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Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade - Jach
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/14/ice_age/
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hugh3
This is exactly why I think the debate should be less about "how can we as
humans stop affecting Earth's natual climate" and "how can we as humans gain
control over Earth's natural climate".
Cl... | {
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TED demo of wearable computer tech from MIT Media Labs - ryanwaggoner
http://ted.org/index.php/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html
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thomasfl
Wearable systems like this can be in the shops in just a year. The 3M
projector used in this demo was made available only a year ago, but several
phone makers have... | {
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Amazon Free Shipping minimum is now $49 - silveira
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=527692
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deftnerd
This is just assuming that they'll even let you order $49 worth of items in
one box.
I let my Amazon Prime lapse because I was rarely using it.
A few weeks ago I decided to do a bulk o... | {
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QuickVid – Imgur for Videos – Feedback Wanted - QuickVid
Hi All,<p>For the past couple of months I've been developing a web application to freely and instantly share videos without the need for an account. Basically imgur for videos. I've finally got the working build online and you can check it out here a... | {
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Show HN: I shipped: WOPR - Game of Life in a synthesier - scrumper
This is the very first side project I've ever finished on my own, let alone shipped, and that makes this a very big moment for me.<p>WOPR (an early build looked a bit like the computer in War Games) began as a simple Game of Life implementation and i... | {
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Quant Based Marketing for Start Ups - tortilla
http://okdork.com/2010/07/15/quant-based-marketing-for-pre-launch-start-ups/
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thetrumanshow
Hmm.. so contact some popular sites and buy some clicks, put the expected
number of clicks in a spreadsheet. Make up some conversion rate numbers for
each traffic source. The... | {
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Disqus Demonstrates How to Do Breach Disclosure Right - Artemis2
https://www.troyhunt.com/disqus-demonstrates-how-to-do-data-breach-disclosure-right/
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notzorbo3
> They provided details - the passwords were salted SHA1 hashes which is not a
> pretty story to tell in this day and age, but they told it truthfully
>... | {
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Ask HN: What is a good salary in X city? - gamesbrainiac
Hi there!<p>Recently, I talked to a bunch of developers in different parts of the US and around the world.<p>Some developers are happy with $100k salaries, and others <i>need</i> a minimum of $200k because of the city they choose to live in.<p>Could you please... | {
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The Complex Series of Symbols Early Motorists Used for Wayfinding - pepys
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2015/04/10/history_of_automobile_touring_the_symbols_early_motorists_used_for_wayfinding.html
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Symbiote
They mostly seem self-explanatory to me, but I've always been interested in
maps. My dad had 30 or... | {
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This guy charges $300 per inch - cubicle67
http://exaggerated.com/welcome/storyDetail/405/This-guy-charges-300-per-inch
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cubicle67
make sure you watch the video
real interesting story on knife making from nathanC's new site. see here
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2099538> for discussion (on the site, n... | {
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Where to Live - simonsarris
https://simonsarris.substack.com/p/where-to-live
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simonebrunozzi
> While it is easy for city dwellers to call everyone else unsophisticated, it
> is plain to everyone else that people who spend their lives as city dwellers
> tend to collect neuroses.
One of the best quotes of the art... | {
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What is a Procedure? [pdf] - bumbledraven
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hehner/WiaP.pdf
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downer72
I've gotten into numerous conversations with people about the proper terms to
use for members of executable body of code, and the results are surprisingly
opinionated.
_Almost_ everyone agrees that a function (the no... | {
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Bitwarden second security audit report - Santosh83
https://bitwarden.com/blog/post/bitwarden-network-security-assessment-2020/
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raesene9
It's good to see companies making reports public to provide some confidence
that they're having reviews done, but in this case the scoping of this job
seems a little odd, not s... | {
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An Alternative to Dark Matter Passes Critical Test - theafh
https://www.quantamagazine.org/modified-gravity-theory-passes-a-critical-test-20200728/
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lebuffon
I am glad there are some promising alternatives under investigation. Dark
matter had a smell of Aether to me since it was first proposed.
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Will my Mac support Mountain Lion? - imkarthikk
http://www.the4cast.com/apple/will-my-mac-support-mountain-lion/
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PythonDeveloper
No.
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Translate Bio S-1 [RNA/MRNA Therapeutics] - lgats
https://sec.report/Document/0001193125-19-157006/
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vikramkr
I'm confused - are they already public? I thought an s-1 was for IPOs or
offering new securities, but they seem to be already publicly traded - I see
news about a "private placement," is that something t... | {
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Views of the Solar System - xioxox
http://www.damianpeach.com/best.htm
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jkot
There are many amateur astronomy images, sometimes even better then
professional. For example checkout this corona pictures, author started as an
amateur, not sure about his current status:
[http://www.zam.fme.vutbr.cz/~druck/eclipse/E... | {
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Electrolysis – run web content in a separate process from Firefox - tosh
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis
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whoisthemachine
I use this occasionally, it works okay.
I have to say though, with the introduction of the GGC, and all of the
improvements to the JS runtime recently in Firefox, that it has gotten mu... | {
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Show HN: Only Real Men Haircuts - hippich
http://haircutsbros.com
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NAFV_P
I noticed a few douchebags were pictured here.
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Show HN: MyWarranties.net – An online warranty database (Open Beta) - drcursor
https://www.mywarranties.net
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drcursor
Created using Django and Google's MDL.
Would love to hear some opinions from HN about the general idea and
implementation.
Android version available at
[https://play.google.com/store/apps/det... | {
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Apple posts details about Snow Leopard - sant0sk1
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/06/09/apple-posts-details-about-snow-leopard/
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cpr
It's a little misleading to say bug fixes only--they're introducing a bunch of
new core technologies (can't say anything else, since it's all under NDA).
And focussing on performance is ... | {
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Why Germans Pay Cash for Almost Everything - kposehn
http://qz.com/262595/why-germans-pay-cash-for-almost-everything/
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mschuster91
The side that nearly everyone forgets to mention: cash is anonymous and the
situation in Germany is no better than in Greece.
I've worked in both gastronomy and construction jobs ... | {
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Snoop Dogg Is Raising a Fund for Investing in Weed Startups - jtoeman
http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/06/of-course-he-does/
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angersock
It's a shame BackBlaze is already taken. :)
EDIT:
Will it be an evergreen fund, I wonder?
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omilu
He has the necessary domain expertise. Great idea getting in on the ground... | {
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Ask HN: Please review my startup: TheSunnyTrail - octavdruta
Hello guys & girls, we are looking for a helping hand from the HN community (especially from people that run web apps that use the SaaS model)<p>We enable founders / CEOs to easily to track the financial performance of their web apps in order to make b... | {
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Free Kevin Mitnick - kingkawn
http://www.spectacle.org/898/mitnick.html
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jrandom
Free Kevin Mitnick? Figures. I already shelled out a months worth of pay for
one last year.
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rawr
What have we learned?
Activism is pointless!
~~~
TrevorJ
Ironically, activism led to the right you have to speak your mind ... | {
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Ask HN: Have you experimented with diet/food? what was the result? - akudha
I've been reading about mono diets, especially Johanna Brandt's book on how she cured her cancer on grape diet. A lot of the book makes perfect logical sense (for example, eating less variety of food at a time puts less stress on dig... | {
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Materialize CSS - jhund
http://materializecss.com/
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sdiq
It looks already abandoned, even before reaching v1.
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Ask HN: What will the the study of HCI look like in the next decade? - narner
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NY_hudson
I'll start by saying it will all be finger waving and toe wiggling by then!
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The Brainstormer -- creativity booster with neat design - joeld42
http://andrewbosley.com/the-brainstormer.html
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Jun8
Nice! If you don't know about the history of such random phrase generators
using dials (and if you haven't read about them in Eco's _The Island of the
Day Before_ ), spend 10 minutes reading Ra... | {
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How to tell if a FLOSS project is doomed to Fail (2009) - ingve
http://www.theopensourceway.org/book/The_Open_Source_Way-How_to_tell_if_a_FLOSS_project_is_doomed_to_FAIL.html
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88e282102ae2e5b
> Your code tries to install into /opt or /usr/local [ +10 points of FAIL ]
I thought these were the canonical directori... | {
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EfficaCSS A set of SASS and Bourbon mixins to power up your stylesheets - lukyvj
http://lukyvj.github.io/EfficaCSS
EfficaCSS
A set of SASS & Bourbon mixins to power up your stylesheets And to provide you the best OVCSS system.<p>Visit : http://lukyvj.github.io/EfficaCSS/<p>Demo http:/&#x... | {
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ChinaGeeks on Google leaving China - IsaacL
http://sun-zoo.com/chinageeks/2010/03/25/dear-new-york-times-wtf/
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IsaacL
I find ChinaGeeks to be one of the best locations to receive a balanced and
informed Western viewpoint on China, and I thought other HN users might find
it worthwhile (considering the amount of... | {
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Integrating a VT220 into my life - kragniz
https://drewdevault.com/2016/03/22/Integrating-a-VT220-into-my-life.html
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paulmd
Quasi-related:
I've always wanted an ultra-low-power dumb terminal using eInk paper displays
- something you could hit days of runtime with using a small battery pack.
eInk uses no power w... | {
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Attic: The Holy Grail of Backups - rsync
http://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/
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rsync
Obligatory: rsync.net (since November) has full, native[1] support for both
attic and borg.
HN Readers' discount. Just email.
[1] As in, borg and attic on the server side, and no need to do silly
workarounds like mo... | {
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Ask HN: Advice for first days/weeks/months at first dev job? - newdecthrowaway
So I just started my first development job a couple weeks ago (I've been paid to code before but never as my sole responsibility and never in a software company). I need to learn a new stack, other than JS and the base server languag... | {
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I'm leaving Android for iOS, and I blame late games - MBCook
http://www.polygon.com/2015/11/5/9675740/apple-gaming-android-google-late-games
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Ezhik
[Windows phone users laughing/crying in the distance]
| {
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Show HN: Learn to code with JavaScript (French) - bpesquet
https://openclassrooms.com/courses/apprenez-a-coder-avec-javascript
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bpesquet
Hi all,
I'm a French engineer/teacher in computer science and also the author of this
newly created course. It's focused on would-be and beginner programmers, but
I'm seeking ... | {
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In Brazil, it is considered rude to be on time to a party - MiriamWeiner
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180729-why-brazilians-are-always-late
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jacobwilliamroy
"My impression as to your cheap labour was soon disillusioned when I saw your
people at work. No doubt they are lowly paid, but the return is equally s... | {
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Introducing Uber Freight: We're in for the Long Haul - rgawdzik
https://freight.uber.com/
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sheraz
Is this playing in the same sandbox as uship ([http://is](http://is) hip.com)?
~~~
sheraz
Sorry -- just saw this. [http://uship.com](http://uship.com) \-- I was on
mobile and got auto-corrected
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danielvf
Not... | {
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Joy and Pain of Using Google BigTable - jonomacd
https://syslog.ravelin.com/the-joy-and-pain-of-using-google-bigtable-4210604c75be
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cortesi
This matches my experience with BigTable, down to the short-duration failure
spikes.
I feel that something should be said on the plus side of the ledger here. I'm
the solo ... | {
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} |
Shinysdr – Software-defined radio receiver application built on GNU Radio - sinak
https://github.com/kpreid/shinysdr
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makomk
"While it is not intended to be Chrome-only, no attempt has been made to avoid
using facilities which are not yet implemented in other browsers. Safari (Mac,
7.0.4) is known to work functi... | {
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A Lisp that runs Python (2016) - malloryerik
http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2016/03/30/OMG-A-Lisp-that-runs-python/
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rntz
This article is about Hy,
[http://docs.hylang.org/en/stable/](http://docs.hylang.org/en/stable/)
"A Lisp that runs Python" is kind of vague. Hy describes itself as "a Lisp-
flavored ... | {
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Trello is running on a diesel generator and may go down at anytime - guiambros
http://status.fogcreek.com/2012/10/fog-creek-services-update2.html
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spolsky
Let me update this: we've been working all day on moving Trello to AWS, a
project which is now underway. If all goes well (fingers crossed, etc) we'll
be up a... | {
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} |
Digg Makes a Play for Relevance, Increases Front Page Speed 75% - jdrucker
http://www.jboitnott.com/2011/03/digg-makes-a-play-for-relevance-increases-front-page-speed-75/
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PaulHoule
It doesn't matter how fast it loads or updates if it reads like a bizzaro-
world version of the headlines of the magazines at the... | {
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} |
Some Criticisms of RISC-V - DyslexicAtheist
https://gist.github.com/erincandescent/8a10eeeea1918ee4f9d9982f7618ef68
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bem94
To these I would add: lack of a rotate instruction in the base ISA, and unix
standard extension groups. This makes symmetric key encryption and most hash
functions much slower. The Bitmanip ... | {
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} |
Demonsaw – Secure sharing platform - misframer
http://demonsaw.com/
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loren_kuhn
It's closed source (i'm not asking for FOSS, just being able to compile
myself) and there is a business behind it. It talks about protecting my
privacy. Tell me how I should believe that.
~~~
JD557
According to the FAQ:
>Is demonsa... | {
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GNU Bison 3.3 released - jrepinc
http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=9357
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stabbles
"There are also many smaller improvements, including a fix for a bug which is
at least 31 years old."
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benj111
Its weird that web pages can succumb to link rot so quickly, apps succumb to
bit rot almost as quickl... | {
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} |
ASCII/Unicode Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited - jwecker
http://ronaldduncan.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/text-file-formats-ascii-delimited-text-not-csv-or-tab-delimited-text/
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sambeau
The article doesn't mention how to type these characters.
CSV, TAB delimited , YAML and even basic XML have the advantag... | {
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} |
Why doesn't Google just use YouTube as their social network - RtodaAV
What do you guys think?
======
nostrademons
YouTube comments are about the worst "social" interaction possible.
~~~
RtodaAV
Go to any fan page on FB and you will see the same thing.
| {
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ETW2SQLite and ETW2JSON: Convert Your ETW Logs - mjsabby
https://github.com/ETWTools/ETW2SQLite
======
mjsabby
ETW2JSON:
[https://github.com/ETWTools/ETW2JSON](https://github.com/ETWTools/ETW2JSON)
ETW2SQLite:
[https://github.com/ETWTools/ETW2SQLite](https://github.com/ETWTools/ETW2SQLite)
The motivation for these... | {
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Chasing the man who caught the storm - rmason
https://longreads.com/2018/04/11/chasing-the-man-who-caught-the-storm-an-interview-with-brantley-hargrove/
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rmason
It’s kind of hard to explain but tornadoes are both scary as hell but magical.
I never chased one but have been out walking farmers fields in my previou... | {
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} |
freetype-direct-gl:A GPU empowered text rendering library using freetype outline - stonewell
https://github.com/stonewell/freetype-direct-gl
======
stonewell
the text rendering directly use the glyphs outline instead of render glyphs to
bitmap using CPU, fast and scalable
| {
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Covers of science fiction and fantasy magazines from the 1920s to 1970s - dhotson
http://www.rimworlds.com/magazines.htm
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prospero
This has always been my favorite pulp cover:
[http://www.moviegoods.com/assets/product_images/1020/410188....](http://www.moviegoods.com/assets/product_images/1020/410188.1020.A.jp... | {
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Learn AngularJS - tilt
http://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-angularjs
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hippich
If you don't know anything about client-side frameworks and consider Angular
as your first one, keep in mind following:
* This is Angular 1.x course. Angular 2, which is in the development right now, totally different.
* Knowledge ... | {
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How a Mental Disorder Can Disappear from the World Overnight - dnetesn
http://nautil.us/blog/how-a-mental-disorder-can-disappear-from-the-world-overnight
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lutusp
All those words, and not one mention of the fact that psychologists show no
curiosity about the causes of Asperger Syndrome or Autism, but seem satis... | {
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} |
Open source Arduino pulse sensor looking for funding - webmonkeyuk
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1342192419/pulse-sensor-an-open-source-heart-rate-sensor-that
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inoop
Note that there is a wireless standard for interfacing with biosensors called
ANT+ (www.thisisant.com). You can get a USB stick for $30, an... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Russia's Top Web Startups of 2011 Mostly Rip Off U.S.'s - FluidDjango
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/russias_top_5_web_startups_of_2011_mostly_rip_off.php
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shocks
How can Cut The Rope be a "Russian Rip-off" of Angry Birds? They're completely
different, unless we're counting the fact that they feel like sol... | {
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} |
Show HN: Zam – A new JavaScript Library that's a faster alternative - zamjs-router
https://github.com/roecrew/zam/
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amatera
Why you use XMLHttpRequest instead of Fetch API (which makes ajax utilities
more or less useless)?
It would also be nice to have a custom ajax error handling. Console logging is
nice to ha... | {
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} |
Gubernator: Cloud-Native Distributed Rate Limiting for Microservices - medmunds
https://www.mailgun.com/blog/gubernator-cloud-native-distributed-rate-limiting-microservices
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Scaevolus
Previous pun on Kubernetes->Gubernator : [https://github.com/kubernetes/test-
infra/tree/master/guberna...](https://github.com/ku... | {
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} |
Swift impressions - gmac
http://www.evanmiller.org/swift-impressions.html
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cromwellian
First of all, "no garbage collection" Technically, referencing counting is
garbage collection, it's automatic memory management by definition.
Is ARC really a win over non-refcounted GC + escape analysis? Full manual
control ... | {
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} |
What’s Twitter Doing With its Dough? - buckpost
http://www.markevanstech.com/2009/02/03/whats-twitter-doing-with-its-dough/
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pclark
he totally skips operating costs. A trendy office in SF? Bandwidth for a
massive site? SMS fees?
$20M doesn't go _that_ far.
~~~
jacquesm
Operating costs wise I would expect salar... | {
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Chief Economist at the Internet Society Renting Home to Mike Pence - JumpCrisscross
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/in-mr-pences-new-dc-neighborhood-not-exactly-the-welcome-wagon/2016/12/03/5a7ca0f4-b974-11e6-a677-b608fbb3aaf6_story.html?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.abe24e5210fb
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danyork
I'd note that Mi... | {
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I want to put named arguments into PHP. Thoughts? - EGreg
Okay so I am thinking about submitting a patch to PHP that would enable you to call functions like this:<p>stuff(1, 2, 'separator' => '<br>', 'clean' => true);<p>and define them like this:<p><pre><code> /**
* function to do stuff
* @param... | {
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Zero Zero - rafaelc
http://blog.rafaelcorrales.com/2010/05/zero-zero.html
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lsb
Similarly, in ancient Rome, when a triumphant general would parade through the
city heralded as a god, right behind them on the float would be a slave
whispering into their ear "Memento mori", "remember that you are mortal".
~~~
ja... | {
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Ask HN: How do you overcome Weltschmerz or fatalism about our future? - preya2k
I‘m currently having a hard time motivating myself to do anything, really. How do the people of HN overcome the sensation of Weltschmerz, which translates to the feeling that the world is hopeless and lost. While yes, I am not denying that... | {
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The power of links and the value of global knowledge - mattjung
http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2008/04/power-of-links-and-value-of-global.html
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ntoshev
I think Paul overrates the value of the global view on such data. Simple link
count works well for evaluation of the importance of the web page until the
Hei... | {
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} |
Programmers are hipster librarians - timr
https://www.omniref.com/blog/blog/2014/09/19/programmers-are-hipster-librarians/
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kshay
The first thing that came to mind when I read "Wouldn’t it be convenient if
the documentation... already had an answer for someone with the same problem?"
was "Oh, like the comments... | {
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Delivering Bad News - A Twitter Case Study - tansey
http://blog.effectcheck.com/2011/04/14/delivering-bad-news-a-twitter-case-study/
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tansey
A lot of people asked us when signing up how EffectCheck works. Hopefully this
blog post helps answer that a little bit. This demonstrates the kind of
analysis and optimi... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Resources for learning load balancing and building scaleable web apps? - bcheung
Hello. I'm a skill and competent programmer but haven't really delved into the realms of server administration beyond a single server. I'm working a project that requires me to scale an app across multiple servers as traffic increases... | {
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The Universe Within 12.5 Light Years - dluan
http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/12lys.html
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cryptoz
Many of these stars have planets orbiting them, likely discovered after the
author wrote this page. There are some references to planetary systems, but
few compared to what has been discovered since. Proxima Centau... | {
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'I Have Billions in the Bank': A Sex Worker's Life in Animal Crossing - LukeEF
https://kotaku.com/i-have-billions-in-the-bank-a-sex-workers-life-in-anim-1844458927
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jccc
“I have billions of bells in the bank.“
Of bells.
Bells.
[EDIT: Bells are an in-game thing in Animal Crossing. Different from real-
world do... | {
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Why Learning Angular 2 Was Excruciating - MilnerRoute
https://hackernoon.com/why-learning-angular-2-was-excruciating-d50dc28acc8a#.p2dy3kxah
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janfoeh
I've said it before here and I'll say it again: the JS ecosystem is moving in
the wrong direction.
Sometimes I feel that with Javascript, we developers have taken... | {
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License update - jboynyc
https://whispersystems.org/blog/license-update/
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chrisballinger
Thank you Moxie!
Although we personally trusted and would've moved forward with Moxie's
informal permission to distribute SignalProtocol within ChatSecure on the App
Store, our funder required us to get the legal details sq... | {
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Ask HN: Just launched my start-up here's my plan, what should I change? - hassviper
First off, apologies if I posted this wrong, I didn't see anything in the guidelines about how to use the Ask HN part of the site.<p>I just launched my start-up www.zaloot.com.<p>It's a completely free odd-job marketplace. The way it... | {
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Ask YC: Is anyone using Fluid, Air, or Prism to wrap their sites? - e1ven
http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/797-fluid-wrap-your-favorite-web-apps-in-their-own-browser
There
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e1ven
There are a lot of options to wrap your site, and make it available as a
standalone application.. Adobe has Air, Mozilla has Prism,... | {
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} |
CurveCP implementation committed to Google Chrome repo - self
http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/net/curvecp/
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cleverjake
<http://curvecp.org/> for more info =]
~~~
valyala
Nice. I couldn't find the description on how long-term public keys' sharing
will avoid man-in-the-middle attack. It's unclea... | {
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Power of the Pentatonic Scale [video] - BRadmin
http://www.vimeo.com/5732745
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noodle
this was submitted a month ago. except, with the "www" in the url. interesting
how it doesn't pick that up as a duplicate.
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=734380>
| {
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Ask HN: startups in Health Insurance space? - sun123
Are there any startups focussing on ICD 9 to ICD 10 converstion ?<p>Are there any products in market, that will help insurance companies "crosswalk" between ICD 9 to ICD 10 and vice versa?
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ahsanhilal
I read about Cake Health, apparently the Mint.com of heal... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Is there a future in .NET? Should I invest in learning it? - gamechangr
I'm a new grad....I considering putting some serious time into .NET, but I can't quite see what is happening here.<p>I am wondering if MS is abandoning the project or if it's the exact opposite and they are wanting to give... | {
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} |
One-liners Heard During My First Week Working in SF - besvinick
http://ventureminded.me/post/24870925944/one-liners-from-week-one
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jmsduran
"On San Fransisco: If you want amazing food, beer, and weather, there’s no
other option."
Austin, TX? Then again my opinion is biased considering I live there.
~~~
jps35... | {
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Apple’s “monopsony” power, and the woman who named it - moorage
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/06/18/733510647/apples-buying-power-and-the-woman-who-named-it
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braythwayt
Amusingly, there are two sets of people arguing about why Apple is bad, and
each have their own argument:
1\. Android sells more, and... | {
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} |
Can anyone share some feedback and suggestions for my chrome extension? - agnaveen
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/couponzcorner/jfpfpagpbmhehakphdipojfiiidppikk
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agnaveen
I request you all to share your thoughts on my chrome extension. Thanks in
advance.
| {
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Avoiding and identifying false sharing among threads (2011) - kahlonel
https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/avoiding-and-identifying-false-sharing-among-threads
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manicdee
From the abstract:
In symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) systems, each processor has a local cache.
The memory system must guarantee cache c... | {
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} |
House OKs Bill Allowing 'Mentally Incapacitated' Veterans to Buy Guns - happy-go-lucky
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/17/520510426/house-oks-bill-allowing-mentally-incapacitated-veterans-to-buy-guns
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bko
Not sure if I'm reading this right, but it appears that the legislation adds a
requirement th... | {
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} |
3D face: fast, accurate and stable reconstruction - cleardusk
https://github.com/cleardusk/3DDFA_V2
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yboris
I love that the _Colab_ notebook runs flawlessly!
I humbly recommend you add code so people can try out with online images:
from skimage import io
def get_image_from_url(url):
... | {
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Stumptown Acquired by Pete's Coffee and Tea - bndw
https://www.stumptowncoffee.com/blog/a-note
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Implicated
I think that's *Peet's
| {
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Ask HN : Robot kits other than Mindstorms? - vizard
Looking for a programmable robot kit.
Cost is one concern : something under $600 preferable. Focus is on the "programmable" part.
Any suggestions?
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brk
I've had a lot of fun with the Parallax Boe-Bot kits.
<http://www.parallax.com/tabid/411/Default.aspx>
I'... | {
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} |
Contact Yahoo (1998) - aroman
http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/pr/contact.html
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lmm
The quality of the image notwithstanding (and there were good reasons for that
with the bandwidth of the time), this page looks remarkably good, and holds up
far better than sites half its age. Just goes to show yet again that with
d... | {
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} |
Cssdeck | Single Element Pure CSS MacBook Pro - WebGate
http://cssdeck.com/labs/single-element-pure-css-macbook-pro
Really impressive !
A macbook pro created with a single element.<p>What's your think about ?
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WebGate
On chrome it looks amazing ! What's your thought about it ?
| {
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} |
Before Clearview Became a Police Tool, It Was a Secret Plaything of the Rich - pseudolus
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/technology/clearview-investors.html
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DennisP
Clearview now says the app is "available only for law enforcement agencies and
select security professionals to use as an investigative tool."
... | {
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} |
Why gifted education doesn’t make sense - tokenadult
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/on-parenting/why-gifted-education-doesnt-make-sense/2014/10/07/b2bc0b8a-4930-11e4-b72e-d60a9229cc10_story.html
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jamesli
Let's be straightforward. What an idiotic article!
The author is an education columnist, while he... | {
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} |
The Patent System isnt Broken: We are - krat0sprakhar
http://thisismynext.com/2011/08/11/broken-patent-system/http://thisismynext.com/2011/08/11/broken-patent-system/
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ColinWright
Submitted and discussed at some length 5 days ago. You can find the lengthy
discussion ehre:
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=... | {
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} |
UK Cops Want to Use AI to Spot Child Abuse But It Mistakes Desert Pics for Nudes - zeristor
https://gizmodo.com/british-cops-want-to-use-ai-to-spot-porn-but-it-keeps-m-1821384511
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jjp
Gizmodo rewrote
[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/12/18/artificial-...](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/12/1... | {
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British Airways flies into privacy storm over Google identity checks - rheide
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/british-airways-flies-into-privacy-storm-over-google-identity-checks-on-passengers-7913183.html
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greenyoda
"We’re essentially trying to recreate the feeling of recognition you get in a
favouri... | {
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} |
Internet Porn Has Officially Killed HBO’s Adult-Entertainment Business - rustcharm
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/08/hbo-adult-content-removed
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Finnucane
So, instead of soft-core porn, they have . . . Game of Thrones?
| {
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} |
Twitter OAuth “Temporarily Disabled”, Developers Left Hanging - vaksel
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/22/twitter-oauth-temporarily-disabled-leaves-developers-hanging/
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brk
I'm always a little bit amazed at peoples expectations of a "beta" product or
service.
I know that the term beta has been somewhat warped... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Have any of you moved back home to save money? - throw51319
I still have my job, but I was thinking of not renewing my lease in NYC and just going back home to the parents to work remote in the fall/winter and save a TON of money. Kinda lame because I'm 28 but who cares, since a lockdown will stop mo... | {
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} |
Days for Girls sews hygiene kits for impoverished - Mz
http://www.telegram.com/article/20160213/NEWS/160219593
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dalke
Could someone explain the economics?
Doesn't it make better sense to transport the bulk materials and have local
people make the menstrual kits? This would bring employment, and help the
economy... | {
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} |
How to “hack” yourself into conferences for free - AndrewWarner
http://blog.mixergy.com/conferences-for-free/
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tsally
Not a fan of the copying/borrowing a badge ideas. If you don't support
whatever the conference is covering, you shouldn't be there. If you do, you
shouldn't mind fronting some cash to support t... | {
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} |
McDonald’s Universal Icons for 109 Countries [pdf] - tosh
http://www.enlaso.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/McDibaks-Nutrition-Icons-Case-Study.pdf
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commieneko
The older I get, the more I'm convinced that icons are not a terribly good way
to convey information. Some things and concepts, sure. Others, not so much.... | {
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} |
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