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Ask HN: What's interesting to do in SF the day before Thanksgiving? - aaronbrethorst
I live in Seattle, but my girlfriend and I are in the Bay Area for Thanksgiving visiting her family. We were planning on going to SF MOMA today for the Cartier-Bresson exhibit, but just discovered that it's closed for the holiday.<p... | {
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Publishers Gave Away 123M Books During World War II - jrslv
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/09/publishers-gave-away-122951031-books-during-world-war-ii/379893/?single_page=true
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veddox
Interesting side note: German publishers hit on a similar strategy in the
early post-war years. Nobody could af... | {
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Would Google search make more money if they charged 1 cent per search? - jkuria
https://capitalandgrowth.org/questions/1387/would-google-search-make-more-money-if-they-charge.html?childToView=1425#answer-1425
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ineedasername
No.
First: A penny is _a lot_ for a search. Maybe not in First world countries,
but in t... | {
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Vagrant 1.0 - Virtualized development for the masses. - mitchellh
http://vagrantup.com/?v1
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mitchellh
Hi! Just so you know I'll be responding to any comments here on HN. I've
worked on Vagrant for over 2 years and even originally announced it on HN
(<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1175901>). Over the 2 ye... | {
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This Teeny-Tiny, Handmade Pipe Organ Is Utterly Delightful - wyclif
http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2017/02/22/516640607/this-teeny-tiny-handmade-pipe-organ-is-utterly-delightful
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wyclif
The build process is described here: [http://only-
paper.ru/forum/38-22814-1](http://only-paper.ru/forum/38-22814-1)
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Those with $120K+ salaries... what do you do? - summerlunch
I know a lot of amazing programmers who have been working for about five years, yet they still make less than $100K. I don't want to end up like them in my career and I was wondering how I could set my career path to earn more.
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patio11
In answer to t... | {
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NSA Can Spy on Smart Phone Data, previously thought secure - 001sky
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/privacy-scandal-nsa-can-spy-on-smart-phone-data-a-920971.html
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frank_boyd
2 hours have passed and this post got nothing but 7 upvotes?
Is this real life?
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junto
It is the weekend. I guess that is ... | {
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It's time to replace GIFs with AV1 video - singhkays
https://www.singhkays.com/blog/its-time-replace-gifs-with-av1-video/
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Ezhik
At this point, killing GIF is a UX problem, not a format problem.
I've talked about this before [0], but the big problem for me is that video is
just difficult as hell. Compared to a ... | {
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} |
How Alaska fixed its earthquake-shattered roads in just days - howard941
https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/8/18128983/alaska-earthquake-roads-fixed-anchorage-damage
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joshstrange
> “Our asphalt plants were all shut down for the winter,” McCarthy says
> But Alaska in late fall is bitterly cold, and frozen asphalt ... | {
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Forrester's Andy Jaquith Dissects Obama's New CyberSecurity Policy - tptacek
http://blogs.forrester.com/srm/2009/05/will-obamas-new-cybersecurity-plan-make-a-difference-we-can-only-hope.html
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tptacek
By a long, long way the best analysis of what's happening here you'll read
anywhere.
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Startup Depression and the Search for Meaning - eriktrautman
http://www.eriktrautman.com/posts/startup-depression-and-the-search-for-meaning
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ryanb
Great post and kudos for the strength to write this. Last year, 7 Cups
launched a Startup Support system for founders, that you might find of use:
[http://www.7cups.... | {
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Micro PaaS Nanobox – official launch today - sdomino
https://twitter.com/nanobox_io/status/829362867346485248
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sanderson1
I'm part of the core team behind Nanobox and am more than willing to answer
any questions. We're super excited to be out of beta. Feel free to check us
out: [https://nanobox.io](https://nanob... | {
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RIAA: Someone Else Is Pirating Through Our IP Addresses - asto
http://torrentfreak.com/riaa-someone-else-is-pirating-through-out-ip-addresses-111221/
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TomAnthony
I can believe that it wasn't RIAA staff that did the downloading; it certainly
seems plausible that people at the ISP abused these IPs (which seem to... | {
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The YC Interview and a Visit to 10 Downing Street - jamesmcaulay
http://blog.jamesmcaulay.co.uk/2014/05/the-yc-interview-and-a-visit-to-10-downing-street/
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namenotrequired
It surprises me that both the linked post by Guy Morita [1] and this one
describe that they not only got detailed feedback, but that in bot... | {
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A lightweight code review tool that works with GitHub - wspeirs
https://github.com/reviewninja/review.ninja
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flowerpot
One of the creators here. Just to make this clear, this tool has not yet been
released, however, we are getting close. Before you criticize the UI/UX,
please try it yourself. We will be offering... | {
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} |
Performance Engineering with React, Part 1 - sajithw
http://benchling.engineering/performance-engineering-with-react/
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avolcano
I've been using React to make a 60fps music game, and this article covers
basically all of the issues I ran into:
\- Originally, the game was rendered with SVG elements, so it was very... | {
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Taxing the Rich to Fund Welfare Is the Nobel Winner’s Growth Mantra - ingve
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-21/taxing-the-rich-to-fund-welfare-is-nobel-winner-s-growth-mantra
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kv_hrishikesh
So there goes one more Economics Nobel for telling us that it is good to
snatch from the rich and give it a... | {
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Pitch HN: Simple tool for small businesses to send SMS, email and Tweets - AlexMuir
I want to be able to add customer's emails and cell numbers and send them simple marketing messages. I'm sure this is something that lots of small businesses would like to be able to do too. I was about to start fiddling with Campa... | {
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SmartyKit Apple I replica - bdcravens
http://apple1.smartykit.org/
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comex
The bottom photo shows an ATmega328P. So this is just a software emulation of
an Apple I? What’s the point?
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jhbadger
I think it is just there for generating the video signal. This sort of thing
is common. The earlier (solder-based) Br... | {
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How using gestures can make you smarter - robg
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=with-a-wave-of-the-hand
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jamesbritt
I've noticed that various physical activities alter how I think.
Typing out comments in code prior to writing the code or tests (i.e. comment-
driven development) helps me think be... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Best online CS degree program? - cdvonstinkpot
Hi,<p>So far I just know of Thomas Edison State College http://www.tesc.edu/heavin/undergrad-certificates/Computer-Science.cfm, but I haven't done much research yet.<p>I figured a good place to start would be here to learn what HN r... | {
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Billionaires and big ag are joining venture investors to fund lab-grown meat - sethbannon
https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/23/billionaires-and-big-ag-are-joining-venture-investors-to-fund-lab-grown-meat/
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sethbannon
For those that are curious, as an early investor and advocate for clean meat,
I wrote about my expe... | {
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Is Nokia really bringing back the 3310? - johndunne
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/38980782/is-nokia-bringing-back-the-3310-and-who-would-want-a-retro-phone
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johndunne
I remember when this first came out, I saved furiously to buy one which took
ages on a student budget! And boy was I excited when I finall... | {
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} |
IBM Watson Acquires Technology from Blekko - boyter
http://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2015/03/better-way-tap-big-data-gusher.html
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castell
IBM needs an up-to-date web-scale ontology (Blekko has it) for Watson, it used
Freebase (et al) which is closing down on March 31, 2015 (largest open
collaborative knowledge bas... | {
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} |
Show HN: Succintly – Easily read or listen summary of any website on your phone - null_exceptions
https://succintly.io
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Immortalin
What's the monetisation model?
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null_exceptions
The app is totally free, and it will remain so.
I am hosting and providing the summary api, so I am counting on provinding
paid n... | {
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Sorry, Geeks, Microsoft Excel is Everywhere - csixty4
https://davidmichaelross.com/blog/microsoft-excel-is-everywhere/
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ef4
As a geek, I actually think Excel is one of the few really nice things
Microsoft has created (I realize it wasn't the first spreadsheet, but MS gets
credit for taking it mainstream).
It's ... | {
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New Red Programming Language Gets Syllable Backend - evangineer
http://www.osnews.com/story/24798/New_Red_Programming_Language_Gets_Syllable_Backend
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evangineer
More about Red here: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2603021>
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One meteorologist explains why he won’t fly again - jseliger
http://www.salon.com/2013/09/30/one_meteorologist_explains_why_he_wont_fly_again/
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jonemo
What some of the other comments here seem to miss is that he isn't suggesting
to replace air travel with other modes of transport. He suggests cutting back
on unn... | {
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Hack the Box – Pentesting Labs for Free - Fake4d
https://www.hackthebox.eu
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Maven911
Asking the Hive Mind who might play with HTB, vulnhub and other labs (OSCP
paid one):
1\. Aside from: linux cmds, nmap, metasploit, sqlmap, mimikatz, kali's well
known tools - what other tools are often used by pen testers ?
2... | {
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Ask HN: How can I hack for community service? - scottmwinters
My work offers paid "Service Learning" time every year (40 hours). As a programmer, I'd really like to contribute in ways other than picking up trash and planting trees in a park.<p>What are some ways that programmers can give back to the com... | {
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Apple’s repair kill switch hasn’t been activated yet - ccnafr
https://ifixit.org/blog/11673/
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bjoli
Apple is really undoubtedly the king of making their products impossible to
repair. This doesn't bother me much since I have long abandoned apple. What
bothers me is that everyone follows their bad example.
Not o... | {
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Seven famous founders share money mistakes, smart moves - edw519
http://www.usatoday.com/money/smallbusiness/startup/week3-famous-founders.htm
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pg
<http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/>
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Show HN: Open-source projects leaderboard - LeonidBugaev
https://ossmetrics.com/leaderboard
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amackera
Interesting stuff. Not quite sure who the pricing is geared at --- companies
that have a project and want to promote it / grow it?
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LeonidBugaev
Primary niche is the companies which are based on open-source ... | {
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Ask HN: Why are there still no good ISP options in the Bay Area? - danielvinson
Specifically, on the peninsula. Right now I'm shopping for a new ISP for both my office in Palo Alto and my apartment in Mountain View. There are simply no good options for either, despite being right in the middle of Silicon Valley... | {
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Show HN: Girls for Hackers (Improve your confidence with women) - zensavona
http://girlsforhackers.com
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bjourne
If you click Buy Now and then enter an email address you get a message "Oops!
Our credit card processor seems to be down, we'll email you as soon as you can
continue your order!" I didn't enter mine ... | {
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Ask HN - way to get user demographic data in real time for 1st time visitor? - timhargis
I'm not a programmer but I appreciate all the insight I get on HN.<br>I'm curious if there is a way to get a users data/demographic info before they visit your site and based on that, change the experience/layout dependi... | {
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GitHub Action CLI-tool to script updates of them on many repositories - Scullwm
https://github.com/inextensodigital/actions/tree/master/github-workflow
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fredley
I found this title hard to parse. Could I suggest "CLI tool for managing
Github Action workflows"?
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type0
Not just hard to parse but actually somewh... | {
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Distributed Systems Testing: The Lost World - scott_s
http://tagide.com/blog/research/distributed-systems-testing-the-lost-world/
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akkartik
_"..trace logs, a relatively old technique that glorifies printf as First-
Class Citizen Of The Testing Guild.."_
I don't understand the stigma attached to logs and debug-b... | {
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Lode Runner Web Game - mikecarlton
http://loderunnerwebgame.com/game/
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timonoko
My fingers seem to remember that dig-keys were at the numeric keypad too (End,
PgDn). So you could play it with one hand. Those Z,X - keys are the worst
choice, cause they are not easy to find blindly with left hand.
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emmelaic... | {
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Work with People You Love - wetzler
http://blog.keen.io/post/33237356748/work-with-people-you-love
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nanijoe
Wait..so you just wrote a long blog post to basically say you like being
friends with your friends? I know you guys just had some kind of launch, but
if you need to drive traffic to your site, you could ... | {
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Rxdb: A reactive database where you can subscribe to the result of a query - dsun180
https://github.com/pubkey/rxdb
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kiwicopple
I have been developing something that provides this functionality for
PostgreSQL:
[https://github.com/supabase/realtime](https://github.com/supabase/realtime)
It's still in _very early... | {
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} |
3 Facts About New Zealand I Didn’t Know Until I Moved Here - alannallama
https://medium.com/@alannallama/3-facts-about-new-zealand-i-didnt-know-until-i-moved-here-28208ef8b700
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chmaynard
Hmm, I thought Moa were extinct.
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mtmail
It's satire like
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielefeld_Conspiracy](https://en.... | {
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Zed Shaw: Why I Don't Use Tor - nathanmarz
http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1293530004.html
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poet
It's shit like this Zed...
Two basic claims: Tor is tainted because (1) the concepts the software is
based on were developed with partial funding from the military and (2) Zed
thinks one of the committers is untrustw... | {
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There and Back Again – 3 Hour Hobbit Re-edit - CPAhem
http://definitivehobbitcut.tumblr.com/
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xahrepap
On one hand, I love that the technology exists so that people can do this.
Really cool. And watching the 5 minute preview, I feel like this was done
pretty well and will probably watch the 3 hour version.
On... | {
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} |
Independence Day, NSA leaks inspire 'Fourth Amendment' rallies - kimlelly
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/04/19287215-independence-day-nsa-leaks-inspire-fourth-amendment-rallies
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adamors
> more than 400 had gathered in New York City and Washington, D.C.
That's depressing.
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seferphier
wow only 400 ... | {
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13% of my website visitors block Google Analytics - markosaric
https://markosaric.com/google-analytics-blocking/
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salicideblock
Seeing that Plausible Analytics is not using cookies and instead hashes fields
_including IP address_ \- the measure of "unique site visitors" could be a
proxy for false uniques by Plau... | {
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} |
String types are fine. How about your code? - skrebbel
http://eteeselink.wordpress.com/2013/11/27/string-types-are-fine
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tel
Haskell does this somewhat nicely by shunning the built-in String type and
having ByteString and Text types. All there (and others) can be created using
string literals, though that can ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How do you design a website in 2017? - littleweep
I know how to BUILD a website but I'm curious to know modern workflows for designing a website before build out.<p>A decade (and a half?) ago, I was comfortable using Photoshop to mock up designs but that seems to have fallen out of favor for vector-based ... | {
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The Quiet Rise of AngelList - lawrence
http://thenextweb.com/location/2010/10/04/the-quiet-rise-of-angellist/
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jbail
Has anyone on HN used AngelList? What was the outcome?
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lawrence
Yes, we used it. 15 very high quality leads (funds and angels) within 48
hours.
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We've hit 10,000 subscribers for PHP Weekly - inovica
http://phpweekly.com/archive/2014-06-19.html
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inovica
From an embryonic idea we've achieved 10,000 subscribers. Thank you to
everyone at Hacker News for the ideas and thoughts when we were first
starting. It's really appreciated
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Knock – unlock your Mac without a password using your iPhone - aethr
http://www.knocktounlock.com/
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tambourine_man
The site is buggy on the iPhone, I've managed to scroll down only once.
| {
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Netflix Will Be the Exclusive US TV Home of Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilm and Pixar - mgr86
https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/get-ready-for-summer-on-netflix-us
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Animats
Netflix is now behaving like a channel, rather than a library. Originally,
they had a huge library from which you could choose. Now, they a... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Tips to beat procrastination and lethargy? - jamesmp98
A few weeks ago, I was getting no sleep. I was putting overtime every week working third shift and it was terrible for my mental health. Now I'm working three different jobs and going to school, all of which are flexible, but I still tend to oversleep... | {
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Do You Want My Garbage? - vo2maxer
https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/do-you-want-my-garbage-agnes-callard/
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vo2maxer
For another point of view: "You thought that Alan Resnais’s Last Year at
Marienbad was boring or John Cage pretentious? Die, scum!"[1]
[1] [https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/09/in-praise-of-cu... | {
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Yahoo!'s bet on Hadoop - toffer
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/08/yahoos_bet_on_h.html
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henning
"But there are open source projects that are tackling important Web 2.0
problems "up the stack." Brad Fitzpatrick's LiveJournal scaling tools
memcached, perlbal, and mogileFS come to mind, as well as OpenID.... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
11 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting My First Startup - kevbam
http://www.quicksprout.com/2013/02/14/11-things-i-wish-i-knew-before-starting-my-first-startup/
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jkuria
Some good stuff in there but on principle I wont' up-vote it because of the
forced attempts to get me to opt in. Four or five!
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abdel
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Hacker Dojo doubles in size; invites you to party - dustball
Hacker Dojo (Mountain View -- down the street from YC) doubles to 13,000 square feet. We're home to many startups, hackers, thinkers and makers.<p>Join us to celebrate on Friday October 14th, 7PM.
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dustball
Link to event: <http://plancast.com/p/7thr... | {
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AI fighter pilot wins in combat simulation - tpatke
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36650848
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linschn
I read the paper, and read up about the techniques used to do that (because
the paper is very light on details). I came back completely underwhelmed.
This makes (clever) use of hundreds, if not thousands, ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Fox Cuts Off Hulu: Good and Bad for Cable Subscribers - okeumeni
http://www.nytimes.com/external/gigaom/2010/10/17/17gigaom-fox-cuts-off-hulu-good-and-bad-for-cable-subscrib-78589.html
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meatsock
"According to Cablevision, the dispute is about $80 million, to be precise.
The cable company says that News Corp. i... | {
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Snowed in at NASA, Keeping Watch Over a Space Colossus - Hooke
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/02/snowed-in-at-nasa/433959/?single_page=true
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James001
And here I thought this was an epic Snowden pun
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The Right to Privacy (1890) - d0ne
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/privacy/Privacy_brand_warr2.html
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michaelmrose
"The right to privacy does not prohibit any publication of matter which is of
public or general interest. "
This is not only nearly impossible to define in the general case mo... | {
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} |
Queueing Theory, in practice - craigkerstiens
https://speakerdeck.com/emfree/queueing-theory
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rubayeet
Application of queuing theory in rate limiting an API(video)[0]
[0]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m64SWl9bfvk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m64SWl9bfvk)
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Show HN: The Whicher: A/B test the Real World - jiaaro
https://www.thewhicher.com
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burgeralarm
This is way cool, though I can't help but think that the results might differ
from actual A/B testing because the testing context is explicit. Have you done
comparisons to backend A/B testing to see how well the two ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Why Markdown Is Not My Favourite Language (2012) - pmoriarty
http://www.wilfred.me.uk/blog/2012/07/30/why-markdown-is-not-my-favourite-language/
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tptacek
Part of the problem is that people don't really grok the point of Markdown.
There's a reason it doesn't support tables, or a syntax for making the kind of
lang... | {
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Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce (2010) [pdf] - sytelus
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~jimmylin/MapReduce-book-final.pdf
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mpweiher
The authors mention the problem of capacity increases in storage outpacing
bandwidth growth.
This is mathematical inevitability at least for spinning disks, as long as
capa... | {
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} |
Fly over a reconstruction of 4th century Rome [video] - gruseom
https://smarthistory.org/ancient-rome/
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x3ro
I have trouble understanding why people here say "the modeling is bad" (I
think what is really meant is the level of detail).
If this is meant to be an "as realistic as possible" representation of ancien... | {
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} |
Tor Browser and Tails Version Fingerprint - jonaslejon
https://github.com/jonaslejon/tor-fingerprint
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cloudjacker
It detected Whonix as well
Not that it wasn't supposed to, just letting anyone know because its a waste
of time for someone else to boot up their VMs just to see it, like I did.
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programLyriq... | {
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Arduino Yún – combining Arduino with Linux - whalesalad
http://blog.arduino.cc/2013/05/18/welcome-arduino-yun-the-first-member-of-a-series-of-wifi-products-combining-arduino-with-linux
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neya
This is groundbreaking. Imagine ALL of your devices in your home (fans,
lights, TVs, refrigerators, etc.), powered by this... | {
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} |
“Direct eye contact” with police cited as reason for ticket - cryoshon
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/30/us/eye-contact-traffic-stop-ohio-police-officer/index.html
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cryoshon
I remember hearing somewhere that certain animals find direct eye contact as
an aggressive challenge to their dominance.
This isn't the firs... | {
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Pack of more than 1000 beautiful open source icons on Vue - antonreshetov
https://antonreshetov.github.io/vue-unicons/
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politelemon
Looks like copy doesn't work in Firefox or Edge.
~~~
antonreshetov
I'll see what's up.
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Apptimize (YC S13) launches wysiwyg a/b testing tool for native apps - jorlow
http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/22/apptimize-seed-funding-visual-editor/
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fra
Are they planning on releasing this for iOS? Looks to me like it's explicitly
disallowed by the App Store guildelines.
~~~
xianshou
A/B's completely fine on... | {
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Some Microsofties say that women's brains make them less interstd in engineering - onetimemanytime
https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-employees-uproar-over-diversity-2019-4
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neilv
The original qz.com article has more on the headline topic than the
businessinsider.com that quotes qz.com does.
[https://qz.c... | {
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Ask HN: To go or not to go college? - hajrice
I'm currently a high school senior, I'm an aspiring and pretty badass dev and designer. I've built a few apps and I'm pretty sure that I'll be doing startups(most likely my own still) for the rest of my life.<p>I can't bear working for some big corporation(I've done it onc... | {
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Shanghai HN Meetup - barry-cotter
http://www.meetup.com/Shanghai-Hacker-News-Meetup/
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barry-cotter
The next Hacker News Meetup will be on December 3rd at 7pm at Daga BrewPub at:
100 Fuxing Xi Lu, near Yongfu Lu 复兴西路100号，近永福路
| {
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Child-Welfare Activists Attack Facebook over Encryption Plans - i_am_not_elon
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/technology/facebook-encryption-child-exploitation.html
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sarcasmatwork
To live in a free society, we need and depend on encryption. See 4th
amendment.
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Startup building untappable Internet project to counter mass surveillance - grizzles
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/upliink-aero-free-internet-for-everyone-everywhere/x/5603110
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onion2k
This sort of project is an admirable attempt to counter surveillance at a
personal level, assuming the shared mesh network... | {
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The Riemann Hypothesis (Part 2) - mathgenius
https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2019/09/the_riemann_hypothesis_part_2.html
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mathgenius
You can head over to cocalc.com, fire up a sage worksheet, and stick this in:
for n in range(1, 13):
field = GF(2^n)
count = 0
... | {
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One year of C - gok
http://floooh.github.io/2018/06/02/one-year-of-c.html
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blub
Redescovering the beauty of C seems quite similar to city-dwellers
redescovering the beauty of nature: everything is rainbows and butterflies,
while in reality - if you are away from the safety net of civilisation - there
are hundred... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: General distaste of working in Financial companies? - justlearning
Yesterday, we had this question "Am i making too much?" -<p>http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1754154<p>Among the discussions, few mentioned the finance as a no-no. I tend to not think of it as a HN bias(pro startups/boo-java).<p>to quote a... | {
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Behold Dune: An Exclusive Look at Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Oscar Isaac - daddylonglegs
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/04/behold-dune-an-exclusive-look-at-timothee-chalamet-zendaya-oscar-isaac
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tantalor
> story about a planet being mined to death
Is that true? Was Arrakis or the sandworm threatened... | {
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The end of :hover? - andycroll
http://andycroll.com/writing/the-end-of-hover
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vessenes
This article should be renamed "the end of one-design-fits all." Or maybe, we
could rename it "double your design staff."
Some comments here mention media queries, those are folks who are with the
times, and care enough abo... | {
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National Academies Press Makes All PDF Books Free to Download - Bud
http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=06022011
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Alienz
As long as the work is a result of taxpayer's money, they SHOULD make it free
for the public's access.
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niels_olson
Maaaaan.... I submitted that within h... | {
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A JavaScript clone of Nu Pogodi, a Soviet hand-held game - Nowaker
http://nerdlab.pl/uploads/projects/nu-pogodi/index.html
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nathell
Ah, Nu Pogodi. The handheld everyone played in rural Poland around 1990. This
one mimics the look-and-feel of the original rather well, but, sadly, I have
yet to see a clone that ... | {
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What type of practice produces peak performance? - harscoat
http://www.bakadesuyo.com/what-type-of-practice-produces-peak-performan
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adnanofsteel
Very enlightening and informative.
| {
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Firmware Forensics: Diffs, Timelines, ELFs and Backdoors - lelf
http://w00tsec.blogspot.com/2015/02/firmware-forensics-diffs-timelines-elfs.html
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lam
Interesting techniques to gather forensic info on firmware.
We depend on our FW in protecting some of our IP as we contract our HW to be
built oversea. What are s... | {
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} |
My Mom Has Been Trying to Cancel EarthLink for 10 Years - DiabloD3
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/why-my-mom-still-pays-for-dial-up-she-hasnt-used-in-a-decade
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jccooper
If you stop paying them, they'll get the message.
| {
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Beautiful plots of roots of polynomials - fogus
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/week285.html
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lmkg
Around the roots of unity are large empty expanses, with a single root in the
middle. This sounds like a classic unstable equilibrium to me. But an
equilibrium of what?
Craziness like this is why I became a mathem... | {
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We don't allow users to pick passwords so we don't store your information - Bootvis
https://twitter.com/ppentestlabs/status/1202906268991664128
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maxdamantus
Fundamentally, I don't see anything wrong with this. People are already
encouraged to use "password managers", which is essentially a workaround for
the fac... | {
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} |
Uber’s self-driving cars hit the streets in Pittsburgh - smb06
http://www.recode.net/2016/9/14/12917436/uber-self-driving-cars-pittsburgh-drivers-cars
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Cheyana
I saw a black version of the same car here in Arizona last week, complete with
roof apparatus. I guess it's just being driven and isn't self-driving yet.... | {
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Quadrocopter Ball Juggling - yef
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CR5y8qZf0Y
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RiderOfGiraffes
From 2 days ago: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2380759>
Very popular - it was on the front page for _ages_ \- loads of comments.
(pause)
Yup - on the front page for about 17 hours.
| {
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My Startup Engineering Startup: business-and-fitness.com - wj
http://www.business-and-fitness.com
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wj
I'm using the Startup Engineering course on Coursera as an excuse to become a
better programmer. My idea is to create a personal dashboard that you can
display on a TV or an extra monitor with your Pi or the n... | {
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} |
Addressing Recent Claims of “Manipulated” Blog Posts in the Wayback Machine - edward
https://blog.archive.org/2018/04/24/addressing-recent-claims-of-manipulated-blog-posts-in-the-wayback-machine/
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nkurz
They aren't very prominent, but the two links at the top of the blog post
provide useful context:
[https://ww... | {
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Ask HN: Is technology headed for a crash? - diminium
Or a deep depression? Or stagnation? A while back I posted this "Ask HN: Are tech companies becoming more unrealistic in hiring?" (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4667524)<p>In the world of finance, when things become unrealistic, reality has a tendency to k... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Ask HN: Best resources for teaching my 8 year old to code - cdnsteve
Looking for feedback for resources and ideas on how to ease my son into coding. He loves Minecraft and has done hour of code. Now he's excited to build his own website. Any kid friendly options out there that cater to this?<p>I was thinking of s... | {
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} |
Amateur Radio Antenna Bill Dies at Senator's Desk - AstroJetson
http://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-vows-continued-pursuit-of-the-amateur-radio-parity-act-in-the-115th-congress
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AstroJetson
"After having passed the House of Representatives on a unanimous vote, the
bill stalled in the Senate due to the intervention of ... | {
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How Trump spent his first month in office, by the numbers - tedmiston
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/02/21/how-donald-trump-spent-his-first-month-in-office-by-the-numbers/
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tedmiston
Mainly submitting this because while I usually enjoy The Washington Post's
reporting, I feel the chart creat... | {
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} |
Need for Speed: Accelerating Maven Snapshots - HiJon89
http://product.hubspot.com/blog/speeding-up-maven-snapshots
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64BitChris
While I commend the author for taking the time to write this article and
sharing their experience with the community, I can't help but think that this
is a solution to a problem that was... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What is your hardware/garage side-project? - selmat
If have personal blog about it please share it.
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tobz
I'm working on a headphone stand that has a USB DAC/headphone amplifier built
in, along with circuitry to detect when the headphones have been hung up,
thereby switching the DAC output to a line out ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
X.ai personal assistant - otih
https://x.ai
======
dmortensen
Ask me anything! :-)
| {
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Delta debuts free Main Cabin meals in 12 markets - happy-go-lucky
http://news.delta.com/delta-debuts-free-main-cabin-meals-12-markets
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makecheck
"Debuts", really? "Enhancement"? This is a _restoration_ of what used to be
standard decades ago before airlines became cheapskates. Do not let the
marketing fool you; ... | {
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} |
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