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Ask HN: Your input on a platform I am building - Ritu
As a freelancer I have been extremely frustrated with how hard it gets sometimes to get work. Especially, if you are new to freelancing.<p>I think most freelancers ignore the value of testimonials and positive client experience. Although other platforms allow pe... | {
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Show HN: We launched our Serverless payment microservice Open Source - grvcoelho
https://github.com/pagarme/superbowleto
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fiatjaf
What is "boleto"? "provider"? Who collects the payments? What is all this
about?
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rahimnathwani
Boleto is a very popular payment method in Brazil. It's sort of similar to
PayPoint... | {
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Who cleans up after war? - snake117
http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/now/question/214593-war-cleanup-damage
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guelo
Reminded me of this article about how Gaza is still just rubble after Israel
bombed the crap out of it last year.
[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3120272/Living-
rubbl...](http://www.dail... | {
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Ask HN: Review my Webapp- HN/Reddit-style news with Real Names - Lonava.com - e1ven
The trend of a community to become popular, and then become overrun with uncaring jerks seems inevitable.<p>There have been floods of people who have migrated from Digg->Reddit->HN, and even now find HN a bit more ascerbic th... | {
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Medieval Innovations - Vigier
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/medieval-innovations
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AstralStorm
What's up with the title? The article talks about medieval art and geopolitics
but not the numerous innovations. Some imports and cursorily at that.
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oska
I have been keen to read the book this is e... | {
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How Childhood Neglect Stunts the Brain - iProject
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/09/neuroscience-of-neglect/
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paulerdos
Interesting. Applying these conclusions to inner city America would explain a
percentage of the observed problems.
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CISPA Passes in the House - Full Roll Call - sethbannon
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/roll117.xml#
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Lewisham
Nothing says "small government" like expanding government oversight, right? I
really don't understand what the Republican party actually stands for. There's
no consistency in their platform. I might not... | {
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Leaving science - swuecho
https://www.facebook.com/notes/leon-avery/leaving-science/781062645256636
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lutusp
Kindly don't link to private, inaccessible content. Not everyone is a Facebook
subscriber.
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A Fair Intelligence Test (see the "about" link). - johnaspden
http://iqtest.aspden.com/
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johnaspden
I made an intelligence test. Will you guys help me calibrate it? It was built
with the idea of being immune to practice effects, background, and stereotype
threat, because you can practice it as much as you like... | {
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FogBugz rebranded to Manuscript - zdrummond
https://medium.com/make-better-software/introducing-manuscript-aa4aabdc0f6c
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fictionfuture
great idea (for them), this is one of those cases where i actually do think
the brand name was likely creating the wrong brand perception.
Spolsky is always doing interesting th... | {
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Atlas: Searchable index of everything you see across all your devices and apps - Terretta
https://www.atlas.co
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Terretta
I'm torn between impressed and horrified.
_" Atlas Informatics Founder and CEO Jordan Ritter calls the software "a
photographic memory for your digital life"... This includes web pages, emai... | {
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Inside the Obsessive World of Artisanal Cocktail Ice - dnetesn
http://www.wired.com/2015/05/cocktail-ice/?mbid=social_twitter
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noelwelsh
A lot of the comments here questioning the methods are making a classic nerd
mistake. The people buying this stuff don't _really_ give a crap if their
drinks are less diluted o... | {
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E Ink Introduces “Print-Color” Displays - sohkamyung
https://liliputing.com/2019/12/e-ink-introduces-print-color-displays.html
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djaque
I'm really looking forward to a good electronic replacement for paper.
After a long search for an e-reader that can handle academic papers, I came up
empty handed. There just is... | {
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Kickstarter Senior Staffers Are Pushing Back Against Colleagues' Union Efforts - howard941
https://gizmodo.com/leaked-memo-shows-kickstarter-senior-staffers-are-pushi-1833470597
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HillRat
Just going to raise an eyebrow at the company’s assertion that people with the
titles “senior manager” and “senior editor” are... | {
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Here's How Police Get a Suspect's Facebook Information - treskot
http://mashable.com/2012/12/18/police-facebook/
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gregcohn
Twitter are fairly transparent in their policies. You should read this if you
want to get a sense for how a large social network can operate with "best
practices" -- at a level that's practi... | {
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Show HN: Yellow pages for start up resources - cambo01
http://www.foundersstash.com<p>Hackers we made this for you guys. Please tell us what you think and how we can make it more useful. Hope it saves you lots of time.
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goldfeld
The curated categories coupled with upvoted resources within seems a pretty
usefu... | {
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PhD Comics : Brain Saver - billswift
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1249
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billswift
That's why I don't use a screen saver.
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How YC will be funding the S20 batch - dalton
https://dalton.substack.com/p/how-yc-will-be-funding-the-s20-batch
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waxman
I worked on a video chat startup in 2006 and a concept that still stands out
is "floor exchange," which is when one person stops talking and another person
starts talking during a conversation... | {
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Dell returns to public stock market after years as private company - walterbell
https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/28/18159305/dell-stock-market-return-public-nyse
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sctb
Comments moved to
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18947242](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18947242).
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The Power of Gratitude - jgrahamc
http://blog.jgc.org/2010/10/power-of-gratitude.html
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davidw
We're back to the regularly scheduled good content after the rant. Thanks!
Kidding aside, as the author of some minor open source software, and a few
things here and there, it's always really nice to receive a note o... | {
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Chaincode Labs app dev residency for Bitcoin/Lightning, stipends available - jobeirne
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/chaincodes-residency-program-back-time-lightning-app-classes/
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jobeirne
Website here: [http://lightningresidency.com/](http://lightningresidency.com/)
Chaincode Labs will be subsidizing fli... | {
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Show HN: Quickly generate an invoice PDF for a single product/service - adamschwartz
https://lazy.invoice.workers.dev/?hn
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akkyakimoto
Thanks for sharing. I tried it a bit.
Yen mark is in sample but generated pdf shows backslash.
All Japanese text goes gibberish but that is probably beyond your
specification.
... | {
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Is Gphone For Real? - nickb
http://gigaom.com/2008/07/12/is-gphone-real/
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mlinsey
If Google wants to see widespread adoption of Android as a platform, I don't
see why they would build their own branded phone and thereby compete directly
against all of the potential users of their platform.
Then again, if th... | {
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Poynt – Smart payment terminal - valanto
http://www.getpoynt.com/
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bravo22
Interesting merchant terminal -- but it seems to be little more than a pretty
rendering and physical mock-up right now.
I like how the first guy puts his card in, takes it out AND THEN punches in
his PIN, which is exactly how PIN & Chi... | {
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Inside the secretive world of stalking apps - hhs
https://www.ft.com/content/263133ac-a28b-11e9-974c-ad1c6ab5efd1
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HenryDavis65
broken link?
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Mt.Gox's tweets are all gone - volaski
https://twitter.com/mtgox
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SwellJoe
So, each bit of news coming out of Gox makes me more likely to assume the
worst.
When preparing for lawsuits, often the lawyers will recommend silence, and
making sure that there are no public statements that are misleading. Given
that t... | {
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Hosted CI server with one free build agent - new_s
http://solidbuild.net
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iancarroll
FYI, StartCom Class 1 is for non-commercial use only.
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Tool Stack for a 4-Person Remote Startup - _chrischae
https://blog.pixelic.io/startup-tool-stack/?=hn
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hbcondo714
There's always good discussion around these kind of lists[1][2] here on HN but
I think this is the first list I've seen that promotes its own product,
Pixelic (free)
[1] [https://daily.patwalls.co/a... | {
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Ask HN: What's Your Opinion On All New Suggestions For Domain Name Extensions? - kloncks
Remember how back in the day there were only four or five main domain name extensions? Only .com, .net, .gov, .org, .edu (maybe .biz too)<p>Now, there are hundreds and more are proposed. All the countries have their special two ... | {
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TIOTI - this could be the Next Big Thing from the UK - jamescoops
http://tapeitofftheinternet.com/
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sharpshoot
This has been about 18 months in the making. Shows what can be achieved with
an outsourced team. Do you think it'll fly?
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jamescoops
It's a Social TV Aggregator that's due for a full public launc... | {
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Ask HN: What algorithms do you use to handle time based event? - lasryaric
Lets say you are writing a program that should send notifications at a user defined date.
For example, a tasks management application should send notifications at the due date of the task, defined by the user.
Any date can be inserted at any ... | {
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Japan’s Robot Picks Only the Ripest Strawberries (video) | Singularity Hub - stretchwithme
http://singularityhub.com/2010/12/04/japans-robot-picks-only-the-ripest-strawberries-video/
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stretchwithme
Someday, robots will grow food for you on your roof and exterior walls.
They'll give plants individual attention, k... | {
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} |
Uber/Hyperloop VC Pishevar funding California secession movement - donttazeme
https://www.change.org/p/shervin-pishevar-condemn-shervin-pishevar-for-advocating-california-secede-from-the-union
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xname2
If Calexit really happens (it will not), tech companies will flood out. Where
will be their best choice, NYC? Da... | {
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Is there such a thing as a Cloud NAS/HD Service? - omar3550
Hi all,<p>So my external HD (6 TB) is running dangerously low on storage at home (filled with all sorts of files including video files, software, back up files etc.)<p>I was researching around to get maybe a bigger HD but external HD's in a mobile/t... | {
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Show HN: My Christmas hack – send one webhook to many destination URLs - gozmike
http://www.hookism.com
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fiatjaf
Somewhat related to my [https://requesthub.xyz/](https://requesthub.xyz/), but
both face the same problems:
\- they must ensure high availability if they are to be expected to be used in
production s... | {
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“Everything curl”: an extensive guide to everything there is to know about curl - sohkamyung
https://ec.haxx.se/
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based2
[https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20170222.html](https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20170222.html)
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Ask HN: What's the best book on leadership you know of? - ryanmccullagh
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tixocloud
I have many but here are two that I have read recently and found valuable:
\- The Essential Marcus Aurelius ([https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Aurelius-
Tarcher-Cornerston...](https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Aurelius-Tarcher-
Cor... | {
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“The [Silicon Valley] culture is not necessarily friendly to families” - norberts
https://cake.hr/blog/silicon-valley-companies-are-getting-older/
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brudgers
Title: Silicon Valley Companies are Getting Older
Or: Parenting: The New Work-life Balance Challenge in Silicon Valley
| {
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Azure Repos Default Branch Name - dustinmoris
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/azure-repos-default-branch-name/
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rvz
Not even the majority of users commenting on this post seem to like this
change.
This one is my personal favourite response: [0]
Makes you wonder if this whole idea of renaming 'master' whi... | {
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Ask HN: Are service providers breaking the login process for password managers? - coronadisaster
They Keep changing the typing process for login in for no apparent reason.... for example, one just changed it from [type user]{tab}[type pass]{tab}{enter} to [type user]{tab}{enter}{delay 1000}{tab}{tab}[type pass]{tab}{e... | {
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Ask HN: sysadmin as a service - opsly
http://www.opsly.com/<p>Have a sysadmin log in to your server and complete a task.... e.g.: set up nginx and virtual hosts, set up openvpn on two nodes, internal dns, etc.<p>Thoughts?
======
drnex
Niice! Ive been thinking about this for a while.
PM if you are interested in join... | {
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Python Control System - usta
https://github.com/mck-sbs/PyConSys
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usta
You can create control loops and let the AI (evolutional algorithm) set the
PID parameters for you. You can also plot all control variables.
| {
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"Good to Great" Circuit City finally dead, could be managed with Quickbooks. - tptacek
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jcl8rcgf4NoaPu6hVXAlaMFJXuygD96Q4LK80
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tptacek
From the article:
_"I wish there was one kind of fatal blow that we could all pick out," said
Stephen Baker, vice president o... | {
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Walmart gives up on ever having a store in NYC - ck2
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/business/28retail.html
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dbvisel
That news story is from 2007; living in Queens, I just got junkmail from them
about how much good Walmart is doing for hunger, suggesting that they're not
done with NYC yet.
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ck2
What's... | {
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Here's to the systems programmers – Writing Hello World on a home brew CPU - jackqu7
https://medium.com/@jackqu7/heres-to-the-systems-programmers-cba40a41b608
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nickpsecurity
It sounds cool and interesting but has almost no detail. Come on, Jack! Give
us some details, RTL, code, board schematics, whatever.
@ All... | {
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Secret iOS business; what you don’t know about your apps - troyhunt
http://www.troyhunt.com/2011/10/secret-ios-business-what-you-dont-know.html
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magicseth
The first part of this article is all about apps doing unnecessarily large
network requests. The lack of gzip, optimized images, and redundant requests
are ... | {
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} |
Show HN: CoinVision – Live price and volume data for crypto currencies - daremon
https://coinvision.io
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daremon
Some more info:
It took me and my co-founder ~3 months of hard full-time work to build this
first version.
We pull data straight from the exchanges (>30 at this time) and one of the
most time consumi... | {
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Ask HN: Learning Chinese Mandarin - quadrant6
I need to learn chinese mandarin but don't have easy access to real in-person tutelage, because of my location.<p>Can anyone suggest a good method, place to start, be it DVD or online etc.
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qbproger
It's tonal, so speaking it correctly is quite hard for Western peo... | {
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} |
Johns Hopkins coronavirus map changes “Taiwan” to “Taipei and environs” - clubdorothe
https://www.axios.com/johns-hopkins-coronavirus-map-taiwan-china-5c461906-4f1c-42e7-b78e-a4b43f4520ab.html
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raywu
Gosh I don’t want to politicize this. I just want to applaud that Lauren
Gardner and project team have autonomy t... | {
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} |
GnuPG is not a library - morpher
http://mrmekon.tumblr.com/post/12199418635/gnupg-is-not-a-library
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dfc
What we really need is somebody to come along and put together a library to
make it easy to use gpg in your application. They could call it "GPG Made
Easy," oh wait:
_"GnuPG Made Easy (GPGME) is a library de... | {
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} |
Madison Ruby Conference Early Bird Special Ends at Midnight Tonight - devin
http://madisonruby.org/
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devin
Totally biased w/r/t this conference, but the venue is amazing, and the after-
party looks like it will not disappoint.
| {
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} |
Hola VPN turns 7 Milion users into legitimate botnet network - Vlada89
https://thehacktimes.com/hola-vpn-turns-7-milion-users-into-legitimate-botnet-network/
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cekanoni
Seems like nobody respect their users today ...
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World's first Android Twitter client in Augmented Reality app launched today - bazzhangz
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/tweetility
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bazzhangz
Releasing our new app, Tweetility in Beta version, the first Android twitter
client with Augmented Reality.
Available for free in PlayStore starting from today!
Since... | {
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} |
The Time Has Come To Regulate Search Engine Marketing And SEO - HoneyAndSilicon
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/13/the-time-has-come-to-regulate-search-engine-marketing-and-seo/
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hvs
Government regulation of search? So now we have a _right_ to be included in
the top of search results? Whenever someone says th... | {
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} |
Dating Guru David Deangelo Finally Marries... - jkuria
http://www.doubleyourdating.com/l/seminar/1204_vegas/?s=11718&e=1&cid=Z3RXZZ&lid=1&sbid=cjKlV
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jkuria
just to be clear, this not an affiliate link. Just happy for the man!
| {
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Detroit Bar Serves Michigan's First Cannabis-Derived Cocktail - rmason
https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/2019/01/25/cannabis-cocktails-arrive-royal-oak/2670778002/
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moonka
I've noticed CBD soda for sale at some of the local beer places. It'll be
interesting to see how CBD sales grow over the next few yea... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Spence Signaling Model - stanleydrew
http://mail.publicgeodata.org/Spence_Signaling_Model
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stanleydrew
I've been frustrated by the consistent lack of mention the Spence Signaling
Model gets in the HN discussions on higher education. Hopefully this helps a
bit.
| {
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Statically-typed error handling in Python using Mypy - Agathos
https://beepb00p.xyz/mypy-error-handling.html
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staticassertion
Here's my opinion, having written many thousands of lines of mypy code.
* Third party libraries are still not typed, which sucks
* Inference is weak. Sometimes an 'if' statement narrows... | {
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} |
Latin Lover - diodorus
http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Latin-lover-8611
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hprotagonist
I am routinely startled and pleased every time I remember that Catuullus was
responsible both for one of the most gutting elegies I know of (101) which
ends with the well known phrase
And forever, br... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015) - whoishiring
Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or VISA if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.<p>Ple... | {
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Tooploox’s Deep Learning Box - 1o0ko
https://www.tooploox.com/blog/deep-learning-with-gpu
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j_s
Build a fast deep learning machine for under $1K |
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13605222](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13605222)
(4 months ago)
Additional discussion 3 months ago, comparing pricing ag... | {
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} |
Predicting Expressive Speaking Style from Text in End-To-End Speech Synthesis - daisystanton
https://google.github.io/tacotron/publications/text_predicting_global_style_tokens/index.html
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buss
Wow, these audio samples are incredible. I'm surprised to hear the model
actually outputting natural-sounding breathing ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Peter Dutton pushes for overseas police to tap Australians’ phones - RileyJames
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/05/peter-dutton-pushes-for-overseas-police-to-tap-australians-phones
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RileyJames
Just yesterday another minister made this statement:
> Pezzullo said that while “connectivity is a positive ... | {
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“Just let some joy smoke sift into your system” - samclemens
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=30359
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smacktoward
The fascinating thing about old advertisements to me is how much faith they
placed in the power of words to sell products. Old ads are absolutely
_swimming_ in copy. Words upon words upon words... | {
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} |
Imgui: Immediate Mode Graphical User Interface with minimal dependencies - jblow
https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
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kevingadd
Other than the REALLY inadvisable name choice (good luck getting precise
search results for the term IMGUI now...), this looks great.
The low # of commits and vague name might be a bad si... | {
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} |
Multiuser Sketchpad in HTML5 (Go nuts) - igravious
http://mrdoob.com/125/Multiuser_Sketchpad_HTML5
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macmac
First collaborative masterpiece - i giant penis.
~~~
igravious
The inevitability of that act of vandalism/creativity on any new virgin space
is unavoidable.
(I drew a house. _sigh_ )
~~~
woodall
I drew... | {
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} |
The Iron Law Of Evaluation And Other Metallic Rules - gwern
http://www.gwern.net/docs/1987-rossi
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WildUtah
The Iron Law of Oligarchy [0], Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy [1], and
the Iron Law of Institutions [2] are all closely related. They are essential
to understanding how the modern world works and doe... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How to Gracefully Compensate for an Incorrectly Set Clock - flashingpumpkin
https://spideroak.com/blog/20110108174456-wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey-or-how-to-gracefully-compensate-for-an-incorrectly-set-clock
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rubyrescue
Nice hat tip to Erlang at the bottom - it automatically runs the clock faster
to gracefully ac... | {
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} |
Tell HN: Bump for Android seems to read GPS constantly in standby mode - yesbabyyes
Today I saw something strange on my HTC Desire: Every time I resumed from standby, the GPS indicator was on. I haven't seen this before, so I figured it was a new app or an update. I went through the apps I had most recently updated,... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
What's the right amount of swap space for a modern Linux system? - samebreath
https://opensource.com/article/19/2/swap-space-poll
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Dahoon
Interesting that most voters on the page believes that zero swap is a good
thing. Taking a quick look at my own servers and desktop usage it fits
perfectly in table 2, ie. the... | {
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} |
You need to use error-correcting memory - skorks
http://lambda-diode.com/opinion/ecc-memory
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barrkel
> _So the probability of having at least one bit error in 4 gigabytes of
> memory at sea level on planet Earth in 72 hours is over 95% ._
This is misleading. A flaky machine will indeed see bit errors, and it w... | {
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} |
Show HN: Using PostGIS and CartoDB to identify schools at risk from earthquakes - danso
http://2015.padjo.org/tutorials/mapping/077-ok-schools-quakes/
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johnjac
Prague the school right in the middle of the hot spot, is where I graduated
from. However that was well before the rash of earthquakes (1998) They did
ha... | {
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Useless Ethereum Token - basicplus2
https://uetoken.com/
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sharemywin
FYI:
Ether contributed 310.445
Current Market Cap 472 ETH
[https://coinmarketcap.com/assets/useless-ethereum-
token/](https://coinmarketcap.com/assets/useless-ethereum-token/)
it's up 52%...
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Why Cloud Storage Use Could Be Limited in Enterprises - edw519
http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/technology/features/article.php/3843151
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kakooljay
"There are two reasons for this: bandwidth limitations and the data integrity
issues posed by the commodity drives that are typically used in cloud
services."
... | {
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Neal Stephenson wants to revolutionize sword fighting video games - SoapSeller
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/260688528/clang
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antipax
Biggest problem with these games (I've found, anyway) is that your sword
controller cannot magically stop in mid air when your virtual sword hits
another sword or a wall or ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Benoit Mandelbrot, Mathematician, Dies at 85 - harscoat
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/us/17mandelbrot.html?
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beej71
Boo!
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New safe injection bill passed to fix SF's problem of discarded needles/syringes - dsr12
https://sf.curbed.com/platform/amp/2018/8/22/17768842/sf-senate-safe-injection-ab-186
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masonic
This won't "fix" the problem at all given that it offers no incentive to
travel to any such center in the first place.
The one i... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Bloom filters in a nutshell - sadiq
http://blogs.sun.com/jrose/entry/bloom_filters_in_a_nutshell
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sadiq
It seems <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter> also have a pretty good
take.
| {
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Wirelessly powered implants that stimulate nerves in mice - shahryc
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/august/wireless-optogenetic-mouse-081715.html
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hliyan
Title seems misleading.
with a newly developed technique for wirelessly
powering *implanted* devices
This is not a method of... | {
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} |
Google to launch third-party commenting platform to rival Facebook - mrusschen
http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/03/27/google-to-launch-third-party-commenting-platform-to-rival-facebook/
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danmaz74
I'm curious to see what will they do to differentiate themselves from
Facebook's version. They really should find ... | {
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Why Color May Be The Next Twitter - swat23
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/why_color_may_be_the_next_twitter.php?sms_ss=hackernews&at_xt=4db80df7a3cd9e66%2C0
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JacobAldridge
I'm heading to the Royal Wedding on Friday (as an observer - Royal Mail
obviously lost my official invitation), and this post has remin... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Cleanweb keeps growing: new branch in Scotland - digitalWestie
http://www.cleanweb.org.uk/blog/2013/03/14/cleanweb-opens-in-scotland/
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plantedd
It's always an encouraging sign to see the tech community tackling big
problems.
| {
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Ask HN: how to start my own business? - jacktang
Well, when I read startup stories and their bibles, I show my respects and envy them their good fortune :) We know that success is hard to be copied. Sometime I felt an impulse to start my own business, and when calm down, I double myself is not capable enough.<p>Here... | {
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} |
Samsung Galaxy S10 Features Cryptocurrency Storage - diken1
https://mybitcoinnews.co/cryptocurrency-news/confirmed-samsung-galaxy-s10-comes-with-cryptocurrency-key-storage/
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elpinguinofrio
the news is a hoax. "It should be glaringly obvious why they are specifically
not calling it a cryptocurrency wallet, and wh... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What tips do you have for a life of active, independent learning? - mikemajzoub
Hi HN -<p>Being a software programmer requires a life of constant learning. What strategies do you use to support and enable this?<p>Do you deliberately budget xHours each week? Are you taking online classes regularly (through MOOC... | {
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As Classrooms Go Digital, Textbooks May Become History - newacc
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/education/09textbook.html?ref=technology
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davidalln
In my opinion, textbooks will forever be the dominate student resource and
people who call for its death are a bit naive.
As a student in a very tech-oriented sch... | {
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} |
Be the Co-Founder of an Event Recommendation Site - serkanunsal
http://dakick.com
We're an Istanbul based startup and looking forward to find passionate cofounder in SV. (Business background, ex-entrepreneur)<p>dakick is a personalized event recommendation engine and people who like to work on that subject will be g... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
New WebKit Features in Safari 12.1 - Despegar
https://webkit.org/blog/8718/new-webkit-features-in-safari-12-1/
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dddddaviddddd
Summary:
- dark mode
- improved tracking restrictions
- Payment Request API
- support for VP8 with WebRTC
- updated DRM
- streaming improvem... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
WebRTC 2-player 2048 on same board with matchmaking - chrischen
http://instapainting.com/2x2048/
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cscharenberg
I think it would be interesting to have a 2048 variant where every player
starts with same board and after every move, the same random next piece is
given to all the people who made that move. The ser... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Python 2.8? - bootload
https://lwn.net/Articles/711061
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placebo
Back when python 3 was introduced and after learning of breaking backward
compatibility my first thought was, "good luck with that"...
Wanting to create something better is not surprising. What was surprising (to
me at least) is not seeing that peo... | {
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} |
The Mind at Work: Guido van Rossum on how Python makes thinking in code easier - pauloxnet
https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/work-culture/-the-mind-at-work--guido-van-rossum-on-how-python-makes-thinking
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moksly
We recently picked up python, mostly by accident. We had some really shorty
formatted XML. We’re talking... | {
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} |
Confronting anti-Asian discrimination during the coronavirus crisis - hhs
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/confronting-anti-asian-discrimination-during-the-coronavirus-crisis
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gosuri
I think you'll see discrimination against any national whose country is having
big trouble with the virus. Like Ital... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Hulu Plus Arrives on Apple TV - shawndumas
http://blog.hulu.com/2012/07/31/hulu-plus-arrives-on-apple-tv/
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rkudeshi
This app has been purportedly ready for 10 months and was just waiting for the
"politics" to be worked out between Apple and Hulu.[1]
Now that it's here, I wonder if the sticking point was Apple... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Facebook ads best practices? - ardihi
Does anyone have any learnings or best practices to share about Facebook ads?<p>I'm looking to try Facebook ads and see what the conversion rate is for my website, but before I do that, I'd like to see what the community thinks about them. Thanks!
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yurispla... | {
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Why we got so heavily involved in the Subversion project by the CEO of WANdisco - voxio
http://blogs.wandisco.com/2010/09/08/why-we-got-so-heavily-involved-in-the-subversion-project/
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voxio
Git is clearly the superior VCS, how dare he!
| {
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} |
Ubuntu Linux enters the smartphone wars - CrankyBear
http://www.zdnet.com/ubuntu-linux-enters-the-smartphone-wars-7000009302/
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cschmidt
It is annoying that the tech press has to frame everything as a "war". They've
been writing that same article for decades, only the players change.
| {
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Can We Do Better Than XML and JSON? - josephscott
http://programming.oreilly.com/2013/08/can-we-do-better-than-xml-and-json.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+oreilly%2Fnews+%28O%27Reilly+News+and+Commentary%29
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toyg
Binary is the enemy of View Source, with all that it entails. Tou t... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ruin You Google Image Search History - JayFromEpic
http://screwmyhistory.com
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JayFromEpic
THS IS NSFW so ya know!
| {
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} |
The Next Internet? Marijuana Delivered as Easy as Pizza - pavornyoh
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/12/technology/marijuana-start-ups-see-an-industry-on-the-cusp-of-a-breakthrough.html?ref=technology&_r=0
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marpstar
Recently visited Washington state for the first time and want to experience a
legal marijuana purch... | {
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} |
A Magician Explains Why We See What’s Not There - dnetesn
http://nautil.us/issue/70/variables/a-magician-explains-why-we-see-whats-not-there
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csmeder
In the field of UX/Psychology there is a term “suffice”. Our brains are
constantly sufficing rather that perceiving all data and interpretating it. If
we had to do... | {
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} |
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