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Surfers three times more likely to have antibiotic-resistant bacteria in guts - fern12
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-01/uoe-stt011118.php
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aresant
No coastal surf break that's close to civilization is safe from bacteria
infestation but it is manageable.
BUT sewage regulation can go a long, long w... | {
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DoubleRecall (YC S11) Turns Paywalls Into Advertising Dollars - tadruj
http://www.nytimes.com/external/gigaom/2011/08/23/23gigaom-doublerecall-turns-paywalls-into-advertising-dolla-4130.html
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dpapathanasiou
This reminds me of the "Free Day Pass" salon.com used to have before it
scrapped the idea entirely:
" _... | {
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Doing It Right, Not First - andrewdumont
http://andrewdumont.me/doing-it-right-not-first
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bigiain
Keep in mind too, that "doing it right" involves much more than "just" solving
the problem. It's at least as important to let people know that you've solved
a problem that they have. It wasn't Instagram's software... | {
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Ask HN: Books That Gratify One's Intellectual Curiosity? - tokenadult
Books to Delight the Mind?<p>I searched Search YC and did a site-restricted search of HN on Google to look for previous threads on best books. New participants have joined since the last thread was active, so I'll ask here for suggestions of books t... | {
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How to Crowdfund Your Startup - jprocopio
https://medium.com/@jproco/how-to-crowdfund-your-startup-d6e384aac318
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seonsakke
The topic is highly interesting but the article lacks structure and the
content isn't aligned with the heading.
I'd headline this "Some of my experiences with and thoughts on crowdfunding",... | {
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Where did all the wealth go? To our kids. - robg
http://business.theatlantic.com/2009/03/where_did_all_the_wealth_go_to_our_kids.php
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josefresco
I don't understand how the wealth is being passed to the kids of baby boomers?
I'm a child of a baby boomer, 28 years old and on my second home that was
purchased at th... | {
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Movies about Fighting for Your Mind - kevin_morrill
http://refer.ly/fighting_for_your_mind/c/833fe668546a11e2b5ab22000a1db8fa
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gnosis
* Primer (fantastic puzzle movie, filmed on a $7,000 budget)
* Abre Los Ojos (Vanilla Sky is the shitty American remake of this film)
* Revolution #9 (best fictional depiction... | {
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"Traditional methods for protecting community from..scale..are now manifestly unfeasible" - Jebdm
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2009/3/12/33338/3000
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Alex3917
I love how K5 articles have their own writing style. It's a shame the
community is dead, because I genuinely miss the writing that came out of
there, with... | {
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Stacey's Bookstore closing down in S.F. - gibsonf1
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/07/BAFN154UV2.DTL&tsp=1
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herdrick
Nuts.
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Large botnet cause of recent Tor network overload - thursley
http://blog.fox-it.com/2013/09/05/large-botnet-cause-of-recent-tor-network-overload/
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derefr
> Typically, it is fairly clear what the purpose of malware is, such as
> banking, clickfraud, ransomware or fake anti-virus malware. In this case
> however ... | {
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Why I never finish my Haskell programs - AndrewDucker
https://blog.plover.com/2018/09/03/#what-goes-wrong
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pash
I think many beginning Haskellers have this problem. To overcome it, my advice
is to write Haskell code with the knowledge that you can re-write it more
readily than you can re-write code in many other... | {
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} |
What was the cargo ship, Arctic Sea, transporting, and why was it hijacked? - sutro
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/KH26Ag01.html
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philwelch
This isn't the first mysterious incident with cargo ships and the Russians
I've heard of.
I grew up in Port Angeles, Washington. Port Angeles is located on the... | {
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David Cameron's Twitter account followed 'high-class escorts' - rb2e
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25015034
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aroch
I'll give them the benefit of the doubt, back in 2009/2010 is was common to
run scripts to "autofollow".
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corin_
Yeah. Ridiculous story.
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camus2
Yeah ridiculous Tory.
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mariuo... | {
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World's Smallest Spacecraft Is Prelude to Enormous Voyage - Mz
https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/world-s-smallest-spacecraft-prelude-enormous-voyage-ncna797866
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branchan
This is somewhat old news. This was originally started back in 2011 by a
Cornell researcher through kickstarter, called KickSat:
[https://w... | {
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Falling in love with OpenBSD again - lelf
https://functionallyparanoid.com/2019/03/13/well-its-been-a-while-falling-in-love-with-openbsd-again/
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anyfoo
I use OpenBSD on both my remote (VPS) and home (a tiny pcengine box with 3
NICs) servers. Naturally, they do some IPv6/IPsec/tunneling and other
shenanigans with... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Where to relocate business in Europe from UK - throwaway_88181
I’m a UK citizen and software developer. I incorporated a UK company in 2013. My SaaS business is small but reasonably successful. We’re a team of 4 based in London. We turnover ~$40,000 a month. I’m the sole owner, we do not have investors or debt... | {
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Oh-my-zsh gets big performance updates - robbyonrails
https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh
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zosi
Since the story link is just to the project github page, here's a blog post
from the person who did the performance optimization talking a little more
about what he did:
[http://blog.patshead.com/2011/04/impr... | {
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} |
Open Source, Tech, and Tribalism - radmuzom
http://brandonhays.com/blog/2014/10/19/open-source-tech-and-tribalism/
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cavneb
Amazing article. A must read for anyone in the programming industry.
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About the goodwill of people: 4,500 users and 0 donations - pretzelhands
https://pretzelhands.com/goodwill-of-people.html
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bastih
Having looked at the tool, I'm wondering what OP expected. I "used" it for 10
seconds, and am still wondering why I'd need it or what the provided value is
over "extract colors and or... | {
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Ask HN: Itunes API help - needleme
Hello,<p>we're working with iTunes API using this gem<p>https://github.com/dewski/itunes<p>And here's the code we're using:<p>search = "#{self.album.artist_name} #{self.track_name}"
puts "Searching for '#{search}'"<p> itunes = ITunes::Client.new
respo... | {
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How is Luminati.io different from Tor? - AlbertHoll
I need to do some massive web data collection -- does anyone know how Luminati.io is different from Tor or a proxy network?
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Omri_Luminati
Hi Albert. I'm Omri with Luminati. The Luminati network is built on top of a
P2P consumer infrastructure, which provides... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Why does HN use a table instead of an ordered list? - rpowers
I am currently learning web development and was interested in their design choice. Also, if there are other sites you would recommend studying, please share with me!
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spartanatreyu
I would not recommend using this site as a good example to l... | {
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} |
The Quest to the Perfect Makefile - nhooyr
https://r4nd0m6uy.ch/the-quest-to-the-perfect-makefile.html
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jart
This is a good rundown of GNU Make capabilities. Be careful about relying on
things like pkg-config to auto-discover dependencies, since distros changing
things will permanently break the entire history o... | {
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} |
Show HN: Promotion/Raise Salary Data - beefjerkylover
http://perks.guide/promo
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beefjerkylover
Hey Hacker news! we were inspired by other salary tracking sites to build a
tool for engineers, product managers & other tech workers. Our observation was
that the yearly raise and promotion process is even more opaque... | {
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} |
Does Google Care About Page Titles? A Response to Gruber's "Title Junk" Piece. - davidkatz
http://www.sciten.com/post/2405190049/does-google-care-about-page-titles
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ashearer
John Gruber speculates that SEO-style titles don't work for SEO, and goes on
to state that they're useless. This author reads a Google st... | {
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} |
Graylog: Free and open source log management - handpickednames
https://www.graylog.org/
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posguy
Huh, didn't know this existed, been using Elk for a while. Wonder how it
compares to Splunk (which I still have yet to try), the blogpost below covers
what it cost to ingest 250GB of logs a day with Greylog.
Apparent... | {
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Pre-War Covers for Novae Terrae, the Magazine of the Science Fiction Association - benbreen
http://www.htspweb.co.uk/fandf/romart/het/fanart.htm
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ian0
Couldn't help but notice the very modern looking helicopters in the March and
June 1938 covers. A bit of digging reveals the first modern (large main +
small tail... | {
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} |
Mac App Store dominated by games - shawndumas
http://venturebeat.com/2011/01/06/mac-app-store-launch/
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wccrawford
Dominated? No. 15% is not 'domination', especially when there's another
category almost at that level.
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TimMontague
The graph they have is a poor way to represent the 'domination'. Here is a pie
... | {
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Show HN: Fly – A global load balancer with middleware - mrkurt
https://fly.io/
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Xorlev
Wow, this is _really_ expensive! I'm sorry, but $0.05/1000 requests is really
really premium.
1000 request/s is $0.05/s. 86400s/day * 30 days * $0.05 -> $129.6K/30d. 1k
req/s is not that uncommon either. And that's before 'pa... | {
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} |
Childhood Autism and Assortative Mating - victorhn
http://home.uchicago.edu/hgolden/Images/Golden_Assortative_Mating.pdf
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zach
Don't miss the end (pp. 41-43), where he calculates that the net economic
benefit of mating between "systematizers" as very positive, modeling the
resulting higher wages compared with ... | {
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} |
WhatsApp co-founder accuses Facebook of trading privacy for revenue - uladzislau
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6812853/WhatsApp-founder-warns-world-delete-Facebook-immediately.html
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kemyd
I remember his words from an interview "I sold the privacy of my users for a
huge profit. I made a decision... | {
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What Is Normal? - mcantor
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200910/what-is-normal
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mcantor
_The question of normality creates strange paradoxes in the consulting room.
Often it is relatively healthy people who feel defective. In psychotherapy,
patients may perseverate over vague complaints, feeling off-b... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Any subscription-based service is easy to join and easy to quit? - wenbin
Seems most subscription based service adds all kinds of friction to prevent you from canceling the subscription...<p>This applies to both online and offline (e.g. Gym) businesses ...
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tradersam
Reddit Gold is as easy as can be. Twi... | {
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} |
Real ‘Beautiful Mind’: college dropout became mathematical genius after mugging - robdoherty2
http://www.kurzweilai.net/real-%E2%80%98beautiful-mind%E2%80%99-college-dropout-became-mathematical-genius-after-mugging
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ColinWright
Complete bollocks. He draws stuff that people claim have "formulas" somehow in
them... | {
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} |
Cryptanalysis of Enigma - lisper
http://practicalcryptography.com/cryptanalysis/breaking-machine-ciphers/cryptanalysis-enigma/
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AndrewOMartin
I just want to mention that this site uses a kind of informed brute-force
attack on Enigma. If you're interested in the wide range of techniques used to
break the Enigma c... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Alternative to Skype? - aledalgrande
Related to the other Skype thread (not supporting Firefox).<p>If Microsoft is cutting down on Skype and possibly going to kill it, I need to replace it. I still find it useful to chat with family overseas, share my screen or call international landline numbers. Is there any... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
New York clinical trial quietly tests heartburn remedy against coronavirus - paypalcust83
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/new-york-clinical-trial-quietly-tests-heartburn-remedy-against-coronavirus
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gnicholas
> _In reviewing 6212 COVID-19 patient records, the doctors noticed that many
> survivors had been... | {
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Why I Write JavaScript - of
http://zzarcon.github.io/jekyll/update/2014/12/11/why-i-write-javascript.html
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CatsoCatsoCatso
No Article is appearing below the hero heading. (Bit ironic?)
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jedi_master
He writes javascript so he can scroll his website an inch when you click the
down arrow
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How many people does it take to ship software? - manojlds
http://thecodist.com/article/how-many-people-does-it-take-to-ship-software
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wsc981
Jonathan Blow (indie game dev of Braid and The Witness fame) also talks a bit
about this subject in this video:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k56wra39lwA](https://www.y... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
It’s probably a myth that we’re sleeping less than we used to - prostoalex
http://qz.com/491414/its-actually-a-myth-that-were-not-getting-enough-sleep/
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waxman
A recently published controlled study found that in two groups who were
deliberately exposed to the cold virus then forced to sleep less than 6 hours
a n... | {
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} |
Kayak of Vacation Rentals - predogger
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2014/06/03/cheap-vacation-rentals-savings-experiment/?icid=df|savexp|dl1
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jenoneal
Sweet, thanks for sharing this video about Tripping!
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wopofosho
Very cool. Will use this next time I need a vacation rental.
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Slack drops 10% after its revenue growth guidance fails to impress - carlineng
https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/04/slack-drops-10-after-its-revenue-growth-guidance-fail-to-impress/
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carlineng
> ... investors had expected the firm to more aggressively beat expectations
I know this is the norm nowadays with compani... | {
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ColorMe – Visualize the CSS Color Function - thmslee
https://colorme.io
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luzia19
cool tool! better than [http://jim-nielsen.com/sassme/](http://jim-
nielsen.com/sassme/)
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A Plague of Helicopters In New York - prostoalex
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/opinion/sunday/a-plague-of-helicopters-is-ruining-new-york.html?smid=fb-nytopinion&smtyp=cur
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mschuster91
> And if the impact on the environment and on quality of life aren’t enough to
> spur action, consider the security risks. E... | {
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Ask HN: Have you considered switching from OS X to Linux? - wamatt
For some time now, I've been growing increasingly weary of the walled gardens I once so enthusiastically embraced. Off the top of my head, some grievances include, forced corporate policies, lack of hardware choice, and closed operating software. ... | {
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The Great Attention Heist - prostoalex
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-great-attention-heist/#!
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harryf
Strikes me that the ability to focus and direct ones own attention will (or
already has) become a new form of class divide; those who can concentrate and
those who can't. And it will likely have much d... | {
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} |
By growing cells in unrealistic liquids, scientists may have skewed results - lnguyen
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/cancer-culture-media-plasmax/579283/
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bsder
There is also an issue with growing cells in regular atmosphere (20% oxygen)
vs body atmosphere (<8% oxygen).
However, until you _... | {
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} |
Http://beta.asp.net points to 0.0.0.0 - minhajuddin
http://beta.asp.net points to localhost
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herbst
Where do you point your unused domains to?
| {
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Here’s who spent their Fourth of July protesting the NSA - sethbannon
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/07/05/heres-who-spent-their-fourth-of-july-protesting-the-nsa/
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jdp23
As somebody who's done a lot of civil liberties activism, I'm pleasantly
surprised by how much press the protests got --... | {
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} |
Rust: You probably meant to use .chars().count() - sargas
http://brandonio21.com/2016/04/rust-you-probably-meant-to-use-chars-count/
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lokedhs
Why is that what is meant? I am struggling to think of a situation where the
number of characters is actually needed.
What you get from this call is the number of Unicode... | {
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} |
Mozilla ponders policy change after Firefox extension battle - soundsop
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/05/mozilla-ponders-policy-change-after-firefox-extension-battle.ars
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noaharc
"The developers behind the two extensions turned the browser into a
battleground as their conflict escalated."
"Maone ... | {
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} |
Create outstanding dashboards with the new semantic.dashboard package - michalfracek
https://appsilondatascience.com/blog/rstats/2018/06/11/dashboard-tutorial.html
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PredictorY
So, this is just an advertisement?
| {
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Useful but less known HTML Tags - codingdefined
http://www.codingdefined.com/2016/03/useful-but-less-known-html-tags.html
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krapp
<XMP> \- it used to be possible to wreck poorly designed sites by submitting
one of these because it will turn off all HTML rendering until </XMP> is
found.
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ktRolster
Blink.
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Command line tools for web developers - coderholic
http://www.coderholic.com/invaluable-command-line-tools-for-web-developers/
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bretthopper
Ever wanted to know the progress of a long running operation? Copying a file,
importing a mysql db, etc. Pipe Viewer (pv) is what you need:
<http://www.ivarch.com/programs/p... | {
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Ask HN: What's the cheapest way to run your Dockerized backend in the could? - sebastianconcpt
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simplecto
I use $3 vm from Scaleway.
You can get that down to $2 if you forego the public ipv4 address, but then
connections seem to get flakey if you don’t have a good ipv6 route
Decent cpu (and epyc)
------
verdve... | {
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Apple’s Antitrust Lord - Rexxar
http://www.wsj.com/articles/apples-antitrust-lord-1430085930
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Rexxar
I like the irony/sarcasm of the last paragraph:
We hope we provide value for money, but it’s flattering to be read at Mr.
Bromwich’s hourly rate of $1,100, $1,025 for Mr. Nigro, and a... | {
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The Desolate Visions of Andy Warhol - prismatic
https://newrepublic.com/article/158587/desolate-visions-andy-warhol
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l33tbro
Nothing I've read about Warhol's interior life has ever suggested that he was
some kind of subversive Diogenestic visionary - peering into the cold dead
abyss of Anerican capitalism. This ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Anybody can write good bash (with a little effort) - ingve
https://blog.yossarian.net/2020/01/23/Anybody-can-write-good-bash-with-a-little-effort
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ohiovr
I have found the bashdb plugin for vscode to be invaluable. It can step
through, watch variables, break points and some other things. BashIDE is
another good v... | {
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} |
The deeper your purpose, the longer your vision - rokham
https://medium.com/@rokham/the-deeper-your-purpose-the-longer-your-vision-1ec43c9ecce3#.cmvameurr
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nitin_flanker
Rokham, please accept my best wishes for you for this new year. May you get
enormous success this year and achieve wonderful thing.
This artic... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How did people bake before thermometers? - werber
I was reading about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mille-feuille and then googled when the thermometer was invented, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermometer , then I googled 'how did people bake before thermometers&... | {
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Facebook's New Feed - mikeevans
https://www.facebook.com/about/newsfeed
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lawdawg
Looks awfully similar to the G+ feed. Not that there's anything wrong with
that, just that its confirmation that G+ was probably heading in the right
direction.
The bigger (no pun intended) news here is the much bigger ads that are... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
6to5 is renamed to Babel - danabramov
https://babeljs.io/
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detaro
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9052478](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9052478)
previous discussion when it was on the front page a few hours ago
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__david__
I've used Traceur before, how does this project compare? (With an i... | {
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Ask HN: What do you dislike about hackathons/startup-weekend type events? - overworkedasian
im currently throwing around an idea for a 'startup weekend' type of event.
i've done several startup weekend events and I do have some gripes about it. while you do learn alot in those 48 hours of hacking/building a busines... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The smell of Christmas - Aurametrix
http://olfactics.aurametrix.com/2011/12/smell-of-christmas.html
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mattdeboard
Maybe I've had too much "egg nog" (read: Wiehenstephaner heff) but smelling
too many apples leads to runny stool?
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DDoS protection - benevol
https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/DDoS-Schutz/en
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nik736
I'm from Germany but Online.net is the way better alternative to Hetzner for
me. Server grade hardware, cheaper, no compromises, internal network, etc.
etc. I think they even hired a lot new support people recently so you get an
a... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How Much Useful Essay Writing Service in Article Writing? - thomasjenkin
Writing paper is an important and crucial issue of students and the process of writing research papers can be one of the mainly important reviews in university lifestyles in order that they want accurate assistance with online. They have got ulti... | {
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Vector – Open-source Rust utility for logs, metrics and events - weitzj
https://vector.dev/
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jeroenhd
Perhaps unrelated, but I appreciate the honest performance comparison graphs
on this website. Instead of just showcasing how much better this piece of
software is, it also clearly shows that there are cases wher... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Try Kill batch processing with unified log stream processing - mkjmkumar
https://medium.com/logika-io/try-kill-batch-processing-with-unified-log-stream-processing-d92709117f74
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mkjmkumar
This kind of basic abstraction in place gives us a way of gluing disparate
data systems, processing real-time changes, as well... | {
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Tech Jobs stays open for months, unemployment under 4% - intesar
http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2011/06/tech-employment-below-4-percent.html?ana=from_rss&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TechFlash+%28TechFlash+-+Seattle%27s+Technology+News+Source%29
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netmau5
I'm just waiting for... | {
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Ask HN: Google Play keeps rejecting my App on Copyright violation. What to do? - makuchaku
I use the Google Image Search API to power up content in my app(s). Google Play review team says its Intellectual Property (copyright) violation - while they show the same content on Google Image Search.<p>Where am I going wro... | {
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Announcing Remacs: Porting Emacs to Rust - smg
http://www.wilfred.me.uk/blog/2017/01/11/announcing-remacs-porting-emacs-to-rust/
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fafner
The example seems to be wrong [https://github.com/Wilfred/remacs#porting-c-
functions-to-rus...](https://github.com/Wilfred/remacs#porting-c-functions-to-
rust-walkthrough)
fn... | {
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Would you pay five bucks a month for the New York Times? - technologizer
http://technologizer.com/2009/07/09/would-you-pay-5-a-month-for-the-new-york-times/
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DanielStraight
Hell, I won't even pay free. I have an account and I STILL just leave the page
when it tells me I have to sign in to access free content.
... | {
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You are a bank note. - gunshor
http://www.viewzone.com/collateralx.html
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mooism2
_It seems that back in 1913 the United States was short of cash. World War I
had depleted the treasury..._
World War I started in 1914. The United States didn't send troops until 1917.
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‘Bird Man’ Hoaxster Comes Clean on Dutch Television - geoka9
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/03/birdman-admits-hoax/
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andrewfelix
When Jesus Diaz posted it on Gizmodo, the immediate response from commenter's
was suspicion. Diaz responded by lambasting the critical readers. Here's a
choice quote:
_"It ... | {
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} |
Using the Machine Learning Hammer Wisely - ptidhomme
https://www.outsight.tech/technology/using-the-machine-learning-hammer-wisely
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ptidhomme
> Our heretical approach is not to use Machine Learning. No training, no
> datasets, no labelling. We instead rely on deductive inference to get to
> quantitative conclusi... | {
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Why Is the Dollar Sign a Letter S? - shovel
http://observationdeck.io9.com/why-is-the-dollar-sign-a-letter-s-1683940575
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elpachuco
It is really annoying to hear so many opinions here choosing to believe an
alternate version simply because it sounds better to them rather than because
of any actual evidence. (Are ... | {
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} |
Launch HN: Spendwith – A shopping app for buying and selling, by culture - jibril_s
Hello all, I'm the founder of Spendwith (<a href="https://spendwith.in" rel="nofollow">https://spendwith.in</a>) a social impact company and peer-to-peer shopping app that allows users to buy goods or services ... | {
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} |
Ten ‘Easter Eggs’ to Find in Your Mac OS and Applications - radley
http://gigaom.com/apple/ten-easter-eggs-to-find-in-your-mac-os-and-applications/
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radley
examples:
\- Show Hidden Files in the Finder
\- Disable the ‘Unexpectedly Quit’ Dialog
\- Enable ‘X-Ray Folders’ in QuickLook
\- Show the File Path in ... | {
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} |
The Voder, the First Machine to Create Human Speech - Hooke
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-voder-the-first-machine-to-create-human-speech
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angersock
There is a great book called "How To Wreck a Nice Beach" (
[https://www.amazon.com/How-Wreck-Nice-Beach-
Vocoder/dp/16121...](https://www.amazon.com/How-W... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
ISS crew successfully capture SpaceX Dragon Capsule (06:56 EST) - stbullard
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html#hn
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falcolas
Sadly, there was one mission casualty as a result of the "deconstructed"
engine:
"Unfortunately, the engine malfunction placed the Falcon 9 upper stage in a
slightly differen... | {
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} |
A Relevant Tale: How Google Killed Inktomi - nachopg
http://diegobasch.com/a-relevant-tale-how-google-killed-inktomi
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paulsutter
Great article. One note: Google's dynamic abstracts were not only very useful,
they also improved perceived relevance because they let users see why the
pages were selected.
When I wa... | {
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} |
I'm on a deserted island. How can I tell which plants are poisonous? - yanowitz
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2919/im-on-a-deserted-island-how-can-i-tell-which-plants-are-poisonous
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fernando
My all time favorite answer for this question is from a book I read in Brazil.
It was a jungle-survival guide... | {
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} |
Why Incompetence Spreads Through Big Organisations - Anon84
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/23800/
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gjm11
This is about a (rather bad, I think) paper investigating a _really extreme_
version of the Peter principle: what happens if competence at one level is
_totally uncorrelated_ with competence at th... | {
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} |
The Permission Problem: Patents and Anticommons - nickb
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2008/08/11/080811ta_talk_surowiecki
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noonespecial
Few people realize how close a patent troll came to preventing us from having
cars.
<http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aacarsseldona.htm>
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chaostheory
... | {
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A Dismal Guide to Concurrency - logicalstack
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=379717628919
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kaib
Nice article.
While I have high respect for the exposition in this article, and by extension
Mr. Vogels work that the author makes a reference to, I think it's a tad too
early declare eventual consistency a ... | {
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} |
Textie: A Handsome, Simple Messaging App From The Guys Behind Tweetie & Borange - chris24
http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/29/textie/
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RK
I use IM (Gtalk/xmpp) for this function. Works on every phone or computer.
For people who insist on SMS I have Google Voice with free SMS.
| {
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What if more central banks buy foreign equities like the Swiss central bank? - naveen99
What if more central banks start buying foreign equities like the Swiss central bank ? Or if the Bank of Japan decides to start buying us companies. Or the fed starts buying Chinese companies ?<p>Could the us just buy foreign co... | {
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Ask HN: Please review Twollars - eisokant
Dear HN Members,<p>I've been here on HN for almost a year now and time and time again I see the most valuable comments come by on Ask HN Review posts. To be honest, they are by far my favorites.<p>I am very happy to now be posting my own. Last month my co-founder and I launc... | {
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} |
Siri Is Apple’s Broken Promise - ryandvm
http://gizmodo.com/5864293/siri-is-apples-broken-promise
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idspispopd
Although Siri is what it is, (i.e. seemingly great for some and disappointing
for others) Apple don't really have a history of selling perfected technology
out of the gate.(At all honestly) They do how... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Electromine – Electroneum mining pool - xikimay
https://electromine.fr/
======
xikimay
Telegram :
[https://t.me/joinchat/EED8ZxCieCdFI1qQ9Dfm-A](https://t.me/joinchat/EED8ZxCieCdFI1qQ9Dfm-A)
| {
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Ask HN: Is there a way to disable JavaScript popups asking for my email? - pixelperfect
I'm getting very tired of this design fad. The only true difference between these and "normal" popups is that my popup blocker does not block them. If you are a designer using this technique, the message I am getti... | {
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} |
Managing Technical Debt (2012) - Fzzr
http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2168798
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vinceguidry
Technical debt's main difference from financial debt is that it can't really
be quantified, because it's hard to really identify. Most software has a
lifetime, initiatives don't maintain economic value indefinitely.
At... | {
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} |
Our Discovery of Cramming (2017) - kevlar1818
https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/insights/2017/Our-Discovery-of-Cramming.html
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derefr
> Currently, a certain range of Unicode blocks, including Basic Latin, are
> counted half as much as other blocks, such as CJK Unified Ideographs.
Has anyone made ... | {
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} |
Key length with bcrypt - uonce
I'm working on an authentication system that is a little different than a traditional username and password scheme.<p>Each user is <i>assigned</i> a key, of length N bits. I'm giving the user a "password" with a full N bits of entropy, rather than letting them choose a (potentially we... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Debug PHP Using Firefox with FirePHP - profquail
http://sixrevisions.com/web-development/how-to-debug-php-using-firefox-with-firephp/
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HoneyAndSilicon
FirePHP offers not only ability to monitor errors in log, but also displays
other information as a script progresses and dumps value of an array when
desired. I... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Sorry, Apple: For the education market, Chromebook is the clear winner - CrankyBear
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3453943/sorry-apple-for-the-education-market-chromebook-is-the-clear-winner.html
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mikece
I always liked Steve Job's analogy of the computer being a "bicycle for the
brain," allowing an unleas... | {
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} |
Tesla Model 3 'rival' Volkswagen ID.3 is turning into a cautionary tale - Corrado
https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-3-rival-volkswagen-id-3-cautionary-tale/
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clouddrover
Seems unlikely. Volkswagen has been saying for a long time that the release
date for the ID.3 is "Summer 2020". If it gets released in Euro... | {
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} |
30,000-year-old giant virus 'comes back to life' - jackgavigan
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26387276
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Amorymeltzer
The scientist they interview, Jean-Michel Claverie, has done a lot of work in
the large DNA-virus world, along with Didier Raoult. One of his best papers
IMO
([http://dx.doi.org/10.... | {
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} |
The Ouya debate: Who really wants indie gaming hardware? - fullfilldreams
http://avesom.com/the-ouya-debate-who-really-wants-indie-gaming-hardware/
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OzzyOsbourne
I think this article's headline is a little misplaced. The massive backing
given to Ouya on Kickstarter in such a short time period is testament to t... | {
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} |
Where will artificial general intelligence come from? - nshr
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/119VW6ueBGLQXsw-jGMboGP2-WuOnyMAOYLgd44SL6xM/edit#slide=id.p
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karpathy
I gave this talk a while ago to a small group of attendees. It was not
recorded (I saw some ask below). It's based on a document I wrote a whi... | {
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} |
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