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Tell HN: Bay Area YC applicants morale-booster meetup/hangout this Saturday - viviantan
Hey everyone, you've worked hard on those YC applications and now it's time to celebrate! Come meet and hangout with fellow YC applicants this Saturday, November 17th at 6:00 at the Tied House in Mountain View: www.tiedhouse.com.... | {
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How Working Out Makes Us Better Entrepreneurs - jasonshen
http://www.derekflanzraich.com/2011/06/how-working-out-makes-better-entrepreneurs/
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vailripper
I do Crossfit every day. It's quick (a "long" workout might be 20 minutes) and
it works. You're always working out with others, who are there to push you and
su... | {
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Show HN: I've made a tough math game that you guys might like it - ilija139
http://0.mk/safe-breaker-r
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wccrawford
Mastermind is a "tough math game" ?? It's a guessing and logic game, nothing
to do with math. And it's not tough.
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ilija139
I posted it here exactly for this reason. Many of the app's 'regular... | {
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Generics and Variance - pplonski86
https://medium.com/androidiots/generics-variance-2def0411ce1b
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vivin
One point. Type erasure in Java is actually a bad thing -- this is because
generics were added after the fact, and in order to provide compatibility with
older code, Java only performs those checks at compile ... | {
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Tor: 1100 relays still run end-of-life tor versions - bcaa7f3a8bbc
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2018-May/015124.html
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coolspot
Maybe feds don’t want to upgrade their vast cloud of Tor nodes just yet [1][2]
1 - [https://blog.torproject.org/tor-security-advisory-relay-
earl...](https://blog.t... | {
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Good Resource: Joel On Software Forums - utnick
http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?biz
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utnick
Maybe everyone already knows about this.. but this is a really good forum on
building and selling software. Just discovered it today.
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tx
Yep. An example of old, "non-cool" and "evil" technology (classic ASP)... | {
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Are white hipsters hijacking an anti-gentrification fight in Los Angeles? - ryan_j_naughton
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/18/los-angeles-gentrification-boyle-heights-race-activism
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navigator01
Gentrification is really a non issue.
When areas begin to attract wealthier people, they can begin to at... | {
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Show HN: I made this simple YouTube playlist maker. What do you think? - vishaldpatel
http://playr.me/?v=2Ni8oFtgoAI,mZcOJgdC9R0,--wy8QmLlM8,9dmIzdegLzg,ANzKrSuUblc,WrO9PTpuSSs
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gshahlot
This is really well done & solves a pain point that I mostly never realized
even existed. This is my default youtube client ... | {
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Blockchain for the masses: A peek into the not-so-distant, decentralized future - gautamdhameja
https://gautamdhameja.com/blockchain-for-the-masses-a-peek-into-the-not-so-distant-decentralized-future-d1861e839053
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prolikewhoa
Nobody has even figured out how to get cryptocurrency into the hands of the
masses and ... | {
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How to Retire On $500 Per Month - mhb
http://jetsetcitizen.com/cheap-travel/can-you-retire-on-500-per-month/
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grandalf
A better title would be "How to leverage your income far more effectively".
How much money do most of us flush on rent, cars, overpriced houses, and other
things. If you add it up over 10-15 ye... | {
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At Work, Expertise Is Falling Out of Favor - couchand
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/future-of-work-expertise-navy/590647/
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ailideex
There is nothing worse than working with an engineer that gets pissy when they
have to learn something new.
Being able to learn new things is an absolutely c... | {
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Show HN: real-time event social feedback platform - aioprisan
https://www.feedvenue.com
Just built an MVP for a real-time event social feedback platform, would love to get some feedback from the community. Does this seem useful to people?
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loki540
Really cool idea - definitely like the idea of using it during a... | {
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Google’s new reCAPTCHA has a dark side - ProAm
https://www.fastcompany.com/90369697/googles-new-recaptcha-has-a-dark-side
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dessant
Google has been doing the same with reCAPTCHA v2 [1]. They are aware of the
legal risk of outright blocking users from accessing services, so reCAPTCHA v3
contains no user facing UI,... | {
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} |
GoPro goes all-in on VR without a winning hand - findher
http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/07/gopro-goes-vr/
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Scaevolus
Lytro's Light Field video system [1] seems like the best technology match for
VR (allowing free head movement with accurate parallax), but most available
information is ad copy.
How big is the VR ... | {
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Ask HN: I'm sick of college, any recommendation? - burnedouthacker
Okay, to put things in perspective, I'm a 23yo Computer Science student, dropped out from college last year after been studying for three years; the reason: got fed up with all the innecesary work that had to be done... spent to much time caring for ... | {
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You Are All Soft Embrace Chaos ‘Antifragile,’ by Nassim Nicholas Taleb - dmm
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/books/antifragile-by-nassim-nicholas-taleb.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&
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001sky
Michiko Kakutani (角谷 美智子 Kakutani Michiko?, born January 9, 1955) is an
American Pulitzer Prize-winning critic for the New ... | {
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The hard thing about hard things (A talk on InfoSec problems) - mh_
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rarpym8JJXQ
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getdavidhiggins
A great talk. I liked _everything is broken_ by Quinn Norton:
[https://medium.com/message/everything-is-
broken-81e5f33a24e1](https://medium.com/message/everything-is-
broken-81e5f33... | {
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The Mirror Man: Treating Phantom Limb Pain With a Simple Technology - curtis
http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/mirror-man-treating-phantom-limb-pain-simple-technology-87450/
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pbhjpbhj
> _In 2008, Stephen was working as a property manager in south Baja, Mexico,
> when he had a particularly ago... | {
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Ask HN: How to initiate or respond to small talk (not the programming language)? - phekunde
I am not able to initiate or respond to small talk. What are your methods for small talk? How do you initiate one?
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munchbunny
Other posters have already given great tips for questions to ask, so I thought
I'd add my over... | {
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Why it’s so hard to innovate in the e-mail space (2014) - mathouc
https://medium.com/@collinmathilde/why-its-so-hard-to-innovate-in-the-e-mail-space-9874e08e3426
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Animats
It's hard to make money in that space, yes.
I've considered merging mail and messaging, so that email protocols are used
to do the things peo... | {
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Overscripted: Digging into JavaScript execution at scale - severine
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/06/overscripted-digging-into-javascript-execution-at-scale/
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avaer
> As champions of a healthy Internet, we at Mozilla have been increasingly
> concerned about the current advertisement-centric web content ecosyste... | {
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MotorCortex.js – CSS-like animations definition - trad
http://motorcortexjs.com/
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heldrida
Not sure if you're the author, but I tried to follow the documentation and in
the very early steps I get stuck. I've reported on github, it is basically a
typo for the window object name MotroCortex and then .fire() meth... | {
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Show HN: Find Remote Work – Job Board for Remote Developer Jobs - max0563
http://findremote.work
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richardcodes
Big fan of the minimalist design.
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50,000 users install malware from the Android Market - rbarooah
http://mashable.com/2011/03/01/android-malware-apps/
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rbarooah
"Remember, the Android Market is open, which can be great and unfortunate in
different circumstances. Always read user reviews before you download; and if
you have any doubts, play it ... | {
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Advice when mentally ill flock to your service? - noconspiracy
I run a service that uses a mix of automation and manual help to deal with customer service issues (throwaway account). 97% of the time, things work really well, we have great customers, we're small and bootstrapped but growing and are very happy with... | {
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The HTML A element is broken - onderhond
http://www.onderhond.com/blog/html-links-are-broken
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Terretta
> _From a conceptual point of view their implementation makes no sense at
> all._
If your concept is that blocks of design should do things when clicked, that
idea is valid. Thankfully, we have methods for eas... | {
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HTML5 Super Mario Bros - gingersnap
http://www.fullscreenmario.com/
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BuildTheRobots
Feel the need to point to the now 9 years old dhtml lemmings [1] which
shouldn't have a browser preference.
[1][http://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/](http://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/)
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reirob
"Sorry, this need... | {
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A Teenager’s View on Social Media - nicksergeant
https://medium.com/@thatswattsup/a-teenagers-view-on-social-media-1df945c09ac6
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themodelplumber
This is weird; the author possibly met with the CEO of Snapchat more than once
recently:
[https://twitter.com/thatswattsup/status/546018511902867456](https://twitter.c... | {
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OneTab: This will save you from being buried by tabs. Try it and you'll see why - MrBra
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/onetab/chphlpgkkbolifaimnlloiipkdnihall
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MrBra
I initially thought I did not need this, in fact I had been sticking with Tabs
Outliner for some time and felt the latter was the closer... | {
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} |
Woman who tricked best friend into quitting job is jailed - zeristor
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jan/30/woman-who-cruelly-tricked-best-friend-into-quitting-job-jailed
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aszantu
I wonder about the reasons, seems excessive what might be the need behind the
behaviour?
| {
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Why can't wireless charging be used through front glass? - chintan_io
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magicpat2010
Wireless charging can't be used through the front glass of a phone because it
needs to have a receiving (Rx) coil and not cause electrical interference with
the parts between the receiving and transmitting coils by the magnetic fl... | {
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China: Gmail Access Completely Blocked, VPNs Attacked - Sami_Lehtinen
http://www.securethelock.com/china-enforcing-censorship-greater-heights-gmail-access-completely-blocked-vpns-attacked/
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f_0x7r0t
Wonder how people in china adjust with censorships at this height !
| {
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Whatsapp is currently down worldwide, affecting thousands of users - geraltofrivia
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/611154/WhatsApp-Down-Problem-Message-App-Outage-Not-Working-Worldwide-International-Crashes
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lazaroclapp
Wait, 'thousands of users'? I though Whatsapp daily user base was nearing a
billi... | {
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Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs on web development? - pyeu
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hackermailman
If you're in the EU/US then probably Lambda School, but since you already know
Python may as well try a practical data science course
[http://www.datasciencecourse.org/lectures/](http://www.datasciencecourse.org/lectures/)
most of that cour... | {
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Ask HN: Any chronically ill founders here? How do you balance your life? - throwaway2019Z
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vvdcect
I don't know what advice to give you regarding finding that "balance" in life
and I don't even know if I'd be considered a founder but for the last 9 years
I've been working as a freelance programmer, I was initiall... | {
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Web development learning guide – a front end approach - illuminated
https://blog.petrovic.gr/2016/12/frontend-development-a-learning-guide/
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illuminated
Author here... It's been a lot of work to assemble the guide, but I'm sure it
can be made better. I'm open to suggestions, thanks!
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brudgers
It's a nice pie... | {
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Design for disasters and 12 other lessons learned during NY.gov redesign - thusu
https://medium.com/@rachelhaot/how-to-design-for-everybody-4b2870724c4
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sbundgaard
Helpful guidance, especially for public sector!
| {
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Buffett to FBN: S&P Downgrade 'Doesn't Make Sense' - domino
http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2011/08/05/buffett-to-fbn-sp-downgrade-doesnt-make-sense/
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nandemo
> "Think about it. The U.S., to my knowledge owes no money in currency other
> than the U.S. dollar, which it can print at will. Now if you're talking
... | {
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Ask HN: I am building Lazylog (logging for lazy devs) in public right now - gduverger
Yesterday, I started to build a simple web service where I can POST any type of log (code exceptions, user visits, notes) in the most straightforward way possible. I am continuing to work on it today and documenting the process here:... | {
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The rise of the deepfake and the threat to democracy - mikepetridisz
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2019/jun/22/the-rise-of-the-deepfake-and-the-threat-to-democracy
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tomohawk
Deplatforming is a much bigger threat.
| {
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Show HN: Self-taught neural network learns to shoot a target - atum47
https://github.com/victorqribeiro/bangBangML
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eerrt
Am I the only one who thinks this is a little overengineered?
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ssivark
Not unlike most neural network solutions :-P
But hey, this seems to be a fun project more than anything else. And w... | {
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ClojureScript Builds, Rebooted - skrblr
http://adzerk.com/blog/2014/11/clojurescript-builds-rebooted/
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weavejester
Boot looks interesting, but replacing an immutable data structure with side-
effectful functions feels like a step in the wrong direction.
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michaniskin
The main reason why build tools exist is... | {
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How KakaoTalk Grew From a Startup to a Giant Mobile Platform - peterkchen
http://www.techinasia.com/kakao-founding-story/
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bane
I deal with lots of East-Asians and _everybody_ I know has Kakaotalk. My wife
and I use it exclusively instead of texting and she uses it almost exclusively
for international calls. I... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Business Model of Immortality - raudaschl
https://medium.com/lean-canvas-takedown/the-business-model-of-young-blood-and-immortality-explained-5114ba056a0f
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vinaykevadia
Really nice business model and article, Why don't you also attach a screenshot
of your lean canvas? It's good to see all the nine block toge... | {
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} |
Mountain range formation and tectonics in Mediterranean studied for first time - QueensGambit
https://www.uu.nl/en/news/mountain-range-formation-and-plate-tectonics-in-the-mediterranean-region-integrally-studied-for-the
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QueensGambit
The research, coordinated by Utrecht University, reveals how a piece of
contine... | {
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SEC Charges EtherDelta Founder with Operating an Unregistered Exchange - andrew311
https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-258
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mindcrime
Meh. I believe we should disband the SEC, or spin it out into a completely
private/independent organization with not backed by the government's monopoly
on the use of forc... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Hyperloop – How much will it cost to make a 5km workable prototype? - anoopmunshi
why we donot see anyone working on Hyperloop concept as disclosed by Elon Musk? At-least on paper model building real cost-structure for Short-mile prototype?
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dandare
IMHO some of the criticism was substantiated, especially arou... | {
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Bacteria from slim people could help treat obesity, study finds - cromulent
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/05/bacteria-slim-treat-obesity-study
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entropyneur
Meta: from the comments here it looks like many HNers share reddit's smug
attitude towards obesity. I wonder how many of the people looking dow... | {
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} |
The Rust FFI Omnibus – Soliciting Suggestions and Feedback - shepmaster
http://jakegoulding.com/rust-ffi-omnibus/
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shepmaster
I've seen a lot of interest recently in using Rust in an FFI context. I
started the _Omnibus_ to collect a set of examples that people can just use to
get going. I'd love to get feedbac... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
MCLIDE 2.0a0 now available, Intel 64 native, OS X 10.6+ - MaysonL
http://mclide.in-progress.com/tour
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MaysonL
Note that for the download, you should go to <http://mclide.in-progress.com/>
I submitted that link, but it just bumped up the points on the 500+ day old
original submission of that url.
| {
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I tried to watch Game of Thrones legally in France, Here is what happened - judauphant
https://medium.com/@jdauphant/i-tried-to-watch-game-of-thrones-legally-in-france-here-is-what-happened-2e4b1f5aaf76
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jswny
It still baffles me that the media companies that so often complain, file
lawsuits, and spend exorbitan... | {
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Beamforming in PulseAudio - arunarunarun
https://arunraghavan.net/2016/06/beamforming-in-pulseaudio/
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mgraczyk
Great to see this work being talked about. I work on the media signal
processing team at Google. My team built this beamformer before I started, but
I'm happy to see it being used in PulseAudio. The pap... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A grandmother made a forest on her own [video] - happy-go-lucky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCEQZDHnAb4
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qubex
My mother passed away when I was 11, in 1992. My grandfather, who owned
property outside of Bristol (UK), planted a forest in her memory and named it
“Pam’s Wood”. He said that memories fade but tha... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Free social media publishing for teams - alecsmart1
http://socialturn.com/
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alecsmart1
Developer here. I created this because it was getting very difficult to manage
teams and social networking accounts. Because every time a team member would
be re-assigned, the social networking account passwords wou... | {
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The Beginning of NeXT - fogus
http://programming-musings.org/2006/10/09/the-beginning-of-next/
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jason_slack
Alternative:
<http://6colors.net>
Media Room --> Video --> Steve Jobs
Or just search for 'chalk' in the search box
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pohl
dpieri's direct links (in this thread) work also.
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jhaydon
The youtube... | {
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The Responsive Designer - japhyr
http://simonfosterdesign.com/blog/web-design/the-responsive-designer/
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crazygringo
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who thinks "responsive" design is
completely overblown.
I think it's absolutely necessary to have different layouts for desktop and
mobile. But the idea that... | {
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} |
Show HN: GrowthFeed – Latest posts from my favorite sales and marketing bloggers - foundersgrid
http://growthfeed.io/
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cqcn1991
Pretty cool, and I have a similar site on Product and general tech,
[http://productchaseapp.herokuapp.com/](http://productchaseapp.herokuapp.com/)
| {
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Reproducing the Linux Builds of Firefox 68 - muizelaar
https://glandium.org/blog/?p=3923
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cmurf
Some of the how and why of reproducible builds, I found interesting here:
[https://reproducible-builds.org/](https://reproducible-builds.org/)
| {
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Welcome to GitCasts - chaostheory
http://www.gitcasts.com/
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maw
Yeah, I love git. It is totally awesome how "git config --global <key>
<value>" sets <key> to <value>. Without --global, <value> is shown.
Wait, did I say love? Well, I'm sure Gregor Samsa loved his life too.
| {
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Video demo of Sapphire-coated iPhone display leaves it unscratched by concrete - electic
http://9to5mac.com/2014/02/05/video-demo-of-sapphire-coated-iphone-display-leaves-it-unscratched-by-concrete/
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pedalpete
That's great, but I'd like to see it compared to the most recent version of
Gorilla Glass.
The secon... | {
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You can't handle the truth - swills
https://github.com/zxombie/libtrue
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zxombie
There is also a FreeBSD port:
[http://www.freshports.org/devel/libtrue/](http://www.freshports.org/devel/libtrue/)
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draringi
and a wrapper for golang: [https://github.com/draringi/go-
libtrue](https://github.com/draringi/go-libtr... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Authorize.net Goes Down, E-Commerce Vendors Left Hanging - peter123
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/03/authorizenet-goes-under-e-commerce-vendors-left-hanging/?awesm=tcrn.ch_58e&utm_campaign=techcrunch&utm_content=techcrunch-autopost&utm_medium=tcrn.ch-twitter&utm_source=direct-tcrn.ch
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eli
Existing discussion... | {
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Ask HN: Do you suggest static site generators to your customers? - 12s12m
Do you suggest static site generators to your customers? How has your experience been with this? What are the services you use for a complete setup?
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tombrossman
Yes, definitely, but I have no expectation that they will be the ones managin... | {
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Monero, the Drug Dealer’s Cryptocurrency of Choice, Is on Fire - mhb
https://www.wired.com/2017/01/monero-drug-dealers-cryptocurrency-choice-fire
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technofiend
What's interesting is blockchain has seemingly gone mainstream: at least there
are plenty of "fincen" companies investing in block chain technology. So th... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Die shot collection of Pauli Rautakorpi, Wikipedia user - anonymfus
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Birdman86
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terminus
Has anybody done any work on mapping die shots onto the microarchitecture
features?
The only thing I've found is work by this guy (about a decade old now):
[http://chip-architect.com/n... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Manning to speak at his sentencing hearing - eplanit
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MANNING_WIKILEAKS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-08-14-05-11-13
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llort
Manning's best bet would be to make an unsworn heroic sounding testimony. This
way, he has a good chance of getting a full pres... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Is there anyone here who has sold software via Gumroad? - thesoonerdev
1.What do you sell?
2.How did you promote it?
3.How was the overall experience?
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vram22
I haven't sold any yet, but am going to try. Just setup my Gumroad page and
uploaded a first product, mainly as a test:
[https://gumroad.com/pr... | {
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} |
Everyone is doing it, go on and do it too! - fearunknown
http://www.dorble.com
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run4yourlives
What the heck does your product do?
edit: scratch that, I figured it out. So, what makes you think the RIAA aren't
going to knock on your doors tomorrow?
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Ask HN: Chess players here? - S4M
Following the enthusiasm for the Anand - Carlsen match, I'm wondering how many of you are chess players.<p>I personally have a FIDE rating of 1930, but haven't played in competition in a while.
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kohanz
Former chess player. I played competitively up until about age 17... | {
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Two ways you can tell someone is sick just by looking at them - tickeydoc
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/01/two-ways-you-can-tell-someone-sick-just-looking-them
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masonic
A better link:
[https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2017.243...](https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.201... | {
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Why I Gave Up on OpenBSD (2012) - jordigh
http://www.trollaxor.com/2012/05/why-i-gave-up-on-openbsd.html
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breakingcups
Doesn't this count as slander? Besides the domain name there's not a lot to
suggest that this is a 'parody' site (a parody of what?)
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_cipher_
> Besides the domain name there's not a lot t... | {
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When Bias in Product Design Means Life or Death - sonabinu
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-bias-product-design-means-life-death-carol-reiley
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killjoywashere
Why not just make the very sound argument that white American men are an
extreme minority of the population and designing to their needs puts your
produ... | {
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} |
Darpa's ElectRx Project: neuromodulation of organs to help body heal (2014) - raspasov
http://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2014-08-26
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dang
Url changed from
[http://www.forbes.com/sites/federicoguerrini/2014/08/29/darp...](http://www.forbes.com/sites/federicoguerrini/2014/08/29/darpas-
electrx-project-self-healing-... | {
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To Place Graduates, Law Schools Are Opening Firms - cpeterso
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/08/education/law-schools-look-to-medical-education-model.html
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samstave
~~Jesus, as much of a cancer as the banks.~~
Edit:
If the law schools are needing to open firms to place their students - then
Lawyers better damn... | {
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Things will not change - tobiastom
https://tobiastom.name/articles/things-will-not-change
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ryandrake
> When someone actually has built something, and it could be used by someone,
> they only get feedback about the size of the pages, how slow it is and that
> they should have used some other technology after all.... | {
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} |
John Gruber talks about the Talk Show leaving 5by5 - leeohsheeus
http://muleradio.net/thetalkshow/2/
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slantyyz
Be warned: I've been listening for ~23 minutes, and they're still beating
around the bush to get any non-rambling explanation.
The irony is that if Benjamin was cohosting, they would have wrapped up ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Top 50 GitHub Projects on Twitter - omakase
http://tech.backtype.com/top-50-github-projects-on-twitter
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antirez
There is linenoise (<http://github.com/antirez/linenoise>) but not Redis
(<http://github.com/antirez/redis>). Looks _very_ strange :)
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holman
As owner of the #7 top project, which has an industry... | {
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} |
A lot of tech companies in NYC are hiring, here's a list - faramarz
http://nytm.org/made/
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keiferski
Question: is NYC as strong a place to found a startup as SF/the valley?
Obviously the valley is where many companies are hqed, but NYC's urban
atmosphere is much more appealing to me than suburban California.
~... | {
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} |
Palindromic karma - ColinWright
This is explicitly a content-free post - skip it if you have no interest in trivialities and cute asides, but ...<p>Currently my karma is unexpectedly palindromic. I just noticed, wanted to tell someone, and this community is actually pretty much the only place I could say it.<p>Howeve... | {
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} |
Locolo – service for sharing things - ex3ndr
http://locolo.me/
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brudgers
This might make a good "Show HN".
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Show HN: Price protection on airfare. If fares go up, we pay you. - ryan_houck
https://levelskies.com/
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tamaraalexander
Pretty cool that they have a contest going. I just submitted my guess...
hoping for the $20 credit!
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mrsaint
"It looks like you've encountered an error: Origin is not supported.
Destin... | {
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You paid a fee for 31 years that went nowhere - codegeek
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101676653
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angersock
Apparently the Yucca Mt. facility is canceled?
_" President Obama, fulfilling a campaign promise, cut funding for the
program, withdrew its license application, and dismantled the office that was
working on it.... | {
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} |
Storehouses for Solar Energy Can Step In When the Sun Goes Down - tokenadult
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/03/business/energy-environment/building-storehouses-for-the-suns-energy-for-use-after-dark.html
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philipmorg
"The water can be used to heat salt that stores the energy until later, when
the sun dips and h... | {
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} |
Even Techies Can’t Afford San Francisco Anymore - zgwhoa
https://www.buzzfeed.com/carolineodonovan/even-techies-cant-afford-san-francisco-anymore
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jimmywanger
I don't think it's that they _can't_ afford San Francisco anymore, it's that
they don't _want_ to afford San Francisco anymore.
I'm in the same boat. The... | {
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} |
Cutting The Cord And The Impact of a PC In Every Living Room - jasonlbaptiste
http://jasonlbaptiste.com/jason-l-baptiste-random-thoughts/cut-the-cord-with-mainstream-htpc/
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sophacles
"Who will do to the 50 inch screen what the iPhone did to the 3 inch screen?"
The first service to offer a-la-cart programming ov... | {
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} |
Inspirational and interesting Tech Documentaries? - bengoism
Here are some of my favorites, feel free to share yours!<p>The Machine that Changed the World (5 parts)
http://youtu.be/rcR74y61xZk<p>Tetris - From Russia With Love
http://youtu.be/etJgBgSkBuA<p>Triumph of the Nerds (3 parts)
http://youtu.be/CFL9IyJ_qHk<p>... | {
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} |
Inside look at Spotify - hjortureh
http://14islands.tumblr.com/post/33885479591/inside-look-at-spotify
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aleros
Hi,
is there any slides of the presentations there so I can learn more about this?
I was not able to attend the meeting as I was out of money, but I'm an awarded
hacker by Andrew Mager, so this is ve... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Best way to query mainframe data using SQL? - dwtowers
Old mainframe system which we need to query using SQL. Any ideas appreciated.
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BjoernKW
Which mainframe architecture are you on? IBM iSeries / AS/400 mainframes can
provide socket services. These return data as CSV.
CSV in turn can be queried with... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: twicly - realtime Twitter image search - sps
http://twic.ly/
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BarkMore
I find that the live feed is difficult to scan because everything jumps to the
right and down when a new photo is added. I recommend changing the grid
location where a new photo is displayed instead of shifting the photos.
~~~
sps... | {
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} |
Self hosted C – breakdown - andrewchambers
http://achacompilers.blogspot.com/2015/12/self-hosted-c-breakdown.html
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userbinator
It's always great to see more people writing their own compilers - a "proof by
example" that compilers do _not_ have to be magical and mysterious special
software that only few experts c... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Why you should study at Stanford - kul
http://www.garystew.com/?p=7
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jmtame
I'll take Stanford over University of Illinois any day ;)
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Alex3917
Stanford is an interesting place. On one hand, it is the birthplace of the
Silicon Valley school, a movement that believes the best way to measure the
value of a ... | {
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} |
Why do the rich keep working? - TriinT
http://www.forbes.com/2006/05/20/working-rich-pyschology_cx_bn_06work_0523rich.html
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ctkrohn
Not to be pithy about it, but I think there's some truth to this idea: if you
think you'll just work really hard for a bit and then quit to live a life of
leisure, you probably w... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Nassim Taleb predicts the next 25 years - jacoblyles
http://downloads.economist.feedroom.com/podcast/t_assets/20101201/20101201_wi_taleb_v2_4R4R.mp3?_kip_ipx=1899310534-1292270256&site=economist&cid=8a2059e9ac993b05e749291542c9e65bda3af5bf&sid=aa1673b717ddf9ab1224978f57f5481f9389add3&pid=b259c6502b63364ec8e8ea81816d7... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Flat design in print? - mvbrasil
https://www.medium.com/design-ux/73745b834d81
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ffaj
What the hell is the author talking about? Swiss style graphic design has been
around forever and is by and large "flat". It's been massively influential
worldwide.
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zerohp
Absolutely agreed. It's like the author has never... | {
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} |
End-to-End Location Aware Programming - openmobster
http://code.google.com/p/openmobster/wiki/LocationAwareApps
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openmobster
This tutorial covers developing Location Aware Apps using the new Location
Module of the OpenMobster platform. Location Awareness means writing your
business logic by taking Location inf... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: How do I cope with being a young diabetic? - throwawaydiab
I am in early twenties, I had difficulties with choosing a major (my mother forced me to choose a major) this lead to three years wasted at college without advancing and needing to change major to Compsci and by then I discovered that I can't chan... | {
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} |
Lorenz - BerislavLopac
http://xkcd.com/1350/
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Ethan_Mick
If you're looking for some more entertainment, I recommend a read on the
forums today: [http://forums.xkcd.com/](http://forums.xkcd.com/)
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chrisBob
I got a choose your own adventure style comic earlier, but now it is just 4
static panels. What hap... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: How in the world is $TSLA worth more than $TM? - Spinosaurus
Tesla is now worth more than Toyota, and yet has pretty much lost money every quarter. Toyota, on the other hand, has had billions in profit every quarter for years.<p>https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/stock-comparison?s=net-inco... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What's the most simple thing you struggle to understand in programming? - betimd
Always there's something you struggle to understand and you're surprised w/ yourself
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mcrider
Testing. I'm a very experienced programmer, and I have written plenty of unit
tests -- but I've never worked in a p... | {
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} |
Show HN: StreamSpread – The First Live Stream Promotion Network - AntonAlexa
https://streamspread.com/
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AntonAlexa
StreamSpread is a first self-service promotion network that distributes
streaming video content, in real-time, across websites.
Our platform helps popular streamers and broadcasters grow their targ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
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