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Why Is the Modern World So Ugly? - edward
https://www.theschooloflife.com/thebookoflife/why-is-the-modern-world-so-ugly/
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What_wonder
> We take our cues from what the buildings around us ‘speak about’. If they
> speak of grace and charm, kindness and light, our mood will be buoyant, if
> however they seem to thr... | {
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Graphics design question... - ruby_on_rails
So, I am a full time business student and I recently sought (and technically am still seeking) a part time job. So I talk to some people and I say ideally I would like a web design position, part time for 10-15 hours per week(I have lots of experience, a decent web portfo... | {
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New Bill Proposes NSA Surveillance Reforms - LinuxBender
https://threatpost.com/new-bill-proposes-nsa-surveillance-reforms/152183/
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java-man
chance of passing = approximately 0.0
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How to hack an election - TheAuditor
https://www.gq.com/story/how-to-hack-an-election
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TheAuditor
Sometimes tech can turn a nightmare when the probability of it's malfunction
can impact everything in our lives.
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Akamai release source to their custom secure_malloc for OpenSSL - nikcub
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.openssl.user/51243?resub=1
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nikcub
For background, this came up as Akamai mentioned in their Heartbleed
announcement that they didn't think they had any sensitive information[0]
disclosed by the... | {
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What did you use to teach yourself Python? - humanlever
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qhoxie
Byte of Python: <http://www.swaroopch.com/notes/Python>
Dive into Python: <http://diveintopython.org/>
Both great and free books.
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whatusername
seconding Dive into Python.
(I'll have to check out the first one)
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nostrademons
Python tuto... | {
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Show HN: Simple creative game: make your friend guess movies using only 3 emojis - vpoulain
https://renga.party/p/ub7m43z4l
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strangecasts
This is quite fun! One problem is that it's easy to accidentally spoil the
answers by guessing a previous movie in a series or the original/remake of the
movie in question - b... | {
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Show HN: Fragments iOS Wireframe Kit - pixsellz
https://fragments.pixsellz.io
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pixsellz
Fragments is a wireframe iOS kit for Sketch & Figma that you can use to build
any kind of mobile app. The full kit includes 370+ layouts in 10 categories
and it’s based on nested symbols and built with layer styles.
All file... | {
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Microsoft's Three Browsers - thibautg
https://textslashplain.com/2020/02/03/microsofts-three-browsers/
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andrewstuart
The world would have been a better place if Microsoft's latest move was to
adopt Firefox instead of Webkit - it would have encouraged diversity in the
browser ecosystem.
Unfortunately given the h... | {
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AWS US-EAST outage - sry_not4sale
https://twitter.com/search?q=aws%20east&src=typd&vertical=default&f=tweets
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cheald
My us-east boxes are up and accessible from Phoenix. I'm seeing reports of
other places inaccessible as well, which suggests it's not AWS.
[http://internethealthreport.com/](http://internethealth... | {
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A Job Search Tool for Data Scientists in NYC - abhinovb
https://jcp1016.shinyapps.io/indeedoor/
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racketracer
This is cool! I'm wondering how did you pull the data from glassdoor btw such
as company rating and reviews? I don't think they have an API and they have
some pretty rough anti scraping protections.
--... | {
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Trump Moves to Overhaul Tennessee Valley Authority Leadership – CBS News - ycombonator
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-to-overhaul-overhaul-tennessee-valley-authority-leadership/
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foobarbazetc
I’m sure it’ll be as good as the “overhaul” of USPS leadership.
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Silicon Valley MUST DISRUPT Wall Street for the Sake of Our Country - damienh
http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/silicon-valley-must-disrupt-wall-street-for-the-sake-of-our-country.html/
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damienh
Who is going to go after the biggest prize of them all??
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OpenOffice now a part of Apache Foundation - maratd
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201110.mbox/%3C1318593641.9370.YahooMailNeo@web29707.mail.ird.yahoo.com%3E
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kmanlives
Does anyone have any thoughts on how this might affect the future of
LibreOffice?
I have to say that I'm very happy wi... | {
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Some of you are going to hell. – Was this another scam on kickstarter? - koalalorenzo
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ispaul/intelligent-security-camera-cover-webcam-privacy-c/posts/2154643?ref=ksr_email_backer_project_update_registered_users
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bigiain
FWIW, I got the 10 I ordered. About 14 months late (and ... | {
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AI’s PR Problem - dilemma
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603761/ais-pr-problem/
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dilemma
> Machines are not people, and there’s no persuasive evidence that they are on
> a path toward sentience.
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What Worries Me About iOS 7 - craigc
http://disconnected.craig.is/what-worries-me-about-ios7
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gnur
> I don't even know where to start
But then the article is very short with very little substantial problems. The
galaxy S series has been using a lock-screen like this for ages and they seem
to be doing just fin... | {
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Show HN: A pure PHP server and client for tus resumable upload protocol v1.0.0 - konsole
https://github.com/ankitpokhrel/tus-php
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konsole
tus-php is a pure PHP server and client for the tus resumable upload protocol
v1.0.0.
The project:
\- Now supports all major tus extensions.
\- Can be used seamlessly with ... | {
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Don’t break the chain – 6 months later - mariusandra
http://mariusandra.com/blog/2014/03/dont-break-the-chain-6-months-later/
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a3voices
_Many praised the changes in their life after starting to consistently wake up
early in the morning._
But I like to sleep as late as possible. I feel like my life would be wo... | {
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How to thrive as a solo non-technical founder - limedaring
http://weddinglovely.com/blog/how-to-survive-as-a-solo-designer-founder/
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patio11
In addition to making all the necessary steps to deal without a technical
cofounder (problem: can't iterate without code, solution: crash course in
Python programming the... | {
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Startup skills vs startup ideas - davidw
http://swombat.com/2012/1/9/startup-skills-ideas
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rfrey
It seems like Daniel is critiquing the tendency to advise entrepreneurial
novices to "dive in" and start something. He seems to me to be saying that the
just-do-it advice ignores the fact that entrepreneurship is a s... | {
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14 tracking tools monitor your visit to every web page - ukdm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9210866/14-tracking-tools-monitor-your-visit-to-every-web-page.html
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sdoering
Funny thing is, that the Telegraph uses Disqus for their comments. Something
that "Ghostery" is blocking in my browser, because it... | {
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Quantifying Simplified Chinese - bmc7505
https://medium.com/@idreyn/quantifying-simplified-chinese-9ec3980d7d35
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xiaoma
I'm not a fan of this argument. It all hinges on the assumption that
information density is what a language should optimize for. The problem is
that _ease of disambiguation_ is also an extrem... | {
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Youtube claims I don't own my own film - angrycoder
http://www.mdotstrange.com/2012/06/youtube-claims-i-dont-own-my-own-film.html
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slapshot
I do not work for Google/Youtube (or BMF), but I have experience with their
systems. The short version is that YouTube has an automated tool that scans
for duplicates of cop... | {
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Wikipedia Zero grows readership in Africa and Asia - TopTrix
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/10/29/wikipedia-zero-grows-readership-in-africa-and-asia/
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gioele
This result, although positive, may have much bigger drawback in the not-so-
long term: this is a first blow to net neutrality.
First net neutrality is br... | {
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Big meteorite rain over Ural, Russia - zorlem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Russian_meteor_shower
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lutusp
> At least one object streaked across the early morning sky and shattered 10
> km over the city of Chelyabinsk.
This bungled account shows the risk in trying to report unfolding events in an
encyclope... | {
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WikiLeaks Volunteer Was a Paid Informant for the FBI - Libertatea
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/wikileaks-mole/
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ruddi
For those not familiar to Icelandic news this guy has been in it from time to
time over the last year or so.
He's under investigation for fraud (more than one) in Iceland and to be h... | {
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Ask HN: Has YC funded service based businesses? - cronjobma
Asside from product based businesses has YC funded companies that offered a service (ie. A business that depended on Manual labour of the company)
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sharemywin
Most service companies are in competitive markets or niche markets which
aren't going to be bi... | {
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U.S. judge says Internet streaming service should be treated like cable - Animats
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/17/us-filmon-copyright-ruling-idUSKCN0PR02620150717
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exarch
What salient factors distinguish a cable company from a "mere" streaming video
service? Demand programming? Nope. Time shifting? N... | {
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Ask HN: Why Are There So Many Dev Jobs and High Pay in the US? - marktangotango
Title says it all really, does anyone have any sources that attempt to explain this phenomenon? Maybe the question is off. Is it true that there are a lot of development jobs? Why does the US have higher pay than other countries for develo... | {
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AC Repairman's Daughter - georgebonnr
https://medium.com/funny-stuff/48f9fb666fa4
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Sarkie
"Funny" ?
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Chromecast: Exploiting the Newest Device By Google - backrage
http://blog.gtvhacker.com/2013/chromecast-exploiting-the-newest-device-by-google/
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randallu
It's a pity that GoogleTV (which the Chromecast OS appears to be derived from)
is such a messed up platform. They really wanted to be able to run Chrome,
bef... | {
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Computing a Risk Estimate Using Netflix’s Riskquant - skuenzli
https://nodramadevops.com/2020/02/computing-a-risk-estimate-using-netflixs-riskquant/
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zerotolerance
I've been looking for a reason to dig into this tool. For those who haven't
heard of RiskQuadrant, Netflix put out an article about the project about... | {
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Inside Bill's Brain - breck
https://twitter.com/BillGates/status/1167097669405167616
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HocusLocus
Inside Joe's body
[http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/joebody.pdf](http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/joebody.pdf)
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ta4664gjgv
Hopefully once they've studied it, we can prevent someone like th... | {
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Ask HN: What starts ups are in (near) Florida? - davismwfl
I am looking for startups that are based out of Florida and who might be willing to meet up and share some experience. If not Florida south east is cool. I would love to talk, visit and share my own experience. I am based out of Central Florida.
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tr... | {
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Why I don’t use javascript frameworks - senthil_rajasek
http://gregwolejko.com/why-i-dont-use-javascript-frameworks/
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mechanical_fish
Let me summarize:
_I don't like learning to use other people's code. I prefer to force my
coworkers to learn mine._
But never fear - I'm sure this guy's undocumented, buggy,... | {
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SplashID crypto fail - cperciva
http://www.bluebottle.net.au/blog/2010/splashid-sucks
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ivan_ah
FAIL indeed... watch it unfold: <http://search.twitter.com/search?q=splashid>
On that note, I am sure a lot of you use ssh keys. Do you password protect
them? What about keys used for automated server administration... | {
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OCaml release 4.06.0 - copx
https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list/2017-11/msg00005.html
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remy_luisant
I have always wanted to try OCaml, but there sure are a lot of things marked
as breaking changes. Makes me a touch nervous.
Is this normal for OCaml?
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ernst_klim
>a lot of things marked as breaking cha... | {
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The Electro-Optic Camera – The World's First DSLR - maxerickson
http://eocamera.jemcgarvey.com/
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tgb
Somewhat OT: I don't know much about photography but had always known DSLRs as
the gold standard for digital photography. I was surprised to learn that
there's actually a bit of a shift going on away from DSLRs t... | {
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My friend survived major surgery - spiritplumber
My friend survived major surgery! I know nobody cares, I'm just super happy about it and will post this all over the place today. :)
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codewritinfool
Here's a bunch of good wishes for your friend for a speedy recovery!
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gechro
Glad to hear :) hope you... | {
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Using geometry to solve algebraic problems - nreece
http://mathpages.blogspot.com/2008/07/using-geomety-to-sole-algebraic.html
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bdr
Someone ought to invent a way to solve geometric problems using algebra.
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antiform
Yes, somebody named Descartes.
[<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartesian_geometry>]
Or, if you... | {
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Korea to get 'invisible' skyscraper - jonbaer
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57602884-1/whered-that-building-go-korea-to-get-invisible-skyscraper/
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benologist
Textbook plagiarism.
[http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2013/09/13/south-
korea...](http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2013/09/13/south-korea... | {
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Huge floating device isn't trapping plastic in Pacific Ocean - rmason
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/great-pacific-garbage-patch-huge-floating-device-isnt-trapping-plastic-waste-in-pacific-ocean/
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ElijahLynn
tldr: Fix is in the works. (bug fix will probably make it to prod faster than
many enterprise applications ... | {
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Ask HN: what are some good resources to understand economics? - toumhi
Given what's happening in the United States now, I think it's crucial to have a good understanding of the economy. I always feel that the press is not providing good resources (at least press I have access to).<p>Do you know any good books/blogs/... | {
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Ask HN: Looking for a certain HN submission from a few months ago - dicytea
I'm not sure if this is the appropriate place to ask, but I can't think of a better place to ask.<p>There was an HN-submitted article a few months ago listing various (recalling it again I'm pretty sure the number was in the low... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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IPhone developers abandoning app model for HTML5? - bdfh42
http://scobleizer.com/2009/12/16/iphone-developers-abandoning-app-model-for-html5/
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DenisM
Where is the money?
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Happy 1600M epoch second - bajsejohannes
https://www.epochconverter.com/
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bloopernova
Dagnabbit I overslept!
I use BitBar on my macbook to display the epoch second on my menu bar in a
format like this: { 1,600,003,345 }
The script to do that is:
EPOCH=$(/bin/date +%s | /usr/local/bin/sed ':a... | {
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Introducing Utah, a dataframe library for Rust - pegasos1
http://www.suchin.co/2016/12/28/Introducing-Utah/
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tyuiw1234
Great to see this effort. Would love to test it.
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Ask HN: Where do you go for sound career advice? - soulbadguy
As a professional dev, where do you get the best career advice ?<p>Is it a good idea to ask recruters what they are looking for ?<p>Any career coaching services tailors to dev/computer scientist out there ?
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beat
I think "career advice" is genera... | {
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Ask HN: I can't read code indented with 2 spaces: do I need glasses? - danielstudds
I'm doing a lot of work in Javascript at the moment, and it seems like most of the world indents using only 2 spaces - which I find really hard to read, particularly (say) long grunt config files, where indentation makes a big differ... | {
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Ask HN: What should I know before I graduate? - satsuma
I'm an American college student, on track to finish my 4 year Bachelor of Science in Computer Science in May of 2020. A lot of my time in college has been spent doing university-required courses and as a result I don't feel like I know... anything, real... | {
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Data Brewery (open-source data processing + OLAP in python) - thibaut_barrere
http://databrewery.org/
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stefanu
I'm the author of Brewery/Cubes. Both projects are very young - started last
year, in December 2010.
As for Cubes: goal is to create light-weight framework with pluggable
backends. Currently simple S... | {
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Australian Defence conducts OpenOffice.org trial | Delimiter - darkduck
http://delimiter.com.au/2011/08/29/defence-conducts-openoffice-org-trial/
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speedracr
As the article states, "However, realistically, it is unlikely Defence’s
OpenOffice.org trial will really get anywhere in the long term."
Why do I agree? L... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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The Copyright Lobby Absolutely Loves Child Pornography - alexkay
http://torrentfreak.com/the-copyright-lobby-absolutely-loves-child-pornography-110709/
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nextparadigms
_“We pointed out to [the governor] that there are overlaps between the child
porn problem and piracy,” Mr. Sherman [The RIAA president] said_
I... | {
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Retweet.com is selling itself on Flippa - AndrewWarner
http://flippa.com/auctions/85167/Retweet-com
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jasonlbaptiste
"We have never tried to monetize Retweet as it was built from the beginning to
be acquired. We are a team built primarily of developers, not salesman. "
They need to read more HN and less techcrun... | {
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} |
Non-Politically Correct Slate Star Codex blog Posts Erased from Internet Archive - drevil-v2
https://web.archive.org/web/20200623220234/https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/03/reactionary-philosophy-in-an-enormous-planet-sized-nutshell/
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drevil-v2
Here is a few more I have noticed that are missing. There is a comm... | {
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A warning for any young entrepreneurs considering a lemonade stand - Prrometheus
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local&id=6339365
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noonespecial
One thing I found out about zoning "laws" is that they are basically made up
(as in pretend). Just about any senior official at City Hall can scribble a
... | {
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} |
You Can’t Trust What Cops About Automated License Plate Readers - DiabloD3
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/03/heres-why-you-cant-trust-what-cops-and-companies-claim-about-automated-license
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bradknowles
The actual title is “Here’s Why You Can’t Trust What Cops and Companies Claim
About Automated License Plate ... | {
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Coconut oil is 'pure poison', says Harvard professor - leonagano
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2018/aug/22/coconut-oil-is-pure-poison-says-harvard-professor
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jamilbk
Where is the literature? Without strong supporting studies, arguments like
these have little merit.
This seems like more of the established arg... | {
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} |
A plane flying over Germany drawing a Christmas tree - Jamie452
https://www.flightradar24.com/AIB232E/fd1fd63
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bhaak
Apparently a test flight of an Airbus 380 by the Emirates airline according to
Spiegel Online: [http://www.spiegel.de/reise/aktuell/emirates-testflug-
ueber-...](http://www.spiegel.de/reise/aktuel... | {
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Our Discovery of Cramming (2017) - kevlar1818
https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/insights/2017/Our-Discovery-of-Cramming.html
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derefr
> Currently, a certain range of Unicode blocks, including Basic Latin, are
> counted half as much as other blocks, such as CJK Unified Ideographs.
Has anyone made ... | {
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Show HN: My Olympics side project - LondonOlympicsBlog.co.uk - simonbarker87
http://www.londonolympicsblog.co.uk
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simonbarker87
Hi guys,
I have had this domain for a few years (since the announcement that the games
would be in London) and I never had the time to setup and get writing myself
so decided to buil... | {
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Ask HN: Would Twitter have a problem with this also? - myWordBiLLY
At WordBiLLY.com we've been making custom word signs and one of the items we offer are custom Twitter ID pieces to be hung/placed at the office and/or home. Would this be a problem with Twitter? With the recent talk about Twitter's guidelines, I want... | {
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Show HN: Bug – “distributed” issue tracking tool using plaintext files and git - driusan
https://github.com/driusan/bug
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driusan
This is something I threw together that I've been finding pretty useful in the
last couple days, and I figure other people might be interested in trying out.
It's a tool to treat an "i... | {
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IBM Unveils Software Defined Storage Technology for Era of Big Data - cjdulberger
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/43865.wss?sf26067976=1
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wmf
Elastic Storage is the product formerly known as GPFS.
[http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/technicalcomputing/platformcom...](http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/tec... | {
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Tesla Model Y takes the ultimate off-road challenge and wins - CarCooler
https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-y-ultimate-off-road-challenge-wins/
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vhodges
Nice! But from the title I thought it'd done something like Hells Gate in Moab
[https://www.google.com/search?q=moab+utah+hells+gate&oq=moab...](https://www... | {
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Melbourne opens new tech incubator - robbiehudson
http://www.zdnet.com.au/york-butter-factory-to-churn-out-start-ups-339324926.htm
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jacques_chester
I've been to all of Australia's mainland capitals (sorry, Hobart). I've lived
for long periods in Darwin, Sydney and Perth.
I prefer Melbourne to Sydney based on th... | {
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} |
Best machine learning project to contribute - mayankj08
Which are few good Machine Learning, Computer Vision or Image Processing project one can contribute to?
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mindcrime
<http://mahout.apache.org>
<http://opennlp.apache.org>
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arios0
<http://mulan.sourceforge.net/>
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ig1
scikit-learn
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Coinbase (YC S12) Opens to Europe - nvk
http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/10/coinbase-europe/
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rdl
Congratulations! Given how strong the European bitcoin community is, this
seems like a very important step. I wonder how they picked the first countries
-- were they a set with reciprocal registration, or just with the... | {
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Ask HN: What/Who is whyslow.net and why are they copying HN? - yawniek
i just came to http://hn.whyslow.net via google search and as it asked me for my pw i realized i wasnt on HN. is this authorized or are they just trying to get passwords?
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lt
Aparently their main page loads HN as an iframe and hides all tec... | {
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Ask HN: Job Experience with Programming? - bussiem
Hey everyone, I'm in a bit of a pickle, so I figured this would be a good place to ask this question. Here's my situation:
I'm fresh out of college with my B.S. in Computer Science, and I'm looking around for jobs. I very much want to end up doing some kind of so... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Podcastpage.io – A no-code website builder for podcasters - navaja
https://podcastpage.io
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navaja
Hi all,
I've recently launched a new website builder dedicated for podcasters. From my
experience in the podcasting world, I noticed there's a gap between what
podcasters need and the available solutions. ... | {
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Facebook messenger as your default SMS client on Android - Gurrewe
https://www.facebook.com/davidm/posts/10157146458740195?pnref=story
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herbst
Its funny that when they link to their own content, that the half screen is
just used to force me to get facebook.
Anyone gave this a try? Sounds like it would not be ab... | {
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A Look at the Tefifon, Germany's Doomed 1950s Music Player - curtis
http://gizmodo.com/a-look-at-the-tefifon-germanys-doomed-1950s-music-play-1696294961
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scottmcdot
I love Techmoan!
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Ask HN: Which blog aggregators do you use? - tedmiston
Four months ago I started a personal blog after returning from PyCon full of energy to write.<p>While I was there, one speaker gave me a tip to help distribute posts by joining a blog aggregator. That one in particular was Planet Python (http://planetpy... | {
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Virtualized Windows XP coming to Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate users - chaostheory
http://wilsonbroadcast.com/2009/04/virtualized-windows-xp-coming-to-windows-7-professional-and-ultimate-users.html
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iamelgringo
This is really going to help Win7 adoption. It's a really nice OS, and if you
have application c... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Who will save us from spam comments? - brandnewlow
Was rereading Steve Levy's great piece about YC on Wired.com just now and scrolled down to read the comments:<p>http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/05/ff_ycombinator/<p>There are 17 comments on the article. 11 of them are spam comments.<p>I see this more and... | {
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} |
Redmart’s new head of tech spent nights stamping envelopes for his first startup - schakraberty
https://www.techinasia.com/patrick-teo-redmart-profile
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mdip
This is not surprising at all, to me. In fact, I'd speculate that it's
something that _most_ successful "start-up" or "small business" founders end
up doing... | {
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} |
Does Lyft Alleviate City Traffic? Looking at the VMT Efficiency Metric - Osiris30
https://www.rmi.org/news/lyft-alleviate-city-traffic/
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MilnerRoute
New York City did a large-scale study of traffic patterns, and concluded
ridesharing services brought more people onto the road who otherwise might've
stayed home (... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Help me come back and choose the right technologies - adidum
I am attempting a come back as a programmer, after an unbelievable absence of 3 years. I need your help to refocus, and select the right technologies for what I'm going to need in the near future.
Here is my story: Java developer for about 10 years... | {
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} |
A pause to refresh the Web? - prostoalex
https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/a-pause-to-refresh-the-web
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TheAceOfHearts
What does "slowing down a bit" even mean? Sorry, but this just reads like
total fluff to me. Where exactly should we slow down? There's no clear problem
statement nor proposed solution.
Web developm... | {
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} |
How to Jailbreak Your iPad in 5 min. - g0atbutt
http://codesketch.com/2010/05/how-to-jailbreak-your-ipad-in-5-min/
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g0atbutt
The tool used here is really simple to use. Great work devs!
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Ask HN: Generating reports on time series data without killing performance? - Kendrick2
I have an application which contains approximately 10 million time series records growing at a rate of 1 million per year. This application generates reports on subsets of the time series data. These reports have poor performance c... | {
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Why I'll be letting Nagios live on - js2
https://laur.ie/blog/2014/02/why-ill-be-letting-nagios-live-on-a-bit-longer-thank-you-very-much/
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jccooper
Quick summary, since the site is down:
In response (obviously) to [http://www.slideshare.net/superdupersheep/stop-
using-nagios-...](http://www.slideshare.net/sup... | {
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Please petition GitHub to support HTTPS on GitHub pages - cayblood
https://gist.github.com/coolaj86/e07d42f5961c68fc1fc8
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elmin
This is a little weird to me, because it's so easy to host your site a
multitude of different ways. The notable thing about GH is its free, which
makes complaining about it not having t... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How do you stay up to date with scientific papers on a particular topic? - gabemart
If you have a particular area of interest or expertise, how do you stay up to date with research on that topic outside of the journals you regularly read?<p>For example, if you were studying the effects of sulforaphane on can... | {
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} |
The Museum of the World – an interactive experience - arishi
https://britishmuseum.withgoogle.com/
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arishi
The Museum of the World is an interactive experience through time, continents,
and cultures, featuring some of the most fascinating objects in human history.
This project is a collaboration between The Brit... | {
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} |
Arch Linux Packages Visualization - thmzlt
http://www.toofishes.net/blog/arch-package-visualization/
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SlyShy
If you haven't tried Arch Linux before, I highly recommend it. The
configuration system is excellent, package management is both sane and fast,
and the community is amazing (take a look at the Arch Wiki... | {
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} |
Another way to edit your Twitter experience: with mute - palcu
http://blog.twitter.com/2014/another-way-to-edit-your-twitter-experience-with-mute
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chippy
So it's like a secret unfollow?
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The fact that we are living in a simulation - kocahmet1
https://www.infopadd.com/article/the-fact-that-we-are-living-in-a-simulation/1656
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eloff
This is the least compelling argument on the subject I have seen. New-agey
religious hokus-pokus. That you can't prove it wrong, doesn't make it
plausible - a LOT of th... | {
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} |
Where does Google actually say that they won’t read Gmail or Google Docs? - espeed
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2011/11/03/where-does-google-actually-say-that-they-wont-read-gmail-messages-or-google-docs/
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dotBen
the tl:dr of this comment thread is that most HN'ers have sadly taken the
question too litera... | {
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} |
I need books that I can’t buy, I drink beer that I can’t sip - kitallis
http://code.scrapcrap.org/books-beer
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tfincannon
Safari (safaribooksonline.com) offers a good option for reading widely at
relatively low cost. They have all the O'Reilly books, many Addison-Wesley and
Microsoft Press books, and recently a... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Google Project Lets You Program a Simulated Quantum Computer - amaks
http://readwrite.com/2014/05/22/google-quantum-computer-project
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Xcelerate
This is great! I think quantum computers are inevitable at some point as soon
as we figure out how to effectively isolate them from their environment (to
prevent decoh... | {
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} |
Redis-dump: Backup and restore Redis with JSON - delano
https://github.com/delano/redis-dump#
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antirez
It's a good effort, but it is not the right approach IMHO. Redis is very good
at producing point-in-time snapshots via RDB files, so I think the right thing
to do is to create a tool, or add this feature to r... | {
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Ask HN: What change in your programming technique has been most transformative? - dmux
As an example, the team I work on has been adding more precondition checking to all of our applications. The simple act of stepping back from the perceived data-flow and explicitly declaring what we believe should hold true has unco... | {
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How do image hosting websites stop illegal images from being uploaded? - Scuzz
How do image sharing websites such as imgur, photobucket and imgFap keep out illegal images?<p>Do they have a team of moderators keeping an eye on things or is there some type of algorithm they use to detect the images?
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Piskvorrr
T... | {
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Google's new "freshness" update. Affects ~35% of searches - topcat31
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/giving-you-fresher-more-recent-search.html
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natesm
Has anyone else noticed Google making a lot of autocorrection mistakes
recently? I don't mind the traditional "did you mean" links, but I've been
getting ... | {
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Problems versus Exercises - tokenadult
http://www.epsiloncamp.org/ProblemsversusExercises.php
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jcutrell
I'm writing a book currently - I've got another view on problem versus
exercise.
A problem - a real problem - is something that doesn't yet have a solution. An
exercise already has a solution.
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qianyil... | {
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Age of Empires 2 Scenario Editor Is Turing Complete - sunaden
https://ecc-comp.blogspot.com/2018/02/age-of-empires-2-scenario-editor-is.html
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stanlarroque
I can only think of one of the greatest videos[0] on Youtube when I read about
unusual Turing complete systems.
[0]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNjxe8Sh... | {
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info on news agregator reddit style - zelda
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aito
Some technical curiosity:
<http://webpy.org/> (Reddit was developed with webpy)
<http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/TagSchema>
<http://www.diogoazevedo.com/2006/09/voce-conhece-os-diggs-nacionais/>
<http://www.thesamet.com/blog/2006/11/17/tutorial-how-to-implement-tag... | {
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} |
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