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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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/
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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://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
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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/a promising open source project and also increase productive use of my time.<p>Do you have a suggestion ?
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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
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__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
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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
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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
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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'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://www.youtube.com/... | {
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Show HN: Bild – A collection of image processing functions in Go - amzans
https://github.com/anthonynsimon/bild
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chewxy
FYI, the verb for "convolution" is "convolve", not "convolute".
English is a weird arse language
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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halo2foryoy
what component of this has anything to do with AI?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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/
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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
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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/
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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/
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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
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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
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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
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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
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uptown
Outline: [https://outline.com/VJnU9p](https://outline.com/VJnU9p)
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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
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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/
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sp332
Well that didn't answer the question at all :(
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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
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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
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ximeng
First answer is very stylish.
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est
If punctuation rules were invented by programmers, \" everywhere.
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Cloud MapReduce - neilc
http://code.google.com/p/cloudmapreduce/
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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
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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
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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
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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
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TailorJones
Non-closable pop-up window.
| {
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Ask HN: When do you think smartphones will become obsolete? - karanganesan
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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
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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
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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?
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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/
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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
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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/
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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'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 / anectodes you'd like to shar... | {
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The Mosteller Hall Puzzle - gpresot
http://jonathanweisberg.org/post/Teaching%20Monty%20Hall/
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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
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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
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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/
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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
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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/
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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/
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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
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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
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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/
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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
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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/
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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... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Amplifying C - cesare
http://voodoo-slide.blogspot.com/2010/01/amplifying-c.html
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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/
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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/
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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
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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
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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/
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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/
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AlchemistCamp
Ah, I confused this with Tony Lea's course called "SaaS Adventure":
[https://saasadventure.io/](https://saasadventure.io/)
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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
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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?
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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'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'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
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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... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ron Paul Launches Snowden Clemency Petition - ghosh
http://reason.com/blog/2014/02/13/ron-paul-launches-snowden-clemency-peti
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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
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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/
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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} |
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