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Overlaying and Synchronized Maps - jjimenezshaw
http://javier.jimenezshaw.com/mapas/?name=eur&z=5&t=48.1074312&g=11.6564940&f=roadmap&b=bng-sat&o=100&v=1&ga=1
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dragos_t
Love the historical map diff.
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At M.I.T., Large Lectures Are Going the Way of the Blackboard - tokenadult
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/us/13physics.html
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bz
The general sentiment about the TEAL classes (the ones with the clickers) is
that they are really gimmicky. Supposedly, it gives the professor some
feedback on what concepts are uncl... | {
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Why It’s Time to Ditch MySQL - ohjeez
http://blog.smartbear.com/open-source/5-reasons-its-time-to-ditch-mysql/
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cpncrunch
And yet for most of us mysql is the best solution because it's installed on
every linux server on the planet, and it just works very reliably for the
majority of things you throw at it. Cer... | {
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Show HN: Region.io - Minimal bookmarking app with full text search - naryad
http://region.io/
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DigitalKNK
Just a heads up your validation links come up as
[http://localhost:3000/user/validate/..](http://localhost:3000/user/validate/..).
:)
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Blizzard cancels RealID on forums - hubb
http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=13816839821&sid=1
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svag
You mean RealID...
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What Lucky People Do Different - glenstansberry
http://www.jonathanfields.com/blog/what-lucky-people-do-differently/
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sosuke
I loved his disclosure at the end.
"You should always assume that pretty much every link on this blog is an
affiliate link and that if you click it, find something you like and buy it,
... | {
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Ask HN: Ideas for exploring computing with youth 11-13? - travisgriggs
Last week, I spent some time with about 10 youth, aged 11-13, just answering questions about being a programmer, and a couple different areas of the software industry.<p>They've expressed desire in doing a little more to explore programming an... | {
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Microsoft’s next Xbox is Xbox Series X, coming holiday 2020 - Aaron_Putnam
https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/12/21016575/microsoft-xbox-series-x-next-xbox-console
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lesserknowndan
When is holiday 2020? What holiday? Why can't Americans use either months or
at least seasons that we southern hemisphere people can ac... | {
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} |
Rearchitecting GitHub Pages - samlambert
http://githubengineering.com/rearchitecting-github-pages/
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kyledrake
Pretty similar to how Neocities serves static sites
([https://neocities.org](https://neocities.org)).
There's a few differences. We don't use SQL in the routing chain, we use regex
to pick out the site ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How do you find good developers on oDesk? - basdevries
What are you looking for if you are searching for a developer on oDesk or any other freelancing site? Do you post a job or do you go look for developers yourself and ask them to join you? How do you determine if they're capable to work in a team? etc.... | {
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CRM for tracking web customers? - mshaw
Any one have suggestions for a very light weight CRM system for tracking your web customers, e.g. logging e-mail conversations, sending mass e-mails, etc.
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pmikal
I've been looking recently as well - trying to decide whether to build our own
or not. There have been some ... | {
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Spam unsubscribe links no longer considered harmful - blasdel
http://essays.dayah.com/spam-unsubscribe-not-harmful
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jbyers
I just read the first 100 messages in my Gmail spam box. Five had unsubscribe
links that were highly suspicious -- misleading .ru domains and GET parameters
that could not possibly identify ... | {
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} |
A package manager for JavaScript package managers - shime
https://github.com/shime/mpm
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sehr
I think an old internet adage applies here:
'Ironic shitposting is _still_ shitposting'
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notduncansmith
To be fair, this isn't the shittiest thing I've seen on HackerNews today.
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Ask HN: What do you use to manage Terminal commands? - yoavanaki
Hello good people of HN,<p>Started programming a bit recently and found myself having to copy paste bash commands into my Terminal to restart servers, databases, etc every time I close my Terminal window/restart my Mac. So I wanted to ask you - is t... | {
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Ask HN: How do normal people find jobs? - melvinmt
We software engineers get job offers thrown at us every single day. But what about normal people with a college education - outside of tech? A lot of these job sites are noisy, have low-quality posts and often have unreasonable demands (5 yr+ experience for everythi... | {
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} |
[Website] hid my job application from an employer? - rmellow
I've been browsing jobs for some time on a certain website and today I found some convincing information that it hid at least one of my job applications from a potential employer.<p>Notice: The story below is entirely anecdotal. I don't see any f... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Recommended stack for a data-heavy application? - lemma
My brother and I had an idea for an application that will perform statistical analysis on arbitrary data sets. We plan to work on it as a side project over the summer (or longer if need be) to learn as well as potentially build it into a business if it ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Are we crossing the chasm in blockchain world? - FahadUddin92
I read the book, "Crossing the chasm." It seems like companies working in blockchain world are crossing the chasm at this point. What does everyone else think?
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hanniabu
Some are, some aren't. When you're reading the likes of IBM and Microso... | {
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Truths programmers should know about case (2018) - lamby
https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2018/nov/26/case/
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carapace
I don't want to trot out my whole "Unicode Rant" here, but I'll say that each
human language and it's digital representation should be an object of study in
its own right.
Having a standard mapping... | {
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} |
The Unapologetic Case for Bullshit - imartin2k
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/01/18/the-unapologetic-case-for-bullshit/
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sundarurfriend
So, his point seems to be that because finding the truth is complicated, it's
okay to bullshit your way into hypotheses because they might turn out to be
true.
But at what cos... | {
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Using Pusher Chatkit with SlackTextViewController on iOS - neoighodaro
Nowadays many applications offer in-app chat and messenger features to their users. The in-app messenger can be useful for things like live support chatting or in-app messaging with other application users.
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neoighodaro
Continue reading IF yo... | {
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Soldat - indigodaddy
https://www.soldat.pl/en/
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msadowski
I used to love this game and find it good even now for some lan parties!
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Show HN: Is it Hate? – Try to detect hateful memes - montasaurus
https://IsItHate.com
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crocodiletears
Very interesting. Is this built on a synthetic dataset? The format they're
using hasn't been very relevant for at least half a decade, and the captions
themselves seem to have been written by a cartoonist who ra... | {
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The Smartest Advice I Ever Got: Personal Finance - iseff
http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/105452/The-Smartest-Advice-I-Ever-Got;_ylt=AqdvGb618aD7ChQv7OYbDP67YWsA
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byrneseyeview
"Tom held some shares in Disney, and while he liked the company, he thought
its stock price was a bit rich at the ti... | {
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Good taste – On aesthetic empathy - aen
http://aenism.com/good-taste/
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balou
"Unlike manners, there isn’t a universally-agreed objective standard" :)
Manners aren't universally agreed either, they are very much tied to the
culture people are evolving in. Burping in the middle-east is appropriate and
a courtes... | {
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} |
Improvements to the Xerox Alto Mandelbrot drop runtime from 1 hour to 9 minutes - darwhy
http://www.righto.com/2017/06/improvements-to-xerox-alto-mandelbrot.html
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gumby
Shutting off redisplay was not an uncommon technique on the Alto (the first
time I saw it I was somewhat disconcerted, and though the machine ha... | {
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Why I'm moving away from RabbitMQ - senthadev
http://senthadev.com/2012/11/07/why-im-moving-away-from-rabbitmq/
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ruckusing
Did you look at beanstalk? It has both of the features you're looking for: the
ability to set a delay and when a job experiences an error it will be placed
in the "buried" queue (which is ... | {
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Kansas Board of Regents restricts free speech for academics - Suraj-Sun
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2013/12/19/kansas-board-of-regents-restricts-free-speech-for-academics/
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msandford
Considering that it's the Kansas Board of Regents and not say the Kansas
Legislature and Governor I'm not s... | {
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Ask HN: Could this work as an alternative to pinch-to-zoom for touchscreens? - mechnik
What else might work to zoom?<p>Has anyone patented drawing a circle with one finger? Clockwise and counter-clockwise could mean different things. Go clockwise to zoom, counter to shrink. Make a larger circle once, or make severa... | {
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Raspberry Pi Map - udp
http://rastrack.ryanteck.org.uk/
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lucian1900
That map seems a tad too precise for comfort.
For example, I can see that Newcastle Uni ordered two.
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joshu
Er, why do we care?
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Fuzzwah
Because it is interesting to know that people from all over the world are
tinkering away on th... | {
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Case closed: why most of USA lacks 100Mbps 'Net connections - markerdmann
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/02/case-closed-why-most-of-usa-lacks-100mbps-net-connections.ars
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patrickgzill
One estimate of over $200 Billion has gone in extra payments and fee
allowances to telecoms.
In Pennsylvania, Ve... | {
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} |
Fix the PhD - psawaya
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v472/n7343/full/472259b.html
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shou4577
From the article: "Imagine bright young things entering a new kind of science
PhD, in which both they and their supervisors embrace from the start the idea
that graduates will go on to an array of demanding career... | {
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} |
OneDeck Comes Out of Beta - Southworth
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/onedeck
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adgezaza
has anyone tried this and have feedback?
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Ask HN: What's the difference between price gouging and surge pricing? - CoreSet
The growing availability and ease of wide-spread data collection seems to be making businesses more "personalized" - pegging advertising, pricing, and other commercial strategies to successfully identifying subgroups who are m... | {
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Why Microsoft’s Kin Could Be Huge - nreece
http://mashable.com/2010/04/12/kin-is-brilliant/
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jfoutz
Don't forget the pocket inversion rule. You can only carry around so much
stuff, so the stuff tends to be multi purpose. Swiss army knives and
tricorders and such.
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gamble
Strikes me as a few years too late... | {
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Ask HN: Are there any good guides on making a Git clone? - ilmiont
Hello all,<p>For some time I've been interested in making my own version control system, essentially a Git clone with all core features implemented. Why would I want to do this? Because learning is good and I'd be interested to discover more ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Browse the Web with Your Voice - quickthrower2
https://voice.mozilla.org/firefox-voice/
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arkanciscan
Everytime I use a voice interface I regret it. The only time it works is when
I ask Google a single short six-grade-level question when nobody else is in
the room talking, and I'm not otherwise occupied by anythi... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Control your MacBook lights using Swift - maxmouchet
https://github.com/maxmouchet/LightKit
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cprayingmantis
This would be awesome if could model brightness around heat decay. Think about
it, each keyboard press adds would add a small amount of "heat" making the
keys brighter and brighter as you used the... | {
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CSS3 Ping Pong, with scoring - 19_ploT
http://cssdeck.com/labs/css3-pong-with-scoring
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jbackus
I hate to be the inevitable nitpicking HN commenter, but this doesn't work in
Firefox.
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freditup
I think these comments are relevant - can be kind of frustrating to try
something and wonder if you're just doing s... | {
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Caporal.js: Build Awesome CLI Apps with Node.js - mattallty
https://github.com/mattallty/Caporal.js
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dvdhnt
Hey Matthias, I often build CLI programs using Commander [1]. Caporal seems
very similar. Can you tell me why I'd choose your library over the
alternative? Thanks and congrats on the work so far.
1\. [htt... | {
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TextWrangler to Be Retired as Bare Bones Software Focuses Development on BBEdit - uladzislau
http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/
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xxdesmus
"BBEdit still exists?" said all the users of Atom, Sublime, or TextMate.
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in_cahoots
Textwrangler is the only option I've seen that can handle huge (>100 Mb)
... | {
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Ask HN: Google Voice as the main phone solution for a small business? - dhruvkar
We use Google Apps for our 15 person company. We currently get separate phone service from ATT/local VOIP provider. I was thinking about moving all of those lines to Google Voice as our primary number(s), to save cost. If you've... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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AES-256 Encryption Possibly Now Broken - technolo-g
http://yournewswire.com/encryption-security-may-not-be-secure-anymore/
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minimaxir
Er, the University of Toronto link to their press release doesn't work, and I
can't find any record of it ever existing on the Internet.
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kkirsche
It brings me to some confere... | {
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When fluid dynamics mimic quantum mechanics - jonbaer
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/when-fluid-dynamics-mimic-quantum-mechanics-0729.html
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theCatIsDead
This experiment should get way more attention, because it truly deserves it.
I'm glad someone finally put their minds toward destroying the mystery behind
... | {
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} |
Convey raises $4.5M Series A to improve your delivery experience - billhendricksjr
http://m.builtinaustin.com/2016/06/28/convey-raises-45-million-series-a
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billhendricksjr
Disclosure: These guys are my friends and Techstars batch mates.
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Are Men Better Risk-Takers Than Women? - mhalle
http://nautil.us/issue/48/chaos/the-hidden-sexism-of-how-we-think-about-risk
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steanne
previous discussion:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14366143](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14366143)
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Rethinking office space - cleverjake
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/02/rethinking-office-space.html
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kabouseng
Reminds me of the following passages from Masters of Doom[1]
"When the elevator doors finally opened into the penthouse, it felt as though
Romero was standing on top of the moon. The two-story, 22... | {
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} |
The Longest Photographic Exposures in History - stilist
http://itchyi.squarespace.com/thelatest/2010/7/20/the-longest-photographic-exposures-in-history.html
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bcl
Very interesting! With such long exposures how is it that it doesn't become
totally washed out and over-exposed? Is the pinhole aperture so small that
... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Grumman X-29: An impossible fighter jet with inverted wings - nwrk
http://edition.cnn.com/style/article/grumman-x-29-nasa-darpa-fighter-plane/index.html
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jaytaylor
Is this really called an "inverted wing", I've always heard such
configurations referred to as "forward swept wings".
For reference, see the Russian... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
RailsGirls and RailsBridge ban female developer - atom-morgan
https://medium.com/code-like-a-girl/a-women-developer-i-know-with-many-years-of-experience-decided-that-she-wanted-to-give-back-to-6857862cee0a#.d7uhpqszx
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GFK_of_xmaspast
From the comments, the banned person in question is a supporter of Milo Y. and
... | {
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} |
Ask HN: iPhone PKCS#11 SSH-key "SmartCard" over Bluetooth? - JoelJacobson
I would like to use my iPhone as a security token, to generate and store my SSH private keys.<p>Whenever I would like to connect to a remote server via SSH, the SSH program would communicate with the iPhone, requiring me to press a key on the ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Millions of Americans’ Medical Images and Data Are Available on the Internet - jph00
https://www.propublica.org/article/millions-of-americans-medical-images-and-data-are-available-on-the-internet
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zaroth
It sounds like the underlying cause in this particular case is a piece of
software is running an open port th... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Observations on Wikipedia Behavior (2008) - salutonmundo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Antandrus/observations_on_Wikipedia_behavior
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brigandish
This list strikes me as a long and not particularly well reasoned way of
justifying (to the writer themself, probably, but also to others) questionable
past and fut... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Botpress – Open-Source Bots Platform Written in JavaScript - slvnperron
https://github.com/botpress/botpress
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alongub
I didn't look into the product itself, but the idea is absolutely genius.
You should build an 'app store' for bots, just like
[https://wordpress.org/plugins/](https://wordpress.org/plug... | {
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} |
Introducing Linode Managed - remi
https://blog.linode.com/2013/05/29/introducing-linode-managed/
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orangethirty
I would like to know what steps they have taken to improve their security.
They have had serious security breaches in the last couple of months, and I
don't trust them any more.
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eli
I think that's ... | {
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How to get a traffic spike to your Web 2.0 App - dmytton
http://www.6zap.com/blog/?p=165
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jreposa
The KillerStartups requires a ton of information, so you have to be
comfortable giving all of that away.
It's more of an experiment though, since our traffic is already seeing a
steady uptick.
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Ask HN: Who is using Functional Programming in Production? - floppydisk
Looking through the last couple of Who is hiring threads, I've noticed most of the software stacks seem to revolve around a "web friendly" language such as Java, Python, or Ruby, a RDBMS, and extensive Javascript--with the occasional NoSQL or Scal... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Show HN: ProfilePerfecter "Your Online Wingwoman" - bennyfreshness
http://www.profileperfecter.com/
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dlikhten
Seeing as how this is on hacker news, are these "women" reviewing photos human
or part of our migration to look good for our robot overlords (all hail!)?
Because the latter would be so much more awesom... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The best 'growth hackers' don't talk about 'growth hacking' - buro9
http://soundboy.tumblr.com/post/79556644463/the-best-growth-hackers-dont-talk-about-growth
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HPLovecraft
this article is an MC Escher painting
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Recurring Revenue Securitization: the future of SaaS startup financing? - mikeberv
https://www.billiondollarstartupideas.com/ideas/recurring-revenue-securitization
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levi_23
How is this different from a zero-coupon bond? On pipe.com -
[https://www.pipe.com/help](https://www.pipe.com/help) they say -
"The discoun... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Flaring from Oil and Gas Development and Birth Outcomes in the Eagle Ford Shale - bookofjoe
https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EHP6394
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jeffbee
Pretty interesting. The association between nearness to oil wells (not flares)
is associated with a difference of 0.1 weeks of gestation, or 17 hours, and a
reduced b... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Review: Chasing Einstein - chmaynard
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=11298
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wwarner
This is a really great movie.
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
That 5G coronavirus conspiracy? It was me - samizdis
https://www.ft.com/content/58148406-79bc-11ea-9840-1b8019d9a987
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samizdis
De-paywalled: [https://archive.is/VlrBP](https://archive.is/VlrBP)
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} |
Microsoft's Cumulative Revenue Quietly Surpasses $1 Trillion - breitling
http://jeffreifman.com/2016/05/08/microsoft-revenue-quietly-surpasses-1-trillion/
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rrggrr
The excess funds Microsft and others are holding offshore needs to be
repatriated. There is too much dollar liquidity offshore helping US
competition,... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Hackerfeed – a cli to HackerNews - pratyushprakash
https://github.com/pratyushprakash/HackerFeed
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WM6v
If you want anyone to get interested, post screenshots or a gif in action.
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} |
UN privacy watchdog says 'little or no evidence' that mass surveillance works - neverminder
http://www.zdnet.com/article/un-privacy-rapporteur-says-little-or-no-evidence-that-surveillance-laws-work/
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bediger4000
oh, it works, just not for the ostensible purpose of "fighting terrorism" or
"fighting crime".
Clear... | {
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} |
Why Medium is the new ‘medium’? - coldshot
https://medium.com/@mahir/why-medium-is-the-new-medium-7052664c6df9
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gjmulhol
I think an important point that the author misses is that Medium is a blogging
platform for people who don't want to fill a whole blog. I had a blog of my
own and could never find the time o... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Tesla says its Model 3 car will go on sale on Friday - tdurden
https://apnews.com/9e7afbbfbc234b688032f7c4b37d5bbd/Tesla-says-its-Model-3-car-will-go-on-sale-on-Friday
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baybal2
Hmm, so back on track on the release timeline. I wonder did they manage to
make it with their custom cells?
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Five Coronavirus Themed Craft Projects - nixtaken
https://kirstenhacker.wordpress.com/2020/03/25/five-fabulous-coronavirus-themed-craft-projects/
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efreak
Why would a _dermatologist_ intubate you?
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masonic
For the same reason that someone positing a technical blog would host ads from
quackery products ("do th... | {
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} |
35 years ago today: the first domain name symbolics.com was registered - macittuna
https://dofo.com/symbolics.com
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greenyoda
RFC 882, which defined domain-style addressing, was released in 1983:
[https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc882](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc882)
There was domain-style addressing that pred... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Microsoft Withdraws Yahoo Bid; Walks Away From Deal - raghus
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/03/breaking-microsoft-walks/
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JohnN
Personally, if I was a Yahoo shareholder I would be calling up my lawyers to
start suing the Yahoo board. Financially this deal is clearly good for
shareholders coming at a 60% premi... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Is anybody still using Windows 95? - vishnuharidas
https://www.quora.com/Is-anybody-still-using-Windows-95-in-2019/answer/Thomas-Tydal?share=1
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ajford
When I was still working at Arecibo Observatory, there was definitely a couple
systems running Win95 that were considered data critical. And they were still
runni... | {
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} |
A podcast that hacks Ring camera owners live - pulisse
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3bbq4/podcast-livestreams-hacked-ring-cameras-nulledcast
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kick
It's obviously bad to hack into a citizen's systems without consent, but
there's some kind of value that might be created here.
Ring cameras are basically bei... | {
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Deploying a Group Messaging app in 48 hours w/ Heroku+Twilio+Resque... on a Bus - choxi
http://getshotput.tumblr.com/post/3793040171/we-deployed-a-group-messaging-startup-in-48-hours-using
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choxi
Vote for us to win the StartupBus competition:
<http://startupbus.com/teams/59-shotput>
We'll promise to be your f... | {
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Faucet-pipeline – a framework-independent, pluggable asset pipeline - mcp_
https://www.faucet-pipeline.org/
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rane
Have recently used parcel[1] in multiple personal and work related projects to
solve the same problem, and honestly, it's a joy compared to the webpack
configuration hell.
The key feature is that yo... | {
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Motorola sues Apple for patent infringement - anderzole
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/67113
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bradleyland
Reminds me of GLOBAL THERMONUCLEAR WAR. Did no one run the simulations before
firing off the first suit?
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anderzole
would you like to play a game?
~~~
narrator
Yeah it's called prisoner's ... | {
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Show HN: Open Paperless 2 – Scan, OCR, and catalog all your paper documents - zhoubear
https://demo.openpaperless.com/#/home/
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aminoson
Found another post from the creator's of Mayan regarding commercial forks.
"Commercial involvement with Mayan is not a problem at all, it is encouraged
and the license was chan... | {
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Ask YC: Story for Forbes - What really happens when your startup fails? - wschroter
The last few inquiries I did on HN for Forbes stories had great results. Would love to hear from you guys on this one...<p>I'm writing a story for Forbes about what really happens when your startup company fails. I need to hear fro... | {
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Ask HN: Locked out of Google services with no recourse or explanation - nikkwong
It's probably the fifth time this week that I've gotten the message in gmail:<p>"Unusual Usage - Account Temporarily Locked Down"<p>"To keep our systems healthy, Google has temporarily disabled your account. This ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How to compensate sweat equity? - OpenWebU
I had several would-be technical co-founders. They ended up quitting after putting in only a month - 3 months of work in exchange for equity. In most cases, they delivered some but not all that they promised. The agreements were done on a handshake.<p>I worked on the pro... | {
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} |
Apple releases iphone-cf - grease
http://apple-cf.com
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itg
yes, it is a prank by the yes men <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yes_Men>
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_raghu
It looks like an elaborate prank!
~~~
Splines
Looks likely. Whois information on the domain doesn't match apple.com.
edit: Plus, their search box redirects to... | {
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} |
The Day We Fought Back: By The Numbers - sinak
https://thedaywefightback.org/the-results/
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suprgeek
The NY times article got a very basic point wrong.
Q: How do you judge the success of the campaign to raise awareness by calling
congress people?
A: By the number of calls/contacts made. Instead they compared it... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How can people with ties to anti-privacy software switch to FOSS? - crusader1099
Many of us use social media and other online services significantly in our lives. Many of us are FOSS/privacy advocates who have made the difficult switch to only using such software. Some of us (including myself) are somewhe... | {
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Planet Money Tracks Down the Inventor of the Open Office - ohjeez
http://www.npr.org/2016/05/27/479696596/planet-money-tracks-down-the-inventor-of-the-open-office
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okket
Really thought it was about
[http://www.openoffice.org/](http://www.openoffice.org/)
But it's about offices without cubicles aka train statio... | {
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Why I loved building Basecamp for iPhone in RubyMotion - johnmwilliams
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3432
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sandofsky
I spent four years developing Ruby full time. The last few years, I've been
doing iOS full time, and there's no way I'd add a third-party layer to my app.
If you want to ship a high quality iOS ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Do you have any projects you'd like input or collaboration on? - LockAndLol
I'm sure some of you have projects you've been working on alone and wouldn't mind some input on. Maybe you're good at algorithms, but suck at UI or the inverse? Maybe you'd just like some constructive criticism... | {
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Ask HN: Why are threads about the Major Event today being shadow-banned? - carsongross
I get that this is not a technical thing, but neither was the highly-discussed article on drug legalization:<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11330587<p>I believe there was a thread on the U.S. and Paris attacks... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The unlikely resurgence of Dungeons and Dragons - gscott
https://www.inlander.com/spokane/nearly-45-years-after-its-creation-a-fantasy-game-played-with-paper-pencil-and-dice-is-having-its-biggest-year-yet-in-the-inland-northwest-a/Content?oid=15615918
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hellepardo
My friends and I play D&D because we have no real... | {
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} |
Unofficial uBeam FAQ - 7Figures2Commas
http://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/the-ubeam-faq/
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DarthMader
[https://twitter.com/meredithperry](https://twitter.com/meredithperry)
Looks like Meredith Perry read this article too judging by her latest tweet
storm even though she said yesterday she would be going dark ... | {
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} |
Russian firm Orbital Technologies reveals space hotel plans - Technophilis
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2026534/Commercial-Space-Station-Russian-firm-Orbital-Technologies-reveals-hotel-plans.html
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iwwr
How will they reduce the costs of putting someone in orbit from $30-40mil like
it is today?
... | {
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} |
Show HN: My first project, Music Snob - brycecolquitt
http://musicsnob.me/
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brycecolquitt
So, I just recently taught myself HTML & CSS, and this is my first project.
It's a simple site for people who like indie music--you can subscribe to a
list for 16 bucks and get emailed a new artist everyday. I'm doing pa... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
MinUnit - unit testing in 3 lines of C - gnosis
http://www.jera.com/techinfo/jtns/jtn002.html
======
lukesandberg
I have actually used a slightly modified version of this recently. I added a
few things to track line numbers and some more standardized output formatting.
you can see it here:
[https://github.com/lukes... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Automatically Blackballed - ovechtrick
http://www.designcrumbs.com/automatically-blackballed
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Cogito
Just to be clear, this article is about why a wordpress theme maker is not
allowed to participate at a wordpress conference because they are (through a
proxy site ThemeForest) selling their themes with licensin... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
NSA-Proof Your Email Without Encryption - rxl
http://ryaneshea.com/you-dont-need-to-encrypt-your-email
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bowmessage
What about the interception of the email as it travels through the ISPs? Won't
the NSA still grab a copy as it's sent? I thought that was the whole idea of
PRISM.
~~~
rxl
When the email is sent, ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What would appreciate in value... - hella
most of 300 years? For instance, if I could leave something buried beneath my home today for my great-great-great-great grandson to find, what would make him wealthiest?<p>My current best answer: a portfolio of government bonds from all the major countries. (Or perha... | {
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} |
Are you sure you want to become a programmer? - cgrusden
http://coreygrusden.tumblr.com/post/45542279455/are-you-sure-you-want-to-become-a-programmer
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whitcrrd
shut up.
~~~
cgrusden
Why?
| {
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What is the probability that gcd(n,m)=1? - hhm
http://primes.utm.edu/notes/relprime.html
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andrewf
Handy take on this: <http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/?p=23>
~~~
michael_dorfman
That was very cool-- a CAPTCHA that uses number theory to calculate Pi as a
side effect.....
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henning
One of the oddest thing... | {
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Things You Love are Made with Code - yawz
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/06/things-you-love-are-made-with-code.html
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colmvp
I'm curious, are there growing initiatives to make every career gender/race
balanced? Because it seems like we're fixated on getting female representation
in computer/mathematical oc... | {
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} |
The hard truths of climate change – by the numbers - rblion
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-019-02711-4
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remotecool
The US is only 15% of total emissions. Even if we had 0 emissions, countries
like China and India would still be ruining the planet.
The problem is that many ideas for curbing climate chan... | {
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} |
Engineers put Leonardo da Vinci’s bridge design to the test - fraqed
http://news.mit.edu/2019/leonardo-da-vinci-bridge-test-1010
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spydum
better link from the mit folks working on project:
[http://news.mit.edu/2019/leonardo-da-vinci-bridge-
test-1010](http://news.mit.edu/2019/leonardo-da-vinci-bridge-test-1010)
... | {
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} |
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