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University to remove murals commemorating WWII veterans for lack of diversity - rbecker
https://campusreform.org/?ID=15625
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emerged
I'm glad WWII vets aren't alive to witness this disgrace that has been created
during the peace they fought to create. But they are rolling over in their
graves.
~~~
HarryHirsch
Me... | {
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Just enough sales: tactics for closing when a free trial period is not enough - mrbbk
https://blog.reifyworks.com/just-enough-sales-tactics-for-closing-when-a-free-trial-period-is-not-enough-21b614a4409d#.20xyxejq7
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mrbbk
What sales objections are you dealing with? Post here and I'll respond with
guidance!
| {
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Mixed reality outfit Magic Leap nets $793.5M - Impossible
http://gamasutra.com/view/news/264972/Mixed_reality_outfit_Magic_Leap_nets_7935_million.php
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rdl
I hope to be wrong, but secrecy like this usually doesn't bode well. Best
case, I'm expecting something like Segway or Apple Watch -- overhyped from
secrecy, ... | {
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} |
Android RNG Weakness Renders Bitcoin Wallets Insecure - VMG
http://bitcoin.org/en/alert/2013-08-11-android
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tptacek
Iä! Digital Signature Algorithm! The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand
Crypto Bugs!
I don't know the Bitcoin software involved at all, but I can sketch out an
attack that might shed some lig... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ubuntu smartphone offers alternative to apps - AndrewDucker
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31148661
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bryanlarsen
I certainly hope that Ubuntu is ready with software that provides a phone
interface on a phone and a desktop interface when plugged into a monitor.
Because unlike a year and a half ago when the... | {
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} |
Ghost wants to retrofit your car so it can drive itself on highways in 2020 - oxplot
https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/07/ghost-wants-to-retrofit-your-car-so-it-can-drive-itself-on-highways-by-2020/
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Nokinside
How they plan to deliver this in that time frame? It would require chaining
the laws and regulations. I wo... | {
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} |
All of Microsoft's Mobile Failures Have Been Redeemed with This Windows 95 Phone - valiant-comma
https://gizmodo.com/finally-all-of-microsofts-mobile-failures-have-been-re-1827139336
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lsh
that actually looks _amazing_ , I would buy it in a heartbeat and I haven't
touched Windows in 20+ years.
I grew up with Win... | {
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} |
Ask HN: As an experienced engr, how do I change my role? - pivot2data
I have been working in the storage industry as an hardware engineer (system design) for ~8 years. As I look around, I see very few opportunities/openings in other companies which need a similar position. How can I pivot at this point in my life... | {
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+5,000 http usernames and passwords - ishener
https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22new+PasswordAuthentication%22+extension%3Ajava&type=Code&ref=searchresults
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cooleng
github should give a warning automatically if someone commit something which
may contain a password
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} |
The New York Times is looking for a climate change editor - doener
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/jobs/nyt-climate-change-editor.html?_r=0
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throwawaayyyyy
Is this part of YC S16 or is it for YC W16?
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igor47
This is why I pay for a NYT subscription
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Why playing the lottery is so addictive - theslay
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2383644/Why-playing-lottery-addictive-Our-brains-t-cope-little-odds-winning-make-irrational-decisions.html
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drpgq
Sometimes I wish there was a charitable organization that ran ads showing
depressed looking people b... | {
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} |
Microsoft is announcing a mystery product on April 12th - maxklein
http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/microsoft-invites-us-to-mystery-event-april-12th/
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gtani
vis studio 2010, finally
| {
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An email from Airbnb - chirau
Dear <i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i>,<p>We’re emailing you because the state legislature sent the anti-home sharing bill -- the result of a backroom deal -- to Governor Cuomo's desk yesterday. That means he must take action on the bill in the next ten days.<p>The Governor has a c... | {
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The Future of Emacs, Guile, and Emacs Lisp - pmoriarty
http://lwn.net/Articles/615220/
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sctb
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8449488](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8449488)
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Junior developer vs Senior developer (rails) - justplay
https://gist.github.com/njonsson/107343/raw/da9ea9a81454d832390b0829338737008429148e/The+difference+between+the+junior+and+senior+Rails+developer
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btaitelb
These are great specifics, and I agree with all of them. On a more general
level, I don't consider ... | {
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DigitalOcean's site and servers very slow. Can't SSH. - aartur
https://www.digitalocean.com/
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aartur
I checked from 3rd-party server and can't SSH also, so I assume it's not my
local problem.
EDIT. Others confirmed it on Twitter, but it started working normally now.
EDIT2. The slowness returned.
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Fear and Loathing at Effective Altruism Global 2017 - zaroth
http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/16/fear-and-loathing-at-effective-altruism-global-2017/
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zaroth
Wow, the captions, I am laughing so hard right now.
I found this domain in an HN comment, and am _really_ enjoying it. Spending
too many hours here!
| {
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Making iOS 7 squircles using CSS3 - _kushagra
http://thecodeplayer.com/walkthrough/css3-squircles
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didgeoridoo
Very nice effect, but there's nothing squircley (?) about iOS 7 icons --
they're just squares with [more gradually] rounded corners.
Edit: inserted bracketed qualifier after reading cheeaun's article... | {
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K3d v3.0.0 – K3s in Docker - iwilltry42
https://github.com/rancher/k3d/releases/tag/v3.0.0
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dividedbyzero
I like where this is going; I use k3d a lot to quickly spin up a disposable
cluster to try some new operator and things like that, then just discard it.
Very handy if you work on Kubernetes clusters.
K3s is... | {
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} |
The war on crypto - obituary_latte
It's like saying that secure communication is the root of evil. Blaming crypto is a cop-out of epic proportion. Crypto has been around forever. Crypto is going nowhere. So long as the narrative is "crypto makes us less safe", we will be treading water at best.<p>There ... | {
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BitConnect Closes Exchange as States Warn of Unregulated Sales - JumpCrisscross
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-16/bitconnect-closes-exchange-as-states-warn-of-unregulated-sales
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ve55
For those unaware, Bitconnect was a Bitcoin-based ponzi-scheme that had
operated 'successfully' for quite some ti... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Files and folders - jansen
http://jansen.co/files-and-folders
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FredDollen
Search only interfaces are limiting. I feel you need both - a hierarchy is a
valuable tool for browsing, if you aren't sure what you are searching for.
~~~
jansen
I agree.
~~~
Chris2048
topic concluded.
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404Engine - The "Launchrock" for dynamic error pages, relaunches - bgnm2000
http://404engine.com/sites/guest
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nawitus
When I open the site with Firefox, half of the 1-2-3 popup is over the top of
the browser and therefore cannot be read. There're also various bugs with the
404 wysiwyg editor.
<http://i.imgur.... | {
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Boycott Linux (inspired by Fork Debian) - jarcane
http://www.boycottlinux.org/
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nacs
You've convinced me. So.. how good is this Minix thing mentioned in the
article? Would be it be a good alternative to Linux and and how fast does it
load Myspace?
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ddade
Almost. It almost got me.
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rocoso
almost g... | {
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Criticisms about online programming contests and algorithms-focused interviews - psankar
http://psankar.blogspot.com/2015/03/online-programming-competitions-are.html
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ArekDymalski
True. Trying to predict candidate's performance in such complex activity like
programming by using a single source of info (competi... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Bit Twiddling Hacks (2005) - e-sushi
https://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html
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byuu
Just a fair warning as someone who has made extensive use of this page in the
past: many of these hacks often end up slower these days on modern CPUs than
naive approaches. Especially the no-branch and no-multiply mat... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Apple's Mac Business To Shrink For First Time Since 2003 - fromedome
http://www.businessinsider.com/apples-mac-business-expected-to-shrink-for-the-first-time-since-2003-2009-4
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tvon
What's that semi-recent website that let's you put people's predictions up and
check on them later?
| {
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} |
Ask HN: Is sublime text making any money? - yuashizuki
I know sublime text is not open source and its not free either. But most people still use the unpaid version, so how does sublime text support itself ?
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coldtea
Who said most people still use the unpaid version?
Tons of people (from forums etc) use v3, wh... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Can a customers credit card be linked to their phone number? - nns
Can you authorize a payment on the server when a customer texts you.
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jeffmould
Sure, but I would be extremely careful doing it as it is easy to spoof a
number and could possibly open some other issues.
You would also need to have the us... | {
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} |
How About 30-use Free Trials Instead of 30-days? - rlivsey
http://evhead.com/2011/05/how-about-30-use-free-trials-instead-of.html
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aqrashik
I feel that limiting the number of uses may be counter-productive and may
actually make users try it less so as to preserve the number of trials
remaining and stretch out th... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
15-second ads coming to Amazon’s Alexa - sghi
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/05/amazon-alexa-ads-voicelabs/
======
makecheck
My understanding is that this is a 3rd party that may even be breaking
Amazon's own rules so this may not come to fruition. Also it would be tied
into a Skill so you can just stop using an... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Introduction to Category Theory in Scala - zaa
http://hseeberger.wordpress.com/2010/11/11/introduction-to-category-theory-in-scala/
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calibraxis
The link appears broken. Here's one that should work:
[http://hseeberger.wordpress.com/2010/11/25/introduction-
to-c...](http://hseeberger.wordpress.com/2010/11/25/int... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
To stream everywhere, Netflix encodes each movie 120 times - timf
http://gigaom.com/video/netflix-encoding/
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mrb
A friend of mine, Baptiste Coudurier, is the person at Hulu who manages the
transcoding of all their videos. He told me they also transcode a video to
multiple versions to accommodate different stre... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Full-Body Scan Technology Deployed In Street-Roving Vans - tux1968
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2010/08/24/full-body-scan-technology-deployed-in-street-roving-vans/
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noonespecial
We need an app that makes smartphones screech loudly whenever this kind of
radiation is detected. If there was a cacoph... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask YC: Duplicate Posts - izak30
Ok folks,<p>I'm pretty tired of people complaining about dupes that are more than a couple of days apart.<p>Discussions change, perspectives change. There is serious value in re-asking a question 2,4,10 weeks out. I've even considered re-asking my own questions before.<p>While it i... | {
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} |
Bacteria That Can Help Find Land Mines - lnguyen
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-bacteria-that-can-help-find-land-mines-1492786346
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jfarlow
The various compounds released by the (organic (containing carbon)) explosives
can be metabolized by bacteria. And bacterial metabolism is often linked to
sensors within th... | {
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} |
A Tune Per Day side-project launched. - ddropp
http://atuneperday.com
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tomjen3
Hmm this doesn't seem that usefull. Groveshark, last.fm and spotify all have
data on their users so they are able to make informed guesses as to what songs
their users might like.
As far as I can see, that site simply suggest the ... | {
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Ask HN: How about a tool to organize information? - ngduc
Hi HN,
As a developer, I have to keep doing research every day to catch up with the flow.
New tools are coming every week. My notes grow uncontrollable like a wild forest.<p>That's why I have been working on a tool to help us organize information, resear... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The End of "Blue Waters" - It is Now Official - benhpcsmith
http://hpc-opinion.blogspot.com/2011/08/end-of-blue-waters-it-is-now-official.html
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mrb
No source is cited in the blog post, but here it is:
<http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/BlueWaters/system.html>
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rbanffy
OTOH, building supercomputers based on ... | {
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} |
The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed - chris_wot
https://programming.guide/worlds-most-copied-so-snippet.html
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ben509
Suppose we had an index of snippets, meaning you've parsed them and are able
to search isomorphically. So, e.g. variable names are not significant. Some
techniques discusse... | {
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} |
Good calculus resources for MBA courses - thrwwycctczshm
Hey everyone. It is a long story, but I will do my best to keep it short. I am genuinely looking for suggestions.<p>I am a part of an MBA program. I had my quantative methods class ( calculus review , descriptive stats, probability, linear regression ). I passed... | {
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} |
Centuries-old frozen plants revived - schrofer
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22656239
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LowKarmaAccount
Fascinating! This reminds me of William J. Beal's seed germination experiment
that started in 1879 [1]. Beal buried seeds in several glass jars, and then
dug a glass jar every five years and pla... | {
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} |
Effe, a building block for an open source AWS lambda - siscia
http://redbeardlab.github.io/2016/03/05/effe.html
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hassy
The power of Lambda comes from being able to use other AWS services. Lambdas
on their own are not very interesting.
A true Lambda alternative, open-source or otherwise, would also have to offer... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Privacy Inequality: The Most Brutal Form of Inequality You’ve Ever Imagined - borjamoya
https://medium.com/privateid-blog/privacy-inequality-the-most-brutal-form-of-inequality-youve-ever-imagined-e674d4f3cd42
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slfnflctd
I'd say actual human slavery - which I can easily imagine from extensive
historical records -... | {
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} |
How to encode email links to protect them from spammers - faramarz
http://www.bronze-age.com/nospam/index.html
======
faramarz
I was looking for a method to essentially _inactivate_ or _breakup_ an email
address in the source, so I could display the actual email in text form.
From a bit of searching, my options were ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Google Caching Overview - anand-s
https://peering.google.com/about/ggc.html
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pavs
I own a small ISP in SEA, Bandwidth from ggc is about 70% of our traffic
(mostly youtube). While we don't have GGC ourselves yet, our upstream does and
we have peering with them. Its amazing, how much of the actual "Internet" goes
... | {
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} |
AT&T Collaborates with NSA spying via a web of secret buildings in the U.S - mikece
https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/25/nsa-att-intercept-surveillance/amp/
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4e1a
I think they failed to mention other sites. Here in Springfield Missouri we
have an AT&T building which seems highly fortified like what is described in
... | {
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} |
Diabeto – A must have device to manage your diabetes - skbohra123
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/diabeto-your-friend-in-diabetes
======
rajeeshnair
Diabeto is a great innovative idea in controlling, recording, sharing and
analysing Blood Glucose Values. Diabeto will save lots of life. Good job
Diabeto Team.
| {
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Kiscover, built with expressjs - derekang
http://www.kiscover.com
======
derekang
Experimenting with expressjs ... and built Kiscover, a video discovery
platform leveraging on youtube api.
Kiscover = Video discovery + Pinterest.
Feedbacks folks.
~~~
pedalpete
Why the sign-in wall?
you'll find many people (myself... | {
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} |
An introduction to libuv (2016) - eatonphil
https://nikhilm.github.io/uvbook/
======
saghul
We merged this guide into
[http://docs.libuv.org/en/v1.x/guide.html](http://docs.libuv.org/en/v1.x/guide.html)
which got some updates to match API changes.
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nosefrog
I work with Nikhil. He's incredibly smart and a fantas... | {
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} |
Hacker Shiznit - snazz
http://www.gizoogle.net/xfer.php?link=https://news.ycombinator.com
======
snazz
The algorithm this site uses (maybe just text substitution?) is really good
and really funny. Also of interest is the Wikipedia article about HN put
through Gizoogle:
[http://www.gizoogle.net/xfer.php?link=https://en... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
SunEngine – Site engine that supports forums, articles and blogs - indigodaddy
https://github.com/sunengine/SunEngine
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leeoniya
> Articles, Forums, Blogs
so basically everything you'd want search engines to index...but it's an SPA
that renders no HTML without js?
i'm on mobile and upon navigating to the site i... | {
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} |
Vampire myths originated with a real blood disorder - finphil
https://theconversation.com/vampire-myths-originated-with-a-real-blood-disorder-140830
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rurban
He should have least mentioned the Carmilla story, which was the origin of the
Vampire story. From an porphyria autopsy report from Graz, Austria about a
de... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Startup Rivals: Teleku Takes On Twilio - danielle17
http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/29/teleku-takes-on-twilio-helps-developers-integrate-telephony-services-into-web-apps/
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hopeless
I discovered <http://tropo.com> yesterday which seems to do the same thing a
Twilio but has support for international incoming numbe... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Force Dell to give the user a choice of Ubuntu or Windows on all desktops... - AGrinsPaul
http://www.ideastorm.com/idea2ReadIdea?v=1339431400221&Id=087700000008iglAAA
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mindcrime
Add Fedora to the list of choices, and I'm in.
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AGrinsPaul
The link below is typical of Dell, 90% of their systems that are co... | {
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} |
Imagine BitTorrent Group Sysop Speaks Out as He Heads to Prison - anons2011
http://torrentfreak.com/imagine-bittorrent-group-sysop-speaks-out-as-he-heads-to-prison-130121/
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digitalengineer
_These IMAGiNE members were charged with several counts of criminal copyright
infringement and they eventually received pr... | {
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} |
The Great Climate Migration Has Begun - aaronbrethorst
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/23/magazine/climate-migration.html
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krakatau1
This kind of migrations were non preventable before but now we have enough
resources and technology to build walls and surveillance to block them
entirely.
Unfortunate... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: ELI5 how is the HW encryption in iMac Pros better than standard Macs? - whitepoplar
Hi HN. The new iMac Pro is nearly ready for sale, and one of the touted features is a "T2" chip that performs hardware encryption. How is this encryption scheme better than what is currently offered with standard Macs... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Growing Music: musical interpretations of L-Systems (2005) - bjourne
https://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/bib/ss/nonstd/eurogp05/index.html
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jancsika
The drawings are more sophisticated than the generated music.
For example-- there's a musical progression in the 2nd movement of Mozart's
clarinet concerto wher... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How to Turn Your Raspberry Pi into a Home VPN Server Using PiVPN - kdayz
http://kamilslab.com/2017/01/22/how-to-turn-your-raspberry-pi-into-a-home-vpn-server-using-pivpn/
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pyrophane
OpenVPN is great. I came to it to secure AWS VPC environments after learning
that there were no other great client -> network solut... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
IRS "Accepting Gifts" - known
http://money.cnn.com/2009/11/11/news/economy/national_debt/
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chrischen
This could be an interesting experiment: abolish taxes and have people donate
whatever they think the government's services are worth to them.
It'll be a naturally graduated system, as the wealthier will be na... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Who's new to news.yc? Say hello here - sharpshoot
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ricky_clarkson
I am new. I'm from Manchester, England, and I write a network simulator in
Java. I'm mainly interested in Lisp at the moment, and its potential for
children and for embedding into existing applications, such as media players.
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sharpshoot
J... | {
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} |
Watch Google's terrifying humanoid robot running through a forest - dottrap
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3201279/Watch-Google-s-terrifying-humanoid-robot-running-forest-firm-pledges-soon-agile-humans.html
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forgettableuser
Looks cool, not terrifying.
| {
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} |
RIM to cut 2000 jobs - myth_drannon
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/rim-to-cut-about-2000-jobs/article2108435/
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inpoortaste
wait for it...
so, i guess that means 2000 less rim jobs?
~~~
getone
hah, that was my thought exactly
| {
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} |
What Corporate Projects Should Learn from Open Source - gongfudoi
http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6486
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xirium
From the article: The fastest way through the project is to do it right
Too often, managers want to deploy inappropriate technology, colleagues want
to build their CV, you have to integrate with a badly ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Taiwan’s ‘White Shirt Army,’ spurred by Facebook, takes on political parties - RougeFemme
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/taiwans-white-shirt-army-spurred-by-facebook-takes-on-political-parties/2013/11/10/4a1fde52-46e4-11e3-bf0c-cebf37c6f484_story.html?hpid=z3
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maaku
> While China considers Tai... | {
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OMG Digital (YC S16) Is BuzzFeed for Africa - stvnchn
http://themacro.com/articles/2016/07/omg-digital/
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tyre
$1.3 trillion that the continent is projected to spend
in 2020.
Please don't use statistics like this. The combined consumer spending of a
continent (54 separate countries, I think) is... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
LAVA: Large-Scale Automated Vulnerability Addition [pdf] - ingve
http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2016/papers/0824a110.pdf
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moyix
I'm one of the authors and happy to answer any questions people have!
I gave a 40 minute talk on the work a couple weeks ago, and slides for that
(which may be a little more digesti... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Facebook 'like' adverts tested with VirtualBagel experiment - Zenst
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18822971
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Zenst
Article relates to <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4238078> and is the
research to back it up. Or Smoking gun as some might put it (as long as its
not on a facebook private chat :).
Ca... | {
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Ask YC: The value of internships? - dangrover
I'm a sophomore in college who has a small non-startup product business that's started taking off. I develop Mac software. It's been paying off well for the small amount of time I've been able to sink into it, and there's a lot I could do to serve my customers better and... | {
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Avatar: The Holocaust We Will Not See - swombat
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2010/01/11/the-holocaust-we-will-not-see/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email
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IsaacSchlueter
This article, and many of the comments here, hint at a deeper and more
interesting phenomenon: the need to have things be either all goo... | {
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Just type `whois Microsoft.com` in your shell - janjongboom
That's some interesting data...
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hartator
Whois Server Version 2.0
Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detaile... | {
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A Brief Look at Texting and the Internet in Film - prostoalex
http://vimeo.com/103554797
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bujatt
Nice collection of how to show text messaging in movies. I was often surprised
how poorly the screen interface is shown. At the same time, obviously,
legibility is foremost important, so the improvements to show th... | {
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The Best Way to Save People from Suicide - laurex
https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/how-to-help-someone-who-is-suicidal
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fokov
[Off topic] My god has web design totally crapped the bed. The amount of
scrolling I had to do just to get words and then ... get to the point...
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peterburkimsher
tl... | {
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Google Says More Searches Now on Mobile Than on Desktop - indus
http://searchengineland.com/its-official-google-says-more-searches-now-on-mobile-than-on-desktop-220369
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psykovsky
That is not surprising at all. Most of people who use the Internet on mobile
don't even now what a browser is, much less a domain name... | {
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A Computer to Rival the Brain - jonbaer
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/a-computer-to-rival-the-brain
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CuriouslyC
Neuromorphic computing is cool. We need to move towards stochastic logic as
well. Since the universe behaves in a roughly stochastic manner, we're going
to need to adopt this paradigm if we wa... | {
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} |
Show HN: An android application to get notifications from a server/script - Mikescher
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blackforestbytes.simplecloudnotifier
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Mikescher
This is mainly a program to scratch my own itch,
a while ago I had a periodical cron script that would check if a specific
domai... | {
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Ask HN: How do you evaluate a start up? - slowbait
I've been considering leaving my current job at Google, for a more fulfilling role, where I feel I'm having a positive impact on society, e.g. Recidiviz.<p>I also plan to start a family in a couple of years, so I'd like to find a stable job with good wo... | {
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} |
Microsft Wants to Build, Not Buy, Software - reitzensteinm
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=7230
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reitzensteinm
So, basically, they're saying the opposite of what everyone else is...
| {
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Scientist discovers new way to repair damaged nerves - edw519
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/scientist-discovers-new-way-to-repair-damaged-nerves/article1396395/
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jasongullickson
Very interesting, but makes me wonder, why would the body naturally suppress
this growth at a certain age a... | {
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Squanderville vs. Thriftville - Warren Buffett (2003) - philk
http://www.pbs.org/wsw/news/fortunearticle_20031026_03.html
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dreyfiz
Good article and the principle is sound, but the postscript is that Buffett
wound up losing Berkshire Hathaway's shareholders $1 billion by betting
against the dollar. He forgot that... | {
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} |
Preparing for the Transition to Data Engineering - ronaknnathani
https://blog.insightdatascience.com/preparing-for-the-transition-to-data-engineering-bfb39d327316#.rrq5j8sfp
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dataops
Another great way to learn about Data Engineering is participating at DataOps
2017 [https://www.dataopssummit.com/](https://www.da... | {
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} |
This Just In: Stack Overflow Defeats Google - Anon84
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/this-just-in-stack-overflow-defeats-google/
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karanbhangui
Oh man, I thought this was going to be another 'self hosted > cloud hosting'
posts, but instead got some good ol' humour :)
I love having a good after-taste when r... | {
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} |
You want robots? We got robots. We got cooking robots, cleaning robots - maldinii
http://bizzarodevs.com/issues/18#start
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sharemywin
I don't get kitchen robots. If delivery robots come to be wouldn't we just all
get food delivered?
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JimSpears
All in one would be the best bet.
Cook-Clean-Deliver
| {
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How Chipotle f*cked up their brand... and how to save it - churnek
http://followingtherules.com/is-chipotle-destroying-their-brand/
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joshstrange
While I haven't observed directly everything you bring up I think you make
very good points.
It's funny, when I started reading this I immediately thought "They are ... | {
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Netflix is now screwed..Why you should put your membership on hold. - jason_slack
I was in the mood to watch a movie.<p>Fired up the AppleTV to see that a lot of movies were no longer in my Instant Queue (approx 20). Weird, executed a search for the movie "Grown Ups" to find out it is no longer available!<p>I called... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What annoys you? - daleharvey
A lot of recent threads have been talking about sharing ideas, I would rather share our problems. Hopefully some people can be lead towards solutions that already exist, and it might be useful for those looking to startup something new.<p>List the problem you have, and why you fin... | {
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Tin-Can: building a one-to-many messaging app sans Internet or cell service - markkat
http://hubski.com/pub?id=79311
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bigdebe
I'm interested to see this in action. I think the side load will be super
beneficial in some of the scenarios you've talked about.
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markkat
mk here. Development is ongoing, and w... | {
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Changes in Brain Size during the Menstrual Cycle - kgarten
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0014655
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Terretta
If this is true, I wonder if the Feminism 101 manifesto will get revised.
EDIT: Feminism 101 asserts "that time of the month" has no alterations in
behavior or thought othe... | {
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} |
Getting Started with Android Development - falava
http://alexlod.com/2011/11/21/getting-started-with-android/
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Zigurd
What I would add to this is:
Understand component lifecycle. Understand it well enough to know you have to
design your app around it, because you can't subvert it. Do this first. Do not
write co... | {
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} |
How We Built the World’s Prettiest Auto-Generated Transit Maps - ant6n
https://medium.com/transit-app/how-we-built-the-worlds-prettiest-auto-generated-transit-maps-12d0c6fa502f
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Chris_Newton
That’s a fascinating case study. Thanks for sharing.
Not so long ago, I was designing visualisations for a different type... | {
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Women’s Gymnastics Deserves Better TV Coverage - r-w
http://www.newyorker.com/news/sporting-scene/how-to-really-watch-olympic-gymnastics
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dominotw
>Not enough drama for you? How about the fact that gymnasts risk their health
every time they step onto the mat?
>One of the factors preventing Americans from apprec... | {
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} |
Linode’s 13th Birthday - jedicoffee
https://blog.linode.com/2016/06/16/linodes-13th-birthday-gifts-for-all/
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Sir_Cmpwn
[Disclaimer: Linode dev here]
I see a few people^W^Weveryone here talking about security. If you didn't read
the whole blog post, you might not have noticed the new Linode manager that
we're wo... | {
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} |
Research suggests many US parents will lie when saying kids made them happier - wallflower
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/06/many-americans-will-tell-you-having-kids-made-them-happier-theyre-probably-lying/
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rday
I'd really like to see a study specific to female happiness with children. I
li... | {
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Match.com no longer top dating site, sends in the lawyers - tortilla
http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/match-com-no-longer-top-dating-site-sends-in-the-lawyers/
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macrael
> Match than demands that we enter into a confidential agreement where we show
> them how we are able to generate more relationships... | {
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Bootstrap 3.3.7 released, now featuring support for jQuery 3 - jrbedard
http://blog.getbootstrap.com/2016/07/25/bootstrap-3-3-7-released/
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robotvert
“Aww yeah, Bootstrap 4 is coming!” - 19 Aug 2015
Sorry I had to.
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kayman
I've been using bootstrap 4 in a current project and it is actually pretty
good.
Card... | {
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} |
Magic tricks created using artificial intelligence - cryptoz
http://scienceblog.com/75358/magic-tricks-created-using-artificial-intelligence-first-time/#5JWJjypPfkqJs2vO.97
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AndyNemmity
I'm a magician, and it's one of my biggest passions in life.
This is being reported in many publications as the first time art... | {
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} |
Solar powered smart windows break 11% efficiency, can provide 80% US electricity - fuzzythinker
https://electrek.co/2017/11/29/solar-smart-windows-11-percent-efficiency/
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leephillips
The Nature paper is free to read:
[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01842-4](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017... | {
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} |
We're hiring - but we probably won't pay you. - celticbadboy
http://channelsource.org/
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snogglethorpe
Somewhat off-topic, but is the term "hiring" generally associated with
payment?
I've run across some (otherwise very reasonable) gaming websites that
periodically post big "we're hiring!" notices...and in the... | {
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} |
Meatier – A Meteor alternative - mikexstudios
https://github.com/mattkrick/meatier
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civilian
Wow, there's a ton of jerks here dissing the variety of javascript frameworks
here.
Look, the web is a fast evolving platform. Similarly, the best way to
understand the tradeoffs a framework makes is write your own own!... | {
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} |
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