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Is It Finally Game Over for Ethanol? - DiabloD3
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/is-it-finally-game-over-for-ethanol
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freehunter
There are billboards up across Michigan advertising "Save $1/gal, look for the
yellow hose". Doesn't say a thing about the yellow hose being ethanol. My
grandparents decided to take ... | {
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The great American tax haven: why the super-rich love South Dakota - elorant
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/14/the-great-american-tax-haven-why-the-super-rich-love-south-dakota-trust-laws
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tomatotomato37
Interesting fact: Despite having one of the lowest tax rates in the nation,
South Dakota ranks in... | {
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} |
Show HN: Doodle with strangers 1 on 1 in real-time - paintAcquaint
http://www.PaintAcquaint.com
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paintAcquaint
Hey guys,
I'm re-releasing PaintAcquaint and I wanna know what you guys think about my
site! I'll be doing a live-stream at 8 o'clock buuut here are the updates:
Updates from Beta:
-Cleaner UI w/ n... | {
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Show HN: HN Timeline - A cool way to read Hacker News Chronologically - jQueryIsAwesome
http://hntimeline.com/
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jQueryIsAwesome
Hi, I am the creator. You can also slide through time by using Shift + Mouse
wheel. I works pretty well on Android devices (not tested in iOS). Hope you
guys like it.
~~~
tstegart
Th... | {
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Ultraconserved words in use since the last Ice Age - blacksqr
http://www.dailygrail.com/Hidden-History/2017/5/Study-Uncovered-Common-Words-Appear-Have-Survived-Mother-Language-Existed
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chch
Here's a previous thread from when this was originally posted:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5669179](https://news.... | {
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Show HN: Safely rename files to their SHA1 sum + ext on FreeBSD 11 - eriknstr
I have a collection of files with external origin which had bad names. The worst characters that they contained were some UTF-8 characters and the single quotation mark. Aside from these characters, there were other unwanted characters such ... | {
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The Most Detailed Image of Our Galaxy Ever Taken - jaybol
http://bmgoau.nfshost.com/milkyway_spitzer_zoom/spitzer.html
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lbrandy
If you zoom in (and give it a sec) it'll load the high-res version.
Just remember, every point of light is a star. And then remember, there are as
many galaxies in the universe as poin... | {
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} |
Testing isn't everything - Carpetsmoker
https://arp242.net/weblog/testing.html
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mcharezinski
Unit testing can be valuable. And yes I agree with some of the points from the
blog post - it can be a pain too.
When you experience such a situation it means that your tests are too low and
you are testing the implemen... | {
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} |
Picplum launches Photo Printing API - lyime
https://www.picplum.com/developer
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pearkes
What do you think made Picplum go the route of the consumer needing an
account?
As apposed to me just sending Picplum the customer's information, and having
the hard work (printing, mailing, etc.) be handled for me.
~~~
wc... | {
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The Best "Thank You for Your Order" Email I Have Ever Received - devin
http://couchraisin.com/post/2921948101/best-thank-you-for-your-order-email-ever
I've received a whole lot of "receipt" emails, but this one changed my day.
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RiderOfGiraffes
Although not a duplicate, this story/email was submitted just over a... | {
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} |
World's first dual-core smartphone debuts in Korea - rglullis
http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/LG-Optimus-2X/?kc=rss
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atomical
I was living in Korea when the iPhone debuted. It was partnered as a
McDonald's promotion, "Mac Tonight."
Koreans like phones that are versatile:
"Other features are said to inc... | {
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Extreme side-effects of antidepressants - pmoriarty
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-37682355
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_98fj
Just a couple of unordered facts here, because discussions about this topic
tend to get very confused:
1\. Serotonin is a very basic, very old transmitter found in all bilateral
animals. Humans have _two_ sites ... | {
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Short film written by algorithm - walrus01
http://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2016/06/an-ai-wrote-this-movie-and-its-strangely-moving/
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ralusek
"It's just not diamond, I'm gonna be in your stomach area, and that is
happening to you on my brother. You should have looked up the last time we
talked about races, ... | {
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When Posturing Meets Reality - _mgr
https://forums.grsecurity.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=4309
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_mgr
Original Washington Post article -
[http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/business/2015/11/05/net-
of-...](http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/business/2015/11/05/net-of-
insecurity-the-kernel-of-the-argument/) HN Discussion... | {
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The Greek Plan for Growth and Recovery: Documents Ignored by the EU - harperlee
http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2015/08/20/the-greek-plan-for-growth-recovery-two-documents-the-ministry-of-finance-tabled-in-may-and-june-2015/
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GordonS
"Or was it because our proposals’ substance made it hard for them to admit
that the r... | {
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} |
Ex-Google Ad Man Saves You From Ad Hell with "Disconnect2" browser plugin - kirtijthorat
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/12/disconnect/
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chestnut-tree
I personally don't think Google can ever be a champion for user privacy. The
more data they can collect about users' online browsing behaviour, the mo... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Calcflow, an open-source complex maths visualization tool in VR - ottomanbob
https://github.com/matryx/calcflow
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pault
Lately I've been wanting a VR tool that does interactive 3D projections of 4D
geometry. It's already so counterintuitive, I'm curious if the additional
information available when projec... | {
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} |
Peer-to-Peer, personal web platform: Tonido - codemechanic
http://www.tonido.com
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eipiman
You mention a business strategy, so presumably you intend Tonido to be a
business. How do you plan to make money?
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codemechanic
Tonido offers personal web applications that run from your desktop without
relying on... | {
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} |
Show HN: I love weird socks and I'm finally launching my lifestyle business - wolfparade
http://www.sotmclub.com
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samdk
Design feedback: Your 'buy now' and 'learn more' buttons on the homepage are
very hard to see. They need to stand out. Make them bigger and bolder, or
change the color (red would stand out much... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Low-code platform startup - Feedback Request - sunilkosuri
Hello friends,<p>We will be launching our startup https://www.getfastcode.com in a couple of months.<p>fastCode helps professional web app developers significantly reduce the time it takes to develop a web app. We are currently supporting Spr... | {
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Ask HN: How do you deal with boredom at work? - ffjffsfr
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thefastlane
you're not very specific, but a couple thoughts i'll share:
1) So important to be intentional about your time, and your energy. Start
planning your day: [http://calnewport.com/blog/2013/12/21/deep-habits-the-
import...](http://calnewport.com/b... | {
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} |
HMS Terror's 'incredible' condition may offer clues to lost Franklin Expedition - throwaway2048
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/terror-wreck-exploration-franklin-expedition-mystery-1.5252023
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Ellen_Monp
It makes me wonder how difficult it can be to do diving work in places like
the north of Nunavut. Has anyone in... | {
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} |
Swift Forums - damuellen
https://forums.swift.org
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ComputerGuru
The old title was "Official Swift forums switch to Discourse," or something
along those lines. The current title ("Swift Forums") tells you _nothing_.
Aside: I _detest_ Discourse. It is an abomination of good ideas mated to
horrible UX by developer... | {
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} |
My New York Misadventure (1932) - samclemens
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/23-finest-hour-136/2251-my-new-york-misadventure
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CapitalistCartr
For those of you struggling to identify "RML", its Richard M. Langworth,
former editor.
"The Churchill Centre has announced that Richard M. Lang... | {
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} |
DVD region code blocks British Prime Minister from enjoying Obama's gift - tsally
http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/
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chanux
It's good that these people get to know how life sucks with restrictions...
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herdrick
That it was a crappy gift is ... | {
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AOL sell ICQ to DST (Russia) - Uncle_Sam
http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/aol-to-sell-icq-service-to-d-s-t-for-187-5-million/
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josefresco
Still run ICQ+Pidgin+OTR daily. And while I don't have the coveted 6 digit ICQ
UIN I got a 7 digit so that makes me old.
I wonder if this will increase or decre... | {
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} |
NSScreencast: Bite-sized Screencasts for iOS Development - factotum
http://nsscreencast.com/
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hung
See also: <https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2011/>
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subdigital
....but those aren't "bite-sized" ;)
~~~
hung
I'd argue that 20 minutes isn't either, but fair enough :)
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wdewind
Watched the firs... | {
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GopherCon 2015 CFP Now Open - bketelsen
http://cfp.gophercon.com/events/gc15
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rfb
And here I was hoping a gopher:// resurgence was taking place.
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welly
My hopes were also dashed. Bring back gopher!
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rakoo
As someone too young to have used gopher://, I'd like to take your comment
half-seriously: from a ... | {
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} |
Why It's Scary To Be A Mobile App - ezrasiegel
http://www.apptentive.com/blog/top-6-reasons-why-scary-to-be-a-mobile-app/
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ezrasiegel
Happy Halloween.
~~~
mathrawka
You got at least 1 signup from this ;)
| {
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Game graphics could be 100,000 times better - yu
http://www.reghardware.com/2011/08/03/game_graphics_could_be_10000_times_better/
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ColinWright
Previous submissions and discussions:
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2832669> : A few comments
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2835383> : >100 comments
<h... | {
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Catrivision's 1972 VCR - technologizer
http://www.fastcompany.com/3050535/how-cartrivisions-1972-vcr-foresaw-and-forfeited-the-time-shifted-future
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ecopoesis
Reminds me of Selectavision discs:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance_Electronic_Disc](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance_Electronic_Disc)
... | {
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} |
'1984': As Good as It Gets - solipsist
http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/news/digital/e3i543ab57159cb298a4d8c4c408b7a539d?pn=1
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wallflower
> Ken Segall did the brilliant “Here’s to the Crazy Ones” spot for the ’96
> Super Bowl, which remains one of my favorite spots. It reassured the
> faithful that goo... | {
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5 Million Dollars 1 Terabyte - nextparadigms
http://www.art404.com/5million.html
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reemrevnivek
It's a hard drive on a pedestal. "Toggle Info" is clickable, and brings up the
message:
"5 Million Dollars 1 Terabyte" (2011) is a sculpture consisting of a 1 TB
Black External Hard Drive containing $5,000,000 worth... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How Swedes and Norwegians broke the power of the ‘1 percent’ - jayferd
http://wagingnonviolence.org/2012/01/how-swedes-and-norwegians-broke-the-power-of-the-1-percent
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dalke
This is at least the third time this has been submitted. The one with the most
comments is <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3517830> ... | {
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A Proper Server Naming Scheme - dwightgunning
https://www.mnxsolutions.com/devops/a-proper-server-naming-scheme.html
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brudgers
What are the advantages over treating servers as cattle?
[http://www.tomsitpro.com/articles/openstack-pets-and-
cattle,...](http://www.tomsitpro.com/articles/openstack-pets-and-
cattle,... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Good internet resources to get knowledge on fintech (card payments)? - fandorin
Hi,<p>I am wondering if any of you can recommend good www resources (pages/blogs/books?) that could give me a good overview of fintech topics - in particular card payments (e.g. types of cards, issuing vs acquiring bank, ... | {
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The making of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the “worst” video game - newest
https://thehustle.co/worst-video-game-in-history-et/
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mypalmike
I played ET as a kid when it came out and then many years later. It was a
massive disappointment when it came out - it made no sense, and of course it
had those infamous pits.... | {
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} |
“Do-It-Yourself” Vaccine Could Save Patients $10 Billion - hawkharris
http://codyromano.com/do-it-yourself-vaccine/
======
Mz
Excerpt:
_The next time a business or local government builds a public bathroom, it
should consider putting the sink outside, near the entrance. The resulting
social pressure would cause al... | {
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} |
Show HN: I built a Dapp to Automate Dollar Cost Averaging from DAI-ETH - federiconitidi
As the title says, I built a tool that allows you to buy a constant amount of ETH (with DAI) at regular intervals. For example, if you decide to buy 100DAI worth of ETH every week, dca.land will send 50 DAI from your wallet to Unis... | {
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} |
Is this an eggplant which I see before me? - feross
https://meaningness.com/eggplant/rationalist-perception
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batsigner
Is this an article written by GPT-3 which I see before me?
| {
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} |
Natural History Museums Are Teeming with Undiscovered Species - Hooke
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/02/the-unexplored-marvels-locked-away-in-our-natural-history-museums/459306/?single_page=true
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JoeAltmaier
In response to the inevitable "No wonder they're extinct; those biologists in
the 19th c... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How to foil terrorist attacks if everything is encrypted? - 321yawaworht
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mstolpm
Why do you think terrorists use (algorithmic) encryption in common
communication channels at all? There are so many ways to transport a hidden
message in plain sight that using encryption itself might give intelligence a
hin... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Biomimicry in software? - OzzyOsbourne
The title is pretty much self-explanatory: do you know of any algorithms/solutions that emulate nature to solve problems? I know of neural networks, and chaos theory (think plant leaves and algo-trading), but I'd like to find out about specific implementations of this.
... | {
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} |
Stripe Press - gregorymichael
https://press.stripe.com/
======
cyberferret
As someone whose SaaS uses Stripe for payment processing, I must admit to
being somewhat uncomfortable that Stripe seems to be spreading themselves out
into areas outside their core business.
I read the "22 Immutable Laws of Marketing" many ma... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior (2012) [pdf] - gruseom
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/02/21/1118373109.full.pdf
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twoodfin
Studies 1 & 2 didn't examine ethical behavior by any actual determination of
social class, but rather by the kind of car a person was driving.
Studies 3 & 4... | {
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} |
FBI Says It Can't Find Hackers That Don't Smoke Pot - stickfigure
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-fbi-cant-find-hackers-that-dont-smoke-pot
======
DrScump
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10918919](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10918919)
7+ comments
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Ask HN: Largest Non-Recoverable Dataloss - ggm
Whats the largest non-recoverable storage loss which has been on either of SSD or HDD. (by Pb?)<p>I would imagine few enterprises which suffered one want to broadcast it.
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HarryHirsch
The collapse of the Western part of the Roman Empire would qualify. No matter
how ... | {
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} |
Colosseum killing machine reconstructed - danso
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/11655510/Colosseum-killing-machine-reconstructed-after-more-than-1500-years.html
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clsec
The documentary: [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/building-
wonders.html#c...](http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
To do better science, admit that you’re not objective - tacon
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00669-2
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leftyted
Nah. Do your best to be objective. The work you accomplish while attempting
objectivity will be better than the work you would have accomplished while
attempting to account for your lack of ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Has anyone gotten a job using the “Who wants to be hired?” - unixsheikh
I was just wondering if anyone actually has gotten a job filling out the "Who wants to be hired"?
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kstenerud
I posted once earlier this year just for the hell of it, and got contacted
almost immediately, eventually acceptin... | {
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} |
What the ideal founding team should look like - jesses
http://blog.adku.com/2010/12/ideal-founding-team.html
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fezzl
"If you're a 3-time successful entrepreneur with VCs clamoring to give you
money at astronomical valuations without an idea, then this might be an option
for you. Otherwise, this option is a deat... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Problem finding places to engage with your TG? - aminmemon
Have you faced problems in finding places to connect and promote your startup to the right audience? How did you solved this?
======
PaulHoule
My experience with any kind of marketing (ex. putting up posters to promote a
concert, calling B2B prospects... | {
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} |
Universal Basic Income already exists for the 1% - kareemm
https://medium.com/@MattBruenig/the-ubi-already-exists-for-the-1-d3a49fad0580#.74muh726a
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gfodor
This article seems transparently fallacious to me, since the income generated
for the 1% is due to investment capital. Investment capital, among a million
ot... | {
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} |
Get all 5 aws certified with Cloud Academy sub at $1/month - anacleto
https://cloudacademy.com/pricing/plan/professional/checkout/?code=devopsgooglereddit
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jamiesonbecker
Perfect timing, what with AWS re:Invent next week!
| {
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} |
Visual Studio Code installer provided by GitHub repo - segaboy81
======
segaboy81
[https://github.com/segaboy/visualstudioinstaller](https://github.com/segaboy/visualstudioinstaller)
| {
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Experimentally verified: “Why client-side templating is wrong” (2015) - tylermauthe
http://www.onebigfluke.com/2015/01/experimentally-verified-why-client-side.html
======
simonw
I know this is a vanishingly unpopular opinion these days, but personally I
think that if your content can only be rendered by a user-agent w... | {
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} |
Moz.com requires users to change passwords after hashes were leaked - hiddenfeatures
Full text of the email, because there is no announcement on the blog so far<p>------------------------------------------------<p>On Friday, May 31st, we discovered that an encrypted portion of some of our member passwords may have b... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
An onlinestore front for most mentioned books on Stackoverflow - johndoe22
http://www.booksoverflows.com
======
johndoe22
This is my first side project which is for developers and students to find
best books for their interested topic.All your suggestions are welcome.
| {
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} |
Help Stop Xenophobia in South Africa, Report Incidents - tekafrique
http://reportxenophobia.co.za
======
philiphodgen
Please enlighten those of us outside South Africa. What, exactly, is
xenophobia? There is nothing in the "About" or FAQ" pages to tell me what this
is all about.
There seems to be a world of hidden ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Scribd, the "YouTube for documents," copyright violations and all - Readmore
http://venturebeat.com/2007/03/28/scribd-the-youtube-for-documents-copyright-violations-and-all/
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Alex3917
I alluded to this in the last Scribd thread, but try doing a search for either
Seduction or NLP. The reason both groups were the ... | {
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} |
Why Uber's business model is doomed - donsupreme
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/24/gig-economy-uber-lyft-insecurity-crisis
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Animats
_Only in a world where more profitable opportunities for investment are sorely
lacking can such wild bets on far-flung futuristic technologies become massive
mul... | {
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} |
Ruby on Erlang - luckystrike
http://blog.antarestrader.com/?p=77
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cx01
If I understand him correctly, he wants to make all classes into processes and
method calls into message sends. I don't think this would improve performance
in any way.
"Many of the processes will actually be suspended waiting for the next... | {
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} |
How Skype fixes security vulnerabilities - ThatGeoGuy
https://hub.zhovner.com/geek/how-skype-fixes-security-vulnerabilities/
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based2
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13227480](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13227480)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/5jj3t4/how_skype_...](https://www.reddit... | {
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} |
Why India's writers are returning their literary prizes - jimsojim
http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/10/economist-explains-16
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nitin_flanker
Well why Indian writers are returning their awards, the reason mentioned of
that is right to a great extent. But what this particular piece of news is
... | {
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} |
Shutterstock Creates First Silicon Alley Billionaire - vinhnx
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-28/shutterstock-creates-first-silicon-alley-billionaire.html
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ganeumann
There were many Silicon Alley billionaires back in '99/'00\. I had four (I
think) in my portfolio alone. But none of them were billionaires... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Apple Surrenders to Exxon Mobil as World’s Most Valuable Company - pohungc
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-25/apple-surrenders-to-exxon-mobil-as-world-s-most-valuable-company.html
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coryl
I suppose they'll release another article in a few months, and then another
one a few months after that.
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Ask HN: Who hires mathematicians? - gremble
Granted, as I am only graduating with a straight BSc it is perhaps a bit presumptuous of me to consider myself a mathematician, but I would like to. I've been looking at jobs and the only people who seem interested in me are banks or people looking for a "quantitat... | {
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} |
Star.Me - Give People Stars - citizenkeys
http://star.me
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dster
Great, so now I can get all those stars I missed in kindergarten :)
~~~
citizenkeys
Yes! :-)
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} |
Show HN: Passive News Delivery Web Service Like TV - totakke
http://newsasync.clojurecup.com/
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federkasten
Awesome!
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} |
List of 200+ AI/ML Conferences in 2018 - alexxtomsk
https://medium.com/standuply/200-ai-ml-conferences-in-2018-eec7d0a50bcf
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imartin2k
This list is great, thanks!
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alexxtomsk
In the beginning of 2017, we composed a List of AI/Chatbot Conferences in
2017. The list contains 89 events.
This time we put more... | {
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Did any of you guys at cool companies start somewhere subpar? - insecureGrad
Im graduating soon. I spent most of college studying Math because I used to be an academia wannabe, and now Im starting my software career at a company in the finance sector which I believe is far below what my ability will be a year from n... | {
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A Formula For Innovation - ttunguz
http://tomtunguz.com/timing
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beat
The timing part is something really important, and something that can't be
controlled, because it depends on outside factors. What entrepreneurs CAN do
is try to choose businesses that are less dependent on market timing.
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Plain-Text Offenders "Celebrates" 1500 Offenders; Asks For Your Help - omervk
Hi HN,<p>I'm @omervk who, along with @hmemcpy, started plaintextoffenders.com a couple of years ago. Since then we've found ourselves wonderfully supported by the tech community. We'd like to thank each and every one of you ... | {
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The Krakatoa Volcanic Eruption Was So Loud It Was Heard Round the World - bilifuduo
http://nautil.us/issue/38/noise/the-sound-so-loud-that-it-circled-the-earth-four-times
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mchahn
I haven't done any calculations but this is pure BS. With the situation almost
a inverse square law, a significant portion of the eart... | {
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Microsoft Drops Another Windows 10 Update - Zohaibtarar
http://techurb.com/another-windows-10-update-by-microsoft/
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Zohaibtarar
This package contains all previously released fixes.
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Ask HN: jQuery plugins with awesome logos - djico
Hi All,<p>It seems that most jQuery plugins have great looking icons attached to them. Is there a service that provides affordable logos for small plugin projects? Are people linking up with designers? Creating them themselves?? Can anyone comment from experience? I&... | {
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Why the San Francisco Fire Dept manufactures their own wooden ladders (video) - brown9-2
http://devour.com/video/ladder-shop/
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bradgessler
"The San Francisco Fire Department has been "green" since before it was a fad"
I fail to see how making your own ladders is "green". Is the carbon footprint
of... | {
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How CGA Graphics worked [video] - Jerry2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsDssW5dIqM
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johansch
This wouldn't be complete without mentioning the enhanced CGA version a lot of
Europeans experienced via Amstrad/Schneider PCs in the 80s (they tended to be
the cheapest way to get a PC here, back then).
"The Amstrad ... | {
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Show HN: Beef, a new performance-oriented programming language - beefdev
https://github.com/beefytech/Beef
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beefdev
Author here. I'm the engineering co-founder of PopCap Games. I left PopCap
after the EA acquisition, and I've been working on this project mostly full-
time for the last five years.
Before Beef, I... | {
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How i can call tcp protocol in python - panagiotisp
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techjuice
[http://woozle.org/~neale/papers/sockets.html](http://woozle.org/~neale/papers/sockets.html)
[https://wiki.python.org/moin/TcpCommunication](https://wiki.python.org/moin/TcpCommunication)
[https://docs.python.org/2/howto/sockets.html](https://docs.pyt... | {
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Sponsor.io: the Sponsorship Funding Marketplace (seeks co-founder) - acoyfellow
http://www.founder2be.com/ideas/sponsorio-the-sponsorship-funding-marketplace
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livestyle
Going to be tough with fiverr in the marketplace already.
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acoyfellow
Thank you for your input. I think your right, it's a crowded space f... | {
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The Multi-Project Programmer - kayamon
http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/multi-project-programmer/
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yigitcakar
From my perspective it's the threshold effect: in every endeavor there is a
threshold which is hard to reach, but it gets easier for one to replicate
similar things after passing it.
It is hard to find ... | {
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Formal Verification of Y86-64 Processors - deepaksurti
http://csappbook.blogspot.com/2018/10/formal-verification-of-y86-64-processors.html
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tyingq
Didn't know what Y86 meant, but found this:
_' The Y86 is a “toy” machine that is similar to the x86 but much simpler. It
is a gentler introduction to assembly leve... | {
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Ask HN: Review my bootstrapped startup, Quantonomics - didigogo
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lux
If I'm going to take a service seriously, I don't want to spot spelling errors
within 20 seconds of hitting the homepage.
stradegies->strategies
That said, interesting idea using JS to create buying/selling patterns and
test them against h... | {
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The Magic of CSS - afschwartz
http://adamschwartz.co/magic-of-css/?ycfast
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swah
Nice. But when I tried the [http://adamschwartz.co/magic-of-css/potions/two-
pane-app/](http://adamschwartz.co/magic-of-css/potions/two-pane-app/), you get
a little of scrolling on the right pane. Why does that happen?
(I'm making... | {
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Accurate re-creation of Sherlock Holme's rooms based on readings from all novels - RiderOfGiraffes
http://www.stutler.cc/other/misc/baker_street.html
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jacquesm
I'd say that's a creation, not a 're-creation' since it never actually existed
in real life, Sherlock Holmes is after all a work of fiction.
It also can... | {
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Intel wants to charge $50 to unlock stuff your CPU can already do - lotusleaf1987
http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/18/intel-wants-to-charge-50-to-unlock-stuff-your-cpu-can-already-d/
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jdietrich
This is how the industry has always worked. The 486SX was a 486DX with the FPU
burned off with a laser. Initially this... | {
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A CoffeeScript Intervention (how to avoid common JS mistakes) - TrevorBurnham
http://pragprog.com/magazines/2011-05/a-coffeescript-intervention
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TrevorBurnham
I'm the author. This is a short article in this month's PragPub
(<http://pragprog.com/magazines>) to promote my new book on CoffeeScript:
<http://pragp... | {
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Microsoft phone revenue fell to $5M last quarter, from $1.4B two years ago - doener
https://www.neowin.net/news/yep-it039s-dead-microsoft-phone-revenue-fell-to-5m-last-quarter-from-14bn-two-years-ago
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lenkite
I really, really liked my Nokia Windows phone. The tile based UI, the smooth
performance and snappy UX, ... | {
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Ask HN: Learning programming from scratch - codegeek
If someone wants to learn programming from scratch, what are some of the recommended resources online today ? I thought I would know this but when I start thinking, I get confused. there is codecademy.com etc, but what else ?
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Prometheus1981
What kind of pro... | {
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Better to be Prepared: When Zombies Attack - kumarski
http://www.orcomplete.com/discussion/sertalpbilal/better-to-be-prepared-when-zombies-attack#comment-4900
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kumarski
Here's a link to the zombie infection simulation tool:
[http://kevan.org/proce55ing/zombies/](http://kevan.org/proce55ing/zombies/)
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UK's IR35 tax tightened in court. - Stubbs
http://www.3spoken.co.uk/2008/09/freelancers-you-will-be-assimilated.html
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gstar
I think I speak for every UK limited company contractor when I say "Shit."
Thanks for the heads-up, I imagine this will have a lot of impact on a lot of
UK people here.
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Elon Musk sued by the cave rescue diver he called 'pedo guy' and 'child rapist' - UpshotKnothole
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/17/telsa-ceo-elon-musk-sued-by-thai-rescue-diver-vernon-unsworth.html
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gamblor956
Popehat has an interesting, if flawed analysis of the lawsuit.
[[https://www.popehat.com/2018/09/17/cave-... | {
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What's going to be the next "really big" thing? - kimfuh
IBM. Apple. Microsoft. Google. The i-line of products. Facebook. Twitter(?). What do you think will be next?
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Quasimofo
I don't know about "next", but I can't wait for extremely intelligent personal
software agents. I don't have the time to browse dozens... | {
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Stop StopBadware.org and Google from UNFAIRLY blocking websites - BareNakedCoder
Google (via StopBadware.org) has blocked our website. The blocking started immediately: before allowing us to respond to their accusations and even before we realized any accusations had been laid. Should Google (and StopBadware.org) have... | {
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Vim Graphical Cheat Sheet - quicklycode
http://www.quicklycode.com/cheatsheets/graphical-vivim
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RiderOfGiraffes
It doesn't include, for example, Ctrl-N and Ctrl-P for keyword completion.
Do you think those could be integrated?
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quicklycode
mmm... You could write this as comment post on quicklycode, so I can... | {
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3D model of slave ship brings harrowing history to life - mutnedjemet1980
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2019/07/26/3-d-model-of-18th-century-slave-ship-brings-a-harrowing-story-to-life/
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microcolonel
> _Between 1500 and 1867, some 40,000 voyages carried 12.5 million Africans to
> the Americas, where they wer... | {
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Without a keyboard - mooreds
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2014/09/without-a-keyboard.html
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chroma
If only mobile devices supported some sort of wireless protocol for keyboards.
I agree that tablets and phones prioritize content consumption over content
creation, but that's what most people want. As S... | {
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} |
Is DeleteMe an Internet Undo Button? - jowens
http://www.jasonowens.com/is-deleteme-an-internet-undo/
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coolswan
Heh, thought someone figured out a way to delete internet cache. This service
seems pretty limited to just social networks, bleh.
| {
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Tandem – Decentralized, cross-editor, collaborative editing - geoffxy
https://github.com/typeintandem/tandem
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ocdtrekkie
"Licensed under the "Lightly-Modified Apache License", a variant of the Apache
License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in
compliance with the License."
So... th... | {
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} |
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