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HTTP Intermediary Layer From Google Could Dramatically Speed Up the Web - spahl
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/12/1943254/HTTP-Intermediary-Layer-From-Google-Could-Dramatically-Speed-Up-the-Web
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jacquesm
The quickest way for a 'dramatic' speedup of the web is to install an ad
blocker.
Also, 'dramatic' s... | {
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Music video with WebGL shader overlay (control by mouse/webcam) - bemmu
http://www.justareflektor.com/
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Antwan
"For best perf we recommend Google Chrome". 2015.
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pan69
Welcome to the new IE era, Chrome only websites..
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Ask HN: What about short term contracts instead of FTE for non-entrepreneurs? - amiuba
It seems that full time employment isn't for me, but I don't feel I have what it takes to be an entrepreneur: I don't seem to have a good idea, and I don't think I would be persistent enough if I did.<p>How about... | {
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The Great Colorado Weed Experiment - isaacdl
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/03/opinion/sunday/high-time-the-great-colorado-weed-experiment.html
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MarkMc
Since cannabis is on the path to full legalization, should we also legalize
LSD, Ecstasy and Mushrooms for the same reasons? Particularly since they cause
less h... | {
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A Floating GCC Optimization - gpolito
https://thepharo.dev/2020/04/08/a-floating-gcc-optimization/
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gpolito
TL;DR: how to debug a GCC optimization (in this case because of an undefined
behaviour). A practical case in the Pharo language virtual machine.
| {
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The rise of passive-aggressive wi-fi names - jofo25
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19760006
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lewispollard
There's a trade-in electronics chain in the UK called CeX, and their WiFi
hotspots are open and named 'Unprotected CeX' by default which I always found
amusing.
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rdwallis
It would be great if ever... | {
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Generating Matter and Antimatter from Nothing - sgift
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101208130038.htm
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dmoney
_a high-energy electron beam combined with an intense laser pulse could rip
apart a vacuum into its fundamental matter and antimatter components_
I'm not a physicist, but this sounds wro... | {
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Tutorial: Creating a CDN for WordPress with CloudFront and S3 - ruggerotonelli
http://cln.gs/167wfys
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seclabor
Way to go man...
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Your taxes are not well-spent - 5vforest
http://ada.mbecker.cc/2012/11/04/your-taxes-are-not-well-spent/
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marssaxman
I sympathize with his frustration, but that doesn't mean that this assertion
holds water:
"If you’re truly entrepreneurial, you’ll forge ahead into this underserved
market and find yourself not... | {
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} |
How a Microsoft Font Brought Down Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (2017) - ing33k
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/how-a-microsoft-font-brought-down-pakistani-prime-minister-nawaz-sharif/article35828938/
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sjm-lbm
The scandal wasn't near as big, but a similar issue arose during the 2004 US
Preside... | {
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Ask HN: Should IT Adopt “Black Box Thinking” in Relation to Cyber Attacks? - ID1452319
As someone who designs enterprise software for a living I find it strange now little detailed analysis available in the public domain there seems to be regarding major cyber attacks and security breaches. I do wonder how companies a... | {
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The adblocking revolution is months away - r0h1n
https://theoverspill.wordpress.com/2015/07/30/the-adblocking-revolution-is-months-away-with-ios-9-with-trouble-for-advertisers-publishers-and-google/
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vilmosi
The overall article is of good quality but it reeks of Apple bias I personally
find distasteful.
>>> Use... | {
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The secret backstory of how Obama let Hezbollah off the hook - dsr12
https://www.politico.eu/article/obama-hezbollah-the-secret-backstory-of-how-let-off-the-hook/
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philiphodgen
It’s fascinating to see this story pushed repeatedly and fail to get traction.
It has been posted a few times here on HN, as well as in ... | {
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The Big Guide of 150 One-on-One Meeting Questions - Springworks
https://blog.springworks.in/one-on-one-meeting-questions/
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mytailorisrich
If you ask these questions to your team members month after month you are
going to drive them mad and they will rightly think that you have no clue.
IMHO, it's much better to... | {
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} |
Paypal launches Shoptimist - makmanalp
http://www.facebook.com/shoptimist
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makmanalp
blog: <https://www.paypal-shoptimist.com/blog/>
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Beware of Thread#kill and partially commited ActiveRecord transactions - coderrr
http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/beware-of-threadkill-or-your-activerecord-transactions-are-in-danger-of-being-partially-committed/
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mtoledo
I actually had this happen with one of my apps and I do think it is a quite
surpri... | {
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What role did autism play in human evolution? - sajid
http://www.sapiens.org/evolution/autism-human-evolution/
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TomasEkeli
The autists I know of have no special skills or magical insights. They're
really struggling to get through normal days, requiring constant supervision
from full-time carers 24 hours. And it ... | {
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Ask HN: How is tracking done across devices? - oretoz
I was watching a movie called Pad Man on Netflix App on my Amazon Stick. The movie was about sanitary napkins. When I opened a webpage (on procrastination which was on the top page of HN yesterday) on my iPhone, I was shown an ad about sanitary napkins.<p>I don’t t... | {
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Reports: The New York Marathon Has Been Cancelled - co_pl_te
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/11/marathon-cancelled-fox-news-thinks-so/58658/
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co_pl_te
I have a friend who lives in NYC and has run it for the past six years and she
just let us know on Facebook. NBC News confirms:
[http://usnews.nbc... | {
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Subtle Sans: A Free (Pay What You Want) Font - chrisguitarguy
http://www.subtlepatterns.com/subtlesans/
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Matti
Set the default price to $15, $20 or $30 instead of the $1 that it's at now.
You'll increase the perceived value of the font while making a ton more money.
There's no point in having the initial price "... | {
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Yumcoin – Sell your digital creations for Bitcoins - yumcoin
https://yumcoin.com/
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yumcoin
We built Yumcoin to be the fastest, easiest way to accept Bitcoin for digital
goods.
We host your product, give you a short link to share with your audience, and
manage the Bitcoin payments for you.
It's already a usef... | {
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Police in Utah have killed more people than gang members, drug dealers - flippyhead
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/police-in-utah-have-killed-more-people-than-gang-members-drug-dealers-or-child-abuse-since-2010-9879613.html
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jtokoph
Do all states have a death penalty? Just one without the burde... | {
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} |
The Race to the Pole - tosh
https://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/History/race-to-the-pole-amundsen-scott.php
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msds
I recently read "Tom Crean: Unsung Hero of the Scott and Shackleton Antarctic
Expeditions" \- very good, exactly what it says on the tin - and was shocked
about just how much of a... | {
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} |
Early Surface Pro hands-on review: RT was mistake, Pro "superior" - Anchor
http://gizmodo.com/5974705/microsoft-surface-pro-hands+on-this-is-what-it-should-have-been-all-along
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pedalpete
Like many others, I wonder about Microsoft's logic in giving the RT a desktop,
and this article made gave me a thought.
I h... | {
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} |
Keeping Customers Happy - bavidar
http://blog.lob.com/post/65550779081/keeping-customers-happy
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asanwal
While customer happiness is vital, some concerns or questions on this
framework:
\- Affordability - does that mean priced appropriately for value provided or
cheap? In our experience, cheap means more suppo... | {
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Intel upgrades to fix SSD performance flaw - ableal
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/779/1051779/intel-upgrades-fix-ssd-performance-flaw
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timtrueman
It told me I didn't have their drive connected and to call or mail (not email,
what gives?) tech support. Not too pleased with that. I assure you my X25-M... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Please critique vldtr - jeroen
http://vldtr.com/
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Edinburger
Nice piece of work. A few observations: (1) It would be good to be able to
link from the site name itself in the results rather than having to hit the
W3C/HTML/Trash icons. Also, I would show the icons by default rather than only
on hover sin... | {
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Photogram - dwynings
http://photogram.co/
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timthorn
What is it? I don't want to create a new account to find out if this is an
interesting service for me.
| {
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The AI-Box Experiment - fugyk
http://www.yudkowsky.net/singularity/aibox/
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JonnieCache
Yudowsky claims to have played the game several times, and won most of them.
One of the "rules" is that nobody is allowed to talk about how he won. He no
longer plays the game with anyone. More info here:
[http://rationalwiki.... | {
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} |
Some Dark Thoughts on Happiness - wallflower
http://nymag.com/news/features/17573/
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lutusp
> More and more psychologists and researchers believe they know what makes
> people happy.
This only reveals why psychology has the reputation it has -- its intellectual
shallowness and its inability to distinguish phil... | {
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} |
In Sign of Progress, Fewer Than 1% of New York’s Virus Tests Are Positive - just-juan-post
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/06/world/covid-coronavirus.html
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just-juan-post
Are these lifestyle restrictions worth it for a 1% positive rate?
| {
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Debuggers are for Losers - ColinWright
http://java.dzone.com/articles/debuggers-are-losers
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marcusf
Meh, is anyone else getting tired of this constant debugger hating? A debugger
is a tool, just like printf or heap dump inspectors. It's a tool that you use
to elucidate or falsify your perception of the execution... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Thank You for Inviting Me to Build Your App in Exchange for Equity,Kind Stranger - mostafab
https://hackernoon.com/thank-you-for-inviting-me-to-build-your-app-in-exchange-for-equity-kind-stranger-a3ec1644cb0a
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oblib
I think most all of us have experienced this. I know I have many times.
| {
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Paul Graham Versus Iron Man - xirium
http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/fight.cgi?q0=%22Paul%20Graham%22&q1=%22Iron%20Man%22
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softbuilder
This could be a long list.
<http://snipurl.com/2b32f>
<http://snipurl.com/2b339>
<http://snipurl.com/2b33j>
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epi0Bauqu
If there was one story I could... | {
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DDC 2014 LiveStream - rglover
http://new.livestream.com/mixpanel/ddc2014
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p98gub
apparently no one cares.
| {
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Guide to Personal Productivity Methods - Tomte
https://blog.todoist.com/2015/11/30/ultimate-guide-personal-productivity-methods/
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stringtheorist
I have read this and several other articles about productivity, focus etc. to
find ways out of my own procrastination. I have tried several things to some
success and m... | {
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} |
The dystopian lake filled by the world’s tech lust - pierre-renaux
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150402-the-worst-place-on-earth?p=1
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Animats
The Mountain Pass, California rare earth mine, once the largest source of rare
earths in the world, was shut down in 2002. After a series of toxic spills,
and price co... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Please review my startup, CashBase (personal finances) - filipcte
http://www.cashbasehq.com<p>CashBase is a personal finance app for people who hate personal finance apps.<p>It's a side-project, started as a web application, but since December we have an iPhone app and the Android app is on it's way, ETA 1 m... | {
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Reading and Vision - rajarcsp
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/beyond-the-label/201209/reading-and-vision
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kellishaver
It never would have occurred to me that there would ever be any kind of link
between vision and reading ability. I say this as someone who is legally
blind.
The physical requirements of re... | {
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} |
The first privately owned EPIC camera has already been stolen - acangiano
http://reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=53549
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ghshephard
From:
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Digital_Cinema_Camera_Compa...](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Digital_Cinema_Camera_Company#Epic)
"The Red Digital Cinema Camera Compan... | {
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Open source radio software Airtime released with easy install package - AdamThomas
http://sourcefabric.org/en/airtime/release/
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bradleyland
This looks extremely cool, but I almost didn't bother to see what it was all
about. A couple of suggestions, strickly speaking from my "cold start" (as in,
I've never seen... | {
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} |
Megaupload's Kim Schmitz arrested in Auckland (police statement) - rjd
http://www.3news.co.nz/Megauploads-Kim-Schmitz-arrested-in-Auckland-site-shut-down/tabid/311/articleID/240007/Default.aspx
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rjd
Just realized this might be geo-blocked to NZ only viewers, I know some video
content is as part of their bandwi... | {
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Google Fibre is totally awesome, but it's also completely unnecessary - hiharryhere
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/what-to-do-with-the-worlds-fastest-internet-20130314-2g22s.html
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alexmchale
This is high in the running for the dumbest article I've ever seen on HN. Send
that U-Verse intern... | {
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Fuck Shit Up - nolimits1228
The year 2014 is over and I know many of us are pursuing our goals and endeavors ambitiously. Let's keep going! One thing I learned over the years is every idea has its time...you just have to be ready for it.<p>It's about to be 2015 and I just want to wish everyone the best of ... | {
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} |
Google Cloud Storage is $1.20/TB/month for single-region/archive-class - gw5815
https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing#storage-pricing
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NonEUCitizen
"Network usage charges apply when object data or object metadata is read from
your Cloud Storage buckets."
| {
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Computational and Inferential Thinking – The Foundations of Data Science - gkst
http://www.inferentialthinking.com/
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triplesec
From here you can download this as .pdf .epub or .mobi
[https://www.gitbook.com/book/ds8/textbook/details](https://www.gitbook.com/book/ds8/textbook/details)
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adamnemecek
Can some... | {
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Intel's flagship 10th-gen desktop CPU has 10 cores, reaches 5.3GHz - redm
https://www.engadget.com/intel-10th-gen-s-series-desktop-cpu-10900k-130000913.html
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Dunedan
This article states the following power consumption:
> The 10900K has a 125-watt TDP, for example, while AMD's Ryzen 9 3900X's is
> just 105-watts... | {
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} |
Australian Senator introduces new Bill to prohibit warrantless surveillance - ra
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/11/greens-warrant-phone-internet-records
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ra
From Senator Ludlam: [http://scott-ludlam.greensmps.org.au/content/media-
releases/...](http://scott-ludlam.greensmps.org.au/content/media-relea... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Worst PC sales ever? Not for netbooks - physcab
http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/03/05/worst-pc-sales-slump-ever-not-for-netbooks/
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jcromartie
I love seeing new markets evolve.
The last desktop I bought was an 800MHz Power Mac G4. The last 5 computers I
have purchased have been notebooks, mostly ... | {
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} |
Hack With Sails, MVC For Node.JS Done Right - skadamat
http://email.sailsjs.com:1337/SxSW_Sailsjs_Hackathon.html
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slajax
I like it.
| {
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Snap Inc's shares drop below $20 - empressplay
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-17/snapchat-parent-company-sees-shares-drop-below-us20/8364812
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joeyspn
Pump and dump...
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supercoder
Ethemeral cash
| {
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Ask HN: What has recently pissed you off that ideally a product could solve? - southkey
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User8712
I mentioned this in another topic, but grocery shopping. The entire process
seems inefficient. New idea...
You place an order online or on your mobile phone while you're at work, or on
the bus. After you decide ... | {
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} |
Ted Nelson, coiner of the term 'hypertext', Outs Bitcoin Creator - zachlatta
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/19/ted_nelson_thinks_hes_outed_bitcons_nakamoto/
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lobster_johnson
Pretty sure the headline should be:
> Ted Nelson, coiner of the term 'hypertext', speculates about Bitcoin
> creator's identity
---... | {
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Fashionable Solar Clothing Is Closer Than You Think - urumcsi
http://understandsolar.com/solar-clothing/
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robin_reala
The actual press release is much better than the linked article:
[https://energy.wisc.edu/news/solar-textile-collaboration-
wea...](https://energy.wisc.edu/news/solar-textile-collaboration-weaves... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Show HN: Explore Open Source Code Online (early prototype) - vineet
http://www.codemaps.org/e/Lucene
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vineet
We have done a minor pivot to launch a really cool service. Would love to hear
what you guys think of it.
Would you like to see it be easier to use, any particular features, more
projects online, or su... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Students Build Black Widow Supercar that Gets 2752.3 MPG - skorks
http://www.inhabitat.com/2010/02/19/students-build-black-widow-supercar-that-gets-2752-3-mpg/
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lonestar
"Supercar" seems a little generous seeing as how it has a top speed of 30mph.
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kingsley_20
To relate the adjective "super" exclusively to... | {
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Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly - bpierre
https://blog.mozilla.org/ux/2013/11/australis-is-landing-in-firefox-nightly/
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ahoge
Looks pretty wasteful. I prefer how it currently looks on my machine:
[http://i.imgur.com/PvlTZ3k.png](http://i.imgur.com/PvlTZ3k.png)
My tabs can get as small as the pinned one... | {
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Ask HN: Advice on strictness of credit card validation - mburnett
Our business is such that we authorize credit cards ahead of time, and then do a bulk capture (actually submitting to "charge" the accounts) at the end of the day. We also allow the user to "store" there credit card on a third-party, PCI compliant pro... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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The big lie about Mother Teresa: glorifying suffering instead of relieving it - phonon
http://www.salon.com/2016/01/03/the_wests_big_lie_about_mother_teresa_her_glorification_of_suffering_instead_of_relieving_it_has_had_little_impact_on_her_glowing_reputation/
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icebraining
Not a word about Hitchens? He had been ... | {
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} |
Why is elliptic curve cryptography not widely used, compared to RSA? - ColinWright
http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/1190/why-is-elliptic-curve-cryptography-not-widely-used-compared-to-rsa
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tptacek
ECC is the emerging new standard for asymmetric crypto. It's misleading to say
it's not widely used. It's n... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Make3D Algorithm Turns 2-D Image into 3-D Fly-Around - nreece
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/january23/make-012308.html
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SwellJoe
news.YC readers might find it interesting that this is some of the View3 team
(from the Winter Founders Program last year).
| {
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NSA stores metadata of millions of web users for up to a year, secret files show - simonbrown
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/30/nsa-americans-metadata-year-documents
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spodek
> " _The Obama administration has repeatedly stated that the NSA keeps only
> the content of messages and communications of peop... | {
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Too Hot for TED: Income Inequality - japhyr
http://mobile.nationaljournal.com/features/restoration-calls/too-hot-for-ted-income-inequality-20120516
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twomills
TED's argument that the talk is overly political would appear to be supported
by the fact that this article appears on a site dedicated almost exclusivel... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
do you under the fear that a YC *tup is gonna demo what you workin on? - rokhayakebe
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randallsquared
It's not clear whether you meant to say "live under the fear" or "understand
the fear". If the former, no, because they're just another competitor, if so.
If the latter, then sure, because some YC companies h... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
"Caffeine" - Google's new faster search engine - viggity
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/6009176/Google-reveals-caffeine-a-new-faster-search-engine.html
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tlrobinson
Compare new and old Google Search side-by-side:
<http://tlrobinson.net/misc/googlecompare.html>
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woodsier
Caffeine is twice as sl... | {
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} |
May be how the West might be lost - dgudkov
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/matt-gurney-this-may-be-how-the-west-might-be-lost
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pmdulaney
Perhaps.
| {
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The Secret Ingredient in Silicon Chips comes from North Carolina - dan_the_welder
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8178580.stm
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seldo
The people interviewed in the article claim that "if we shut the gates... they
wouldn't be able to make computers anymore". But elsewhere in the article it
makes clear that... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: 30 yr old+ Startup Founders - SABmore
Any successful 30+ startup founders out there? I'm 33 (considered a dinosaur by most startups) and just dipping my toe into the startup space, but am straddled with a fulltime job, mortgage, bills and a wife, so I'm finding it difficult to pursue my passion while balanci... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Ask HN: Where would one go to get professional tech career advice? - allsystemsgo
Many "coaches" or career counselors don't have the technical knowledge to offer accurate career feedback. I would be really interested in employing a career coach to help me get to where I want to be.
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salimmadjd
First you should... | {
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What If You Ran an Ad, and Nobody Saw It? - ajbatac
http://gigaom.com/2008/10/14/what-if-you-ran-an-ad-and-nobody-saw-it/
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bootload
_"... Ads might as well not exist as far as users are concerned, except for
search ads ..."_
Do gigaom read their own articles? Above the article at the top of the page is
a banne... | {
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} |
Developing a Embedded System - srkiranraj
Hi Friends,
I am interested in developing some gadgets. Say Tablet PC, With less features like viewing PDF's, writing notes, Paint, Calculator... How do I start? I know for a beginner it is too hard. So where do I begin? From microcontrollers or can I directly start from thi... | {
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Windows 10 now running on 75M devices - asyncwords
https://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/08/26/windows-10-now-on-75-million-devices/
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melling
Windows 10 has just under 6% of Windows market share.
[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/24/windows_10_market_sh...](http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/24... | {
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Blockchain Coin Banana - virtuabhi
https://bananacoin.io/
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biggc
This is just banana futures right?
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When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth, by Cory Doctorow - duck
http://baens-universe.com/articles/when_sysadmins_ruled_the_earth
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riffraff
every time someone refers me to this I suffer, mostly because it reminds me of
old-time optimism for the internet future, the Declaration of Independence of
Cyberspace.
All we got ... | {
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Farmers and Ranchers Are Completely Screwed by American Healthcare (2017) - jelliclesfarm
https://modernfarmer.com/2017/07/farmers-ranchers-completely-screwed-american-healthcare/
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cityzen
Uh... small biz owner here, it ain’t just farmers. I know very little about
farming but I hear a lot about this:
“An agricu... | {
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UEFI Headaches Begin For Linux Users - mariuz
http://benjaminkerensa.com/2011/10/23/uefi-headaches-begin-linux/
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DanBC
See also users of MacBookPros who have a slightly more complex install than
"Use unetbootin to burn the image to a USB stick, boot from that USB stick,
install".
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bkerensa
It sucks
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I2C Programming in Go - geetarista
http://www.gmcbay.com/2013/01/i2c-programming-in-go/
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georgemcbay
blog author here, feel free to direct any questions into this thread since I'm
a Hacker News addict^H^H^H^H^H^Hregular.
Access to various bits of I2C hardware probably limit the usefulness of this
specific post ... | {
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AI learns to defy the laws of physics to win at hide-and-seek - rbanffy
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2216410-ai-learns-to-defy-the-laws-of-physics-to-win-at-hide-and-seek/
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reportgunner
Nothing interesting, just the simulation of the physics laws was poor and so
it glitched.
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Russians urged to Smoke,Drink more - zafka
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view/20100902-290065/Russians-urged-to-smoke-drink-more
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dotcoma
I guess they don't have a National Health Service there, either...
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Announcing algorithm development support for Python 3, JavaScript, Rust, and Ruby - felix_thursday
http://blog.algorithmia.com/2016/05/algorithmia-now-supports-python-3-javascript-rust-ruby/
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codelitt
I said this in a reddit thread[1], but I really just have a philosophical
aversion to this. The industry has mov... | {
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Wedwell.co - canadajordan
Does anyone know whatever happened to WedWell.co and it's founder Vishal Gupta on here? I'd like to find out if they ever got any engagement.
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slater
Is/was it the same as this?
[https://www.bewedwell.com/](https://www.bewedwell.com/)
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Ask HN: How often do you find yourself without anything to do at work? - throwaway337800
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mindcrime
Never. Anytime I don't have a specific assigned "task" to work on, I've always
got a pile of "just want to do" stuff a mile deep. And if I didn't have that,
there's always something new to learn via a Youtube video... | {
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Coinbase Bitcoin Wallet App Gets Axed From iOS App Store - clamprecht
http://bitcoinblogger.com/apple-still-afraid-bitcoin-coinbase-bitcoin-wallet-app-gets-axed-ios-app-store/
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miguelrochefort
I'm the developer of the of the only Bitcoin wallet client on Windows Phone.
It works with both Coinbase and Blockchain.... | {
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The Secret Life of Julian Assange - mburney
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/12/09/assange.profile/
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aroberge
Surprisingly balanced article. Thanks for posting this link.
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Previously classified 9/11 document released [pdf] - TheBiv
http://intelligence.house.gov/sites/intelligence.house.gov/files/documents/declasspart4.pdf
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themartorana
Further evidence the Saudi government is a terrorist organization/family/cabal
and did/may have had very good understanding of 9/11 prior to the at... | {
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Different types of risk - dabent
http://cdixon.org/2012/06/06/different-types-of-risk/
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confluence
> Startups are hard, and risky. But if you lump all the risks together, you
> are playing the lottery. Talented entrepreneurs identify specific risks and
> do everything they can to overcome them.
Perhaps serial... | {
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Learn Mobile Services on iOS with Brent Simmons - delackner
http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-Azure-Mobile-Services/Learn-Mobile-Services-on-iOS-with-Brent-Simmons--Part-1
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delackner
Really lightweight high level intro, but more than the technical side I was
surprised to see a very famous Mac/iOS develop... | {
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Corolla fanbelt to help reveal Apollo data - bootload
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24626797-30417,00.html
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ars
"He also printed out about 100m of data."
What's "100m of data"? Is that 100 miles, meters, or megabytes?
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Ask HN: Links to serious diversity research - adzicg
In the light of the whole google/diversity thing happening this weekend, and everyone accusing everyone else that they don't have any data, I'd like to read up on some serious research done around diversity in tech ideally, and if nothing like that ex... | {
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Selfie – Tiny self-compiling C compiler, RISC-V emulator and hypervisor - giancarlostoro
http://selfie.cs.uni-salzburg.at/
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dang
A thread from 2017:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13778353](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13778353)
(Such links are for the curious. Reposts are ok after about a year:
... | {
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Color to Get Major Update, Fix ‘Loneliness’ Problem - markbao
http://mashable.com/2011/03/24/color-update/
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ookblah
So their solution to #1 is just to not let you use it? What.
Also, that last picture in the article had me loling. "Take photos together".
I'm sure in the near future we'll all be standing 10 ft... | {
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Storing Clocked Programs Inside DNA - ahalan
http://swarmknowledge.com/Interview-with-Dennis-Shasha.pdf
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kolev
Israel had a working DNA computer back in 2004
(<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_computing>). Ray Kurzweil talked about it
in The Singularity is near.
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Apple could be forced to stop completely encrypting iPhones under UK law - antr
http://9to5mac.com/2015/11/02/apple-encryption-uk/
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a3n
If Apple really believed in their customers' privacy, the could:
\- Just stop selling the phones in the UK.
\- Sell breakable phones in the UK, but explicitly mention that the... | {
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Show HN: An ORM-like JavaScript client for PostgREST - kiwicopple
https://github.com/supabase/postgrest-js
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kiwicopple
Hey HN, this is a JS wrapper for PostgREST
([http://postgrest.org](http://postgrest.org)). PostgREST turns a PostgreSQL
database instantly into a RESTful API.
You can do some amazing things wit... | {
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Unpaid Internships: A Loophole To Avoid Labor Laws - mitoman
http://www.social42.com/news/Unpaid-Internships-A-Loophole-To-Avoid-Labor-Laws/36
Many, many, years ago, internships were called apprenticeships, and my dear departed grandfather used to call them.
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Tangurena
Another article on the subject mentions th... | {
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Amazon Mobile Analytics - stevewilhelm
http://aws.amazon.com/mobileanalytics/?sc_channel=TA&sc_campaign=mobile_analytics&sc_publisher=Techmeme&sc_medium=Sponsor_posts&sc_category=web_mobile_social&sc_content=TA_Sponsor_post_A&sc_detail=TA_Techmeme.com_mobile_analytics_Sponsor_post_A
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espitia
Wow! Considering tha... | {
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My SaltStack Dev Machine Config - vespakoen
https://github.com/vespakoen/dev-machine
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asperous
Found it: [https://github.com/Vespakoen/dev-
machine/blob/master/roots/p...](https://github.com/Vespakoen/dev-
machine/blob/master/roots/pillar/machine.sls.example)
Man that was like hide and go seek!
~~~
vespakoen... | {
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Uber reveals plans for flying taxi to bypass road traffic congestion - seek3r00
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jan/07/uber-reveals-plans-for-flying-taxi-to-bypass-road-traffic-congestion
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dotcoma
When will the bullshitting stop?
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seek3r00
When <del>pigs</del> Uber drivers fly
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An online tool to build simple tables and test SQL statements - kuszi
http://ideone.com/clone/W4ePc
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kuszi
<http://bit.ly/13wIW3c> the source and some discussion (stackoverflow.com)
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Chat-like reference checks and skills testing to find the best candidates - axeyne
https://join.tl
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axeyne
2-factor approach to identify and hire top talent: skills tests +
conversational feedback on candidates.
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