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Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People - Tomte
http://tobyrush.com/theorypages/index.html
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ewoodrich
It piqued my interest from the cached thumbnails, and I was able to find a
mirror of the complete set:
[http://academic.udayton.edu/tobyrush/theorypages/complete.pd...](http://academic.udayton.edu/tobyrush... | {
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Microsoft sues Comet for producing 94,000 counterfeit copies of Windows - AndrewDucker
http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2012/jan12/01-04CometPR.mspx
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Ctech237
Unfortunately this seems to be common in the UK. If you go to Laptopsdirect co
uk they do the same thing. When you add a laptop to your basket t... | {
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Scala on iOS - Negative1
https://github.com/roboscala/roboscala-samples
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JHonaker
I've only been exposed to Scala through a Coursera course, but it was a very
enjoyable experience. I find myself using things I learned from that course in
almost every program I've written since.
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papauschek
wohoo, ScalaJ... | {
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Ask HN: Where do you turn for graphics/design work? - yourabi
I'm trying to find someone for some graphic design work -- where should I look?<p>I've had bad luck previously via craigslist.<p>I'm looking to find with whom I can build a long term relationship and hopefully work on a few projects I have in mind.<p>Wher... | {
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Internet.org: A Facebook connectivity lab project - chunky1994
http://internet.org/projects
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batoure
So, I don't know if people remember this; but in the late nineties almost this
exact thing was described as being the way that cellular communication was
going to come to remote parts of the world. It turned out ... | {
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A tmux Crash Course - caffeinewriter
http://robots.thoughtbot.com/a-tmux-crash-course
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farva
I used to use tmux, now I use dvtm and dtach with the following alias:
alias vtmux="dtach -A /tmp/dvtm -z -e ^s -r winch dvtm -m ^a"
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Vanguard conditioning users for phone phishing atttempts - bjpless
http://benplesser.com/2013/03/15/vanguard-conditioning-users-for-phone-phishing-atttempts/
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bpatrianakos
Hackers and technical folks and just the kind of people who hang out here on
HN tend to be very inflexible and on the side of being "techni... | {
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Dark web dealers voluntarily ban deadly fentanyl - cribbles
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/dec/01/dark-web-dealers-voluntary-ban-deadly-fentanyl
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janhle
I'm seeing a lot of nonsense in this thread and I'd just like to point out a
few things that seem to be commonly misunderstood and misrepresented by t... | {
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OAuth 2.0 (without Signatures) is Bad for the Web - abraham
http://hueniverse.com/2010/09/oauth-2-0-without-signatures-is-bad-for-the-web/
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pilif
I love OAuth 1.0 in conjunction with RSA signatures (even though OAuth 1.0
left key exchange unspecified). With RSA, you never need to store a shared
secret on eithe... | {
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} |
Proposal: A Code of Conduct for the Go Community - Sphax
https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/13073-code-of-conduct.md
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Vorcin84
The rules lawyer in me sees these two points, which can be employed to
immediately shut up anybody for fear of expulsion:
* Harassment (either in pub... | {
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MongoDB based logging server - o1iver
https://github.com/Graylog2/graylog2-server
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o1iver
I would be interested in some opinions about what the advantages are of using
MongoDB (or any NoSQL solution for that matter) for storing logs.
\- Could it have something to do with the fact, that this is a rare case whe... | {
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Silverback: Guerilla usability testing - akkartik
http://silverbackapp.com
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spicyj
Don't forget to resize the window and watch the background move!
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bk
OP, your title reads like a cheap ad. It would be more appropriate to put the
main feature/benefit in the title and stay more neutral, e.g. "Silverback ... | {
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Don’t Blame Edward Snowden for the Paris Attacks - jeo1234
http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/dont-blame-edward-snowden-for-the-paris-attacks
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PuffinBlue
I mean, why would ANY rational person blame him?
~~~
junto
Clearly then, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency is irrational.
Claims like th... | {
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What are some red flags for you when interviewing software engineers? - Nuance
https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-red-flags-for-you-when-interviewing-software-engineers?share=1
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shanghaiaway
The reply by Rustin is some of the most incredible r/iamverysmart BS I've
seen.
~~~
posixplz
That was incredibly hard to... | {
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Show HN: goPop: An iPhone case that electronically manages your cards - torrenza
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gopop-electronic-card-management-system
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torrenza
So this is my project that i've been working on for about 18 months. It's
totally going to fail but im ok with that. The biggest issue I have righ... | {
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How to run a state-of-the-art image classifier on an iPhone - liuliu
http://libccv.org/post/how-to-run-a-state-of-the-art-image-classifier-on-a-iphone/
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bglazer
"The beautiful part of using PNG file to store parameters is that all
optimization techniques available to PNG is now available to us. The generated
P... | {
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SSL/TLS & Perfect Forward Secrecy - mariuz
http://vincent.bernat.im/en/blog/2011-ssl-perfect-forward-secrecy.html
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willvarfar
Good stuff, and well explained.
Of course I got a bit surprised by the numbers; with a RSA 2K key can you only
do one handshake per core every 3 seconds? IIRC you were benchmarking ove... | {
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Reddit Just Banned the Subreddit Where People Were Posting Celebrity Nude Images - kanamekun
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-fappening-has-been-banned-from-reddit-2014-9
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lbsnake7
Reddit has completely nose dived the past couple of years. Both from a
administrative sense, and a content sense. When they first ... | {
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} |
Show HN: Weekend Project: Siri Flight Search and Status - naqabas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edJ-1caUmmc&feature=youtu.be
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mnaqvi
We Still can't figure out how to get Siri to open a webpage automtically.
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Lying on your resume - ridruejo
http://steveblank.com/2012/07/30/lying-on-your-resume/
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btilly
There is a general rule of thumb. People who don't cheat, tend to strongly
dislike people who do. People who do cheat, convince themselves that everyone
does it, and it isn't a big detail.
Admittedly a ton of people c... | {
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Improving cloud security and productivity through IP whitelisting - Yuval_Halevi
https://www.perimeter81.com/blog/cloud/cloud-security-ip-whitelisting/
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breadandcrumbel
From my experience people usually use IP whitelisting to prevent spam filters
from blocking their messages.
I can see the reason behind using t... | {
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} |
JRuby 1.6.0.RC1 Released - franze
http://www.jruby.org/2011/01/10/jruby-1-6-0-rc1
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clyfe
It's speedy. It's empowering. But it's (stil?) a memory hog. My personal issue
with it is the memory consumption. Other than that it's an amazing project.
~~~
headius
Initially, it will use more memory. But for a longer-r... | {
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Ask HN: Why are subreddits so toxic? - hn_reddit_human
Has reddit always been so toxic? Should subreddit moderators have stricter codes of conduct, especially those that are more "industry/tech/profession" oriented? I'm from the "tech" industry, and I was surprised to see that tech s... | {
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Stephen Fry, on copyright law (long, audio only, but very good) - abstractbill
http://fry.positive-dedicated.net/fry-podcast2-episodes-04.mp3
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ianbishop
I listened to this on the commute home. I think it generally aligns with how
most hackers/avid users feel about the issue. More importantly, it is nice to
hea... | {
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Pretty printing using Dart - tosh
http://polux.github.io/pretty_demo/web/pretty_demo.html
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tosh
A Dart port of Philip Wadler's pretty printer
[http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/prettier/prettie...](http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/prettier/prettier.pdf)
Make sure to scroll down to the mor... | {
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Sports Endorsements: No Engagement, No Touchdown - thankuz
http://bostinnovation.com/2011/03/08/sports-endorsements-no-engagement-no-touchdown/?isalt=0
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jckay
This shit is really fascinating.
One crazy example i have seen is this site which allows you to buy a video
recorded from your favorite celebrity. So f... | {
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Ask HN: Creating a Twitter "@" Bot? - daveambrose
I'd like to create a bot for the Hackers and Founders twitter handle (http://twitter.com/hackersfounders) so that the community can send replies to the name and receive updates automatically. Here are two examples: http://twitter.com/nytech and http://twitter.com/ycf... | {
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UpNext is the future of Local - the 3d map is amazing - moses1400
http://www.centernetworks.com/ny-spotlight-upnext-local-web-app
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jkush
There's also <http://www.zvents.com/>
Jesus, this is ANOTHER idea I didn't implement (I had this same idea 2 years
ago) I was too worried about the details and ran out of stea... | {
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Debian 10 'Buster' Linux Arrives - CrankyBear
https://www.zdnet.com/article/debian-10-buster-linux-arrives/
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el_duderino
Previous discussion:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20372855](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20372855)
| {
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Ask HN: Why MariaDB and not Percona - devb0x
I see on readwrite that Google is moving from mySQL to MariaDB. Now I know that Percona exists and has some good tooling.<p>why MariaDB and not Percona?
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devb0x
I actually just read a slide about why. Because Percona is still downstream of
Oracle
[https://conf-slac... | {
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Wanggongchang Explosion - benbreen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanggongchang_Explosion
======
crazygringo
While the Wikipedia article says "no academic consensus has been reached" it
seems pretty clear from the "possible causes" section that a bolide (meteor
exploding in the air above) is the only explanation listed... | {
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Waymo: Why a virtual world simulation is crucial to self-driving cars - Fricken
https://www.businessinsider.com/waymo-engineer-explains-why-testing-self-driving-cars-virtually-is-critical-2018-8
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JoshTko
Virtual miles will probably help test known-unknowns, such as testing
variations of vehicles entering an inte... | {
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} |
Prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in adults admitted to psychiatric hospital - DanBC
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-bulletin/article/prevalence-of-vitamin-d-deficiency-in-adult-patients-admitted-to-a-psychiatric-hospital/5BE0942DB69C2F9BAB7083C08D2319C8#
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oliwarner
HN health posts tend to get p... | {
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Pantera drummer Vinnie Paul dies aged 54 - okket
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44586238
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contras1970
__I 'm Broken __
I wonder if we'll smile in our coffins
while loved ones mourn the day,
the absence of our faces,
living, laughing, eyes awake.
Is this to... | {
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iOS 6 and OS X 10.8.2 Now Available - yottabyte47
http://www.apple.com/support/
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jpxxx
The native iOS 6 Maps are just short of wretched. No transit directions,
unhelpful default views, a dramatically weaker points of interest database,
weaker scrolling performance, and a busier UI that doesn't add anything of
gr... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Free resources to learn design(for a programmer) - Nib
In plain and simple words, how do I learn to design stuff ? I mean, everything online costs atleast $100 to study and I'm a programmer. I learned programming for free online, can't Design courses be the same way ?<p>I don't know how to des... | {
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} |
Show HN: Wrote a Book – C# 5 First Look - CodeCube
http://codecube.net/2012/12/c-5-first-look/
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bratsche
Congrats on the book release! Sounds really cool. And don't worry about the
Xamarin.Mac release, it's based on MonoMac so the work you put into this
section of your book wasn't wasted. :)
~~~
CodeCube
Glad... | {
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Ask HN: How long can I get along using FB auth? - arepb
I'm building a project with a friend and we're going FB auth only for the initial closed beta. How long do you think that's a reasonable strategy before we have to build our own login system?
======
morrow
Just my personal opinion, but I would suggest having so... | {
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Ask HN: How does sites identify you are in private or incognito mode? - vermontdevil
I would have thought being in private/incognito mode enables you to browse without being recognized? But I'm seeing more and more sites blocking you stating you are in this mode etc.
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jason_zig
It's more or less a java... | {
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Ask HN: Site for new businesses to build business - leftnode
I think one of the differences between a startup and a small business is that a startup focuses on a single project whereas a small business does more client/customer work until it can grow larger.<p>There are a tremendous number of resources out there for... | {
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'No to sex on roundabouts', Norway tells high school graduates - tomcam
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-norway-students-sex/no-to-sex-on-roundabouts-norway-tells-high-school-graduates-idUSKBN1HP26C
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ai_such_mystery
Gee, I bet self driving cars sure would solve this problem. Hey, let's talk
about that!
------... | {
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Rebuilding Iron – An Application Framework in Rust - jonreem
https://medium.com/@jreem/from-the-forge-rebuilding-iron-953146828cc6
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theptrk
Great to finally see a versioning number! 0.0.1
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jonreem
Author here. Ask away!
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jdrago999
More examples would be great, including some musings about templating... | {
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Ask HN: Financial independence in high cost of living city? - icki
Hi HN,<p>I'm a recent grad with about 2 years of professional experience, currently working as a software developer. Even though I think my salary is higher than average for where I work, I am still struggling to come to terms with the high cost o... | {
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Gatling – a high performance web server - ScottWRobinson
http://www.fefe.de/gatling/?ref=hn
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vezzy-fnord
Fefe is quite the character (his coding style aside) and has done plenty of
worthy projects. He's ostensibly quite controversial though for his ardent
positions on minimalism, among other things. [1]
[1]
[ht... | {
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JavaScript at Khan Academy - michaelkscott
http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-as
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brown9-2
_The prospect of teaching the JavaScript language as a first language is
actually really exciting. Teaching prototypal inheritance to experienced
classical-inheritance-using developers is normally rather frustrating (and
r... | {
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Majority of US Healthcare Costs Are Caused by Bad Eating Habits - jyu
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/opinion/10pollan.html
======
edw519
_There’s lots of money to be made selling fast food and then treating the
diseases that fast food causes._
All the more reason for each of us to take more personal responsibility... | {
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AngularJS 1.3.0 - EugeneOZ
http://angularjs.blogspot.com/2014/10/angularjs-130-superluminal-nudge.html
======
rmsaksida
I feel Angular is better than almost everything out there but still not quite
right. It seems way too complex for what it does, and the syntax looks like
somebody vomited all over your code. Does t... | {
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} |
System UIcons – icons designed for products, no attribution - nabeards
https://systemuicons.com/
======
jyrkesh
Icons look pretty good, always grateful for free stuff like this.
Minor side: the first thing I typed into the filter box was "save" because I
wanted to see how the designer thought about the whole "floppy ... | {
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} |
Bill Gates on AI: ‘I don’t understand why some people are not concerned’ - sethbannon
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2015/01/28/bill-gates-on-dangers-of-artificial-intelligence-dont-understand-why-some-people-are-not-concerned/
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angersock
I've never really understood the basic idea behind ge... | {
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} |
What is Emacs, really - pmoriarty
http://mbork.pl/2014-07-25_What_is_Emacs%2c_really
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spewbot
it is an emacs lisp interpreter, that's it.
| {
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26-year-old hacker Geohotz gets $3M for self-driving car startup - sethbannon
http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/04/technology/george-hotz-comma-ai-andreessen-horowitz/index.html
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techthroway443
"I started to look around at the other players. These people are noobs," he
said.
Pretty much all you need to know about th... | {
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Looking for Startup Advice - jasonsaeho
Me and my co-founder have an idea that we just cannot give up on. We've been working on this idea for 1 and half year. However we failed after the first year and since November 2014, we got rid of everything we built and started over again with a product pivot and same id... | {
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} |
Top 20 API Movietitles by #APImovietitles - njyx
http://www.3scale.net/2014/08/twitter-gets-creative-apimovietitles/
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njyx
This clearly had to be the best:
[https://twitter.com/pmonks/status/500421703441199106](https://twitter.com/pmonks/status/500421703441199106)
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Ask HN: What are the resources you would suggest for Machine learning? - aryamaan
I would like to know resources which you have used (online, I get 100s of things and I feel paralysed by choices) and found useful?<p>I would like to know some beginners friendly things (beginner level in this field, not in the programmi... | {
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Small helicopter drone crash lands on New York city street - selamattidur
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/investigators&id=9270668
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hamiltonkibbe
That seems a little sensationalist... It seems a lot more like "hobbyist
crashes RC helo in NYC"
see also
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAkq6Ou3M_I... | {
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Show HN: Write Using Emojis - seik
https://writeinemoji.seik.xyz/
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leshokunin
This cracked me up. I want to ask why, but I know it's to do something silly.
Love it. It's reminiscent of MySpace or L337speak
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quickthrower2
An emoji text input placeholder! Monster.
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fctorial
Nice, the output isn't a d... | {
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SQL 3d engine (interactive preview) - mbostock
https://beta.observablehq.com/@pallada-92/sql-3d-engine
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pallada92
Hi, Mike!
I also made the same for Excel:
[https://beta.observablehq.com/@pallada-92/excel-3d-engine-
em...](https://beta.observablehq.com/@pallada-92/excel-3d-engine-emulator).
There are two expla... | {
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EVs could be the opportunity of the century for utilities - Osiris30
http://www.utilitydive.com/news/the-100b-prize-why-evs-are-the-opportunity-of-the-century-for-utilities/416373/
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bertil
I believe that this article considers electricity, gas and water as utility,
but not utility computing. The business model m... | {
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} |
Telegram Middleman Bot – Push Notifications as easy as POST - n1try
https://github.com/n1try/telegram-middleman-bot
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ATsch
I have not looked at this in detail, but I can't see what advantages this has
over just sending a simple http request like this:
https://api.telegram.com/botTOKEN/sendMessag... | {
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5 Tips to Becoming a Better Programmer - Tip #3 - tp02ga
http://javaprogr.am/refactoring-tools
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jussij
> The IDE has automatically figured out what parameters need to be passed into
> the new method that was created and passed in those variables for you.
I have never understood the "Wow" factor in having the ... | {
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Trip Advisor couple 'fined' £100 by hotel for bad review - richsinn
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30100973
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DanBC
[http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_Review-g186332-d554701-Re...](http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_Review-g186332-d554701-Reviews-
Broadway_Hotel-Blackpool_Lancashire_England.html)
The trip... | {
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Naked in public? Dreams Cloud wants to get inside your mind - dlr720
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57615359-1/naked-in-public-dreams-cloud-wants-to-get-inside-your-mind/
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dlr720
Seems like a lot is happening in terms of start-ups going after the on-line
"Dreams" space, is 2014 the year of online dreams?
... | {
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The story of Apollo 17, and why we haven't been back to the Moon - k4jh
http://io9.com/the-real-story-of-apollo-17-and-why-we-never-went-ba-1670503448
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ColinWright
Extensive discussion from 24 hours ago:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8749619](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8749619)
| {
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Starting an ISP is hard (2016) - pavs
http://www.slashgeek.net/2016/05/31/starting-isp-really-hard-dont/
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mmjaa
I was involved in starting one of America's biggest ISP's back in the early
90's - I won't name which one, but it was #2 for a while - and I can say that
things have radically changed from the way they... | {
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} |
Start and finish an app in one day - kineticac
http://browseology.posterous.com/start-and-finish-one-app-in-one-day-with-us-o
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kineticac
Inviting all hacker news readers to join us in a very casual and relaxed day
of creating a brand new app in a single day.
We will setup a chatterous room, amongst other fun ... | {
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} |
Sartre and Borges on Orson Welles - benbreen
http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/08/12/sartre-and-borges-on-welles/
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huxley
Love the line:
"Sartre reviewed the film in 1945, meaning he took four years even to bother
seeing it."
One would think German occupation of Paris and wartime censorship might have
co... | {
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} |
These Aren’t the Patent Remedies You’re Looking for (No, Really) - DiabloD3
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/these-arent-patent-remedies-youre-looking-no-really
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sharemywin
Seems to me like NPEs shouldn't be awarded extra damages for someone bringing
the actual thing to market and unknowingly using a patent... | {
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} |
How cognitive illusions blind us to reason - maayank
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/magazine/dont-blink-the-hazards-of-confidence.html?pagewanted=all
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sbate
wow I see a website idea here.. Analyze your broker.
| {
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ignore_rant - marital_bliss
ignore_rant
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tech-historian
> Eventually she tells me the code doesn't work the way I think it does, and
> as such my change is much more complicated to implement, will require a
> major refactor, etc.
Technical debt is a hell of a thing.
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Tup - an insanely fast build system - glazskunrukitis
http://gittup.org/tup/index.html
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mooism2
That page is full of meaningless marketing fluff.
_In a typical build system, the dependency arrows go down. ... In tup, the
arrows go up. This is obviously true because it rhymes. ... This makes it very
fast._
You... | {
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Programming = Computer Science - bgray
http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2011/09/programming-computer-science.html
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johndcook
Unfortunately the bang "!" was removed from the headline. The argument of the
article is that programming does not equal computer science. Maybe this was a
typo, or maybe the HN software d... | {
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Steel Bank Common Lisp Version 1.0.38 released - jgg
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sbcl/files/sbcl/1.0.38/sbcl-1.0.38-release-notes.txt/view
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amouat
You've linked to the sourceforge project page, a better link is probably the
web page at:
<http://sbcl.sourceforge.net/>
Or <http://sbcl.sourceforge.net/news.ht... | {
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Ask HN: Why would you spend your own fortune to get a political office in USA?? - bakbak
"the disastrous campaign for governor of California waged by Meg Whitman, the former eBay CEO, spent more than $140 million of her own fortune...."<p>The above info makes me wonder why do people spend so much to become a mayor/g... | {
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Ask HN: Review my startup: ProMapr - kshitizanand
http://www.promapr.com/dev
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kshitizanand
Hi,
ProMapr is an application for sharing -
1\. job referrals with your friends and
2\. your job wishes with your friends so that they can refer you.
I need some feedback on following (in the order) -
1\. concept/id... | {
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Tell HN: an iPhone app for the blind - sahillavingia
I was inspired by an idea mortenjack posted on HN, and instead of thinking "yeah, that's cool." I decided to have a shot at it. I'm busy as all hell with college and other apps, but I'm sure I'll be able to fit in the time somewhere (pshht, sleep, who needs it).<p... | {
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Observational analysis of manuscript and peer review submissions over time - bookofjoe
https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l6460
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brudgers
related,
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21833890](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21833890)
~~~
bookofjoe
That's where I found the link to the paper I submitted ... | {
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How to Target a Facebook Ad to a Specific Individual - brianbreslin
http://adage.com/digitalnext/article?article_id=132212
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pbhjpbhj
I'm off to tell FB I'm a drop.io dev that lives in Texas!
| {
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How Jokes Work - cmcginnis
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21616
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mhartl
_It is why incongruity should give us pleasure, and why some sorts of
incongruity prompt laughter and others (such as Oedipus' parenthood) do not._
Perhaps, but consider _Oedipus Rex_ by Tom Lehrer:
There once lived a man ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Why doesn't Moxie sign Signal's releases? - rahrahrah
It's good practice and obviously the guy is smart and knows this...
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comboy
If it's distributed using Google play store aren't apks signed by the
developer anyway?
~~~
diggan
Yeah, that is true. But Play is the middle man, not sure the end user ... | {
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Ask HN: How did you get started with your first start-up? - quizbiz
Please feel free to share every detail and piece of advice comes with it.
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hwijaya
Not sure i understand your question correctly. For our case, i just started it
with a long-time friend of mine. I did talk some part of it in our blog. Maybe
yo... | {
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Rust 1.34.2 - pietroalbini
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2019/05/14/Rust-1.34.2.html
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wongarsu
> The Error::type_id method was recently stabilized as part of Rust 1.34.0.
> This point release destabilizes it
So in summary a feature that was stable for 3 days is taken back for further
bugfixing. A bit unfortunate b... | {
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} |
How VR Is Likely to Impact Your Business in the Next 4 Years - jerianasmith
http://www.ishir.com/blog/5198/how-virtual-reality-is-likely-to-impact-your-business-in-next-4-years.htm
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promokis
Intersting
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New Adobe Flash 0day, have a nice weekend - datd00d
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa10-01.html
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ihodes
Shouldn't a fix come out _with_ that announcement?
If they're offering a temporary fix, shouldn't they at least push that temp
fix as an update, and fully update the issue later? This le... | {
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} |
Taming Recurrent Neural Networks for Better Summarization - somerandomness
http://www.abigailsee.com/2017/04/16/taming-rnns-for-better-summarization.html
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pigscantfly
This paper checks all the boxes for me. The prior approaches are elegantly
tied together, the novel contributions are straightforward and intuitiv... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Gmail eventual consistency - nullecksor
I created a new secondary account for some reason, and tried to send ping-pong emails from both accounts.<p>1. secondary to primary works!<p>2. replying to secondary's mail from primary works!<p>3. create new email -> primary to secondary fails spectacularly with followi... | {
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With Their Own QR Code Trick, Bit.ly Eats Google’s Balls - nreece
http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/13/bitly-qr/
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jamesbritt
So, which one of these depends on the stability and goodwill of nic.ly ?
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With chemical tweaks, an old antibiotic is now more potent and resistant - kposehn
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/05/killer-antibiotic-now-25000x-more-potent-and-resistant-to-drug-resistance/
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btilly
I think I get the underlying idea, and it is clever.
A traditional antibiotic does one nasty thing to the ... | {
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} |
Dealing with corruption - corruption
We have recently been approached by a huge client in India which looks really promising. One of our distributors has told us his experience in India is that all dealings are done with backhanders and it's all corrupt. Does anyone have any experience with India? Is this the norm o... | {
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Did Uber steal Google’s intellectual property? - Fricken
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/22/did-uber-steal-googles-intellectual-property
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uptown
"One day in 2011, a Google executive named Isaac Taylor learned that, while he
was on paternity leave, Levandowski had modified the cars’ software so that he... | {
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} |
Yahoo Hires McKinsey to Mull Reorg, as Mayer Demands Exec Pledge to Stay - clbrook
http://recode.net/2015/11/09/yahoo-hires-mckinsey-to-mull-reorg-as-mayer-demands-exec-pledge-to-stay/
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staticautomatic
Leaked internal Yahoo documents indicate that "Project Index" is actually a
revolutionary new way of algorithmi... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Master Chrome DevTools free course by Google on Code School - feronull
http://discover-devtools.codeschool.com/
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justplay
first github then jquery now google ..keep going codeschool..proud to be your
user .
| {
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} |
Emacs v. Vi Is Rooted in the Love of Lisp - gnosis
http://stevengharms.com/blog/2005/07/24/emacs-v-vi-is-rooted-in-the-love-of-lisp/
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samdk
I basically agree with the final conclusion, but I don't think the example
given--deleting five lines of text--actually supports it at all. The author is
claiming that vim's... | {
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} |
Is X Going? (very cool hack to check if someone is going to sxsw) - pitdesi
http://www.isxgoing.com/
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harper
I built this last night using the previously linked SXSW data dump. It is on
app engine and works decently well.
There is a api: curl <http://www.isxgoing.com/> -d "search=harper+reed" -d
"api=1"
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Autism clusters found in California, linked to highly educated parents - robg
http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/autism-clusters
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RiderOfGiraffes
Very similar article posted earlier:
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1035155>
| {
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Inside the Strange New World of DIY Brain Stimulation - fraqed
http://www.wired.com/2014/05/diy-brain-stimulation/
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ters0n
Approach with caution. The products coming out of this research at the moment
(e.g. foc.us) are run by quacks. Just like those energy drinks that contain
neurotransmitters (first-pass meta... | {
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} |
Show HN: Snake meets Zelda in a challenging mobile adventure - rrradical
http://buttonbrigade.com
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lumens
I've played this game-- truly unique experience! Great work.
| {
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} |
Quantum mechanics technique allows for pushing past 'Rayleigh's curse' - endswapper
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-quantum-mechanics-technique-rayleigh-curse.html
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Phithagoras
Paper at
[http://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.6.0310...](http://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.6.031033)
... | {
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} |
Boeing may reject stimulus if Treasury seeks equity stake - selimthegrim
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/489255-boeing-ceo-says-company-may-reject-stimulus-if-treasury-seeks-equity-stake
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a3n
They say they'll reject stimulus for equity because they have "plenty of other
options."
So they shouldn't be asking ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Byepass – Eliminating Passwords - dommm
https://byepass.co/?ref=hn
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dzwillia
Hi there!
This seems like an interesting concept. Signing into your app via the link in
the email does a good job of showing the concept of what you're working on.
Your app also has a nice look-and-feel to it.
Couple of thoug... | {
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} |
A World of New Possibilities - mattswainblog
https://www.mattswain.co.uk/
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mattswainblog
The mind is where the magic happens. Thoughts, perception, emotion,
determination, memory, imagination all take place in the mind.
But do we pay enough attention to our minds, and more importantly our
thinking?
Our minds a... | {
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} |
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