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How close is machine learning to artificial intelligence? - stormover
http://trendspot.it/de0p
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jeremysmyth
Broken link. This is where it should redirect to:
[http://www.geektime.com/2015/09/15/how-close-is-machine-
lear...](http://www.geektime.com/2015/09/15/how-close-is-machine-learning-to-
artificial-intellig... | {
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A Gentle introduction to Kubernetes with more than just the basics - feross
https://github.com/eon01/kubernetes-workshop
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Apocalypse_666
After having just spend most of the day yesterday trying to nurse a failing
Kubernetes cluster back to health (taking down all of our production websites
in the process), I’ve ... | {
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Ask HN: Do you use N + Enter to access Hacker News? - oscilator
Do you find yourself (sometimes) mindlessly opening a new tab and pressing N + Enter just to see what's new?
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CrazedGeek
More like n + down arrow + enter, but yes.
I will also fully admit to having closed an HN tab and then immediately
openi... | {
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Path to Rust – A practical introduction - sargas
https://thesquareplanet.com/blog/the-path-to-rust/
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sargas
The article itself points to a HN discussion:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11774850](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11774850)
I didn't see it until it was mentioned here.
I can't seem to d... | {
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From Megaflops to Total Solutions: Cray and Supercomputing History [pdf] - poindontcare
http://ethw.org/images/7/76/Elzen_%26_MacKenzie,_From_Megaflops_to_Total_Solutions.pdf
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trsohmers
If you enjoyed this article, I highly recommend the book "The Supermen: The
story of Seymour Cray and the technical wizards beh... | {
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Lessons learned from a failing local mall - oftenwrong
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/4/23/bon-ton-gone
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burlesona
There’s a lot of over-summarizing going on in the comments here. The context
you need to understand the Strong Towns argument is that this isn’t an appeal
to nostalgia. Rather the author i... | {
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Ask HN: Looking for links/tutorials on implementing responsive css design - andrewhillman
If anyone has some good links to share on the topic of responsive design. I need to redo my sites css so it looks right on mobile devices as well as the web. Any link/tutorial is appreciated.
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MarlonPro
Have you looked at... | {
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Tesla Wins Back The Right To Sell Direct To Consumers In New Jersey - seek
http://www.torquenews.com/2250/new-jersey-will-allow-tesla-sell-direct-eventually-it-might-not-matter
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lnlyplnt
I don't understand why this needs to be limited to Zero-Emissions vehicles.
Any new car manufacturer will have difficulty im... | {
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} |
Hi-Tech Low Tech Twist to "Keep Wall Street Occupied." Let's Help This Go Viral. - aidanclash
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/29/1031267/-Keep-Wall-Street-Occupied-Lets-Help-This-Go-Viral
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jonah
Unfortunately, you'll probably just Occupy out-sourced mail handling /
application processing companies.
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Dear Dr. Stallman: An Open Letter - AlexeyMK
http://alexeymk.com/dear-dr-stallman-an-open-letter
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emilsedgh
A few points i would like to remind everyone who criticizes rms.
1) rms is a radical guy. You cannot change that. He fights for what he thinks
is right. He is not the kind of person you can ask to censor ... | {
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How I Hacked DePauw University Using Hidden Inputs - huntermeyer
https://medium.com/@thomasring/how-i-hacked-depauw-university-using-hidden-inputs-79377c3dca7e
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coreyp_1
I'm a CS grad student at Notre Dame. I have taught ~400 students in labs and
lectures in the beginning programming classes, and I think that it... | {
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Oxford dictionary adds “twerk,” “selfie,” “phablet,” and more voguish vocabulary - weu
http://qz.com/119200/oxford-dictionary-adds-twerk-derp-selfie-phablet-and-more-voguish-vocabulary/
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shire
Twerk just means to twitch or jerk the body but people turned it into a sexual
dance move. By the way Miley Cyrus beha... | {
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Title Capitalization in JavaScript - nickb
http://ejohn.org/blog/title-capitalization-in-javascript/
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Dylanfm
It's only necessary to capitalise the first word of a title. Why do the rest?
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rms
Because the mainstream press doesn't adhere to that style convention.
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Most underrated JavaScript tool - lorenzosnap
http://www.yolpo.com
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onion2k
This is fun, but I'm not sure it's actually very useful as a debugging tool.
There are some _brilliant_ debugging tools for JS these days. It's quite easy
to connect an IDE like VSCode to a browser using the node debugger, which
gives yo... | {
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} |
Heyzap (YC 09) Launches Android App for Discovering & Checking In to Games - foobar2k
http://mashable.com/2011/03/16/heyzap-android-app/
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jazzychad
I've been playing with this for a while. I must say it's very helpful in
finding new games to play, and the level of Android hackery going on is pretty
nifty... st... | {
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} |
Venture Capitalists, who are these freaks? - openfly
http://www.music-piracy.com/?p=220
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grellas
"Venture Capitalists, who are these freaks?"
Answer: These are the freaks who took a nascent computer industry once
dominated by a few mega-companies and, beginning some 40 years ago, made
possible something that we... | {
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FLOSS Weekly 36: CouchDB - yaj
http://www.twit.tv/floss36
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geuis
Listened to this the other day. If you're interested in learning more about
what CouchDB is and what it can do, its worth a listen.
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N.Y. Passes DNA Requirement For Convicted Criminals - bmking
https://www.npr.org/2012/03/15/148692189/n-y-passes-dna-requirement-for-convicted-criminals
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bmking
» "We know from lots of studies and lots of data now that violent criminals
very often begin their careers as nonviolent criminals," Aborn says. «
Th... | {
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Ask HN: Open-source advice – any recommendation? - tzury
Hi,<p>In our company we have built a product that makes perfect sense to release as open source.<p>At the same time, we are willing to generate revenues from this product.<p>We have zero experience with the legal, product and community aspects of this process. A... | {
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I want to apply to YC funding competition, but I'm not a techie. Any advice? - mista
Hi All,
I just reviewed the YC funding application for Summer 2011. I can answer all the questions thoroughly, except the obvious ones relating to my previous experience with programming/startups/IT projects. I have no experience, I... | {
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SCRYPTmail - SCRYPTmail
http://blog.scryptmail.com/2015/01/single-factor-authentication.html
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SCRYPTmail
SCRYPTmail is a new, up and coming, end to end encryption email service. It
now offers single factor authorization. Blog:
[http://blog.scryptmail.com/](http://blog.scryptmail.com/)
| {
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Queen’s Brian May Hates Apple’s USB-C Cables - virtuabhi
https://www.cultofmac.com/592222/is-this-just-fantasy-queens-brian-may-hates-apples-usb-c-cables/
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jmcguckin
I believe the EU’s demand for a universal charging connector is why magsafe
disappeared...
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eesmith
I thought magsafe was only on the laptops.
... | {
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Who are Twilio's Competitors? - kumarski
https://www.quora.com/Who-are-Twilios-competitors/answer/Kumar-Thangudu?share=1
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kumarski
I've listed a good number of twilio's competitors here.
Now it's important to keep in mind that not all of these are direct
competitors. Some of them are like viruses that only part... | {
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} |
Hitting Hacker News First Page: How Much Traffic Do You Get? - rb808
https://thehftguy.com/2017/09/26/hitting-hacker-news-first-page-how-much-traffic-do-you-get/
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coreyp_1
Awesome perspective! Thanks for the detail and the advice!
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DeepMind Challenges for StarCraft - arnsholt
http://gamasutra.com/blogs/BenWeber/20160314/267956/DeepMind_Challenges_for_StarCraft.php
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scottjad
Starcraft is a game that is played with mouse and keyboard (or game controller
on console). I think in order to say an AI has beat a human, it should have to
use the sa... | {
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Ask HN: What has a better ROI? Comp Sci BS or JD? - niels_olson
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seren
When you ask a "what is better" question, you have to provide your personal
metrics : money, happiness, mobility, weekly hours, technical challenge,
industry, purpose, etc. An universal "better" does not really exist.
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tjr
Both ?...... | {
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Uber hires NASA aircraft engineer to help develop flying cars - happy-go-lucky
https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/06/uber-hires-nasa-aircraft-engineer-to-help-develop-flying-cars-at-uber-elevate/
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sharemywin
ok if I could get pickup up in a flying car for $20 Uber just became my
favorite company.
| {
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Amazon Removed Anti-Vax Documentaries from Prime Video - tareqak
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/amazon-removes-anti-vaccine-videos
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pbreit
Unpopular opinion: I don’t like this. Would much prefer that ideas compete. Id
sort of give Amazon a pass since, unlike twitter, Reddit, Facebook & You... | {
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Maybe the Cookies API should not exist - kristianp
http://tech.noredink.com/post/147676730053/maybe-the-cookies-api-should-not-exist
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di4na
Hey when i say Web tech makes no sense for me coming from embedded, i mean
it...
Another point that show how contrived loops you have to do to go around
stateless server ap... | {
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Google+ to surpass 10M Users - ssapkota
https://plus.google.com/117388252776312694644/posts
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w1ntermute
The crazy thing about Google+ is that _ordinary people are already actually
using it_. I have a ton of non-tech savvy friends on it already, and people
are making posts that get 5-10 replies. This isn't just... | {
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GitLab 7.9 released - randx
https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/22/gitlab-7-9-released/
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randx
Crazy release. Record of more than 800 commits in one month. GitLab community
rocks! Thanks for all merge requests people
| {
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Daniel W. Dobberpuhl - stmw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_W._Dobberpuhl
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tempguy9999
Another one gone? Oh heck.
The Alpha had the closest thing to beauty in an ISA I've ever seen. Reading
about the design motivations of that really made me understand the value of
understanding tradeoffs, if that makes se... | {
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Nukes ready to fly - nherment
https://nationalpostcom.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/fo0505_nuclearweaponsw25001.gif
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jacquesm
That's got to be one of the saddest infographics ever made. I don't like
infographics, they tend to simplify complex things to the point of
uselessness. But this one is in the 'food for tho... | {
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"Erase and rewind": Thoughts on the BBC's plans to delete 172 websites - spxdcz
http://adactio.com/journal/4336/
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sambeau
The deletion of the sites is purely political.
The BBC needs to make visible cuts in places where the British (anti-BBC)
press accuse them of providing services that they believe should be p... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Can you help me find a previous HN post? - timwiththebo
So I read a post here earlier this year which was so useful, but I can't find it again despite spending hours searching on HN and my browser history.<p>Any chance you can help me find the post I'm talking about? Christmas cheer and all that!<p>T... | {
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Show HN: Kubernetes Certificate Manager – Native Let's Encrypt Integration - kelseyhightower
https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kube-cert-manager
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trevorhartman
I've been using kube-lego [0] to request/renew certs from LE. It doesn't
handle the DNS for you automatically, which has the benefit of working outside
... | {
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My five biggest blogging mistakes - andreiursan
http://www.businessesgrow.com/2012/03/04/my-five-biggest-blogging-mistakes/
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user24
I really agree with the first one, it's something I identified in a post I
made about the lessons I've learned after 6 years of blogging:
[http://www.puremango.co.uk/2010/10/six-... | {
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Japanese schools demand students prove their hair colour - tmicltw
https://www.google.co.jp/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/japanese-students-hair-color-2017-5
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tmicltw
The measure is designed to uphold "strict" Japanese standards regarding
physical appearance
| {
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Jeff Bezos' 2014 Letter to Amazon Shareholders - kjw
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9MjgxMzIwfENoaWxkSUQ9LTF8VHlwZT0z&t=1
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kjw
Marketplace, Prime and AWS have been home runs, but their digital device track
record has been pretty mixed. Bezos has been pretty stubborn about it since
th... | {
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Roadmap for Ubuntu Official Support for the Raspberry Pi 4 - cm-t
https://ubuntu.com/blog/roadmap-for-official-support-for-the-raspberry-pi-4
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esotericn
Looks like they'll be going for a 64-bit kernel, which is great!
I also hope KVM support is compiled in. Looks like someone else on the post is
after the same.... | {
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Clang (LLVM C compiler) builds a working Linux kernel - zdw
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.clang.devel/11432
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jacquesm
That's quite the milestone to achieve. I'm actually really happy to see this
happen in light of the negative rap C seems to be getting just about
everywhere.
C is far from dead, ... | {
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White House: SOPA "must not inhibit innovation" - buzzblog
http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/worst-sopa-out-white-house-outlines-opposition-bill
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jamesbritt
_While the White House statement stopped short of pledging that President
Obama would veto SOPA should it pass, it make clear the Administration... | {
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What's the best method (or framework) for creating a GUI for a python script? - audaceTT
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bttrHckrNm
You could try bridging it to objective C and then using XCode to create a GUI
(if you're a mac user)
| {
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Oberlin bakery: We paid a high cost for an unfairly damaged reputation - RickJWagner
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2019/06/21/oberlin-college-gibson-bakery-lawsuit-column/1523525001/
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high_derivative
Note: written by a member of the Bakery's family
"Grandpa Gibson has resumed his favorite spot a... | {
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Taking notes in Vim - nafizh
https://github.com/xolox/vim-notes
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staticdynamic
Vimwiki is another nice option for note taking in vim
| {
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United Nations to Adopt Asteroid Defense Plan - Libertatea
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=un-asteroid-defense-plan
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DanielBMarkham
The United Nations is not a world government. Please keep repeating this until
it sinks in.
It's a treaty organization designed to prevent another world war. As su... | {
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} |
Software as a service for pentesting - penteston
https://penteston.com
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nostrebored
I would never run a website that I own through a third party vulnerability
scanner whose page was so unprofessional. The number of typos makes me feel
very wary of your product, which I'm sure is nice. How do you compare to
Netwo... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Starbucks Plans to Serve Beer & Wine - ojbyrne
http://www.beer-universe.com/beer-education-article/2010-10-18/Starbucks-Plans-to-Serve-Beer-and-Increase-Revenue/
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Timmy_C
Apparently the first beer and wine Starbucks is going in here:
[http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...](http://maps.google.co... | {
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The couple who lived in a mall - danw
http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/08/15/living_in_mall/index.html
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stcredzero
The Houston IKEA has a childcare facility, food items, and a cafeteria. It
makes me think that IKEA should just build an Arcology. They should add
apartments (unfurnished of course) and athleti... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Meteor Galaxy, a cloud platform for Meteor applications - thousandx
http://info.meteor.com/blog/announcing-meteor-galaxy
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sergiotapia
This is a bummer for me. My meteor apps are large enough to not want to host
on free `meteor deploy`, but small enough to not warrant a $500/month plan.
Where's the $40/month pla... | {
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} |
Water found to be an ideal lubricant for nanomachines - jonbaer
http://phys.org/news/2013-08-ideal-lubricant-nanomachines.html
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toufka
Which is why 'nanotechnology' of the future will be (and of the past was) done
with proteins & nucleic acids packed by lipids. Want to build a nanobot? Build
it out of organic ma... | {
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} |
Not Provided Count - Charting the rise of (not provided) in Google Analytics - napolux
http://www.notprovidedcount.com/
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techaddict009
Soon keyword analysis, keyword targeting, etc all will be almost dead
Even the owner of the site will not come to know for which keywords he is
getting the traffic from !!
Just... | {
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} |
The Perfect Compliment - uovidiu
http://www.esquire.com/features/how-to-compliment-1009
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ColinWright
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4199015> with discussion, and currently
#6 on the Front Page.
| {
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The Setup: William Gibson - Umalu
http://william.gibson.usesthis.com/
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0x12
Technology is a means to an end. Once you can reach the end with the tech that
you have there is no need to upgrade any further.
Upgrading is an investment in both time and funds, both can be spent better if
you are already able to do w... | {
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} |
iPadOS Discoverability Trouble - LaSombra
https://mondaynote.com/ipados-discoverability-trouble-488d2d40ee1
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Ididntdothis
Totally agree. I have experienced several times that somehow I managed to get
two apps onto the split screen but I have no idea how I did it and it was not
obvious how to get back to normal. ... | {
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App Store keywords checklist: 21 tips to work around Apple's horrible search - hgpc
http://www.hpique.com/2013/01/app-store-keywords-checklist-21-tips-to-work-around-apples-horrible-search/
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hgpc
Don’t you hate those articles about App Store marketing who basically tell you
you need to build a great app? Me to... | {
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I built a dating app with over 60% female users. How to reach more males? - taigeair
Hi all,<p>I made a dating app for remote workers. Didn't spend any money on ads. We have 60% female users. Biggest segment is 25-29 year olds.<p>Stats: https://cl.ly/6d13336870a4<p>Any idea how to get more guys? I ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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A Comparison Between Left- and Right-justified Site Navigation Menus [2003] - yread
http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/article/view/94/93
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mhb
Maybe it's due to the translation but the use of left- and right-
justification and left and right side navigation bars is very confusing.
Also, in Figure 1, despite their c... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
WHOIS blackout period likely starting in May - morninj
https://www.cooley.com/news/insight/2018/2018-04-18-whois-blackout-period-likely-starting-in-may
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clay_the_ripper
I really wish WHOIS would go away forever. There is absolutely no point to it.
If you don’t pay to get your name private, you get SPAMMED to suc... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Gnip: Numbers + Architecture - EastSmith
http://blog.gnipcentral.com/2008/12/19/numbers-architecture/
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neilc
I didn't get much out of this. Their traffic numbers are unremarkable. There's
the standard "databases are hard to scale" meme, and their software stack is
also pretty standard. Gnip as a business are i... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Lisp implementation in sed - inglesp
https://github.com/shinh/sedlisp
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mseri
Ahahah. Awesome. There is even an 'awk' version:
[https://github.com/darius/awklisp](https://github.com/darius/awklisp)
~~~
abecedarius
I wrote that, and I gotta say sed is a much crazier target.
More sed fun:
[http://aurelio.net/proj... | {
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The Halo Drive: Fuel Free Relativistic Propulsion of Large Mases [pdf] - sohkamyung
http://coolworlds.astro.columbia.edu/halodrive_preprint.pdf
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sohkamyung
Video by the author on the Halo Drive at [1]
[1]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFqL9CkNxXw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFqL9CkNxXw)
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Stop building dumb stuff - kintan
http://www.obviouslywrong.org/2012/10/21/stop-building-dumb-stuff/
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seagreen
If you want to help the developing world it's worth the time to take a look at
what has actually worked to get countries out of poverty and what hasn't. As
far as I can tell there are only two proven wa... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Russian President Medvedev Denounces Cyber Attack - hornokplease
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13011540
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Uncle_Sam
Our president is no more cases.
| {
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Apple Said to Team with Visa, MasterCard on iPhone Wallet - IBM
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-31/apple-said-to-team-with-visa-mastercard-on-iphone-wallet.html
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Thiz
They're missing their greatest opportunity ever to be the sole an only payment
method of the wearable age.
Pair an iWatch with an iPhone/... | {
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} |
Show HN: Lomotions (beta) – Video camera with beautiful filters for Android - 22nddev
https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.twentyseconddev.lomotions
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22nddev
My first Android app and long-time side project. Showing it here in order to
push myself to finish it and get some beta testers.
| {
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} |
Ask HN: projects for self made web based analytics? - viandante
Hi<p>I am looking for any open source project that gives users a good range of options to make their own analysis of structured data (sales, fiancials, etc.). Sort of like excel, but web based and able to connect to databases to pull data. Mostly I am t... | {
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Five Years’ Time - gdillon
https://medium.com/@gkoberger/five-years-time-6a6ae1157a66
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jordanbrown
"One regret I do have: I spent too much time waiting for other people.
Investors, cofounders, mentors. I found that once I started actually building,
these things came naturally." \--
I had this same experience. I... | {
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} |
Http2 explained - antouank
http://daniel.haxx.se/http2/
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geographomics
At the risk of not being quite critical enough for HN - that was an excellent
read.
Clear explanations, a very pleasant layout, and useful visual metaphors for
the trickier parts of the spec. I found it to be both enjoyable and
informative... | {
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} |
Unlocking Colors - shekhardesigner
https://bkardell.com/blog/Unlocking-Colors.html
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jmiskovic
The assumption is that using another color space (like proposed CIE) would
unlock mathematical manipulation of color palettes in design. I don't think
this is true.
Our eyes are very sensitive to color shades and we'll... | {
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Silicon Valley is erasing individuality - kawera
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/how-silicon-valley-is-erasing-your-individuality/2017/09/08/a100010a-937c-11e7-aace-04b862b2b3f3_print.html
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tpeo
This reads more like a bag of complaints against Google and Facebook rather
than a case for how the current tre... | {
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Alexander The Great's Battle at the River Jhelum - yoshizar
http://www.richeast.org/htwm/greeks/alex/alex.html
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snambi
The author is missing some other things that alexandar's men would not have
seen on their journey from greece to india.
[1] crocodiles [2] tigers [3] monkeys [4] venomous snakes ( this is a m... | {
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Nesheim Updates "High Tech Startup" - fdschoeneman
http://nesheimgroup.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/01/high-tech-start-up-what-has-changed-number-one-of-a-series.html
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russell
It's a series of posting on what has and has not changed since the previous
edition of "High Tech Startup" was published in 2000. Very mu... | {
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BuyBlue - dsr_
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1415233260/resist-persist-fight-buyblue/
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dsr_
The most interesting part of this, ignoring the politics, is the discussion of
user privacy.
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Navy prefers open systems - kirubakaran
http://www.fcw.com/online/news/151858-1.html
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drusenko
Years ago, I toured an active Navy ship of some kind of other (pretty big
ship). When we got to the command center area, I noticed that all of the
individual computers were running Windows 9x (the ones they used to che... | {
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I'm not fond of domain extensions - adjin
having somesite.com and somesite.net being two different things is something than can lead to confusion. the only difference is an extension which is easy to forget.<p>can someone explain to me why this system makes sense?
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Millennium
The system was designed to be hier... | {
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You Can All Finally Encrypt Facebook Messenger, So Do It - pedmb
https://www.wired.com/2016/10/facebook-completely-encrypted-messenger-update-now
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jibcage
Has anyone else really hated this experience?
Message sending (and the auto-destruct feature) have been absurdly buggy. Some
messages don't send, some don't ... | {
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Misery of a nuclear war between India and Pakistan would be global - nnx
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/misery-of-a-nuclear-war-between-india-and-pakistan-would-be-global/
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nabla9
The main uncertainty and weak point in these studies are the incorrect
assumptions about combustible fuel loads in cities. N... | {
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Graphical depiction of ownership and borrowing in Rust - ingve
https://rufflewind.com/2017-02-15/rust-move-copy-borrow
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sudeepj
Very cool! May be such visuals can be incorporated in the official
documentation.
Suggestion: could also cover closures (which would demonstrate the move
keyword also)
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Functional Geekery Episode 48 – Matthias Felleisen [audio] - TheAsprngHacker
https://www.functionalgeekery.com/episode-48-matthias-felleisen/
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sevensor
Proctor does great interviews. He's talked to most of the PLT folks, as well
as Matthew Butterick. It was the Butterick interview that first made me aware
of Rac... | {
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Web Revenue Models - stickhandle
https://hackpad.com/EgXuEtSibE7#Web-And-Mobile-Revenue-Models-%28final%29
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IsaacL
There's a best practice acronym for creating lists like this - MECE: mutually
exclusive, collectively exhaustive.
I'm not sure this list passes the "mutually exclusive" test - for example,
eBay fit... | {
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Ask HN: good strategy to parse all that information - rhr
Greetings<p>I found myself not able to read everything I would like to read (books, blogs, whatever), I only add interesting stuff from good sources to my reading list but it is still overwhelming.<p>I figured I'd better design a strategy to tackle this and w... | {
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Uber’s Denial of Liability in Death Raises Accident Accountability Questions - usaphp
http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/02/should-car-services-provide-insurance-whenever-their-driver-app-is-open/
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pedalpete
Suggesting that Uber is liable is probably going a bit far. He wasn't working
for the company at the time of... | {
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Time to prepare for the worst in North Korea - mooreds
http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2017/09/11/time-to-prepare-for-the-worst-in-north-korea/
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jameslk
Why would North Korea attack when it has no incentive to? They gain nothing
and would be demolished swiftly and of course they know that. Why would the
US/West att... | {
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} |
C Pointer Conversions - zeis
http://alessandrodimartino.com/c-pointer-conversions.html
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sparkie
Not good advice. This violates the strict aliasing rules, and is not
guaranteed to give the results you might expect.
Strict aliasing is off by default in MSVC, which is why he might get the
results he expected here,... | {
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} |
Converting Linux kernel modules from C to Rust - xvilka
https://immunant.com/blog/2020/06/kernel_modules/
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mikece
I gather than an operating system written in Rust would be safer, but would it
be as fast as one written in C?
| {
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Haskell Application Server: in-memory transactional applications - jaggederest
http://happs.org/HAppS/README.html
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jaggederest
I'm planning on doing something fun with this in the next couple of months.
I think the ideal app here is a high-throughput, small-message app. Seems like
I need to make a twitter clone... | {
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Computer Chips That Work Like a Brain Are Coming – Just Not Yet - jcklnruns
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/12/qualcomm-zeroth/?cid=co16492854
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Anon84
Dont we have to figure out how the brain works before we can buil "Chips that
work like the brain"?
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hershel
I think we know some of the basics at l... | {
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Websites targeting Olympics visitors closed down by police - DanBC
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/dec/26/olympics-cybercrime-met-websites
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hub_
When the Olympics are somewhere, the seem to trump any civil liberties in
place. Happened here in Vancouver, will be in Londo, in Sochi, etc.
| {
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Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Presents His 10 Favorite Strips - nekojima
http://www.businessinsider.com/scott-adams-favorite-dilbert-comics-2013-10
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avmich
Scott Adams can likely teach a robot to laugh. And to make jokes.
Well done.
| {
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Ask HN: Who's hiring (Jan 2011)? - kunday
There have been 'Who's hiring?' threads in the past and It would be great to know if there are some updates on the needs (I'm sure it has changed).<p>Please lead with the posting locations..
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slindstr
This thread has already happened twice in the last 13 days. Here are... | {
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Ask HN: Is it possible to build generic noise-cancelling speakers? - crisp
The other day I had a chat with a friend of mine about noise-cancelling headphones. For the people not familiar with the technology, they are basically fully closed headphones with microphones outside the cups. The collected noise is passed thr... | {
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Waymo's self-driving trucks get hired to cart limestone around a Norwegian mine - mariushn
https://newatlas.com/volvo-self-driving-truck-norway-mine/57397?nowaymo
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mariushn
Curious why everyone is at the same time so excited about Waymo (me too!), but
ignoring others which also deliver working tech. Nobody cared... | {
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How to Cover the One Percent - xoher
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/01/14/how-to-cover-the-one-percent/
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jnbiche
I'm ambivalent about this article. While I agree that the hidden power of
mega-philanthropists is unsettling, the hidden players of our "public"
government are orders of magnitude more powerful.... | {
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How to do a code review - iamaelephant
https://google.github.io/eng-practices/review/reviewer/
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petilon
Here's the part that resonated with me most:
A particular type of complexity is over-engineering, where developers have made the code more generic than
it needs to be, or added function... | {
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} |
1.1B taxi rides benchmarked on distributed GPU-powered MapD - tmostak
http://tech.marksblogg.com/billion-nyc-taxi-rides-aws-ec2-p2-8xlarge-mapd.html
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arnon
1.1B records = 500GB of raw CSV data. This fits into RAM quite easily on a
machine like the P2.8xlarge, especially when compression is used (like MapD
uses).... | {
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Font Awesome 2.0 - 70 new icons, desktop font, vectors, IE7 support - fortawesome
http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/
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fortawesome
Issues with squished windows fonts have been fixed and pushed. Looks like it
might have been an issue using Font Squirrel.
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smcguinness
I noticed the update does not ha... | {
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GitHub hack: speed up git push/pull - coderrr
http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/github-hack-speed-up-git-push-and-git-pull/
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lucisferre
I'd be concerned about how a whole lot of people doing this, keeping an SSH
connection open to Github at all times, would affect Github itself.
| {
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Ask HN: What revenue sources exist for content based sites? - badmash69
I have read the techcrunch teardown (http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/10/teardown-13-ways-10-million-revenues/) and I understand ad-supported sites are very tough to execute. However, if one were contemplating running a content site, what sources ... | {
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Hacker's extradition put on hold - kirubakaran
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8327179.stm
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tptacek
I got through 5 or 6 of the articles RiderOfGiraffes pointed to, and it
appears that the case for not extraditing this guy is:
* He has Aspergers
* He's been threatened with a 60 year sentence if he doesn't c... | {
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} |
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