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Snowden decries Russian surveillance bill as dangerous, urges Putin not to sign - j1vms
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/25/edward-snowden-decries-russian-surveillance-bill-d/
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Pica_soO
There is a man, standing for his ideals, even if it would cost him the last
save harbor he had.
Now lets belittle ... | {
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Learn about Startups with YC at Carnegie Mellon University today (Apr 5th, 6pm) - dwynings
http://ycombinator.posterous.com/learn-about-startups-with-yc-at-carnegie-mell
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akshaykarthik
Dang, I'm going for a CMU college visit today morning but I have to be out of
there in the afternoon. I really wish I could st... | {
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UIs Are Not Pure Functions of the Model – React.js and Cocoa Side by Side - mpweiher
https://blog.metaobject.com/2018/12/uis-are-not-pure-functions-of-model.html
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acemarke
This was discussed over on Reddit as well, and Dan Abramov pointed out several
issues with the author's writeup and conclusions:
[https://ww... | {
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Ask HN: Who's Hiring? - Herald_MJ
I always find these hiring threads interesting, but haven't seen one in a while. As it happens, this time around I <i>am</i> actually considering changing jobs, and am based in London. But in the interests of being community-spirited, it's great hearing from any interesting companies ... | {
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Ask HN: What are some good back end website ideas? - maceurt
I have to program a final project for my ap computer science class and I have programmed some websites before, front and backend, but I don't really have any ideas.<p>I have looked around online, but most often the suggestion is something boring like a ... | {
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Ask HN: What's your dream work schedule and why? - galfarragem
Mine is:<p>From 6:15am to 9:00am, work alone at home.<p>Get ready and 15 minutes walk/cycle to an office.<p>From 9:30am to 12:45pm, team work.<p>Wednesday and Friday work from home only. 6h/day (3h on Friday), 27h/week.<p>Why? I'm only ... | {
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Show HN: Cove. Your memory box. - fananta
http://cove.im
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bramm
I signed up, but there's no explanation after signup either. It doesn't seem
private since I keep seeing other people's random posts, despite this being MY
memory box.
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fananta
We made Cove to help remember experiences and tell stories. Int... | {
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Counting people with WiFi - vinchuco
http://phys.org/news/2015-06-people-wifi.html
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acd
A bit similar to WiSee that controlling devices with Wifi using your hands,
though not counting people
[http://wisee.cs.washington.edu/](http://wisee.cs.washington.edu/)
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sehugg
I noticed this effect when I was worki... | {
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Skype Now Supports The Open Source VP8 Video Codec - dkd903
http://digitizor.com/2011/08/04/skype-vp8/
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jamesbritt
Discussion already underway here:
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2843162>
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What's Holding OpenOffice Back? - markbao
http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/63684.html
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tdoggette
The short answer: It's not better. It's basically a clone of MS Office
pre-2007, which is what everyone is using anyway. When the time comes to
change, it'll be to the next version of Office, which will, by that t... | {
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Linux Kernel coding style [pdf] - smartinspereira
https://slurm.schedmd.com/coding_style.pdf
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smartinspereira
This is still pure gold. To the point and full of sarcasm.
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Docker News – Newsletter for Docker Developers - kristianc
http://offers.getcrane.com/docker-news-weekly-newsletter-for-docker
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smt88
Docker itself already provides a very long and thorough newsletter. How does
this differ?
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How 'Waiting for “Superman”' Will Further Fuel the Education Debate - bhousel
http://nymag.com/news/features/67966/
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teye
Just saw this last night in SF courtesy of the Commonwealth Club. Highly
recommended.
You're shown that getting results is straightforward: get rid of poor teachers
and reward good ones. One... | {
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Man tells devastating story of his dad's death at an Airbnb - zeeshanm
http://mashable.com/2015/11/08/airbnb-death/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-pete-link#5ox8xASfGZqV
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clavalle
That's terrible but it seems to me that you accept a certain amount of risk
using airbnb. How could any set of regulations cover things like swi... | {
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Responsive HTML Emails: a Different Strategy - kevingessner
http://blog.fogcreek.com/responsive-html-emails-a-different-strategy/
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blowski
At TechHub more than half our emails are opened on mobile (and mostly on
iPhones, although there is some selective bias in there because of default
image display settings). S... | {
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MIT website makes you decide who a self-driving car should kill in an accident - cocktailpeanuts
http://www.businessinsider.com/mit-research-crowdsource-moral-decision-making-self-driving-cars-2016-9
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cocktailpeanuts
I've seen this nonsense keep being shared on Twitter and now even MIT thinks
this is a huge dile... | {
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Show HN: Steemwhale – 60ft lifesize whale on blockchain – send crypto for spout - roelandp
https://steemwhale.io
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roelandp
I'm the maker, and listening to any of your questions here!
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almostdigital
Awesome project! Why does it shoot water from the nose though, shouldn't it be
shooting from the back?
~~~
eos... | {
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Online Shopping Makes Suckers of Us All - haltingproblem
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/05/how-online-shopping-makes-suckers-of-us-all/521448/
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pravda
Offline shopping works the same way!
The price you pay at Home Depot is influenced by how far away the nearest
Lowes is.
And don't get me sta... | {
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11 Companies launched tonight at Atlanta Startup Weekend - ajaimk
http://blog.weatherby.net/2009/11/atlanta-startup-weekend-3-projects.html
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rjurney
Social map of the #asw3 hashtag: <http://seadragon.com/view/fvf>
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Ask HN: 10k+ node _windows_ cluster in AWS? - leakybucket
For testing purposes, I'd like to know if anyone has successfully created, controlled, and torn down clusters of 10,000 nodes or more of Windows instances in AWS? Or in other cloud providers?<p>I'm looking to setup a large scale QA test that will drive Windo... | {
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Porting Quake to the iPod Classic - Ivoah
https://www.fwei.tk/blog/adieu-quake.html
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theunamedguy
Author here. This is actually a fairly old project of mine by now, but I just
recently submitted it to Hackaday, which is probably why it's surfaced here.
The original video demo has been taken down by the author (... | {
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AMA TIME – For blockchain gaming the most exciting thing is interoperability - jungong
https://www.dapp.com/article/dapp-com-ama-episode-8-vladimir-from-blockchain-cuties-kokushi-from-my-crypto-heroes
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NicolasSierro
Nice action and indeed interoperability is important for blockchain in gaming.
They were several ... | {
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International Backup Awareness Day - twampss
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001315.html
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webology
Services like Amazon's S3 and Rackspace's Cloud Files are well worth the $0.15
to $0.30 a month that it takes to keep a backup of most websites. Better yet,
keep a copy in each service and avoid problems ... | {
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Rackspace acquire Slicehost - maryrosecook
http://www.slicehost.com/articles/2008/10/22/big-news-today
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benkant
The great thing about Slicehost was the size. They were big enough to be
reliable but small enough to give a shit when you had a question on #slicehost
on freenode.
PickledOnion's posts on the Sliceho... | {
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Let's enable AppArmor by default (why not?) - boramalper
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/08/msg00090.html
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esaym
If people rant and rave about how hard pulse audio is to configure, then I can
only imagine how much kick back there will be about having to configuring
apparmor etc. Just saying.
Personal... | {
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The Register accidentally emails 46,524 user details to 3,521 of them - ethereal
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/24/email_blunder/
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tejaswiy
Not that it fixes things, but their response came off as being surprisingly
honest. Good on them.
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rflrob
The first step on the road to recovery is admitting you... | {
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Object-Oriented Programming is Bad - Fr0styMatt88
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM1iUe6IofM
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chillacy
The starting 2 minutes were so grandiose and sales-ey that I didn't bother
watching the rest, but the author does have a blogpost explaining his
viewpoints, which goes by a lot quicker than the video:
[https:... | {
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See which user accounts hackers try to access on your server the most - renownedmedia
http://thomashunter.name/blog/see-which-user-accounts-hackers-try-to-access-on-your-server-the-most/
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hardwaresofton
Also wanted to add that fail2ban
([http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page](http://www.fail2ban.org... | {
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Vivaldi browser releases Sync in Snapshot build for public testing - jonmccull
https://vivaldi.com/blog/snapshots/help-test-sync/
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jonmccull
This feature has been the reason many users have held out on making the switch
to Vivaldi as a daily drive. Will be interesting to see the results of the
testing and how qu... | {
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} |
Show HN: Lo – Ask and answer “Where you at?” with one tap - as1193
https://lo-yo.co
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bluetidepro
Love the idea and project, but I have to admit, you missed an amazing
opportunity to call it "Yo-Lo" and parody off that awful (popular) phrase used
in pop culture... Haha :) Keep it up. Downloaded the app, and am ... | {
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The Dark Art of Negotiation - jordancooper
http://jordancooper.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/the-dark-art-of-negotiation/
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kgrin
My experience may be atypical, but most of the _serious_ negotiations I've
been involved in have taken place on paper/email and over days/weeks, not a
single face-off. Human psychology st... | {
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A simple explanation of how the 2 through sqrt of n prime number test works - essofluffy
http://hardforkit.com/2016/01/14/How-The-Two-Through-Square-Root-Of-N-Prime-Number-Test-Works.html
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vpalan2
Here's how I would think about it:
If a number N is composite, then it is a product of two numbers smaller than
N. ... | {
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A Large Scale Study of Programming Languages and Code Quality in GitHub [pdf] - todd8
http://macbeth.cs.ucdavis.edu/lang_study.pdf
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lighthawk
"RQ1. Are some languages more defect prone than others" is misleading.
It shows TypeScript having an coef of −0.43, Clojure of -0.29, Scala at -0.28,
and Haskell at -0.23... | {
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Man Who Refused to Decrypt Hard Drives Still in Prison After Two Years - rbanffy
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/legal/man-who-refused-to-decrypt-hard-drives-still-in-prison-after-two-years/
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lenkite
So the police no longer need to plant drugs. They can just plant encrypted
hard drives to which you have 'f... | {
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10 (or so) of the worst passwords exposed by the LinkedIn hack - shawndumas
http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/06/10-or-so-of-the-worst-passwords-exposed-by-the-linkedin-hack/
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tomfakes
Since LinkedIn didn't lock my account yesterday, I assumed my password was not
leaked. However, LeakedIn has my password mark... | {
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} |
Processing the Page Turn - sohkamyung
http://www.cpushack.com/2017/09/30/processing-the-page-turn/
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rwmj
The BBC's "Computer Originated World" is another sophisticated example of
this. One of them came up for sale a few years ago.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Originated_World](https://en.wikipedia.org... | {
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The Literature of Laughing Gas - mr_golyadkin
http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/09/17/extreme-extreme/
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user249
I logged in here with a throwaway account just to caution people that for a
small percentage of users it is highly addictive. Some call it 'hippie crack'
with good reason. After using it off and ... | {
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The Contortionist's Handbook - yonibot
http://wandererstraining.com/tchb/
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oseph
Interesting find.
| {
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Coinbase Debuts the First Bitcoin Debit Card in the US - sankha93
http://www.wired.com/2015/11/coinbase-unveils-countrys-first-bitcoin-debit-card/
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maxerickson
Recent discussion:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10601154](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10601154)
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mrb
Wired's headline is wrong. ... | {
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SwiftUI with Support for WebAssembly - yannikyeo
https://github.com/carson-katri/SwiftWebUI
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sudoit
Glad to see this is still in development
| {
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Linux guy tries out a Mac for a weekend for the first time - scumola
http://badcheese.com/?q=node/112
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jsz0
OSX has definitely won me over. My background is primarily in Linux. About 5
or 6 years of exclusive Linux use on my personal machines. Most of my needs
are mostly online or a terminal window so I can ad... | {
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Quora's Notification Settings - OoTheNigerian
http://oothenigerian.com/quoras-notification-settings?ref=nf
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yuvadam
Facebook has exactly the same interface (<http://i.imgur.com/EwrHR.png>) only
much longer (~60 checkboxes not including one for each external app).
Horrible.
If that's not a middle finger to all... | {
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MacOS 10.13, thoroughly reviewed - hellcow
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/09/macos-10-13-high-sierra-the-ars-technica-review/
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sago
> "I just wish ... what’s here felt even half as adventurous as what’s
> happening on the iPad."
I don't.
I don't want my desktop to feel adventurous, not even half-adventur... | {
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TSA eliminates all invasive X-ray machines - jamesbritt
http://www.nbcnews.com/travel/tsa-eliminates-all-invasive-x-ray-machines-6C10138818
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chrisbennet
"..all US airports scanners equipped with the ability to produce the
penetrating images will now only show a generic outline of a passenger to the
operator. "
... | {
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Brouwer–Hilbert controversy - drnewman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brouwer%E2%80%93Hilbert_controversy
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ocfnash
For a long time, I used to dismiss intuitionism but more recently I've come to
find it an attractive standpoint.
For one thing, you really only gain by trying to be constructive. If, in some
logical... | {
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Ask HN: Good app ideas to learn a new platform - davidbalbert
So I wanted to start learning iPhone development last night and I didn't really know what to build. I thought it would be nice to have a list of little projects in order of increasing difficulty for learning mobile development, web development, game devel... | {
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Good Login Auth system in CodeIgniter? - Dascrilla
Building a website that I hope to have a lot of users on eventually. Need a good user login authentication system that uses email not captcha. Can anyone recommend a library?
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danielrosca
I am using iAuth library and is quite powerful those days. You may chec... | {
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Would you use code-review-as-a-service? - derwiki
http://www.paidcodereview.com/
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redmaverick
I most definitely would. I was searching for this kind of service in the past.
The closest is
[http://codereview.stackexchange.com/](http://codereview.stackexchange.com/)
but the problem is that we cannot make freque... | {
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Show HN: a free multi-user whiteboard with unlimited, zoomable surface - florianguenther
http://sketchub.com/
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A1kmm
The front ends seem to get desynchronised when two incompatible concurrent
edits happen; this is a difficult issue to resolve, but one solution would be
to change the data flow so local edits are ... | {
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Ask HN: Except cookies which parameter is sent in every HTTP request? - dedalus
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BjoernKW
Even cookies aren't required (see
[https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616) and
[https://serverfault.com/questions/163511/what-is-the-
mandato...](https://serverfault.com/questions/163511/wha... | {
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Politically-correct witch-hunt is killing free speech - phonon
https://sarahadowney.substack.com/p/this-politically-correct-witch-hunt
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dang
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23719559](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23719559)
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ajkjk
Whether others' behavior is 'right' or not is one moral questio... | {
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Why Cloud Storage Use Could Be Limited in Enterprises - edw519
http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/technology/features/article.php/3843151
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kakooljay
"There are two reasons for this: bandwidth limitations and the data integrity
issues posed by the commodity drives that are typically used in cloud
services."
... | {
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Ghost Blogging Software ported to PHP - techvibe2
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/php-based-blogging-software-inspired-by-ghost/x/6230841
Here is a working demo http://blog.ospari.org/ Please spread the news and support us to make this a reality.
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shadowmint
> Currently we are working on the ad... | {
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Feedly Pro - watermel0n
http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/5/4589764/feedly-pro-premium-subscription-article-search-evernote
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watermel0n
The saddest part is that they are offering HTTPS only for Pro accounts.
| {
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Dwolla – Free micropayments - datashovel
https://www.dwolla.com/micropayments
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datashovel
Why aren't more people using this for micropayments? Instead of paying an arm
and a leg in transaction fees to credit card companies?
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loceng
Because platforms generally make money from transaction fees, so they're
re... | {
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How to Solve the Ventilator Shortage - ForrestN
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/22/opinion/health/ventilator-shortage-coronavirus-solution.html
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pauloppenheim
FTA:
> Here, too, we can all drop our job descriptions to solve this problem. Big
> tech needs to rapidly build and scale a cloud-based national ventilat... | {
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Scientifically accurate 3D animation of DNA replication in a living cell - wwalker3
http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2009/08/how_dna_is_replicated_in_a_liv.php
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wwalker3
The original seems to be from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical
Research at <http://www.wehi.edu.au/education/wehi-tv/>.
I... | {
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Show HN: I built a puzzle / programming challenge with a 0.125 BTC prize - nathan_f77
https://formapi.io/blog/posts/2018-bitcoin-programming-challenge/
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eat_veggies
It's possible to complete the first challenge without writing any CSS -- just
deactivate break points to bypass the anti-debugger loop, and then use... | {
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} |
How designers can create interactive prototypes with Illustrator - tomger
http://tomgermeau.com/2014/02/how-designers-can-create-interactive-prototypes-with-illustrator/
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oulipo
Nice tutorial! You can also check the one I wrote about creating interactive
prototypes using Sketch and d3.js here:
[http://snips.n... | {
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Ask HN: Why do we allow news blogs to be such garbage? - benologist
Salon's article today about how they used to spew out high volume, low quality fluff highlights how bad news blogs really are:<p>- http://open.salon.com/blog/kerry_lauerman/2012/02/03/hit_record and<p>- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3562861<p... | {
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Free Speech in the Age of Algorithmic Megaphones - rafaelc
https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-domestic-disinformation-algorithmic-megaphones/
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core-questions
> The only way to avoid politicized battles and conspiracies around moderation
> is transparency. As domestic accounts begin to be caught up in terms of
... | {
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Amazon won't spin off AWS. That's hurting AWS - forrestbrazeal
https://forrestbrazeal.com/2019/07/24/cloud-irregular-amazon-wont-spin-off-aws-and-thats-too-bad-for-aws/
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noirbot
The folks talking about the JEDI/WaPo issues are missing the bigger concern,
which is other retailers pushing down to their SaaS partne... | {
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Ask HN: How does the technology that marks spam as dead on HN work? - jason_shah
It seems to work reasonably well. But I don't imagine a lot of resources are dedicated to it.<p>So how does PG have it set up? How has it changed over time?
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mooism2
If it's anything more than ordinary users flagging spam when the... | {
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Try Haxe - clemos
http://try.haxe.org
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rufugee
Haxe sounds too good to be true. Why would anyone use any of the other game
engines out there which are targeted towards the mobile world if they could
use Haxe? I see many half-donejavascript frameworks and fully-baked lua
frameworks...what do they provide that Ha... | {
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} |
Perennial philosophy - benbreen
https://aeon.co/essays/what-can-we-learn-from-the-perennial-philosophy-of-aldous-huxley
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dr_dshiv
The key point in the perennial philosophy is the idea of Oneness -- that there
is an ultimate oneness that is the source of all and the basis of the good.
Oneness is perennial becaus... | {
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Thermonuclear Art – The Sun in Ultra-HD (4K) - franzb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tmbeLTHC_0
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JoeAltmaier
Terrifying
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Can A 250-Year-Old Mathematical Theorem Find A Missing Plane? - clebio
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/03/25/294390476/can-a-250-year-old-mathematical-theorem-find-a-missing-plane
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arrc
In applicability lies the possibility. Any theorem / formula on its own cannot
solve such complex problem.
| {
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Cache tables - atesti
https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2019/02/11/cache-tables/
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antirez
I use this technique often and I love the simplicity it has. If you want to
see a real-world usage, there is one in
[https://github.com/antirez/dump1090](https://github.com/antirez/dump1090):
/* Add the speci... | {
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59% of America’s “tuna” isn’t actually tuna - petrel
http://qz.com/55629/china-has-a-spectacularly-silly-new-plan-to-fix-its-pollution-problem/
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nodata
What is it? Seahorse?
| {
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The iPhone Nano Rumor Reborn: 1/3rd Smaller, Older Components, $200 No Contract - kiubo
http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/10/iphone-nano/
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us
There are several problems with this hypothesis. Apple has said it before that
they're getting more iPhone orders than they can manage to build in many
cases. At $625 per iP... | {
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Google Glass 2.0 - nefitty
http://www.wsj.com/video/google-glass-20-first-look/7D225564-0A67-41D7-97A9-CF4C19CF3A4C.html
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nefitty
I doubt this will satisfy the luddites, but we can hope...
| {
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Twilio CEO's open letter to AT&T about net neutrality - crabasa
https://medium.com/@jeffiel/dear-randall-5ca4c16fa5a9
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danjoc
Isn't Twilio a large source of spam from long numbers? I think this is less
cut and dry than Twilio makes it out to be. Hopping on the Net Neutrality
bandwagon when this doesn't have anyt... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Will I lose my data when GDPR takes effect? - miguelrochefort
I have not taken any step to give explicit consent regarding GDRP to services I use. Does that mean they will delete all my data when GDPR takes effect tomorrow? That would be tragic...
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foobarbazetc
No.
| {
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} |
Show HN: A website to help support NYC restaurtants impacted by Covid-19 - rileyt
https://saverestaurants.nyc/
======
rileyt
I built a website that makes it easy for New Yorkers to find their favorite
restaurants and see how they can support them.
If you live in NYC, please consider supporting restaurants. If you are... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Pyinfra – automate infrastructure super fast at scale - drcongo
https://pyinfra.com
======
Fizzadar
I wrote pyinfra! If anyone has questions/suggestions/issues I'm more than
happy to answer :)
~~~
BiteCode_dev
I'm looking for an alternative to ansible and fabric 2, some kind of
middleground, and pyinfra looks like so... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Was the free 1st episode of Silicon Valley an elaborate Googlebomb? - BWStearns
I was looking for a way to watch ep2+ of Silicon Valley and I realized that most searches I would normally use to find places to watch it led to an interminable amount of blog posts and news stories about SV episode 1 being avail... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Million Song Dataset - commons-tragedy
http://millionsongdataset.com/
======
devinplatt
I did my master's thesis (2017) using this dataset. I trained a neural network
to predict musical features from the raw audio of the songs.
Unfortunately the 7digital ids were out-of-date, so in order to get access to
the audio (3... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Please Don't Lie - weinzierl
https://jacquesmattheij.com/please-do-not-lie/
======
pritovido
The magic that was going to protect Europe from the virus was the same magic
that protected Europe from SARS: The good weather.
If you delay it enough, whatever virus affects North of Asia in Winter does
not affect Europe in ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN What Web App Would You Like to See/Need? - bbommarito
I have this hankering to get started on a web app (Not really for YCombinator, but more because I have the time and really want to spend a chunk of time coding).<p>My problem is I have yet to find a web app that's lacking for my own needs. Tons of news sit... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Changing Your Address - naish
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/05/05/Changing-Your-Address
======
dmnd
I thought of this last time I moved. It took hours to change my address in all
the various organisations that need to know it.
Obviously the problem with getting it off the ground. Who is big enough to
st... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The JavaScript Alternatives - xvirk
http://www.drdobbs.com/jvm/the-javascript-alternatives/240166433
======
sgy
There has been many illogical attacks against JavaScript. Google Chrome's
smooth performance is backed up by JavaScript V8 engine. Node.js is being
hosted by hundreds of start-ups as well as started-ups. W... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Cleanse – remove zero-width characters, replace text on all websites - ztarven
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cleanse/pldjaflkihaacjhepjkfiadndghceiog
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ztarven
I know, another zero-width related extension, but it's a bit different.
Cleanse notifies you when a page contains zero-width charact... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Computer pioneer Ken Olsen dies - ohjeez
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2011/02/08/computer_pioneer_ken_olsen_dies/
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tshtf
_Globe Staff / February 8, 2011_
~~~
ohjeez
This went around Facebook... and in every case it took three or four people
looking at the article to notice how old it was.
... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Comets can't explain weird 'alien megastructure' star after all - aburan28
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28786-comets-cant-explain-weird-alien-megastructure-star-after-all
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sandworm101
>>> “The alien-megastructure idea runs wrong with my new observations,” he
says, as he thinks even advanced aliens woul... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
FreeCAD 0.18 released with Python 3/Qt 5 support and more - kwk1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85HlYXnaxbw
======
kwk1
More than 2500 commits. More than 100 contributors. More than 11 months in the
making:
[https://www.freecadweb.org/downloads.php](https://www.freecadweb.org/downloads.php)
0.18 is not a big change ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Firebase, a scalable real-time backend - jamest
http://firebase.com
======
pkrein
I used Firebase to build thereelbox.com, and enjoyed it thoroughly. It took
2-3 hours from starting into the documentation to completed/nobugs/pushed to
production. Credit for that speed goes entirely to Firebase.
TheReelBox us... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Why the home-working boom could tumble London's skyscrapers - edward
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jun/27/why-the-home-working-boom-could-tumble-londons-skyscrapers
======
morelikeborelax
No mention of how the UK's inner city housing is generally not suited for
people to be working out of?
If this change ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Verge's web sucks - mbrubeck
http://blog.lmorchard.com/2015/07/22/the-verge-web-sucks/
======
insin
> We keep things like Adblock Plus at arm's length for plausible deniability -
> but everyone I know uses it.
I wish this had been included in the main body of this post, with some
metrics; everyone you know uses i... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
GraphLab: A New Framework for Parallel Machine Learning - bsaunder
http://arxiv.org/abs/1006.4990
======
dman
Thanks for posting this, its very relevant to what I am currently working on.
~~~
bsaunder
You're welcome. I'm working on something similar as well. I haven't fully
digested the paper yet, but it resonates ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Why do we not see Apple, Google or MS people discuss on HN? - Mustafabei
If it doesn't violate the company principles (though I cannot see why it would) We would really like to see the inner guys share their opinions here.
======
benologist
We do get comments from employees at big companies. You can also ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Should I do industrial espionage? - jahitr
Hi all..<p>I'm an engineer for a large software company.<p>Lately I was promoted to "not a developer neither a team lead".<p>They hired someone else to lead the team I'm in. Someone that is clearly lagging behind me in technical aspects.<p>Now, wha... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How a Russian Troll Fooled America - okket
https://medium.com/dfrlab/how-a-russian-troll-fooled-america-80452a4806d1
======
maltalex
As heinous and improper this may be, I feel like "The Russians" are being used
as a simple answer for Trump's election. Yes, it seems that they played a
role, but was it a key role? Woul... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
DMCA Takedown – Popular PHP Barcode Removed - kernelcurry
https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2015-09-09-Tecnick.md
======
Rantenki
Strangely, I agree with the original author who sent the DMCA.
Imagine that you're working on some project and you find one of those forks
with no GPLv3 attached (or worse, some o... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Minimizing a sum of clipped convex functions - LolWolf
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.12342v2
======
LolWolf
Hi! One of the authors here.
We thought this paper might be of interest to people in data analysis or
machine learning for fitting problems which have many outliers in data (in
relatively simple ways). We a few ex... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Can't find a non-Apple slim keyboard with standard layout and no num pad - machinesbuddy
I'm looking for a slim keyboard (not mechanical preferably) that has a standard layout just without numpad. Whatever I find has these small arrow keys beside Ctrl and below Shift.<p>In other words, the slim (and proba... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: How to manage maintenance work vs. developing new products? - EduardMe
Both is important. Maintaining current products, which are in the market and making money. And developing new products (or new major updates which take longer) to increase or secure revenue in the future.<p>Maintaining means here fixing mai... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
AI equal with human experts in medical diagnosis - spking
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/24/ai-equal-with-human-experts-in-medical-diagnosis-study-finds
======
magwa101
Yes, human "experts", and when you go to your neighborhood hospital Dr, you
are not getting (typically) an "expert" in the field, so,... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Why website crashes are unavoidable -- at least for now - edw519
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/06/11/wordpress.outage/index.html?hpt=C2
======
arnorhs
Interesting stuff. The article references a PDF document made by Pingdom about
uptime of a few social networking sites in 2008. It would be interesting to
see how ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Lamborghini Is Forging Ahead with Forged Carbon Fiber - dmmalam
http://blog.caranddriver.com/lamborghini-is-forging-ahead-with-forged-carbon-fiber-we-visit-their-u-s-based-lab/
======
arcanus
Has Lamborghini ever made a car that had actual technical merit as a racecar?
I'm general, supercars are vastly overpriced for... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A Twitter Growth Hack for SAAS Companies - zeeshanm
https://twitter.com/_zeeshan_mughal/status/634965544689639424
======
fixingapp
I don't understand, how does it work exactly ?
If its just "follow your potential customers; unfollow them after a few days;
repeat" what causes the potential customers to become actual c... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
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