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Google's Super Bowl ad shows the need for search privacy - tdmackey
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/02/google-superbowl-ad-explains-need-search-privacy
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arantius
> Microsoft's Bing is anonymizing this information after six months by
> deleting the entire Internet Protocol ("IP") address associated with your
... | {
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} |
Switching editors is just as hard as switching languages (2008) - kondro
http://www.benorenstein.com/blog/switching-editors-is-just-as-hard-as-switching-languages/
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Gurkenmaster
Switching from vim to emacs should be pretty easy if you use evil mode. This
article is from 2008 though. Evil mode is pretty recent.... | {
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} |
Modern “scientific management” threatens to dehumanise workplace - rvikmanis
http://www.economist.com/news/business/21664190-modern-version-scientific-management-threatens-dehumanise-workplace-digital
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nerd_stuff
I think "Digital Taylorism" is more accurate and informative than calling it
"scientific management"... | {
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} |
An Open Letter to WeWork - lambtron
http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/29/an-open-letter-to-wework/
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cpncrunch
At first I thought this was satire.
| {
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} |
Ask HN: I bought a server for research. How should i configure it? - eyer2016
64 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD, 8 TB HDD, Nvidia 1080 is my configuration. What OS should I install? How should I partition my hard disks?<p>By research, I mean trying out GPU based databases, deep learning etc.
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wmf
I prefer one partition; with ... | {
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Common C++ Gotchas - vickychijwani
http://vickychijwani.me/cpp-gotchas/
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nly
#3 should really say make _public_ base class destructors virtual
#6 sometimes you actually will want an A(A&) constructor... for example, if
you have constructor overloaded with a greedy template argument.
#8 objects returned by va... | {
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} |
The Guardians of London's Black Cab 'Knowledge' - sageabilly
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-guardians-of-londons-black-cab-knowledge?trk_source=homepage-lede
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djhn
I previously read another very good piece on "The Knowledge", which has some
interesting perspective from an applicant and student.
[http://ww... | {
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} |
Radxa: $100 Quad-Core ARM Raspberry Pi Alternative - lclark
http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/774426-radxa-the-100-quad-core-arm-raspberry-pi-alternative
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arjie
There are hundreds of these mini-computers and they always have poor support
because the community is small and the makers just abandon the product.
... | {
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} |
China Becomes 2nd Largest Apple Market: Cook - dave1619
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-19/china-becomes-apple-s-second-largest-market-by-sales-cook-says.html
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dave1619
"China accounted for 16 percent of fourth-quarter sales, or about $4.5
billion, Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said on a conference call... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Journey from Israeli military intelligence to VP R&D - riskymagemerge
https://linearb.io/blog/7-secrets-learned-on-my-journey-from-israeli-military-intelligence-to-vp-of-rd/
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riskymagemerge
Love this part... “Early on, I figured out that while we have awesome
technologists, probably among the brightest in the wo... | {
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} |
Your Shortcut to Lightning-Fast Speeds. AMP Landing Pages Come to Unbounce - unbouncemktg
https://unbounce.com/product/amp-landing-pages-with-unbounce/
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ocdtrekkie
Friends don't let friends use AMP. AMP pages aren't really "85% faster", they
just are preloaded by Google, in exchange for letting Google hijack pag... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Why making something people want is so hard? - paulus_magnus2
It could be that I need a new perspective, but my impression is that making / finding something people want is really hard. Even if you forget about making money.<p>Not sure which examples to give to back my point
- let's say you make a ca... | {
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} |
Four steps we’re taking today to fight online terror - MilnerRoute
https://blog.google/topics/google-europe/four-steps-were-taking-today-fight-online-terror/
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DuskStar
"Third, we will be taking a tougher stance on videos that do not clearly
violate our policies — for example, videos that contain inflammatory rel... | {
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} |
When Buying Two Computers Is Cheaper Than Buying One - Charles__L
http://lifehacker.com/5950321/when-buying-two-computers-is-cheaper-than-buying-one
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TheCapn
I'll admit to making the gaming laptop mistake during my university years. I
convinced myself the $1,300 price tag was justified because of the other high
... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Slack integration in 1 LOC - ecares
https://www.bearer.sh/integrations/slack/share/
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arthurcarayon
Really nice ! Love it to try it
| {
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Want to learn sales to become an entrepreneur - sakalys
Hi all,<p>Here I am sitting with my six years of commercial developer experience and thinking to switch to sales. The reason I want that is I want to drastically improve my ability to sell (in the broader sense). I want to get QUALITY salesman experience which I ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Image-triangulation (delaunay and voronoi) - EllipticCurve
Hey guys,<p>it's my first post here, but I've been reading for a couple of months.<p>And right now I am ready to share some stuff I made. Please feel free to ask, criticize or suggest alternatives :)<p>https://github.com/Mauri... | {
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} |
Feds Warrantlessly Tracking Americans’ Credit Cards in Real Time - marilyn
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/12/realtime/
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sleight42
The most painful part of this article to me is this one quote:
"The Justice Department did not return a call for comment."
Our own government is, once again, not holding it... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A community on the front lines of the opioid epidemic - iamjeff
https://www.statnews.com/2016/08/22/heroin-huntington-west-virginia-overdoses/
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alasdair_
My daughter died from a fentanyl overdose a couple of months ago.
Like many of the people on this site, I am a software engineer working for a
top-tier tech f... | {
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} |
Simple Visual for Inequality - Google Searches Show the Scope of Sexism - elleferrer
http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/powerful-ads-use-real-google-searches-show-scope-sexism-worldwide-153235
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officialjunk
What about the equivalent suggestions with those same terms staring with
"Men..."
| {
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} |
Dissolve My Nobel Prize, Fast! - alexandros
http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/10/03/140815154/dissolve-my-nobel-prize-fast-a-true-story
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bbrizzi
Back in Denmark, de Hevesy did a remarkable thing.
He reversed the chemistry, precipitated out the gold
and then, around January, 1950, ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Apple rejects Valve’s Steam Link game streaming app over ‘business conflicts’ - RockyMcNuts
https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/24/17392470/apple-rejects-valve-steam-link-app-store-ios-game-steaming
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makecheck
Apple _should_ be restricting its business interests to “things that make
people want to buy the device”, a... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Bin Ladin's Bookshelf - mcphilip
http://www.odni.gov/index.php/resources/bin-laden-bookshelf
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bediger4000
Does anyone else think this declassification is a response to Seymour Hersch's
LRB article about how the official story about ObL's killing is false?
I mean, if the US government can declassify part of bi... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Libra Blockchain White Paper [pdf] - Anon84
https://developers.libra.org/docs/assets/papers/the-libra-blockchain.pdf
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andrewla
There's really one big question that any sort of cryptocurrency design has to
answer, and that's the state precedence system. If a new client comes up and
sees two different states b... | {
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} |
The largest integer Chrome doesn't use scientific notation to display is ... - ColinWright
999999999999999934463
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sageikosa
It's not even treating that as an integer. If you enter 999999999999999934463,
it spits back 999999999999999900000. Above 999999999999999934463 it apparently
rounds up, and goes into scie... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Netflix to expand to Germany, France and Switzerland - nkurz
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27496055
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jordigh
I find it so ridiculous that an internet company has to "expand" to another
country.
Why can't it just be a matter of removing the geoip checks from your servers?
(I know, I know, still... the inte... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Open Hybrid is a platform for interaction with everyday objects - drewvolpe
http://www.openhybrid.org/
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drewvolpe
The Media lab built their Reality Editor
([http://www.realityeditor.org/](http://www.realityeditor.org/)) on this
project. Very cool to see.
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} |
Metro: don’t be afraid to dream a little bigger - michael_fine
http://aaronisthinking.com/my-dream-for-metro-apps
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Mythbusters
What is neat about metro (ooops windows 8 style) apps is that you get the
whole canvas by design to play with. The pattern that controls are out of
sight when you don't need them is real... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Measuring the Greatness of Programmers - rizal
http://www.rizalalmashoor.com/blog/measuring-the-greatness-of-programmers
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helveticaman
What about occasionally duplicating effort in order to run a test? It seems
possible the information gleaned from the test could outweigh the cost of
duplication of effort.
~~... | {
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} |
Firesheep and smartphones - piers
With the whole firesheep thing that was talking about yesterday, would this include smartphone traffic over wifi, or something like seesmic desktop?
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Rungeek
I just tried it with an Open WiFi and my iPhone. It did NOT capture sessions
of Twitter, Facebook, AOL IM, and FourSqua... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Eole, a Lévy-optimal lambda calculus evaluator written in Rust - HerrmannM
https://github.com/HerrmannM/eole
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xorand
I wanted to point you to two almost similar efforts [0] [1] then I found your
post [2]. You may be interested also in [3].
[0] [https://github.com/moonad/Formality](https://github.com/mo... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A Prayer’s Chance: The scandal of mental health in West Africa (2017) - Thevet
https://harpers.org/archive/2017/05/a-prayers-chance/?single=1
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RcouF1uZ4gsC
The issue is often that even with modern medicine, the treatments for mental
illness are less than ideal. The medications effectiveness can vary as can the
s... | {
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} |
We Turned Down YC - giacaglia
https://victor.pont.is/article/no-yc
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vikramkr
There's an offhand comment about the first remote demo day failing - is that
true? And what does a demo day failing mean? Were companies unable to raise
money, and if so, is that because of the macroenvironment or the new remote
setup? ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What is best tool for technical interview tests? - 8draco8
My company will be interviewing people remotely. I am responsible for doing technical tests for the candidates. I would like to use an existing tool for that initial test. Something that will give a time restricted test to the candidates with questions... | {
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Georgetown Law Professors Say Students Are “Traumatized” by Criticisms of Scalia - th0br0
https://theintercept.com/2016/02/23/georgetown-law-professors-complain-conservative-students-are-traumatized-by-criticisms-of-scalia-demand-remedies/
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PaulHoule
Back in the 90's I often saw right wing students who complaine... | {
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} |
There is no fold - hownottowrite
http://thereisnofold.tumblr.com/
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scott_s
Please label your axes. The units are not obvious.
I think the x-axis is pixels, where 0 is the top of the viewable part of the
browser, and increases downward, but it took me a long time to figure that
out. (My initial guess was millise... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Cloud AI Platform Pipelines - jamesblonde
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/introducing-cloud-ai-platform-pipelines
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thefounder
Just make sure you build some abstractions and have a backup plan. Don't get
locked-in their API. It may/will ruin your business.
~~~
siganakis
Cloud AI Platfo... | {
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Gunk: Modern front end and syntax for Protocol Buffers - kenshaw
https://github.com/gunk/gunk
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djur
I'm not seeing what makes this "modern". proto3 is only a few years old and
nothing about it strikes me as unusually archaic. Protobuf in general isn't
that much older than Go. I can see why Go-compatible syntax w... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Researchers Say Women Secretly Desire Hairy Geeks - ashishbharthi
http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/19/1650248/Researchers-Say-Women-Secretly-Desire-Hairy-Geeks?from=twitter
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whyenot
I wouldn't be so sure. The Daily Mail has a pretty terrible record when it
comes to science reporting. See for instance
[htt... | {
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} |
Google Fast Flip's code browser does not have Flash - ashishbharthi
http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/view?q=view%3Apopular&a=bmorAOnndYvZhM&source=news&type=embed
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edster
Wait, link didn't seem to go to article referenced, but was interesting
anyway. I would undo my upvote if I could.
| {
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} |
CMU Researchers Break Speed Barrier In Solving Important Class of Linear Systems - yarapavan
http://www.cmu.edu/news/archive/2010/October/oct21_speedyalgorithm.shtml
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drats
As much as the cult of genius is often overwhelming and contributing people
have been written out of histories of discovery I still feel u... | {
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} |
…and I’m fired | Don't mess with HF-Trading - sdoering
http://analyticsmadeskeezy.com/2012/08/29/and-im-fired-plot-only/
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smoorman1024
That sounds like Market Manipulation. What made you think that is OK?
You can't shout fire in a movie theater (a considerably less regulated
environment), what made you think s... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Do something you love, or do something you are good at? - bobblywobbles
With the epidemic happening, and in the time of Lent, I've given up playing videogames which has always been a past-time for me and a frequent escape for real world stress. Besides realizing that this isn't healthy (some escape i... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Confirmed: Voyager 1 in interstellar space - kneth
http://www.space.com/26462-voyager-1-interstellar-space-confirmed.html
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cryptoz
> Interstellar space begins where the heliosphere ends. But by some measures,
> Voyager 1 remains inside the solar system, which is surrounded by a shell of
> comets known as the O... | {
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} |
how I reduced my bounce rate 94% with cloudflare? - chanux
http://developdaly.com/web-design/cloudflare-review-and-how-i-reduced-my-bounce-rate-94/
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al_james
Er. That must have been one hell of a slow site to start with. I am evaluating
cloudflare at the moment. No noticeable change in any user retention stats.... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Healthcare.gov data center fails, hobbling state and federal insurance exchanges - usaphp
http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/28/5037766/healthcare-gov-data-center-fails
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hga
Single point of failure. E.g. subsidity calculations for everyone, including
all state exchanges, and, perhaps one day, insurance companies ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
What is the single most influential book every mathematician should read? - ezhil
http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/262/what-is-the-single-most-influential-book-every-mathematician-should-read
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ap22213
I haven't read most of the books in the list, but I do have very fond memories
of Rudin's "Principles o... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Toast notifications for React with automatically managed queue - bananabobby
https://bananabobby.github.io/react-awesome-toasts/
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jpincheira
Looks great, maybe I'll try it soon on Standups.io!
~~~
bananabobby
Thanks! I'm polishing some edge cases and making it even more accessible now,
will be out soon... | {
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} |
Return-oriented programming - mataug
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return-oriented_programming
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mataug
I just learnt about this in class. I find this fascinating so Starting a
discussion to hear more about it.
| {
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} |
Hans Rosling: The good news of the decade? (Video) - dirtyaura
http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_the_good_news_of_the_decade.html#011334325745283036154
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dirtyaura
Rosling's presentation style is fantastic. I became intrigued if he has
written any books (apparently not), but then realized that his visualizati... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Inefficient, but Smart - oftenwrong
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/6/5/inefficient-but-smart
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andrewmutz
I think that the differences between the two models can be attributed to the
difference between the cost of human labor in the two countries.
Everything mentioned in the Ecuador example is labor in... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Block and Unsubscribe - xpressyoo
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2015/09/stay-in-control-with-block-and.html
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mklim
> That’s why you can now block specific email addresses in Gmail [...] Future
> mail will go to the spam folder (and you can always unblock in Settings).
It's nice to have a one-click button for it... | {
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} |
War 2.0 - Rise of the Robots - kkleiner
http://singularityhub.com/2009/06/01/war-20-rise-of-the-robots/#comments
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alexgartrell
On the plus side, robots stop our friends and family from getting killed.
On the negative side, the lack of consequence makes military and political
leaders think it's cool to start b... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
7 Fabulous Ways to Great Programming - imgabe
http://theprogrammersparadox.blogspot.com/2008/09/7-fabulous-ways-to-great-programming.html
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baha_man
'5. Still reading? I thought you'd wizened up by now?'
[http://www.answers.com/wizened&r=67](http://www.answers.com/wizened&r=67)
wiz·ened (wĭz'ənd) adj.
Withered... | {
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How to use Comics to Communicate Ideas - reledi
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosenfeldmedia/sets/72157631874695422/
======
reledi
These illustrations are from the book "See What I Mean" by Kevin Cheng, and
are available under a Creative Commons license.
| {
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} |
Everyday Soviet Nostalgia - tintinnabula
https://newrepublic.com/article/145801/everyday-soviet-nostalgia
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IWeldMelons
I live in ex-USSR, in Central Asia precisely. The life before the fall of USSR
was in many ways much, much better than it is now, and before the Soviet rule
it was a medieval swamp. There is sti... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Red Hat Announces Broad Expansion to Open Source Patent Promise - JoshTriplett
https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-announces-broad-expansion-open-source-patent-promise#
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ralmidani
I understand why Microsoft would issue a "patent promise" rather than a bona
fide license (the issuer of a promise... | {
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} |
» Removing DigiNotar from your Linux CA Certificate repository - colinprince
http://petermblair.com/2011/09/removing-diginotar-from-your-linux-ca-certificate-repository/
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yardie
For the Mac users:
Open Keychain Access in Utilities folder. Select "System Roots" and in the
right-pane scroll down to Diginotar. Dou... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Google Offers beta launching in New York City and the Bay Area - ordinaryman
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/google-offers-beta-launching-in-new.html
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arturadib
Does Google have a "always play catch-up" mantra in addition to "don't be
evil"?
\- Hotmail (Gmail)
\- Mapquest (G Maps)
\- Firefox/IE (G Ch... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Contaminant found in vaping products linked to deadly lung illnesses - bookofjoe
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/09/05/contaminant-found-vaping-products-linked-deadly-lung-illnesses-state-federal-labs-show/
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drewcon
One thing I haven’t seen in any of the reports, is this afflicting folks who
took a si... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Is this common in the gaming industry? - mr_digital
I just want to know if the following is pretty common thing in the gaming industry, being all new to the field I am not too sure. It would be nice to get feedback.<p>I recently applied for a junior software engineer position with Crytek(Germany).<p>As a first... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
CUPS License Change Coming - executesorder66
https://www.cups.org/blog/2017-11-07-cups-license-change.html
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rmc
The OpenStreetMap project changed the licence of the data a few years ago (for
Complicated Reasons™). People had to be contacted and ask to relicence their
data, and eventually some data had to be dele... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: How does the "apply late" in YC application work? - rrpadhy
I see YC Application has got "apply late" link. However, when you follow that link, it gives you a message "Sorry, this application is no longer editable."<p>Is it only me or is it the same for others?
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sgy
If you have star... | {
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} |
Gaming website metrics - jakeludington
http://www.lockergnome.com/web/2011/06/02/ortsbo-website-metrics/
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jakeludington
Makes you wonder how many companies are padding their stats to meet marketing
goals.
~~~
drakaal
I think it is really a function of how many sites tell their investors how
much they are "pad... | {
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} |
I like to try an experiment on HN. Have your say - faramarz
I have a web app idea I would like to see come to reality.<p>I want the very first step to be an HN post explaining my idea, and then calling for talent/partners from this community to build a team around the idea.<p>Next, produce a prototype and finally ap... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Loose Lips Sink MIPS - jakobdabo
https://www.eejournal.com/article/loose-lips-sink-mips/
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gumby
> “A license for all of mainland China has already been sold, lock, stock and
> barrel.” This is precisely what the U.S. government was trying to avoid when
> it intervened in the previous acquisition of MIPS Technolo... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Devprovement – huge discounts on courses and books for developers - jjets718
http://devprovement.com/
======
jjets718
Howdy, folks! I'm the founder of Devprovement. I'll be around for a while this
morning and this afternoon to answer any questions you might have.
I love to learn new things and I think one of... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Patent Wars Aren’t About Destroying the Enemy, They’re About the Loot - sound
http://www.nytimes.com/external/gigaom/2010/05/13/13gigaom-patent-wars-arent-about-destroying-the-enemy-they-62498.html
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plesn
The question I'm asking myself: will this system crumble under it's own cost?
If looting is made easier than... | {
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} |
The Bad Hair, Incorrect Feathering, and Missing Skin Flaps of Dinosaur Art - ctrlp
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dinosaurs-art-paleoartists-mistakes
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amelius
Probably relevant: [1].
> The amazing dinosaur found (accidentally) by miners in Canada: known as a
> nodosaur, this 110 million-year-old, armored... | {
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} |
Journalism is Dead - generic_user
http://www.vgchartz.com/article/260846/journalism-is-dead/
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trowawee
"Actually," he sniffed imperiously, "it's about ethics in game journalism."
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ConfuciusSay
Forget the NYTimes helping to send us to a war that killed over a million
Iraqis. Forget FOX News that runs 24/7 ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Gauge: Cross-Platform Test Automation - rshetty
https://github.com/getgauge/gauge
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dbwest
Why would you use this instead of Cucumber?
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harinee
Some of the things I think Gauge does well:
1\. Instead a BDD format, it uses markdown specification-style language. This
fits well for end-to-end user-journeys, i... | {
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US Pressed Dutch Gov over ASML Sale - HaGoijer
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-asml-holding-usa-china-insight/trump-administration-pressed-dutch-hard-to-cancel-china-chip-equipment-sale-sources-idUSKBN1Z50HN
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secondo
As a European I feel increasingly concerned about the influence of US in our
recent trading d... | {
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Location-based ads are growing - tomcam
https://www.wsj.com/articles/your-location-data-is-being-soldoften-without-your-knowledge-1520168400
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dsl
Location based ads are growing? All the singles waiting to meet me in My City,
CA will be happy to know that!
I remember working on a feature for an ad network in the... | {
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What3Words submitting takedown requests against Tweets [pdf] - edent
https://www.owenboswarva.com/misc/W3W_Twitter_20191007.pdf
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kerkeslager
I can understand why someone would want to run WhatFreeWords if What3Words is
already a standard: it's dumb to pay for 238-lines-of-Python-as-a-service. The
added latency a... | {
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Show HN: Rangiano – Arduino instrument for playing melodies by changing distance - efojs
https://github.com/efojs/rangiano
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efojs
Hi! This is my first Arduino project. I went to components store, bought some
random set of sensors aiming to experiment. When I finished checking and
playing with each of them indivi... | {
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Execution triumphs ideas, but by how much? - vigniro
https://medium.com/@vigniro/execution-triumphs-ideas-but-by-how-much-be279b948577
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vigniro
While tech leaders like Ben Horowitz, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Sam Altman, and
more phrase their general message to founders in their own terms, a lot of it
actually bo... | {
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} |
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Fourier Transform (2017) - aroman_ro
https://compphys.go.ro/nuclear-magnetic-resonance-and-fourier-transform/
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kurthr
This is a nice overview, however, the images seem to be for NMR imaging (NMRI)
while the equations are for 1D NMR. As other posts comment the NMR only
portion can b... | {
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Anyone looking for Co-Founders in NYC? (24 Year Old Male Here) - mattgerboth
I am looking to join someone or a team to work on a start-up. I had two startups before and they both failed. I have learned so much from each one of them. I know about the ins and outs of startup marketing, project management, and sales. E... | {
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Khan Academy iPad app launched - spicyj
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/khan-academy-watch.-practice./id469863705?mt=8
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kamens
Interesting tidbit: it's taken us months to get approved for the App Store b/c
we were a bit stubborn in our refusal to offer an audio-only version of Sal's
videos to people w/ crappy c... | {
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} |
mac empty trash - Flodner
http://mackeeper.zeobit.com/empty-trash-mac
The possibility to remove securely Mac files by Shredder. They will disappear without a trace.
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ynoclo
This article is disingenuous in that it doesn't mention the "Secure Empty
Trash" menu item which is located directly below "Empty Trash".... | {
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} |
Symbolic Plane Geometry Calculator - enthdegree
https://geometryexpressions.com/gxweb/
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gabcoh
I'm not sure if this offers any additional features, but it seems like a
similar tool to
[https://www.geogebra.org/calculator](https://www.geogebra.org/calculator)
which I believe is also open source.
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enthdegree
T... | {
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US feds, states could join forces on Google probes: report - ajaviaad
https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/01/27/20/us-feds-states-could-join-forces-on-google-probes-report
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dessant
AMP must be included in the investigation. Google's latest tactic is the
introduction of Signed HTTP Exchanges [1], which still forces... | {
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An Intern Guide to a Summer in the Bay Area - AlexeyMK
http://alexeymk.com/an-interns-guide-to-a-summer-in-the-bay-area
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wickedchicken
This guy totally missed out on the east bay. If your idea of cool is bumping
into mathematicians/linguists at a coffee shop then Berkeley is hard to beat.
BART makes it relativ... | {
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} |
Car buyers shun electric vehicles not named Tesla - ilamont
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-01-17/ev-sales-fizzle
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Nextgrid
Could it be because nobody trusts the legacy car manufacturers to deliver
something solid for a product that heavily relies on electronics & software?
Given the sad state of in... | {
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} |
Why you should continue working on your bad idea - iisbum
http://joel.is/post/30648299967/why-you-should-continue-working-on-your-bad-idea
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bdcravens
He lists 3 startup successes: Instagram, Flickr, and Groupon. He talks about
their famous pivots. Problem is, these companies pivoted into the kinds of
companies t... | {
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Show HN: A coloring book of data structures and algorithms - frwntfwtr
I'm making a coloring book of data structures and algorithms for programmers and students. So far I have a prototype page for a sorting algorithm (albeit a rather simple one).<p>Here the Selection Sort coloring pages you can print.
<a href="ht... | {
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Raph Koster - Rigid programming philosophies are the devil - cyanbane
https://plus.google.com/u/0/103271590817770839429/posts/JbD3eyRGUgU
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mokkos
"The right way to do things the first time is the way that gets it working the
fastest so you can see if your solution even makes sense.
The right way to rewrite it o... | {
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} |
Dropbox rival Space Monkey puts 'cloud' in your house - ivoflipse
http://news.cnet.com/8301-19882_3-57391989-250/dropbox-rival-space-monkey-puts-cloud-in-your-house/#ixzz1oX8i677s
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dpark
They give me half of a 2TB drive? Doesn't that mean that I'm getting only one
copy of my data stored outside my house? So if a... | {
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} |
Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Just a Text - dynofuz
http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/07/27/426613020/major-flaw-in-android-phones-would-let-hackers-in-with-just-a-text
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jimrandomh
Summary: MMS messages can cause Android phones to decode video with
libstagefright, which ... | {
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} |
Scientist apologizes for his sexist shirt - sonabinu
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2014/11/14/scientist-apologizes-for-his-sexist-shirt-but-the-internet-still-wants-women-to-shut-up-and-die/?hpid=z10
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rbcgerard
not defending the shirt - but find it ludicrous that people spend time o... | {
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} |
Pastel: A command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors - praveenscience
https://github.com/sharkdp/pastel
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mkl
This looks really neat. The demo uses a lot of shell pipes though, needing to
type "pastel" out for every processing step. It would be convenient if
something like
... | {
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How botnets are created with hijacked Worpess, fake Flash downloads and Node.js - Sujan
http://betamode.de/2015/11/23/what-happens-if-your-wordpress-is-hacked/
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joshfraser
I have a Wordpress plugin with ~100k active installs. Recently I've started
getting emails from people wanting to buy the plugin from me. I'm... | {
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} |
Explainer: 'Stablecoins' in spotlight as Facebook unveils Libra cryptocurrency - hhs
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-crypto-currencies-explainer/explainer-stablecoins-in-the-spotlight-as-facebook-unveils-libra-cryptocurrency-idUSKCN1TJ1T6
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krisrm
I wish there were a bit more explanation provided on this parag... | {
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} |
Visualizing Dataflow Graphs of Deep Learning Models in TensorFlow - happy-go-lucky
http://idl.cs.washington.edu/papers/tfgraph
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rawnlq
I wonder if one dominant visual dataflow language will ever emerge. It seems
like a generally useful idea across many different domains but it's something
that's always reimpleme... | {
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} |
GoDaddy Uses ICANN Domain Verification for (Dirty) Marketing Purposes - GIMAD
http://fvrit.com/archive/2008/03/13/godaddy-uses-icann-domain-verification-for-marketing-purposes.aspx
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nickb
I have all of my domains under GoDaddy and this company's making me nervous.
GoDaddy's become a liability.
Anyone suggest ... | {
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} |
The mass exodus at Social Capital continues - MESY
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/31/the-mass-exodus-at-social-capital-continues/
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village-idiot
Why should I care?
| {
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The Hardest Places in the World to Visit - antigizmo
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/09/countries-difficult-visas-travel/403267?single_page=true
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Evgeniuz
I'm from Ukraine and it's interesting to note that people from first-world
countries have trouble getting into third-world countries. Be... | {
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} |
Chinese Girl Shamed for Using Robot to Write Homework. Now Everybody Wants One - theBashShell
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2186780/chinese-schoolgirl-shamed-using-robot-write-homework-now
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glasslion
Nobody is shaming the girl. The title is very misleading.
| {
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Microsoft's Sidekick/Pink problems blamed on dogfooding and sabotage - Flemlord
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/10/12/microsofts_sidekick_pink_problems_blamed_on_dogfooding_and_sabotage.html
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mrkurt
I think that's the most twisted definition of "dogfooding" I've ever heard.
Also, this article seems to b... | {
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} |
Google is Forcing Routebuilder to Shut Down - Jerry2
https://medium.com/@andrewcmartin/google-maps-is-forcing-routebuilder-to-shutdown-615ce42f413a
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jamest
[posting on behalf of my colleague @ Google]
Hi everyone, Google Product Manager for Maps APIs here. We are not revoking
Routebuilder’s access to the Maps A... | {
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} |
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