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Robot Could Make Pesticides Obsolete - rmason
https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/nation-world/this-robot-could-make-pesticides-obsolete/67-b27bace9-e178-461a-9231-3063797f4176
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rmason
The headline is a bit confusing. What the robot would do is make fungicides
obsolete but that in itself is really a pretty amazing... | {
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Ask HN: Advice for Freelancing - techie20
Hey there HN, I'm new to posting but longtime reader. I've constantly found awesome advice from quality people here. I have decided to start doing some more freelance web design outside of my family/friends, but I am lost as to how to start. Can you all give me a bit o... | {
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Learn PHP – Free interactive PHP tutorial - ronreiter
http://learn-php.org
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antirez
PHP is probably the language with the best return on investment (of time spent
learning) currently. It is extremely easy, and is fast to prototype stuff
because of the high level nature. While the language is not as expressive as... | {
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Apple might put a GPU right inside the Thunderbolt Display - Osiris
http://www.macworld.com/article/3078347/hardware/apple-might-put-a-gpu-right-inside-the-thunderbolt-display.html
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asd
Rene Ritchie of iMore "asked around" and found that this will not happen at
the keynote or anytime in the near future.
[http:/... | {
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Announcing flyio, an R package to interact with data in the cloud - akashtndn
https://blog.socialcops.com/inside-sc/announcements/flyio-r-package-interact-data-cloud/
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carljv
The R ecosystem around cloud services and their APIs still seems immature, so
it’s great to see folks working on packages in the space.
I... | {
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U.S. Readies $11B in Tariffs on E.U - sky_nox
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/09/us/politics/boeing-airbus-tariffs.html
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Thorncorona
The irony of Boeing complaining about favorable treatment by the government is
palpable.
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olliej
Other countries are going to start ignoring FAA safety rulings now, so meaning
... | {
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Yet another call for a startup update site: how about a collaborative blog on blogger? - amichail
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amichail
Anyone interested in having a collaborative blog on blogger where you get to
announce updates to your startup?
We could have a rule like at most one update per week.
Basically any founder would be allo... | {
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Show HN: Discover Awesome New Repositories on Github - jakek
http://insightdatascience.com/blog/inspector_git_discover_awesome_new_repositories_on_github.html
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juxtaposicion
This is particularly great for recommending new software for rich ecosystems
like Hadoop. This highlighted the usual suspects: Hive, Pig,... | {
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Azure training time is up 800% over AWS - forrestbrazeal
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/survey-cloud-engineers-report-that-earning-certifications-pays-off-with-higher-salaries/
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just-juan-post
This story is an advertisement.
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Blake Ross on the Facebook acquisition - aston
http://www.blakeross.com/2007/07/19/facebook/
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budu3
It looks like Paul Buchheit is becomming quite an Angel Investor of note.
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schoudha
Ycombinator invested in Parakey? Was that public knowledge?
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aston
Maybe more suprising is that they took on so much... | {
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How to Get a Strong, Unique, and Memorable Password for Each Website - the_dave_santos
https://dave-santos.github.io/posts/secure-unique-password/
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pwg
This is not at all a secure scheme. I would not be surprised to find a set of
JohnTheRipper patterns already available to test these possibilities against a
pass... | {
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We’re Barely Listening to the US's Most Dangerous Volcanoes - hodgesrm
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/science/volcanoes-cascades-monitoring.html
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mashevloff
I think the scientists are monitoring volcano activity. For the public there
is little we can do except watch and take action if we are told to evacuate... | {
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ShopLocket Promises Customers They Can Sell Anything, Anywhere - rafikech
http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/25/shoplocket-promises-customers-they-can-sell-anything-anywhere/
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_sentient
I remember reading somewhere that the founder of this company initially
pitched YC and was rejected. It's great to see her giving ... | {
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SCO files appeal brief against Novell in the case that refuses to die - grellas
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100910024711876
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Tyrannosaurs
The case has died. SCO just haven't accepted it yet.
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michael_dorfman
Grellas: any guess as to when this mess will finally end?
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some1else
When wil... | {
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Why there’s a Media Temple logo on my site. - dyc
http://mixergy.com/why-media-temple-logo/
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bradleyland
Our experience with MT was absolutely terrible. We suffered from days-on-end
outages. Literally 5-7 day outages due to issues with storage clusters. I
understand that everyone makes mistakes, but I've had t... | {
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Yoda conditions - tosh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoda_conditions
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jedisct1
All linters and C compilers emit a warning when an assignment is made in a
condition.
There are zero reasons to use that ugly and unnatural Yoda notation in 2019.
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beatgammit
I think this is reasonable readable:
... | {
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How I recovered a lost email from my email client’s memory - weinzierl
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/restore-lost-email-from-ram.html
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cranekam
> Evolution [..] has a bad data loss bug. It sometimes deletes the email body
> text in the compose window after changing the signature [..] it has bitten
> me about twice... | {
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DHH: The State of the Mac (2005) - BadassFractal
http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/arc/000433.html
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BadassFractal
I'm really curious what the HN community thinks about this somewhat
controversial position. I hope I'm not extrapolating too much, but what I get
out of it:
\- Windows: use if only if you're cons... | {
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Apple Releases OS X 10.7.3 - rickmak
http://www.mactrast.com/2012/02/apple-releases-os-x-10-7-3/
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nodata
730 gigabytes? Why isn't there a binary diff?
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Stern warning from Microsoft against using Chrome 78 Beta - heshiebee
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/d6q76g/stern_warning_from_microsoft_against_using_chrome/
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murkle
Microsoft have known since (at least) July
[https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/blink-d...](https://groups.google.com... | {
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Show HN: The Schwalbe Programming Language, a German Dialect of Swift - kiliankoe
https://github.com/kiliankoe/schwalbe
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kiliankoe
This originated as a joke in the
[SwiftDE]([http://slack.swiftde.net](http://slack.swiftde.net)) Slack. The
actual idea was to fork the Swift compiler and replace the keywords with
G... | {
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Frame.io - ca98am79
http://frame.io/
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coreymgilmore
Suggestion: a more descriptive title.
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API Integration Pain? Ouch. (HN Survey Results) - AntiFreeze
http://blog.yourtrove.com/2011/08/11/api-integration-pain-survey-results/
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pyre
I had issues with the Posterous API (though I shelved that work a while back):
* The basic authorization didn't follow spec. Some frameworks handled this well (Perl's LW... | {
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Why Are Code Generation Tools Relevant? - lguerin
https://dzone.com/articles/telosys-a-code-generation-tool-by-laurent-guerin
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jackpat99
Yes, code generation tools are very relevant and useful. Obviously they can't
generate everything but they can help a lot. With tools like Telosys or
JHipster you can save many... | {
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2018 Global Annual Mean CO2 Growth Rate Near Record High - blondie9x
https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/gr.html
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blondie9x
I share this with the HN tech community to raise alertness that not enough
progress and change is being made to slow down greenhouse gas growth. The
unfortunate reality is we are batt... | {
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The Zed Shaw Phenomenon: A Look at Bullies in Tech - nkurz
http://blog.davewilkinsonii.com/posts/the-zed-shaw-phenomenon
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ps4fanboy
Is there a time in the future where we stop talking about software and spend
all our time talking about feelings? These two guys (Linus/Zed) are mostly
devoting their time to deve... | {
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Let's review Docker - sleepycal
http://iops.io/blog/docker-hype/
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bcantrill
While there are some important criticisms in here, there are some
misunderstandings of OS-based virtualization with respect to HW-based
virtualization in terms of both history and implementation. Certainly, anyone
who thinks that "we h... | {
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Is it moral to respect the wishes of the dead, above the living? - barrkel
https://aeon.co/ideas/is-it-moral-to-respect-the-wishes-of-the-dead-above-the-living
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vectorEQ
morality is subjective, so chose for yourself? ;)
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Even a genius has to sell himself… the remarkable resume of Leonardo da Vinci - mcenedella
https://medium.com/life-learning/even-a-genius-has-to-sell-himself-the-remarkable-resume-of-leonardo-da-vinci-453fb6d53efd#.bc348grro
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dalke
This is one of those HN perennials. Of the 11 previous times it's come up over
th... | {
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A good programmer can be as 10X times more productive than a mediocre one - sridca
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/179616/a-good-programmer-can-be-as-10x-times-more-productive-than-a-mediocre-one
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jtlienwis
But when the company runs into financial trouble, it will fire the 10X
programmer ... | {
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Oracle to start requiring subscription for Java - bitcharmer
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3284164/java/oracle-now-requires-a-subscription-to-use-java-se.html
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stopdiss
Clickbait title. Oracle charges money for commercial support. In other news
water is wet.
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sonnyblarney
Anyone care to explain the re... | {
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Show HN: Daily Curated Color Inspiration - ahmetsulek
http://color.farm
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ahmetsulek
[https://color.farm/api/palettes/last50](https://color.farm/api/palettes/last50)
soon there will be 50, but note down the URL
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tristanac
the 10th bookmarked palette, and not the worst.
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HugoDaniel
very simple and v... | {
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Subversion moving to the Apache Software Foundation - MaysonL
http://blog.red-bean.com/sussman/?p=272
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icefox
Reading so many Project X moves to Git blogs in the past year I read
"Subversion moving" and mentally though Git and then pondered why Subversion
would not use Subversion :)
Anyway congrats on this matu... | {
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Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2014) - whoishiring
Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.
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jparishy
SEEKING WORK, Office in Central NJ, Remote Projects Only
I am seeking new iOS projects for development within the n... | {
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(NYC) – Any tips for meeting people in the tech space in NYC? - yesimapro
Hello HN, long time reader. I am a recent college graduate who transplanted to NYC to work in the research side of finance. Do any natives have any tips or links to find finance/tech meetups (besides sites like meetup.com... I find that the... | {
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How to Interact with the Introverted - geekfactor
http://themetapicture.com/how-to-interact-with-the-introverted/
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davidsmith8900
\- At the end of the day, introverted people are like everyone else.
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Intelligent soldiers most likely to die in battle (WW2 case study) - Tichy
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16297
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gaika
Statistics :( Just add another variable - officer or soldier - and the
conclusion can be reversed. Clearly no causation here: higher percentage of
officers died, and officers were smart... | {
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The Emerging Revolution in Game Theory - ca98am79
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/428920/the-emerging-revolution-in-game-theory/?ref=rss
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yo-mf
This has already been posted <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4394973>
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Denial About Workflow Among Camera Companies - jseliger
http://www.dslrbodies.com/newsviews/so-much-denial-about-workfl.html
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ak217
Personally, I think the biggest issue is that the DSLR makers just haven't
taken integration seriously at all. My Canon 70D - with all its incredible
ergonomics and amazing optics a... | {
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Ideas are fragile - natarius
http://natari.us/post/26962853054/ideas-are-fragile
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conroe64
I see what the author is saying, but this seems more like how to protect a
fragile ego rather than a fragile idea.
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cgag
Sivers did a ted lighting talk about this:
[http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_keep_your_... | {
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Tempting Software Startup Categories - epi0Bauqu
http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/11978/The-10-Most-Tempting-Software-Startup-Categories.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+onstartups+%28OnStartups%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
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lunaru
Guilty. Invoicing and time tracking fall und... | {
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} |
Kindle Fire UX Decisions Lead To Free Downloads - taylorbuley
http://gesturetheory.com/blog/2011/11/kindle-fire-how-to-download-any-book-for-free/
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MrEnigma
I noticed the same thing about the kindle not deleting books when I was using
Kindle Library Lending. I had 30% of the book left, and my loan was up, but I
... | {
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} |
Dark mode using CSS blend-mode technique - rexpan
https://www.chenhuijing.com/blog/friends-dont-let-friends-implement-dark-mode-alone
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saivan
This is probably a bad idea :P Blend modes are VERY expensive operations,
running a blend mode over your whole site may set a few of your users
computers on fire. I'm exag... | {
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Entrepreneurshit. The Blog Post on What It’s Really Like. - BerislavLopac
http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2012/11/18/entrepreneurshit-the-blog-post-on-what-its-really-like/
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benologist
AKA the blog post currently on the front page:
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4800776>
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BerislavLopac
Ah! And I wa... | {
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Charting the Scale of the Digital Cloud - gigama
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/massive-scale-of-cloud/
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gigama
"And these services are much needed, as our use of data and the internet
continues to scale up. By 2025, an average internet user will have around
4,909 data interactions per day, an increase from 1,... | {
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} |
HTTP Requests and Other Awesome Cloud Code Enhancements - adelevie
http://blog.parse.com/2012/10/23/http-requests-and-other-awesome-cloud-code-enhancements/
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adelevie
This is one of many features requested that Parse has promptly delivered. I
(among others), expressed interest in this feature just a matter of ... | {
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} |
88 'high-risk' security defects found in Android kernel - Garbage
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/88-high-risk-security-defects-found-in-android-kernel/7629
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randombit
Bad headline: the 'high-risk' defects include resource leaks and other
problems that could cause crashes or data loss but are not necessaril... | {
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} |
Minecraft to run artificial intelligence experiments - sjcsjc
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35778288
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kriro
The fact that they want to use it as a teaching platform of sorts has very
exciting implications. Minecraft is really huge with kids and that's an
excellent way of getting more young people interest... | {
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} |
H.P. paying Mr. Apotheker more than $13 million in termination benefits - pullo
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/01/business/lets-stop-rewarding-failed-ceos-common-sense.html
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zoowar
Includes a $2.4 million performance bonus. That's my kind of failure. I hope
the new Troll has a more reasonable severance package... | {
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World's Tallest Tsunami – Lituya Bay, Alaska, 1958 - vinnyglennon
http://geology.com/records/biggest-tsunami.shtml
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sandworm
This was discussed in my geology course at UBC. The prof was adamant that this
was not a "true" tsunami, that it was a product of specific geology/geometry
rather than a true sea-born wa... | {
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Artificial arm of British pilot comes off during Flybe plane landing - lsh123
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-08-14/british-pilot-artificial-arm-comes-off-during-landing-flybe/5671748
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lsh123
Even with one arm this guy is still better than the 3 two-handed guys in the
cockpit of Asiana....
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Early Digital Research CP/M Source Code - chl
http://www.computerhistory.org/_static/atchm/early-digital-research-cpm-source-code/
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Zardoz84
And they forgot to put the posterior evolution of CP/M , with the multiuser
versions, and later in a compatible "clone of MS-DOS", called DR-DOS.
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pervycreeper
One... | {
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Amazon Echo Look – Hands-Free Camera and Style Assistant - jeremyrwelch
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0186JAEWK
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mintplant
_By sitting in the alcove, and keeping well back, Winston was able to remain
outside the range of the Amazon® Echo Look™, so far as sight went. He could be
heard, of course, but so long as he s... | {
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Drag and Drop CAPTCHA - Original Paper - Need help for Open Sourcing the Code - desaiguddu
http://dndcaptcha.blogspot.com/2010/04/textareaid.html
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desaiguddu
Need help to Open Source my Drag and Drop CAPTCHA project. I have all the
source code , need support of Hosting server, earlier I hosted with eatj.com
| {
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Intel x86 considered harmful [pdf] - relyio
https://blog.invisiblethings.org/papers/2015/x86_harmful.pdf
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wglb
Setting aside the overused title, we should keep in mind that with the
frightful complexity of today's leading architectures it is going to be a
challenge to ensure secure operation, or as noted with th... | {
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Apache considered harmful - timf
http://www.mikealrogers.com/posts/apache-considered-harmful.html
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jaaron
Ok, there's a lot to cover here.
First off, the Apache Software Foundation isn't trying to absorb anyone or
anything. Projects and people come to the ASF. It's a specific policy of the
Foundation to NOT sol... | {
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} |
Game AI as a Service? - icanberk
https://www.yurigameai.com/
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formalsystem
Hey everyone! I'm behind this project and I'll be hanging around to answer any
questions about how Yuri works or how you can use it to solve your game AI
problems.
The backend tech is heavily inspired by recent advances in reinforcement
... | {
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} |
US government halts study on health effects of coal mining - gwerbret
https://www.nature.com/news/closure-of-us-coal-study-marks-an-alarming-precedent-1.22512
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nroach
The study's budget was only $1m. Seems like the readership of HN could easily
pull that money together and donate the funding, if the researchers ... | {
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Development of 64-bit C/C++ applications (28 lessons) - ProgC
http://www.viva64.com/en/l/
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ProgC
The course is devoted to creation of 64-bit applications in C/C++ language and
is intended for the Windows developers who use Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010
environment. Developers working with other 64-bit operating... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Data science on a chromebook - simplystats2
https://simplystatistics.org/2017/08/29/data-science-on-a-chromebook/
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JoshMnem
Instead of showing people what can be done with a restricted computer, why not
encourage them to use non-restricted computers instead? Data science on a
Chromebook that has Linux installed ... | {
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One day, all news will look like this - bensummers
http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/2010/06/07/one-day-all-news-will-look-like-this/
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ErrantX
I can't figure out if this article is in support of it happening or not...
He's probably right this will start to creep in. I completely hate it. None of
the videos are at all a... | {
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} |
Show HN: Notejoy – Effortless real-time document collaboration for teams - sachin
https://notejoy.com
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sachin
Hey HN! Just opened up my new app to more users. Trying to build a powerful
productivity app that's also great at team collaboration as I've always felt
in the past tools have been mainly one or the othe... | {
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A weak lensing detection of a deviation from General Relativity - Anon84
http://motls.blogspot.com/2009/10/rachel-bean-gr-is-probably-98-wrong.html
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jacquesm
Please read the article, that title does not reflect at all what the rest of
the article says.
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varjag
Problem is, it must be 200th pop science wr... | {
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Apple's future iPhones may offer 3D recording of places, objects - fuzzythinker
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/07/29/apple_investigates_3d_recording_of_real_world_places_objects.html
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fuzzythinker
This will make 3D modeling like
<http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/stories/2009/3D_models/> much easier.
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Ask HN: Who are the Feynmans, Sagans and Attenboroughs of our time? - psychstudio
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hhs
I’ll nominate Professor Brian Greene as another. He puts space, time, and
systems thinking into perspective.
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buboard
Matt o'Dowd of PBS Spacetime on youtube.
Seriously, the time of Physics and the Standard Model is pas... | {
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} |
Why is there such an emphasis on having a coding founder? - thesauce25
Why is there such an emphasis on having a coding founder, especially when applying to incubators? The two most common restrictions I've seen when applying to incubators are:<p>Chances are low if you're applying as a single founder.<p>Chances are ... | {
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Institue of brilliant failures - sdave
http://www.briljantemislukkingen.nl/EN/
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sdave
Would be inspirational to read about 'failures' of HN members here who ve'
been there n done that...
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My hobby: answer beginner SO question after a night out - starmole
So, sometimes when I get home too early but still keep drinking I like to answer random stuff on SO. And every now and then, there is a random question that is so wrong and clearly by somebody just starting to learn programming, that it becomes a cha... | {
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Ruby Refinements landed in trunk - spastorino
http://blog.wyeworks.com/2012/8/3/ruby-refinements-landed-in-trunk
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mef
A much needed change. With Requirements, libraries that you include in your
projects can sandbox their monkeypatches to only affect their classes.
Likewise, if the purpose of a library is to m... | {
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Ask HN: Why are upvotes not applied? - f_salmon
How come upvotes are not taken into account? (Is it only me?)<p>Bug or feature?<p>If feature, why does this make sense? (No, I'm not a mass up/downvoter.)<p>If HN does not want me to vote, why display the up/down arrows? Why not simply hide them?
======
... | {
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The industry lobby battle against ePrivacy - msq
https://corporateeurope.org/power-lobbies/2017/10/big-data-watching-you
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Woki
They should joined their hands with EFF...
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These Robots Will Stop the Jellyfish Invasion - grej
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/jeros-jellyfish-elimination-robotic-swarm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+IeeeSpectrum+(IEEE+Spectrum)
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grej
Professor Myung and his group at KAIST set out to develop a ro... | {
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Handcalcs: Automatically render Latex equations from Python math code - amrrs
https://github.com/connorferster/handcalcs
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mcqueenjordan
This is very useful. My use case is that I often write python simulations of
designs and/or as cost analysis simulations, but I also often want to put
these conclusions into whi... | {
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What were you doing at 12:12:12 on 12/12/12? - rficcaglia
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B8J0-jsx-tIGMVMta2ZoVDB0em8
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rman666
Tweeting about Aaron Rodgers, #12 QB for the Green Bay Packers!
| {
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Luge Yourself - kawera
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/sports/olympics-learning-to-luge/?utm_term=.fba78a08427a
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patall
It always amazes me what kind of things you grow up with nearby can be a live
long dream for other people (Its probably the same for other people with
surfing). As kids, it was jus... | {
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} |
Facebook is sharing your phone number - jfruh
http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/192399/facebooks-phonebook-fiasco
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grannyg00se
You are responsible for sharing your phone number when you provide it to
Facebook. Facebook is doing what it feels like with it. As usual.
Are people really still surprised... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What fragrance do you use? - 0x54MUR41
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mattbgates
For deodorant, I've been loyal to Old Spice since I was 16.
The stuff I love for a cologne used to cost around $40 - $50 but then they
stopped producing it for years. All of a sudden, it is back on the market, and
the price went up.
It is called Joop! W... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A data modeling challenge: relational vs document oriented for modeling orders - mschireson
http://maxschireson.com/2011/05/10/a-data-modeling-challenge-to-the-relational-is-always-best-set/
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pradocchia
It's perfectly acceptable to store point-in-time values--whole strings!--in
your relation model, along side ... | {
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} |
GCE down in all regions - vox_mollis
https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/compute/16007
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gtaylor
I've been overall very impressed with the direction of Google Cloud over the
last year. I feel like their container strategy is much better than Amazon's
ECS in that the core is built on open source technology.
... | {
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} |
Fatal Flaws in Deolalikar’s P ≠ NP Proof? - bumbledraven
http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2010/08/12/fatal-flaws-in-deolalikars-proof/
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svag
Just for fun, check this video about Hitler and P vs NP problems...
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSIodz9GWxc>
------
guelo
oh well, it was fun while it lasted.
~~~
Rid... | {
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} |
The Mental Universe (2005) [pdf] - MichaelAO
http://henry.pha.jhu.edu/The.mental.Universe.pdf
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honzzz
The article seems interesting but I am afraid I do not understand quantum
physics well enough to understand it fully - could someone more knowledgeable
please try to explain it like I am five? How would quantu... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Why SourceForge Lost - joshuacc
http://usersinhell.com/why-sourceforge-lost/
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phuff
Having worked at sf.net for a few years as github was gaining ascendancy, I
would say that we thought about this a lot. And while a lot of the things that
he says are true, they're symptoms of why sf.net lost, not the real reason... | {
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} |
Photo-Chromeleon: Re-Programmable Multi-Color Textures Using Photochromic Dyes [pdf] - mhb
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/hcie/files/research-projects/photochromeleon/2019-uist-photochromeleon-paper.pdf
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mhb
Video: [https://youtu.be/fEdN1VciJx0](https://youtu.be/fEdN1VciJx0)
| {
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"Superatoms" Mimic Elements: Research Reveals New Perspective of Periodic Table - ujjwalg
http://www.science.psu.edu/news-and-events/2009-news/Castleman12-2009.htm
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daniel-cussen
_"It looks like we can predict which combinations of elemental atoms mimic
other elemental atoms," he said. "For example, by looking... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Simple and fast CSS page transitions in your hybrid mobile app - amirnathoo
http://trigger.io/cross-platform-application-development-blog/2012/09/05/simple-and-fast-css-page-transitions-in-your-hybrid-mobile-app/
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grimtrigger
For any blog post like this, the absolute first thing should be a demo.
"Simple" and ... | {
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} |
Pictures of People Scanning QR-codes - noinput
http://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com/
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anujkk
Funny. I guess you may find this useful -
[http://www.google.co.in/search?q=pictures+of+people+scanning...](http://www.google.co.in/search?q=pictures+of+people+scanning+qr+codes&hl=en&safe=off&prmd=imvns&tb... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Facebook - Culture of Coercion - andrewljohnson
http://www.gaiagps.com/news/article/Facebook%20-%20Culture%20of%20Coercion
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aristus
"devil’s bargain"
"it preys on our children"
"covert influence by their engineers on forums"
Seriously, Andrew? How about this: instead of spending a nice Sunday afternoon
with... | {
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} |
Mining Twitter follower network of 36 million users - aksbhat
http://www.akshaybhat.com/LPMR
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buza
I'm curious about how these classifications were done. I graduated from the
MIT Media Lab a few years back, and after looking through the result set
titled:
"A small community of users associated with MIT Media ... | {
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PHP and the Lean Startup - suhastech
http://blog.mayflower.de/archives/819-24.12.-PHP-and-the-Lean-Startup.html
======
AlexMuir
I've just moved from years of PHP to RoR. And there's a lot that I miss about
PHP. Deploying Rails Apps is still a motherfucking nightmare - I hanker for
the days of just git pulling and ch... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Russian ads, now publicly released, show sophistication of influence campaign - paulrigor
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/russian-ads-now-publicly-released-show-sophistication-of-influence-campaign/2017/11/01/d26aead2-bf1b-11e7-8444-a0d4f04b89eb_story.html
======
craftyguy
Wow, those ads are terribl... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Restaurant website that doesn't suck (in Chrome) - consultutah
http://www.dennys.com/
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consultutah
It is really miserable on the iphone, but in Chrome - it is very nice.
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Angular 2 Final Released - mikeryan52
https://angular.io/
======
EugeneOZ
I use Angular 2 in production since November 19, 2015 (alpha.46). Currently
I've built 3 web apps (40, 60 and 20 components each), 3 mobile apps (with
Ionic 2) and my employer have plans for more apps.
Breaking changes during alpha stage were e... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Quantum Matter Orbits Earth - headalgorithm
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01653-6
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andrewflnr
> Bose–Einstein condensates have been created on board the International Space
> Station
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Florin_Andrei
That's a much better title, though less catchy.
One could retort to the original title saying all... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Anybody using web components (or Polymer) in production? - bananaoomarang
Obviously Google, but curious if it's ready for general use over (say) React.
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marcoalfonso
Yes, we used Polymer to build the new ING banking portal. We had each
component in its own repository which was kind of neat. I am doi... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Telegram: new secure, anonymous chat/messenger - nakedrobot2
https://telegram.org/
======
thirsteh
It's actually an app with no clear business model based on archaic security
primitives chosen by recent math grads who "know best" even though virtually
every crypto engineer or cryptographer that has looked at the cod... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
That'll Never Work - jgrahamc
http://blog.jgc.org/2012/11/thatll-never-work.html?
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rwmj
John's a good speaker and has done a few "crazy" things.
However I thought this talk was going to be about the wingnut ideas that
really will never work because they defy human nature / currently known laws
of physics / pr... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Nim for Python Programmers - crux
http://blog.zdsmith.com/posts/nim-for-python-programmers.html
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jboynyc
That's a benefit of static typing that I haven't seen discussed before.
Certainly got me interesting in looking more closely at Nim.
| {
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} |
Ninite.com (YC W08) Turns One: Lots of stats plus an AMA - swies
http://blog.ninite.com/post/1374321887/ninite-turns-one
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thorax
I really like their service-- my problem is that I can never remember the name
of the website when I setup a new PC.
~~~
swies
Sorry about that, it's one of the pitfalls of building... | {
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} |
Help me find tech people with a mental illness willing to talk about it - paddyforan
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Unk6GPys2KlWYzPsGbRh7s-fvE0r_OHpFhOtii7tX4k/viewform
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DanBC
There is very little information on that page. Some people will be unwilling
to pass the link on to their friends with MH problems be... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Who is using Asterisk PBX and how? - maurice2k
We're currently deploying a bigger Asterisk PBX setup using SIP only and ARI API.<p>And there are so many bugs that I'm wondering if Asterisk is really mature enough (despite it's age) for production use...<p>Feel free to drop some comments; what is... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
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