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Gifpop.io – Print gifs with the magic of lenticular printing - tpsc
http://gifpop.io/
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doctorwho
Very cool! I wrote code to do this back in 1995 for a company called 3DCOM. We
supported full color, full page prints from a sequence of 24 images, each from
a slightly different angle to produce a 3D "holographic" p... | {
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Three.js - necenzurat
http://mrdoob.github.com/three.js/
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gavinpc
Very cool, although many of the demos require way too much CPU to be generally
deployable. (Tested in Firefox 6 and Chrome.)
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paisible
respect!
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Amazon Prime Will Soon Cost 20% More - apress
http://fortune.com/2018/04/26/amazon-will-jack-up-the-price-of-its-prime-program-next-month/
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masonic
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16936192](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16936192)
55+ comments
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25,000 sex website passwords exposed by LulzSec - zgorgonola
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/06/12/26000-sex-website-usernames-and-passwords-exposed-by-lulzsec/
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mikle
I feel like this is old news... I mean there are so many high profile tech
companies being hacked, a random porn site seems like an easy t... | {
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Show HN: Backmail – Automated Gmail backups - backmail
https://backmail.io
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backmail
Hi All ,
After reading across various comments in HN about google locking email
accounts, and people setting up Gmvault for backing up gmail at home servers,
i started working on this side project , which is ready to be Show HN... | {
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Show HN: OMG Smackdown, a completely frivolous clojure web app (with source) - nonrecursive
http://omgsmackdown.com/
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nonrecursive
Here's the github repo: <https://github.com/flyingmachine/arenaverse>
And here's a walk through the code:
[http://www.flyingmachinestudios.com/programming/dissecting-o...](http://... | {
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So now apparently, only Chrome is supported on Google properties - zobzu
https://twitter.com/kangsterizer/status/389817663335047168
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McGlockenshire
Sensationalist headline, sensationalist tweet.
If you actually click through to the image -
[http://i.imgur.com/cxFFE3W.png](http://i.imgur.com/cxFFE3W.png) \- it... | {
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Ask HN: Is PWA a real threat to the open web? - kiantol
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detaro
No, it's IMHO the opposite.
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kiantol
I really hope that's the case. It just feels a bit like the Microsoft Embrace,
Extend, Extinguish strategy.
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GM’s data mining is just the beginning of the in-car advertising blitz - uptown
https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/17/17990052/gm-radio-listen-tracking-habits-advertising-future
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nathan_long
Every time I see ads in a new place, I think of this quote.
> Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 21st century?"
> Fry: Well... | {
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Taaalk [Update: site now back up] - FailMore
https://taaalk.co/#vn
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ALittleLight
I picked a conversation at random
[https://taaalk.co/t/bitcoin-maxima-other-crypto-
things](https://taaalk.co/t/bitcoin-maxima-other-crypto-things)
This started off with a question about a background image, and the answer had
a lo... | {
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The first image on the very first Macintosh (2004) - spking
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Scrooge_McDuck.txt&sortOrder=Sort+by+Date
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montrose
"I was used to coming back to the lab at Apple after dinner, to see if
anything interesting was going on and working on various extra-curric... | {
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Library of Congress: Copyright is killing sound archiving - gasull
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/10/11/library-of-congress-3.html
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Alex3917
Not just sound archives, but film as well. Almost all of the silent films shot
in Ithaca have been lost because they were left to rot in their containers due
to copyright... | {
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} |
Two Kinds of Freedom of Speech (or Strangeloop vs. Curtis Yarvin) - protomyth
http://popehat.com/2015/06/10/two-kinds-of-freedom-of-speech-or-strangeloop-vs-curtis-yarvin/
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nkurz
In case you were wondering what Curtis's talk might have been about (and
whether it would have held any technical merit) this page has... | {
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} |
London Stock Exchange delays Linux move by two months - Gesiggie
http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/open-source-business/news/index.cfm?newsid=20952
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Powerscroft
Do you believe the reason they gave? I do.
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Can the FCC really block California's net neutrality law? - sunnydayz
https://www.wired.com/story/can-fcc-really-block-californias-net-neutrality-law/amp
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DerekL
Dupe:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18168925](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18168925)
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Americans Are Horribly Misinformed About Who Has Money - Hoff
http://www.good.is/post/americans-are-horribly-misinformed-about-who-has-money/
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cletus
I find posts like this one depressing. They're cynical and shortsighted.
The premise of such posts is that if people were aware of who was getting a
tax cut they ... | {
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C++ Core Coroutines Proposal [pdf] - anqurvanillapy
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p1063r0.pdf
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pcwalton
It seems that the main issue that the authors of this proposal have with the
current coroutines proposal in the committee is that that proposal effectively
requires allocation for all... | {
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} |
Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can't Protect Us Anymore - ldayley
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/11/ff-mat-honan-password-hacker/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Top+Stories%29
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gabemart
>This summer I learned how to get into, well, everyth... | {
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Ask HN: Why not more hiring of junior devs, then on-the-job-training? - the_antipode
Hi, all. Long time, first time. Hoping to tap into the collective HN consciousness to help make sense of this question, as I feel it's something I'm seeing/experiencing at present.<p>It seems like twice a week or more I... | {
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Nintendo: Apple's Latest Prey - chaostheory
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904888304576473493285312436.html
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sebkomianos
I am neither the best analyst nor do I have any information. But I am going to
comment on this mainly because, having owned almost everything they released
and because I have a ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The path to profitability for Uber and Lyft looks more like a dead end - CitizenTekk
https://beth.technology/profitability-uber-lyft-dead-end/
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planetzero
The end result will be a more expensive taxi-like system that will end up
being inefficient within a decade or less.
yay progress?
| {
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The Search at San Jose (1958) [video] - augustocallejas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFRBD2uN9PY
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dtf
Lovely art direction in this film. I love this way the IBM suits play in the
black & white part of the black/white/brown palette.
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whyenot
This is a documentary describing how IBM developed the first... | {
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Introduction to Gnome 3 - audidude
http://www.gnome3.org/
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mikedouglas
Not that I want to beat up on a open source project, but for a desktop
environment focused on ease of use, there are some very odd things overlooked.
1\. How am I supposed to know what these icons do? Why even title them?
[https://img.skitch... | {
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On Being a Bastard (Cultivating online communities) - jrockway
http://www.shadowcat.co.uk/blog/matt-s-trout/on-being-a-bastard/
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houseabsolute
Not impressed. I'm pretty sure being an asshole is more frequently harmful
than helpful. I myself have been one from time to time and I understand the
motivation to pai... | {
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If the NSA can tap all traffic, can they not control/stop all Internet traffic? - samstave
Assuming the severity of the NSA's reach into deep packet flows is such that they can intercept pretty much any communication - it would be negligent to believe the NSA could not shut down any/many/the most impo... | {
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7 Must Reads for Developers Turned Entrepreneurs - transburgh
http://brianhaveri.com/?id=50
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tomjen
I fail to see "How to Win Friends and Influence People" listed there - a blody
shame, as it IS the book on how humans work. And remember every dollar you
ever make comes from humans.
~~~
michaelneale
That is a go... | {
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Windows 0-days, SWIFT bank hacks among latest Shadow Brokers release - bootload
https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/04/nsa-leaking-shadow-brokers-just-dumped-its-most-damaging-release-yet/
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merricksb
Other discussions:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14114665](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=141146... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Ask HN: GoDaddy is refusing to take action against Domain Fraud, What can we do? - pushkargaikwad
Hi, I am part of AeroLeads.com and some of our customers informed us a few days back saying they are getting emails from "aero-leads.com" pretending to be us. Few of them were confused why we changed the domain ... | {
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In few years renewable power may become a better economic option - dgudkov
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/01/renewables-will-be-equal-or-cheaper-than-fossil-fuels-by-2020-according-to-research
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ghouse
They already are less expensive in areas that have the specific resource. For
example, in windy parts of th... | {
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} |
JQuery Widgets - Bringing Sanity to Complex Apps - cschneid
http://blog.citrusbyte.com/2010/09/16/jquery-widgets-bringing-sanity/
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jhuckestein
Unfortunately your site is down as of this writing, so I didn't read the
article yet.
Regardless, for all who are interested in organizing their jQuery click-driven
sp... | {
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} |
Feedback on FriendShuffle - StumbleUpon For Facebook Likes - jasonlbaptiste
http://friendshuffle.com/
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sanj
I was turned off as soon as the list of permissions showed up:
Access my basic information: OK
Send me email: OK
Post to my Wall: No. Why do you need to post to my wall? To spam my friends?
Do you ha... | {
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} |
How much does a niche video site cost to run? - levib
I need to figure out how much it will cost to run a niche video site per month, server and hosting wise. (a niche video site would be like 5min.com)<p>What they might look like at 1k users, 10k, 100k, 1M, etc...and, any variables you think that will affect costs ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Ask HN: Opinion on "How to Care for Introverts" - olliesaunders
See: http://imgur.com/b1dmB.jpg<p>A few questions come to my mind:<p>- Shouldn't a lot of this apply to extraverts too? If not, why not?<p>- Do introverts really need special treatment?
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chinmi
I consider myself very introverted, but I think that ... | {
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Ask HN: What can I do when there is nothing to do at work? - TbobbyZ
I'm a contract software developer and would consider myself mid-senior level in my skillset. I've been working for my current client for about 3 months. Every assignment they give to me I get done as soon as possible to the point that I so... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Microsoft continues to build government security credentials ahead of JEDI award - kaboro
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/15/microsoft-continues-to-build-government-security-credentials-ahead-of-jedi-decision/
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bitxbitxbitcoin
Can we take a step back and appreciate that someone at the DoD took the time
to figure ... | {
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} |
We Need to Design Health Care Reform That Puts Patients Before Profits - howard941
https://rooseveltinstitute.org/why-we-need-to-design-health-care-reform-that-puts-patients-before-profits/
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rayiner
The U.S. spends $3.5 trillion annually on healthcare. _Worldwide_ profits for
the 112 publicly traded healthcare i... | {
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} |
CoffeeScript FTW - tomse
http://e2open.org/free-coffeescript-resources/
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ericclemmons
Funny timing! I've been using CasperJS all weekend and came across this same
example snippet in CoffeeScript.
I went ahead and did it in JavaScript and yep, like the author accurately
points out, it's messier.
The example s... | {
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Charting Library (PHP) - LiveTimeCards
Looking for a nice charting library that can integrate closely with PHP, prefer object oriented. Flash or Non-Flash based. I would prefer static images, but Flash offers nice eye candy. I just need the basics; line, bar, pie, with labels, keys, and coloring options.<p>I am look... | {
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No More Working Late: At the End of Each Day, This Office Disappears - prostoalex
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3035778/no-more-working-late-at-the-end-of-each-day-this-office-disappears?utm_source=facebook
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stephenr
I realise they think this approach encourages a better "work/life balance" but
I just see it as a... | {
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} |
Why so many programming languages? - Kristo5747
I started getting involved in coding ten or so years ago. I am self taught and, by necessity, became a jack of <i>many</i> trades (Bash, Awk, Javascript, PHP, Java, C, Assembly), but master of none.<p>I struggle to understand why so there's a flurry of languages seemin... | {
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Tech firms crowd into San Francisco, but it’s still no Silicon Valley - MilnerRoute
http://www.computerworld.com/article/3189609/it-industry/tech-firms-crowd-into-san-francisco-but-its-still-no-silicon-valley.html
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calcsam
"Spurred by tax incentives, Twitter set up its headquarters in the City by the
Bay in 2006... | {
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Venture Capitalists Return to Backing Science Startups - adventured
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/13/business/venture-capitalists-return-to-backing-science-start-ups.html
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perlpimp
Andresen has mentioned that government's funding of science is more crucial
because it takes a while for a breakthrough into a ne... | {
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} |
Saucy Business - MindTwister
https://www.thecleaverquarterly.com/stories/sichuan-chili-crisp
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dang
This is a good article but it's a dupe (or quasidupe) of
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18317591](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18317591),
from yesterday.
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tomcam
Very well written, and has one... | {
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AI Driving Olympics at NIPS 2018: Compete with the machine learning pros - AndreaCensi
I am one of the organizers of the AI Driving Olympics at NIPS 2018, in which 6 universities are involved (ETH Zürich, U. Montréal / MILA, Georgia Tech, Tsinghua, NCTU, TTIC), plus 2 industry partners (self-driving car company n... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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The Enormous Diversity Problem at AWS Re:Invent 2017 - Corrado
https://dev.to/kylegalbraith/the-enormous-diversity-problem-at-aws-reinvent-2017-bd7?utm_source
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Corrado
I was actually encouraged by the amount of women present this year. It seemed
to be much higher than in previous years. That said, there still wa... | {
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} |
Show HN: Video of Using the Sort-of-DIY Sit-Stand Treadmill Desk - peterarmstrong
http://peterarm.tumblr.com/post/37062008057/working-while-walking
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peterarmstrong
From the original discussion at <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4860729>
there were two questions I want to address:
1\. Is this a replacemen... | {
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Anonymous Hackers Announce Operation India | Press Release - unixroot
http://www.thehackernews.com/2011/06/anonymous-hackers-announce-operation.html
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devijvers
There's also operation turkey:
[http://anonnews.org/?p=press&a=item&i=1005](http://anonnews.org/?p=press&a=item&i=1005)
| {
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Ask HN: Review My Questionnaire - Is this Good Market Research? - jiaaro
Hey guys, My startup (Rootbuzz) is doing a little market research and I was hoping you could help us out with our questions.<p>We are focussing on Customer Service, and our product is a Q&A platform similar to Quora or Stack Overflow.<p>.<p... | {
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} |
Stakkr.io: An Alternative to Buffer - nparsons08
https://stakkr.io
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joshmn
Open-source alternative: [http://circular.io/](http://circular.io/)
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csixty4
Does stakkr.io or any of the Buffer alternatives being hyped lately support
anything other than Twitter? Buffer has separate queues for Facebook and
Linke... | {
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} |
Skype 4.0 for Linux - Intermediate
http://blogs.skype.com/linux/2012/06/skype_40_for_linux.html
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SnowLprd
Ooh! Ooh! Does it have the new _Conversation Ads_ feature?
[http://blogs.skype.com/en/2012/06/skype_advertising_update.h...](http://blogs.skype.com/en/2012/06/skype_advertising_update.html)
I, for one, can... | {
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Ask HN: Who are the investors to avoid? - candlestick
I’m in the process of fundraising and I realized there is no place to research investors. So I was wondering: who should you not take money from?
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mtmail
[https://www.knowyourvc.com/](https://www.knowyourvc.com/) aims to be the
glassdoor of investor ratings (... | {
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} |
HelloFax (YC W11): Sign And Send Faxes From Your Browser, Without The Hassle - ssclafani
http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/21/yc-funded-hellofax-sign-and-send-faxes-from-your-browser-without-the-hassle/
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pg
YC has switched over to HelloFax and we love it. With 250 companies we have to
deal with a _lot_ of faxes, bec... | {
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Rant HN: Apple is unhinged - siculars
Remember when the iphone was first announced? No SDK? No native dev? What would you need that for, Apple said. Why would you need an SDK? The future is open web! HTML5. Open. Free. Libre! Bla bla bla. So I hit the link for today's live stream of the "Back to Mac" event and for ... | {
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Ask HN: Mobile app developers making 100k+ on your app(s), how did you do it? - tagabek
In light of the recent salary threads, I would like to hear from mobile app developers that are making a nice living off of their apps. To be clear, I am looking for stories from indie developers/teams as opposed to large app com... | {
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Updates to Amazon EKS Version Lifecycle - edmorley
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/updates-to-amazon-eks-version-lifecycle/
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jitl
A cadence like this is nice for the k8s developers but goes to show that to
run on Kubernetes one needs either (or both!):
\- a dedicated engineering budget to keep up with chan... | {
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} |
Stop the Slow Lane - bfeld
http://stoptheslowlane.com/
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alialkhatib
I don't think this is the right approach. I realize that the principle is
fundamentally the same with SOPA protests (depriving users of content to
highlight the danger of this passing), but there's a more salient argument
that you could make her... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Is Apple experiencing a problematic decline in software quality? - MilkoFTW
http://www.tuaw.com/2014/10/15/is-apple-experiencing-a-problematic-decline-in-software-quality/
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tolmasky
I'd just like to point out that this is likely not to get better with this
(arbitrary) decision to release a new OS every year. It ... | {
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} |
“Your location London, UK will be auto-updated to London, England Metrop. Area” - OJFord
'better experience'<p>[by email:]<p>We’re continuously making changes to our platform to provide you with a better experience. In an effort to improve our mapping data, over the next month we’ll be updating the location ... | {
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Video: A Look Inside TechStars - jmorin007
http://www.somewhatfrank.com/2008/03/techstars.html
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brentr
If anyone is interested in someone with C++ skills and a background in finance
for their project, feel free to contact me.
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daniel-cussen
Is anyone here applying to TechStars?
| {
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StackOverflow & GitHub made responsive - yossir
Hey Everyone,<p>I think it is about time that StackOverflow and Github are made responsive. I started an open-source project that allows one to add a Chrome Extension to resize the pages. It currently only resets the width. If anyone is interested in contributing, below ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Astronomers now doubt there is an undiscovered 9th planet in our solar system - spchampion2
https://phys.org/news/2020-05-astronomers-undiscovered-9th-planet-solar.html
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Cactus2018
On the other hand, 'If Planet Nine Is a Tiny Black Hole, This Is How to Find
It'
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23132488](htt... | {
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} |
Tracking the reasons many girls avoid science and math - ph0rque
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2008/09/05/tracking.reasons.many.girls.avoid.science.and.math
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UandIblog
Yeah, OK, maybe.. But so what? The article, the studies and the supposed
solutions seem to ignore the most brutal obstacle. The reason that ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Apple WWDC 2018 - nimeshneema
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/#
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jgh
Is it just me or is this announcement earlier than usual? Anyway now I have to
think about whether or not I want to try to go...decisions decisions...
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nimeshneema
The announcement is indeed earlier than usual. The usual announcement date ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Dine Dating App Shows Off UI in Silly Promo Video - shigye
https://www.facebook.com/dinewith.co/videos/548699468663276/
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kamijovi
Looks good
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How Hacker News ranking algorithm works - lx
https://medium.com/hacking-and-gonzo/how-hacker-news-ranking-algorithm-works-1d9b0cf2c08d
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gus_massa
This article was published originally in October 2010. (Original HN
discussion:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781013](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=178... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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The Intercept is broadening access to Snowden archive - auza
https://theintercept.com/2016/05/16/the-intercept-is-broadening-access-to-the-snowden-archive-heres-why/
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cromwellian
Call me cynical, but I feel like Greenwald is heading into the territory of
just milking what he has now. All of the big revelations h... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How to Add Twitter’s New Product Cards to your Shopify Store? - mrtomasuolo
http://blog.virali.ca/2013/09/twitter-product-cards/
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tegansnyder
Tom... I took your approach and applied it to Magento. Thanks!
[https://gist.github.com/tegansnyder/6586013](https://gist.github.com/tegansnyder/6586013)
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Show HN: Pi-Hole scripts that block until a student does 5 khan academy problems - Iwillgetby
https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/ghezq9/free_pihole_50_scripts_to_periodically_block_a/
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Iwillgetby
Previous post in case the reddit modes nuke the new one.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/fg5fht/how_... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Good resources to learn COBOL? - mettamage
I recently saw a thread that advocated for COBOL as a programming language. I have a lot of opinions about it, but they are all very very biased. I've never seen a line of COBOL and I already think the language is bad.<p>It's time to change that and ask myse... | {
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Smarter Ranking with Bayesian Average Ratings - amzans
http://www.evanmiller.org/bayesian-average-ratings.html
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contravariant
The proof in the mathematical appendix can be simplified and generalized a
bit.
To avoid confusion I'll let 'S' be the score and 'R' the random variable
representing the _actual_ rating.... | {
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Zstandard v1.3.4 – faster everything - terrelln
https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases/tag/v1.3.4
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koolba
One of the coolest parts of zstd is the simple support for custom
dictionaries. If you have a lot of mid sized blobs that you want to separately
compress (so that you can separately decompress them), you ... | {
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Google Maps Enables Live Editing of Public Map Data - mattjaynes
http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2008/03/its-your-world-map-it.html
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TrevorJ
But does it Rickroll?
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Xbox 720 to use always-on DRM? - derpenxyne
http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/147776-xbox-720-to-use-always-on-drm-it-would-doom-the-console
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knowaveragejoe
> "If false, the rumor is nuts because of just how much of a stretch it is.
> The developer of a platform that runs a multitude of software unrelated to
>... | {
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Our Stay at Nakagin Capsule Tower Tokyo Japan - gscott
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gus_massa
You forgot the URL?
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Ben Sasse wants you to know that he is really worried about Deepfakes - Blognoggle
https://diginomica.com/2018/10/22/ben-sasse-wants-you-to-know-that-he-is-really-worried-about-deepfakes/
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zimpenfish
> Sasse has nonetheless angered the President and many of his fellow
> Republicans by openly disagreeing with Tru... | {
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Ask HN: Community Validated User Profiles - alanthonyc
I'm working on a community based web app and have been pondering ways to identify spam accounts.<p>Aside from the usual suspects during the registration process (captchas, honeypots, etc.), I'm also thinking of adding a "feature" where someone in the user commun... | {
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State Of the Art of War: Offensive Techniques in Binary Analysis [pdf] - server_bot
https://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~vigna/publications/2016_SP_angrSoK.pdf
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cx1000
A link to their binary analysis framework:
[https://github.com/angr/angr](https://github.com/angr/angr)
> angr is a suite of python libraries that let you l... | {
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Show a disabled button or no button, if the user is not authorized to do action? - con
https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/120848/should-i-have-a-disabled-button-or-no-button-at-all-if-the-user-doesnt-have-su
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bryanrasmussen
What should be communicated by the existence of a disabled button, if it is
more feat... | {
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Ask HN: Is anyone interested in Node.js based alternative to Magento? - vishalchandra
Magento is based on PHP which makes it need more infrastructure to serve more users. People also use Wordpress, Joomla for setting up ecommerce sites. Are there developers or customers who might be interested in having access to open... | {
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Shade (Troldesh) ransomware shuts down and releases decryption keys - searchableguy
https://www.zdnet.com/article/shade-troldesh-ransomware-shuts-down-and-releases-all-decryption-keys/
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searchableguy
_We are the team which created a trojan-encryptor mostly known as Shade,
Troldesh or Encoder.858. In fact, we sto... | {
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My experiment with smart drugs (2008) - pw
http://www.johannhari.com/2008/05/06/my-experiment-with-smart-drugs
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jrockway
Why do articles about any drug that affects the mind always have a section
about, "what if I used this during exams?"
Who cares?
School is an anomaly that's not worth discussing in the conte... | {
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A Programmer’s Regret: Neglecting Math at University - jasim
https://awalterschulze.github.io/blog/post/neglecting-math-at-university/
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theworld572
I studied maths and computer science at university for precisely this reason -
I heard many programmers say they wish they knew more mathematics. Honestly
there have... | {
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The NSA Says It Has to Spy on You to Find Out If It's Spying on You - runesoerensen
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/the-nsa-says-it-has-to-spy-on-you-to-find-out-if-its-spying-on-you
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En_gr_Student
It sounds like "obamacare" because "we have to pass it to find out what is in
it".
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Kowloon Walled City: City of Darkness Revisited - nkurz
http://cityofdarkness.co.uk/category/the_city/
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kweks
Interesting article - certainly as it has a lot of photos that I'd not
previously seen before.
Further links for interested people: "Gweilo" \- book about a british son of
expats growing up in Hong Kong... | {
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How the internet is changing language - prostoalex
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/11/how-to-speak-internet-online-writing-richard-godwin
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dang
Different article from 2012:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4923942](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4923942).
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Lambdas: From C++11 to C++20, Part 2 - joebaf
https://www.bfilipek.com/2019/03/lambdas-story-part2.html
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tlb
Related to the capture of this and exceeding its lifetime, I've been doing it
thusly:
class Foo : enabled_shared_from_this<Foo> {
void start_callback() {
auto thisp... | {
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Ask HN: Desktop & Laptop vs Laptop for everything - kayoone
I am really torn between this and everytime i read an article about someone on usesthis.com for example i switch my mind again on which route to go.<p>Would you get a Desktop/Workstation AND a small Laptop or just a Laptop for everything ?<p>In the first ca... | {
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“Less expensive” iPhone rumor corroborated on both sides of the Pacific - shawndumas
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/01/less-expensive-iphone-rumor-corroborated-on-both-sides-of-the-pacific/
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fatalerrorx3
I don't know, I find it hard to believe that Apple would try to compete by
lowering the quality of the pro... | {
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Ask HN: Why is the citizenlab spy story not available anymore on the nytimes? - simon_acca
I read this story last week [0], now went back to look for it and it was gone. I did some googling but couldn't figure out what happened to it. Anyone knows?<p>p.s. of course the wayback machine has it[1], my question is wh... | {
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Tiny, Wealthy Qatar Goes Its Own Way, and Pays for It - SREinSF
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/22/world/middleeast/qatar-saudi-emir-boycott.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
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kchoudhu
This is as good a summary of what's goin... | {
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AWS AutoScale with SPOT instances and dynamic tagging - gansbrest
http://distinctplace.com/infrastructure/2013/12/13/aws-autoscale-with-spot-instances-and-dynamic-tagging/
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joshstrange
This is very interesting. I recently setup autoscaling(spot)+SQS where the
scaling was based on the queue length. I was able t... | {
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Emberwind ported to HTML5 and WebGL - dannytatom
http://operasoftware.github.com/Emberwind/
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dannytatom
Source: <https://github.com/operasoftware/Emberwind>
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rorrr
Very well done, but a boring game.
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Confessions of a mortician - uam
https://medium.com/matter/confessions-of-a-mortician-7a8c061bbda3
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thret
"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence
is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the
two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views th... | {
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Genuinely curious: What's a good alternative to gmail? - pyderman
I'm probably not alone with this one. Opened my first account 10+ years ago, since then I use gmail for both work & personal accounts.<p>Recently, I started freaking out when thinking about privacy and Google knowing everything: reading my mess... | {
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Another Vietnam – Unseen images of the war from the winning side - dnqthao
http://mashable.com/2016/02/05/another-vietnam-photography/#TBVXB4fMGkqN
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adekok
I'm reminded of an article I read in one of Jerry Pournelle's anthologies. It
was written by a Vietnamese man who had agitated against the Americans during
t... | {
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Disclosing the Primary Email address for each Facebook user - dawgyg
http://dawgyg.com/2016/12/21/disclosing-the-primary-email-address-for-each-facebook-user/
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Jake232
This bug could have been used to make _so much money_.
1\. Find a group on Facebook of users you're interested in.
2\. Do this bug to get all o... | {
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The Wolfe: Supercharge Your Laptop with an External GPU - jseliger
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thewolfe/the-wolfe-supercharge-your-laptop?clicked
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benologist
You can just buy something just like this right now...
[http://www.razerzone.com/store/razer-
core](http://www.razerzone.com/store/razer-core)
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The wave of unicorn IPOs - wskinner
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2019/04/17/the-wave-of-unicorn-ipos-reveals-silicon-valleys-groupthink
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olivermarks
As Reid Hoffman of Greylock Partners, a venture-capital firm, and the co-
author of a book about blitzscaling, puts it: “In a connected world, someone
will bu... | {
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London Olympics could 'crash the internet', Cabinet Office warns - kaichanvong
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/feb/05/london-olympics-crash-internet
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JumpCrisscross
Would something comparable happen to New York or Chicago?
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Show HN: No Code Founders – Slack Community - Jthink
http://www.nocodefounders.com
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Jthink
Hi all
I had been struggling to connect with other founders building without code and
decided to setup a Slack group to see if there is anyone else out there in the
same position.
So I’ve set up a Slack group called No C... | {
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