-gaps-in-online-security
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gcthomas
Their.txt list of the top 100,000 passwords to avoid can be found here:
[https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/bl... | {
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The Redditor - community-created, unofficial Reddit magazine - maqr
http://www.theredditor.com/
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spindritf
It's really good, both the design/composition and the content selection. It
doesn't have the kind of quality articles Hacker Monthly offers but feels a
lot like a real magazine, great for some light readi... | {
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} |
Pindify: Helping Artist Earn Money - ievgen1989
https://rubygarage.org/blog/pindify-helping-creators-earn-money
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tsukikage
cf. [https://www.patreon.com/](https://www.patreon.com/)
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Quantum Machine Learning: An Overview - rbanffy
https://www.kdnuggets.com/2018/01/quantum-machine-learning-overview.html?utm_content=buffercca0b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
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ignoranceprior
On the other hand, see "Quantum Machine Learning Algorithms: Read the Fine
Print" by Scott ... | {
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} |
Lesson from Madlibs Signup Fad: Do Your Own Tests - soundsop
http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/02/27/lesson-from-madlibs-signup-fad-do-your-own-tests/
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jrockway
Doing your own tests is good, but I think the username/password is too simple
to benefit from the madlibs style. I also thought the wording was unusual,
"... | {
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Combining online and offline tests to improve Facebook’s News Feed ranking - moneil971
https://ai.facebook.com/blog/online-and-offline-tests-to-improve-news-feed-ranking/
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moneil971
Relevant piece on Gaussian process:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19561179](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19561179)
... | {
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Solving Sudoku with Prolog (2016) - hjek
https://www.metalevel.at/sudoku/
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triska
Thank you very much for the publicity, I greatly appreciate your interest!
Prolog is extremely well-suited for solving combinatorial tasks like Sudoku
puzzles, and also for tough practical challenges such such as timetabling,
sche... | {
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} |
Rick Dickinson, Sinclair ZX80, ZX81, Spectrum Case Designer, Has Died - sohkamyung
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Dickinson
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sohkamyung
Notice of his death posted at [1]
[1]
[http://www.qlforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=2423&sid=0c176...](http://www.qlforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=2423&sid=0c176ad1bf745... | {
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American Airlines loses $3.3 million a day - aneesh
http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/28/magazines/fortune/gimbel_american.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008043011
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redorb
this combined with the housing crisis; makes me believe a deep recession is
coming. (everyone hold on tight) ;) see you on the flip side
------... | {
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A group is its own worst enemy... - fiaz
http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html
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pibefision
There is a great quote about a talk with Stewart Butterfield (Flickr) in a
pre-flickr world :)
"I was talking to Stewart Butterfield about the chat application they're
trying here. I said "Hey, how's that going?" ... | {
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The overblown frequency vs. cost efficiency trade-off - luu
http://yosefk.com/blog/the-overblown-frequency-vs-cost-efficiency-trade-off.html
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bsder
The problem with higher frequency is the portion of time you spend doing non-
work things.
The amount of time you spend on things like clock skew and setting up pip... | {
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} |
Godaddy SUCKS, ASP.NET and Discount ASP. - spoiledtechie
http://www.spoiledtechie.com/post/GoDaddy-ASPNET-and-Discount-ASP.aspx
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eli
I have no personal experience with it, but doing .NET on a shared host just
sounds like a world of hurt.
~~~
icey
I do have experience with it, and it is _painful_.
If you're g... | {
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} |
Don’t Mess With The GOOG - iProject
http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/02/dont-mess-with-the-goog/
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skipper86
mmm.. interesting!
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Ask HN: Do you search for podcasts episodes based on a topic? - mlejva
I wonder whether there are more people like me that want to listen to different podcast episodes based on the topic?<p>I often don't care so much whether is it a podcast show I listen to if it's a topic I'm interested in. For example... | {
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Progress M-27M Re-entry Updates - hopeless
http://www.spaceflight101.com/progress-m-27m-re-entry.html
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hopeless
It's definitely coming down in the next few hours and current predictions
include Southern Africa and Asia as possible impact sites
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William Byrd on ”The Most Beautiful Program Ever Written” (2017) [video] - lelf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyfBQmvr2Hc
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keithnz
Alan Kay said :-
(SF) If nothing else, Lisp was carefully defined in terms of Lisp.
(AK) Yes, that was the big revelation to me when I was in
gr... | {
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Call Yourself A Hacker, Lose Your 4th Amendment Rights - conductor
http://www.digitalbond.com/blog/2013/10/22/call-yourself-a-hacker-lose-your-4th-amendment-rights
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tptacek
The Digital Bond blog, which covers the computer security subfield of SCADA
assessments, is spinning this story pretty hard, which I think... | {
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} |
Document 17 Declassified – 9/11 attackers may have had links to Saudi Arabia [pdf] - agjmills
https://28pagesdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/document-17.pdf
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dfsegoat
We should not be surprised. The Kingdom of Saud is rooted in wahhabism - an
ultraconservative branch of Islam that also happens to be the prima... | {
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} |
CDC director says there are ‘no banned words’ at the agency - non_sequitur
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/cdc-director-says-there-are-no-banned-words-at-the-agency
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non_sequitur
"A group of the agency’s policy analysts said senior officials at the CDC
informed them about the banned words on Thursday, acco... | {
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} |
Remind HN: Get something nice for your significant other today - kevinburke
I say this only because I didn't actually know this when I was dating this girl in high school and it cost me. It should be obvious to most people, but if it's not obvious, it's possible that no one ever told you. If you don't know what to g... | {
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} |
Why smiling in your passport photo is forbidden - nsaparanoid
http://travel.stackexchange.com/q/11534/101
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Nanzikambe
The reasoning is dumb, and the concept easily subject to abuse.
If you're good at contorting your face for an extended period of time,
including whilst you speak, do so for your passport photogr... | {
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} |
Ask HN: SQL Help - murilogustineli
I work for a company where a new feature will be launched. Let's call the existing feature A and the new feature B. We want to track the adoption of new users for the new feature B.
Using SQL, how can I get the new account ids for the new feature B that have no usage on existing... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What features do you want for a forum? - jadeydi
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krapp
1) Anonymity by default, and something like indieauth[0] to validate
identities for non-anonymous posting, without having to store user account
data on the server.
2) Ephemerality by default. Automatically delete old or non-productive
threads, and g... | {
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} |
Do We Need a Theory of Everything? - COGlory
http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2020/07/do-we-need-theory-of-everything.html
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knzhou
I'm glad that Sabine correctly describes Wolfram, Weinstein, and Lisi's
theories as what they really are.
I'm disappointed that she trots out the tired old "zero sum game" rhetoric.... | {
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} |
Project MK Ultra - mindcrime
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra
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mindcrime
Since we're talking COINTELPRO[1], might as well pull MK ULTRA into the mix.
For the younger folks among us, or those who aren't history buffs, this stuff
explains exactly why so many people are distrustful of the US governmen... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Yahoo hack steals 400,000 passwords. Is yours on the list? - curthopkins
http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2012/0712/Yahoo-hack-steals-400-000-passwords.-Is-yours-on-the-list
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Zenst
This story already been covered I thought. People pick silly passwords, people
pick great passwords. Hosts use expoitabl... | {
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} |
Vagrant, Docker and Ansible. WTF? - hunvreus
http://devo.ps/blog/2013/09/25/vagrant-docker-and-ansible-wtf.html
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bryanlarsen
As far as I can tell, Docker & Ansible don't work well together.
If you provision your app using a Dockerfile, you get a bunch of cool stuff
because it knows what's been applied and wha... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Everyone is totally just winging it, all the time (2014) - mastax
https://www.theguardian.com/news/oliver-burkeman-s-blog/2014/may/21/everyone-is-totally-just-winging-it
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davnicwil
I'm always really impressed by young people, early in their careers or without
any career experience at all, who intuit this and are... | {
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} |
Starbucks founder Schultz resigns or runs for president in 2020 - BloggerEnt
https://www.bloggerent.com/40/Starbucks-founder-Schultz-resigns-or-runs-for-president-in-2020
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bart42_0
Could be refreshing
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} |
Use Nginx access_log to save user input - montymole
https://github.com/montymole/nginx-access-loggin
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detaro
Interesting idea to just quickly collect data from a simple form, although I'd
worry about things like encodings for more complex cases.
| {
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} |
Bash FAQ - signa11
https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/
======
0xdeadb00f
While you're at it, for a similar resource check out:
[https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-
bible](https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible) and
[https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-sh-
bible](https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-sh-bible)... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Overview of JPEG XT (2016) - Sami_Lehtinen
https://jpeg.org/jpegxt/
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mkl
XT, XR, XL, XS. I wish the names were more meaningful. I can never remember
which one is which or what they're good for, or even which order they came in
(and the jpeg.org pages don't even list years).
JPEG XL is the one currently in devel... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How Google Could Rig the 2016 Election - tomohawk
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/how-google-could-rig-the-2016-election-121548.html?ml=m_t1_2h#.VdVGpXPLqvM
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tired_man
But why? Have they bought a candidate, too?
| {
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Ask HN: How old is the company/workplace you are working at now? - askthrowaway
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matchmike1313
It's about 4 years old.
| {
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} |
New dawn in cancer war: – 'Best chance yet' of beating the disease - Vaslo
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gus_massa
You forgot the URL?
| {
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} |
Cryptocurrency trading site Cryptsy in disarray - edward
http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/news/cryptsy-in-disarray/2014/04/17
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Tenoke
I used to call Cryptsy the MtGox of dogecoin and I'm not surprised that they
are still as bad as they've been since I first used them (early December). As
far as I know, none of t... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Socialism - ideqa
https://ideqa.blogspot.com/p/socialism.html
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detaro
Exactly one of the nordic countries has relevant amounts of oil money. What
works there can't be 1:1 transferred to a random other country, but "OMG they
have free money" is not the reason. All countries pay for "free stuff" in some
way or the... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Guild/Studio structure for Software Engineers? - szemy2
Hi HN,<p>I am looking for examples of companies that consist of an ensemble of mainly software engineers (could be mixed skills with hardware, graphic, architecture), that work in a guild like fashion.<p>- They work mostly on internal products, mostly on ... | {
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} |
I’ll Be Watching You: NSA Surveillance and the Male Gaze - mgunes
http://thenewinquiry.com/blogs/the-beheld/ill-be-watching-you-nsa-surveillance-and-the-male-gaze/
======
mjfl
I think there is a fundamental difference between the "male gaze" evaluating
and "objectifying" females and the "Sauron's eye" of digital sur... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Stuart Halloway talks about what led him to write a book on clojure - silkodyssey
http://blip.tv/file/2537613/
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mahmud
1) sexy language.
2) lack of competing books.
3) growing readership.
4) unnecessary, and completely unjustified hype and a messianic devotion by
uninformed and lazy masses to the New Thing.... | {
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} |
Mockbin: generate custom endpoints to test, mock, and track HTTP requests - robinhowlett
http://mockbin.com/
======
sinzone
Hi all - happy to get feedback.
Also, someone added Mockbin on Docker:
[https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/tomdesinto/mockbin/](https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/tomdesinto/mockbin/)
~~~
voltage... | {
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More than 35,000 mail-in ballots were rejected in Florida primary - fortran77
https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2020/09/17/more-than-35-000-mail-in-ballots-were-rejected-in-florida-primary-1317327
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ethagknight
A couple questions/comments.
1) Why should an unsigned ballot be considered a vote? Why is... | {
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} |
Insulator Changeout on H-Structure, Northwest Lineman College [video] - camtarn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wW_oDL6Cew
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camtarn
A POV video of a timed lineman training exercise: a lineman climbing an
overhead power line H-structure, hoisting up a ladder, using the hoist to pull
himself and the ladder out on... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
People don't understand overdiagnosis - DanBC
http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-us/cancer-news/press-release/2016-04-06-public-dont-understand-overdiagnosis
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gus_massa
I don't like the method they use (ignoring that it's an online survey). They
measured that most of the people don't know the meaning of the w... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Streamlined URL shortener UI - hvm
http://hvm.pw/
code here: https://github.com/hvm2hvm/urldable
blog post: http://blog.voicuhodrea.com/?p=64
======
hvm
code here:
[https://github.com/hvm2hvm/urldable](https://github.com/hvm2hvm/urldable)
blog post:
[http://blog.voicuhodrea.com/?p=6... | {
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} |
Show HN: Convert photo, image or picture into a poster - appscyborg
https://postercyborg.com/
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FreeHugs
Why do you put every filter on a different domain instead of one domain - say
filtercyborg.com - where you can use all the filters?
~~~
appscyborg
From past experience we know that our user will use only one ... | {
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} |
Samsung Galaxy 7.. Grenade? - uaygsfdbzf
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/hBVwX3VXIFTOp42vNNJNo7WsPW2QFS845qw_UEPNL9WUe-0qvSFQiFsGMXgIxiP9YJz-wImt1A=w1920-h1080-rw-no
======
jaytaylor
Can't see anything on an iPhone, I've got no idea what this is.
| {
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Google – My Location History - feross
https://www.google.com/maps/timeline?authuser=0&pb
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dang
This looks like a follow-up to
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20050764](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20050764).
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m0dest
I used to willingly enable this and enjoyed this page. But it was recently
r... | {
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} |
Ask HN: As a tourist in the US, what should I do if I have coronavirus symptoms? - danr4
The doctors I've spoken to are refusing a house call and suggested I go to the ER, which sounds like a bad idea.<p>Currently in Las Vegas but I've been in Los Angeles for a few weeks until 3 days ago.<p>I keep getting bo... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Unreal Engine code issues are fixed by the third-party company - AndreyKarpov
Our company develops, promotes, and sells the PVS-Studio static code analyzer for C/C++ programmers. However, our collaboration with customers is not limited solely to selling PVS-Studio licenses. For example, we often take on contra... | {
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ICO startups band together to create $100M grant fund for Ethereum projects - sethbannon
https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/16/ethereum-community-fund/
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lumberjack
So much money and yet this is what they are betting on:
[https://www.stateofthedapps.com/](https://www.stateofthedapps.com/). I just
baffles the mind, ho... | {
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} |
Record and share your terminal sessions, the right way - superasn
https://asciinema.org/
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petepete
I love asciinema, but every time I see the name I read it as 'ascii enema'.
| {
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} |
Amazon to Introduce Amazon Coins in May - DallaRosa
https://developer.amazon.com/post/Tx2KQ7KN7TXIQTU/Taking-Advantage-of-Amazon-Coins.html
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ScottWhigham
_To help promote this new currency, Amazon is going to give away tens of
millions of dollars in Amazon Coins to Kindle Fire users. This money will be
burning... | {
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} |
Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking - KC8ZKF
http://blog.ruhlman.com/ruhlmancom/2009/04/ratio-the-simpl.html
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frossie
Well I take his point that expressing quantities in ratios may make more sense
that absolute values. But aside from baking (and in particular anything
involving yeast),... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Denmark’s wind farms generated 140% of the country’s electricity needs yesterday - prostoalex
http://qz.com/450737/denmarks-wind-farms-generated-140-of-the-countrys-electricity-needs-yesterday/
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interfixus
Alas, as the wind soars, so do our energy costs. Danish electricity prices
have only gone up, up, up, and t... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Sell life insurance from your FinTech website - reiderrider
http://inslock.com
======
reiderrider
Comparable to Stripe for life insurance. Insert a line of JavaScript into your
website's HTML to display life insurance quotes. Users can choose a carrier
and apply using the first direct to consumer multi-carrie... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Pico: Client-side JavaScript library for high-precision viewport screenshots - mmoez
https://github.com/nikersify/pico
======
bilalq
This is really interesting. I don't know anything about `foreignObject`, but
are there possibly security implications of a tool like this? Normally, the
computedStyles properties in CSS ... | {
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} |
Planning a Morrowind all-faction speedrun with simulated annealing, part 3 - mildbyte
https://kimonote.com/@mildbyte/travelling-murderer-problem-planning-a-morrowind-all-faction-speedrun-with-simulated-annealing-part-3-46455/
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mkirklions
That was a lot of fun to read.
I am finally getting to the point in my pro... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
John Doerr's Startup Manual (1997) - hwijaya
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/07/082doerr.html
======
smakz
"In June, 1996 KPCB organized a $100 million Java Fund to back a slate of
startups using Sun's Java programming language, including Active Software,
Calico, Internet Security Systems, Marimba, and Netiva."
... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Making sense of the GHC API - aesadde
http://www.aesadde.xyz/posts/ghc_api.html
======
aesadde
Hi all,
First time posting here. I just wrote a smallish blog post on how to use the
GHC API. It is my first time blogging so any comments/feedback would be
greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
| {
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Ask HN: Why do links open in the same tab on Hacker News? - esalazar
Why do links open in the same tab on HN? I would love to be able to just click five interesting links and have five new tabs open.
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brudgers
A user script using Greasemonkey for Firefox or TamperMonkey for
Chrome/Chromium can change the behavio... | {
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} |
Uses of "* is the new *" in 2005 represented graphically - david
http://thediagram.com/6_3/leisurearts.html
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LaurieCheers
"LOL I CAN HAS" is the new "is the new".
~~~
benhoyt
Is your name "Strange Loop", or "Douglas Hofstadter", by any chance? ;-)
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daniel-cussen
Seriously clever.
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Thoughts of a sysadmin starting to get old ... - bensummers
http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/5785-Thoughts-of-an-admin-starting-to-get-old-....html
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ajross
I kept reading wanting this to be interesting, but it's the same tired Unix
incompatibility rant we've all been reading for 20 years now. First it was Sun
... | {
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} |
Poll: Americans Turn On Snowden, Majority Supports Criminal Charges - 1337biz
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/poll-americans-turn-on-snowden-majority-supports-criminal
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drpgq
I've thought about Snowden that he did more of a service for people in other
countries. I mean people should assume that big... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Secret Uber Data That Could Fix Your Commute - em3rgent0rdr
https://www.wired.com/2017/02/ubers-coughing-data-nyc-fix-commute/
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tomohawk
If they want the data, they should pay for it.
| {
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} |
Is It Nude? (SFW – Nudity Detection Bot) - doppenhe
https://isitnude.com
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jeffbax
You should partner with online dating applications, and have all images sent
from men to women run through this first.
Sr. Dick Detection Specialist will look pretty interesting on LinkedIn.
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ravimik
"Nip Alert was a terr... | {
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} |
Man receives constant pain signals from his brain - mmonihan
http://www.montgomerynews.com/articles/2014/09/23/ambler_gazette/news/doc5421ece83a718387735601.txt?viewmode=fullstory
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bitsweet
My Father has suffered with full body RSD/CRPS like the patient in this
article. Even the slightest breeze can cause him ex... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Hand Signals in NYC fine dining - Stronico
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/10/02/opinion/sunday/20111002_Schott_Sign_Dining.html
======
jtchang
While discrete hand signals may not mean much to a middle of the road dining
establishment you can bet that the people who implement these protocols do so
because th... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Google Stadia launches 4K game-streaming in November - ashraymalhotra
https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/06/google-stadia-launches-4k-game-streaming-in-november-for-9-99-mo/
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ashraymalhotra
An advantage of having cloud gaming would be to enable gaming on Mac and
Linux.
| {
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Ask HN: How would you convince a teen to stay home during isolation - romes
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sharemywin
[https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2020/03/03/how-viruses-
spr...](https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2020/03/03/how-viruses-spread-lon-
md-orig.cnn)
[https://www.healthline.com/health-news/50-percent-of-
people-...](https://w... | {
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} |
ratemycop.com: New Website Has Police Furious - iamelgringo
http://cbs13.com/local/rate.a.cop.2.673410.html
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iamelgringo
Website apparently was taken down. Here's the google cache:
[http://209.85.207.104/search?q=cache:M5rAytKxvkUJ:ratemycop....](http://209.85.207.104/search?q=cache:M5rAytKxvkUJ:ratemycop.com/... | {
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} |
New clean Google SERP design? - amccloud
http://cl.ly/1T2g1V451s3x0L2T182M<p>http://cl.ly/1Q1c0L0h0J2k3l071P2M<p>http://cl.ly/461E1x1A3e3g1f0K2J0Y
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amccloud
Clickable:
<http://cl.ly/1T2g1V451s3x0L2T182M>
<http://cl.ly/1Q1c0L0h0J2k3l071P2M>
<http://cl.ly/461E1x1A3e3g1f0K2J0Y>
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bceagle
Are you making a... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: How do you deal with application logging in a web service? - acolytic
I work for a large company that has an internal logging environment and I'm trying to figure out what the external equivalent is. Basically, I want to add logging statements throughout my app, I want those statements to get pushed to so... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: gi.st – the gist of the web - stkbach
http://thegi.st
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inaseer
The web is a big place. What's the strategy around seeding it with useful
gists so it can gain critical mass? Have you thought about focusing on a niche
(say, TED talks?) or possibly automatically summarizing pages? The latter
could be tri... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Hardware Vendor Offers Backdoor with Every Product - there
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/hardware-vendor-offers-backdoor-every-product-052611
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drcube
Why don't companies simply offer hardware "back doors"? My company has jumpers
to temporarily disable password protection and/or reset to the default
password ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Scales, Feathers and Hair Have a Common Ancestor - dnetesn
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/25/science/scales-feathers-hair-common-ancestor.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience&action=click&contentCollection=science®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront
======... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Locking Down the Instance Metadata Service: Announcing Imds-Filterd - cperciva
http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2020-01-27-Announcing-imds-filterd.html
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arkadiyt
This is great defense in depth but if someone gets RCE on your host then I
would assume that entire box is compromised. Local privilege escalation is
ve... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Has Meteor grown up? - theknight
Early in the days, there were a number of questions regarding Meteor. Will it scale, how secure it is etc. etc. Do people think it has finally grown up and addressed some of the early issues?
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fimdomeio
Security is been addressed long time ago. When you create a new proje... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
H.P. makes $1 billion bet on open source cloud services - dfine
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/07/h-p-makes-1-billion-bet-on-open-cloud/
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mark_l_watson
Probably a good strategy, selling services using OpenStack and supporting
hybrid public/private cloud services.
For smaller companies I think a sweet s... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
$10m for ni.ke domain - wil_wheat_on
http://auction.kenic.or.ke/item/19203406/nike
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PaulHoule
$10M is cheap to get a $20M lawsuit filed against you.
~~~
wil_wheat_on
It may be Nike Corporate trying to get a lock on the domain. If it isn't, the
new owner must have quite the legal budget.
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How the 49ers Are Using Beacons to Help You Find Hot Dogs and Beer - turoczy
http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/04/how-the-49ers-are-using-beacons-to-help-you-find-hot-dogs-and-beer/
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rmxt
Can anyone with a little more knowledge about either iBeacons or WiFi MAC
Address triangulation explain how active or passive o... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Break-in at Vudu - magthor
http://www.vudu.com/password_faq.html
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claudius
Why weren’t the hard drives encrypted? This should at the very least protect
against a physical one-off attack such as this one.
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Tell HN: Don't go to pirate bay - _RPM
The website seems to be distributing malware. An automatic downloads starts once you click anywhere on the page. Make sure you do not click the binary executable.
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xzcvczx
where did you click? i am unable to get the download
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Inside Industrial Light and Magic's Secret Star Wars VR Lab - petewailes
http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/13/9131805/ilm-ilmxlab-interview-virtual-reality-star-wars-movies
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ffk
LucasArts used to be a very well known game developer studio. Many of the
early star wars games were very well received and highly innov... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Interactive computational neuroscience – part 1, spiking neurons - jterwill
http://jackterwilliger.com/biological-neural-networks-part-i-spiking-neurons/
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taneq
Thanks for this! I've been trying to find something quantitative about
modeling neurons for a while now but everything seems to be either basic
research... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Worst Epidemics in History - justinzollars
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-10-worst-epidemics-in-history.html
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dmix
I was reading about this interesting fungal infection that primarily infects
people with HIV/AIDS:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptococcosis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptococcos... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Obsessing - nirmal
http://obsessing.org/
======
sayhello
This is s'posed to be a demo of processing.js isn't it? I like the vi-like
interface. If only there were the shortcut keys like
<http://gpl.internetconnection.net/vi/>
Pretty cool nonetheless
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timcederman
Doesn't work properly for me, either in Firefox 2... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Proper way to generate confirmation numbers - reaperducer
I've noticed that when I pay my bills online there doesn't seem to be any single method of generating confirmation numbers. One credit card uses a 4-digit number. Another uses 9 letters. The electric company uses six alphanumeric characters. ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Heisenbug - kordless
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenbug
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DiabloD3
I love the other kind of bug, where the code works until you read the source,
you realize the code can't work, and then your pre-existing binaries all
break.
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
TomTom GPS watches you drive, sets your insurance rate accordingly - evo_9
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/117889-tomtom-watches-you-drive-insurance-rate
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paulhauggis
I wouldn't accept this. First it will be optional. When the insurance
companies (or government) sees how much they will be able to watch us, i... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Robot Suitcase Moves Itself Around for You - saurabhpalan
http://www.grishinrobotics.com/1669
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flexxaeon
\- I travel very little, but would already want this for standing in long
lines.
\- I wonder what their security solution is (an alarm if it gets picked up
while in "following" mode)
\- Clearly needs a wi... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Use a Design System If You Want to Speed Up Front-End Development - nilkanthjp
https://www.quantcast.com/blog/unblocking-the-front-end/?utm_source=Hacker-News&utm_campaign=Unblocking-Frontend
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nilkanthjp
Author here - happy to answer any questions about our system and how it's been
working for us.
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Team dynamics after pre-$eed - tedthayer
5 months ago, I joined a technology startup aiming to revolutionize mobile healthcare. The founder ran a lab and the cofounder was a doctor with impressive credentials. The vision was big and I quit my job to work for no pay without a formalized position. We converted the found... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
EPYC SAP-SD 2-tier benchmark results - BeeOnRope
https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=186584&curpostid=186630
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techntoke
Good for Linus. I'm honestly surprised that he doesn't try to get more
involved in promoting more competition and openness of hardware vendors, but I
do appreciate his general neutral... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Tools for practicing a musical instrument as single HTML files - ctrager
https://ctrager.github.io/music_tools
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ctrager
I'm a retired software developer. I hadn't really coded in like four years.
But with the lockdown, and my wife in the next room sewing masks, I got the
urge to craft something too.
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The caffeine curse: why coffee shops have always signalled urban change - misnamed
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/apr/08/coffee-shops-gentrification-urban-change
======
dkopi
Commenting on this post while I'm at a coffee shop myself.
If I had to pick one city for having the best coffee shops, it would probabl... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Darpa working on its own deep-learning project for NLP - suprgeek
https://gigaom.com/2014/05/02/darpa-is-working-on-its-own-deep-learning-project-for-natural-language-processing/
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dlwh
This article is basically nonsense. The "Deep" here doesn't mean "deep
learning"/neural networks. They just mean non-superfi... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Splunk No Longer for Sale in Russia - liberabaci
https://www.splunk.com/blog/2019/02/18/shifting-priorities-in-our-global-strategy.html
======
bnolsen
Clickhouse, a Russian product, seems to index dramatically better than splunk.
Add with grafana, etc and you can build a useable and dramatically faster
logging platfor... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Startup founders, did you regret applying for a patent? - hkyeti
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matt_the_bass
Ianal. But I hold 4 patents with more pending.
My opinion of the value of patents for a small company is:
\- marketing (many naive customers believe if you have a unique and valuable
product, then it should be patented. If y... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
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