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Ask HN: How do you balance side project time? - ralston
I currently have a FT job (thankfully isn't too taxing), but I also have several side projects that I'm working on (browser extension, autonomous trading bot, and just general learning as well). I'm getting to a point where I don't exactly kno... | {
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Liveblogging the Amazon Kindle E-Reader Show with Jeff Bezos - shayan
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/19/liveblogging-the-amazon-kindle-e-reader-show-with-jeff-bezos/
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kyro
Come on man, the same exact story was posted 30 minutes ago. It was and still
is in the top 10 for new stories, so I'd imagine it wouldn... | {
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Ask HN: Is it possible for me to change the color of downvoted comments? - sigmaprimus
My eyesight is not what it used to be, I know I can set the "Top Color" in preferences but would really like to change the color of down voted comments as I can barely read them and feel that this should be my choice on ho... | {
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Wait till you have a child of your own. - kategleason
http://katgleason.tumblr.com/
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Casseres
Please use permalinks. If after your next post, someone finds this link from
HN, they're not going to see the same article you're referring to.
Permalink: [http://katgleason.tumblr.com/post/27175271183/wait-till-
yo... | {
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Google now activates 500,000 Android devices every day - cryptoz
http://thenextweb.com/google/2011/06/28/google-now-activates-500000-android-devices-every-day/
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nextparadigms
I think there are at least 1 billion _phones_ sold per year from all the
companies right now. That means that 5 years from now when Andr... | {
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Will U.S.-China trade war help end China's dependency on Western tech? - saravana85
https://www.dailyherald.com/business/20190525/will-us-china-trade-war-help-end-chinas-dependency-on-western-tech
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orionblastar
Western Tech has CPUs and GPUs that China needs to make PCs and smartphones.
Intel and AMD make the CP... | {
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An Airbnb Host Got Drunk And Let Himself Into The House - amrrs
http://www.businessinsider.com/bi-employee-has-airbnb-horror-story-2014-6
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cones688
It is a very serious story but the reporting is all a little bit odd, why do
they quote the girlfriend who couldn't hear the conversation yet not get the
boyfriend... | {
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Ask HN: Why nobody competes with Adobe? - pacavaca
Adobe has sort of a monopoly on the creative tools market. Nobody seriously considers an alternative for their Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects, etc, and for some people, these are truly the only products which can satisfy their sophisticated needs. However, there a... | {
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Next Big Thing in health care: chronotherapy - tokenadult
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/enter-the-chronotherapists/
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atamyrat
This looks like an opportunity for WakeMate (YC S09) guys.
Wouldn't it make sense for them to sell their current product as a general
purpose/programmable chronoconsu... | {
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HTML5 Media Source Extensions: Bringing Production Video to the Web - slederer
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/04/html5-media-source-extensions-bringing-production-video-web/
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manfrominterne
Without detracting anything from MSE, EME doesn't bring "production video" to
the web. It brings useless encryption ... | {
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TensorFlow can now run on £12 edge hardware - TecheratiJames
https://techerati.com/news-hub/tensorflow-can-now-run-on-12-edge-hardware/
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scottlamb
"Cortex M4 processor is extremely low power, using less than 1 MW in many
cases"
Talk about low standards. Data centers run into megawatts but I expect more
power ef... | {
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Unix Command Lines and Relations - ludsan
http://merrigrove.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-occultation-of-relations-and-logic_22.html
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ivanhoe
Just for the record the initial proposed solution is not really an optimal way
to do it, specially if log files are huge. Using cat will push the whole log
file to stdout fir... | {
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Server Power-ups That Worked For Our Startup: Handling 10x Traffic - robert_mygengo
http://mygengo.com/talk/blog/server-power-ups-that-worked-for-us-handling-10x-traffic/
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dolinsky
Having been there a few times there are a few suggestions I'd like to put out
there. The points here should take a very minimal am... | {
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The day Google founders asked Steve Jobs to be CEO - lotusleaf1987
http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/36534/google-bosses-wanted-apple-boss
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ecommercematt
This "article" is misleading. The video which this link-bait inaccurately
describes states "they visited Steve Jobs just to meet him because he was a
hero of the... | {
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Critical Analysis of Stretching Theory (2011) - agarttha
http://www.matraining.com.au/personal-training-articles/critical-analysis-stretching-theory
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CuriouslyC
While having the strength to support yourself in extreme ranges of motion is a
major part of flexibility, a muscle's level of tonic contraction is the
b... | {
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Best CAPTCHA ever - olalonde
http://qntm.org/edit_comments.php?slug=responsibility
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batterseapower
Note a very good CAPTCHA, since as a spammer I can get the answer by just
feeding the question to Google:
<http://www.google.com/search?q=square+root+of+minus+one>
This should also work on those CAPTHCAs that a... | {
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Faster R-CNN: explanation of the state-of-the-art model for object detection - sameoldstory
https://tryolabs.com/blog/2018/01/18/faster-r-cnn-down-the-rabbit-hole-of-modern-object-detection/?HN
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tinchox
Great post. Thanks for sharing!
Quick question. Which are the main reasons behind using Faster R-CNN instead
... | {
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Tell HN: My reasoning as to why points should be displayed on comments - dools
There are two reasons:<p>Comments can appear at the top of the page for one of 2 reasons: because they were only submitted recently, or because they've been upvoted.<p>I'm assuming also there's some sort of interaction between time since ... | {
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Megastore: Providing scalable, highly available storage for interactive services - mad44
http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2011/03/megastore-providing-scalable-highly.html
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vyrotek
I'm not terribly familiar with these sorts of storage systems at a low-level,
but I definitely noticed some similarities between th... | {
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Learning Rust in 2020 - yannikyeo
https://github.com/pretzelhammer/rust-blog/blob/master/posts/learning-rust-in-2020.md
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steveklabnik
> When I started learning Rust I made the mistake of following the advice to
> read The Book first. While it's a great resource, it's pretty overwhelming
> for a beginner to get t... | {
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The Next Big Blue-Collar Job Is Coding - rbanffy
https://www.wired.com/2017/02/programming-is-the-new-blue-collar-job/amp
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giardini
2016 article that has been posted to HN 8 times:
[https://hn.algolia.com/?query=The%20Next%20Big%20Blue-
Collar...](https://hn.algolia.com/?query=The%20Next%20Big%20Blue-
Collar%20... | {
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Cambridge Analytica creator has State Department contract - peterkelly
https://www.axios.com/cambridge-analytica-may-still-have-an-open-contract-with-th-1521494535-64a045dd-bfe3-4a7a-8439-a54f1ae13860.html
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xster
It's not like Obama didn't "suck out the whole social graph" from Facebook who
"didn’t stop us once ... | {
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Google Code Jam 2015 - Aaronn
https://code.google.com/codejam/
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yodsanklai
Competitive programming is like a competitive sport. You need to practice a
lot to excel at it. The best ones have been training consistently for years.
It's a humbling experience for anyone who thinks he or she is a good
programmer. I r... | {
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Software Development And The Sunk Cost Fallacy - milep
http://www.skorks.com/2010/04/software-development-and-the-sunk-cost-fallacy/
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bdfh42
How did a reasonably good reiteration of the "sunk cost fallacy" and how it
applies to software projects (and I am closely observing just such a project
running at a clie... | {
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If Money Doesn't Make You Happy, Consider Time - rjb
http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/research/aaker_happiness_2011.html
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spodek
After I figured out my priorities (took years of challenging myself and
introspection) I figured out how to spend my time.
Now I do what's important and don't waste my time with other... | {
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The Lancet should be promoting public health not climate alarmism - tomhoward
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/doctors-obligation-to-patient-before-planet/story-e6frg6zo-1225976795292
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A1kmm
> it would be equally valid to argue for as many coal-fired > power plants to
> be built in Africa, India an... | {
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Ask HN: What do you think about my agency's new website and how can I improve it - kiraken
We had to retire our old website, and move to something more modern and simplistic. However i feel that i spent a lot of time over thinking this project, so i wanted to show it to you guys at its current form to get your opinion... | {
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Show HN: EDB – A framework to make and manage backups of your database - RoxasShadow
https://github.com/RoxasShadow/EDB
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dchest
Filed issues related to crypto:
[https://github.com/RoxasShadow/EDB/issues/created_by/dchest](https://github.com/RoxasShadow/EDB/issues/created_by/dchest)
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RoxasShadow
Thanks for th... | {
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Ask HN: How to Automate Large Work Spaces and Tools Setup on Windows Machines? - important
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teyc
You can have a look at how some of my colleagues publish their new machine
powershell scripts.
[https://github.com/tathamoddie/New-
Machine.ps1/blob/master/N...](https://github.com/tathamoddie/New-
Machine.ps1/blob/m... | {
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Show HN: Quadiq – A Simple, Relaxing, Strategy Game - jessehorne
I'm making this post before I go to bed. I'll check comments tomorrow if there are any to check! I just wanted to show off a simple game I built somewhat inspired by Hexiq and similar games. It's called Quadiq. You can play it at the link ... | {
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Robert Caro has spent thirty-eight years writing the biography of one man. - gruseom
http://www.esquire.com/print-this/robert-caro-0512?page=all
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tptacek
Tradecraft:
_Gottlieb has questioned the veracity of Caro's reporting only once. There
was a single paragraph that stood out on what would become the 214th... | {
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[Emacs]Org-Mode « Musings of a Software Engineering Student - drieddust
http://nflath.com/2010/03/org-mode-2/
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zackham
If you're interested in using org-mode more extensively then this is (imo) the
holy grail of customization walkthroughs: <http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html>
I scheduled (with org-mode of cou... | {
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Rethinking the Science of Skin - haltingproblem
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/03/rethinking-the-science-of-skin
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DoreenMichele
Overall, I'm glad to see this piece proposing a more complex understanding of
our largest organ. But some of what is said in this piece aggravates me, like
this quote:
_Di... | {
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Show HN: MealDays – Meal planner for my wife - jampoole
http://www.mealdays.com
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frantzmiccoli
Reading the title, I was sure that feminist trolls will be on a hunt. I am not
disappointed ;)
Your project could be useful to others, if you want to push it further my
advice would be: find a graphic designer (it's n... | {
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Breakthrough in Synthetic Vaccine Technology Requires No Refrigeration - ArtWomb
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2019/september/synthetic-vaccine.html
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fnord77
would this work for biologic drugs like remicade, humira and the like that
require refrigeration?
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EForEndeavour
My guess is no, based on this quote f... | {
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Best programming language(s) for blockchain software technologies? - dlcmh
Given that technologies based on C/C++ are vulnerable to security exploits, should future blockchain software be written primarily in JVM-based languages?
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nostrademons
JVM is pretty memory-hungry, which isn't ideal for a lot of bloc... | {
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How to Hire a Great Marketer for Your Company - pw
http://blog.mixrank.com/how-to-hire-a-great-marketer-for-your-company
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dmk23
Great tips and I would definitely add another one:
"Make sure your marketer is readily willing to implement automation tools to
increase their efficiency".
As many new tools, MixRan... | {
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Could Elsevier shut down arxiv.org? - da-bacon
http://dabacon.org/pontiff/?p=5948
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ak217
There are plenty of real reasons to dislike Elsevier. Making up hypothetical
ones only discredits the OP and adds noise.
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gwillen
I would love to see Elsevier try to shut down the arXiv. That might be the one
thing ... | {
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Forget DTV; FCC now planning "all-IP" phone transition - ojbyrne
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/12/fcc-plans-for-death-of-circuit-switched-phone-networks.ars
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ars
IP was never designed for real time reliability. If they want a packet
switched phone network, fine. But a new protocol, not IP.
A p... | {
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Introduction to Hacking PostgreSQL (2007) - mulander
http://www.neilconway.org/talks/hacking/
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parhamn
It's a shame you can't easily add an extensions to most hosted postgres
solutions. I hacked on the postgres ltree extension [1] recently, and was
amazed at how easy it is to extend functionality of the database... | {
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Is Microsoft About To Overpay For Skype? - mvs
http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/09/microsoft-skype/
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melling
Did Google overpay for YouTube? Won't it really come down to how the leverage
the product and its hundreds of million users? These types are articles aren't
really worth reading.
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Middle-aged prodigies: Seven poster children over 40 - fuzzix
http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn21559-middle-age
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edw519
I love articles like this. It reminds the 99% of us who didn't "hit it big" in
our youth that it's never too late.
Hopefully someday...
"edw519 toiled in obscurity writing software for o... | {
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What language should I learn? - robinwarren
http://jobstractor.com/what-language-should-I-learn/
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rwl
It would be fun to see the data in the other direction: where should I move if
I know...?
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kabdib
Cupertino, CA said "Java"
That is very funny.
Has someone done the reverse? "All I know is PL/1, FORTRAN... | {
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Ex-Googlers Create Zizooboats To Make Boating Affordable - lucija_m
http://bizzkube.com/whats-hot/ex-googlers-set-up-zizoo-to-make-boating-affordable/
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lucija_m
What do you think about our website? Feedback much appreciated!
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Getting Started With Screen - jamescarl
http://jamescarl.us/blog/getting-started-with-screen/
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a3voices
I like to use 'screen -rd' because it detaches any existing sessions before
connecting.
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jamescarl
Cool thanks for the tip. I'll add it to the post do you have a link to a site
you'd like me to add?
~~~... | {
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If you use GNU grep on text files, use the -a (--text) option - rurban
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/GNUGrepForceText
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gpvos
I just looked through the GNU grep history to see when it suddenly started
being able to decide halfway through a file that it is binary after all; this
is since 16 Septemb... | {
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PHP RESTful API with an example MySQL database. - karlhadwen
https://github.com/karlhadwen/RESTful-API
I recently finished a small RESTful API project for a University project and thought it would be good to upload it to Github as an example as to how a RESTful API should function and work, as I know its hard to find... | {
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Filtrex: A simple JavaScript filter expression compiler - joewalnes
https://github.com/joewalnes/filtrex
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couchand
This is really slick. I wonder if it would be useful to build an object model
for the filters rather than directly concatenating the code. That would allow
for interesting inspection on the parsed e... | {
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Form Follows Function - A collection of interactive HTML5 experiences - muratmutlu
http://fff.cmiscm.com/#!/main
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sr3d
Great collection! It'd be interesting to see more posts on the techniques
behind the demos.
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oboizt
So many pretty things! I'm a huge fan of seeing what people can do with HTML5.
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Nasty Bug: Safari doesn’t cache stuff. - prakash
http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2008/04/04/nasty-bug-safari-doesnt-cache-stuff/
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aschobel
curl -I <http://www.smugmug.com/test/safari/300k.jpg>
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:16:43 GMT
Server: Apache
Last-Modified: Mon, ... | {
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Salty diet makes you hungry, not thirsty - upen
http://exactlyscience.com/archives/12047.html
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DrScump
Blogspam of
[https://insights.mdc-berlin.de/en/2017/04/mission-control-
bo...](https://insights.mdc-berlin.de/en/2017/04/mission-control-bodys-salt-
water-supplies/)
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fpoling
This may explain why some d... | {
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Ask HN: Scala technology stack? - drKarl
I'm doing some research to define the technology stack I'll be using in my next project.<p>I have a Java background, but I'm interested in expanding my horizons and use the best tools available.<p>I've played with Groovy and Python, and they are nice, but I've also read about... | {
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Court Rules the FBI Does Not Need a Warrant to Hack a Computer - r721
https://motherboard.vice.com/read/court-rules-the-fbi-does-not-need-a-warrant-to-hack-a-computer
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mtgx
> _“It seems unreasonable to think that a computer connected to the Web is
> immune from invasion,” Morgan, Jr. adds. “Indeed, the opposite ... | {
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Show HN: Need1Hour.com - Please provide feedback - robbiea
The site is http://need1hour.com/.. The site was started by Len Kendall (aka the guy who proposed to his wife via buzzfeed.com) and after an initial success, 2 more of us jumped on. Any feedback on the idea, etc would be appreciated.
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alt_
Clicky: <ht... | {
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Github: Major Service Outage - nchuhoai
http://status.github.com/
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nchuhoai
That's the first time I have ever experienced this. On a side note: Love their
status pages, both the error page as well as status.github.com
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What makes dual-career couples work or not - sarapeyton
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/audio/what-makes-dual-career-couples-work-or-not/
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mcv
The first important point is to accept that every commitment comes with
compromises. Having a job is itself a commitment. So is a relationship.
Children are the biggest commi... | {
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Apple will reportedly introduce 16-inch MacBook Pro as soon as tomorrow - kjhughes
https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/12/20962038/apple-macbook-pro-16-inch-release-date-rumor-november-13
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listenallyall
I own a Sony laptop from 2009 with a 16.4 inch screen (1080p), the difference
in readability between that and a m... | {
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Deaths per unit of energy for various sources - johndcook
http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/visualizations/2e5d4dcc4fb511e0ae0c000255111976/comments/2e70ae944fb511e0ae0c000255111976
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ghshephard
The sources look good [1] In particular, the deaths as a result of
hydroelectric power caught some c... | {
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Boiling point: redesigning the kettle for the 21st century - heydenberk
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/feb/08/innovators-boiling-point-redesigning-kettle-miito
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username223
I'm not seeing the point here, especially for $120.
If it's fast, you'll end up with an extremely hot metal rod at the end of the... | {
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Amazon SageMaker – Build, train, and deploy machine learning models at scale - irs
https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker
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gk1
This blog post also includes screenshots:
[https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/sagemaker/](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/sagemaker/)
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michaelbarton
If anyone from AWS is in this forum, ... | {
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Ask HN: Is Magic Leap just vaporware? - wemdyjreichert
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lostdog
I call it "struggleware."
Some of their tech is awesome (as confirmed by friends who have tried it), but
they are struggling to solve the final technical issues and get it to market.
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gvb
It's not technically vaporware, it is more like "Duke ... | {
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Bitcoin.org's Gavin Andresen on Open Source and Escrow - spenvo
http://www.bitcoinbulletin.com/2011/04/09/bowling-for-bitcoins-meet-the-trader-05/
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kristofferR
BitCoin is damn interesting, it has the potential to dramatically change the
world.
I hope it takes off. I think it will though, since the early adopter... | {
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How to Start a Startup Video - bvanvugt
http://blog.sendwithus.com/how-to-start-a-startup-video/
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visha
Hello, I'm Visha from Sendwithus. If you have any questions about the blog
post or the making of the video let me know :)
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Attosecond
What are some of the biggest technical challenges of creating a vi... | {
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Peter Thiel on Pitching (2012) - _pius
http://blakemasters.com/post/22271192791/peter-thiels-cs183-startup-class-8-notes-essay
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beenpoor
Useful! Thanks for posting
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Hulu is eliminating its free, ad-supported streaming service - kilink
http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/8/12401884/hulu-cancels-free-streaming-move-to-yahoo-view
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chjohasbrouck
A couple years ago I was watching Hulu and noticed the ads always felt like
they took much longer to play than they should.
I got out my i... | {
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Why Henry Kissinger Is Wrong That AI Is “How the Enlightenment Ends” - andreyk
https://www.skynettoday.com/briefs/kissinger-ai
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basicplus2
on a slightly different tangent.. if a small group of people successfully
develop an AI to sucessfuly perform some task such as driving vehicles.. and
it is so successful tha... | {
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Inbox Zero: How to Keep a Clean Email Inbox (And Mind) - florimondmanca
https://blog.florimondmanca.com/inbox-zero-how-to-keep-clean-email-inbox-and-mind
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icedchai
Why archive when I can just leave it in my inbox? Inbox infinity works for me.
My personal gmail has almost 20,000 emails.
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adamkruszewski
Glad i... | {
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Figure It the %$&* Out - bearwithclaws
http://www.scriptmag.com/features/primetime-juggling-writing-and-a-job-figure-it-out
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ctdonath
One great example is Eminem. Despite the hectic tour/recording schedules and
all the, um, perks of being a star, every moment he can he's obsessively
scribbling in his notebook. W... | {
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Why Twitter Deleted Those Tweets - danso
http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/why-twitter-deleted-those-tweets
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CM30
Or in other words, why the DMCA system is broken. Because a company or
individual can claim anything is breaking their copyright to get it removed,
and the site seemingly has to act regardless o... | {
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North Korea fires on South Korea – live coverage - JacobIrwin
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2010/nov/23/north-korea-fires-south-korea
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rtuck
This is coverage from an event last November. While interesting, I'm not sure
how it's relevant. Can you provide some context?
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Whitespace - prakash
http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/
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thamer
FWIW I made a Whitespace compiler for .NET as an exercise a few years ago. It
works with Microsoft .NET and Mono, and emits compiled MSIL code.
<http://spacesharp.batard.info/>
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lt
Here's a list of languages in the same vein:
[http://en.w... | {
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5 Reasons KDE Is Better Than Unity - bigmetalman
http://www.thepowerbase.com/2012/01/5-reasons-why-kde-is-better-than-unity/
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javadyan
Oh my god, this is so sad. What has the Linux-on-desktop world come to? "You
can manage your windows with it" is actually an advantage.
On a lighter note, if there is still ho... | {
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} |
Going underground: who’s behind Berlin’s secret subway bedrooms? - Turukawa
http://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2016/mar/20/underground-berlin-secret-subway-bedrooms-airbnb
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noonespecial
_At first, the underground workers who stumbled upon this scene in a disused
U-Bahn tunnel in Berlin’s Reinickendorf di... | {
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IE team member responds to IE9 canvas complaints - kemayo
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/giorgio/archive/2011/01/14/building-great-browsers-together.aspx
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zaatar
Disclaimer: I work on the IE9 Team
I can't overemphasize the need to submit feedback through the proper channels,
namely connect.microsoft.com. We continuo... | {
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} |
ASK HN: Review my latest deal for web designers - crxnamja
http://appsumo.com
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kadavy
I'm thinking about getting this just for the TypeKit sub, but I don't/haven't
used the others.
| {
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Honeybee brains seem to use alpha waves similarly to primate brains - laurex
https://www.zmescience.com/science/honeybee-brains-alpha-waves/
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ajna91
I think many insects are far smarter than we have assumed.
Bumblebees can learn to pull a string to receive a reward [1]. But maybe
that's just blind conditioning?... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Ditching iTunes, What's The Alternative? - DigitalSea
I just got a Samsung Galaxy S4 and am ditching iTunes. What is the alternative these days to iTunes? I want something that can play a wide ranged of formats including Flac files. I did some Googling, but couldn't really find anything other than poorly ski... | {
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} |
Systems programming in "scripting" languages - adamsmith
http://www.tompinckney.com/2009/10/systems-programming-in-scripting.html
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kmavm
This is an appealing train of thought, but it turns out to be very hard to
make this pay off, at least in all the concrete situations I've been able to
consider. The reason i... | {
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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... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: UserInsights – Get 5 minutes of real user feedback - zxlk21e
https://userinsights.com
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spking
This has become a really crowded space. UserTesting.com, Validately, Loop11,
userzoom, userlytics, etc. As other commenters have alluded to, it really
comes down to participant demographic granularity. If I can... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Pioneer – A home for the ambitious outsiders of the world - golangnews
https://pioneer.app/
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Jaruzel
_We’re building a community of creative young people working on interesting
projects around the globe._
YOUNG people?! As a young-minded 40-something, I find this statement
offensive. On the basis that I fully i... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Non programmers reading code (code as documentation) - smokeonline
https://github.com/JpOnline/Blog/blob/master/language.md
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smokeonline
This idea passes through BDD, Ubiquitous language, code as documentation and
single source of truth.
Do you think is possible and desirable to have code so idiomatic that a do... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Is it realistic to go from zero to freelance rails dev in 3 months? - ebaysucks
Hi,<p>Could experienced developers please tell me whether it's realistic to become a productive freelance developer in 3 months of full time study and practice?<p>The goal would be to good enough to bill $25/30 hour on odesk.com ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Problems to solve in a post-virus world? - cloudking
What are new problems to solve in the aftermath of the Coronavirus?
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mdorazio
I'm with samizdis on this one. Covid is a black swan event. Solving problems
unique to it (like toilet paper and ventilator shortages, mass work from home
implementation, etd... | {
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} |
How Intellectuals Create a Public - samclemens
http://chronicle.com/article/How-Intellectuals-Create-a/234984
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fleitz
I think Guy Debord did a much better job finding the fundamental issues that
give rise to these phenomena, namely, The Society of the Spectacle, it focuses
on much the same dichotomies in a much ... | {
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} |
Fravia's web-searching lore (2009) - userbinator
http://search.lores.eu/indexo.htm
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petra
With all the changes in search engines(only Google and bing left,
personalization, Google disregarding a lot of your search operators and
intent) - do you still find the lore usefull ?
~~~
userbinator
I think it's rather s... | {
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} |
Interview questions, or "Can I work with you?" - stefan_kendall
http://www.stefankendall.com/2012/09/can-i-work-with-you.html
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lccarrasco
I'm getting stuck on this paragraph, it seems that it's missing a
'locks','stops working' or something else:
"If a customer comes to you and says that occasionally when the... | {
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} |
Drupal benchmarking with NGINX and Apache - jimmyboyb
http://cloudarch.co.uk/2012/10/drupal-benchmarking-apache-nginx-varnish
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Gazler
Surely you are just benchmarking Varnish and Drupal is irrelevant in the
equation? The other results are more useful. Interesting to see how little it
takes to kill Apache for a... | {
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} |
From tl;dr to Techcrunch: My Rumble app's story - jeremymcanally
http://omgbloglol.com/post/1373695996/from-tl-dr-to-techcrunch-my-rumble-apps-story
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atomical
[http://omgbloglol.com/post/1373695996/from-tl-dr-to-
techcrun...](http://omgbloglol.com/post/1373695996/from-tl-dr-to-techcrunch-
my-rumble-apps-story)... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How to start learning JavaScript concepts - gpayal
Have been using frameworks like jQuery and AngularJS in multiple applications. But I have felt that I have not been able to understand the core concepts of javascript programming the way it should be understood. I want to learn how to create a JS frontend whic... | {
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How can a programmer help The New York Times report stories? - jashkenas
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/jobs/nyt-news-applications-developer.html
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tptacek
The irony of this is that it's March 1, and there's a hiring thread on the
site today, which is where stuff like this belongs.
~~~
jashkenas
Sorry ... | {
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} |
Shopify Is Joining Twitter in Permanent Work-from-Home Shift - uptown
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-21/shopify-is-joining-twitter-in-permanent-work-from-home-shift
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pixxel
Companies will make huge savings on office space etc., how much will they be
paying to rent a room in our homes?
Hear me o... | {
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} |
Why 'sudo Vim' Could Hurt Your Productivity - robertelder
http://blog.robertelder.org/vim-forgets-copy-buffer-on-reopen/
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SteveDeFacto
I see no reason to ever run vim as sudo. The best option in my opinion is to
save files using ":w ! sudo tee %" This way you are not opening your system up
to potential exploits ... | {
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} |
Snap for Beginners: Haskell Web Development - biscarch
http://snapforbeginners.com/
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BadassFractal
Anybody know of solid super-entry level tutorials for starting Web Development
with Haskell with less opinionated libraries like Scotty? Something that shows
you how to slap together a solid cabal sandboxed ready-t... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Best way to generate recurring income - newsisan
Looking to learn some new skills and make some money.<p>What do I have the best chance of making real money (say $50/day) with?<p>- Apps: iPhone/Android/WinMo/Ovi/Mac App Store/iPad<p>- Web apps: like most of the things that come up on HN. (Appt Reminder, for ... | {
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} |
Julian Assange defiant as Sweden drops rope investigation - King_mansur
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39979343
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rbanffy
"rope"? ;-)
| {
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ShowHN: I built a Reddit.com Realtime mashup - JonathanBouman
http://www.scrolldit.com/?r=/new
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nandemo
Cool.
Although my first reaction was surprise at how awful the default front page of
reddit is (I do use reddit but I don't subscribe to the pic- and meme-heavy
subreddits).
How about text snippets for the... | {
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} |
Announcing more functionality to improve customer engagements on Twitter - chmars
https://blog.twitter.com/developer/en_us/topics/tools/2017/announcing-more-functionality-to-improve-customer-engagements-on-twitter.html
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chmars
TweetBot – among others – is apparently in trouble:
'After June 19th, 2018, streaming... | {
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} |
Cyber-libertarianism: Silk Road battleground individualism vs authority - CPAhem
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-04/stilgherrian-silk-road/4998476
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gum_ina_package
Is it just me, or does anyone else see not buy into the idea that the Internet
is something that's dramatically altering the course of human evo... | {
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} |
How to know when to break the rules (of design) - chadfowler
http://www.6wunderkinder.com/blog/break-rules-to-design-better-products
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Sujan
FYI: You can click the images with the blue plus to open a slideshow that
shows what the article actually means.
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} |
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