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How Did G.M. Create Tesla’s Dream Car First? - CapitalistCartr
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/15/technology/how-did-gm-create-teslas-dream-car-first.html
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davidf18
"Finally, G.M. enjoys the regulatory advantage of producing a fleet. Because
the high-mileage, zero-emission Bolt helps the company stay under the fe... | {
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How to Use WordPress Cron to Schedule Events - ibenic
http://www.ibenic.com/use-wordpress-cron-schedule-events/
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NicoJuicy
Or use real cron outside WordPress for faster performance ;)
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JSON Resume – Getting started [video] - thomasfromcdnjs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxpHgNM0clE?t=0
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epscylonb
I'd heard of JSON resume before, but it's interesting to hear the history and
motivation.
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Essentials of complexity-theoretic stand-up comedy - revorad
http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=414
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jamesbritt
" ...or the actual flesh-and-blood hairless apes who are dozing off in the
seminar room while you speak."
Wow. I can understand wanting to keep the audience attentive, but the solution
might be, "Don't ... | {
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ITC Conversations Network done and finished, turning off Dec 1st - lsh
http://www.blogarithms.com/index.php/archives/2012/09/16/cn-mission-accomplished/
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samyxp17
ITC Conversation's podcasts have had an enormous influence on my career.
Started listening to them in grad school (CS Major).
In the early days IT ... | {
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1486/60 in Chrome Omnibar – Bug - coreymgilmore
Type in 1486/60 in the Chrome Omnibar. Instead of doing the division it redirects to an IP: 0.0.5.206/60. Also works for other numbers as well.
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tehabe
Maybe you should file a bug with Chrome. Usually those get fixed. If they can
reproduce it. I could... | {
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Facebook the Devourer - hellosmithy
http://awardwinningfjords.com/2012/10/04/facebook-the-devourer.html
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tptacek
I have 340 Facebook friends (I feel like this is on the middle-lower end of
typical). I scrolled down several "pages" on my timeline and saw zero evidence
of any those people --- who are predominantly... | {
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C#'s Greatest Mistakes by Jon Skeet - adambyrtek
http://oredev.org/2010/sessions/c-s-greatest-mistakes
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acabal
I really wish people would include transcripts if they're going to post a
48-minute long video. There's no way I'm going to sit through something like
that without at least a bullet-point text summary... | {
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America's Innovation Engine Is Slowing - tekdude
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/americas-innovation-engine-slowing/614320/
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bediger4000
I'm shocked! We've made patent and copyright laws more restrictive and
punitive, and in the case of copyright, we grant them for much longer times,
and make i... | {
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} |
Largest South-Korean Blockchain. Live Panel Discussion [video] - Nanocurrency
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90V8VzxgXmc
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Nanocurrency
Do we have any Koreans here, to share how ICON is actually seen in their
country?
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Baldur’s Gate expansion: Negative reviews because of transgender Character - doener
http://www.craveonline.com/entertainment/972903-gamers-flood-baldurs-gate-expansion-negative-reviews-introduces-transsexual-character
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c0l0
That's actually not how I read and perceive _most_ of the negative reviews -
sure, people... | {
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} |
Zbox – Zero-knowledge, privacy-focused embeddable file system written in Rust - gbrown_
https://github.com/zboxfs/zbox
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nudpiedo
I will be a bit harsh with the project since I understand it aims to be a
technology to be used in production and not just a pet project... (not "Show
HN" tag was present.)
I only see... | {
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Ask HN: Why do I exist as a sysadmin? - vortex_panda
I am currently a Linux administrator at a state university in the US. I do the standard variety of administrative things that one would expect: provision servers and VMs, manage storage pools, use monitoring tools to keep track of systems, use configuration manageme... | {
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Ancient virus found hibernating in the human genome–and it might wake up - sprucely
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/03/ancient-virus-found-hibernating-in-the-human-genome-and-it-might-wake-up/
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ChuckMcM
This was a fun story, I found the paper impenetrable though :-) I am sure that
somewhere a writing team ha... | {
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} |
Father and son film outer space, do-it-yourself style - mjfern
http://green.yahoo.com/blog/guest_bloggers/73/father-and-son-film-outer-space-do-it-yourself-style.html
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dennisgorelik
How did they know that the balloon reached 19 feet in diameter?
| {
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The Internet Archive is waging war on misinformation - praveenscience
https://www.ft.com/content/5be1f2ee-d60b-11e9-a0bd-ab8ec6435630
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ineedasername
I like that the internet archive exists, but I don't like how they implement
their opt-out policy. Sites can opt-out at any time, which I suppose is the
correct thi... | {
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} |
Tim Berners-Lee: No Snooping on the Internet (2009) - jliechti1
http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/NoSnooping.html
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arh68
I was a little shocked to see this!
> The access by an ISP of information within an internet packet, other than
> that information used for routing, is equivalent to wirtetapping a phone or
> ... | {
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Enable Push Notifications in the Google chrome desktop browser - katietaylor
https://www.pushmaze.com/how-to-turn-on-push-notifications/
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Trustworthy143
Where can I get the code to integrate push notifications into my website...
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The impact of Hacker News on my web site - szabgab
http://szabgab.com/the-impact-of-hacker-news-on-my-website.html
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scottshea
It is amazing the bump in traffic you can get from here
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Mz
It depends on the site (and possibly other factors -- title, who submitted it,
etc). I submitted something from my own si... | {
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Show HN: Get a list of your Amazon purchases and see what you can sell them for - ChristianKletzl
https://www.shelfflip.com
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martingordon
When you sign up, your Amazon email and password are sent to server using GET
and so are visible in the URL. While the request is done over HTTPS (and
traffic snoopers can't s... | {
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Authless-First Movement - redraw
Make ideas that can survive without logging in.<p>Only offer the user to sign up if they want to keep it saved in the cloud.<p>Stop asking the user to login at the splash screen.<p>- Authless-First Movement
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trenchgun
This is a good example:
[https://maebert.github.io/themostdang... | {
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Ask HN: Could we sue Microsoft for IE and wasting our time? - trebor
I'm taking the idea of my co-worker and running with it a bit further.<p>Could we put together a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft for their line of browsers? Lets face it, anyone to ever develop or design something for a browser has had to de... | {
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On Wearable Computing - shadesandcolour
http://bringel.github.com/blog/2013/01/16/on-wearable-computing/
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vitovito
> _The answer already exists. Chorded, handheld keyboards._
This answer has existed for over a decade; the fact that it hasn't come to
pass means it's not the _right answer_. I had a Frogpad with... | {
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V-Mail - mzs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-mail
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rubyn00bie
I think this is awesome... I can't even imagine the overhead of unpacking and
then "scanning" each of those letters by hand and yet, and this was still:
higher bandwidth, lower latency, and a more secure transmission method.
Also a big reminder of ju... | {
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Anonymous – War on Pedaphiles - christianbryant
http://pastebin.com/rXYfrTKf
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xxxmadraxxx
"pedaphiles"? What have you got against lovers of Indian sweets?
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Does being bored make us more creative? (2014) - mgdo
https://fermatslibrary.com/s/does-being-bored-make-us-more-creative
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cowpewter
I feel like I experience two types of boredom. Regular boredom, which can
foster creativity through daydreaming and finding new projects to work on, and
what I usually call ennui, ... | {
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A straight talk about btrfs - cyphar
https://www.suse.com/communities/blog/butter-bei-die-fische/
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jacknews
A data-point of one, and I only have a few TB spread over a handful of disks,
but I lost an entire 1TB btrfs volume recently because of a single disk sector
gone bad (of course, I have backups, but it's a ... | {
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} |
Reeling from algorithm glitch, Instacart institutes $3 minimum fee for drivers - seancaptain
https://www.fastcompany.com/90300962/reeling-from-algorithm-glitch-instacart-institutes-3-minimum-fee-for-drivers
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dahdum
How on earth was this an "algorithm glitch" or anything close to "black box"?
It's how they calcul... | {
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Sergey Aleynikov Sues FBI Agents Who Arrested Him - bko
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-12/goldman-sachs-ex-programmer-sues-fbi-agents-who-arrested-him
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blackbagboys
I read Michael Lewis's article in Vanity Fair about this case back in 2013,
and I remember being struck by this excerpt in particula... | {
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} |
Excuse my French - webhiker
http://profanity-service.appspot.com/
Interesting web service to allow you to check text for and profane words in multiple languages. Use it to test your swearing skills.
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dClauzel
Doesn't work for French: we have an "artistic" way of using words with implied
profanity. Also, this to... | {
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} |
A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100 - thunk
http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/06/08/a-brief-history-of-the-corporation-1600-to-2100/
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randomwalker
I just want to point out that this guy is also the author of The Gervais
Principle[1], a 4-part saga that offers an incisive, brilliant and
depressingly acc... | {
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} |
Most Medical Imaging Devices Run Outdated Operating Systems - doener
https://www.wired.com/story/most-medical-imaging-devices-run-outdated-operating-systems/
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simonblack
That's mainly because it has been set up, it's been debugged and it works
predictably.
The relevant policy there is "If it works, don't fix it... | {
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Cloud with Me - giadaCWM
https://cloudwith.me/
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giadaCWM
Hi guys! What do you think about this product?
[https://cloudwith.me/](https://cloudwith.me/)
| {
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SoftBank Succeeds in Tender Offer for Large Stake in Uber - ashishgandhi
https://www.wsj.com/articles/softbank-succeeds-in-tender-offer-for-large-stake-in-uber-1514483283
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jey
Dupe:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16023685](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16023685)
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Math Overflow (A StackExchange site for Maths) - swaroop
http://mathoverflow.net/
(via http://www.readwriteweb.com/readwritestart/2009/10/stackoverflow-shares-its-mojo.php)
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kurtosis
This is great but I must know: does stackexchange allow automatic rendering of
latex formulas like wordpress? If not then I think... | {
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} |
Hetzner Cloud - CSDude
https://www.hetzner.com/cloud
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logronoide
Hetzner has an excellent reputation for rock-solid engineering and very good
prices. While the cloud providers invested in innovation in software, they
focused on optimizing the hardware and data center techniques and engineering
(something very Ge... | {
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} |
Man hacked his Alexa to speak out of a singing fish, and it's horrifying - xbryanx
http://mashable.com/2016/11/04/big-mouth-billy-bass-alexa-/#mrpCYng7piq4
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bayonetz
AFIK, Alexa doesn't have an API the gives speech timing info. I assume this
must monitor the sound and trigger a mouth movement whenever the wave
a... | {
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} |
Are Index Funds Evil? - bezzi
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/are-index-funds-evil/534183/?utm_source=atlli&single_page=true
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Bucephalus355
As someone who invests in Index Funds this does worry me. Surely we can't all
invest in Index Funds and still have everything work?
I don't think i... | {
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} |
Nokia Welcomes Increasing Windows Phone OEM Competition - gdltec
http://ontechies.com/2014/01/13/nokia-welcomes-increasing-windows-phone-oem-competition/
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msh
Is the year of windows phone predictions going to replace the year of desktop
linux predictions?
| {
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The Two Cultures - DanI-S
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures
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rayiner
> "Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of
> them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold:
> it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is the scientific
>... | {
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Microsoft-approved Windows Phone 7 unlocker goes live - mrpollo
http://www.chevronwp7.com/
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cmer
It's a "jailbreak" that allows homebrews, not a "carrier unlock". Unless I'm
missing something...
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Xuzz
Even so, they (ChevronWP7) appear to be calling it an "unlock". Just to
increase the confusion, I guess.
... | {
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Beautiful Progressive Web App for Finding Coastal Tides - bcardarella
https://hightide.earth
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brudgers
If it meets the guidelines, this might make a good 'Show HN'. Show HN
guidelines:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html](https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html)
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Legal fees--start swearing now - mattculbreth
http://www.burningdoor.com/askthewizard/2007/04/legal_fees_start_swearing_now.html
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shsung
I don't think price is necessarily a great indicator of quality - at the very
largest firms, I'd say that most of the high price is because they're
offsetting the cost of train... | {
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Jaws: The Serverless Framework - gamesbrainiac
https://github.com/jaws-framework/JAWS/blob/master/README.md
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ac360
Of interest:
The following real life scenario below portrays an administrative API layer
that runs in EC2, and how it compares to what the raw hardware costs would be
in Lambda. It purposefully exc... | {
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Fame Game Hopes To Make You Internet Famous for a Day - dclaysmith
http://play-fame.com/
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Karunamon
Really nifty idea. What I'd like to see is an option to not automatically
unfollow the person after the day that you can set on this site - maybe the
person who won that day is really interesting!
~~~
michael_f... | {
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Why the Film Industry Hasn't Been Disrupted Yet, Part 5 - iampliny
http://endcrawl.com/blog/film-not-disrupted-yet-part-5/
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Keyframe
It's a multi-tiered problem with each one with its own complexities. I don't
want to write a long story now, but I want to emphasise one and one thing
only.
If you want to disrupt... | {
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} |
Developing for the iPhone: The Fear - e1ven
http://daringfireball.net/2008/10/the_fear
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river_styx
_The Phone and iPod apps are special, because at a fundamental level they
perform tasks that cannot be duplicated in a web app. But there’s nothing any
more special about Mail than there is about, say, Calendar._... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A C++ library for solving second-quantized Hamiltonians - dafer45
https://github.com/dafer45/TBTK
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billconan
what's the application of this? I lack the background to understand it.
| {
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What's happened to Webnotes? - ysoh
Hi, who is using webnotes currently? I discovered their service was down since yesterday. WHY??<p>http://www.webnotes.net/
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ysoh
It gets alive again.
| {
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Injunction against Uber in Germany lifted - Tomte
http://blog.uber.com/EntscheidungEN
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Tomte
Court believes that the decision was materially correct, but oral arguments
have convinced it that the supposed urgency isn't there.
Case to continue in regular court proceedings.
| {
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} |
Linux: Understanding File Descriptors and IO Redirection - symkat
http://symkat.com/59/understanding-file-descriptors-and-io-redirection/
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klodolph
"Although it is typically not important to know, it’s worth stating anyway
that while you can access these file descriptors though the above paths they
actually ex... | {
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GitHub Global Issue Search - bpierre
https://github.com/blog/1408-global-issue-search
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sry_not4sale
This is GitHub code search all over again...
[https://github.com/search?q=state%3Aopen+sql+injection&t...](https://github.com/search?q=state%3Aopen+sql+injection&type=Issues&ref=searchresults)
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benatkin
... | {
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No neutral ground in a burning world - kro0ub
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqk4ItPjU5g&t=10h5m
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kro0ub
To whoever just voted on this, how could you have watched and approved of it
in only 11 minutes?
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jbaiter
maybe by having attended the actual talk at 30c3 on friday?
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kro0ub
Point.
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Foxconn Is Reconsidering Plan for Manufacturing in Wisconsin - mikek
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/30/business/foxconn-wisconsin-manufacturing.html
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bilbo0s
I have freely admitted for a while now that Wisconsin is a fairly corrupt
place. (And WEDC, the guys who came up with this, has been among the
organizatio... | {
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} |
Holidays are good for workers and companies alike - edward
https://www.economist.com/business/2019/08/08/holidays-are-good-for-workers-and-companies-alike
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standardUser
Thankfully, the trend seems to be towards a much greater tolerance of vacation
time and an increased willingness to actually take vacation. I cr... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Gondor - effortless production Django hosting - brisal
http://gondor.io/
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unoti
Things that may be interesting bullet points:
* How load balancing is handled. Load balancing isn't just for ultra high volume sites that need multiple machines. The main use case I have for load balancing has to do with reliabili... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Status of F-35 – Senate Armed Services Committee Statement [pdf] - protomyth
http://www.armed-services.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Gilmore_04-26-16.pdf
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johngalt
The F-35 is becoming the definitive example of how scope creep destroys a
project. A system designed to do everything for everyone. When it should be
desi... | {
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} |
Monolith – muddying the waters of the digital copyright debate - mrkgnao
http://monolith.sourceforge.net/
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pwg
Another technical item attempting to handle the legalistic aspects of "What
Colour are your bits?"
[http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23](http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23)
| {
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Health improvement and well-being during a 4 to 21-day fasting period (2019) - xilefg
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6314618/
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aszantu
I saw this youtube, there is this vegan fruitarian named shawn. He feels like
crap, he fasts and as soon as he starts eating, he feels like crap again. Some
foods a... | {
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} |
Suspicious court cases, missing defendants, aim to get webpages taken down - ohjeez
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/10/10/dozens-of-suspicious-court-cases-with-missing-defendants-aim-at-getting-web-pages-taken-down-or-deindexed/?postshare=6791476107006382&tid=ss_fb&utm_term=.0143e0970aee
... | {
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} |
100 Days of Code – free, open-source VS Code extension - shreyshah33
https://www.software.com/100-days-of-code
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shreyshah33
100 Days of Code is Software.com’s newest open-source plugin that helps you
reach your goals and complete the #100DaysOfCode Challenge. Log your progress,
earn milestones, and share to twit... | {
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} |
The Lost History of Socialism’s DIY Computer - MindGods
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/08/computer-yugoslavia-galaksija-voja-antonic/
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pinkskin
My first computer was a commodore 64, I used to sit for hours typing line by
line just to watch the screen do something dumb or to make the computer make a
sound....aahhh t... | {
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} |
Jeff Bezos' Vision: Trillion Humans in the Solar System - flinner
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/09/15/jeff-bezos-on-nuclear-reactors-in-space-the-lack-of-bacon-on-mars-and-humanitys-destiny-in-the-solar-system/?a=1
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kafkaesq
_“I wish there were a trillion humans in the solar system. Thin... | {
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NH-based entrepreneurs to launch Bitcoin ATM this week - morisy
http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/startups/2013/05/bitcoin-atm-lamassu-manchester-nh-this.html
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malgorithms
I wonder if it accepts counterfeit dollars. [edit:] to clarify, I don't mean
this as a joke. It seems that they're not paying out cash... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What to consider when deciding whether to go back to school? - jamesbrewer
I've never been a great student and I'm not sure that I want to go back to school in the Fall. I've done two years at a university and I just don't think it's for me.<p>On Monday I will start a new full time job that could allow me to... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Backblaze is building a 270 TB storage pod - LukeLambert
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/why-now-is-the-time-for-backblaze-to-build-a-270-tb-storage-pod/
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vamega
Man, I keep seeing awesome posts about Backblaze, and really would like to use
them. However I run exclusively on linux these days, and they don't seem ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Forget Your GPA - SparksZilla
http://refer.ly/forget-your-gpa/c/faf268f6885011e2bfbf22000a1db8fa
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Spooky23
It depends on what you want to do with yourself. You also need to be able to
be brutally honest with yourself.
If your goal is to be a doctor, attorney, MBA, you need to sell your soul to
get the best gr... | {
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} |
Asteroid ice hints at rocky start to life on Earth - golwengaud
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100428/full/news.2010.207.html
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golwengaud
Original paper:
[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v464/n7293/full/nature0...](http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v464/n7293/full/nature09028.html#/)
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Show HN: SkillView.io – Online Interviewing Platform for Hiring Developers - razvanavram
https://skillview.io
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josh_carterPDX
Super curious about how you came up with your pricing.
| {
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} |
The Netherlands went offline for a bit - janvdberg
http://piks.nl/upload/upload/20150513%20amsix.png
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janvdberg
Ams-IX (one of the larger IX-s) had a large outage, causing an effect on
almost all internet traffic in the country. More: [https://ams-
ix.net/](https://ams-ix.net/)
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ITWarrior
I actually not... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Skimming-as-a-Service: Anatomy of a Magecart Attack Toolkit - ccmpx
https://www.perimeterx.com/resources/blog/2020/skimming-as-a-service-anatomy-of-a-magecart-attack-toolkit/
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badrabbit
I've found plenty of magecart infections myself. I was surpised at how
difficult it was to tell the site owners. Whois privacy,... | {
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Linuxbew - mycookie
http://brew.sh/linuxbrew/
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tjohns
This is actually exciting for users on corporate managed Linux systems where
the built-in package manager may not be up to date anymore (e.g. Ubuntu LTS
after a couple years).
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Nzen
tl;dr it's a linux&mac package manager. It promises to install to yo... | {
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} |
WWW is dead (GDPR may cause splintered Internet?) - lioeters
https://futuretodayinstitute.com/fti-newsletter-issue-104/
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WheelsAtLarge
Yes, the borderless internet and www are coming to an end. GDPR is only the
start but the splinter was/is bound to happen. Countries don't like to give up
control and don't want ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
SciFi Interfaces – Example from Black Mirror - Jun8
https://scifiinterfaces.com/category/black-mirror-2011/
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Jun8
Some of the posts that I liked:
* _Her_ : [https://scifiinterfaces.com/2014/02/11/her-interface-compone...](https://scifiinterfaces.com/2014/02/11/her-interface-components/)
* Enterprise combadge: ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Is the bear market on Cryptocurrencies already here? - concongo
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fiiv
It's been here since middle of January.
| {
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} |
Cybersecurity Visuals Challenge - baud147258
https://www.openideo.com/challenge-briefs/cybersecurity-visuals
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f00zz
Funny, as real-life "cybersecurity" work is not very visual (grepping through
log files doesn't look very sexy). I'm half tempted to put together a
ridiculous, Ghost In The Shell-like demo with 3D ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Validating UTF-8 strings using as little as 0.7 cycles per byte - akshat_h
https://lemire.me/blog/2018/05/16/validating-utf-8-strings-using-as-little-as-0-7-cycles-per-byte/
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easytiger
ha! [https://github.com/lemire/Code-used-on-Daniel-Lemire-s-
blog/...](https://github.com/lemire/Code-used-on-Daniel-Lemire-s-
b... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Welsh Climber on Anniversary with Wife Killed in 1,000-Tonne Yosemite Rock Fall - justboxing
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/yosemite-national-park-death-british-climber-killed-falling-rock-el-capitan-crushed-andrew-foster-a7973716.html
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typemismatch
Not trying to sound insensitive but does anyo... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What is setup for your static blog generator? - chauhankiran
I have tried Jekyll, Hexo and few other static blog generator but not happy with theme. I want to build something in which I have total control. Like I have few scss/css files, few markup files and some other templates for design and based on th... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Spammers profit despite getting one sale for every 12.5 million e-mails they send. - makimaki
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7719281.stm
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endtwist
This is actually fascinating.
I'm not totally surprised by these numbers (350 million messages, only 28
sales), but I am glad to see that there are people out... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Hidden opportunities in US (other than NYC and LA) - iamrafael8
https://news.crunchbase.com/news/why-one-vc-firm-moved-its-headquarters-from-nyc-to-austin/
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masonic
Actual title: "Why One VC Firm Moved Its Headquarters From NYC to Austin"
~~~
iamrafael8
Yes, but the content was how overpopulated and expensive i... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Oracle built a 1,060 node Raspberry Pi cluster - whalesalad
https://www.servethehome.com/oracle-shows-1060-raspberry-pi-supercomputer-at-oow/
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NohatCoder
Now load any piece of Oracle software onto it and get charged for running 1060
CPUs. Whoops.
~~~
walrus01
Whenever I see any technology news about Oracle, I m... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
PC OEM’s Refuse To Take The Blame For Soft Windows 8 Sales - justinbkerr
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/pc_oem%E2%80%99s_refuse_take_blame_soft_windows_8_sales123
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jimmthang
Windows 7 > 8
| {
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} |
Help stop the spread of Covid-19 with contact tracing – Singapore gov app - joak
https://www.tracetogether.gov.sg/
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systemvoltage
From the video - it is exchanging encrypted IDs between 2 phones over
bluetooth, this is potentially huge if adopted around the world. I wonder if
other governments can get in touch w... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Adaptive Preference Formation - sbolt
https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27069
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totetsu
"In the 1980s, the social and political philosopher Jon Elster brilliantly
generalized the idea of adaptive preference in terms of the complementary
phenomena of "sour grapes" and "sweet lemons": We tend to downgrade the va... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Tech workers are downing tools and refusing to work on unethical projects - pmoriarty
https://boingboing.net/2018/10/08/oppenheimer-moments.html
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masonic
"The work force is disgusted; downs tools, walks
Innocence is injured; experience just talks"
\- "Industrial Disease", Dire Straits, 1982
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
GraphQL Cheat Sheet - charlieirish
https://github.com/sogko/graphql-schema-language-cheat-sheet
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tharr916
Extremely helpful. Printed it for all the devs in my office that are learning
graphql for use in our meteor/react apps.
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
To The People Who Copied Our Game: Good Luck - mrtnkl
http://q42.nl/blog/post/88954895323/to-the-people-who-copied-our-game-good-luck
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pertinhower
No. No no no. Sue them. Sue them dead. Where product and brand robbery
thrives, developers wither. What's the point in working hard in developing a
game (or anything)... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
What gig workers can learn from romance writers - ohjeez
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180119-what-gig-workers-can-learn-from-romance-writers
======
keenerd
> _Three practices set romance writers up for success: they welcome newcomers,
> they share competitive information and they ask advice from newbies._
That ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Teracube: Smartphone with a 4 Year Warranty - oritron
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/teracube/teracube-the-sustainable-smartphone-with-a-4-year-warranty
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oritron
The basic idea of making a phone to last for longer than current contenders is
appealing. No mention about the battery being replaceable though, ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Workplace List – Find the best places to work from - petr-nagy
https://workplacelist.com/#/at/-8.65406,115.13363/zoom/15/bearing/0/pitch/60/style/default/
======
petr-nagy
Hey HN!
I made this crowdsourced map of possible workplaces around the world. Why?
Because I've recently struggled to find a solid venue(... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: I think I've been scammed - what now? - jiganti
Hey guys, I posted on HN back in August last year asking about meeting potential technical cofounders. After recently moving to San Francisco, I wanted to make a few of the ideas I was thinking about happen. I got a number of emails, including help from HN'er '... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Using Go's interfaces at Clever – more than just easy collaboration - schimmy_changa
http://engineering.clever.com/2015/04/17/using-gos-interfaces-at-clever---more-than-just-easy-collaboration/
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Denzel
Go is an interesting language. I get it. But there is nothing unique to Go
about their use of interfaces in S... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Anyone in the Hong Kong / Shenzhen area for the spring festival? - siscia
Hi HN,<p>Anybody in the Hong Kong / Shenzhen area during the spring festival ?<p>I will be in HK and I would love to share a coffee and ideas ;)
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mtmail
Please don't post the same question multiple times. (duplicate of
[http... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Systems whose concepts spring from programming languages/paradigms? - journeeman
The canonical example is that of MapReduce/Hadoop which borrows from Functional Programming and LISP. Are there any others?
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techno_modus
The general idea that an existing module or component can be changed by
_injectin... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Firefox3 has too many bugs - 80% of 700 bugs marked as blockers will not be fixed in Firefox3 - nickb
http://www.techworld.com/applications/news/index.cfm?newsid=10655
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rms
It's still better than Firefox 2, I can't go back.
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Software Is Hard - nickb
http://www.gamearchitect.net/Articles/SoftwareIsHard.html
======
alex_c
I found this quote interesting:
\---
I believe that the following statement is an axiom of software development:
It is impossible, by examining any significant piece of completed code, to
determine within a factor of tw... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
22 years in, Magic: The Gathering is the brainiest it’s ever been (2015) - Tomte
http://www.avclub.com/article/22-years-magic-gathering-brainiest-its-ever-been-224197
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GarrisonPrime
"The brainiest it's ever been" makes it sound like it's ramping up the
intellect. I guess they're saying that because of the end of... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: React Milkshake, a complete ReactJS boilerplate with authentication - jakeprins
https://www.reactmilkshake.com/
======
wolco
Without any code samples there is too much left answered for a 29.00 template.
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nerform
Can it be used for open source projects?
Also sample project would be nice where one can ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
As Women Take Over a Male-Dominated Field, the Pay Drops - Osiris30
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/upshot/as-women-take-over-a-male-dominated-field-the-pay-drops.html?_r=0&pagewanted=all
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WalterSear
"The reverse was true when a job attracted more men. Computer programming, for
instance, used to be a relativel... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
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