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Ask HN: How to get near the top of search in GitHub? - RogerL
I have a few projects that I'm working on that I'm getting close to wanting to have them publically available. They live in public repositories and if you enter the right search terms you can find them.<p>However, they show up at the bottom of t... | {
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BART Defends Decision To Cut Off Cell Service - marklabedz
http://sfappeal.com/news/2011/08/bart-cell-fcc.php
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marklabedz
>>"We saw people who were clearly ready to take action, with backpacks and
tools. It was a recipe for disaster."
I'm not sure what he means by tools, but backpacks seems like a pretty common... | {
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Ask HN: Are there real-world examples of moral failures of software engineers? - objectiveariel
Consider the following projects:<p>* Facebook's Free Basics initiative in India:
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35169226<p>* The Stingray phone surveillance device:
https://en.wikiped... | {
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How Apple and Microsoft intend to destroy Android - mtgx
http://osnews.com/story/26229/How_Apple_and_Microsoft_intend_to_destroy_Android
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codex
The issue here is that Samsung's patents are deemed essential to cell phone
networking standards, so the law mandates that they be licensed under standard
terms to pre... | {
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Poaching Tesla - mercutio2
https://www.aboveavalon.com/notes/2018/9/6/poaching-tesla
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AnthonyMouse
There are some errors here:
> The dramatic shift to SUVs in the U.S. is driven by consumers caring less
> about traditional car value metrics such as performance.
The cause of this was exactly the opposite -- the... | {
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What it means to be an entrepreneur - cominatchu
http://evbeard.com/posts/to-be-an-entrepreneur/
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donaq
Let's not over romanticize or aggrandize what an entrepreneur is.
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IPython 2.0 - hyperbovine
http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/2/whatsnew/version2.0.html
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kseistrup
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7513884](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7513884)
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List of Web Applications from 2005 (How many are still around today?) - antiform
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/5/21/03045/5568
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petercooper
To be fair, some of them have changed names, rebranded, or been bought out.
For example, the one listed as "RSS Digest" was owned by me but was a
donation-ware servic... | {
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How Much Revenue Does It Take To Be A $1B Public Company? - dwynings
http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/29/how-much-revenue-does-it-take-to-be-a-1b-public-company/
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_delirium
So some of this makes sense, but I don't entirely get the focus on
recurring/subscription revenue as a new/disruptive thing in the B2B space.
I... | {
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Silicon Valley's Stock Funk - jasondc
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443493304578038763698056392.html
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tatsuke95
> _"Rank-and-file workers at four of the highest profile Internet companies
> that began selling shares in the past 16 months have collectively lost about
> $9 billion on paper..."_
... | {
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The Landscape of Music - vorador
http://www2.research.att.com/~yifanhu/MusicMap/index.html
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zoba
Found a bug/easter egg: If you zoom all the way out and center Elton John at
the top of your screen, then zoom in to the middle zoom level, you can see a
map for TV shows as well.
<http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/2... | {
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Someone named Kevin Rose forked Reddit on GitHub... - tlrobinson
http://github.com/kevinrose/diggit
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mahmud
Yeah, it looks like him: <http://github.com/kevinrose>
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weaksauce
It looks more like someone having a bit of fun with global find and replace
and a picture they found on the internet of Kevin.
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Tesla Is The New Bubble Stock - minnesota_boy
http://www.forbes.com/sites/investor/2013/10/17/tesla-is-the-new-bubble-stock/#
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austenallred
This article is the perfect example of why why the financial industry and
looking at the bottom-line so often falls short of the entire picture. If you
think the value of ... | {
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The U.S. government is about to bar the IRS from creating a free e-filing system - gregcrv
https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/09/the-government-is-about-to-permanently-bar-the-irs-from-creating-a-free-electronic-filing-system/
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dang
Comments moved to
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19613725](https://news.ycomb... | {
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Re: My Space - Making .NET a Star Performer - mythz
https://github.com/mythz/ScalingDotNET
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keithwarren
This just left me scratching my head.
But really, why is this argument even important? .NET can scale, if you toss
out the religious arguments then you realize that just about anything can
scale if you do i... | {
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Ask HN: How do I stop being resentful towards other devs - resentfuldev
We are a new team of developers working on a new project. We share a git repo and we are split between product teams. We are 6 developers and we review each others code.<p>Even though all of us have a lot of experience, we came from different orga... | {
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Scheme on the iPad - gnosis
http://web.mac.com/Jay_reynolds_freeman/My/Pixie_Scheme_III.html
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hasenj
I feel that a lispy language on the ipad should not be text-based, but tree-
based: you create and manipulate the tree structure using the touch interface.
For example, you touch, and that creates a node.
... | {
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News Publishers Join Fight Against Apple over App Store Terms - pseudolus
https://www.wsj.com/articles/news-publishers-join-fight-against-apple-over-app-store-terms-11597949300
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saithir
"Continue reading your article with a WSJ membership"
How ironic.
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Lines of code that changed the world - gricardo99
https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/consequential-computer-code-software-history.html
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froh
What a clickbait headline... Entertaining article actually, with nice code
snippets.
Actual subtitle:
"Apollo 11, the JPEG, the first pop-up ad, and 33 other bits of so... | {
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Ask HN: What type of service/SaaS would you pay for if someone was to create it? - polygot
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skiltz
Someone who could test different marketing channels and tell me which ones
worked and which ones didn't. Would be more of a productized service. Once you
found a good channel I would pay you a ongoing monthly fee to... | {
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New study suggests people use “constructive noncompliance” to enact change - user_235711
http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/citizens-disobey-enact-change-0519
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timthelion
I live in the Czech Republic, a former member of the Soviet Union, and people
and businesses here take breaking the law for granted. Many of the l... | {
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LittleTable: A Relational Time-Series Database at Cisco Meraki - rodionos
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3056102
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timeseriesdbfan
Can anybody comment how this compares to open source alternatives [1] [2] ?
[1] [https://clickhouse.yandex/](https://clickhouse.yandex/) [2]
[https://eventql.io/](https://eventql.... | {
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Why you shouldn't fix your customers typos in reviews and comments - skbohra123
http://blogs.forbes.com/ciocentral/2011/06/08/zapos-zappoz-or-zappos-why-typos-are-good-for-your-brand/
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rick888
I never tamper with reviews or comments for this very reason. With no
mistakes, it seems to perfect.
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JavaScript tooling: madge - jpalardy
https://blog.jpalardy.com/posts/javascript-tooling-madge/
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sdegutis
This is actually something I've been looking for recently. Does it handle full
ES6 destructuring syntax within import statements? Does it handle import()
expressions?
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Sergio Marchionne Dies Aged 66 - ottavio
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-25/fiat-s-founding-family-puts-a-jeep-selling-brit-behind-the-wheel
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jsoc815
[Dupe]
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17608080](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17608080)
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detaro
[https://news.ycombinator.com/new... | {
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Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack? - MindGods
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/whos-behind-wednesdays-epic-twitter-hack/
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blisseyGo
I think people are still severely under-estimating how dangerous this was.
Back in 2013 when The Associated Press was hacked with a tweet of "Breaking:
Two Explosions i... | {
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Majority of Digital Media Consumption Now Takes Place in Mobile Apps - prostoalex
http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/21/majority-of-digital-media-consumption-now-takes-place-in-mobile-apps/
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JoeAltmaier
But - mobile bandwidth is so small! I can believe the number of events may be
larger in mobile, but on my wired d... | {
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Show HN: Predictive Models for Student - bastinrobin
Last few weeks I am very much interested in building an interesting tool #PredictEasy which can simplify the way we see predictive models. Students can start using it for projects.<p>Please check it out and let me know your feedback, you're always awesome - <a ... | {
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Ask HN: Why Google does not love GitHub? - suhair
Why google search is not loving GitHub as mush as StackOverflow?. It already has the metrics to decide which github projects are popular and relevant and which are not. The latest evidence is I have searched for "email_spec gem". It lists the h-lame fork as the top ... | {
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Ask HN: Is ASP.NET Worth Learning? - kishansundar
I'm currently learning Rails and Swift. But my Current Job requires me to learn ASP.NET.
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proyb2
Are you working is Microsoft shop or mixed development skill set for different
projects? Learn it would be useful where some projects required building from
scra... | {
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The Masculine Mystique of T - ehudla
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/06/28/the-masculine-mystique-of-t/
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stanfordkid
Intriguing why someone would try to analyze a biological compound through a
cultural / political / sociological lens without at least giving some
reference to actual scientific research.
I hav... | {
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The new Elmo Live is pretty impressive - Readmore
http://gizmodo.com/356488/first-video-of-elmo-live-singing-and-dancing-shows-he-got-skillz
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wallflower
Do children need to conjure up virtual/imaginary friends anymore with toys
like these?
Amazing technology but I think playing in the dirt with action figures... | {
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Simple & Not Social Bookmarking Service - nitrohack
http://bookmarks2.com/online_bookmarks.php
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chrisbolt
Doesn't look that different from <http://www.google.com/bookmarks/>
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josefresco
Except your personal data isn't being shared with some giant ad corp. that
will undoubtedly be using it for profit down t... | {
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Azlo – Fee-free small business banking - michaelrkn
https://www.azlo.com/
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eternal_virgin
We were recommended Azlo by Stripe Atlas. I would not recommend them... it's a
pain to switch to anything else, their support can't do anything except tell
you to open a new account to change anything at all, and they have ... | {
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Anti-concussion collar draws inspiration from woodpeckers - tokenadult
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-23/preventing-football-concussions-lessons-from-bird-brains
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PhantomGremlin
People interested in how the NFL has been trying to ignore the concussion
issue for decades should watch the Frontline ... | {
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The Internet Before the Internet: Paul Otlet’s Mundaneum (2016) - diodorus
https://daily.jstor.org/internet-before-internet-paul-otlet/
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Isamu
>More than a century ago, Belgian information activist Paul Otlet envisioned a
universal compilation of knowledge and the technology to make it globally
available. He for... | {
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Why Do We Need a Decentralized Storage System? - containerds
https://youtu.be/iW3eg5leKhE
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remram
So why do we need it?
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Game Mechanic Explorer – interactive game mechanics and algorithms playground - dannyow
http://gamemechanicexplorer.com/
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dang
[https://hn.algolia.com/?q=game+mechanic+explorer#!/story/for...](https://hn.algolia.com/?q=game+mechanic+explorer#!/story/forever/0/game%20mechanic%20explorer)
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Ask HN: Is it more fun ( and wise ) to implement or to read about coding theory? - SNBasti
I love to read about design patterns, syntax and semantics language specifications ( e.g. the C++ standard ), Unit tests and this kind of stuff. Actually even more than to actually implement it because I am not confident with my... | {
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The Junk Science of the Abortion Lobby - tu7001
https://mindmatters.ai/2019/01/the-junk-science-of-the-abortion-lobby/
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ykevinator
Also jesus.
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Hire this guy for love - cleverbaker
http://mibake.co
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tptacek
For PSD2HTML? And that round trip ticket price? Ok. Shoot me a mail. (See
profile)
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veemjeem
Didn't that YC company, Markupwand, do something like this automatically?
Since they've vanished, I wonder if this problem is hard to do automatically?
... | {
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Clinton Looks to Data to Help Her Drown Out Trump - hodgesmr
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-05-19/clinton-bets-on-tech-strategy-to-defeat-trump
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venomsnake
I can't help but wonder if I inhabit the same planet with campaign
strategists.
We have a candidate that already have a problem with being ... | {
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The effect of passive heating on heat shock protein 70 and interleukin-6 - kunle
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23328940.2017.1288688
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teslabox
Didn't realize heat shock proteins are so useful. This explains a lot for me,
thx.
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Google Optimize now free for everyone - gmays
https://www.blog.google/products/marketingplatform/analytics/this-is-not-a-test-google-optimize-now-free-for-everyone/
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rightbyte
"Optimizing" UI for session length and clicks is the same thing as finding the
local maxima of bad, right?
~~~
uberstuber
The effects of... | {
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Qt for Python 5.12 officially released - mherrmann
https://blog.qt.io/blog/2018/12/18/qt-python-5-12-released/
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mherrmann
Very happy about this as an avid Qt and Python user. People looking to get
started may be interested in my tutorial [1] and open source build system [2]
for Qt for Python apps.
1: [https://b... | {
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Driverless car review launched by UK government - sjcsjc
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31364441
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awjr
A most telling point is the comment about how driverless cars would keep to
the speed limits and how 'boring' this would be.
In the UK there is a reason why the police have stopped using the word
'acci... | {
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Computational Complexity Theory - sonabinu
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computational-complexity/
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Sharlin
No discussion of philosophy and complexity theory is complete without the
thought-provoking paper by Aaronson [1].
[1] Aaronson, Scott. Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational
Complexity.
[ht... | {
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A Cavernous World under the Woods - sohkamyung
https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/the-cavernous-world-under-the-woods/
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contingencies
World map of karst regions: [https://i2.wp.com/www.circleofblue.org/wp-
content/uploads/20...](https://i2.wp.com/www.circleofblue.org/wp-
content/uploads/2010/01/world-karst-m... | {
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Integral Calculus in Lambda Calculus (Lisp) - jgrant27
http://jng.imagine27.com/articles/2009-04-09-161839_integral_calculus_in_lambda_calculus_lisp.html
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jrockway
One other thing. The Lisp is rather non-idiomatic. Here is how I'd write it:
(defparameter small-dx 0.00001)
(defun i... | {
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Ask HN: How to deal with domain squatters/resellers? - halfmatthalfcat
I'm currently working on a project where the .com is owned by a domain reseller who has, in my opinion, an unrealistic valuation. I own the .io, so I'm not super concerned but it's frustrating to negotiate when I feel like the resell... | {
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Solving a Maze with D3.js - runlevel1
http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/11189414
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dsilver
Part of a whole family of maze visualizations created in the past day by Mike
Bostock:
Maze Generator:
[http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/11159599](http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/11159599)
Maze Solver:
[http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/111... | {
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Google Reader API - peter123
http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2005/12/google-reader-api.html
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waleedka
Although an old article, it's still probably the best reference for Google's
Feed APIs out there. I considered using the APIs some time ago for a project
in which I need to pull tens of thousands of feeds, but ... | {
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Transition to Python4 won't be like Python3(“we've learned our lesson”) - angadsg
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2015-December/142361.html
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spacemanmatt
Too late; learned Clojure.
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Side-project Ideas That Could Get Big - danicgross
https://pioneer.app/ideas
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pokoleo
> Reply-to-sheet > You often send emails to lots of people where the replies
> ("yes I can make it!") are collected into a spreadsheet. With your service,
> you can simply CC XXX@your-website.com and have the replies collected ... | {
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Building a To-Do List with Cloudflare Workers and KV - soheilpro
https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-a-to-do-list-with-workers-and-kv/
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steveklabnik
Workers KV went out of beta today, and this is a great tutorial on building a
small application entirely at the edge, with Workers for the code, and KV for
the dat... | {
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Machine-learning: Crowdsourcing Feature discovery - datascientist
http://strata.oreilly.com/2014/03/crowdsourcing-feature-discovery.html
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avg81
Very good article. A lot of times features are overlooked as they are seen as
part of modeling exercise. The more diverse they are, better it is to improve
predictions... | {
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Mass incarceration: A new theory for why so many Americans are in prison - po
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2015/02/mass_incarceration_a_provocative_new_theory_for_why_so_many_americans_are.single.html
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Nursie
>> The fact of the matter is in today’s state prisons, which hold about 90
perc... | {
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Habits Are The New Viral: Why Startups Must Be Behavior Experts - rlalwani
http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/26/habits-are-the-new-viral-why-startups-must-be-behavior-experts/?grcc=33333Z98
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rlalwani
This is a bit old but it's a very interesting way of looking at startups.
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U.S. threatens to freeze Iraq's account at NY Fed if troops told to leave - AndrewBissell
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-warns-iraq-it-risks-losing-access-to-key-bank-account-if-troops-told-to-leave-11578759629
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40acres
This is ridiculous. U.S troops (along with other coalition nations) are in
Iraq at the requ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Self-taught dev, how to improve my job prospects in 2-3 months? - JohnCapilary
People at my company are great and the work is okay, but I am not growing my skill set. I will have some extra time for the next 2-3 months. How best can I improve my job prospects? My dream would be to work at a company that is ... | {
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Zoox, Self-Driving Car Startup Valued at $2.7B, Is for Sale - jchallis
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/zoox-self-driving-car-startup-valued-at-2-7-billion-is-for-sale
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fallingmeat
Good riddance. Get those half-baked unproven ego-driven prototype death-traps
off the public road. Get back to us about using... | {
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Comparing IPFS and Dat - arcalinea
https://medium.com/@graber.jay/comparing-ipfs-and-dat-8f3891d3a603
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api
One thing I did not see compared is overhead. I haven't tried Dat yet but IPFS
seems somewhat fat from my tests of it. It eats it's fair share of RAM and
CPU. I expect a distributed everything store to eat ... | {
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Who is living off their (bootstrapped) startup fulltime? - jarcoal
This is a spiritual successor to this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1924909. However, I am hoping to just hear from bootstrappers today.<p>Show us what is paying your bills. Inspiration for those that are not there yet.
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dangross... | {
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Hurrian songs - tintinnabula
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrian_songs
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topynate
Tolkien's "Black Speech" may have been inspired by Hurrian. I prefer the
original in this case, I think:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZatnTPhYWc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZatnTPhYWc)
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senekerim
Fascinating. I... | {
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Live Longer by Eating Apples, Drinking Tea Every Day - spking
https://www.studyfinds.org/study-live-longer-by-eating-apples-drinking-tea-flavonoids-every-day/
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QuantumAphid
The supporting study:
Flavonoid intake is associated with lower mortality in the Danish Diet Cancer
and Health Cohort
[https://www.nature.c... | {
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The Truth Is Paywalled but the Lies Are Free - praptak
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/08/the-truth-is-paywalled-but-the-lies-are-free/
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andrewtbham
> it is not that the facts it reports tend to be inaccurate
yes it is.
I really lost faith in nyt when they ran article about running out of running
out of ch... | {
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Ask HN: Recommendation services? - sanj
Can anyone suggest recommendation services?<p>What I'd like is a service to which I can send a simple query like "I like Jack Johnson" and it will tell me "You should also listen to Madeleine Peyroux, Indigo Girls and John Coltrane."<p>Or whatever, in some machine-queryable fo... | {
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Fake ‘Unicorns’ Are Running Roughshod Over the Venture Capital Industry - howard941
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/11/fake-unicorns-are-running-over-the-venture-capital-industry.html
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robocat
The interesting part to me was:
"investigations indicated that over 90 percent of mutual funds used inflated
post-m... | {
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SHOW HN: Left-Pad could be the next FizzBuzz so we coded it up in 13 Languages - fahimulhaq
https://www.educative.io/collection/page/10370001/520001/750001
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plugnburn
14 lines in JS? O'rly?
Even with such a strict check of the padding character length (with an
exception) and a period by default it's a four-line... | {
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Pirates Use Flask, the Navy Uses Django - welder
https://wakatime.com/blog/25-pirates-use-flask-the-navy-uses-django
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dgilland
Interested in knowing what backend setup you have that allows you to scale up
to 27,000+ while using Flask:
1\. How many application servers are you using?
2\. How much RAM, CPU cores,... | {
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The Innovative 'Gypsy Brewers' Shaking Up the Beer World - sasvari
http://www.theatlantic.com/food/archive/2010/10/the-innovative-gypsy-brewers-shaking-up-the-beer-world/64828/
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Symbol
I met Dan at a local beer tasting, where he told he told me about this
business model. It limits their sales capacity, but all... | {
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} |
Hey, PC, Who Taught You to Fight Back? - edw519
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/business/media/30ad.html?_r=1&hpw=&pagewanted=all
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jamesbritt
The funny thing about the "I'm a Mac" commercials is that they remind me of
high school, where the jocks and cool kids would entertain themselves by
mocking the nerds... | {
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NASA turns research to California drought - Varcht
http://www.apnews.com/ap/db_15897/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=ZBuWu6oJ
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judk
I wonder of less "famous" states get similar support, and if NASA support
could be a useful less corruptible for of development aid, compared to other
aid programs.
| {
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The EU punishes Google – for no real crime - gingerbread-man
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-eu-punishes-google--for-no-real-crime/2017/07/01/4838701e-5dc3-11e7-9fc6-c7ef4bc58d13_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
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yummmuy
Controversial issue. You can make a strong case that... | {
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Canada's top privacy professionals are doing an iAMA tomorrow - cageek
https://privasectech.com/2015/04/canadian-privacy-iama/
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usr12345
I've never heard of them. They must be good.
~~~
PeterWhittaker
Yeah, seems a bit slashvertisy. I expected to see Michael Geist or one or two
former information/privacy comm... | {
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Ask HN: Review my first website design - nrbafna
http://csa.22web.net/<p>This is my first website design for the Computer Science Association, BITS-Pilani, India.
I have been learning HTML, CSS and jquery for a month now and this was the first actual work of mine. Please review it.
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jacquesm
If you've been doi... | {
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Torvalds and Theo harsh quote battle - sberder
http://torvaldsortheo.com/
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ScottBurson
Cute. I did better than one might have expected considering I don't know
either of them well. But once it started recycling questions I got bored.
(What? No score?)
And why not "Linus and Theo"?
| {
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Coffee Delivery Is the Future of On-Demand Ordering - prostoalex
http://www.eater.com/2016/1/14/10758072/starbucks-delivery-dunkin-donuts-office
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aaroninsf
Me, I think 'the future' is resource-intensive delivery services predicated on
blowing 10x the resources to deliver someone else's product to 1/100th the
cus... | {
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} |
Poop 101: A beginner's guide to reading your own poop (2016) - Tomte
http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/9/13212952/poop-healthy-normal-color-food-shape-disease
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BubRoss
Maybe I'll take a break from hacker news for a while.
| {
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Ask HN: Which “Tech Business Model” makes the most sense to you? - rxsel
Not limited to business models, please share opinions on unique ways of generating revenue, acquiring customers, etc.
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kevsim
This is entirely dependent on your product. For example, I'm working on an
alternative to Jira [0] so it was prett... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What would you build an email-heavy webapp on? - kulkarnic
Hello!<p>I'm working with a friend on a webapp that involves sending and receiving copious amounts of email. While the application does have a web-interface, this interface is mostly used for simple CRUD operations on data that comes in via email (t... | {
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Appeals court rules ACA’s individual mandate unconstitutional - hanging
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/appeals-court-rules-acas-individual-mandate-unconstitutional-lower-court-to-decide-whether-rest-of-law-can-stand-without-it/2019/12/18/3443fd3e-c03c-11e9-b873-63ace636af08_story.html
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tantalor
The indivi... | {
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} |
Are Americans Fleeing Cities During Covid? - wooten
https://medium.com/@realblocinfo/flight-from-the-cities-670898e3ab5a
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wooten
The answer is yes, where they can afford to:
[https://medium.com/@realblocinfo/flight-from-the-
cities-6708...](https://medium.com/@realblocinfo/flight-from-the-
cities-670898e3ab5a)
| {
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Introducing GeoViews - mkesper
https://www.continuum.io/blog/developer-blog/introducing-geoviews
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geeio
Warning this site makes mobile Safari freeze.
| {
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Prime editing: DNA tool could correct 89% of genetic defects - hhs
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-50125843
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russler23
No cell division required, much more accurate than CRISPR. That’s a major
advance.
| {
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What Could Have Saved Dropbox? - myxo
http://backdrift.org/what-could-have-saved-dropbox
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Toddward
I think the option of having an opt-in Google Authenticator-like service
within Dropbox would be extremely useful. I would definitely use something
like that.
| {
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Let’s Build a Simple Interpreter, Part 3 - rspivak
http://ruslanspivak.com/lsbasi-part3/
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w0utert
It's going to be interesting how this series will expand to more complex
concepts of interpreter design, such as grammars, AST's etc. To be honest,
right now I'm thinking the approach taken to teach the basics of ... | {
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} |
US 'got it so wrong' on Saddam Hussein, says CIA agent who interrogated dictator - lisper
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/us-wrong-iraq-saddam-hussein-cia-interrogator-john-nixon-george-w-bush-invasion-a7482456.html
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DrScump
“We never thought about using weapons of mass destruction. It was no... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Mobile Broadband sateside - ErrantX
Hopefully you can figure out a bit of a conundrum for me :)<p>Im coming to the mighty US for a holiday later this month. As it's 3 a week trip roaming new england etc. Im taking my Netbook so I can keep up with emails and book hotels etc.<p>Problem is that my mobile broadb... | {
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1,250 Mile Motorway Connecting Hamburg with Shanghai Across Russia Going Ahead - stevenjgarner
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/russia-meridian-highway-motorway-china-belarus-europe-belt-road-travel-a8996286.html
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stevenjgarner
Hamburg and Shanghai are at least 8,517 km apart (Great Circle Ro... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What's been your best investment? - uptown
I'm curious what everyone here considers their best investment. Not necessarily from a financial standpoint (thought it certainly could be, and that'd be interesting to hear too) ... but maybe your best investment has been the time you spent to learn something new, o... | {
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} |
Use the Native Web Component Shadow DOM API as React Components - treshugart
https://github.com/treshugart/react-shade
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Gys
Demo does not work in Firefox 57.0.1
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Barnes and Noble’s Jekyll and Hyde (1999) - hhs
http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/bizfinance/biz/features/47/
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jhbadger
Presumably this was posted as a reminder on how things change. In the 1990s
Riggio/B&N was indeed a powerful force (think of the Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan comedy
"You've Got Mail!" where Hanks plays a cha... | {
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Neovim and the state of text editor art in 2019 [pdf] - phsilva
https://vimconf.org/2019/slides/justin.pdf
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phsilva
Presented by Justin M. Keyes on VimConf 2019.
Video at [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt-vmPC_-
Ho](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt-vmPC_-Ho)
| {
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Amiga Graphics Archive - erickhill
http://amiga.lychesis.net/
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NeedMoreTea
So many memories.
Defender of the Crown, art by Jim Sachs, was remarkable so soon after the
machine's release. Especially as much was painted pixel by pixel. It was
ported to PC, in CGA and I think EGA, not that anyone could afford EGA! ... | {
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The 2nd-class Facebook workers who do the hardest job are waging a quiet battle - 80mph
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/08/inside-facebook-second-class-workers-who-do-hardest-job-are-waging-quiet-battle/
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lostmymind66
I've been contracting for over a decade. I don't expect any sort of benefits
... | {
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What programming languages are used most on weekends? - minaandrawos
http://stackoverflow.blog/2017/02/What-Programming-Languages-Weekends/?cb=1
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slg
I surprised there was no mention in the blog post or the comments so far about
the homework factor. It isn't just personal side projects that people are
working on... | {
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} |
Hong Kong security chief warns of growing terrorism backing planned security law - partingshots
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-protests/hong-kongs-security-chief-warns-of-growing-terrorism-as-govt-backs-beijings-planned-security-laws-idUSKBN23107F
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culturestate
As a longtime Hong Kong resident, the ... | {
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} |
A 26,000-Year Astronomical Monument Hidden in Plain Sight - andyjohnson0
http://blog.longnow.org/02019/01/29/the-26000-year-astronomical-monument-hidden-in-plain-sight/
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wyck
Great article but I found this one easier to understand including quotes from
the artist about how it works, [https://www.quora.com/At-the... | {
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} |
Firefox extension makes social network ID spoofing trivial - SoftwareMaven
http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=10042
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SoftwareMaven
Hmm, probably should have linked to the blog entry directly instead:
<http://codebutler.com/firesheep>
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