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Tractionless Motion Is Possible - andromaton
https://phys.org/news/2019-12-discovery-reveals-tractionless-motion.html
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Jamwinner
Either this article was poorly writen, or this is beyond dumb, much less
impossible.
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Takashi Amano, nature photographer and aquascaper, has died - pvaldes
http://www.artandsciencejournal.com/post/28764629782/takashi-amano-aquascaping-can-be-described-as
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Steveism
This is sad news. He was a lover of nature and a true artist. Really such an
interesting man. I had setup two aquariums using his pr... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Only 4% of Languages Are Used Online - realusername
http://priceonomics.com/only-4-of-languages-are-used-online/
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wmil
One of the problems is that linguists care more about languages than people.
Turkey switched to the latin alphabet from an arabic script. They found it
easier to learn and it helped boost lite... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Topical treatment wipes out herpes with RNAi - rms
http://www.harvardscience.harvard.edu/medicine-health/articles/topical-treatment-wipes-out-herpes-with-rnai
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TooMuchNick
And so began the thread that everyone was a little afraid to post "hooray!"
in.
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aston
Boffery needs to check in with these folks for pos... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What is a good analogy for a variable - tosh
When teaching programming analogies can help (familiarity) to convey concepts. At the same time some analogies work better than others. What are your thoughts on this?
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karmakaze
A variable is first and perhaps foremost a name by which a value is accessed.
In... | {
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} |
Twitter is in a rut; is the Philippines its key to getting out? - beveemon
https://e27.co/twitter-rut-philippines-key-getting-20160219/
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beveemon
Maybe it's just me, but I'm kinda getting tired of the whole trope of, "US
company sees that it's going down the drain, checks out SEA to hopefully make
ends meet." Th... | {
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Singular Value Decomposition - tomrod
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_value_decomposition
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tjpick
I would have picked these:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Morgans_laws>
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kunjaan
These kinds of posts just open an endless and meaningless debate.
For example, why not list rules from boolean logi... | {
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Show HN: Discover the World of Mathematics - CatsAreCool
https://mathpendium.org/
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gus_massa
The front page is too empty. You must add some links to popular topics
(quadratic equation? topology?) and some link to random topics. Something like
the Wikipedia main page.
There is an error in
[https://mathpendium.or... | {
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} |
Airbnb Nightmare: No End In Sight - moonlighter
http://ejroundtheworld.blogspot.com/2011/07/airbnb-nightmare-no-end-in-sight.html
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edw519
Airbnb & YC, just fix this please:
1\. Get a new place for EJ. Furnish it fully. Pay for everything.
2\. Help her restore her virtual identity. Use any resources at your
con... | {
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} |
CloudFlare.com Scheduled Maintenance: Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at 6am UTC - jgrahamc
https://support.cloudflare.com/entries/23270916-CloudFlare-com-Scheduled-Maintenance-Tuesday-March-5-2013-at-6am-UTC
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jgrahamc
Posted this in case people go to www.cloudflare.com at that time and are
concerned that it might be a... | {
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} |
Ticketing - bitsweet
http://avc.com/2014/11/ticketing/
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ssharp
I have a partial season ticket package with the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Cavs
use a system called FlashSeats, which is conveniently owned by the Cavs'
majority owner, Dan Gilbert. All of my tickets get automatically added to
Flash Seats and I can s... | {
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} |
There Is No Bubble, Period - jaybol
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/beverly-macy/there-is-no-bubble-period_b_858402.html
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bxr
This article has no facts to support that assertion, and serves to support the
argument that there is a bubble.
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} |
Mythical 'iPad 2' caught on camera - _grrr
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/12/ipad_2_at_ces/
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S_A_P
The reg is hardly a reliable source these days, but even they think its fake.
I looked at the first video, looks like a bad copy. Too light, no UI
interaction, iPad 2 looks very unapple.
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} |
Revealed the secret to lead the search rankings race using the simplest way - jerianasmith
http://www.digitalsuccess.us/blog/revealed-secret-lead-search-rankings-race-using-simplest-way.html
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tobltobs
Does this kind of shallow article blog like digitalsuccess.us still work for
SEO?
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} |
Content-based image classification in Python - glamp
http://blog.yhathq.com/posts/image-classification-in-Python.html
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droz
Well written piece, kudos to the author.
If we are uploading cheques and licenses, why not just have a form with the
respective upload sections for each document. Sure, people might get ... | {
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} |
Dubai 45 gigapixels - bhartzer
http://gigapan.com/gigapans/48492
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ddebernardy
Is it afternoon prayer time on a WE with 50C or something like that? As I can
see the entire city has:
\- nobody walking in the streets (I failed to find a single one…)
\- no cars beyond the handful in far away parking lots
\- nob... | {
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} |
Goldee: A Hue Compatible Smart Light Switch - il
http://getgoldee.com/?
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Kronyx
repost
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The Future Programming Manifesto - jashkenas
http://alarmingdevelopment.org/?p=893
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mythz
Nice to see another post addressing the biggest issue in Software Engineering
head-on.
This of course is nothing new - it's something Alan Kay has been telling us
for more than 3 decades [1], who also has an enlightening t... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
An Update on the Status of Our UX Design Program - maximilianroos
https://lambdaschool.com/the-commons/an-update-on-the-status-of-our-ux-design-program
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petee
I feel they should get a lot of credit for being this transparent; it would
have been really easy to make quiet changes and sweep it under the rug, and
mo... | {
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} |
Google's policy of banning Android apps without giving a reason has to stop - thijser
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+MikeWallaceDev/posts/PUJ2qyRvTj3
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jacquesm
This goes for any google product, adwords, adsense, g+ accounts, gmail
accounts and so on. Why would your android app developer status be treated any
dif... | {
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} |
Yelp Launches Daily Deal - Problem for Groupon? - lifestyleigni
http://www.yelp.com/deals/la-ciudad-chicago
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justinchen
OpenTable also has their equivalent offering:
<http://spotlight.opentable.com/deal/los-angeles/losangeles25>
More competition drives the group-buying model to a more sustainable
proposition ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
DIY Kubernetes cluster with x86 stick-pcs - youngtaff
https://hackernoon.com/diy-kubernetes-cluster-with-x86-stick-pcs-b0b6b879f8a7#.vdx36xv73
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sciurus
I get the idea of doing this for fun, or as a means of testing tools for
setting up kubernetes clusters, but then the author says
> This could then be used as t... | {
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} |
Bear, Bat, or Tiny King? On the Rorschach Test - samclemens
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n21/deborah-friedell/bear-bat-or-tiny-king
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sdfin
It's tragic that in countries like Argentina this test, and many other
projective tests, test based in psychoanalitic pseudoscience and with lots of
evidence against them, are r... | {
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} |
How to Naturally Reset Your Sleep Cycle In One Night - jmonegro
http://www.wisebread.com/how-to-naturally-reset-your-sleep-cycle-overnight
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codyrobbins
For everyone that's intent on doing this, I've tried it before and it didn't
work. I fly quite often between Honolulu and the East Coast to see family, and
there... | {
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} |
Free Online Teaching Practice with Real ESL Students - josephyaghi
https://langu.ag/free-teaching-practice
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josephyaghi
The classroom is your stage, students are your audience, and you are the
performer. To become a great performer (Oscar-worthy), you need to practice.
Sure you can take part in a staged classroo... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
World's most high-profile climate change skeptic does U turn on global warming - mhb
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/30/bjorn-lomborg-climate-change-u-turn
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zeteo
Well, first of all the "world's most high-profile climate change" label is
extremely dubious. Unlike the opposing view, skepticism do... | {
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} |
The Invention of the AeroPress (2014) - hunterloftis
https://priceonomics.com/the-invention-of-the-aeropress/
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Steltek
I'm the only coffee drinker in the house and I love my AeroPress:
* It's fast
* It's foolproof
* It makes good quality coffee
* It's camping friendly
All of the tedium and unforced errors o... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Two hackers kicked out of Hack the North for making jokes on Facebook - 13thLetter
http://news.mlh.io/when-jokes-go-too-far-09-19-2015
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angersock
Knee-jerk reactions and zero-tolerance policies and no-fun-zones really are
truly in the finest tradition of the hacker spirit!
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blahblah12
This is ridiculous
... | {
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SwiftOnSecurity: A story about Jessica - binarymax
http://swiftonsecurity.tumblr.com/post/98675308034/a-story-about-jessica
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NateDad
I'm sorry this hadn't generated any conversation here. This is a good story
about the problems the rest of the non-technical world faces. The people at my
kids' school can't even i... | {
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} |
How to Parse Ruby - steveklabnik
http://programmingisterrible.com/post/42432568185/how-to-parse-ruby
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jayferd
Even lexing ruby for highlighting is really hard. I had to use so many
lookahead hacks to get the lexer in rouge working:
[https://github.com/jayferd/rouge/blob/master/lib/rouge/lexer...](https://github.... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
What’s Inside a Black Hole? - prostoalex
http://nautil.us/issue/35/boundaries/where-nature-hides-the-darkest-mystery-of-all
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kinai
There is a misconception: Light cannot escape a black hole for gravitational
reason (not to mention that gravity does not exist, it is a not a force, read
up General Relativity). The... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Why are there no search results for Mocality on HN? - mohsen
http://i.imgur.com/NnmdZ.png
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eof
My guess would be that there is an indexer on a cron job that hasn't fired.
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I'm a junior developer thinking about getting my masters in Computer Science - captainjeff
I'm a junior developer that went to a tech bootcamp and have been working as a frontend developer for a year and a half. I didn't study computer science in undergrad and now I'm thinking about getting my masters... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Google wants to get rid of URLs but doesn’t know what to use instead - pestkranker
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/09/google-wants-to-get-rid-of-urls-but-doesnt-know-what-to-use-instead/
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josefresco
We build websites for small business, many biz owners:
\- Do not know what or where the "address bar" is.
\... | {
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} |
Debugging Leaks with rr - robin_reala
http://robert.ocallahan.org/2015/11/debugging-leaks-with-rr.html
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versteegen
For those that don't know, rr is a fantastically powerful tool that everyone
should learn about. It's a record-and-replay debugger (actually a backend for
gdb) with low overhead so it's actually pra... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
1Gbps Symmetrical Home Broadband for $26 per mth (in Hong Kong) - albahk
http://www.hkbn.net/2010/eng/en_service1_1a5.html
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quant18
I'm rooting for HKBN (the guys making this broadband offer); even if you're
nowhere near Hong Kong, I hope it warms your heart too to see an entrepreneur
taking on slow-moving, in... | {
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} |
How the BBC News website has changed over the past 20 years - dberhane
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41890165
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andy_ppp
How wonderful to see the BBC General Election site from 2010. Me and one other
guy built the whole output because the World Cup was on and all the main staff
were working on that. The other engi... | {
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} |
Half Life of a Tech Worker: 15 Years - Slashdot - holychiz
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/03/1435217/half-life-of-a-tech-worker-15-years?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29
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spolsky
The fact that Google's employees are young does not say anything or... | {
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} |
Mmmule - anything from anywhere to anywhere - septerr
http://mmmule.com/wants/new
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septerr
Mmmule on TechCrunch - [http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/20/deliver-the-love-
with-mmmul...](http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/20/deliver-the-love-with-mmmule-
let-strangers-carry-things-to-other-places-for-you/)
This article ... | {
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} |
A Woman Who Recorded 70k Tapes of American News - respinal
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/11/14/recorder-the-marion-stokes-project
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marttt
I imagine this would be a treasure trove for an artist like Kenneth Goldsmith
[0]. He has a moving book consisting of verbatim transcriptions of broadcast
shows that we... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Apple’s enterprise strategy the same as it ever was - thehigherlife
http://www.macworld.com/article/136762/2008/11/apple_enterprise.html
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viae
The biggest problem I've encountered with Apple in a business setting is Open
Directory. You give it the evil eye and it gets corrupted; requiring
restoration from back... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Builders of Obama's health website saw red flags - daegloe
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/10/22/v-fullstory/3703850/builders-of-obamas-health-website.html
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whalesalad
If this guy is such a rockstar at cleaning up the mess other people leave
behind, why is he not leading these projects from the beginning? Or, ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The argument against "downvote". A slight violation of the First Amendment - rokhayakebe
There has been several discussions lately about the quality of stories/comments on HN and several users are growing angry at certain stories ranking high on the front page.<p>Several users including PG have proposed to add "downvo... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Credit Suisse has deployed 20 robots within bank - jacinda
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-milken-conference-creditsuisse-idUSKBN17X2JC
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jacinda
"Chin said although technology has allowed Credit Suisse to cut back and
middle office staff, headcount has remained flat because the bank has hired a
large number of... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Twitter needs to be supported during turbulence - neillburns
https://medium.com/@journiehq/twitter-needs-to-be-supported-during-turbulence-bef2dc44dc19#.o3nkdwlmn
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roddux
I find the concept of an 'important tweet' very amusing. Social networks serve
as distraction and personal advertising, how can it be importan... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Men and women explore the visual world differently - Libertatea
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2012/8981.html
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adrianhoward
Anybody got access to the original paper?
I'd be interested for how they controlled for this (e.g. they talked about
threat assessment in the OP - is that down to biological gender differen... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
/dev/null as a Service - Best SaaS company ever - dotcoma
http://devnull-as-a-service.com/home/
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jaachan
"Upcoming: /dev/random as a Service"
Not sure that's supposed to be a joke? It exists:
[http://www.random.org/](http://www.random.org/)
| {
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Ask HN: Best practices in integrating with external data sources - blrgeek
We're building a product for the education market, for which we have a few initial customers.<p>Our tool needs to have student, faculty, staff & course data. All this data is already built into the student records system at each school. M... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Slow Science - lazydon
http://slow-science.org/
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dekhn
Seems unlikely. You're just going to get out-competed by more aggressive
profs.
| {
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The Fourth Quadrant: a Map of the Limits of Statistics (by Nassim Nicholas Taleb) - namin
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/taleb08/taleb08_index.html
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blakeweb
Reading this essay through completely has done more for my understanding of
the current crisis than other single thing I've read, I'm pretty sure.
You ... | {
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} |
A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal” - MalcontentLout
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610456/a-startup-is-pitching-a-mind-uploading-service-that-is-100-percent-fatal/
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MalcontentLout
Too bad they didn't get Steven Hawking to sign on :)
| {
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NYC: Hackers & Founders NYC Meetup #9 + Demos - daveambrose
http://anyvite.com/1nd2g9q2i5
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daveambrose
We changed the location this time around as well as modified the structure of
presentation.
As always, we're looking for feedback as to the location (first time at Forum)
as the meetups are getting larger and ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Answers to your questions about Apple and security - mrexroad
http://www.apple.com/customer-letter/answers/
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panarky
This FAQ has more than 1000 words, but these are the words that matter:
The only way to guarantee that such a powerful tool isn’t abused
and doesn’t fall into the wrong hand... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
r/Piracy received a notice of multiple copyright infringements from Reddit Legal - doppp
https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/b28d9q/rpiracy_has_received_a_notice_of_multiple/eitku9s/
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parliament32
This kinda trouble is exactly why DMCA needs a process to punish false claims.
Asking if a certain streaming si... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Feedback on our MVP - Social Video Conferencing - heromaeda
Please review our minimum viable product - http://qcst.co/cbhVf3<p>Invitation code is 'hacker' (ONLY 500 invites available!)
<i>each invitee can invite upto 20 people<p></i>Please wear headphones, or enable push to talk!! We still haven't finished building ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Difference Between API Gateways and Service Mesh - fosk
https://konghq.com/blog/the-difference-between-api-gateways-and-service-mesh/
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kh_hk
The sidecar pattern has always looked too complex to me, back in the days of
using consul over docker swarm. I was just happy once I managed to get the
consul DNS serve... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
IPhone fart app pulls in nearly $10,000 a day - peter123
http://venturebeat.com/2008/12/23/iphone-fart-app-pulls-in-nearly-10000-a-day/
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DanielBMarkham
This is one of the things I love about being in the startup biz. On one side
there's change-the-world apps that dozens of developers labor over for years
at a ti... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Juncker “It is unacceptable that a country imposing unilateral measures” - candiodari
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-metals-juncker/eu-to-impose-measures-against-unacceptable-us-tariffs-juncker-idUSKCN1IW1YE
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yostrovs
In the article, Juncker is described as "the head of the bloc’s executive". In
re... | {
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} |
Classic mistakes in the software industry (1996) - alanfranz
https://stevemcconnell.com/articles/classic-mistakes/
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alanfranz
I was astonished by how much they're still relevant nowadays. And many of
them, while the article is from the 90s, were identified in the 80s!
| {
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} |
Show HN: Low code Jupyter Notebook alternative with dashboards - pplonski86
https://github.com/mljar/mljar-studio
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pplonski86
In 2016 I've created web service for building Machine Learning models in the
cloud. However, I wasn't happy with it because it only allows building ML
models on already prepared data. So ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
RedHat's Docker Build Method - zwischenzug
http://zwischenzugs.tk/index.php/2015/07/04/redhats-docker-build-method-s2i/
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zwischenzug
More links:
[https://github.com/openshift/source-to-
image/blob/master/REA...](https://github.com/openshift/source-to-
image/blob/master/README.md)
[https://blog.openshift.com/... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
What Sucks About Erlang - stanleydrew
http://damienkatz.net/2008/03/what_sucks_abou.html
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AndrewO
It's probably worth mentioning that this is over 2 years old.
~~~
angelbob
Has anything changed? I didn't think Erlang had changed much recently.
~~~
AndrewO
I think most of these are probably still valid (haven... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Why iPhone App Screenshots Matter and How to Make Good Ones - makeshifthoop
http://blog.appstorerankings.net/blog/2013/05/05/why-iphone-app-screenshots-matter-and-how-to-make-good-ones/
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drharris
I'm sick of screenshots like this: [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/war-of-
the-fallen/id59401994...](https://itune... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Explaining copyright broke the YouTube copyright system - pulisse
https://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/engelberg/news/2020-03-04-youtube-takedown
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xster
Adam Neely (YouTube music educator) had an absolutely farcical run-in with
this situation
([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM6X2MEl7R8](https://www.youtube.com/watc... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN A simple script to use pug with any Python framework - multiversecoder
https://github.com/multiversecoder/pug4py
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multiversecoder
My first experience with python and web development. This is the script I made
today to use pug.js with any python framework.
Tell me what you think and how to improve it, I ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Creating an account vs. collecting emails as means of validation - richzimmerman
Hi all,<p>How much better would it look to investors if I can get users to create an account through my landing page? I'm going to be dealing with high profile people (social media influencers), so i feel that getting them to put a p... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Too Good to Go for the United States? - siedes
Too Good To Go[0] is an app/service which connects its users to shops and restaurants in Europe who are happy to sell any unsold food they have at a heavily discounted price rather than it going to waste.<p>Currently, I am not aware of any such app/servi... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Microsoft aren't forcing Lenovo to block free operating systems - robin_reala
http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/44694.html
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Hydraulix989
Their spin that it is "our super advanced Intel RAID chipset" really plays in
their favor, given that their BIOS uses a single goto statement to
intentionally block access to the abi... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Nail Polish Bot - colinprince
http://procedural-generation.tumblr.com/post/162985593328/nail-polish-bot-one-thing-that-immediately-sets
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lawlessone
i really like @brutal_exe
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} |
No comment - jshakes
http://jshakespeare.com/no-comment
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john_b
Why not have the best of both worlds? If you really have something to say
that's important, lengthy, and worthy of the reflection of your readers, put
it in an "essays" section of your site where comments are disabled and link to
it in a blog post... | {
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Show HN: Curated list of resources that provide creative commons media - shime
https://github.com/shime/creative-commons-media
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walterbell
How about archive.org?
Google image search has an option for usage rights.
~~~
shime
I didn't add archive.org because it's not a collection of only CC licensed
stuff.
Go... | {
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} |
Groupon Fires Sales Rep Who Threatened Bad Reviews for Business Owner - antr
http://allthingsd.com/20130819/groupon-fires-sales-rep-who-threatened-negative-yelp-reviews-for-restaurant-owner/?mod=tweet
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ececconi
He's also deleted his linkedin, twitter, and instagram. This guy had no
ability for recourse after thi... | {
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} |
Will the recorded music industry ever grow again? - onuryavuz
http://recode.net/2014/03/18/the-price-of-music/
======
gregcohn
TL;DR: \- Streaming music service pricing models net out significantly higher
that consumers have been traditionally willing to pay for music \- Music label
dynamics will make it difficult f... | {
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} |
Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Aren't Fully Disabled When Off in iOS 11 Control Center - tambourine_man
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208086
======
lathiat
This is actually fantastic, I am really happy about this.
Two main reasons (1) If you disable Wi-Fi its re-enabled when you goto a new
location. Very often I disable wif... | {
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} |
Unfortunately, we'll reject most software developer job applications. - andrewstuart
http://www.supercoders.com.au/blog/wewanttogetyouajob.shtml
======
dkarl
When you see all five questions together, it's obvious they're about Java
(edit: or maybe C#, since the terminology is the same.) Taking them one by one
in an in... | {
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} |
Play the latest top-rated games on any PC - known
https://playkey.net/en/intro_know/
======
gaspoweredcat
seems a shade pricey by comparison to other services most other similar
services ive seen are around $30 for the top package this is significantly
more expensive (the lowest package is more expensive than either p... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Crossword panic of 1944 - mlex
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Day#Crossword_panic_of_1944
======
t0
Here's another bit of crossword coincidence.
[http://mindhacks.com/2007/01/16/waking-life-crossword-
experi...](http://mindhacks.com/2007/01/16/waking-life-crossword-experiment/)
And
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hun... | {
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} |
Fedora considers moving all binaries to /usr/bin/ - sciurus
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Fedora-considers-moving-all-binaries-to-usr-bin-1369642.html
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spitfire
Why not move them all to /bin instead?
/usr is a relic of the times when unix systems were big hulking monsters the
side of fridges. and har... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What has more tools for simpler scraping, Python or JavaScript? - chirau
A colleague asked me to recommend a language to pick up for scraping. I use Python and I am fine with it. But I know a lot of people use JavaScript as well. I never bothered. Just curious to know from those who have tried both what they e... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How Gusto Built Scalable Hiring Practices Rooted in Tradition - sisypheanblithe
http://firstround.com/review/how-gusto-built-scalable-hiring-practices-rooted-in-tradition/
======
dpcheng2003
My 2c as a former Gusto employee:
The watermelon interview was no joke and not a rubber stamp. I wasn't on the
watermelon crew ... | {
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} |
'Volcano' on gulf sea floor: Containing the longest known offshore oil spill - mitchelldeacon9
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/couvillion-gulf-oil-spill-containment/
======
tomohawk
That Taylor company is basically just one employee - the wife of the founder
(since passed). She's very politically... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Making a Ponyo boat - jgrahamc
http://blog.jgc.org/2011/06/making-ponyo-or-putt-putt-boat.html
======
cyanbane
We watch Ponyo at least twice a week in my house (4 year old loves it) and I
have always wondered about the boat. The first thing I wondered if a.) it was
real and worked - based on jgc's post seems that it d... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The road from atheism - danielam
http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2012/07/road-from-atheism.html
======
vezzy-fnord
The author never makes the case for any particular conception of a deity. In
fact, his indirect diatribe could just as easily be taken as an argument in
favor of theological noncognitivism. He rejects "th... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
FTC Should Fine Itself for False Advertising for Promising You $125 from Equifax - JumpCrisscross
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evjg84/the-ftc-should-fine-itself-for-false-advertising-for-promising-you-dollar125-from-equifax
======
olliej
I have a problem with the article calling the settlement “free money”. The
... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Success in startups takes time. It's a long, long road. - jaf12duke
http://www.humbledmba.com/go-big-or-go-home
======
not_chriscohoat
Awesome, this is extremely relevant. I've been working with my other co-
founder since mid-2009. I've since graduated, lived in China for 4 months,
turned down multiple Master's prog... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Africa's "Crisis": Africa in better shape than most experts think - cwan
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/07/31/think_again_africas_crisis?page=0,0
======
dawie
I think some of the stats are skewed.
"Breast-feeding, hand-washing, sugar-salt solutions, vaccines, antibiotics,
and bed nets together save mill... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Professors Regard Online Instruction as Less Effective Than Classroom Learning - ilamont
http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=YtzQy6hv9pvrCkjqQsn6rsxB8pKftcqh
======
thredup
Imagine that? Who loses when online instruction wins? Professors. This has
been a problem for innovation in education for decades. Establish... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Disklike of modern trends == Becoming a relic? - ThrowAwayOG
I have been in IT and software roles for 3 decades, yet nowhere near retirement. I still get a lot of stuff done (solo and teams), but only feel productive when pragmatic approaches are taken. I often find a carefully written but quick prototype is v... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Annoyed by about:blank when a page doesn't load? Vote for the Chrome bug report. - Zak
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=58686
======
Zak
It actually looks like this is the main bug report on the issue:
<http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=9682>
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
GitLab 4.0 Released - andrewmunsell
http://blog.gitlabhq.com/gitlab-4-release/
======
BUGHUNTER
From the website:
What we removed in 4.0:
SQLite support (I like it but this database got locked
when several users use gitlab at once)
This is a pitty! I am sure there are many small tea... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How Many Data Centers Needed World-Wide (2017) - rfreytag
https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2017/04/how-many-data-centers-needed-world-wide/
======
el_caro
...don’t believe that Oracle
has, or will ever get,
servers 2x faster than the
big three cloud providers.
...also would argu... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Google+ for Google Apps users - it's a matter of days - patrickaljord
https://plus.google.com/100535338638690515335/posts/6QRgDAToF58
======
xinsight
Seems like people with their own domains who use google apps should have been
be the ideal lead users to _seed_ google+. A missed opportunity.
~~~
Kylekramer
Passiona... | {
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} |
UK Cops Can Now Remotely Disable Phones Even If No Crime Has Been Committed - phr4ts
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/uk-cops-can-now-remotely-disable-phones-even-if-no-crime-has-been-committed
======
permatech
This along with the whole TV licence fee both seem so odd.
------
I_am_neo
pre-crime detention ta... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: API REST skeleton JavaScript async/await. MVP for your front-end app - davellanedam
https://github.com/davellanedam/node-express-mongodb-jwt-rest-api-skeleton/blob/master/README.md/#
======
davellanedam
API REST skeleton using JavaScript async/await, Node.js, express.js, MongoDB,
JWT and more. Great for build... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
DuckDuckGo shares a list of thousands of web trackers that gather your data - ihsoj
https://www.engadget.com/2020/03/05/duckduckgo-tracker-radar-web-tracking/
======
klingonopera
Ah the irony of clicking on such articles and then having to consent to
cookies and trackers. (I clear my cache everytime I start my browser... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Why Twitter’s Co-Founders Are Betting Big On A Vegan Meat Startup - jkaljundi
http://www.fastcoexist.com/1680007/biz-stone-explains-why-twitters-co-founders-are-betting-big-on-a-vegan-meat-startup#1
======
mcfunley
Multiple people are asking why vegetarians would even want this, so let me
list a few reasons:
* There ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Is Google Going Underground with Hypersonic Tech? - charlysl
https://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/renewables/is-google-going-underground-with-hypersonic-tech
======
awakeasleep
"The system will be 5 times cheaper than current drilling methods"
When did it become acceptable to write nonsense like that? How can ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The first Go program (2013) - Gurrewe
https://blog.golang.org/first-go-program
======
jhbadger
I find it amusing that this first program in Go is for parsing an Lisp-style
S-Expression, given that this has nothing to do with Go's syntax.
~~~
thwarted
_Most_ programs do something other than parse the syntax of the lan... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Scala 2.12.0 released - pedrorijo91
https://github.com/scala/scala/releases/tag/v2.12.0
======
simono
Not officially announced/released yet, but here are (better) release notes:
[http://get-scala.org/2.12](http://get-scala.org/2.12)
------
dluc
Looks like the announcement is still under work, e.g. you can visit 2.12.... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Coders at work Q's - bootload
http://www.codersatwork.com/questions.html
======
bootload
Also a page for suggesting your "coder(s)" of choice ~
<http://www.codersatwork.com/shuffle.fhtml> and read about it here ~
[http://www.gigamonkeys.com/blog/2007/07/17/coders-at-work-
so...](http://www.gigamonkeys.com/blog/2007/07... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
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