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Match your last fifty tweets with ten interesting podcasts from all over the web - kitwalker12
https://hyvi.co/hearyourhandle
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strong_ai
Wow! This is really awesome! Mind giving a high-level description of the
matching process?
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kitwalker12
OP is not the author. but I did see this was posted to PH too. Link ... | {
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A blueprint to write copy that converts, even if you're an awful writer - louisswiss
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PyMCM_by8IabaIrBYpj4QQnm7dP07rOdTdzqZv8dZTs/edit?usp=sharing
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louisswiss
OP here. I submitted this to HN a few hours ago and didn't realise the linked
doc was in 'comment mode', so the content... | {
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} |
Venture Capital Is Getting Squeezed - Alex-Potsides
https://medium.com/startup-games/venture-capital-is-getting-squeezed-b145ff3092ab
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nieksand
This looks like it was copy/pasted from
[https://stratechery.com/2015/venture-capital-and-the-
interne...](https://stratechery.com/2015/venture-capital-and-the-internet... | {
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Researchers are creepily close to predicting when you’re going to die - Tomte
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/08/researchers-are-creepily-close-to-predicting-when-youre-going-to-die/
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sohkamyung
Probably worth mentioning that there was a anthology of stories released in
2010 called "Machine of Death" [1] th... | {
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} |
Andy Kessler: Put Down That Shovel (Gov't Projects for a Recovery) - grellas
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704107104574572230780152344.html?mod=WSJ_hps_sections_opinion
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hypersoar
These sound like good ideas, but it doesn't change the fact that, every once
in a while, roads and bridges need to be... | {
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} |
The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce (1983) - gumby
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a12149389/robert-noyce-tom-wolfe/
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klelatti
It's a great piece but the unqualified attribution of credit for the
'invention' of the microprocessor to Ted Hoff without mention of the team that
made it happen - (especially) Federic... | {
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} |
Time To Get Past Facebook And Invent A New Future - chrismealy
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/04/the-jig-is-up-time-to-get-past-facebook-and-invent-a-new-future/256046/
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rohern
This article is spot on in its thesis, though not always in its arguments.
Everyone is convinced -- because the p... | {
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} |
Wish I had read this before – To the point – Cryptography - salesforcemann
https://mannharleen.github.io/2020-03-13-cryptography/
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brudgers
Please avoid editorializing titles on Hacker News. Simpler is better here.
Thanks.
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Fat, fatter, fattest: Microsoft’s kings of bloat - nickb
http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/04/14/16TC-winoffice-performance_1.html
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stcredzero
Something like this used to happen at GM. The prestige of engineering groups
was proportional to the amount of space they took up under the hood. So every
group was in... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What recent technologies have matured? - max-a
Fellow HNers.<p>I am thinking about creating a web app and would like to add some novelty to the process of development as the product I am thinking about (basically a specialized CMS) is nothing fancy.<p>I have used Ruby and written some node/express but I... | {
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} |
Rationing, errors and mammogram math - cwan
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/magazine/13Fob-wwln-t.html?ref=magazine
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teilo
Wow! Bayesian analysis in the New York Times. Maybe there is hope for this
world after all.
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ltjohnson
I'll start by saying that I'm not trolling.
Using conditional probability, or... | {
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} |
Ask HN: I made a ruby library to access HN...suggestions/impressions? - random_guy
You can find the library in question here -> http://github.com/bolthar/ruby-hackernews .I'd love to hear from you about anything - bugs, feature requests, etc.<p>Thanks in advance for your time!
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random_guy
Clickable url : <... | {
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Helping with SEO - jplahn
My sister owns a photography business and she's looking at SEO as a solution to bringing in more business. She's a fantastic photographer deserving every bit of business she has brought in so far, but she thinks that SEO could ramp her business up from a solely word of mouth busin... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Microsoft Defies Court Order, Will Not Give Emails to US Government - xamlhacker
http://windowsitpro.com/paul-thurrotts-wininfo/microsoft-defies-court-order-will-not-give-emails-us-government
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jnbiche
The casualness with which the U.S. Government asks a private company to
violate EU and Irish law is truly distur... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: dingo - a Google DNS-over-HTTPS caching proxy in Go - pjf
https://github.com/pforemski/dingo
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davidu
DNSCrypt ([https://dnscrypt.org/](https://dnscrypt.org/)) would be more
elegant here (DTLS also okay) and is in-band wrapper for DNS. It's what TLS is
for HTTP but for DNS and keeps things UDP.
Worth po... | {
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} |
Kindergarten Kids Science Without Long Parental Preparations - fraoulitsa
https://youtu.be/-_QgA767lvw
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fraoulitsa
I am a stay at home mum of twins & previously a scientist . I spend many hours
trying to teach my twins through play and the part I struggled the most, is
the long preparations before an activity. I... | {
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} |
Why so many who doubt climate change here? - chriskanan
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/03/opinions/sutter-climate-skeptics-woodward-oklahoma/index.html
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stephengillie
About 1/2 of this article is about the reporter discovering people with his
last name living nearby, and trying to contact them.
The rest of this r... | {
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} |
The Internet is nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize. - 0xdeadc0de
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8560469.stm
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Semiapies
How wonderfully fatuous.
Kissinger, Arafat, a newly-inaugurated president who justified the wars he was
continuing in his acceptance speech, and now a _communications medium_.... | {
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} |
What the 55 Swift Standard Library Protocols Taught Me - ingve
http://www.skilled.io/gregheo/what-the-55-swift-standard-library-protocols-taught-me
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imrehg
Interesting. I haven't used Swift yet, but been learning Rust recently - the
"protocols" look an awful lot like Rust's traits, is that so?
The three groups ... | {
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We’re not leaving this bar til we’ve got such a great idea that I can’t sack you - bloke_zero
https://medium.com/storythings-ltd/we-re-not-leaving-this-bar-until-we-ve-come-up-with-such-a-great-idea-that-i-can-t-sack-you-b12ddfd53fa8#.relt72qwc
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Uhhrrr
The video of Foinavon winning he links
([https://www.youtube... | {
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Org mode 9.0 released - Philipp__
http://orgmode.org/Changes.html
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mjhoy
I love Org mostly for its ability to link to stuff. In my mind it's the big
feature that sets it apart from using, say, a separate application to do my
task management. For instance:
\- When I'm reading email (in emacs), I can quickly crea... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
People’s egos get bigger after meditation and yoga, says a new study - jxub
https://qz.com/1307380/yoga-and-meditation-boost-your-ego-say-psychology-researchers/
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maxxxxx
People need to understand that the stuff like meditation that's popular right
now and gets taught is just a very small subset of Buddhist prac... | {
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} |
The GitHub Load Balancer - logicalstack
http://githubengineering.com/introducing-glb/
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NicoJuicy
I notice a lot of negativity arround here. Don't know why that is... But i'll
take my 5 cents on it.
NIH - Not invented here and redoing an opensource project.
\- Github said they used HAProxy before, i think the u... | {
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} |
Have A Plan - socalsamba
http://howtosplitanatom.com/questions/startup-reactor-how-will-i-make-money-week-three/
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swombat
There are far more than 3 business models online.
Here's a brief list of 9: <http://digitalenterprise.org/models/models.html>
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edw519
Where would salesforce.com fall in that list of 9?... | {
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} |
For the Love of Money - _ntka
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/opinion/sunday/for-the-love-of-money.html
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tkiley
_I was a derivatives trader, and it occurred to me the world would hardly
change at all if credit derivatives ceased to exist. Not so nurse
practitioners._
Is this statement (from the article) true?... | {
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} |
Steam Proton for Linux - peter_d_sherman
https://www.protondb.com/
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peter_d_sherman
Excerpt:
What is Proton?
"Proton is a new tool released by Valve Software that has been integrated with
Steam Play to make playing Windows games on Linux as simple as hitting the
Play button within Steam. Underneath the hood, P... | {
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} |
BMW, VW, Ford, Daimler team up for electric vehicle charging network in Europe - laktak
http://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/11/bmw-vw-ford-daimler-team-up-for-electric-vehicle-charging-network-in-europe/
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mtgx
Before even reading the article I was about to say that I hope they chose the
350 kW charging standard. If... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Most Americans’ Wages Have Actually Declined Over the Past Year - pulisse
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/06/most-americans-wages-have-declined-over-the-past-year.html
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Bucephalus355
I think it would be unusual to see wage gains.
Wage gains at this point would occur when labor pressures / basically
ex... | {
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} |
Show HN: Pay €1000 to contact the super rich - posoho
https://a-rtefact.com
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AsTimeGoesBy
Just want to make sure I'm understanding this correctly. A user subscribes to
the service by 'renting' a contact form for €10 per year.
Messages to that contact form are forwarded to an email address that the user
provides... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Hosting a Ruby on Rails app - perucoder
I'm thinking about going with Ruby on Rails for an app I'm building and was wondering what people's experiences were as far as hosting. I don't have the money for dedicated servers so I'll be going with a shared plan.<p>Has anybody had any regrets after going this rout... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
All You Need to Know About Bitcoin's Rise, from $0.01 to $11,000 - qu4ntumturk
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-01/understanding-bitcoin-s-rise-0-01-to-11-000-quicktake-q-a
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erikb
Many people discuss how much one could buy from the bitcoins today that where
used for the first pizza purchase. Few p... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Instagram Search Engine - Lefty-io
https://lefty.io
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caseyplis
This looks great I like how we can explore Instagram photos
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romanbrs
Great product. How nobody thought about this before?
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alexandrepo
Wow I find it better than Instagram search
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swiluc
Nice and easy way to find images !
--... | {
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} |
Coping with Cats - luu
https://acesounderglass.com/2020/09/02/coping-with-cats/
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grawprog
It's an alright list, but that's some beginner level stuff. Where's things
like
-cat is obssessed with plastic bags whenever he wants attention and ends up wearing them like a cape trailing it through the house causing hav... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: How do people with successful careers play the game? - nns
When you work in an extremely dynamic environment full of smart people and just good work is not enough to take you forward, what else (besides best quality work) should you concentrate on?<p>Edit - There's some incredible gems of advice in the co... | {
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} |
U.S. Wants Prison Sentence for Facebook User Who Pirated ‘Deadpool’ - vezycash
https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-wants-prison-sentence-for-facebook-user-who-pirated-deadpool-180916/
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brokenmachine
If I created a site where people could create their own groups and upload
files such as this, and then ignored that peopl... | {
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} |
Why is Amazon all of a sudden not re-investing all its profits? - marcelweiss
https://earlymoves.com/2016/04/29/why-is-amazon-all-of-a-sudden-not-re-investing-all-its-profits/
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ChuckMcM
Frankly I'm surprised this hasn't happened sooner. So much money is sloshing
through Amazon these days, keeping it balanced to ... | {
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} |
U.S. Orders Deep Pay Cuts at Companies Who Received Bail-Out Funds - Flemlord
http://www.cnbc.com/id/33417281
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grellas
We all get a great sense of schadenfreude when formerly profligate
corporations get their comeuppance in this way but the pay czar role (whether
in the form of an individual or a political commi... | {
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} |
Thermoacoustic heat engine - mojoe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoacoustic_heat_engine
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mojoe
Sounds are pressure waves in air, and you can create varying densities of air
by heating and cooling, but I never put the two facts together and realized
that you could create an engine that way.
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jessausti... | {
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} |
Show HN: Discover New Discourse Communities with Discourse.Directory - felicianotech
https://discourse.directory/
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PaulHoule
Why do I have to click on a button to see any content?
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felicianotech
I'm not 100% sure how the homepage should be configured yet. Right now, the
only type of content are just Discours... | {
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} |
A curated directory of resources and tools to help you build your startup - TheVinous
http://startupstash.com/
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AndrewOMartin
There should be a mechanism such that when you click any of the elements on
this website there's a small chance of a popup saying "stop reading and start
doing".
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bramk
good one, let ... | {
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} |
Chrome 59 stable released - bd82
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
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foob
As others have mentioned, the most exciting thing about Chrome 59 is that it
is the first release with headless support. I wrote a guide a while back on
running headless Chrome with Seleniu... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Matchmaker, find me a grant - hoffmannesque
http://www.nature.com/news/matchmaker-matchmaker-find-me-a-grant-1.21191
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linschn
> At present, Instrumentl covers non-human biology (including zoology, botany
> and marine science), ecology, evolution, agriculture, soil science, Earth
> science, palaeontology and envi... | {
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} |
Uber, Lyft Charge More for Riders Going to Non-White Neighborhoods, Study Shows - reaperducer
https://blockclubchicago.org/2020/06/26/uber-lyft-charges-more-for-riders-going-to-chicagos-non-white-neighborhoods-study-shows/
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Simulacra
This article is missing many key details, such as how they determined which
are... | {
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} |
Nixon advisor: We created the war on drugs to “criminalize” black people and - ncorbinii
http://qz.com/645990/nixon-advisor-we-created-the-war-on-drugs-to-criminalize-black-people-and-the-anti-war-left/
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aab0
Previously and better:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11330587](https://news.ycombinator.com/item... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Meal frequency and timing in health and disease (2014) - tomaskazemekas
http://www.pnas.org/lens/pnas/111/47/16647
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jsonmez
I fast until 5:00 PM every day and then only eat one meal. I've been doing
this for about 1.5 years.
I have been able to maintain a large degree of muscle and I am pretty ripped.
Easy to ... | {
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} |
Programming is not Engineering - arbutus
http://airbladesoftware.com/notes/programming-is-not-engineering/
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daveslash
Now that I've been in the "real world" for some time, many of my youthful
assumptions and expectations have been shattered - many of which related to my
chosen profession.
The past few years I... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
DEA teaches agents to recreate evidence chains to hide methods - morisy
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2014/feb/03/dea-parallel-construction-guides/
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tptacek
I object to parallel construction because it warps NSA's incentives and
encourages them to develop deeper domestic capabilities.
Having said that:... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Python Crash Course - japhyr
Over the past two years I've been working on Python Crash Course, which is available now through No Starch Press. The first half of the book is an introduction to Python, and the second half is a series of projects that build on the concepts introduced in the first half. Read... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
HN: Minneapolis Meetup Tonight - dottertrotter
The Minneapolis HN Meetup is tonight at 6pm at the 5-8 Club. If you're interested and not already on the email list, send me an email at bradleyt (dot) marsh (at) gmail. Right now it looks like we're going to have a pretty good crowd.<p>Map: http://maps.google.com/ma... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Traveled 10k km for new job and was just shouted at. What do I do? - MarvelousWololo
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thiago_fm
Maybe my story can help you.
One day I had a very hard day in Germany, like you did, with people screaming,
pressure etc. Being Brazilian, I'm used to people being nice and caring. A
completely different pictu... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Unison: a next-generation programming platform - adamwk
http://unisonweb.org/2015-05-07/about.html
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pchiusano
Wow, author here, was not expecting this to end up here! This project is very
much in development, it's not close to a finished product and I hope I didn't
give that impression. I created the site so the... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A double decker smart car - vaksel
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8b4_1231692278
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RiderOfGiraffes
I detest sites that start videos without warning. I browse by opening
sometimes dozens of tabs, letting them load, then reading them at my leisure.
In essence, I visit a tree of sites using the facilities (powerfu... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Upside-Down-Ternet (2006) - Tomte
http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html
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ce4
It was really funny back then when you could easily perform it (basically a
MitM attack), today it's not feasible any more thanks to widespread https
adoption ([1] scroll down to "https encryption by chrome platform", 6... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Retrieve your Twitpics using PHP and Gearman - KrijgDeMeuk
http://www.github.com/Meuk/Twitpic-Fetcher
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streety
Usually when attempting to take a backup or download multiple pages from a
site I add pauses between requests in an attempt to limit the burden I place
on the servers I'm fetching from. I'm s... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Don't Let Lean Startup Be a Crutch - wmougayar
http://startupmanagement.org/2013/07/25/dont-let-lean-startup-become-a-crutch/
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wmougayar
I'd love to hear from the HN community on this topic. Thanks.
| {
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} |
Ask HN: Do I have too many interests to fit in a single blog? - mcantor
Hi HN. I have a dilemma!<p>I would really like to write a blog. Especially after a recent article that made it to the frontpage, which advocated writing a blog even if no one is reading. I love writing, I do it all the time, but in terms of b... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Adobe Creative Cloud Offers CS6, Lightroom 4, 20GB Storage for $49.99 Per Month - ONE37
http://www.one37.net/blog/2012/2/7/adobe-creative-cloud-offers-cs6-lightroom-4-20gb-storage-for.html
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nvk
Great news, they are finally starting to listen!
Make it affordable and people wont have an incentive to steal.
| {
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} |
Facebook goes ARM with Calxeda - mtgx
http://semiaccurate.com/2013/01/16/facebook-goes-arm-with-calxeda-like-semiaccurate-reported-2-years-ago/
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mtdev
This article is a little misleading in that it seems to indicate that FB will
trash Xeon servers and drop in ARM processors. Current ARM processors (SOC and
sta... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Lossless decompression and the generation of random samples - joelg236
http://blog.sigfpe.com/2012/01/lossless-decompression-and-generation.html
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DanBC
> _Huffman coding tries to compress text one letter at a time on the
> assumption that each letter comes from some fixed and known probability
> distribution. If... | {
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} |
Filestash: Modern Web Client for SFTP, S3, WebDAV, Git, MySQL... - boredgamer2
https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash
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boredgamer2
The title was too long to fit, so I shortened it a bit
| {
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How much do startups pay their developers? - syalam
i always see threads for a developer needed on some startup here on HN. How much can a startup developer expect to make (even though they are most probably joining for the thrill and passion for the company)?
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quellhorst
I try to get 6 figures, but its hard t... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Why are Windows security updates larger than the ENTIRETY of Windows? - alister
A vanilla install of Windows XP uses 1.2GB of disk space.<p>But 83 critical security patches need to be downloaded
and installed right away. These add 5.3GB to the system.
That's 4 times as big as all of Windows XP!<p>(This is al... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Google and Amazon say they have removed gun-related shopping results - neo4sure
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/06/tech/google-amazon-gun-related-shopping-results/index.html
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mtmail
Not sure what is new specifically. It's already against their marketplace
terms to sell them. The headline makes it sound like it was p... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
World's Biggest Aircraft Will Ferry Passengers To Space In Stratolaunch Vision - protomyth
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/12/13/microsoft-founder-announces-spaceflight-company-promises-airport-like/
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ColinWright
What people aren't saying is that getting to the edge of space is only about
10% of the work of ... | {
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} |
Announcing a pre-release of F# 3.1 and the Visual F# tools in Visual Studio 2013 - profquail
https://blogs.msdn.com/b/fsharpteam/archive/2013/06/27/announcing-a-pre-release-of-f-3-1-and-the-visual-f-tools-in-visual-studio-2013.aspx?Redirected=true
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knodi
Who uses F# and why?
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tonyabell
Being serous, who us... | {
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} |
Roger Penrose's Gravitonic Brains (1994) - pmoriarty
http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/project.archive/general.articles/1994/941219.penrose.2.review.html
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deepnet
Worth noting this Socratic review of Sir Penrose's theory of quantum minds is
by Dr Hans Moravec, an important roboticist and AI theorist, widely known f... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
ReCAPTCHA Founder's New Startup: Killing Two Birds With One Stone - gregg1982
http://duolingo.com
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il
This looks like a potentially great project, but this is probably the most
badly designed landing page of all time. The call to action is a really tiny
gray icon on the bottom. It made my head hurt just trying t... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Is a 27" Screen Worth It? - mahyarm
Is the 27" 2560x1440 worth it when doing dev work, especially with the $700 premium compared to 1080p for ~175% more screen space? At my work people mostly use 2 1080p screens at once + laptop. I mostly do iphone dev work with a MacBook Pro + an extra 1080p screen and an... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Anybody know anything about a new Bitcoin mining site RastBTC? - posteezy
https://rastbtc.com/?a=88698
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notRobot
On first glance, it looks like a scam. I'd stay away.
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posteezy
Good call. We signed up to see inside. Seems pretty basic. We’ll see if anyone
else knows anything.
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'Nudge' Economist Richard Thaler Wins Nobel Prize - lnguyen
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41549753
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FabHK
Discussion here:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15432617](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15432617)
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A shell command to create JSON: jo - fcambus
http://jpmens.net/2016/03/05/a-shell-command-to-create-json-jo/
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mcaruso
Looks nice. I kind of like the allure of using this alongside `jq` as a kind
of read/write combo.
Is it possible to create entire hierarchies with this tool or just flat lists?
I imagine somethi... | {
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David Miranda granted injunction against UK Government by UK court - RobAley
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23790578
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revelation
You would think judges are sick of the national security nonsense by now. How
can they let themselves be played like that? Happy to give away all power at a
moments notice?
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Help me Hack the Lottery or, the worst $90 investment ever - stephensikes
http://ssikes.com/post/19800951554/hack-the-lottery-or-the-worst-90-investment-ever
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nullflux
You're making the (probably) false assumption that your lottery is as broken
as the Ontario one.
I question your detachment if you are calling g... | {
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} |
Personal Wiki for Vim - vincent_s
https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki
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haberman
With wikis or note taking applications, I always find it hard to get into a
habit of using them. I think this is largely because too much brain space is
taken up with:
1. When should I write something here?
... | {
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3D Game Shaders for Beginners - lettier
https://github.com/lettier/3d-game-shaders-for-beginners
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60654
That's a very cool intro to a variety of shader techniques, especially post-
processing effects.
What's even more wild, is that modern engines include all of this stuff out of
the box, you just have to tick a... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Do C++ templates result in a combinatorial explosion? - Konohamaru
1. I read that C++ templates work by replacing each type variable with a specific type and generating the following function. Depending on how many types are called with each template call, that looks like it could generate a combinatorial expl... | {
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Ask HN: Is Apple ashamed of the iPhone upper notch? - qrbLPHiKpiux
Is Apple ashamed of the iPhone upper notch area? Commercials running now show a planet display deliberately excluding the area...
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through
They should be, but apparently they are not.
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Anthropic Capitalism and the New Gimmick Economy - rafaelc
https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26756
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sharemywin
A next problem is that software replaces physical objects by small computer
files. Such files have the twin attributes of what economists call public
goods:
The good must be inexhaustible (my use do... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What is the best online marketing strategy you found? - rokhayakebe
Ask HN: What is the best online marketing strategy you found?
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fallentimes
I know everyone is going to describe building something people want or
building something that is easy to use or excellent. And this, of course, is
the best strat... | {
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} |
Algorithms take control of Wall Street - shawndumas
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/01/algorithms-take-control-of-wall-street.ars
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chrisaycock
This article is very poorly researched. For example, it refers to high-
frequency traders as "flash traders". I have never heard that term before. The
cited ... | {
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} |
Muse: designing a studio for ideas - walterbell
https://www.inkandswitch.com/muse-studio-for-ideas.html
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whywhywhywhy
Starting to feel the fact Apple decided tablets should be siloed from
traditional computing is really just starting to hurt development in these
areas.
There is some great work here but also you... | {
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} |
Haskell, Ada, C++: An Experiment in Prototyping Productivity (1994) [pdf] - jxub
http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/HaskellVsAda-NSWC.pdf
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ff_
This is an interesting paper, and I'd like a replication today, 25y after: I
believe Haskell has matured a lot in all of this time.
As an experiment, ... | {
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} |
AWS Re:Invent: Automating Cloud Management and Deployment [video] - forrestbrazeal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epx_32c3c6s
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forrestbrazeal
Skip to about 18:00 in the video for a discussion of Faro, Infor's internal
deployment packaging system described as "Docker for the enterprise app
stack".
| {
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} |
Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson’s Epic Literary Feud - samclemens
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/72177-inside-vladimir-nabokov-and-edmund-wilson-s-epic-literary-feud.html
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dri_ft
Weird. I read the New York Review of Books articles about Eugene Onegin last
week, bec... | {
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} |
Valve begins port of MAME4ALL to Steam - bane
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steamlink-sdk/commit/300169da84f9092120e813afc97b0a129f2a828e
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foldor
This is specifically a port of MAME4ALL-pi[1] which I'm guessing is because
it's been specifically optimized for somewhat under powered ARM devices.
[1] [https://g... | {
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} |
When to bring in the heavy hitters (2017) - mooreds
https://mfbt.ca/when-you-should-bring-in-the-heavy-hitters-947f35cb96e6
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tc
There's only one real answer. It's when you're ready to be a big company. But
not just because you _want_ to be a big company.
Heavy hitters (i.e. former executives of big companies) b... | {
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Ask HN: Who wants a product built in 48 hours? - harrisreynolds
I have a team headed to the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon this weekend.<p>What are some ideas that you think could be built over a weekend?<p>If you'd like to have an MVP built as part of this hackathon I'd love to help you out.
Feel free to co... | {
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} |
City at the End of Days - creade
https://medium.com/@mapmeld/city-at-the-end-of-days-be621f006680
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sbierwagen
First design requirement: two meters above sea level.
The first thing that comes to mind when I see that number is "laughably
insufficient". The IPCC is already saying 0.8-1.2m of sealevel r... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
An Alarm Clock That Also Brews Your Coffee? SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY - preslavrachev
http://distractify.com/pinar/best-reason-to-wake-up
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dalke
So ... it's fancy looking variation of a Mr. Coffee? Which itself is a coffee
version of the Teasmade?
| {
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} |
Making a racist AI without really trying (2017) - spatten
http://blog.conceptnet.io/posts/2017/how-to-make-a-racist-ai-without-really-trying/
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asploder
I'm glad to have kept reading to the author's conclusion:
> As a hybrid approach, you could produce a large number of inferred
> sentiments for words, and have ... | {
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} |
Google Merges Startup Visual Search Engine Plink with Google Goggles - Ascendancy
http://www.insidethewebb.com/2010/04/google-merges-startup-visual-search-engine-plink-google-goggles/
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cma
Anyone know of any seminal papers on what makes google goggles work?
| {
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} |
Citizens Advice and Facebook launch major initiatives to fight scam ads - DanBC
https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2019/07/martin-lewis--citizens-advice-and-facebook-launch-major-initiati/
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DanBC
Full title is "Martin Lewis, Citizens Advice and Facebook launch major
initiatives to fight scam ads".
I thought... | {
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} |
It Is Time To Stop Pretending To Endorse The Copyright Monopoly - GBiT
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120102/16374417254/it-is-time-to-stop-pretending-to-endorse-copyright-monopoly.shtml
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grellas
A few thoughts:
1\. I am against SOPA-style enforcement schemes as much as is anyone here at
HN - laws that impo... | {
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Mint.com on the definition of a user - kn0thing
http://www.redditall.com/2009/02/mintcom-on-definition-of-user.html
I'm curious to know if I'm the only one scratching my head about this.
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timcederman
Hah, what the? Does Alexis work for Quicken?
I think that's a fairly standard definition of a user. Every compa... | {
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} |
Insane state of today's advertising part 3 - archon810
https://plus.google.com/+ArtemRussakovskii/posts/53n5LdCYTbF
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jdangu
Awesome to see that subject #1 on HN.
At my startup Confiant [1], we block bad ads in stream on behalf of
publishers. Cedato aka Algovid aka TLVMedia is one of our prime targets, we
block ... | {
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} |
Cutting Through the Fog of Google's Cloud Print - KevinCTofel
http://gigaom.com/2010/04/16/google-cloud-print-explained/
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rlpb
A "cloud-aware" printer?
As far as I understand, most network printers already support IPP (Internet
Printing Protocol). I haven't yet understood why Google's proposal is
different fr... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: My simple site, powered by Cassandra/Sinatra/Unicorn - tlx
Clickable: http://xenng.com<p>Thanks for your attention.
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tlx
URL: <http://xenng.com>
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djb_hackernews
Why Cassandra?
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tlx
Well, it's quite a simple site so any rdbms can be fitted. But because I'm
doing an experiment to evaluate Cas... | {
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} |
Binutils: add znver1 processor - ytch
https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2015-03/msg00078.html
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bryanlarsen
more information: [http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=amd-
zen-c...](http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=amd-zen-cpu-
znver1)
| {
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} |
How does a comment get a 0? - mumbi
Sometimes I post comments and they go from a 1 to a 0. I don't see a down vote? I'm confused how they are given a 0.
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lutusp
This forum is designed to prevent casual visitors from downvoting other
people's posts, so they've set up a threshold of 500 karma points ... | {
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} |
Is it too late for Bitcoin cloud-mining to be profitable? - Link-
http://blog.bassemdy.com/2015/03/02/is-it-too-late-for-bitcoin-cloud-mining-to-be-profitable/
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jmspring
My guess, yes.
Further, I'd say Bitcoin will have little to no relevance for the majority of
individuals, ever.
The constant reference to "... | {
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} |
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