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Race on to build world's first space elevator - ryanwaggoner
http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,24662622-5014239,00.html
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mkn
I've always wondered why, if you have a material sufficiently strong to build
a space elevator, you don't just use it to wind composite fuel tanks for
conventional rockets? ... | {
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Nginx Source code repository switched to Mercurial - dancric
http://nginx.org/#2013-04-25
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kbenson
Looks like the install page[1] needs to be updated to mention that. It still
refers to Subversion and svn.nginx.org.
[1]: <http://wiki.nginx.org/Install>
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What is soundness in static analysis? (2017) - rntz
http://www.pl-enthusiast.net/2017/10/23/what-is-soundness-in-static-analysis/
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balddenimhero
While "soundness" and "completeness" are well-defined properties of deductive
systems, using such formal methods for analysis of real-world systems requires
their forma... | {
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Shipping Oilpan - afsina
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/rEtCxuZ78eU
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progers7
For the curious, Oilpan is a tracing garbage collector inside Chromium. The
original design docs are at [1].
[1] [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y7_0ni0E_kxvrah-
QtnreMlz...](https://docs.googl... | {
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FBI can turn on your webcam without you even knowing - brt
http://www.dailydot.com/news/fbi-webcam-indicator-light-surveillance/
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jaachan
And here I thought I was being paranoid when I was happy that my laptop came
with a plastic switch to cover the webcam with O.o
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brt
What is the model? I was thinking of... | {
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Let's Get Going with Org-Mode - luu
https://beorg.app/orgmode/letsgetgoing/
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midgetjones
This looks really good! I used to use org mode as part of my daily workflow,
but now that I don't have to submit timesheets I've got out of the habit.
At the time, though, it was wonderful. Once I'd spent some time getting ... | {
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How VCs Make Money - zigzaggy
https://vcstarterkit.substack.com/p/how-vcs-make-money
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H8crilA
One thing that you have to keep in mind is that the 20% part is effectively a
European call option on the fund's portfolio, with strike equal to the fund's
initial value (so ATM - At The Money - when the fund starts) an... | {
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Twitter: 1 Billion Items Delivered A Day Is Nice, Google+. We Do 350 Billion. - sahillavingia
http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/15/twitter-350-billion/
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freshrap6
I wonder how long it took twitter to get to a billion.
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dillon
Google+ delivers 1 billion items a day as closed software, it's not even open
to the... | {
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Australia's high-speed rail dream leaves a bitter taste - lelf
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/aug/05/too-good-to-be-true-australias-high-speed-rail-dream-leaves-a-bitter-taste
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discordance
Sydney <-> Melbourne (705km) is the second busiest domestic air route in the
world, with 9 million passenge... | {
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Voter Registration Fraud - heartsucker
https://www.heartsucker.com/blog/voter-registration-fraud
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pink_dinner
We were told that this never happens. This is why ID isn't required. Right?
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Douglas Rushkoff – We Won: Get Used to It - miiiiiike
https://medium.com/s/douglas-rushkoff/we-won-get-used-to-it-3753eaf83f42
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belorn
A few weeks ago a court in Sweden decided on a defamation case where a person
had used the N word aimed at an prosecutor. The judges found that the accused
was not guilty because... | {
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On Boredom (1975) - samclemens
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1975/08/07/on-boredom/
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andyidsinga
having been bored out of my skull all day; about mid-way through the piece I
started to think this was a brilliant bit of reverse-psychology:
snip snip:
> It is agony to think of the groping of the species—all t... | {
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Why you and I will never have a 15 hour work week - jtwaleson
http://blog.waleson.com/2015/06/why-you-and-i-will-never-have-15-hour.html
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dgreensp
The productivity benefits of technology don't go to the workers. I'm not an
economist, so I may have missed something, but isn't that obvious?
If your job is to op... | {
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Android architecture built on RxJava - panagios
https://github.com/tehmou/rx-android-architecture
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akbar501
Thanks for creating this project. I'm working through RxJava on Android
currently, so this project provides an excellent learning resource.
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Laws of simplicity - jamongkad
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10933
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Goladus
That looks interesting, but be sure to check out Joel Spolsky's "User
Interface Design for Programmers."
<http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/fog0000000249.html>
I'm skeptical of a ruleset that includes "... | {
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How It’s Made Series: Beats by Dre - aaronbrethorst
https://medium.com/bolt-blog/how-it-s-made-series-beats-by-dre-154aae384b36
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ljk
previous discussion:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9742794](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9742794)
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Tokio: Runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust - based2
https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio
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carllerche
Hi! Tokio maintainer here. I'm surprised (in a good way) to see this posted to
HN today. Nothing big is happening this week.
That said, I'm always happy to answer questions.
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onei
O... | {
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Show HN: CryptoCurrencies Market, Poloniex. Supports Streaming, and REST API - a904guy
https://github.com/a904guy/poloniex-python3/
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Ask HN: How to build a remote tech company? - dennisy
The world is moving towards remote working, but how does one build cutting edge tech without having the core team whiteboard solutions daily?
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verdverm
They don't as effectively as teams that colocate. Maybe the trend is more of a
fad, like open work spaces?
... | {
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Ask HN: Career move and ageism? - flabbergasted66
Throwaway account here. I am a 31 year old designer working closely with developers at a small agency. Looking over their shoulders led me to want to switch careers and become an engineer. I even learned some Javascript to make an informed decision about switching ro... | {
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Photos of Demo Day on FanChatter - pg
http://demoday.fanchatter.com/
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pg
The reason some of the pictures have robots in them is that YC shares a
building with Anybots, Trevor's robot company, and the robot part of the
building becomes "back stage" on dday.
Notice Slava with the graph of RethinkDB's astounding... | {
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What It’s Like to Lose Your Short-Term Memory - iamjeff
https://longreads.com/2017/02/08/what-its-like-to-lose-your-short-term-memory/
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du_bing
Actually, it's exciting, pretty much like getting a new life after death. This
really changes my attitude towards my life.
In the past 8 years, I have 2-4 grand mal epi... | {
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How the Digital Economy bill is trying to kill open Wi-Fi networks - envitar
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/nov/30/open-wi-fi-digital-economy-bill-government
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cstross
There are other problems with the Digital Economy Bill that haven't made the
papers yet.
For example, it's going to force mandatory ... | {
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Ask YC: Is a laptop enough for development, or do you need a desktop? - asdf333
Imagine: You are about to get a new computer for development.<p>You'd like to have a comfortable dev environment at home - dual screen.<p>However, laptops have come down in price alot. Is it enough to buy a laptop, or do you go w/ a trus... | {
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Striking Power: Iconoclasm in Ancient Egypt - bookofjoe
https://pulitzerarts.org/exhibition/striking-power/
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bookofjoe
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iconoclasm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iconoclasm)
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Of Lisp Macros and Washing Machines (2011) - brudgers
http://www.loper-os.org/?p=401
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GhotiFish
"But no thank you Microsoft. No thank you spreadshi^Heets. No thank you
Unix. No thank you C++. No thank you unmodifiable syntax. No thank you
von Neumann architectures. No thank you un... | {
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Reverse Engineering a Mysterious UDP Stream in My Hotel (2016) - SuperNinKenDo
https://gkbrk.com/2016/05/hotel-music/
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jessaustin
_What the hell? I can’t believe I spent time for this. It’s just elevator
music. It is played in the hotel corridors around the elevators. Oh well, at
least I can listen to it from my... | {
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Dating a developer - FloorD
http://datingadeveloper.tumblr.com/
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logical42
'Living la vita lolcat'
Haha
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Roboprog
Brogrammer?
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Search "askew" on Google - eeirinberg
http://www.google.com/search?q=askew&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari
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manuscreationis
"tilt" as well
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Amazing: Tupper's self-referential formula - _giu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuppers_self-referential_formula
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RiderOfGiraffes
Broken link - try this:
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupper%27s_self-
referential_for...](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupper%27s_self-
referential_formula)
~~~
_giu
the submitte... | {
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Hannah Is a Girl. Doctors Finally Treat Her Like One - snowmaker
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/08/opinion/sunday/hannah-is-a-girl-doctors-finally-treat-her-like-one.html
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angersock
I'm admittedly a bit skeptical about declaring transgender status before
puberty has actually occurred--especially given the fact ... | {
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Show HN: Prime number sieve in 31 lines of Python - arthurcolle
https://github.com/stochastic-thread/nn/blob/master/testbed/sieve.py
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xrisk
This is an exceptionally slow implementation. It took 1 hour and 29 minutes to
generate all primes under 1 million. (I forgot I had left it running).
In contrast, a C++ imp... | {
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Show HN: SmartyPlants – my first iOS app, written entirely in React Native - jsh7
https://www.smartyplantsapp.com
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jsh7
Happy to answer any questions. I really enjoyed working with React Native and
I can't wait to start my next RN app. I was also able to open source a couple
libraries I wrote while building this... | {
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} |
Why IT Managers are Hiring Based on Experience - nsoonhui
http://itscommonsensestupid.blogspot.com/2008/02/why-it-managers-are-hiring-based-on.html
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quoderat
No one ever got fired for hiring based on experience.
It's a low-risk proposition from a culpability-for-failure standpoint.
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nsoonhui
So true.
And... | {
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Jira Cloud for Mac Releases Dark Mode - CDentbythebay
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/jira-software/jira-cloud-app-for-mac
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payamrajabi
Why is the desktop app allowing me to Edit and Delete other people's comments?
(I'm not an admin)
[https://www.dropbox.com/s/zssmkzqelbuoy6b/Screenshot%202019-...](https://www.d... | {
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Scaling Facebook Chat to 70 Million Active Users Almost Overnight - edw519
http://www.facebook.com/notes.php?id=9445547199
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ComputerGuru
As previous news articles state, Facebook has some implementation of XMPP
going on. XMPP was designed from the ground-up to deal with _exactly_ the
issues that he highlights, ... | {
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Court interprets Creative Commons licence terms in copyright lawsuit - walterbell
http://www.teresascassa.ca/index.php?id=196%3Acourt-interprets-creative-commons-licence-terms-in-copyright-lawsuit&option=com_k2&view=item
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voaie
So that poor guy just chose the wrong license. It should be CC BY-NC-ND-SA,
not CC BY... | {
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Show HN: Apijack – API of All Trades - pinehqcom
http://apijack.com/docs/
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pinehqcom
Maybe you are like us, tired of spending hours on complicated APIs with
incomprehensible documentation. We decided it was time to fix this. We are
trying to make it easier to be a developer in 2020 and beyond, by making
function... | {
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LibreOffice Beta Available for Android - samtuke
https://libreoffice-from-collabora.com/libreoffice-for-android-released/
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krylon
Call me old-fashioned. Maybe it's just that both my smartphone and my tablet
really suck (in terms of having a small display and a _really_ slow CPU), but
I don't really see myself ... | {
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An experiment on working exclusively in the cloud - controlgroup
http://blog.controlgroup.com/2012/04/16/google-chromebook-my-workstation-in-the-cloud/
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dustin
I saw a talk about node.js by Mike Amundsen the other day - he did all his
work using <http://c9.io/> etc The IDE seemed a bit flaky, but quite powerfu... | {
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The Original Microsoft Windows 1.0 Press Release - Garbage
http://mashable.com/2010/10/15/the-original-microsoft-windows-1-0-press-kit/
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maguay
Windows Write and Windows Paint were included as part of an introductory
special offer? Wonder if that makes their modern incarnations, WordPad and
Paint, the longest ... | {
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Google Prediction API Waitlist Sign Up - geez
https://spreadsheets6.google.com/a/google.com/viewform?formkey=dHZoZk03MkVUYU1yZTRLRFc4LU5sM3c6MA
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oomkiller
Isn't this the same form that's been up since it was announced, or is this
somehow different?
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pplante
same form i used a few weeks ago.
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antichaos... | {
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Host your own app or have it hosted remotely? - jamongkad
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timg
I started off hosting remotely, but my extremely cheep hosting plan limited my
CPU time excessively. Since I was behind a NAT, I had to do some proxying
tricks through my provider to serve from my home computer:
<http://programming.reddit.com/info... | {
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"I've Been Seeing Someone Else" - mkrecny
http://edu.mkrecny.com/thoughts/ive-been-seeing-someone-else
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ColinWright
Didn't you post this just a couple of days ago?
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Where do Startups start up? - cblock811
http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/05/zillabyte-startup-fundings/
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jakequist
Have you thought of doing a map of the whole nation and seeing what other
cities are showing tech growth? Might see some interesting cities pop up that
way.
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Comparing Google Maps 3D with Singapore’s OneMap3D - cow9
https://tongwing.woon.sg/blog/comparing-google-maps-3d-with-singapores-onemap3d/
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asutekku
This is how Google Maps (or earth, to be precise) used to have 3D models in
it. Everyhting was handcrafted.
Modeling was partly outsourced for anyone willing to do... | {
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Intel's Management Engine is a security hazard, and users need to disable it - DiabloD3
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/05/intels-management-engine-security-hazard-and-users-need-way-disable-it
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tgragnato
In the first place, it should never have existed.
Now, it's just another reason to avoid x86 and migrate... | {
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Would you use this to gather feedback for small projects? - megafunk
http://feedbackster.myinstapage.com
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zaroth
I'm sorry I honestly have no idea what the product is... I mean, are you
trying to sell <form>?
I'll try to give feedback on what you do have on the page;
1) The colored circles (are they bubbles... | {
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Einstein's list of conditions for staying together with his wife - diggan
http://www.listsofnote.com/2012/04/einsteins-demands.html#
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jacquesm
Lots of judgments in this thread.
Don't judge a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. And keep in mind
that we're looking at all this from almost a century later ... | {
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Command line made easy: five simple recipes for grep - j_baker
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/05/command-line-made-easy-five-simple-recipes-for-grep.ars
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pkulak
grep -c "^<segph\\(ault\|one\\)>" channel.log
Anyone know why all the syntax is escaped there?
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RiderOfGiraffes
Yes. If not escaped... | {
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Ask HN: Self improvement programs - Murkin
I have been looking lately at the various "self improvement programs" available out there. And I am tempted to give it a try.<p>Now, there are quite a few different types:
* short daily exercises
* full-time one-week
and targets:
* happier life
* success
* money
(and more)... | {
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Boston Dynamics CEO talks profitability and the company’s next robots - sandwall
https://venturebeat.com/2020/09/14/boston-dynamics-ceo-profitability-roadmap-next-robots/
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cobookman
Boston Dynamics was founded in 1992. That was almost 30 years ago.
Just me, or is it crazy they haven't had 1 year of profitabilit... | {
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Unblock US Netflix, absolutely free - pelim
https://tvunblock.com/
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pmilot
Is it just me or the idea of trusting a random IP as your authoritative DNS
server sounds like a phenomenally bad idea in terms of security? At least,
when you pay for a service like UnblockUS, there's a contract and a certain
understandi... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Hate the gym? History explains why the treadmill can feel like torture - davidy123
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-february-22-2017-1.3992510/hate-the-gym-history-explains-why-the-treadmill-can-feel-like-torture-1.3992573
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davidy123
The second half of this article is what makes it most interes... | {
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Ask HN: What's your favorite productivity app? - csbartus
Since I can't add a poll I'm listing a few I've tried. Feel free to add yours.<p>I'm looking for the best to-do / gtd / project management app. As simple as Basecamp, but with repeating tasks and metrics if possible.<p>It seems none of these are meeting the r... | {
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Crowd Sourcing Business Development - trotter_cashion
http://www.trottercashion.com/2010/10/26/crowd-sourcing-business-development.html
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TamDenholm
It'd be interesting to hear if this works out, i've tried this model before
myself as i hate looking for work, unfortunately i got no where, but thats
probably bec... | {
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How Secure Are Corporations Inside? My Story - cppguard
https://buzzways.at/collection/917/
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aunty_helen
>The DFIR lead leaned down next to my ear and whispered, "No one in Accounts
Payable ever runs Powershell..."
This had me chuckling and thinking back to my times in a corp environment.
A good account of som... | {
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Show HN: Self-Made Music Video with custom LED lighting rig - lostgame
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tExy65isu2k
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lostgame
Using a water-based, LED-powered music visualizer rig and an iPhone SE, my
partner and I put together this music video this weekend.
I'd like to post some pictures of the actual rig if th... | {
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EmailJS – Send emails directly from JavaScript - jozan
http://www.emailjs.com/
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mattkrea
What value does this provide on top postageapp's api? I have to imagine most
companies would (read:should) standardize on one provider.
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jozan
I'm not the author of EmailJS but it doesn't require any backend where as
P... | {
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Docker user? Haven't patched Dirty COW yet? Got bad news for you - nwrk
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/01/docker_user_havent_patched_dirty_cow_yet_bad_news/
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gtjay
As I've discused before, seccomp can block ptrace and thus this VDSO-based
attack (and currently does by default in some distros). Shameless se... | {
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Ask HN: Does anyone actually make any money from Affiliate Advertising? - Ardit20
I have been using commission junction and link synergy for over a year to advertise products in addition to adsense, but not one sale have I experienced.<p>Am I an odditity, or is this pretty normal?
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il
When I was in college, I ... | {
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SEC Charges Kik With Conducting $100M Unregistered ICO - khartig
https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2019-87
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modeless
This was inevitable. As I said two years ago[1], just listen to Kik's own
words:
"When we looked at raising another round [of VC funding], we asked ourselves
how do we answer the question ab... | {
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The Next Ferry You Board Might Run on Batteries - JumpCrisscross
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-03-13/the-next-ship-you-board-might-run-on-batteries
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airbreather
Hired an electric boat suited for 8 people and took it up our river (more the
upper reaches of an estuary) they other day, it was great.
... | {
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A Brief History of Lisp Machines - steiger
http://www.andromeda.com/people/ddyer/lisp/
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revorad
Also worth a read: [http://www.cs.umbc.edu/331/resources/papers/Evolution-of-
Lis...](http://www.cs.umbc.edu/331/resources/papers/Evolution-of-Lisp.pdf)
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rbanffy
That's one of the reasons why I want to learn ... | {
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Ask HN: Do YC partners reread an application? - marspark
My YC application was submitted about a month before the deadline. I then updated the intro video and most of the copy right before the deadline after receiving some YC alumni's advice.<p>So I'm just wondering do YC partners ever reread an applicatio... | {
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Awesome Elixir – A community driven list of useful Elixir libraries - jbernardo95
https://elixir.libhunt.com/
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dudul
Is it just a nice UI around [https://github.com/h4cc/awesome-
elixir](https://github.com/h4cc/awesome-elixir) ?
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stanislavb
It has some additional metadata like popularity and activity as well... | {
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Great Pacific garbage patch - diziet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch
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hackaflocka
I've been reading about this for a few years... Never seen a pic of the
garbage patch... Given all the cheap digital photography equipment around, it
does make me wonder.
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Show HN: a small weekendish project - JSON Blob - tburch
http://jsonblob.com/
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toki5
I'm a touch confused -- <http://www.jsoneditoronline.org/>
Is this your site as well?
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tburch
It's not, but it uses that editor. The difference between the two is that with
JSON Blob, you can collaboratively edit/share your... | {
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Class of 2019: artists and writers whose works have entered the public domain - benbreen
https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/class-of-2019/
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roenxi
I was talking to a very intelligent Chinese friend of mine who was struggling
to describe scenes in English. My first thought was "Gee, maybe he should
memori... | {
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Unprotected database exposes sensitive data of over 20M Ecuadoreans - mojoraja
https://cyware.com/news/unprotected-elasticsearch-database-exposes-sensitive-information-of-over-20-million-ecuador-citizens-58e5add8/
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phasnox
If you think this is bad, there is a horrible security hole in the site of the
National Tr... | {
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The Hole in the Rooftop Solar-Panel Craze - quaffapint
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-hole-in-the-rooftop-solar-panel-craze-1431899563
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bronz
I will save everyone some time and quote the only definitive statement in the
entire article.
>"Most people buy rooftop solar panels because they think it will save th... | {
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Ask HN: Is it standard industry practice to be awarded a patent as an employee? - antonius
My brother works at Microsoft and recently one of his projects he worked on with his team got pushed (by senior management) and ultimately accepted as a patent.<p>Is this fairly common in the high-tech industry and do all big ... | {
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Show HN: Bit Gold and Bitcoin - satoshisearch
https://medium.com/@insearchofsatoshi/bit-gold-and-bitcoin-9357176cd420
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satoshisearch
In 2005 Nick Szabo drafted but did not publish a Bit Gold whitepaper. For a
short time it was available on his website, and although he did not publish
it, it is still available on... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How to learn to write a compiler and interpreter? - lala_lala
Greetings,<p>I am in my late 30s without a formal CS education. I write software for a living and have this itch to learn to write a compiler / interpreter.<p>DO I have to take any courses (e.g. Discrete Maths, Automata Theory) in order to do i... | {
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Torrent downloader Bitport.io premium for free - MicarleNostril
https://bitport.io/holiday-giveaway/
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MicarleNostril
Follow the link. After you register, you get your premium plan automatically.
It is valid until the end of this year. Enjoy.
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Japanese activist challenges secrets law with whistleblower tool - foolrush
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/19/us-japan-secrets-activist-idUSKBN0JX14F20141219
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disjointrevelry
I'd put money the Japanese gov/intel just sets up a virtual TOR in their own
cloud and redirect all queries to the non-authentic... | {
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} |
Vjson - claims to be fastest json parser written in c++ - bigstorm
http://code.google.com/p/vjson/
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jameskilton
I'm confused. json.cpp is pure C code with custom atoi and atof
implementations. block_allocator.cpp uses malloc and free with
reinterpret_cast and some STL (max and swap).
The other C++ is in main... | {
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} |
Titanic: Machine Learning from Disaster - tosh
https://www.kaggle.com/c/titanic
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cdancette
This is a dataset kaggle put in place to help people learn ML It's very good
to try your algorithms on a simple dataset.
Also, you can check the kaggle kernels that describe a lot of useful data
analysis techniques :
[htt... | {
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} |
Ask HN: is it possible to make high quality movie really low cost? - wsieroci
Hi,<p>I was wondering if it is possible to create high quality movie really low cost? I mean movie like "21 grams" or "Memento", something what does not need special effects.<p>Best regards,
Wiktor
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GHFigs
It's certainly possible. As... | {
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An interactive tutorial on cracking Vigenère's cipher - mettamage
https://www.simonsingh.net/The_Black_Chamber/vigenere_cracking.html
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mettamage
Note: the interactive parts starts at [1]. The link that you're referred to
shows some needed context on who cracked it and a little bit how it was
cracked.
It was qui... | {
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} |
Is free will a bias of the rich? - mgh2
https://medium.com/@marcos.g.hung/is-free-will-a-bias-of-the-rich-3f4527343508
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snorkasaurus
No, it's the fantasy of a religion that invents an all powerful god, but still
needs a way to blame people for their actions.
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} |
Executives Of Swedish Start-Up Klarna Arrested For Kidnapping And Rape - bluemoon
http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/08/klarna-execs-rape/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29
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4th_paradigm
techcrunch had to change their headline from 'kidnapping and rape' to
moles... | {
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} |
An Alternative to the American Way of Innovation [video] - tosh
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S39fhrGjr4U
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jimrhods23
I'm unsure why we should be looking at China for innovation. I can't really
name anything innovative that came out of China in the last decade.
Many products/technology coming out of China are b... | {
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} |
Google's Better iPhone - GiraffeNecktie
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-10-06/googles-better-iphone/
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SamAtt
I don't fault him for his love of openness above all else. I like open systems
too! But I don't think most consumers care. I certainly don't think they
obsess over the couple thousan... | {
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} |
Dungeons and Dragons is booming online, but not in the way you think - smacktoward
http://www.polygon.com/2015/8/20/9172559/dungeons-dragons-dnd-4th-edition-one-year-later-twitch-youtube
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kup0
Their online tools are very painful to use. It's hard to understand why they
don't go ahead and create apps or at leas... | {
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} |
How I added 6 characters to Unicode (and you can too) - deafcalculus
http://www.righto.com/2016/10/inspired-by-hn-comment-four-half-star.html
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1wd
The rationale given for including mirrored half-stars as separate codepoints
is right-to-left languages. I wondered why this was needed, since Unicode
already has the... | {
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} |
On the Viability of Conspiratorial Beliefs - espeed
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0147905
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GordonS
Mass surveillance by the security services in both the USA and UK took a long
time to revealed to the public. I'd count that as a 'large-scale conspiracy'.
~~~
andygates
This is ... | {
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Failed Startup Post-Mortems - dtlyst
http://3things.gitbooks.io/77-failed-startup-post-mortems/
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pud
Here's a book I wrote that covers 150 failed internet startups from the late
90's.
[http://amazon.com/FD-Companies-Spectacular-Dot-com-
Flameouts...](http://amazon.com/FD-Companies-Spectacular-Dot-com-Flameout... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Documentation is terrible - TheCog
https://medium.com/@felipe.suero19/documentation-is-terrible-part-1-18805115edef
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marmot777
Well done!
| {
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Ask HN: Exploring Hawaii with a sleeping bag and a camera. Ideas? - joshdance
Cousin, brother and I decided to get out of town and go explore O'ahu for 10 days. What are your favorite sights, sounds, tastes, views, hikes, beaches etc?<p>We love hiking and adventure. Done a bunch of research but what are your pe... | {
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} |
How Non-Profits Can Think Like Startups - salmonet
http://themacro.com/articles/2016/03/advice-for-startup-nonprofits/
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thefastlane
"new nonprofit organizations should not think all that much differently than
their for-profit peers when it comes to growth. [...] Even if you are a
solving a big problem, you must... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
FUCK ANDROID - peterwwillis
http://opensourceandhackystuff.blogspot.com/2011/12/fuck-android.html
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adambyrtek
What a mindless and boring rant.
| {
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} |
Robots will soon replace human fruit pickers - simonebrunozzi
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/sri-spin-off-abundant-robotics-developing-autonomous-apple-vacuum
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milkey_mouse
Robots won't take all our jobs yet; apparently they're aiming for the low-
hanging fruit.
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MollyR
Once... | {
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} |
Show HN: Visualizing Postmates' first 1000 deliveries in San Francisco - bastian
http://1000.postmates.com/
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jqueryin
That is one hell of a sexy (and dynamic) infographic (and page). Congrats on
launch. Pat your designer(s) and frontend devs on the back for a job well
done.
~~~
badclient
I felt like the numbers... | {
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} |
UK "tech city" doubles number of start-ups - sebkomianos
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/enterprise/368872/uk-tech-city-doubles-number-of-start-ups
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robfitz
This is such BS it's unbelievable.
Beyond the obvious correlation/causation issues, tech city offers startups
little direct benefit. The advantages are going t... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
ImageNet Roulette - polm23
https://imagenet-roulette.paglen.com/
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gwd
I can't figure out where some of these labels are supposed to come from. I
uploaded a photo and got one label, "assenter" \-- i.e., a person who assents;
and another one, "psycholinquist". Does ImageNet actually have photos of human
beings lab... | {
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} |
Why You Should Run SSH on Another Port - danielrm26
http://danielmiessler.com/blog/putting-ssh-another-port-good-idea/
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opless
Putting ssh on another port is just plain stupid.
To say that you might avoid a 0-day exploit is just a strawman argument.
The main problem with ssh is PASSWORDS not zero day exploit... | {
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} |
AWS Lambda - cpenner461
http://aws.amazon.com/lambda/
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jedberg
I’ve had a chance to use the service for a couple of weeks. My quick summary
review is that it’s a little tricky setting up the IAM roles and security
groups, but once you have that going, it works great! I see a ton of potential
here in transforming... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Less is Moore - sgentle
https://samgentle.com/posts/2015-04-26-less-is-moore
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jonathaneunice
The problem with this kind of YAGNI thinking is that it 1. commits everyone to
understanding how to do everything and 2. requires everyone to do everything
afresh, every project. The fact is, I don't know the gory detail... | {
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} |
Hacker who launched DDoS attacks on Sony, EA, and Steam gets 27 months in prison - gilad
https://www.zdnet.com/article/hacker-who-launched-ddos-attacks-on-sony-ea-and-steam-gets-27-months-in-prison/
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ga-vu
Good riddance
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