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3D Robotics Failure to Launch and Unicorn Dreams - lasr21
http://www.droneflyers.com/2016/03/3d-robotics-failure-to-launch-and-unicorn-dreams/
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therobot24
>> Marketing dollars and grandiose statements cannot replace pedal-to-the-
metal hard work and proper engineering.
Can't really fault them for marketing/gran... | {
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Ask HN: Should there be a cap on an individual's net worth? - bizdiz
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vezycash
Sounds nice but unfair & would destroy the economy.
Unfair - Who takes the extra wealth? Politicians? Because they are honest and
aren't wasting public funds.
Wasting another person's money is the easiest thing in the world. If you'r... | {
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Ask HN: Tool that learns table structure and produces summary? - dkural
Hi Folks,<p>What tools do you know of out there that can "learn" what's in a CSV / TSV file, make some smart guesses about the columns, and provide some sensible metrics / summary / plots of the data?<p>I know Goog... | {
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Guy who made his own iPhone brings 3.5mm jack back - bluebknight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utfbE3_uAMA
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detay
this is just amazing.
| {
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Ask HN: Developers in SE Asia - tixocloud
Hi,<p>I'm looking to outsource development work and wanted to know more about the quality of software development work in SE Asia. I was born in Malaysia so if you're Malaysian - brownie points for you as I'm also keen to learn more about the tech landscape in M... | {
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Show HN: We built a site to help you find the best neighborhoods to stay at - fozzieBoston
http://www.villy.co/
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fozzieBoston
Hi HN! we just launched Villy and I wanted to post it here to get your
feedback on it. For context - we are a team of two working out of the Harvard
Innovation Lab, and bootstrapped the... | {
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Show HN: How much developers earn? - mkalygin
http://tehcookies.com/devsalaries/vis.html
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keyboardhitter
Re: "Oops! Something went wrong on the server. Please try again."
form.js:225 Error: PERMISSION_DENIED: Permission denied
at firebase-database.js:28
at z (firebase-databas... | {
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Facebook using Content Security Policy headers for Webkit. - jdavid
It looks like Facebook is using the experimental CSP headers today. I am kinda amused by some of the whitelisted domains and apps.<p>I have provided here for your amusement.<p><pre><code> x-webkit-csp:default-src *;
script-src https://*.fac... | {
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Progress and research in cybersecurity: report from the Royal Society [pdf] - sjmurdoch
https://royalsociety.org/~/media/policy/projects/cybersecurity-research/cybersecurity-research-report.pdf
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sjmurdoch
My comments on some of the key findings of the report are here:
[https://www.benthamsgaze.org/2016/07/13/cyb... | {
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Non tech founder looking to create a straight forward code test. - Truman11
I need to hire programmers for my startup and I'm not sure how to tell if the people I interview are any good at it. I would like to create a 20 question test with 5 questions in each of these languages. PHP, JAVASCRIPT, AJAX, and MYSQL. C... | {
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Michael Hayden on the Effects of Snowden's Whistleblowing - aespinoza
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/07/michael_hayden.html
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jpdoctor
> _But it takes a special kind of arrogance for this young man to believe that
> his moral judgment on the dilemma suddenly trumps that of two (incredibly
> differen... | {
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New capabilities and entrepreneurialism are making space exciting again - martincmartin
http://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2016-25-08/space-2016
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vanattab
I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the article. It contains a number
of interesting details I had not heard before and I follow the indus... | {
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} |
The drive to UI simplicity deters kids from learning about how computers work - RyanMcGreal
http://quandyfactory.com/blog/100/
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angersock
(After reading this over, this is a little more misanthropic than I'd
intended... I'll post it regardless though.)
The drive to turn general-purpose computation devices into ... | {
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Five resources to use (together) when learning to read and write Chinese - chriswhizz
http://whizzlearning.com/2013/10/01/five-resources-try-learning-chinese/
Are there any other resources I am missing? It feels like a combination of them is important.<p>We are building an app that will be another tool in that toolbo... | {
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When is it Too Early to Start Looking? - ultimatedelman
http://blog.mightyspring.com/post/67070284620/when-is-it-too-early-to-start-looking
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lumens
The mental energy drain of "always looking" is definitely the hardest part.
Good tools to make this easier would enhance market efficiency and make all
the differe... | {
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Ask HN: Autoposting script? - bkrausz
So as some of you may have noticed, the last 5 or so xkcd's posted have been by me. I wrote up a little autoposting script at some ungodly hour and set it up in a cron to post new comics. I am not doing this for the karma, since anyone looking at my submission history (which I... | {
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JavaScript Loop Performance - blorenz
http://jsperf.com/while-vs-for-queue
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Millennium
What exactly is this trying to test? This headline seems to imply that it's
testing the performance of the different sorts of loops in JavaScript, but
it's not a valid test for that, because the for loop does considerably le... | {
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} |
All-renewable energy in California? Sorry, land-use calculations show otherwise - jseliger
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-bryce-renewables-california-20180821-story.html
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Gibbon1
> Robert Bryce is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the producer
> of the forthcoming documentary “Juice: How... | {
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Escaping Docker container using waitid() – CVE-2017-5123 - Da5hes
https://www.twistlock.com/2017/12/27/escaping-docker-container-using-waitid-cve-2017-5123/
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hacknat
This exploit is interesting, but if you are doing container security correctly
it’s actually not a big deal. In particular if you are setting per-c... | {
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More complicated than you think - maalyex
http://www.economist.com/node/17358573
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_delirium
Here's the article: <http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/10/15/1007615107>
Paywalled, but even just the abstract gives a little additional detail, and
the appendix with data tables/figures is open access:
[http://ww... | {
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Mitigating the HTTPoxy Vulnerability with Nginx - kgogolek
https://www.nginx.com/blog/mitigating-the-httpoxy-vulnerability-with-nginx/
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rahkiin
> The vulnerability was mentioned on the NGINX mailing list in July, 2013, by
> Jonathan Matthews.
Wow, that is long ago. Why isn't this mitigated earlier? The attack i... | {
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Obama calls Steve Jobs' success prime example of American wealth - J3L2404
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/12/23/obama_calls_steve_jobs_success_a_prime_example_of_american_wealth.html
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jganetsk
This scares me. While I have nothing against the wealth of Steve Jobs and his
revolutionary products, what Amer... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Good examples of user notifications in a client-side application? - icey
I'm reworking an application right now, and one of the things that's really been bugging me is how notifications are being handled.<p>Validation errors and exceptions are being reported to the user by pop-up windows, and I think there's... | {
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On Linux's Random Number Generation - raesene9
https://research.nccgroup.com/2019/12/19/on-linuxs-random-number-generation/
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tytso
There are a number of things that the blog post gets wrong. First of all, it
was not Jason A. Donenfeld, the author of Wiregard, which added the
ChaCha20-based cryptographic random n... | {
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Mythbusting: Organic Farming - jessekeys
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/science-sushi/2011/07/18/mythbusting-101-organic-farming-conventional-agriculture/
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bh42222
_Myth #1: Organic Farms Don’t Use Pesticides_
tl;dr: They do... well OK, only natural ones - but ONE of them is as bad as
any other pesticide... | {
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Mushrooms may 'reduce the risk of mild brain decline' - osrec
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-47554966
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blahzebob
I seriously clicked on this thinking it was going to discuss shrooms and not
the cuisine variety. Maybe I’m in mild brain decline, but kudos to BBC for
writing a non-clickbait clickbait headline.
... | {
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Dracula ants possess fastest known animal appendage: the snap-jaw - DoreenMichele
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-12/uoia-dap120618.php
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pathsjs
Well, how this compares to the
[http://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp](http://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp)
?
~~~
aesh2Xa1
The authors mention... | {
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Peter Thiel vs Warren Buffet - hardik
http://www.forbes.com/sites/venkateshrao/2012/02/16/warren-buffett-peter-thiel-and-the-return-to-zero-sum-economics/
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gamechangr
This is just name dropping. Warren Buffet's "opinion" was not opposing Thiel
or specific
| {
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Y Combinator vs. TechStars Application - oldgregg
I thought this was interesting:<p>"protip: 2 dudes talking is not a pitch video. show me, don't tell me."
@davidcohen 5:16 PM Mar 17th<p>vs.<p>"In the video please introduce yourselves, explain what you're doing and why, and tell us anything else you want to about th... | {
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Two Factor Auth List - wglb
https://twofactorauth.org/
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scrollaway
My Hearthstone account has better security than my Paypal account.
Here are some fun websites that do not support decent TOTP 2FA or U2F:
- Ebay
- Paypal
- Most banking websites apparently because regulations *... | {
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} |
MIT indefinitely removes online physics lectures and courses by Walter Lewin - clarkm
http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/lewin-courses-removed-1208
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lsiebert
"She provided information about Lewin’s interactions with her, which began
when she was a learner in one of his MITx courses, as well as information
about inte... | {
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Most of what you read was wrong: how press releases rewrote scientific history - Anon84
http://arstechnica.com/staff/2012/09/most-of-what-you-read-was-wrong-how-press-releases-rewrote-scientific-history/
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jonathansizz
Bravo to Ars for publishing this valuable corrective, but I'm afraid that the
damage has alread... | {
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Show HN: An email reminder service for your GitHub starred repos - philbo
https://githubreminder.org/signin
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arielpts
Great, but great App.
Thank you a lot!
PS: I just starred your repository, ha!
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perryharlock
Looks really useful. Am trying it out now :-)
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rowanmanning
Looks really useful, als... | {
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Waymo proposed $1B Uber settlement with public apology in car lawsuit - Osiris30
https://electrek.co/2017/10/12/waymo-proposed-uber-settlement-permanent-injunction/
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philiphodgen
We don’t know — because we are not there — but my guess? It’s a Cal Code Civ
Proc Section 988 offer.
Waymo makes a settlement offer o... | {
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Touring the Broad Art Museum, L.A.’s Newest Architectural Wonder - adventured
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/photo-essays/2015-09-13/touring-the-broad-art-museum-l-a-s-newest-architectural-wonder
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gcb0
"Looking In A passerby on the street peers into the galleries, providing a
sense of scale. "
heh. even on that ... | {
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Facebook is selling invisible ad impressions - youssefsarhan
http://blog.sefsar.com/post/28370197014/facebook-is-selling-invisible-ad-impressions
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chewxy
In Display advertising this is common. The fact that tools like Adxpose exist
points that this is a common problem for advertisers. Very often the
impression... | {
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Airbus A320 – From Cold and Dark to Ready for Taxiing [video] - camtarn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqKeSO6msDk
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_bear
As an A320 family pilot, I still haven’t done cold and dark start. Maybe once
day I will find an opportunity to.
~~~
hotsauceror
Is this kind of thing normally done by ground crew / mechani... | {
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Is there a weekly summary available for top news on Hacker News? - getp
The Hacker news frontpage changes almost continuously. However, I want to batch my readings as opposed to checking the site (several times) daily. Is there a way to find the top N posts by rating for a given week? (also posted to Quora: http://w... | {
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Uber tests self-driving car in Pittsburgh - alcio
https://newsroom.uber.com/us-pennsylvania/new-wheels/
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eplanit
The ultimate solution of the Employee vs. Contractor dilemma.
| {
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Linus Torvalds: Nvidia, Fuck You - davidedicillo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYWzMvlj2RQ
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wilfra
<http://i.imgur.com/hJ64u.jpg>
| {
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Are we part of the most elitist business? - imasr
Yet again, we find a post focused on drawing a line between the good programmer, and the bad one.
I think we should really be thinking how to become a better person and that does not come from stepping on everybody else, just to feed the ego.
I'm personally tired of ... | {
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Get whole year of Skype Premium for free. - rmldsky
https://collaboration.skype.com/promotion/
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Sprint
Free group video calls: [https://jitsi.org/](https://jitsi.org/)
Free group screen sharing: [https://jitsi.org/](https://jitsi.org/)
No advertising: [https://jitsi.org/](https://jitsi.org/)
Live chat custo... | {
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Is it safe to sleep in the same room with a car battery? - woliveirajr
https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/314855/is-it-safe-to-sleep-in-the-same-room-with-a-car-battery
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dsfyu404ed
If there was even a slight possibility it wasn't safe many boats and motor-
homes wouldn't be configured in a way that ... | {
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} |
Self-driving cars to be on roads of Swedish capital Gothenburg by 2017 - EdwardQ
http://www.cio.co.uk/news/r-and-d/self-driving-cars-hit-swedish-public-roads/
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pitiburi
The astonishing part is the fact that in order to have self-driving cars, it
seems Sweden is changing its capital city from Stockholm to Gothe... | {
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New Search Ad Experiences within Windows 8.1 - leeoniya
http://community.bingads.microsoft.com/ads/en/bingads/b/blog/archive/2013/07/02/new-search-ad-experiences-within-windows-8-1.aspx
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leeoniya
just one more reason to use third party tools to do local filesystem
searching. had to purchase FileSearchEX or use... | {
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Why collision avoidance is harder for an AI-based system - IndrekR
https://medium.com/@rebane/could-ai-have-saved-the-cyclist-had-i-programmed-the-uber-car-6e899067fefe
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hangonhn
Hang on. That argument makes no sense. We've had subsumption architecture for
a long time now(
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsumpt... | {
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This Week in Rust - cmrx64
http://cmr.github.io/blog/2014/03/15/this-week-in-rust/
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Gracana
> Another great PR from the illustrious ktt3ja, the compiler will now give
> suggestions on how to fix lifetime woes. This is an awesome usability
> improvement.
I'm really glad to see improvements like this. I know ho... | {
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Ask YC: valuating IP of old software games - andreyf
Hi all,<p>How would one go about valuating the source to a game like Blizzard's StarCraft? I don't mean the brand or trademarks, but the game itself - the strategy, balance of the races, etc.<p>Is it protected under copyright law? If one were to clone the game-pla... | {
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Terrain Generation with Midpoint Displacement - stevelosh
http://stevelosh.com/blog/2016/02/midpoint-displacement/
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munificent
I remember learning about midpoint displacement as a teen and having its
recursive implementation blow my mind. At the time, I don't think I could ever
implement it correctly because, li... | {
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Skinny People Rarely Diet - goodJobWalrus
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/02/why-skinny-people-dont-diet/463419/?single_page=true
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stirner
_many of the registrants used “non-restrictive” strategies, like listening to
hunger cues, cooking at home rather than eating out, and eating quality, non-
pro... | {
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} |
College for Grownups - ojbyrne
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/12/opinion/college-for-grown-ups.html
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nlh
"Adult Education" has this nagging stigma associated with it (though,
thankfully, that's changing due to MOOCs and such). But still -- even when the
major universities offer it, it's seen with a skewed tilt b... | {
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Ask HN: Learning about Venture Capital - leftnode
Hi HN,<p>I'm interested in pursuing a venture capital company to try to get some funding for my business idea, but I have a few questions about VC. If you have a link or some reading material that answers my questions, I'd love to read it too.<p>1. Can you ask a VC c... | {
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Ruby Swarms: Visualizing Rails & Git - igrigorik
http://www.igvita.com/2009/01/27/ruby-swarms-visualizing-rails-git/
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jballanc
Wow! Talk about the explosive effect of Git and GitHub... The Rails video
belongs somewhere on GitHub's home page.
Hey, Ilya, here's an idea: Could you parse out tags and overlay them... | {
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Why Robots Might Boost Industry While Killing Jobs - adampludwig70
http://techonomy.com/2013/01/why-robots-might-boost-industry-while-killing-jobs/
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dfc
OMG! Capital vs. labor, what a discovery. Someone alert the Nobel economic
prize committee.
| {
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Why do you use 37Signals products? Simplicity, UI, Hype? - rmalik
After watching various videos and seeing the growth of 37 Signals, it makes me curious why people use their applications. They clearly have less features and I don't see that as a large issue. Since they are mostly designers you would expect the UI/UX... | {
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Ask HN: What is the actual purpose of Docker? - someguy1233
I'm hearing about Docker every other day, but when I look into it, I don't understand the purpose of it.<p>I run many websites/applications that need isolation from each other on a single server, but I just use the pretty-standard OpenVZ contai... | {
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TEDx talks discredited: Sheldrake speaks, argues that speed of light is dropping - tokenadult
http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/tedx-talks-completely-discredited-rupert-sheldrake-speaks-argues-that-speed-of-light-is-dropping/
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rpm4321
If you haven't seen them, make sure to check out The Onion's ... | {
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Yahoo sending mass SPAM - jruji
This is only spam email from one hour:<p>2nk71wju7e@yahoo.com
j5cmhjff82@yahoo.com
8uzyj41g3v@yahoo.com
31wlegqb2l@yahoo.com
19kzqg9ucm@yahoo.com
jma9qaxog3@yahoo.com
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tracker1
It's probably not yahoo proper sending the spam. Likely their account creation
was either hacked, or a n... | {
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} |
American Express to plough $100 million into digital start-ups - Finntastic
http://www.startupsmart.com.au/funding/american-express-to-plough-$100-million-into-digital-start-ups/201111114529.html
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tectonic
That's interesting. I've been thinking about doing a fraud detection startup,
which seems to fit the bill... | {
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} |
Holographic universe experiment begins - saticmotion
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/august-2013/holographic-universe-experiment-begins
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colanderman
I've never understood why proof that the universe is "holographic" (= 2+1
dimensions of information projected as 3+1) does not fall out of the
Schrödinger’s... | {
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} |
Best way to get a (reasonably) fast scope - rfrey
http://www.eevblog.com/2010/03/31/eevblog-70-turn-your-rigol-ds1052e-oscilloscope-into-a-100mhz-ds1102e/
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rfrey
I have this 50Mhz scope, and it's a great bargain on its own. Turning it into
a 100Mhz scope for the cost of a few minutes with a terminal is an Awes... | {
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} |
Musical notation disguised as the oldest programming language - f2hex
Can be the musical notation considered as a first form of "programming" language?
In the and it is like a DSL, it has a symbolic notation, it allows the reproduction of "actions" on a device (musical instrument)...
======
dificil... | {
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On Attention, Focus and Autism in the Tech Workplace - cracauer
https://medium.com/@MartinCracauer/on-attention-focus-and-autism-in-the-tech-workplace-8246526fbbc0
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cracauer
This has been revised and clarified.
I now use a whole bunch of terms that I find are useful to communicate
personal attention patterns to... | {
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} |
Most Danish voters oppose government plans to cut the top rate of income tax - lnguyen
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-13/danes-loves-their-high-taxes
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hedgew
I'm not in Denmark but in a very similar European country. I don't want the
high taxes. The current taxes and mandatory payments feel unfai... | {
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} |
Host private lessons, meet interesting people and make money - vdthatte
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/graam
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vdthatte
Problem:
1\. It can be pretty hard to find more experienced people to guide you when
you're trying to learn something new. Online resources are great but having a
mentor can REALLY help at t... | {
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} |
The Wikipedia page for TopoJSON (by Mike Bostock of D3.js fame) has been deleted - pessimism
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=TopoJSON&action=history
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tantalor
Cached at
[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6c9OrzU...](http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6c9OrzUPXE0J... | {
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Biz's Commencement Speech at Babson - gtzi
http://bostinnovation.com/2011/05/15/four-stories-four-lessons-babson-college-commencement-speech-by-biz-stone/
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kmccarth
tl;dr
1) Opportunity Can Be Manufactured 2) Creativity is a renewable resource 3) In
order to succeed spectacularly, you must be ready to fail sp... | {
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} |
10 React mini-patterns - DerKobe
https://hackernoon.com/10-react-mini-patterns-c1da92f068c5
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lioeters
Previously posted:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13736465](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13736465)
and
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13743096](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13743096... | {
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jQuery or CSS3 transitions? Speed comparison + brief empirical explanation. - richbradshaw
http://css3.bradshawenterprises.com/demos/speed.php
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mbostock
I did this same experiment with D3 (animating the outline-color and
background-color for 1s with ease-in-out), and I got performance nearly
identical to CSS.
... | {
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} |
The things no one tells you about working remote - kiyanwang
https://hackernoon.com/the-things-no-one-tells-you-about-working-remote-79b6bf33576e
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acty1
The article points out things that do not happen to me.
Lose motivation and find it yourself? That's a truism since motivation is
internal. Maybe they meant yo... | {
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Stanford University requires remote access to students' iPhones - mrchkrbrty
http://imgur.com/8oxYN34
All Stanford students were recently required to install this app on their phones and their Stanford accounts were blocked until they complied.
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pope13
What do you mean by "requires?" That disclaimer is the boil... | {
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Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software - rfreytag
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html
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bjourne
The point, for me at least, is to increase the total volume of freedom in the
world. Here is a radical thought: Western Civilization hasn't reached "freedom
peak". The freedom le... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Should programming resumes be one page or two pages? - Kortaggio
I'm finishing my last year of college (graduating April 2015) and I'm updating my resume and portfolio to get ready for a full-time job search in web software development. Most advice articles I see on the Internet advise graduates to... | {
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Wave – A private and unique messenger for iOS - marcperel
https://itunes.apple.com/za/app/wave-%EF%BE%89/id1434827986?mt=8&ref=producthunt
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hmhrex
Reading through the Privacy Policy, I have some concerns.
Under "Usage Information":
> We may collect information about: how you communicate with those Wavers,
> su... | {
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Ask HN: Finding a polygon given a list of random coords? - iambot
Help.<p>Is there any way of finding a polygon that would contain all of a given list of points? without any intersections.<p>I'm hoping to use it in an app built on Google's Maps API v3. Any help/links would be much appreciated.
======
JoachimSchipper... | {
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ASCII Art from 1934 - martian
http://www.squareamerica.com/blog/?p=406
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muck
I fail to see how this is ASCII art. ASCII didn't even exist before 1934. A
more appropriate title might be Typewriter Art.
~~~
mindstab
Lots of forms of art don't get a genera name until after they've started ;).
Just because the fi... | {
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Don’t blame the framework: my experience with AngularJS and ReactJS - thecherifi
https://www.ckl.io/blog/dont-blame-the-framework-angularjs-and-reactjs/
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tfvictorino
Cool review!
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Obama vs. Trump – Who's the Better Speaker? - speakscore
https://www.speakscore.net/blog/trump-vs-obama-inaugural-speech-analysis-comparison.html
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macmac
Very brave of you to publish this as it is bound to violently contradict the
intuition of most people. An alternative conclusion is that your analysis is
meani... | {
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} |
Using Visual Studio Code for Qt Applications - jcelerier
https://www.kdab.com/using-visual-studio-code-for-qt-apps-pt-1/
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Alir3z4
Thanks for this, I'm sure many would give it a try and will like the idea of
having the possiblity and easier selection when working with their favorite
IDE or editor when working wit... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Cask: A Scala HTTP Micro-Framework Inspired by Python's Flask - lihaoyi
https://github.com/lihaoyi/cask
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brudgers
If it meets the guidelines, this might make a good 'Show HN'. Show HN
guidelines:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html](https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html)
| {
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} |
NeoCities can now handle two million web sites - kyledrake
https://neocities.org/blog/neocities-can-now-handle-two-million-web-sites
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steveklabnik
As much as there has been lots of trash talking here about Neocities due to it
being 'just' HTML and CSS, I teach high school kids on a semi-regular basis
(teaching s... | {
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} |
The tomato effect: Rejection of highly efficacious therapies (1984) - pacman83
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6368890
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WheelsAtLarge
"The rejection of potentially effective treatments because “everyone knows it
won’t work” is named for Americans’ persistent belief – from the sixteenth to
the nineteenth cent... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Reuters: Yahoo email scanning done with a Linux kernel module - 0xFFC
https://www.engadget.com/2016/10/08/reuters-yahoo-email-scanning-done-using-a-linux-kernel-module/
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0xFFC
Why they would use kernel module for such task? It is completely unrelated. No
matter how much I think, I couldn't understand rational be... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Client-side MD5 password hashing - antileet
I'm currently writing the auth for our web application. Normally the login form would have a username and password in a form. I hooked into the submit() event using javascript to change the value of the password to it's MD5 equivalent.<p>Now on the server, I treat ... | {
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} |
Miami U.S. Attorney’s Office, FBI accused of spying on defense in fraud case - ALee
http://www.floridabulldog.org/2016/06/u-s-attorneys-office-fbi-accused-of-spying-on-defense-in-fraud-case/
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will_brown
Notwithstanding Counsel for the Defense claiming it was both a US Attorney and
FBI practice, the facts suggest... | {
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} |
Robotic Band Covers "Ace of Spades" - jboggan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3RBSkq-_St8
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jboggan
I love their rider:
[http://compressorheadband.com/wp-
content/uploads/2012/10/com...](http://compressorheadband.com/wp-
content/uploads/2012/10/compressorhead.pdf)
"NOTE: NO MONITOR SYST... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
LiDAR scans are finding hidden Roman roads and cutting crime - rbanffy
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/lidar-mapping-environment-agency-2020-flood-defence-waste-dumping
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saosebastiao
I really wish this technology could find its way into the hands of Ruth Shady
in Peru. She was the discoverer of the Norte Chico ci... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Etcd or ZooKeeper? - jaytaylor
What do you see as the pros and cons of each, and why do you prefer one over the other?
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Randgalt
I'm the main author of Apache Curator (a ZooKeeper JVM client/lib). My biggest
concern would be availablity of reliable, well tested implementations. For
example, Curator giv... | {
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} |
GitLab 8.12 Released with Cycle Analytics and Global Code Search - dwaxe
https://about.gitlab.com/2016/09/22/gitlab-8-12-released/
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sytse
One of the highlights in this release for me are the Review Apps and the
autoscaling CI on Kubernetes. Questions are welcome.
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
My Homebrew Z80 Microcomputer - XtalJ
http://calculon80.j89.se
======
kqr2
_Build Your Own Z80 Computer_ by Steve Ciarcia of Byte Magazine and Circuit
Cellar fame may also be useful :
[https://smile.amazon.com/Build-Your-
Own-Z80-Computer/dp/0070...](https://smile.amazon.com/Build-Your-
Own-Z80-Computer/dp/0070109621... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Best non-reCAPTCHA CAPTCHA solution? - chatmasta
Does anyone have recommendations for privacy-respecting, hopefully open source, captcha solutions? I just want something low tech, usable and reasonably effective, to use on a signup form. Mostly interested in stopping dragnet spam.<p>I like the “balance the goa... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How many of you are interested in M&A dealmaking as a growth strategy? - SSG
http://www.antiventurecapital.com/billionaire9.html
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SSG
Or is this something completely off the radar for most here ?
| {
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} |
Universal takes on Spotify freemium model - antr
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5645cf6c-ce73-11e4-900c-00144feab7de.html
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eridal
bummer .. paywall
pastebin anybody?
~~~
antr
search the article title on google, read it without paywall
| {
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Ask HN: Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com - trevorturk
http://clickthatbutton.com/
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jbert
I realise it's a gag. But...
Have the site sponsored by different people each day, and record the number of
clicks on that day. Keep an archive, make it competitive.
e.g. 30th October is Obama day (just an exampl... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
28M Mail-In Ballots Went Missing in Last Four Elections - forgot_my_pwd
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/04/24/28_million_mail-in_ballots_went_missing_in_last_four_elections_143033.html
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rgrove
The article's title is misleading, and it misrepresents the content and
conclusions of some of its sourc... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Rvl.io: Online authoring and hosting of reveal.js presentations - hakim
http://www.rvl.io
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prezjordan
Reveal.js looks mighty cool. I spent a weekend learning node/npm to make
something similar [1] (albeit FAR less feature-rich). The basic idea is that
you write your content with JSON, so making slideshows is s... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Broccoli vs. Animals - dsego
http://www.vegetus.org/essay/plants.htm
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tokenizer
Yes. It's also okay to kill animals. Why? Because it's _natural_. Why is it
natural? Because every single animal kills either plants or animals.
And while we as a species can use our brains to resist eating animals, we
can't resis... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Microsoft open-sources Kinect code samples - ghosh
http://venturebeat.com/2013/03/11/microsoft-open-sources-kinect-code/
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ComputerGuru
Flagged as incorrect. VentureBeat apparently can't tell the difference between
Kinect's code and API examples. This needs to be deleted or the title changed
to "Microsoft Relea... | {
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} |
Zorium v1.0.0 (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ - Zolmeister0
https://zolmeister.com/2015/05/zorium.html
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iamdanfox
Nicely comprehensive blog post, Zorium looks like it is the result of a lot of
hard work! Since this looks like a serious library (rather than a personal dev
exercise), I'm curious about why you decided not to go wit... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Tetoris (the worlds largest tetris game) - game - Uncle_Sam
http://gprime.net/game.php/tetoris
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zandorg
That's extremely funny!
| {
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} |
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