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Claude Shannon Turns 1100100 - anthotny http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/claude-shannon-the-father-of-the-information-age-turns-1100100 ====== tunap Try to imagine where we would be today if Bell Labs and/or MIT had fired him for his eccentricities, "trivial" distractions and prolonged absences. Imagine if he ha...
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Seethe and Grin: My Life Going to Tech Events - pchristensen https://medium.com/p/9b14f05a9832 ====== ScottWhigham I'm about to lose -100 karma but holy crap that was some serious tripe. _This only gets worse with the addition of alcohol, which is always plentiful._ What tech conference are you going to where they ...
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Ask HN: Is hnrss.org down? - l1n Title. ====== edavis Hi all — hnrss.org developer here. Sorry for the downtime. I've spun up some extra resources to better handle the load. Should be back up and working now. ------ hackernewscdn shot over an email to the admin contact on whois (proxy email) so hopefully they will fi...
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Show HN: I know how to induce out of body exprience in simplest way! - spiritualid but does it imply that obe is scientific or not? if so what should i do to prove its true? I will post my methodology soon on my site I promise ====== jballanc Out-of-body experiences have already been studied quite extensively by the...
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Time to clean up your digital closet - profquail http://www.physorg.com/print168717176.html ====== neoclassical The only solution I've found to past digital data is to keep converting it to whatever current OS, file system and media I'm using, which works with a lot of it. Had I had more foresight, I would have kept...
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Extracting Multiple Bits per Request from Full-Blind SQL Injection Vulns - _DadeMurphy http://howto.hackallthethings.com/2016/07/extracting-multiple-bits-per-request.html ====== hysterix You guys are absolutely crushing it. Would have never thought to use the response time from a server to be able to extract extra bit...
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Novel Coronavirus May Not Have Originated in Wuhan Seafood Market - s_Hogg https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/wuhan-seafood-market-may-not-be-source-novel-virus-spreading-globally ====== s_Hogg Back in the 2003-04 SARS outbreak, the cause was partly a laboratory in Beijing that let the virus slip out accidentally...
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Why was the post about Twitter bias flagged? - onyva I think it’s important to give context. Link should be removed, but it’s still available in the RSS feed. But maybe re-direct to a fact checking site?<p>Ie.<p>These media sources are moderately to strongly biased toward conservative causes through story selection an...
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The LED's Dark Secret - scapegraced http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/optoelectronics/the-leds-dark-secret ====== mmt Informative article, though I wish there was a bit more quantitative comparison to fluorescent, qualitatively awful though it may be, not just incandescent.
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Arduino LED Startup Counter - matthack http://matthack.com/startup-counter/ ====== matthack First time posting on Hacker News! I thought this tutorial on how to build your own LED internet connected startup display might be of interest to some people. [http://matthack.com/startup-counter/](http://matthack.com/startu...
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Ask HN: Can we can stop climate breakdown by quitting meat and growing plants? - LetsGrowPlants I just finished watching a documentary called Cowspiracy that takes a closer look into the effects of mass production livestock and fishing on the environment.<p>Link: www.cowspiracy.com<p>FAQ: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cowspira...
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How will we build an artificial human brain? - ColinWright http://io9.com/5906945/how-will-we-build-an-artificial-human-brain ====== agbell I think saying that Goertzel approach is "hard-coding of artificial general intelligence" not at all what he is doing. I think its more like hooking together a bunch of narrow mac...
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Ask HN: I want to contribute to a open source project, do you have a suggestion? - kcsomisetty I want to gain some skills by contributing to an existing&#x2F;a promising open source project and also increase productive use of my time.<p>Do you have a suggestion ? ====== welder You could do a TypeScript change I've bee...
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Get the author and title by knowing the ISBN using python - yiedyie http://stackoverflow.com/q/26360699 ====== __Joker The over moderation is SO stifling. May be intention is to have nothing but a straight question and answer site. I hope at least they give little time for ambiguous questions to take their shape befor...
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Ask HN: Cracking the Chicken-and-Egg Problem - mansigandhi We're a small startup that launched the beta version of our app at Stanford University 10 days ago (www.shoutt.me). Shoutt is a location-based information sharing platform...and thus, a social network of sorts. We decided to launch at Stanford due to various...
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US Has More Solar Workers Than Coal Miners - prostoalex http://www.businessinsider.com/us-has-more-solar-workers-than-coal-miners-2014-7 ====== TallGuyShort I don't think this is significant. They're counting the entire solar industry against one very specific role in a specific fossil fuel industry. What about all th...
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Insider Reveals Google Plan to Prevent 'Trump Situation' in 2020 - bhartzer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re9Xp6cdkro&feature=youtu.be ====== stirfrykitty Kudos to Project Veritas. I always suspected Google were intentionally manipulating people. Now we know for certain. I cancelled my Google accounts yesterday afte...
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Amazon pushes code live every 12 seconds - anacleto https://twitter.com/leonardofed/status/723812651613167616 ====== SyneRyder Link is to a tweet, which plagiarizes at least one prior tweet by another user: [https://twitter.com/khanoisseur/status/582979045618556928](https://twitter.com/khanoisseur/status/582979045618...
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Show HN: Cleanest Linux Productivity and Development Environment Using Manjaro - soygul Hello all,<p>I&#x27;ve just published a guide for a clean Manjaro Linux based productivity and development machine. If you want to check it out:<p>* YouTube (video with narrative + examples): https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;...
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Show HN: Bild – A collection of image processing functions in Go - amzans https://github.com/anthonynsimon/bild ====== chewxy FYI, the verb for "convolution" is "convolve", not "convolute". English is a weird arse language ~~~ amzans Thank you for the correction, fixed it :)
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Suing Equifax in Small Claims Court - wglb https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/people-are-suing-equifax-in-small-claims-court-its-totally-brilliant-heres-why.html ====== caymanjim This story is gaining a lot of traction, and publications like Inc are picking up on it as a David-vs-Goliath tale. Some of them link to Chr...
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The three legacies of Darwin - fwez http://www.tni.org/article/three-legacies-darwin ====== fwez I particularly liked the penultimate paragraph, I will quote here: "But the natural sciences rightly forewarn us that there are limits to this process – the law of entropy, while the dominant discourse of mainstream and c...
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Show HN: My side project, meaningful supplement price comparison - jal278 http://pricepergram.com ====== psb I like it. Nice colors and handy. You should post this on reddit at /r/fitness
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Arrington Might Face UK Arrest - Oompa http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/080509-techcrunch-arrington-faces-uk.html?page=1 ====== ryanwaggoner This seems like really poor journalism to me. While it does sound like Arrington lost the libel case, I believe it was a default judgment since Arrington didn't defend him...
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Fake Intel chips make way into U.S. market - ilamont http://www.itworld.com/hardware/99458/intel-investigating-sale-fake-core-i7-chip ====== hga What I found to be particularly special about this scam was their slapping a _label_ with a picture of a fan on the top of their "heatsink". It's little touches like this t...
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Show HN: AI driven online database of company profiles - jo_kruger https://www.aihitdata.com ====== halo2foryoy what component of this has anything to do with AI? ~~~ jo_kruger It is like iceberg - website is just a tip... Website is interface to database of company profiles. Each of these profiles was build from cor...
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China Tells Carriers to Block Access to Personal VPNs by February - b6 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-10/china-is-said-to-order-carriers-to-bar-personal-vpns-by-february ====== 7852b1805e Is anyone here familiar with this situation in mainland China? Will it effectively widen the cognitive gap betwee...
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Jawbone's demise a case of 'death by overfunding' - randomerr http://www.reuters.com/article/us-jawbone-failure-idUSKBN19V0BS ====== projectramo I don't know if I buy this "explanation" of why they failed, but then I don't have a good explanation. See, even if a company is "over funded", as long as they have operatin...
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Disney Said to Buy Stake in $3.5B MLB Web Unit - sswezey http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-30/disney-said-to-buy-stake-in-mlb-s-video-arm-in-3-5-billion-deal ====== msbarnett MLBAM has turned out to be a brilliantly prescient partnership by MLB club owners. Most of the time you wouldn't accuse the averag...
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HTML5 draft spec drops time element - saturdayplace http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13240 ====== pknight Isn't this a step backwards? This change doesn't make sense to me at all, seems less semantic.
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Raspberry Pi runs XBMC; reliably decodes 1080p (January) - bootload http://hackaday.com/2012/01/24/raspberry-pi-runs-xbmc-reliably-decodes-1080p/ ====== SoapSeller Since this item was posted in hackaday(January) a lot have been done. There is at least one[0] dedicated distro for running XBMC on the Pi. When I teste...
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AMD Debuts New 12- and 16-Core Opteron 6300 Series Processors - brokenparser http://www.techpowerup.com/197114/amd-debuts-new-12-and-16-core-opteron-6300-series-processors.html ====== Matsta I imagine these will be popular with CPU based mining such as primecoin? I've heard there's a shortage of Xeon L5639 servers (6...
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Khan Academy Statistics videos are not good - ColinWright http://learnandteachstatistics.wordpress.com/2012/07/30/khan-not-good/ ====== tokenadult It's interesting to see this blog post from 30 July 2012 submitted here. I have some favorite online references about statistics that I like to recommend in Hacker News c...
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Distraught people, Deadly results - lintroller http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2015/06/30/distraught-people-deadly-results/ ====== paulhauggis "Minutes later, Page’s death wish was granted. Two Clay County sheriff’s deputies arrived to find that he had taken a neighbor hostage. They opened fire, strik...
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Video/audio from Mike Abrash's CGDC 1996 talk on programming id's Quake - azharcs http://www.gdconf.com/news/the_gdc_25_chronicles/the_gdc_25_chronicles_a_quake_.html ====== maximilianburke Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book ([http://www.amazon.com/Michael-Abrashs-Graphics- Programming-S...](http://www.a...
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Want to fight climate change effectively? Here’s where to donate your money - kaycebasques https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/12/2/20976180/climate-change-best-charities-effective-philanthropy ====== kaycebasques Google has a donation matching program of up to $6K per year. E.g. if I donate $6K Google will match ...
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Ask HN: Review my startup, Xuland.com - erichcervantez Good morning HN,<p>I presented my site, Xuland a while back on HN but being a newbie the link/submission was closed for comments soon after. I've made considerable changes since then and even started working on a mobile app - or at least a mobile "web" app that...
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Elevated radiation claimed at Tokyo 2020 Olympic venues - yapcguy http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1329729/elevated-radiation-claimed-tokyo-2020-olympic-venues ====== DennisP "the highest radiation reading - 0.484 microsieverts per hour" By comparison, background radiation in Rome is about half that, and some ...
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No Savings? No Problem. Companies Are Helping Home Buyers with Down Payments - uptown https://www.wsj.com/articles/no-savings-no-problem-these-companies-are-helping-home-buyers-with-down-payments-1530270002 ====== uptown Outline: [https://outline.com/VJnU9p](https://outline.com/VJnU9p) ------ anoncoward111 I find it ...
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Top lawyers beaten by legal AI - eaguyhn https://hackernoon.com/20-top-lawyers-were-beaten-by-legal-ai-here-are-their-surprising-responses-5dafdf25554d ====== nickelcitymario Having worked in a law office, I can say confidently that the future of legal AI is human+AI. AI can rapidly spot all the issues, saving expensi...
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How Amazon convinced people to welcome ‘listening devices’ into their homes - hhs https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/how-amazon-convinced-millions-of-people-to-welcome-listening-devices-into-their-homes/ ====== sp332 Well that didn't answer the question at all :( ~~~ pixxel It’s an advert to watch the program...
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Tutankhamun had a space dagger - neverminder http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3619841/Tutankhamun-space-dagger-Blade-ancient-Egyptian-boy-king-s-mummy-METEORITE.html ====== gus_massa Better title: "Tutankhamun had a dagger made from a meteorite"
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Punctuation - Why does the multi-paragraph quotation rule exist? - ximeng http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/96608/why-does-the-multi-paragraph-quotation-rule-exist ====== ximeng First answer is very stylish. ------ est If punctuation rules were invented by programmers, \" everywhere.
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Cloud MapReduce - neilc http://code.google.com/p/cloudmapreduce/ ====== jbr Instead of ranting in response to this mostly-dead HN thread, I posted a blog entry: <http://www.jacobrothstein.com/cloud-mapreduce-vs-hadoop> In short, the 60x speed gain in comparison to Hadoop isn't fair, and in more reasonable tests the...
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TempleOS: 100 Random Code Walk-Thru Videos - RandomCode http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Accts/TS/Wb2/Videos.html ====== iliaznk This is beautiful.
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Quick Thoughts on the Google Walkout - cribbles https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/11/quick-thoughts-google-walkout.html ====== kough It will be interesting to see if we programmers can capture more of the value of our labor by forming unions. This walkout is exactly the sort of thing that a union would organize. Th...
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There could be 36 communicating intelligent civilizations in our galaxy - rbanffy https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/15/world/intelligent-civilizations-galaxy-scn-trnd/index.html ====== ishan_kart I hope there are more intelligent civilizations out there. Wouldn't want to be the smartest guys in the room :D.
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Delete your code - vermilingua https://hackernoon.com/delete-your-code-c5d2dc59f1ff ====== TailorJones Non-closable pop-up window.
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Ask HN: When do you think smartphones will become obsolete? - karanganesan ====== croo Never. A better question is how will smartphones evolve. Phones are humanity's magic crystals which enables everyone to send instant communication channel to anyone else and tap in the greatest common knowledge base ever. I don't th...
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Just released: WebAssembly version of Secp256k1 (10x faster than JavaScript) - bitjson https://blog.bitjson.com/just-released-webassembly-version-of-secp256k1-10x-faster-than-javascript-eb3cebe4d411 ====== bitjson Hi HN – I've been working on a Bitcoin/Bitcoin Cash library written in TypeScript, and I just released th...
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SocialHistory.js: See Which Sites Your Users Visit - sant0sk1 http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/socialhistoryjs_see_which_site.php ====== typicaljoe I wonder what other creative uses there are for this. For example, if someone visits digg you know they are likely to be a techie. If they visit seattle.craigslist.com...
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Ask HN: Does your (non EU) company charge VAT to European customers? - jibjab According to the 'VAT on e-Services' directive of the European Union companies that are not based in the EU companies should charge VAT on sales of "electronically supplied services" to European customers. This directive was put in place s...
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What can a 25 year old do today to grow exponentially in 5 years? - FahadUddin92 Considering someone is a fresh University graduate or with 1-2 years of experience. What are the things that he can start doing today for the next 5 years that will help him have a great career in tech? ====== jasonkester Job hop. Early ...
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Tech Platforms and the Knowledge Problem - kawera https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2018/05/tech-platforms-and-the-knowledge-problem/ ====== salawat The author does a good job of laying out the fundamental differences between the Jeffersonian and Hamitonian approaches to solving the "knowledge problem" of platforms c...
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Extract TLS certificates, fingerprint TLS client/server interactions with JA3 - adulau https://twitter.com/d4_project/status/1103673911529611264 ====== bane Speaking of JA3, does anybody know of a good set of repositories for JA3 hashes?
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Show HN: Taking a web app from one container to scalable cloud solution - bwghughes http://hellodocker.com/ ====== brudgers Providing sample content might elicit better feedback. All I saw was an email harvester and a page to share it.
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This Was Not Looting - davisclark http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2005/03/this_was_not_looting.html ====== jack9 So the source is an inspector or nuclear scientist or weapons expert who would know this? No. "Sami al-Araji, the deputy minister of industry" Immediately thereafter attribu...
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Deceiving Authorship Detection (2011) [video] - espeed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b0Ta9h62_E ====== espeed See also: Identifying People from their Writing Style [https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/01/identifying_p...](https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/01/identifying_peo_3.html) Code: [https:...
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The Foundations of Mathematics (2007) [pdf] - lainon https://www.math.wisc.edu/~miller/old/m771-10/kunen770.pdf ====== fmap It's surprising that this was written in 2007. This article just perpetuates the tired old myth that there is something special about set theory... At its heart, set theory allows us to _encode_ ...
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We Need Chrome No More - kaishin https://redalemeden.com/blog/2019/we-need-chrome-no-more ====== mapgrep I enjoyed this post, but I take issue with the idea that Chrome was initially adopted, or served, "to break the Web free from corporate greed." Chrome's appeal was primarily technical. Each tab got its own process ...
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Ask HN: How do you go from seasoned hobbyist to professinonal engineer ? - zabana I&#x27;d like you to share your experiences with the community. If you went from being a passionate hobbyist to a professional software developer, how did you go about it ? Any tips, funny stories &#x2F; anectodes you&#x27;d like to shar...
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The Mosteller Hall Puzzle - gpresot http://jonathanweisberg.org/post/Teaching%20Monty%20Hall/ ====== BoppreH I don't understand why the given solution doesn't fall prey to the same problem of "her logic would make it unnecessary to consult the guard". By this solution, if the guard says "B" (as in the original story)...
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Go 1.5 “To Do” List - radimm https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nWAlZSXGMGdIh8iKovGpx9L1dHiQZlEmq4xDrfxPcBA/edit ====== ecliptik Good to see more of the arm64 port on there. Hopefully it is fully developed this time. I was excited last year seeing arm64 in the 1.4 notes, only to be disappointed after looking into i...
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Null pointer dereference – new security bug for OpenSSL - openbsddesktop http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/5.5/common/005_openssl.patch.sig ====== agl Good to note that this was found with KLEE[1]. KLEE is a good for symbolic execution of code and is very cool[2]. This only triggers a crash if you use RELE...
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3 Things Self-Taught Developers Missed - rco8786 http://geekindex.wordpress.com/2012/11/14/3-things-self-taught-developers-missed/ ====== dave_sullivan Other than being a huge generalization, it's kind of a moot point. "Hey self-taught developer, here's some things you don't know because you're self taught" "Great...
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The world's first computer made entirely with Carbon-nanotube FETs. Meet Cedric. - typon http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v501/n7468/full/501495a.html ====== typon The paper published online in Nature today is here: [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v501/n7468/full/nature1...](http://www.nature.com/nature/jo...
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The Real ‘Stuff White People Like’ - dfreidin http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-real-stuff-white-people-like/ ====== powrtoch On the proper use of this data: Perhaps the easiest way to think of it is that the phrases are predictors for the race/sex, not the other way around. For example, you shouldn't expect ever...
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New face of the Bank of England's £50 note is revealed as Alan Turing - hackr_nj https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48962557 ====== jayflux Dupe [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20439425](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20439425)
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An updated list of the current YC S15 companies - whizkid77 http://www.rankables.com/l/y-combinator-summer-2015-class-yc-s15-54758721?src=hn ====== shenanigoat Really underwhelming. YC is such a high-profile incubator yet none of the startups are terribly revolutionary and some are just uninspired or even outright t...
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Get a 'Personal' MBA - tialys http://lifehacker.com/399411/skip-business-school-and-get-your-personal-mba ====== alex_c To me, part of the value of a "proper" MBA seems to be meeting like-minded people and the potential to make some great connections. However, I don't have an MBA - neither personal nor the $100,000 ...
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Node-formidable (Parsing for Fast File Uploads) - EzGraphs https://github.com/felixge/node-formidable ====== EzGraphs Described in use for fast video encoding: [http://debuggable.com/posts/parsing-file-uploads- at-500-mb-s...](http://debuggable.com/posts/parsing-file-uploads-at-500-mb-s- with-node-js:4c03862e-351c-...
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Twitter to Introduce Algorithmic Timeline as Soon as Next Week - davidbarker http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/twitter-to-introduce-algorithmic-timeline-as-soon-as-next-we#.nr4NMm4Kkr ====== teaneedz RIP Twitter is trending
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Using Dropbox as your database backup space - vanwilder77 http://virendra.me/post/51254875516/using-dropbox-as-your-database-backup-space ====== Servora Dropbox is easy to use and is very popular among students and small businesses. An alternative that caters primarily to businesses would be Box.
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Apple Pulls Shadow Cloud Gaming Service from App Store for Violating Guidelines - benologist https://www.macrumors.com/2020/02/27/apple-pulls-shadow-gaming-service-from-app-store/ ====== JamesMcd Anti-competitive behavior from apple as usual :(
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Show HN: Highscore.money – Pay your way into the highscore - keesj https://highscore.money ====== keesj A while ago I was thinking about how people spend a lot of their money on impressing others. Fancy clothes and jewellery, the red sports car, etc. Really all it is, is showing off how much money you've got to waste....
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South Korean group BTS became the world's biggest boy band - Tomte https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/01/asia/bts-kpop-us-intl/index.html ====== Tomte I find it fascinating that the band members all have an "associated emoji". The logical evolution of nick names in a text messaging world.
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Ask HN: How do you remain anonymous on the internet? - kyo3 Edit for a little more clarity: I thought about using a VPN just to have a little less of a footprint online, but it was just annoying to setup due to the provider I used being marked as spam. I also read later there was little to no point in doing this.<p>It...
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Next-Gen Web Apps: Google unleashes Native Client into Chrome - lobo_tuerto http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/11/chrome-native-client/ ====== Animus7 Without PNaCl, this feels nothing but regressive, for at least three reasons: 1) JS is awesome precisely because of the common denominator. But because Chrome said so, devs...
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The Phisher Kings - burgessct https://www.cylance.com/en_us/blog/the-phisher-kings.html ====== GrumpyNl wow, that site is slow, unable to load.
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CodeSchool, Acquired by PluralSight - CodeCube http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/26/online-learning-service-pluralsight-acquires-code-school-for-36-million/ ====== lalanl Every time I hear of a PluralSight acquisition I'm excited to see what new videos will come. I've watched most of the videos relevant to my hobbies an...
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Amplifying C - cesare http://voodoo-slide.blogspot.com/2010/01/amplifying-c.html ====== mahmud Good spirit! Interested parties can also hack on Parenscript: it compiles a decent chunk of Lisp to JavaScript, it's extremely well documented, and even has a CLOS like object system. <http://common-lisp.net/project/pare...
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Wuala encrypted cloud storage shifting to paid only service - levosmetalo https://support.wuala.com/2014/06/shifting-to-paid-only-service/ ====== levosmetalo I have been a happy user of this service, but am now looking for alternatives. I would prefer a seamless client side encrypted cloud storage with clients for ...
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Ask HN: What's the most simple way to accept monthly subscription fees? - arnorhs I've got a web application with monthly subscription fees. What's the easiest way to implement monthly billing? Is there an app out there that handles that kind of stuff for you?<p>Side-question: what's the cheapest way? That is, requiri...
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The Biases of Wikipedia and Moderators Today - codeddesign https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/ ====== XMPPwocky [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chupacabra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chupacabra) Why is the article so negative here? They describe it as a "legendary creature". Uh-huh. Meanwhi...
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Homesteading on the Indie Web (2011) - Tomte http://markmhendrickson.com/posts/homesteading-on-the-indie-web ====== AlexDragusin _The user couldn 't be expected to use FTP, a command line interface, a file system, or any other technologies beyond the browser because doing so would severely limit its accessibility. Use...
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Ask HN: Content structure and BrainRank? - tmaly Given the use of machine learning as a signal in search, how could you better structure your text so it could be better consumed by BrainRank or similar algorithms?<p>I am assuming that while not public, some of the methods of BrainRank are similar to word2vec ====== mt...
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Committing to your developers will help you keep them - NateLipscomb http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/06/committing-to-your-developers-will-help-you-keep-them/ ====== lordapophis Pay them market rates. I worked at a company that would give performance based raises to market rates. Its not infinite and I knew it would ...
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Like the Phoenix: The Discipline of Becoming (SaaS Adventure) - elliotbnvl https://elliotbonneville.com/blog/like-the-phoenix-the-discipline-of-becoming/ ====== AlchemistCamp Ah, I confused this with Tony Lea's course called "SaaS Adventure": [https://saasadventure.io/](https://saasadventure.io/) ~~~ elliotbnvl Oh n...
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TC Heartland case taken by Supreme Court (to abolish Eastern Texas patent venue) [pdf] - WildUtah https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/121416zr_4h71.pdf ====== WildUtah Background here: [http://www.scotusblog.com/wp- content/uploads/2016/09/16-341-...](http://www.scotusblog.com/wp- content/uploads/2016/09/...
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Android Beats RIM – Becomes Market Share Leader in USA - nextparadigms http://nextparadigms.com/2010/08/03/android-beats-rim-becomes-market-share-leader-in-usa/ What will RIM do now when Android is breathing on its neck and threatens to enter its enterprise market? ====== Magneus Call me crazy, but I think he's jumpi...
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Where is my lean browser for browsing gone to? - Lorenz-Kraft Hi all,<p>i&#x27;m surfing a lot in the net. I do some web development. Sometimes there are 10 to 20 Tabs opened ... and my CPU Fan is roaring at me. Time to buy a new computer? Well ... no! I don&#x27;t get it why a browser with 20 opened tabs eats up 4 ...
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GelTouch: Localized Tactile Feedback Through Thin, Programmable Gel [pdf] - fezz http://joergmueller.info/pdf/UIST15MiruchnaGelTouch.pdf ====== jakeva This seems pretty cool. I'm curious about the viability of such a product in the marketplace, it seems like even at full scale production it would be radically expensiv...
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Ron Paul Launches Snowden Clemency Petition - ghosh http://reason.com/blog/2014/02/13/ron-paul-launches-snowden-clemency-peti ====== staunch I'm unreserved in my support for Snowden getting a blanket pardon. He should literally get a medal. He's the American of the decade as far as I'm concerned. ~~~ RankingMember I ...
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PonyDebugger: Chrome Developer Tools for Native iOS Apps - wlue http://corner.squareup.com/2012/08/ponydebugger-remote-debugging.html ====== jazzychad I saw a demo of this a couple months ago at a small gathering. I was blown away. Another feature demo'd at the time was the ability to make obj-c calls in the chrome ...
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Netflix misses its subscriber targets again - elorant https://abundary.com/netflix-subscriber-wars-disney-plus/ ====== satoshians That's expected. Because 1 netflix account can just be shared between friends or relatives. Why would you pay a subscription if you can just borrow.
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Does anyone have data on average mth. cost of an instance (VM)in public cloud? - Arbinv ====== dekhn The cloud providers do. They have pricing calculators which can provide rough estimates.
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Tool Can Hack Your Accounts Even with Two-Factor Authentication – ExtremeTe - Starlen https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/269121-this-tool-can-hack-your-accounts-even-with-two-factor-authentication ====== spaniard_dev This is too 2018
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Function calls are not stack frames - edw519 http://ezrakilty.net/research/2009/11/function_calls_are_not_stack_frames.html ====== oconnor0 "Maybe we want to know the call structure at runtime; in that case, we should capture that as debugging information, or as a reflection feature of the runtime system, but not as...
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Firefox 68 vs. Chrome 76 Linux Web Browser Performance Benchmarks - Fnoord https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Firefox-68-Chrome-76-Browsers ====== OrgNet Even if the benchmarks were done properly, I would rather still use Firefox (privacy trumps performance)...
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Project MKUltra - rasengan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra ====== Synaesthesia Also relevant, “The CIA’s Secret History of Psychological Torture.” [https://www.salon.com/2009/06/11/mccoy/](https://www.salon.com/2009/06/11/mccoy/) > Canadian psychologist Donald Hebb found that he could induce a state ak...
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