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Redis+VM Considered Harmful - supporting
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/redis-db/ZTSm-1w-6AQ
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samstokes
While I've experienced some of the same issues as the author, and came to the
same conclusion (that we couldn't use Redis in VM mode in production), the
subject line is unfairly alarmist.
We are us... | {
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Star-Mapping Algorithm for Hubble Helps Researchers Keep Tabs on Rare Animals - hownottowrite
http://www.nasa.gov/offices/oct/home/tech_life_animals.html
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jcr
Here's the original paper: "A pattern-matching algorithm for two-dimensional
coordinate lists" by E. J. Groth, 1986
[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1986... | {
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A ‘Bright Light,’ Dimmed in the Shadows of Homelessness - dankohn1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/03/nyregion/nyc-homeless-nakesha-mental-illness.html
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dankohn1
'Ms. Dickinson, now a social worker, said that every day she walked by people
“who are going through trauma and adversity.”
“You never know — you neve... | {
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} |
Tulsa Teacher discovers calculus flaw - Buttons840
http://www.tulsatoday.com/2019/04/11/tulsa-teacher-discovers-flaw-in-calculus/
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gmiller123456
Unfortunately the article is kind of idiotic, the actual paper [1] has nothing
to do with discovering a newly discovered flaw. As the paper's author even
says, many stu... | {
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Have U.S. Automakers Built the Wrong Cars at the Wrong Time — Again? - ideas101
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2012
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mechanical_fish
It's tempting to blame the U.S. automakers for being shortsighted... but,
really, when gas prices in the USA were (and _still are_ , believe it or not)
... | {
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Amazon EC2 Running IBM Now Available - agotterer
http://aws.amazon.com/ibm/
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ShabbyDoo
This is a great signal to Amazon AWS customers that EC2 is endorsed for large
enterprise use. I'm not saying that it is ready or that it's actually
endorsed. However, that's what Blue shops will think.
I wonder if existing ... | {
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} |
A better way to decide “Where for lunch?” with Sujjest - SujjestJeff
https://medium.com/@sujjest/a-better-way-to-decide-where-for-lunch-5e4bd157a0a4
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dustinmoris
Soon we are going to have an app for everything.
1\. First we will be using an app to find friends.
2\. Then another app to message friends.
3\. The... | {
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Looks like an attack against DNS Root Servers, yesterday morning - suixo
https://atlas.ripe.net/dnsmon/?dnsmon.session.color_range_pls=0-10-10-75-100&dnsmon.session.exclude-errors=true&dnsmon.type=zone-servers&dnsmon.zone=root&dnsmon.startTime=1448858400&dnsmon.endTime=1448876400&dnsmon.ipVersion=both
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dest
Give... | {
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Scientists Discover Potent Antibiotic - ghosh
http://www.wsj.com/articles/scientists-discover-new-antibiotic-a-potential-weapon-against-a-range-of-diseases-1420654892#b01g14t20w15
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mrob
Previous discussion:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8852487](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8852487)
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AudioKit V3 Swift Audio Framework Has Awesome Xcode Playgrounds - aure
http://audiokit.io/playgrounds/
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marvel_boy
Great! AudioKit for Objective-C was awesome. And now for Swift, with
playgrounds, eager to test !
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discohead
Where are the playgrounds?
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discohead
nevermind, found 'em...
[https://github.... | {
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Use Linux to fix a dead computer - abennett
http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/95275/use-linux-fix-a-dead-computer
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cylinder714
My current favorite Linux LiveCD is Grml (<http://grml.org/>), a Debian-based
distro. It's like Knoppix without KDE, Gnome, OpenOffice.org, et cetera (but
with X Windows), and wit... | {
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Tech Protester in Kiev Badly Beaten, Journalist Killed, As ‘IT Tent’ Is Burned - swohns
http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/19/tech-protester-in-kiev-badly-beaten-journalist-killed-as-it-tent-is-burned-by-police/
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bayesianhorse
What I don't fully understand and what is missing from media coverage so far
is how the Ukr... | {
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} |
How the Recession Reshaped the Economy, in 255 Charts (2014) - Kortaggio
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/06/05/upshot/how-the-recession-reshaped-the-economy-in-255-charts.html
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smackay
A very interesting set of graphs but it takes quite a bit of time to digest
the information presented. The most interest... | {
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An Empirical Study on Crash Recovery Bugs in Large-Scale Distributed Systems - mad44
http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2019/01/paper-review-empirical-study-on-crash.html
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nickpsecurity
"Almost all (97%) of crash recovery bugs involve no more than four nodes. This
finding indicates that we can detect crash recover... | {
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} |
Cache Organization in Intel CPUs (2009) - jxub
http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/intel-cpu-caches/
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etep
I had wondered, why are the L1 caches not growing, while L2 and L3 capacities
continue to grow: a significant limitation on L1 cache size is actually the
fixed tradeoff between associativity, page size (i.... | {
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Ask HN: What to use for a mobile based HTML app? - ma2rten
What framework would you recommend to build a quick prototype for a mobile app using HTML5? In the past I have used jquery mobile. Now I was contemplating on using Angular or ember.js in combination with bootstrap. What are your experiences?<p>The most impor... | {
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Craig Wright registers US copyright in Bitcoin 0.1 and the Bitcoin white paper - davidgerard
https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2019/05/21/craig-wright-registers-us-copyright-in-bitcoin-0-1-and-the-bitcoin-white-paper-what-this-means/
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londons_explore
Unless he can sign something with the keys from the genesis... | {
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Was Eric Schmidt attempting to warn us of PRISM in 2009? - greendestiny
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Schmidt#Privacy
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snowwrestler
No. It has always been true that federal law enforcement can gain access to
your data at Google (or any other company) with a valid warrant.
The revelation with Prism is how ... | {
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Show HN: lsys - realtime lsystems on canvas - benvan
http://benvan.co.uk/lsys
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karangb
Absolutely stunning!
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alexmic
This is awesome!
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Intel to take stake in German mapping firm HERE in automated driving push - ramxtr
https://www.yahoo.com/news/intel-seeking-indirect-stake-mapping-firm-german-cartel-104141946--finance.html?ref=gs
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ForHackernews
HERE is a great option for offline navigation on Android.
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LordWinstanley
...except you can't imp... | {
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Automatic Keyword Extraction from Text - jisaacso
http://blog.urx.com/urx-blog/2015/10/13/keyword-finder-automatic-keyword-extraction-from-text
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timClicks
The code's available too:
[https://github.com/lvsh/keywordfinder](https://github.com/lvsh/keywordfinder)
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PaulHoule
If you want to make it across the "... | {
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A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to $1750 per month - lpellegr
https://medium.com/@contact_16315/firebase-costs-increased-by-7-000-81dc0a27271d
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flipp3r
Reminds me of getting Bait-and-Switch'd by Google App Engine in 2011. From
10's of euros to 1000's.
> They have no phone number to contact... | {
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Yes, We Were Warned About Ebola - ColinWright
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/08/opinion/yes-we-were-warned-about-ebola.html
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ColinWright
Quoting from the article:
Part of the problem is that none of these articles were
co-written by a Liberian scientist. The investigators
colle... | {
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} |
MooTools and Sizzle - bdfh42
http://ajaxian.com/archives/mootools-and-sizzle
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teej
Valerio has always been a man to stick to his guns, so this isn't all that
surprising.
| {
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My web app died from performance bankruptcy - feross
https://tonsky.me/blog/chrome-intervention/
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boublepop
I remember back when IE was the standard, and the majority of webpages where
broken messes because Microsoft didn’t care about standards and only had their
own interests in mind. Then Pheonix (now firefox)... | {
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} |
Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 is the most stable mobile phone OS - Garbage
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/cell-phones/microsofts-windows-phone-7-is-the-most-stable-mobile-phone-os/6456
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glimcat
_I have been using Windows Phone 7 since July 2010 and can say without a doubt
that Windows Phone 7 has been the most stable... | {
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} |
A short history of Zhvandun, Afghanistan's lost magazine - vidarh
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-42878241
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pradn
I just made a wiki article for this magazine. Please add any info you might
know.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhvandun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhvandun)
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acdha
If you want to ... | {
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The caretakers of Sealand, the most stubborn micronation - stevekemp
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/caretakers-of-sealand
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Semaphor
Less detailed, but Wikipedia has a nice overview [0] of some things this only
glossed over:
> In August 1978, Alexander Achenbach, who describes himself as the Prime
> Minis... | {
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The President Doesn't Like Broccoli and Mark Zuckerberg Doesn't Like Privacy - nickmolnar2
http://senses.thirdi.com/posts/3422-dear-paparazzi-mark-zuckerberg-wants-to-be-your-muse/
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nickmolnar2
I'm 23, so I just have no idea if my freewheeling views on privacy are going
to turn around to bite me in the ass lat... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
North Korea Learned from Libya War to Never Give Up Nukes - user982
https://theintercept.com/2017/07/29/dan-coats-north-korea-nukes-nuclear-libya-regime-change/
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arcanus
And they are correct. We encouraged quddafi to give up his program, lifted
sanctions, and then pushed him into a corner at the first opportunit... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Riot.js – A 1kb client-side MVP framework - tipiirai
https://moot.it/blog/technology/riotjs-the-1kb-mvp-framework.html
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jashkenas
While I'd usually prefer to be nice in the mornings ... starting off with
those benchmarks got my goat. So.
This sort of thing is a _beautiful_ demonstration of marketing, big promis... | {
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Ping-API – Automated API Testing and Monitoring - somecoder
https://ping-api.com/
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jkarneges
It would be nice to know how this compares to Runscope.
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Marat_Dukhan
Wow, this is very nice! I use UptimeRobot for one of my projects, and it took
me several hours to set up the tests there. And now I configured ... | {
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Ask HN: Can you help me find a junior ML job? - birewlk
Hello HN, I'm new around here, but from what I've heard, this is the place to be.<p>So long story short, I'm a bit down on my luck these days job-wise, so I thought I'd see if anyone here could help. My background is in quantum mechanics. I ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Nintendo Plunges After Saying Pokemon Go’s Impact Is Limited - hereonbusiness
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-25/nintendo-set-to-plunge-after-saying-pokemon-go-s-impact-limited
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Cookingboy
So everyone understands that the short term downloads/revenue would NOT
justify the crazy increase in market ... | {
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} |
Writing a thesis in a Nazi concentration camp - rhezab
https://www.dropbox.com/s/odhke8lblkxnl1n/Roothaan.pdf?dl=0
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rhezab
My Life as a Physicist, by Clemens Roothaan. Incredible story about doing
physics in a Nazi concentration camp, surviving said concentration camp, and
his career at Chicago. A lot is left un... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Gestimer – For little reminders during the day - daralthus
http://maddin.io/gestimer/
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jbrooksuk
I use OSX every day, but I immediately thought that this was a Ubuntu app
because of the wallpaper colours and dark mode used in the screenshots and
demo.
Although the gesture to set the time is super cool, how pr... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Bill Gates Deletes Facebook account - aston
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article778162.ece
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theoneill
Looks like you _can_ delete your account if you have sufficient connections.
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rms
I'd be surprised if he really deleted it and didn't just do the "suspend"
option Facebook has.
| {
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Show HN: The Wishler, an online wishlist - johnnycarcin
https://thewishler.com/
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johnnycarcin
Submitter/Creator here, just wanted to note that this was created to fill a
void my family and I needed but I thought others might find it useful. Of
course I used the opportunity to learn some new technologies and play... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Developing a recurring payments system, what do I need to consider? - ericb
I'm starting work on the payments portion of our saas load testing app. My partner and I have been dogfooding our app for a while on our own load test consulting gigs and we're at the point where we want to roll it out. The app is wr... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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NPM proxy users receiving ERR 418 I'm a teapot - spondyl
https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/20791
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iends
2 hours after the incident was responded to by an npm employee and the status
is still green: [https://status.npmjs.org/](https://status.npmjs.org/)
I love fake status pages!
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wxuan
Overall, the system is... | {
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} |
Web Apps Are the Future - bpierre
http://www.sitepoint.com/long-live-web-app/
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bikamonki
It won't happen for 3 reasons: 1\. Performance: web apps run on top of at
least two additional layers. 2\. Features: OS makers will never make device
features fully available to web apps in order to protect its users from
ma... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Does anyone use the Amazon Mechanical Turk API? - gcv
I'm working on a project that relies on a human workforce to perform some simple image identification tasks. AWS Turk seemed to fit the requirements pretty well, and I have the basics working with externally-hosted tasks.<p>Does anyone here actually use Tur... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Short mobile LeetCode-like challenges in game-like app with leaderboard - edsioufi
https://solvefaction.com/
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edsioufi
My friend Gunar and I are building this app we call SolveFaction.
As devs, we know that coding interview problems are not easy. Especially when
it's been a while. There's really only o... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Higgins Boat: Wood, Steel, and Purpose - smacktoward
http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/the-higgins-boat-wood-steel-and-purpose
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rjsw
The Normandy landings were not in the Bay of Biscay.
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stoolpigeon
It's funny because Operation Ironside - the operation to trick the Germans was
intended to get the Germ... | {
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} |
Virtual reality affects men and women differently - killwhitey
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2014/04/03/is-the-oculus-rift-sexist.html
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GuiA
An advisor for a startup where I used to work at worked heavily with VR
systems in the 80s/90s. I was having coffee with her a year or so ago, when I
had just r... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Announcing d-note: A Self Destructing Notes Application - jimmcslim
https://pthree.org/?p=3442
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jimmcslim
The author is hosting the application at
[https://ae7.st/d/](https://ae7.st/d/)
| {
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Rubygems.org AWS bill for Feb 2014 [pdf] - vbrendel
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3v13d2g8klwer3d/AWS%20-%20RubyCentral%20-%20Feb2014.pdf
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evanphx
I thought I'd answer some of your questions, as the person that pays the bill.
1\. This can be cheaper on AWS. We've been meaning to move to reserve
instances, paying a ... | {
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} |
No, negative masses have not revolutionized cosmology - benwr
http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2018/12/no-negative-masses-have-not.html
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mbell
I'm not a physicist, just an interested bystander but some of these arguments
don't seem to hold water to me:
> There’s a more general point to be made here. The primary... | {
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} |
Another Oil Crash Is Coming, and There May Be No Recovery - Stefan333
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-24/another-oil-crash-is-coming-and-there-may-be-no-recovery
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jhugg
I look at electric scooters vs gas scooters in Asia as a template. At some
point in the past 5-7 years, they just took off, and s... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
HSTS Preload lists cause Chromium to think http://google/ is a valid domain - coderobe
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=698660
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Animats
I warned about this back when all those new TLDs were being considered.
Single-word TLDs are not properly supported in browsers, in DNS, or even at
the glib... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
PagerDuty Files Confidentially for IPO - J253
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-15/software-maker-pagerduty-is-said-to-file-confidentially-for-ipo
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ravedave5
Having one team on victorOps and the other on Pagerduty I can say that
pagerduty has better UI and mobile app. The scheduling UI in vitorOps ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What open source projects are you contributing to? - giuscri
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sshykes
Gorm [https://github.com/jinzhu/gorm](https://github.com/jinzhu/gorm)
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Why Are Women Under-Represented in Physics? - andrenth
https://quillette.com/2019/04/16/why-are-women-under-represented-in-physics/
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neya
I'm not saying this to stir up some kind of controversy. But, I think it's
wrong to silence him simply because we don't agree with him. He presented
data, some efforts to supp... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Startup Australia - dtalic
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130314130000-921366-startup-australia
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jacques_chester
A lot of the VC funds that have launched in the past few years are actually
seeded by government funds. Not a model that lends itself to genuine risk
taking.
Just imagine the headlines:... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Why the Facebook Instagram Purchase Was Worth Every Penny - justinireland
http://justinireland.com/how-facebook-could-dominate-advertising-and-why-the-instagram-purchase-was-worth-every-penny/
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justinireland
I've been sitting on this theory for a couple of years but finally got around
to writing about it. The ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How to Jumpstart the Economy - Tax Free Small Businesses - drm237
http://www.blogmaverick.com/2008/07/28/how-to-jumpstart-the-economy-tax-free-small-businesses/
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moocha
This will positively not work.
I live in Romania. Starting 1999 (IIRC) and ending 2006, there has been some
very similar legislation in effec... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
He Has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere to Sell Them - danso
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/technology/coronavirus-purell-wipes-amazon-sellers.html
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crazygringo
On the one hand, I'm a big believer in the market, and that rising costs in
times of scarcity prevent individuals from buying more than ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
DeGoogle My Life - app4soft
https://homehack.nl/degoogle-my-life/
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Jaruzel
Every time I read one of these articles about cutting Google out, it becomes
quickly apparent that the author uses the internet primarily as an
entertainment or social platform which isn't my use case.
I'm old school, I use the internet ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The SF Anti-Mask League of 1919 - 9nGQluzmnq3M
https://mobile.twitter.com/timkmak/status/1251936242834563073
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accountinhn
If anyone is interested here is report published in 2007 by St.louis Federal
Reserve about the 1918 Flu pandemic.
[https://www.stlouisfed.org/~/media/files/pdfs/community-
deve...](https://w... | {
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} |
Off the Chart - revorad
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/16/opinion/16douthat.html?_r=1&hp
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revorad
OT: Is that a Google Chrome _advertisement_ at the top?
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IT infrastructure strategies for startups - brunowassermann
If you have a bunch of developers and designers all hacking away on their laptops, what are the different options and pros/cons for backups, shared file storage, etc? Is it better to set up your own file servers, version control servers, email servers, impl... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Python and Flask Are Powerful - nichochar
http://jeffknupp.com/blog/2014/01/18/python-and-flask-are-ridiculously-powerful/
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freyr
Python and Flask are great, but the secret ingredient here seems to be Stripe.
His goal was payment processing, and Stripe made everything else nearly
trivial.
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lurchpop
Agreed. T... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
SeaMicro builds box with 512 Atom CPUs - mckilljoy
http://gigaom.com/2010/01/06/seamicros-secret-server-changes-computing-economics/
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pmjordan
I'm not really sure what real need they're trying to fill here. A single Atom
core has a TDP of around 4W, performance-wise it's at about 10% of a mid range
Core2 Duo, ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Navy Got 'UFO' Patent Granted by Warning of Similar Chinese Tech Advances - svd4anything
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28729/docs-show-navy-got-ufo-patent-granted-by-warning-of-similar-chinese-tech-advances
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Abishek_Muthian
>(HAUC), which can function as a submersible craft capable of extreme
underwater ... | {
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} |
No/reduced alcohol leads to increased productivity - davidlbatey
http://davidbatey.com/productivity-hack/2013/09/20/no-alcohol-leads-to-healthier-more-productive-lifestyle.html
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jmduke
_Now more importantly let’s look at the time saved. No code shipped on the
evenings where drinking occurs (loss of 4 hours eac... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Furatto v2.0 Release - #trySimplicity - kurenn88
http://icalialabs.github.io/furatto/index.html
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storm_kid
Great job man, this is way much better than Bootstrap!!
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kurenn88
Thanks dude, I'll keep working, tell me how it goes!
| {
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Specialize or Generalize a firm? - cmorgan8506
I've been tossing around the idea of expanding from single contracting/freelance to a consulting firm. I'm curious what HN thinks of a firm specializing in one particular language/framework. Would that narrow the playing field too much?<p>I know specializing as a freela... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Fractional calculus - ertug
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_calculus
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drbaskin
I find it hard to believe that the article on fractional differentiation only
briefly mentions the Fourier transform. For functions on R^n with vanishing
integral (or periodic functions on R^n with vanishing integral), the F... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
SaaS marketing & customer acquisition - Rezal
What is your experience with customer acquisition and marketing for SaaS? What are the Dos and Donts?
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Rezal
I found these links which I found being very useful: 7 Non-Obvious SaaS
Startup Lessons From HubSpot
[http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/13320/SaaS-101-7-Si... | {
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A new book on the lack of rigor in biomedical science - tmd83
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/how-sloppy-science-creates-worthless-cures-and-wastes-billions/
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nonbel
From this description I wouldn't buy this book. It is focusing on a bunch of
minor issues rather than the main problem. Biomed researchers ... | {
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} |
You Want to Know Who America Is, Pay Attention to Who She Was - Karishma1234
https://medium.com/s/story/we-are-on-repeat-america-9700f5672b05
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masonic
"As early as the 18th century, Benjamin Franklin railed against allowing
Germans into the country, calling them ignorant, lazy, and a danger to the
Anglo way of b... | {
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China Expands Surveillance of Sewage to Police Illegal Drug Use - craftyguy
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/china-expands-surveillance-of-sewage-to-police-illegal-drug-use/
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Sami_Lehtinen
Dupe, discussion:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17546979](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17546979)
| {
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MySpace: Hot or Not? - charzom
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/myspace_hot_or_not.php
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Goladus
_Next, let's take a look at random MySpace profiles to see how active they
are. Personally, I find it mind boggling that people can be looking at these
ugly and disorganized pages, but there is no mistaking it: ... | {
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} |
Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO - stellar678
https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2014/04/brendan-eich-steps-down-as-mozilla-ceo/
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pvnick
Really unfortunate that this happened to someone as nice and competent as
Eich. His leadership would have held amazing things for Mozilla, the open web,
javascript, rust, all... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Can someone help with Iptables and MySQL replication? - ItsWinterHello
I have two machines.<p>Machine 1: Front-end/Webserver (Nginx), Slave DB (IP example: slavedb.1.1.1)
Machine 2: Master DB (IP example: masterdb.1.1.1)<p>When iptables rules are removed, replication between master-slave (MySQL) works ... | {
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} |
Can someone break my weak home-brew encryption? - cool-RR
http://blog.ram.rachum.com/post/45762666705/can-someone-break-my-weak-home-brew-encryption
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ColinWright
One single, lonely piece of ciphertext is probably perfectly safe. Home-brew
encryption becomes a problem when arbitrary plain-text can be enciphered... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Favorite HN threads of all time - cellis
Have any Hacker News threads ever truly changed your perspective on life, or technology? Post them please.
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jacquesm
This should be a good starting point:
<http://remembersaurus.com/askhn.html>
There are boatloads of good content in there, plenty of which have t... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Announcing The Zig Software Foundation - kristoff_it
https://ziglang.org/news/announcing-zig-software-foundation.html
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PaulDavisThe1st
When I looked into starting an official non-profit around the Ardour
([https://ardour.org/](https://ardour.org/)) project, I was a little
disappointed to find out how much succes... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: LinCV – transform LinkedIn profile to printable CV in 5 seconds - calmchaos
https://alternativeto.net/software/lincv/
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piperswe
I just tried to use this extension on my LinkedIn profile and the generated CV
shows my name and LinkedIn link as someone else entirely... If you'd like to
debug, my LinkedIn i... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Microsoft Bans Slack After Slack's IPO Success - TechFinder
https://medium.com/futuresin/microsoft-teams-has-lost-to-slack-a02dd93e66a3
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writepub
This is a bit of a surprise, as the new Microsoft seemed to move past
prettiness, and embrace customer centricity.
Curious how Microsoft Teams can rip-off Slack's fea... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Youngsters keeping traditional trades alive - DanBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-42441366
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chiph
The homeowners in Charleston SC found that in the aftermath of Hurricane Hugo
in 1989, the craft skills weren't available to repair their historic homes. So
a group got together and founded the American Colle... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
An Introvert’s Guide to Friendship - tysone
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/01/opinion/sunday/an-introverts-guide-to-friendship.html
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qnsi
Love the misleading title
| {
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} |
What Ray Ozzie Didn't Tell You About Microsoft Azure - twampss
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/03/dziuba_azure/
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kleneway
"Let's say you're a business decision maker, and you got yourself on this
cloud computing kick. Who would you rather buy your cloud resources from?
1\. A company whose main business i... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Parasite: Firebug, but for GTK+ applications - ashitlerferad
https://chipx86.github.io/gtkparasite/
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fithisux
Amazing.
| {
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} |
Ask HN: Best office chair for home office work? - vuln
I'm looking for an office chair that I can spend 6-10 hours a day in. Looking to spend under $500 if possible but I am open to suggestions. I really wish there was a service that I could test out an office chair for two weeks and return if it doesn't not... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
San Jose State suspends online courses - ilamont
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/San-Jose-State-suspends-online-courses-4672870.php
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jimhefferon
I often read statements on this site that are like "I'm a super-motivated,
highly-performing driven person and I ought to be able to take Artificial
Intelligence f... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
86 Mac Plus Vs. 07 AMD DualCore. You Won't Believe Who Wins - gibsonf1
http://hubpages.com/hub/_86_Mac_Plus_Vs_07_AMD_DualCore_You_Wont_Believe_Who_Wins
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lupin_sansei
"Evan says: Maybe it goes without saying, but I think it's reasonable to say
that what people consider "basic everyday functions" have evolved eno... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Any open source alternatives to intercom.io? - bossx
intercom.io is excellent, but can be quite costly for a startup. Anyone know of any open source alternatives?
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drl42
Serious question: What would you be willing to pay for Intercom? Which
features would you use the most?
Intercom is a cross between a ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Less Turbulence on Delta Flights? - jsiminoff
https://thepointsguy.com/news/this-is-the-reason-you-arent-feeling-as-much-turbulence-on-delta-flights/
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ginkgotree
General aviation pilot here. I fly a bonanza in the flight levels regularly.
There are plenty more data sources than just PIREPS, even in general aviat... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
What China Has Been Building in the South China Sea - anonu
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/30/world/asia/what-china-has-been-building-in-the-south-china-sea.html
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timiblossom
The building to convert reef to island is one of the first steps to claim the
entire Southeast-Asia sea by China. It will then... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Seattle company allows you to rent goat herds to clear brush - MikeCapone
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/10/rent-a-ruminant-goats-clearing-brush-photos-before-and-after.php
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quant18
But do the goats have union cards?
No seriously, that was a problem when they did this in California:
[http://nl.newsbank.... | {
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} |
Apple Has Hundreds Working on an Electric Car Design - prateekj
http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/13/apple-car/
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feld
I'm not sure a minivan is going to capture their target audience.
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Matheus28
And you thought Teslas were expensive, just wait for it...
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} |
Google Should Buy Twitter Before The IPO - ssclafani
http://uncrunched.com/2013/10/24/google-should-buy-twitter-before-the-ipo/
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adamnemecek
I don't get these sorts of articles. The author did not present any sort of
argument beyond the implied "because it would be cool". Does he actually think
that at no point ... | {
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} |
USPTO invalidates key Apple patent used against Samsung - eljaco
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57560112-37/uspto-invalidates-key-apple-patent-used-against-samsung/
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Bill_Dimm
It's nice to see the USPTO strike down trivial patents, but it would be a
whole lot nicer if it were done before millions of dollars... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Teach me to think like an engineer - interpares
A few years ago I often heard this advice: go to law school, because it will teach you how to think. Nowadays I keep hearing, reading or experiencing for myself that law school has been replaced with engineering, with many pundits citing someone's backgrou... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Google targets elderly? - evilslut82
Google increased font size on search box? Why?
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est
See [http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/now-s-u-p-e-r-
sized.h...](http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/now-s-u-p-e-r-sized.html)
A little (maybe) inside story here
Believe it or not, I guess Google globally adjust... | {
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} |
Peter Thiel Has Been Funding Hulk Hogan's Lawsuits Against Gawker - dogecoinbase
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2016/05/24/this-silicon-valley-billionaire-has-been-secretly-funding-hulk-hogans-lawsuits-against-gawker/#fa8140778057
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bronz
gawker put tesla on a death watch. they exploited their struggle and
h... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Google Meet is free. Here’s how to master its most useful features - praveenscience
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/how-to-use-google-meet
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Kjeldahl
Requiring people to have a Google account or similar is probably the primary
reason why competitors such as Zoom had any chance to begin with. They can
call it a se... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
NASA will send a balloon the size of a football field to study how stars form - pseudolus
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/27/us/nasa-balloon-asthros-scn-trnd/index.html
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RunningDroid
NASA's press release:
[https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7712](https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7712)
| {
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Ask HN: Does back end or front end bring more value to the company? - onmyway133
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davelnewton
Depends on what the two ends are doing.
For example, an ML back-end is probably more valuable than the front end,
because that's the meat of the business. A portfolio site designed expressly
for viewing is little more t... | {
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} |
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