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Strong_password Rubygem hijacked - jrochkind1
https://withatwist.dev/strong-password-rubygem-hijacked.html
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bdmac97
Hi all. I'm the (actual) owner of that gem.
As already hypothesized in the comments I'm pretty sure this was a simple
account hijack. The kickball user likely cracked an old password of mine from
... | {
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Buying Sea Salt? You Might Be a Sucker. - twampss
http://teddziuba.com/2009/01/buying-sea-salt-you-might-be-a.html
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oakmac
No serious chef would ever claim that sea salt has a discernible taste from
regular salt; it's the texture that matters. I have certain dishes where I
will only use sea salt and other dish... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Essential MacOS apps/tools/workflows? - zacsultan
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Artemix
I simply cannot stand working on a macbook without at least:
\- Spectacle, to have a real UI window manager system \- Path Finder, to have
a real file explorer \- ITerm
This list could also interest you [https://github.com/serhii-londar/open-
so... | {
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} |
Saudi sovereign-wealth fund backs Travis Kalanick’s new startup - giacaglia
https://www.wsj.com/articles/saudis-back-travis-kalanicks-new-startup-11573122604?mod=rsswn
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jSully24
My immediate reaction is "WeWork for chefs".
After looking over their website it looks like a real estate company providing
kitchen sp... | {
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} |
Snapchat’s New Update Triggers Revolt by Millions of Teens - ryan_j_naughton
https://www.thedailybeast.com/snapchats-new-update-triggers-revolt-by-millions-of-teens
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pythonaut_16
> _One of Snapchat’s biggest criticisms has been that the app is too
> complicated to use._
> _While the majority of Snapchat’s young... | {
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Deep fat fryers may help form cooling clouds - animeshk
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-42081892
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dailyvijeos
Wasted energy, polluted air and unhealthy food. That’s not a viable solution
to anything except subsidizing KFC.
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cmaxwell
So we burn a bunch of fat and it is cloudy all day every day?... | {
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} |
Cruel and Unusual Punishment: The Shame of Three Strikes Laws - dmmalam
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/cruel-and-unusual-punishment-the-shame-of-three-strikes-laws-20130327
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benjohnson
A rational person would stop stealing after the 2nd strike. It's wise to
remove harmful and irrational people from so... | {
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} |
SimplyListed (YC W11) Wants to Get the World Buying and Selling via Mobile - jgrall
http://mashable.com/2011/10/21/simplylisted-sell-buy/
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kerryfalk
Interesting approach, I like it. I believe there is a lot of room in this
space for many different players in many different verticals.
Making it simpler for the... | {
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} |
Successfully lending without creditor rights, collateral, or reputation [pdf] - gwern
https://helda.helsinki.fi/bof/bitstream/handle/123456789/14908/dp1317.pdf
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loorinm
The first 7 pages of this was an absolutely fascinating read.
TLDR; In 1800s China, they had “student loans” for aspiring government
officials.... | {
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} |
New Mac Pro Tech Specs - arunmib
https://www.apple.com/mac-pro/specs/
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whywhywhywhy
Still don't understand the justification for this machine, I waited years for
a MacPro but when it became clear that Apple actually considered it a dead
product and behind the scenes were building the iMac Pro to fill the niche I... | {
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} |
The Outer Limits of Reason: A look at paradoxes in language - dnetesn
http://mitp.nautil.us/feature/148/the-outer-limits-of-reason
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leoc
Before you even get to self-reference there are the
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradoxes_of_material_implicat...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradoxes_of_material_implic... | {
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Show HN: Similar application in different python frameworks - fruiapps
http://blog.fruiapps.com/2012/05/Choose-your-Python-Web-Framework-the-Hard-Way
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noobplusplus
Lovely Stuff. Could have been great had you mentioned, the good and bad parts
of each of them, or probably what one can learn from the other.
----... | {
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Concise, opinionated history of the BSD/SystemV split - akkartik
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.toybox/1890
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dalke
Also, inaccurate. Consider just this paragraph:
> Sun customers responded by using alternatives, and the closest thing to a
> working freely downloadable compiler was an obscure project calle... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Productivity tools- Useless, useful or incomplete? - adamwong246
I'm trying to gauge the zeitgeist around productivity tools- todo lists, mindmaps, time trackers, pomodoro timers, trello variants, habit builders, Omni-*, etc<p>This is because I am building an app, called "tymtu", in my spare tim... | {
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} |
Flexport (YC W14) raises $6.9M to reinvent global trade - thedogeye
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-11/flexport-wants-to-be-uber-of-the-oceans
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rcarrigan87
I've experienced the pain of international freight shipping before. It's a
process that could definitely use some tech.
This article felt kin... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What makes a company worth staying with as engineer? - eric-hu
My impression is that many software engineers stay at a company for 1.5-3 years and then go elsewhere. It's usually at least financially motivated. I also read about people looking for new engineering challenges and responsibilities--specifi... | {
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Working with time in Postgres - neovintage
http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2017/06/08/working-with-time-in-postgres/
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orf
You cannot have a post entitled "Working with time in Postgres" and fail to
mention Range Types[1]!
If you're using Postgres right now and have any columns like start_* and end_*
for anything ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Any YouTube channel/video on leadership? - dillmac
I am trying to improve my leadership skills.
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cbcoutinho
I think the talks by Simon Sinek are pretty interesting, and he has a lot to
say on leadership [0].
[0] [https://youtu.be/ReRcHdeUG9Y](https://youtu.be/ReRcHdeUG9Y)
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LewYard
Did you check t... | {
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100 Thing Challenge - mshafrir
http://www.guynameddave.com/100-thing-challenge.html
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viraptor
It's interesting to see other people collecting that many items... I can
hardly name 30 items that I _want_ to have (not including clothes), but that
probably just depends on the personality. Then again, being able to p... | {
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} |
ambit-0.9.1 -- a Gem for choose/fail (amb) non-deterministic programming - jimwise
https://github.com/jimwise/ruby/tree/master/ambit
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wizard_2
Looks like this is a direct port of pg's version. I have to admit, I haven't
seen callcc before and the concept while similar to closures scares me a bit.
Storing a com... | {
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} |
A curated list of awesome .NET Performance resources - polskibus
https://github.com/adamsitnik/awesome-dot-net-performance
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shubb
Usually, when .net is really slow, the cause has been that I'm using a
Microsoft library 'wrong'. The solution has been to learn how that library
works internally, and work around it,... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Is having the username and password fields on different pages more secure? - wslh
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/85160/is-having-the-username-and-password-fields-on-different-pages-more-secure
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cbhl
The primary advantage of this pattern is it allows you to use _different_
authentication mechanisms ... | {
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Pinterest Style Listing (Only CSS, no JS) - binarydreams
http://cssdeck.com/item/377/css-only-pinterest-style-columns-layout
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mattceles
looks great! nice work
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Connecting data is hard. What if it wasn't? - mjirv
https://medium.com/@mjirv/connecting-data-is-hard-what-if-it-wasnt-de1e46962e9f
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mjirv
Hey everyone, thanks for reading. I started Joiner to solve a problem for data
analyst: it takes too long to get a traditional data warehouse set up, and the
other options fo... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What software is so good you are surprised it is free? - joshdance
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Radim
Scikit-learn. The guys have done, and are continuing to do, an amazing job and
the output is completely free. There is some funding involved, but the
ultimate value/cost ratio is ridiculously high.
"How Open Source is Really Mainta... | {
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Interplanetary Transport Network - ColinWright
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Transport_Network
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evolian
If you find this stuff as fascinating as I do, I know of no better way to geek
out about orbital mechanics than to play Kerbal Space program. Ex-NASA people
quip that they learn more playing that... | {
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} |
The 4tH compiler - z3phyr
https://thebeez.home.xs4all.nl/4tH/
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haolez
Forth is the most interesting programming language that I’ve ever encountered.
It’s the opposite of being opinionated, to a degree that it hurts :)
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astrobe_
I had to lookup "opinionated" to make sure I understand this statement
correctly.... | {
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} |
OpenArena Live – Quake3 In-Browser Using WebAssembly and WebRTC - h4ukur
https://openarena.live
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hauxir
based on humblenet: [https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/06/introducing-humblenet-
a-cr...](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/06/introducing-humblenet-a-cross-
platform-networking-library-that-works-in-the-browser/)
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How much does a startup cost? - onecreativenerd
http://opani.com/dirk/crunch-acquisitions/results/#key=(reduce)
Some crunchbase data mining that comes up with a simple model for pricing a startup.
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jpdoctor
Back during the 2000 bubble, folks started companies where the payoff in the
biz plan was based on $1M pe... | {
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} |
Secure Your Cloud with Terraform Foundational Policy Library - Terretta
https://www.hashicorp.com/resources/secure-your-cloud-with-terraform-foundational-policy-library
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Terretta
ReadMe:
_This repository contains a library of policies that can be used within
Terraform Cloud to accelerate your adoption of polic... | {
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} |
Technical = Coder. Non-Technical = Non-Coder. - jaf12duke
http://42floors.com/blog/posts/technical-coder-non-technical-non-coder
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naner
_We get 17 seconds into your new startup pitch when I ask you if you're
technical and you say yes._
_A bunch of startup marketing mumbo-jumbo later and you tell me you're
look... | {
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} |
I open sourced my first big rails app and have some questions for HN - dsowers
I shipped my first big rails application a few months back. Nobody really used it so I decided to just open source the code. I had a couple questions for the HN community. I'm still new to the github world.<p>1. Is this kind of project us... | {
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Rich Hickey on Clojure (SE-Radio podcast) - eneveu
http://www.se-radio.net/podcast/2010-03/episode-158-rich-hickey-clojure
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eneveu
I found out about this interview thanks to Dave's comment on
<http://programmingzen.com/2010/07/09/thoughts-on-clojure/>
He also links to a post discussing the interview:
[http://... | {
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} |
Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: iTeleport - spencerfry
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2421-bootstrapped-profitable-proud-iteleport
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jashmenn
I love the BP&P series, but this one makes me sad. There isn't much to learn
here other than that these guys won the app-store lottery.
~~~
patio11
There was a bit ab... | {
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} |
TayPO, a Unifying Framework for Reinforcement Learning - Yuqing7
https://syncedreview.com/2020/07/14/introducing-taypo-a-unifying-framework-for-reinforcement-learning/
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cbsmith
Was looking for code for this, but looks like nothing published.
| {
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Apple Inc. Patent #9059950 “Delivering and tracking viral invitational content” [pdf] - Magicstatic
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/9059950.pdf
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Canada
Wow, what an innovation. Putting unique IDs in an invite and keeping track of
them in a database. It's hard to get more novel than that, isn't it?
Thank God ... | {
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} |
Our Hybrid lda2vec Algorithm - haraball
http://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2016/05/27/lda2vec/
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stephanheijl
So this is basically a repost of the Slideshare on this topic
([https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10919744](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10919744)
< previous HN thread.) without the pretty... | {
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} |
Texas holds firm on physics closures - ukdm
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110924/full/news.2011.559.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+news%2Frss%2Fmost_recent+%28NatureNews+-+Most+recent+articles%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher
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kapitalx
This plan runs the risk of lowering the s... | {
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} |
Facial Recognition Moves into a New Front in the U. S.: Schools - pseudolus
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/business/facial-recognition-schools.html
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mhb
Read the comments for a depressing start to your day.
| {
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Google Tasks API Released - nikosdimopoulos
http://code.google.com/apis/tasks/index.html
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tejaswiy
Why are so many people using Google tasks ? Give alternatives like Workflowy a
chance? Evernote works much better than GTasks even if it's not designed for
it.
~~~
abraham
It is simple and minimalist. Keyboard s... | {
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} |
Why Was Dark Knight Rises Open-Ended? Christopher Nolan Explains - evolve2k
http://filmcomment.com/article/cinematic-faith-christopher-nolan-scott-foundas
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trevelyan
It's a brilliant film, but it really isn't open-ended to anyone who has read A
Tale of Two Cities. In Dicken's book, the sacrificial death of sco... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Apple Granted Patent for “Digital Camera System with Remote” - hnnewguy
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=Apple&s2=GoPro&OS=Apple+AND+GoPro&RS=Apple+AND+GoPro
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dognotdog
I'm struggling to discover the novelty. C... | {
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} |
Don't Slam The Door - lexilewtan
http://blog.lexilewtan.com/dont-slam-the-door
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alphakappa
As adults, do we really need to be reminded not to slam doors? It is
essentially a tantrum, and while feeling frustrated or ridiculously annoyed is
perfectly normal, it should be expected of us as adults to respond to th... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Disney Streamers Hit 100M - atlasshorts
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/disney-streamers-hit-100-million-the-informations-tech-briefing
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atlasshorts
In spite of soaring subscription numbers, shutdowns resulting from the
coronavirus contributed to a $4.7 billion quarterly loss.
| {
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} |
Researchers Build Logic Gates from Bacteria - clockwork_189
http://gizmodo.com/5853767/researchers-build-bacterial-logic-gates
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alok-g
I first saw a demo of this back in 2002 or 2003 by Ron Weiss [1]. He had made
not just logic gates, but also oscillators. The best one was Conway's game of
life done with livin... | {
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} |
World Bank may run out of money by mid-2010: - newacc
http://business.rediff.com/report/2009/oct/06/world-bank-may-run-out-of-money-by-mid-2010.htm
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biohacker42
Not unless they run out of ink and paper first.
| {
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The latest build of Webkit "has to be seen to be believed." - pius
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/09/the-new-safari-is-amazingly-quick-firefox-watch-out/
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boucher
This is definitely true, the nightly builds of WebKit right now are incredibly
fast. But, the shipping version of Safari is also much much faster... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The NSA listened in on trade group talks to stay ahead of phone encryption - presspot
http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/4/7332069/the-nsa-listened-in-on-trade-group-talks-to-stay-ahead-of-phone
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hackerjam
you think the snowden revelations can't get any worse... and then you read
something like this.
if i was one ... | {
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} |
A Categorical Manifesto (1991) [pdf] - pmoriarty
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.13.362&rep=rep1&type=pdf
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cousin_it
The paper argues that category theory is useful for computer science. Okay,
which areas of computer science? I've studied quite a lot of algorithms,
computational complexi... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Good Name for a New Programming Language? - wvlia5
Some "goodness" criteria:<p>Make it easily searchable in Google: J, C, D, F, R, Python, Go, would be "bad" names in this regard.<p>Make it memorable, evoke the idea that it's a simple, fun, sophisticated, friendly, high-tech language
=... | {
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Ask HN: Do the benefits of the Valley outweigh the costs? - annajohnson
This might seem like a no-brainer for those of you who live in Silicon Valley, but coming from way, way outside the Valley (as in Melbourne, Australia) I would love to hear your views on whether the benefits of building a startup in the Valley o... | {
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Confluent, a company for Apache Kafka and realtime data - sbilstein
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/20141106180403-2945786-announcing-confluent-a-company-for-apache-kafka-and-realtime-data?trk=hp-feed-article-title
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bkirwi
Kafka is a Big Deal, and it's great to see it get first-class support.
In the same... | {
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} |
America is one of the few cultures with insults for smart people - paulpauper
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/05/15/commentary/world-commentary/america-one-cultures-insults-smart-people/#.W4c
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schoen
Did the author ask any native speaker of any other language to think of
possible examples, rather than ... | {
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} |
Digital: A Love Story - karlzt
http://www.scoutshonour.com/digital/
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dustingetz
looks cute but has anyone verified the exe is harmless?
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krisneuharth
I ran the exe and it seems fine. The music is great and this really captures
the look and feel of the old BBS experience. Well done.
~~~
gojomo
And if it i... | {
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} |
Book Review: How to Talk to Anyone (Leil Londes) - ErrantX
As my last little review (of Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear) went down very well and several people commented that it would be nice to see more of the same here's another go :) This is the first book since then that has really seemed to be HN materia... | {
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} |
Is this Android market spam or am I being too cynical? - nolovelust
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.socialidm.kamazicom
Look at this app's download graph and comments. You can't see developers email on the web but it is freeappsseo@....
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Piskvorrr
What used to be on desktops, now reappears on... | {
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} |
Google Employees Secretly Live on Campus to Avoid Paying Rent - thejteam
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/googles-perks-amazing-employees-found-002550682.html
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electrograv
Silicon Valley: Where highly paid ($100-$200k+) engineers sleep in cars to
save money on obscenely expensive rent.
Honestly, recently moving to... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression - rasengan
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/jamal-khashoggi-what-the-arab-world-needs-most-is-free-expression/2018/10/17/adfc8c44-d21d-11e8-8c22-fa2ef74bd6d6_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.49fa9b7c3791
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onetimemanytime
... | {
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} |
Apple iOS in-app purchases hacked; everything is free - mtgx
http://www.zdnet.com/apple-ios-in-app-purchases-hacked-everything-is-free-video-7000000877/
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PythonDeveloper
Sounds like a rather clever way of getting a bunch of people to enter their
itunes login/password as they test this crap out.
| {
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} |
At an Academic Pressure Cooker, a Setback Turns Deadly - rglovejoy
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/us/14alabama.html
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mnemonicsloth
When a postal worker goes postal, it's going postal.
When a PhD from Harvard -- _the_ first detail mentioned, note -- goes postal,
they are suffering in an academic pressure cook... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Salary Expectations - salarayexp
How much should a recent graduate from a top-tier university expect to earn in a technical role in the Bay Area?<p>For companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook, what base pay, benefits, signing bonus, and relocation should I expect to receive?<p>For early stage s... | {
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} |
Obama Creates Office to Boost Entrepreneurs - keeptrying
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=afUc9qZbB5m8
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ColemanF
Maybe he should create an office to boost government non-intervention, too.
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keeptrying
Got to love an president who really wants to solve healthcare, the economy and
glob... | {
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} |
Anonymous Bitcoin Wallets - revainorg
https://revain.org/beginners-section/anonymous-bitcoin-wallets
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revainorg
It's hard to say, I have no idea about this side. At the same time, this is
how to use the operating system for laundering purposes and sin on operating
systems. There are also positive aspects: such a... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Philip K Dick Android Project - jacquesm
http://www.pkdandroid.org/
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kordless
Looks like someone lost his head: <http://www.pkdandroid.org/disappearance-of-
android.htm>
~~~
iuguy
Maybe he realised that he wasn't really Philip K. Dick and decided to escape
in order to find himself. Hopefully there'll be a f... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Dear Architects: Sound Matters - tysone
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/29/arts/design/sound-architecture.html
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Cshelton
It doesn't talk about it much but...Apartment noise from neighbors. Oh. My.
Gosh.
I live in an area where many expensive, luxury apartments have been built in
the last few years an... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Abe Lincoln Looks West: How the Civil War Changed the Frontier - samclemens
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/abe-lincoln-looks-west
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OldHand2018
Even before the war, Lincoln played a role in the settlement of the west.
Southern interests wanted access to the west to be through the south,
guaranteeing ... | {
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} |
Bulk Emails, Like a Boss - jamesDGreg
http://sendy.co/?ref=sALmj?src=hnjdev
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nikolay
@jamesDGreg: You should be ashamed of posting old links (in empty hopes) to
collect affiliate revenue! Also, it seems that you have another username
(@JamesGDev) and you can't even form a compliant URL!
| {
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} |
MACsec: a different solution to encrypt network traffic - infodroid
https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2016/10/14/macsec-a-different-solution-to-encrypt-network-traffic/
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mtu9001
I have implemented MACsec on Juniper devices for many clients. It's great to
see it finally supported in Linux. It would be great to s... | {
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Shazam for TV Now Works With Any Show - denzil_correa
http://mashable.com/2012/09/17/shazam-for-tv-any-show/
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rm999
Shazam for music was an amazing invention that has really helped a lot of
people.
Shazam for TV reminds me of QR codes that take you to websites - kind of
pointless. There have been multiple way... | {
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Twitter should automatically and quickly delete your tweet if it is bad. - amichail
The idea is to specify some criteria as to when twitter would automatically and quickly delete your tweet.<p>For example, if more than 2 people unsubscribe soon after your tweet is posted, then delete it automatically to avoid furthe... | {
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Ask HN: Any APIs you'd like to see from the New York Public Library? - phprecovery
Hi, I recently started working as a developer at the New York Public Library.<p>We're working to make all our data (digital collections, catalog, branch information, etc.) as open, easy, and publicly accessible as possible.<p>Are... | {
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On Cilantro - huhtenberg
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98695984
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wushupork
Very interesting read. Thai cuisine contains a lot of cilantro and I can eat
bunches of it. However my wife sounds a lot like the author. She can't even
stand the smell of it.
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GiraffeNecktie
Fun fact: Eati... | {
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When it comes to privacy, proof is better than promise. - vrypan
http://the.longaccess.com/blog/2013/10/24/when-it-comes-to-privacy-proof-is-better-than-promise/
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swordswinger12
I applaud their commitment to privacy, and this is definitely a step in the
right direction. However, their pledge to publish the cli... | {
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} |
Fixing Engineering's Loyalty and Longevity Problem - patientfrog
http://firstround.com/review/fixing-engineerings-loyalty-and-longevity-problem/
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pnathan
Point one: if you want me to want to stick around, your company has to have
challenges I want to work on over time.
Point two: do not underpay me. I will tole... | {
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} |
Amazon career choice program - amartya916
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=amb_link_1?ie=UTF8&nodeId=200979350&view-type=stand-alone&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=gateway-center-column&pf_rd_r=17Z4TQN066XWX6PWJ2SN&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1385640982&pf_rd_i=507846
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amartya916
Do read the main... | {
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Potential HP redesign - what does HN think? Good or bad? - ricefield
http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/a_new_hp_so_close_yet_so_far_away.php
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Jem
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3351472>
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Google now offering ISP services but only to the KS City Area? Is this Legit? - AEDELGOD
http://fiber.google.com/about/
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sbuccini
I must be misinterpreting your question, because I'm pretty sure Google has
already begun its fiber rollout, and that they have already hooked up users
into their system. I thought ... | {
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} |
How someone spent “pennies” to troll women, people of color via promoted tweets - leephillips
http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/05/05/how-someone-spent-pennies-to-troll-women-people-of-color-via-promoted-tweets/
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orionblastar
So they create a new Twitter account, wait for a discount code for Twitter
ads, spen... | {
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} |
2009 Royal Society Prize for Science Books - yu
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8256979.stm
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yu
Full shortlist:
* The Age of Wonder: How the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of Science by Richard Holmes (Harper Press)
* What the Nose Knows: The science of sc... | {
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Reduce Your Bundle.js File Size by Doing This One Thing - tlackemann
https://lacke.mn/reduce-your-bundle-js-file-size/
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richerlariviere
Title should be "using relative paths reduce your bundle.js file size". It
sounds like a clickbait. But yeah this is a nice and pertinent article.
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tlackemann
Thank you and ... | {
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} |
Sprint T-Mobile Trail Tech - Digg_mov
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/09/tech/sprint-tmobile-trial/index.html
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masonic
Actual title: "T-Mobile and Sprint head to court to defend their merger"
| {
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Spotify’s Beta Used ‘Pirate’ MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay - djvdorp
https://torrentfreak.com/spotifys-beta-used-pirate-mp3-files-some-from-pirate-bay-170509/
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lettergram
One thing I noticed a few years ago, was that Spotify was using a massive
amount more upload bandwidth than download. Upon digging it actual... | {
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} |
Spammers are abusing GitHub gists for link building - inancgumus
https://gist.github.com/anonymous/b9be8ff0bf4f7e0e0cc24d2a5c39c257
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nate
Yes, but inspecting source, those are nofollow links. So that should
eventually deter anyone trying to actually keep using that as a method.
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efreak
It's entirely possible... | {
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Developers: What do you consider a 'good' interview question? - mvkel
I've seen a lot of posts here that are critical of Google's "how many ping pong balls can you fit in the Empire State Building?" type brain teasers (which I agree, are silly), but also the task-related "If you were going t... | {
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Show HN: 198 Bay Area Startups with analysis from angel.co, sortable by fields - adamtheterrible
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pNYf85j_9CdlxUBvN7-caKWydhroQBzyosBnQ3gJXVg/edit?usp=sharing
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SocksCanClose
Pretty neat spreadsheet. Thanks for posting! Are there any that particularly
interested you?
~~~
ad... | {
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} |
Speakers in the programming and design communities - jaredwox
https://github.com/karlhorky/awesome-speakers
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petard
I couldn't find any info on the list what makes the people awesome speakers or
criteria for being included on the list. Don't mean to sound negative, but
anybody can put up repo with random people ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How do you trade? - haack
Do you manage your own portfolio? What tech do you use? What sources inform your trading?
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BWStearns
I manage mine. I'm doing alright but I'm treating it as a hobby as opposed to
anything else since actively managing it involves not insignificant risk. I
[should|will] keep a bun... | {
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Against the real enemy: why organized labor should join with entrepreneurs - Khroma
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/mayjune_2011/features/the_real_enemy_of_unions029138.php
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jerf
The author spends a lot of the article wondering about why Big Labor seems to
be whiffing so many obvious opportunities (j... | {
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} |
Heroku moving away from free dynos - PanMan
I didn't find a blog post yet, but when logged in to heroku, they announce new pricing, linking to this page: https://www.heroku.com/private/beta-pricing (which needs a signin).
Before the free tier allowed you to run 1 dyno for free all month (going... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
On switching to Arch Linux - mcrittenden
http://mikethecoder.com/post/16562751962/on-switching-to-arch-linux
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agentultra
I've been using Arch for about three years now and can't imagine using another
distro.
The install phase is a pain if you want to get a full-blown plug-and-play
ready-to-go desktop experience... | {
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} |
Seth's Blog: Change your pricing - twampss
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/01/change-your-pri.html
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oscardelben
Isn't this the same idea as saas?
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jknight
and having a girlfriend as opposed to paying the usual hooker?
| {
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4chan users triangulate the location of LeBouf’s Flag - serg_chernata
http://www.barstoolsports.com/barstoolu/4chan-users-find-the-secret-location-of-shia-leboufs-he-will-not-divide-us-by-using-flight-patterns-and-star-maps-steal-it-and-replace-it-with-a-make-america-great-again-hat/
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clubm8
I liked this thread ... | {
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My Microsoft internship interviews in Redmond - Danieru
http://danieru.com/2012/12/30/my-microsoft-internship-interviews-in-redmond/
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temiri
Congratulations! I was an MS intern last summer and it was terrific.
(You might want to change the line where you describe the smell of Seattle as
"sweat" to "sweet," wh... | {
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} |
Help The Startup Genome Project Bring Silicon Valley To The Rest Of The World - bjoernlasseh
http://startupgenome.cc/
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Vivtek
God dammit, I _hate_ it when somebody does something I wanted to do, but has
better execution.
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toptal
that's pretty rockstar.
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tedgonder
This is freaking awesome. I'm so exc... | {
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Idea to reduce the occurrence of negative low-value comments on HN threads - marshray
When I look back upon my comments, I find some are more constructive than others. Of my less-constructive comments I think "Gee, maybe I just didn't like or agree with the article".<p>Allow users to downvote articles. Downvotes don... | {
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} |
Pagoda Box Announces Memcached Support - sanderson1
http://blog.pagodabox.com/announcing-memcached-support/
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masonhensley
I used pagodabox for the last 6 months for my now defunct venture. They have a
great team and product. I think they are still bootstrapping.
Think heroku for php that has much better onlin... | {
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} |
Off with their header files - rnicholson
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2786
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tetha
I'm just wondering how well this copes with transitive includes, where an
included headerfile includes a removed headerfile which then makes the
compilation work.
This sounds like it could introduce some pretty tight and confusing co... | {
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} |
How many times are we going to "kill" Java? - edw519
http://www.jroller.com/aalmiray/entry/how_many_times_are_we
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david927
Till it's dead.
| {
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Indian students will get cheapest Android Tablet in 23$ - catchnames
http://www.aakashtablet.in/2011/12/college-students-will-get-aakash-tablet.html
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catchnames
It may be a paper weight for Developed country but for a country like India,
its boon. Students can get e-education and use of paper books will decrea... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Subversion client recommendations for OSX and PC? - BenS
I'm looking for svn clients for mac and pc. My 2 criteria are quality and price (read: i'm very cheap). Any recommendations?
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cpr
(All for Mac OS X:)
There's a beautiful app, Versions, <http://www.versionsapp.com/>, but it's
around US$50. That... | {
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} |
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