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Copyright Corruption Scandal Surrounds Anti-Piracy Campaign - CountHackulus
http://torrentfreak.com/copyright-corruption-scandal-surrounds-anti-piracy-campaign-111201/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Torrentfreak+%28Torrentfreak%29&asid=03cabdde
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swang
Is the lack of comments for thi... | {
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Japanese drill ship fails to reach the earthquake-generating zone - daddylonglegs
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01551-6
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hcknwscommenter
I do not understand this article. According to wikipedia, the deepwater
horizon drilled to 10,683 m in 1,259 m of water. Acccording to the nature
article, the deep... | {
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Review my weekend project - Free Twitter marketing tool - skbohra123
http://masstwit.com
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skbohra123
I would love to get feedback from people here. It could be very useful for
marketing on twitter, but needs lots of caution at the part of user to be
sensible on not spamming, there is a risk involved of twitter... | {
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What is the difference between an ICO and an STO? - ilanhz
https://litepaper.com/resources/sto
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gus_massa
How do they expect that the SEC will leave they alone? How is this better than
a traditional stock?
[The split of the article in many small chunks that force you to press the
"next" button is annoying.]
--... | {
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The Most and Least Paid Teachers in the World – Chalk Talk - pbhowmic
https://talk.chalk.com/the-most-and-least-paid-teachers-in-the-world-76e312dc2cd1#.wolk4vh09
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DrScump
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10890792](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10890792)
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Why is there no open source Financial Stock APIs? - rammy1234
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joshheyse
Most financial market data comes with strict licensing models. To get data
from NYSE, NADAQ, CME or most other exchanges you must sign the agreements.
Selling this data to vendors, news networks or end consumers is a large
portion of the ex... | {
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Firechat: an open-source chat module, built with Firebase - jamest
http://firebase.github.io/firechat/
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publicfig
I wish I didn't have to log in with Twitter to try it out. It is a lot of fun
to see some of these cool things built with Firebase though. That Refrigerator
Magnet game a while back was some of the... | {
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A New Recipe for Hunting Alien Life - JJLongusa
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-new-recipe-for-hunting-alien-life/
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vanderZwan
This reminds me of one of my favourite pieces of science writing ever: _"
Bands of Iron"_, by Adam Lee[0]. I don't think I've ever read something that
better conveyed a sens... | {
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} |
Manyverse for iOS - staltz
https://www.manyver.se/blog/2020-01-update
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trevyn
“Manyverse is a decentralized social network... The developers of Manyverse
can control the source code to build the app and ship new features, but they
have no access to user data... The primary goal of this project is to make
social ... | {
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} |
Cognitive abilities of 11-years-olds are up to three years behind where they were in 1975. - nickb
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20081027/tuk-class-of-76-cleverer-than-kids-of-to-dba1618.html
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DaniFong
"The tests - designed to assess grasp of abstract scientific concepts such as
volume, density, quantity and weight... | {
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Ask HN: Any Los Angeles hackers interested in a meetup? - roachsocal
I don't see much about SoCal on HN ... anybody out there in the Los Angeles or San Diego area?<p>Would you be interested in a SoCal meetup this summer?
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kyro
Hey, there's a socal yc group on Facebook - 'socal.yc'. We're hoping to have a
meetu... | {
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Google Maps, Earth take on full 3D imagery - alt_
http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/06/google-maps-earth-take-on-full-3d-maps/
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alt_
Sorry for the lack of content. I hoped they would have updated it properly.
antr submitted[0] a better link[1] with video. Seekable press event[2] is also
up with more information... | {
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} |
Bisection Bandwidth - peter_d_sherman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisection_bandwidth
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peter_d_sherman
Excerpt:
Significance of bisection bandwidth
"Theoretical support for the importance of this measure of network performance
was developed in the PhD research of Clark Thomborson (formerly Clark
Thompson).[3... | {
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What the Negative Price of Oil Is Telling Us - vo2maxer
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/upshot/virus-deflation-negative-oil-prices.html
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pcdoodle
Don't submit this crap here.
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Applying 5 Whys To Amazon EC2 Outage - somic
http://www.somic.org/2012/07/05/applying-5-whys-to-amazon-ec2-outage/
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burke
" _To me, this outage is the most worrisome of all AWS service disruptions
that I know about. In a nutshell:
AWS effectively lost its control plane for entire region as a result of a
failu... | {
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When science shows that scientists are sexist and biased against women - rmc
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/unofficial-prognosis/2012/09/23/study-shows-gender-bias-in-science-is-real-heres-why-it-matters/
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rmc
When doing science (or being skeptical/a skeptic), you have to be willing to
use the evidence ab... | {
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Google+ is the Six Flags of Social Networks - davidbyttow
https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/a66de5f5534
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nkchandra
Goog+ is not so addictive as fb
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DNSSEC-Like Trust for Certificate Authorities - therealEleix
https://gist.github.com/Eleix/7b093de5f84bfb38503215955857a2ae
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therealEleix
Asking for discussion. Original text goes over HN's character limit for text
entries.
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detaro
What you are describing sounds like DANE.
And it's not just decentralizing t... | {
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Extreme syntax - prajjwal
http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2013/05/16/extreme-syntax/
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mazelife
The concluding question—"What if programming notation were more like music
notation?"—is an interesting one. Music notation achieves a pretty impressive
information density when you think about it. And it offers an inter... | {
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} |
Google News down? - dude_abides
https://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn
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shakeel_mohamed
I think many of Google's services were down for a bit. I couldn't sync Chrome
on a new install, search, etc.
Everything seems back up now.
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Python is Slow, and I Don't Care - nhumrich
https://medium.com/@nhumrich/yes-python-is-slow-and-i-dont-care-13763980b5a1
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titzer
If your reasoning is productivity above everything, therefore the only
solution you can think of is Python, I call BS.
As a Googler, I could relate countless stories of systems that w... | {
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Ask HN: Can you forward my resume in your company? - AnupSavvy
I lost after 3rd round of Google today but thats not the end of the world and I am not giving up on looking for job opportunities. I haven't heard back from few of the other companies that I applied. I am also looking at options in 'who is hiring' thread... | {
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California lawmaker surprised to find genre of music cannot be outlawed - mrhyperpenguin
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/12/california-lawmaker-surprised-to-find-genre-of-music-cannot-be-outlawed/
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ghshephard
Fiona Ma, the legislator proposing the bill, came off slightly incoherent, Lee
Liu (sp?) seemed to ... | {
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I switched from the cool iphone to iphone SE - andrewfromx
I was testing on a very old iphone for my job and I was blow away by how great the feel and size of this iphone 4 was. So I went to apple store and got a brand new "SE" and switched my sim card from my now old but cool iphone x thing and I like this ... | {
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Mean BMI of US Adults Suggests Obesity Epidemic Began Earlier than Thought - cwan
http://www.nber.org/papers/w15862
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orborde
Eugh, a paywall.
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Bitcoin blockchain issue - Mt Gox Bitcoin deposits temporarily suspended - tlrobinson
https://mtgox.zendesk.com/entries/21477395-Bitcoin-blockchain-issue-bitcoin-deposits-temporarily-suspended
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jimrandomh
Ok, here's what happened and what it means. Bitcoin is built on a chain of
blocks, each of which contains a ... | {
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The Failed Experiment of Software Patents - brkcmd
http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2011/06/the-failed-experiment-of-software-patents/index.htm
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kabdib
A friend-of-a-friend said, upon receiving pat # 4,956,809 ("Method for
canonical ordering of binary data for portable operating systems") said "I... | {
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} |
Things I Want Made - trendspotter
http://thingsiwantmade.com/
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jmatthews
may not be new, but is new to me. The bounty system lacks any teeth but I love
the aggregation of ideas.
| {
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Ask HN: Review my startup, SupportFu.com - veesahni
We believe current help desk solutions are bloated and unnecessarily complicated. So we built something better - SupportFu. An intuitive, simple and mostly invisible help desk. It helps teams manage their support tickets without forcing their users to log in and re... | {
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Ask HN: Features for our Enterprise App Store? - pharaohgeek
My company -- a Fortune 1000 company in the financial sector -- has developed a dozen+ mobile apps in-house. Some of them are targeted at all of our employees, while others are aimed at a specific group or role. Since our application base has now gotten... | {
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} |
Text Expansion & Autocorrect for Gmail & Yahoo Mail - gavindouglas
https://textbox.io/
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gavindouglas
Check out the Chrome extension we've been working on. You can swap in the
Textbox.io editor in Gmail / Yahoo Mail / Tumblr. This gives you: text
expansion (with login), autocorrect, and instantaneous markdown s... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How to become a programmer - lowfat
Hello,
I have been doing some web programming during the last few months and I'd like to become much better at it. I am trying to learn by reading programming (php) books and doing the practice exercises. I have also tried to write my own code for fun. The problem is that the stuff ... | {
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The Prime Lexicon: A list of English words that are prime in base 36 - nrr
http://primes.utm.edu/notes/words.html
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alaricsp
I set my colleages a challenge: write porn using only prime words.
"WIDEST WOMB WOMAN WATCHED PET PERVERT WHIP BLINDFOLDED YIDDISH BITCH"
"BAREBACKED BARD RUTTED BLINDFOLDED BITCH"
"BA... | {
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CNN investigation: 103 Uber drivers accused of sexual assault or abuse - Manu1987
http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/30/technology/uber-driver-sexual-assault/index.html
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airstrike
Let’s not forget Uber drivers are still human (for the time being) so this
should come as no surprise...
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Report: Microsoft Buying Would-Be Google-Killer Powerset For $100M - jmorin007
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/6/report-microsoft-buying-would-be-google-killer-powerset-for-100m
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pchristensen
There's already a good discussion of PowerSet on another thread, but at that
price the emphasis should be on _would-be_ ... | {
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} |
How to write idempotent Bash scripts - kiyanwang
https://arslan.io/2019/07/03/how-to-write-idempotent-bash-scripts/
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mnutt
It’s good to know which command line tools are idempotent, but I think once
you start running automated scripts repeatedly you’re better off with
something like Chef where you declaratively ... | {
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} |
Symantec Acquires Blue Coat Systems Inc - danlindley
https://www.symantec.com/about/newsroom/press-releases/2016/symantec_0612_01
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opless
Funny they talk about keeping their customers protected, when turncoat's
products are MITM attacking privacy invaders.
Now they're owned by the same company that own verisign... | {
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} |
Ghost blogging move away from markdown editor - qilisiang
http://www.gtheme.io/community/articles/21/up-coming-ghost-publishing-platform-10
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a012
> Overall Ghost 1.0 will be promising overhaul of simple blogging engine.
It's irony, isn't it?
So they'll be going Wordpress in next major releases, I guess.
~~~
q... | {
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Your public IP address, via Google Search - xPaw
https://www.google.com/search?q=ip
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pooriaazimi
This is also nice:
<http://www.google.com/search?q=gazpacho>
Check the sidebar...
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pbhjpbhj
That's really good. Nice to see some innovation in SERPs - it lists
ingredients that go in/with, for example, gazpac... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Do you keep a copy of your source code when you quit your job? - paolgiacometti
Maybe it sounds unethical but once you leave your job for another one, do you keep a copy of the code you were working on?
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aespinoza
In all of the positions I have been in this is considered Corporate Theft. The
code I was p... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What database is best for storing financial statements? - vicenobelium
I want to store financial statements (income statement, balance sheet, cash flow) and run comparative operations on those statements. Ex: Find percentage increase in revenue for company A between year 1 and year 5. Find all companies that i... | {
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Graph Isomorphism update - robinhouston
http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~laci/update.html
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cosenal
This update is actually a big deal. The algorithm runs in subexponential time,
but not quasipolynomial time after all.
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ertand
Update on the update: quasipolynomial claim restored
[http://people.cs.uchicago.e... | {
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Building the Largest Ship in the World - taytus
http://alastairphilipwiper.com/blog/building-largest-ship-world-south-korea/
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Already__Taken
20, they ordered 20 of them.
I'm just in awe of such a thing, who even gets to make that phone call "Yep,
well take 20". I imagine the amount of people involved in such an... | {
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Ask HN: What percentage of pre-launch/beta users register on full launch? - sagacity
I think it can be safely assumed that not all people who pre-register would respond when a full launch is announced.<p>Can those with relevant experience share the percentages?<p>Also, I think it would be interesting to discuss the ... | {
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Firefox OS - Mobile World Congress Press Conference Live Stream - SunboX
https://air.mozilla.org/mwc-press-conf/
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espadrine
There are a lot more partners now: América Móvil, China Unicom, Deutsche
Telekom, Etisalat, Hutchison Three Group, KDDI, KT, MegaFon, Qtel, SingTel,
Smart, Sprint, Telecom Italia Group, T... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A New Train Station in Cambridge Has Sparked Controversy Among Mathematicians - at-fates-hands
http://www.archdaily.com/872799/a-new-train-station-in-cambridge-has-sparked-controversy-among-mathematicians
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matt4077
I quite like how this journalist appears to have identified Wolfram's most
prominent character fea... | {
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Rosetta Probe Discovers Organic Molecules on Comet - ohaal
http://www.dlr.de/dlr/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-10081/151_read-12176/#/gallery/17219
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ihnorton
The underlying data here comes from the Ptolemy instrument, a gas
chromatograph mass-spectrometer (ion trap, in this case) which can measure
ratios of molec... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Teaching Programming To A Highly Motivated Beginner - ivoflipse
http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/156836-teaching-programming-to-a-highly-motivated-beginner/fulltext
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jyu
This may seem silly, but I found the most difficult part of learning RoR was
getting my development environment set up. I tried several time... | {
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} |
GoDaddy injecting JavaScript into websites and how to stop it - ikromin
https://www.igorkromin.net/index.php/2019/01/13/godaddy-is-sneakily-injecting-javascript-into-your-website-and-how-to-stop-it/
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thaumaturgy
In case this turned out to be misleading, I picked a random GoDaddy-hosted
low-cost site (hometailer.... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Is a master degree in CS worth it - chrisherd
I'm an Architecture graduate who's looking to change careers. I've dabbled with coding for years but feel a formalised education may be prudent in enabling me to make the change. Has anybody else made a similar switch, and if so what did they encount... | {
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} |
Stanford's Iphone Application Programming class online, for free - dzlobin
http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/index.php
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dzlobin
Just as a note to this: these lectures are actually pretty excellent, and the
professors are both apple engineers who are very bright and fairly clear. They
also have a gu... | {
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} |
Why are railroads waiting to install safety technology? - anigbrowl
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-positive-train-control-05150514-story.html
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kbart
Related: [http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/14/amtrak-
promis...](http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/14/amtrak-promises-
automatic-braking... | {
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Ask HN: What happens if,world had 1 bank and 1 currency?What could go right/wrong? - trmr
Can the above scenario be simulated in a computer built virtual world to analyze the outcome!
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rman666
I don't have any answers but this seems like an interesting idea!
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Homevoters v. the growth machine: Who controls the development of cities? - jseliger
http://cityobservatory.org/homevoters-v-the-growth-machine/
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nwah1
Left out the most crucial land reform. Shifting away from taxing improvements,
and shifting towards taxing land by value.
We must stop encouraging people to enc... | {
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} |
A.I. turns $20 into $11k in Kentucky Derby bet, wins “holy grail” of gambling - joshagogo
http://www.newsweek.com/artificial-intelligence-turns-20-11000-kentucky-derby-bet-457783
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DaedelusArcher
Bing Predict got 1 horse. It's pretty freakin' hard.
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divebomb
This is actually kind of remarkable.
~~~
joshag... | {
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Twitter Acquires Smallthought Systems (DabbleDB, Trendly) - sandofsky
http://blog.twitter.com/2010/06/more-than-dabbling.html
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apike
Another cool success story out of Vancouver. Scaling up a business here would
have been even cooler, but if you're going to be acquired, Twitter is a heck
of a place to go. Congr... | {
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} |
Show HN: I built a clean iOS coffee timer app - kgleeson
http://coffeeclockapp.com/
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kgleeson
And heres a few promo codes if anyone wants to give it a try!
[http://tokn.co/6a94dtex](http://tokn.co/6a94dtex)
[http://tokn.co/97vp3jqw](http://tokn.co/97vp3jqw)
[http://tokn.co/ybpz9wu2](http://tokn.co/ybpz9wu2)
[... | {
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Show HN: Beginning Android for iOS Developers - 10char
http://clayallsopp.posterous.com/building-an-android-app-from-scratch-or-this
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10char
Hey HN, I wrote a 9-part series on how starting Android from the perspective
of an iOS developer.
tl;dr I walk you through how I ported one of my iOS apps. There are UIK... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
DOJ defers payments to local police agencies through asset forfeiture program - scottshea
http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2015-12-24/us-postpones-payments-to-police-in-asset-forfeiture-program
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vaadu
How is civil forfeiture(cash register justice) not a constitutional violation?
The 4th Amendment de... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
EU hits Google with second antitrust charge - alsutton010203
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-google-antitrust-idUSKCN0XH0VX
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zanny
The best possible outcome I could see from something like this is the opening
up of the Play Store ecosystem to third party Android forks.
The contention is over Google licensi... | {
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} |
Man Killed by Industrial Robot, Hardly a Terminator Uprising - stanfordnope
http://www.forbes.com/sites/theopriestley/2015/07/02/is-this-a-killer-robot-uprising-hardly/
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anti-shill
that robot decided his fate in a microsecond: extermination... and so it
begins...
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} |
Python 3: A Response to the Doubters - ode
http://frompythonimportpodcast.com/2014/03/31/episode-017-the-one-about-python-3/
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inglesp
Note that this dates from the end of March. So it's not ancient history, but
nor is it a response to recent discussions in this area.
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mjhea0
Awesome podcast!!
There's s... | {
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} |
3 Algorithms per Week - anubhavshrimal
https://3apw.blogspot.com
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anubhavshrimal
Learn 3 new algorithms and data structures every week.
Learn from the basic algorithms to the hardest ones asked in an interview with
step by step explanation and code in Python-3 and C language.
Useful for interview preparations ... | {
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} |
From Gene Editing to A.I., How Will Technology Transform Humanity? - simoes
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/16/magazine/tech-design-medicine-phenome.html
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liamkinne
I love AvE, but really the easy approach here is not to write gcode by hand
and to use something like Fusion360/HSMworks to do cam and g... | {
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} |
Freedom House Ambulance Service - Anon84
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/freedom-house-ambulance-service/
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rbecker
A brief glance at
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_ambulance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_ambulance)
shows this wasn't even close to the first ambulance service,... | {
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} |
Iceland Tried to Crowdsource a New Constitution. It Didn’t Work - mercenario
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/07/five_lessons_from_iceland_s_failed_crowdsourced_constitution_experiment.html
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ArtDev
Wrong title. As a work in progress, it was an great success.
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erkose
I prefer th... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What artists do you like? - jamesbritt
I've seen various topics what music people like, but couldn't find anything similar for what artists people enjoy.<p>I'm a fan of Marcel, Duchamp, John Singer Sargent, Jack Kirby, Patrick McDonnell, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner; the list could get quite lengthy.<p>As with my p... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
What Our Post-Pandemic Future Looks Like - samizdis
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-future-after-coronavirus/
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samizdis
Piece includes thoughts from:
\- Chen Zhiwu, Director of the Asia Global Institute, economics professor at
the University of Hong Kong, and a former adviser to China’s cabinet
\- Jame... | {
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} |
Apple’s Wireless-Charging Patent Might Actually Free Us From Wires - kirillzubovsky
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/11/apple-wireless-charging-patent
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beambot
Resonant wireless power transfer has the (often undesirable) effect of de-
tuning when you have multiple resonant loads in range. In short, the "res... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Is there a markup language for video editing - vaughan
Similar to how there are tools to [make slide decks from Markdown][1], is there something that would allow you to edit a video with Markdown or a similar syntax?<p>I could only find something called [VEAML][2] so far.<p>[1]: https://gist.github.c... | {
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The Futile Pursuit of Happiness (2003) - kirse
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0DEFD61538F934A3575AC0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
The tinyurl goes to this article:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0DEFD61538F934A3575AC0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all<p>HN was ... | {
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Net Developers - amittiwariots
https://www.otssolutions.com/dotnet-application-development.html
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sjmulder
Apart from being spam, this site is a whopping 9 MB to load, 3.5 MB of which
is JavaScript spread out over no fewer than 35 files. Among the 30 stylesheets
there are three separate copies of Bootstrap.
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Academics Shouldn't Sell Out Truth for Justice - jeffreyrogers
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/11/academics-truth-justice/574165/?single_page=true
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i_am_nomad
It takes a certain level of maturity and nuance to understand that people are
complex, multidimensional beings of often contradictory impul... | {
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What's is wrong with BDD? Mock Abuse - bparanj
http://bparanj.blogspot.com/2014/04/growing-test-suite-screencast-review.html
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bparanj
Paying attention to design that you end up with is far more important than
blindly doing BDD.
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There Was No ‘Golden Age’ of Air Travel - tokenadult
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/27/opinion/sunday/there-was-no-golden-age-of-air-travel.html
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6stringmerc
Everything about the article contradicts the premise it puts forward. There
genuinely was a "Golden Age" in the Supply-Demand-Means dynamic. Now, any
nobo... | {
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Can Many-Worlds Theory Rescue Us From Boltzmann Brains? - dnetesn
http://nautil.us/blog/can-many_worlds-theory-rescue-us-from-boltzmann-brains
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snowwrestler
Can one unprovable and arguably imaginary idea save us from another
unproveable and arguably imaginary idea?
~~~
Moshe_Silnorin
Macroscopic decoherence (an... | {
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How to get a B.S. in CS without BS - RafazZ
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_kdHrT8izbROJNaxGflpcZm2ivsjRGF8j1hMzl3b8O0/edit?usp=sharing
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RafazZ
I didn't know Google Docs have a limit, so here is a GitHub link to it:
[https://github.com/zafartahirov/OfficeDocs](https://github.com/zafartahirov/OfficeDoc... | {
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Show HN: Protoplug – Create audio plugins on-the-fly with LuaJIT - pierrec
http://www.osar.fr/protoplug/
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sitkack
It might be interesting to use Terra [0] in place of regular LuaJIT for the
audio engine.
[0] [http://terralang.org/](http://terralang.org/)
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chrisdevereux
Looks interesting. Curious about ... | {
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Ask HN: Upwork for top tier programmers? - nathancahill
Are there any services for hiring high-end programmers for sub-10 hour projects? I've used Upwork pretty extensively for busy-work type programming, but I'm trying to find something for algorithm-heavy programming where code quality matters. Anyone have... | {
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Instagram HACKED – Researcher Hacked into Instagram Server and Admin Panel - 1gang123
http://secjet.com/2015/12/instagram-hacked-researcher-hacked-into-instagram-gaining-acces-to-server-and-admin-panel/
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pavornyoh
Big thread running -
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10754194](https://news.ycombinator.com/i... | {
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In defense of ebook readers - atestu
http://www.marco.org/224969330
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dkarl
My biggest complaint with the Kindle was that I bought it right before I went
on vacation, and one of the e-books I wanted to read on the road turned out to
be unusable because it was produced using really awful OCR. How, and why,
would... | {
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} |
Giving your love life to Google Glass and the hive mind - anigbrowl
http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/11/4187906/ok-cupid-giving-your-love-life-to-google-glass-and-the-hive-mind
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anigbrowl
The actual article title is 'OK, Cupid: giving your love life to Google Glass
and the hive mind' but I left out the first par... | {
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} |
Don't Keep Your Idea a Secret - pwhermanson
http://cdixon.org/2009/08/22/why-you-shouldnt-keep-your-startup-idea-secret/
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salva_xf
It is not easy for me to find people to talk seriously about an idea,when it
happens often enriches the idea almost always some shade changes and I think
these shades are essential... | {
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Corporations in the Age of Inequality - king_kerr
https://hbr.org/cover-story/2017/03/corporations-in-the-age-of-inequality
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Sone7
I take issue with the "Average Company Salary" graph at the center of the
article. The article claims that "This means that the rising gap in pay
between firms accounts for the large... | {
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Ask HN: Best way(s) to teach 5-12 year olds how to code - davidwparker
Hello HN!<p>I've been tasked to help teach my nephews and niece with learning how to code.<p>So far, I've looked into www.code.org, https://kano.me/, http://www.robotturtles.com/, and https://scratc... | {
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Ask HN: How I find job openings outside my country? - speeder
I already sent resumes to every single job opening related to programming (even if I have zero experience or is something that I don't even know what it is) in the biggest job sites in my country.<p>I will soon run out of money, so I need a job, sinc... | {
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Biotech Company Run by High Schoolers Developing a "Flying Syringe" - Joshim5
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=this-biotechnology-company-run-by-h-2013-02
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kevin_rubyhouse
It sounds like they have a some ideas of what they'd like to do, and some
important people have bought into the concept. Bu... | {
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} |
My Summer of Snowden - ForHackernews
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/edward-snowden-operation-firstfruits/610573/
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ACS_Solver
Fascinating article, well worth reading for those who have been following the
Snowden story and (US) government surveillance in general.
It's interesting to read abo... | {
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} |
Show HN: BiggestPriceDrop.com - dasong
http://biggestpricedrop.com
Created this app because nothing like it existed. I've always wanted to be able to sort products from my favorite online stores by how much each product had dropped in price. I think we're still the only site that does this. Please let me know if th... | {
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Show HN: A small React library for smooth FLIP animations - jlkiri
https://github.com/jlkiri/react-easy-flip
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jlkiri
Hi everyone, this is something I've been working on for some time now. I'm
trying to make a hook-only library that is lightweight but is enough to do
some cool animation stuff that would require v... | {
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Einstein: Curiosity trumps intellect - naish
http://foundread.com/2008/02/20/einstein-says-check-your-intellect-at-the-door/
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mixmax
A good friend of mine is infinitely curious. Whenever he comes around he
always finds something that he doesn't quite know how works, or that is broken
in an unexpected way. And ... | {
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"Take a look into PhpBURN Documentation, let be burned by it's power." - terra_t
http://www.phpburn.com/
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Rust
I'll admit the website is pretty, but given the poor level of content editing
on the site, I have no trust for the framework itself. The code sample (and
documentation quality) on the ORM page is pret... | {
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} |
99¢ - Apple FaceTime App - Really? - apokusin
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/facetime/id414307850?mt=12
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lukeholder
The minimum price on the app store is .99 - Facetime comes pre installed on
newer versions of osx.
This is most likely an accounting reason why they need to charge for this
feature for older use... | {
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ThoughtRain – write whatever is on your mind, it will disappear after 10 posts - visiblykinetic
https://thought-ra.in/
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barcoder
Have you considered adding comments to the thoughts? That way the list of
thoughts will not turn in to replies.
~~~
visiblykinetic
Yes, that’s a good point. Our idea with this is that... | {
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GogoBoard - easy to construct open hardware platform (about $40 to build) - iamwil
http://www.gogoboard.org/cocoon/gogosite/home.xsp?lang=en
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kqr2
A similar low cost open source hardware platform that appears to have traction
is the arduino:
<http://www.arduino.cc/>
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jwilliams
You program it in Logo no l... | {
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Homeless man hands out resumes, gets hundreds of job offers - mattmurdog
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/06889000-8e3a-31b7-9c8e-0f76da31fdc7/homeless-man-hands-out.html
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noah-kun
I have had a very different experience
| {
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Pirate Party Activist Raymond Johansen to Be Publicly Flogged Sunday - MichaelAO
http://thecryptosphere.com/2015/08/15/pirate-party-activist-raymond-johansen-to-be-publicly-flogged-sunday/
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raincoaster
He went through with it. There's video and a post-flogging podcast interview
from Anon UK Radio: [http://thec... | {
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} |
Remix OS – Android, reimagined - signaler
http://www.jide.com/en/remixos
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ocdtrekkie
This looks like the OS Google should've been working on instead of Chrome OS.
But Sundar is determined to sink Google, it feels like.
| {
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Lanyrd's new speaker directory – 70,000+ speakers categorised by topics - simonw
http://lanyrd.com/blog/2013/speaker-directory/
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simonw
More interesting are the directories for individual topics - for example:
[http://lanyrd.com/speakers/startups/](http://lanyrd.com/speakers/startups/)
[http://lanyrd.com/spe... | {
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} |
‘HiddenCash’ scavenger hunt causes frenzy as creator struggles with popularity - WestCoastJustin
http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/05/30/anonymous-hiddencash-scavenger-hunt-across-california-has-twitter-users-searching-for-envelops-of-money/
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freditup
Sure it's fun to find $100, but why does this cause such a ... | {
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} |
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