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Ask HN: What makes a programmer a rockstar? - meesterdude
Curious what attributes people feel represents such a person. Also, do rockstars equal 10x'ers?
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rubiquity
A programmer that is also a member of a really successful rock band. No person
possessing both of these attributes walks the earth, yet. It i... | {
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Thoughts from the designer of Farmville - hkyeti
http://iteratingfun.com/post/26029257877/5-thoughts-from-the-designer-of-farmville
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hkyeti
Interesting add on - despite Farmville's success he didn't feel it was
creatively that interesting a game to him personally, and he moved on shortly
thereafter...
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What Snowden and Manning Don't Understand About Secrecy - samsolomon
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/bowden-manning-snowden/278973/
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dictum
> These are young people at war with the concept of secrecy itself, which is
> just foolish. There are many legitimate reasons for governments to keep
... | {
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Technophilia - dangoldin
http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2009/06/technophilia.php
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omouse
Marshall Mcluhan devotes a whole chapter to this topic in his book
_Understanding Media_ :
[http://books.google.com/books?id=R2bqSaC5TlkC&printsec=f...](http://books.google.com/books?id=R2bqSaC5TlkC&printsec=frontc... | {
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If 'semantic web' annoys you, read on... - bensummers
http://teblog.typepad.com/david_tebbutt/2010/03/if-semantic-web-annoys-you-read-on.html
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cschneid
Did this article just open with "Semantic web makes most people shut down"
then follow with "Here's a basic overview of Semantic Web"? That doesn't make
any se... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How to Self Study Physics? - hsikka
Hey HN,
I'm a CS graduate student, and I do a lot of Deep Learning Research. I've always wanted to get a strong foundation in Physics, and while on lockdown because of COVID, I thought it would be a great opportunity.<p>I've run across this incredible guide h... | {
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Y Combinator to give people varied amounts of cash in latest basic income trial - SirLJ
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/21/silicon-valley-giant-y-combinator-to-branch-out-basic-income-trial.html
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beepboopbeep
I'm curious, wouldn't states like Alaska, that have a portion of oil revenues
paid out to the population, b... | {
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New responsive website for Paris - Spone
http://www.paris.fr
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bfluzin
Thanks gov.uk for the gds blog and the inspiration.
Hope you'll like it.
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bfluzin
[http://m.imgur.com/bWL5UZd](http://m.imgur.com/bWL5UZd)
Hai from the launch party !
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Spone
Front-end lead dev here, I would be happy to answer... | {
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undocumented “ultravisor” mode in POWER9 CPUs raises security concerns - justinjlynn
https://twitter.com/justinrwlynn/status/953157546977591296
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justinjlynn
This is pending official confirmation from IBM that the feature is enabled and
accessible to openPOWER chips.
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Ask HN: Should we (the community) build an HN alternative? - albertogh
There are tons of interesting feature requests as well as incredibly needed bug fixes listed in the "features you'd like" thread at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363. IMHO and with all due respect, by now it's pretty clear that PG is not w... | {
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Programming Algorithms in Lisp: Data Structures - nafizh
https://lisp-univ-etc.blogspot.com/2019/08/programming-algorithms-data-structures.html
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tom_mellior
Everything about this is bizarre. It spends a lot of time explaining what a
pair is, but then just assumes that computational complexity and O-notation
are ... | {
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Wired Bacteria Form Nature’s Power Grid - lnguyen
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/01/science/bacteria-microbes-electricity.html
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novacole
For some reason this makes me think these bacteria or the mechanism behind
them are the biological precursors to neurons.
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carapace
You want Micheal Levin's work:
E.g. "W... | {
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Tips for marketing a Kickstarter campaign? - jkuria
https://capitalandgrowth.org/questions/1106/tips-for-marketing-a-kickstarter-campaign.html
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lingzb
My key takeaway: "The video is the most important part of your marketing
strategy."
That's definitely the only thing I look at when I check out a Kickstarter
cam... | {
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} |
Show HN: AZN Asian Snack Store for iOS - callmeed
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/azn-asian-snacks-nicknacks/id1136398870?mt=8
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callmeed
Hey HN. My team and I built this ecommerce app both as a demo and to fulfill
some needs (One of my co-workers felt it was often hard to find some of his
favorite snacks that he... | {
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} |
Twitter sentiment surrounding the Osama Bin Laden events - robhawkes
http://rawkes.com/blog/2011/05/03/twitter-sentiment-surrounding-the-obl-events
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orijing
It's not clear to me how you defined "happiness" on the vertical axis. Can you
elaborate more on that?
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robhawkes
Hi orijing, I cover this in more det... | {
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I'm a Hazmat-Trained Hospital Worker: What No One Is Telling You About Ebola - fraXis
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/abby-norman/im-a-hazmat-trained-hospi_b_5998486.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592
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zimpenfish
Thing is - if no-one ever uses the hazmat suits in anger (I suspect the US is
infrequently exposed to th... | {
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Security Flaw in common keycard locks exploited in hotel room break ins - ghshephard
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/11/26/security-flaw-in-common-keycard-locks-exploited-in-string-of-hotel-room-break-ins/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/11/26/security-flaw-in-common-keycard-locks-exploi... | {
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Email Transparency at Khan Academy - tghw
http://bjk5.com/post/71887196490/email-transparency-at-khan-academy
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chany2
* Not sure if my response was posted on your site. Repeated here:
It seems like what you and your team really need is 'like' a Sharepoint /
Dropbox for Emails where anyone (if permissions are se... | {
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Writing Clear, Concise, Sentences - Panoramix
http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/ClearConciseSentences.html
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grellas
The principles listed here are sound and helpful. If you follow them, your
writing style will undoubtedly improve.
But do not adhere to them as rigid rules or you will suffer in your ability to
exp... | {
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} |
0 degrees fahrenheit + 0 degrees fahrenheit - ajaimk
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=0+degrees+fahrenheit+%2B+0+degrees+fahrenheit&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
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RiderOfGiraffes
The same question with celsius ...
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1610354>
... and much discussion.
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How’s the development environment on the Surface Laptops? - uyuioi
I have had a hell of a time with Apple lately and quite honestly I don’t think they deserve the thousands of dollars I give them for the MacBook Pro 15”. I’ve had the power brick die on a one month old device. Catalina is one of the most buggy operatin... | {
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Asynchronous, Event-Driven Web Servers for the JVM - rschildmeijer
http://www.infoq.com/articles/deft-loft
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willvarfar
elegant!
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The XMPP Improvement Project - flevo
https://gist.github.com/ValdikSS/30f866602413c036e4e6924c1895b838
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flevo
So many years XMPP has been a protocol not suited for modern mobile devices
with unstable network connection. Messages could be easily lost (and you had
to ask for receiving acknowledgment yourself in an... | {
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} |
Show HN: We built Helprace, feedback portal and helpdesk. Do people need it? - Helprace
http://helprace.com
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Helprace
Hey there, we're a small team trying to make it big in the customer service
software market. You probably know software such as Zendesk and UserVoice,
which are designed to address customer ser... | {
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} |
California Opens Investigation into Tesla Workplace Conditions - danso
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-18/california-opens-investigation-into-tesla-workplace-conditions
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usaphp
> It was difficult to find employees to go on the record. Like a lot of tech
> companies in Silicon Valley, workers sign... | {
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Edward Snowden’s Escape from Hong Kong [audio] - doener
https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8416-the_untold_story_of_edward_snowden_s_escape_from_hong_kong
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thesumofall
The links to donate:
\-
[https://www.gofundme.com/snowdenguardians](https://www.gofundme.com/snowdenguardians)
\-
[https://fundrazr.com/snowdensguardi... | {
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Show HN: JavascriptU, workshops on modern JavaScript patterns & libraries - mediamaker
http://www.javascriptu.org/
You're invited to learn with us. From the basics to the advanced, from jQuery to backbone, from the DOM to whatever you choose. Anything is fair game and you call the shots. The course topics alter based... | {
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KeystoneJS – an open source Node.js cms / web app platform built on express - jed_watson
http://keystonejs.com
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boriciojones
It's a bit surprising that there aren't that many good CMSs for node given how
itd adoption is going. KeystoneJS is really cool.
Pros: really easy to get started (yeoman generator), boo... | {
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How to land a great developer job in London - DavidSch
http://www.meetup.com/Find-A-tech-Job-In-London/events/69728542/
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DavidSch
Join now, we have a fantastic event tomorrow evening you wont want to miss.
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California Assembly OKs bill to tax online retailers - olegious
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/05/31/state/n143717D26.DTL&tsp=1
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olegious
Two things:
1\. how will this impact Californian affiliates?
2\. this is baffling- do our politicians not take Econ 101- higher taxes will
not bring... | {
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} |
Haskell on Android - psibi
http://keera.co.uk/blog/2014/08/13/most-inspiring-green-screen-you-will-ever-see/
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ErikRogneby
"...that Java was calling Haskell as C via it’s Foreign Function Interface
(FFI), which in turn was executing correctly (including its Runtime System),
and calling SDL’s C API also via the ... | {
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Face Recognition with Python, in under 25 lines of code – Real Python - mjhea0
http://realpython.com/blog/python/face-recognition-with-python#.U7yDJGHTgRQ.hackernews
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minimaxir
You've submitted this 3 times in the past few days with impressively blatant
attempts at avoiding the dupe detector. There's no need to ... | {
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} |
How to Help New Employees Be Rockstars, a New Approach - knes
http://luclevesque.com/post/15881999207/how-to-help-new-employees-be-rockstars-a-new-approach
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markdown
I read the entire thing and found it completely devoid of any useful
information.
There's no info on how to score new gigs, how to get noticed by ... | {
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} |
Tagging hotels as “eco-friendly” led to drop in bookings for those hotels - prostoalex
https://www.hotelmarketing.com/articles/booking-coms-eco-friendly-hotel-tagging-test-failed
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cerberusss
Booking.com also tells you that "no really, there's only one room left",
undoubtedly influenced by their endless A-B testi... | {
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} |
Open Source Analytics: Visualization & Predictive Modeling with R - yarapavan
http://assets.en.oreilly.com/1/event/27/Open%20Source%20Analytics_%20Visualization%20and%20Predictive%20Modeling%20of%20Big%20Data%20with%20the%20R%20Programming%20Language%20Presentation%201.ppt
OSCON presentation file (PPT)
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pasbeso... | {
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Understanding the working of X11 from the ground up (2017) - signa11
https://magcius.github.io/xplain/article/index.html
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Jasper_
Author here. I stopped working on this a few years ago, so now's as good a
time as any for an overly-long, rambly, unedited retrospective.
When I started this, I was working on GNOME... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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The Fallout (2017) - pje
https://www.guernicamag.com/the-fallout/
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PcMojo
There is a recent HBO Documentary about this landfill called Atomic Homefront
[https://www.atomichomefront.film/about/](https://www.atomichomefront.film/about/)
The government also sprayed (possibly radioactive) chemicals on low income
ar... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The First Step for Ruby on Rails - anto210
http://www.jamesjohnson.me/
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jeffclark
I've been following through the online version of Michael Hartl's RoR book:
<http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book>
It's proven to be a GREAT way to learn the basics from the ground up while
building an actua... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Apple is locking iPhone battery replacement - bkmn
https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/8/20776965/iphone-xs-max-xr-battery-service-third-party-repair
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intopieces
They are not locking the replacement, they are refusing to guarantee the
performance of parts they can’t certify are genuine.
There are third party batter... | {
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} |
Bruce Schneier on the recent DNS vulnerability - soundsop
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/07/the_dns_vulnera.html
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jsn
It's good old "worse is better" all over again. Of course we should design our
protocols and our software as The Right Thing. Of course, it will take much
longer to design and impleme... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Call with David Ungar (2015) [video] - mpweiher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nfrC-YLYqc
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DonHopkins
Can somebody with a lot of money please regularly give a bunch of it to Dave
Ungar, so he can keep doing what he wants to do? He has generated so much
value on so many levels, that's so important and useful to... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Are US companies afraid of hiring contractors from Eastern Europe? - robsun
Hi,<p>Are US companies afraid of hiring contractors from Eastern Europe?<p>I'm a dev from Poland with 8 years of commercial experience. I worked for US companies, visited the US a couple of times. I am a skilled developer and I rarely see... | {
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Opera: please use bug detection, not browser detection - gaika
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/a-browser-sniffing-warning-the-trouble/
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marijn
In general, I agree. Unfortunately, detecting some bugs is either a lot of
work or almost impossible -- you can't, for example, generate DOM events
programatically, ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Fastest way to $2500 month? - anon_hn
I'm desperate. I can't reveal my real identity, as I'm too ashamed. I'm very young and NEED to make a way towards passive/"subpassive" $2500 a month which can be built within a 2-3 months.<p>I'm very good in design and rails.<p>I'd really really really appreciate your id... | {
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Show HN: Covid-19 Status in the United States - r_stream
https://covid2019vir.us
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skysea
Linking source of data would be great since there are too much fake
information about Covid-19 on internet.
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r_stream
Thanks! For the top graph that info is under the "details about this data"
details/summary element.
| {
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Apple's China-friendly censorship caused an iPhone-crashing bug - ValentineC
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-china-censorship-bug-iphone-crash-emoji/
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willio58
It always gives me a gross feeling when I read about Apple helping countries
actively censor what can be communicated between two human beings.
Let Ch... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Should have hired a tech co-founder - seanlinehan
https://medium.com/on-startups/c00e3e2b2024
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hga
That he thinks of "hiring" a "co-founder" is perhaps telling.
ADDED: On the flip side, us techies shouldn't co-found a company unless we're
willing to pitch in when " _[...] we found sales in other channels that... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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The 2005 email that spawned Picnik, Google's latest buy - cwan
http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/03/looking_back_the_email_that_spawned_picnik_googles_latest_buy.html
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dougmccune
My favorite quote, given the recent debates over Flash vs Canvas:
_We’re at the intersection of demand (mass use of online pho... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Microsoft Plans to Stop Actively Developing Paint - zonotope
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/24/technology/microsoft-paint.html
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towndrunk
Would be nice if Microsoft open sourced it so others could learn from it or
actively develop a fork.
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ocdtrekkie
This is a FUD article. Microsoft has upgraded Paint to... | {
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Whom should self-driving cars protect in an accident? - jkuria
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2018/10/27/whom-should-self-driving-cars-protect-in-an-accident
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cimmanom
Basically, a survey of different cultures’ responses to the trolley problem.
And this doesn’t even touch on the question of pa... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
ScorSer – Search System for Musicians - pablode
http://scorser.com
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peterkos
As a musician/programmer this seems like a great visualization for exploring
related information about music. For searching, well, if you study music you
just kinda learn the corpus as you go, so tools like this are the equivalent
of br... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Parsing the impact of Anonymous - mcantelon
http://neteffect.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/12/09/parsing_the_impact_of_anonymous
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wccrawford
"As long as they don't break into other people's computers, launching DDoS
should not be treated as a crime by default; "
Yeah, they should. Those attacks are the same as... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
User generated search engines - josephwesley
Are there any search engines being created that give users the power to vote good sites up and spam sites down? It seems like this would be a way to clear out some of the weak content that bloats up the internet. Thoughts?
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sycren
Doesn't google allow this already t... | {
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Microsoft confirms Windows 10x is coming to laptops - pjmlp
https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/4/21246561/microsoft-windows-10x-single-screens-windows-usage-demand-coronavirus-pandemic
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maxbaines
Perhaps Windows RT all over again? I do hope not. As a Windows 10 & Windows 10
on ARM I find this confusing.
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Samsung’s bug bounty program will pay rewards of up to $200,000 – The Verge - rbanffy
https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/7/16265926/samsung-bug-bounty-program-rewards
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doubt_me
remove the facebook app from all your phones.
Where is my 200k?
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Animations by a NASA Scientist Show the Speed of Light Is Torturously Slow - caseyf7
https://www.sciencealert.com/simple-animations-by-a-nasa-scientist-prove-the-speed-of-light-is-torturously-slow
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db48x
Nice, but I like this one better:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AAU_btBN7s](https://www.youtube.com/watch... | {
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Fast Programmable Match-Action Processing in Hardware for SDN (2013) [pdf] - godelmachine
http://yuba.stanford.edu/~grg/docs/sdn-chip-sigcomm-2013.pdf
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pkaye
So this is special hardware for a Software Defined Network? I thought SDN was
meant to work on COTS hardware?
| {
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India: The Republic of Scams - known
http://news.in.msn.com/gallery.aspx?cp-documentid=5140159
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namank
Its really nothing new. Impressive fact is that corruption is finally being
shown in news the way it should be have been decades ago
| {
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Jibo, the first family robot - miket
http://www.myjibo.com/
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Discere
There must have been a lot of plugging and unplugging JIBO to create their
video!
It does look neat though.
| {
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Why Not MySQL? (Tekpub) - tommi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PoFIohBSM4
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MojoJolo
This is very timely. I'm migrating from MySQL to PostgreSQL just to try
different technology (DBMS).
But I'm wondering, AFAIK, why universities are teaching MySQL rather than
Postgres?
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gnono
Dude, its 2012. Use Google, g... | {
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Once-starving GnuPG crypto project gets a windfall. Now comes the hard part - smacktoward
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/once-starving-gnupg-crypto-project-gets-a-windfall-but-can-it-be-saved/
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andrewstuart2
> It's encouraging to see the GnuPG project benefitting from similar largess.
> But it also ra... | {
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Chad Rigetti on Building Quantum Computers [video] - craigcannon
http://themacro.com/articles/2016/09/chad-rigetti-on-building-quantum-computers/
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tlb
The story of how Cray and his team created the CDC 6600 is really great [0].
Cray decided they had to get away from corporate interference so he picked a
bucolic ... | {
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Invoke God Mode in Windows 10 - onecooltip
http://www.onecooltip.com/2015/08/invoke-godmode-in-windows-10.html
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Someone1234
Please stop calling it "God Mode." It is simply called "All Tasks" in Windows
and is used by Control Panel's explorer search box to provide results about
various Control Panel features, it ... | {
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} |
Mozilla: End of Firefox for Android Slated for 2020 as Fenix Rises - kasbah
https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-end-of-firefox-for-android-slated-for-2020-as-fenix-rises/
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craftyguy
Felix doesn't appear to have support for extensions. That would be very
unfortunate if Mozilla has chosen this route. Hopefully t... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Alternatives to MVC - perspective1
I'd like to branch out from MVC for my next webapp. What battle-tested alternatives are others using?<p>Here's a post from 2014, but there aren't any example code bases. https://blog.ircmaxell.com/2014/11/alternatives-to-mvc.html
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Postgres 9.3 feature highlight: JSON operators - stesch
http://michael.otacoo.com/postgresql-2/postgres-9-3-feature-highlight-json-operators/
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jtchang
Damn that is how you write a git commit message.
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masklinn
An other fine example — from the same history — was the commit fixing the
security issue 2 weeks ag... | {
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Rape Victim Arrested After Refusing TSA Pat-Down - merijn481
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/409461/rape_victim_arrested_after_refusing_tsa_pat-down/
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pyre
Following to the local news story:
> Other travelers KVUE talked to say they empathize with
> Hirschkind, but the law i... | {
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Learning by Association in Plants (2016) - PeterWhittaker
http://www.nature.com/articles/srep38427
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PeterWhittaker
Submitter here: Leaving aside the question of whether or not this constitutes
_learning_ , which may be as good a word as any, I posted this in hopes the HN
collective mind would offer other explana... | {
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Sorry, Vegans: Brussels Sprouts Like to Live, Too - tokenadult
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/science/22angi.html
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pyre
Personally I don't think that we should link to articles like this. The whole
point of these types of articles is to generate controversy and draw page
hits, by directing more traffic to the... | {
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Suckless conference 2015 - vezzy-fnord
http://suckless.org/conference/
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SixSigma
Hope you guys had a good time. I still miss Uriel. I hope someone stood in for
him and ripped your ideas apart, particularly the C++.
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jstimpfle
I love the ideal of keeping things simple. I did my first steps in C studying
dw... | {
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Instagram Dropping Foursquare for Facebook Places - wlindner
http://williamlindner.com/2014/05/13/instagram-dropping-foursquare.html
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rsobers
The immediate result: a diminished user experience. Strategy tax in full
effect.
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shkkmo
Don't worry. Facebook will never do something like this to the Oculus Rift.
~... | {
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Ask HN: What's Your Rough Net Worth and Age? - bruddamane
It's fun to do these kind of threads every once in a while because it gets people talking about personal finance, success, failure, perspective, and other topics rooted in money.<p>So what's your general age-range/cohort and what's your Net ... | {
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Lisp Machine Manual (1984) - sillysaurus3
https://hanshuebner.github.io/lmman/title.xml
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DonHopkins
The cover of the Lisp Machine Manual had the title printed in all caps
diagonally wrapped around the spine, so on the front you could only read "LISP
CHINE NUAL". So the title was phonetically pronounced: "Lisp Sh... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What are some innovative products Google has come up with? - toaltctrl
Google is well known for it's highly innovative culture. They hire the best and brightest who then create products that change our lives. Well, at least that's what the television says.<p>I'm having a problem trying to fi... | {
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A Lesson in Internet Anatomy: The World's Densest Meet-Me Room - tlrobinson
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/multimedia/2008/03/gallery_one_wilshire
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tlrobinson
Higher resolution photos on the photographer's website:
<http://eecue.com/a/1547/One-Wilshire-Tour.html>
| {
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FundersClub (YC S12) advances online investing with first closed fund - borisms
http://venturebeat.com/2012/12/17/fundersclub-advances-online-investing-to-next-level-with-first-closed-fund/
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rdl
This seems really interesting for the future. This, angellist, clerky, and the
great books and blogs are a big deal.... | {
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Callback hell is a design choice. - Offler
http://blog.caplin.com/2013/03/13/callback-hell-is-a-design-choice/
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mercurial
It doesn't have the "pyramid of Doom" feeling of the "traditional NodeJS"
version, but it does not make it easy to follow the flow. A better approach,
IMHO, would be to use a promise librar... | {
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What the FlexBox? – A free 20 video course to learn CSS Flexbox - sebg
http://flexbox.io/#/
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dang
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9963714](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9963714)
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vanderZwan
As someone who has little direct experience with this part of webdev (other
than aligning paragraphs on... | {
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} |
The best patent troll-killing bill yet - beauzero
https://action.eff.org/o/9042/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=9416
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davidw
Oh, cool - DeFazio (one of the sponsors) is my representative. I guess that
saves me from having to call him. Anyone know if they tally calls for people
calling to say thanks or go... | {
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} |
Goodbye, Arch Linux , SystemD took over - mariuz
http://sporkbox.us/blog/?r=page/95&p=2
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rachelbythebay
ns5.he.net is not answering authoritatively for this domain despite being
listed as a primary at the .us level. This will lead to significant amounts of
pain until it is resolved.
| {
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} |
Skype Open Source "in the nearest future" - madars
http://ofaurax.free.fr/blog/index.php5/2009-10-31-00h31-0100.xml
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mcav
Looks like the skype client for _linux_ might become open source. Though I
could see them keeping a closed-source API library and just having the UI be
open source.
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pyre
It would definit... | {
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} |
RBS shuts down startup accounts (Smarkets and others) - swombat
http://www.kernelmag.com/features/report/1360/rbs-continues-its-war-on-start-ups/
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DrJokepu
It seems to me that RBS was very clear about the issue, they simply don't want
to deal with gambling. It's a valid debate whether this is a reasonable or
a... | {
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} |
Price Discrimination is All Around You - ntoshev
http://33bits.org/2011/06/02/price-discrimination-is-all-around-you/
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monkeypizza
Really good article. Bargaining / making deals is all about information.
The US still has laws requiring businesses to put price tags on products to
prevent price discrimination.
| {
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How is it possible for Visual Basic to be most popular .NET language? Lessons from past? Or? - edw519
http://msmvps.com/blogs/bill/archive/2007/11/02/counting-deck-chairs-on-the-titanic.aspx
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DougBTX
The key line is "VB is the best language of the two for working with COM
legacy applications," remembering tha... | {
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} |
Show HN: JavaScript Warrior - antileet
http://jswarrior.fusioncharts.com/
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MonkoftheFunk
pretty good, was challenging but won. wish there was more and a way to trace
| {
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Ask HN: 4 months after posting my project on HN, it has 0 users. Has it failed? - frits1993
Four months ago, one of my projects was ready to be posted on "Show HN", and so I did. After a couple of hours it reached the frontpage and traffic was through the roof. A handful dozen of trial users signed up, and w... | {
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Google Code Jam 2013 - ariassp
https://code.google.com/codejam/
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kirinan
Im actually going to compete this year. Usually I sign up, get busy, then
ignore the challenge, however I want to see how I match up with the rest of
the world when it comes to solving hard problems in a set amount of time using
good data s... | {
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} |
Who brings what at your party? (made with Vue.js, Graphcool and Bulma) - lokarda
https://freatle.com/
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mosselman
We usually just message each other what we are bringing. This seems overly
bureaucratic.
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joeblack75
Some people like bureaucracy, when you organize an event with more than 10
people, that can hel... | {
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} |
Kickstarter Project Fail 17 Months and Counting - braum
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hern/waldok-wall-plug-in-speaker-charger-for-the-ipod-n/comments
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shawnp55
Kickstarter has plausibly deniability and hiding behind an undefined
disclosure of what the creator and backer are due is unacceptable. I spent ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Facebook Employees Are Reportedly Deleting Controversial Internal Messages - JumpCrisscross
http://fortune.com/2018/03/31/facebook-employees-are-reportedly-deleting-controversial-internal-messages/
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radicaldreamer
It's always amusing to me how people in tech want to have very private lives
where they control the... | {
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} |
Engineers crack 58-year-old puzzle on way to quantum breakthrough - rbanffy
https://www.engineering.unsw.edu.au/news/engineers-crack-58-year-old-puzzle-on-way-to-quantum-breakthrough-0
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notlukesky
Serendipity is a critical part of progress and discovery.
A limited list of inventions that occurred due to serendi... | {
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} |
How does it feel to get fired (lose your job) suddenly? - yitchelle
http://www.quora.com/Firing/How-does-it-feel-to-get-fired-lose-your-job-suddenly
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markcrazyhorse
I hate Quora as it forces people to sign up just to even read the content. I
could just remove the DOM element in the inspector but I shouldn't have... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Lisp Interpreter in Tandy TRS-80/100 Basic - franze
https://m.facebook.com/#!/story.php?story_fbid=10157953582457370&id=780707369
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LeServal
Hi... I'm the guy who ported this, which was actually not too difficult, as
the original gentleman, to whom all honour belongs, left good hints. Most
"issues" where really j... | {
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} |
The Only Reason My App Worked Was Due to a Slow Database - jv22222
http://justinvincent.com/page/1860/the-only-reason-my-app-worked-was-due-to-a-slow-database
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fleitz
Shouldn't the child pool simply be reduced and the queue increased which would
have the same effect as the slow MySQL database?
Requests should s... | {
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} |
I Can’t Work Under These Conditions - Mazy
http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/30/i-cant-work-under-these-conditions/
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dtf
"Kick someone's ass on the first day, or become someone's bitch. After then,
everything will be alright."
This seems to be Michael asserting his place in the pecking order, in his own
mischievous... | {
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} |
Text Is Keeping Kids from Coding - dyarosla
https://medium.com/@dannyyaroslavski/text-is-keeping-kids-from-coding-b70988dd7541
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avaer
I actually don't know any great coders that learned to code through these
kinds of games. They might move the programming-is-interesting gradient, but I
don't think the hard part ... | {
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} |
Show HN: Light and Powerful Web-Framework for C++ - lganzzzo
https://oatpp.io/
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lganzzzo
It's fully open-source. Licensed under Apache-2.
Github - [https://github.com/oatpp/oatpp](https://github.com/oatpp/oatpp)
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itm
Could you please tell how it compares to Wt?
([https://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt](https://www... | {
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} |
For extremists only: containers, calculus, comonads and combinatorics ahoy - crntaylor
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12869097/splitting-list-into-a-list-of-possible-tuples/12872133#12872133
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Evbn
Automatic differentiation always tickles me. Such a beatiful connection
between continuous and discrete mathem... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How to make TechCrunch talk about my startup? - ahmedaly
Hello,
I am going to launch a new startup within 2 weeks, and I need to know how to let guys at TechCrunch talk about it in their articles?<p>And can I list my startup there with a description about it?<p>I see that Tech Chrunch and other IT talks are ... | {
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} |
Can a New Website End Tech Meetup Sexism in DC? - chippy
http://dcinno.streetwise.co/2016/11/09/can-a-new-website-end-tech-meetup-sexism-in-dc/
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chippy
The moratorium on political submissions on HN has been lifted. see:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13131251](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13131251... | {
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} |
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