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Square Testing New Payroll Product as Ambition Grows - justinsb
http://recode.net/2014/10/20/square-testing-new-payroll-product-as-ambition-grows/
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wklauss
Seems like a really good new path to explore. Lots of really poor solutions to
manage payroll for small companies out there.
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jeffasinger
The company I... | {
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Create an algorithm to distinguish dogs from cats - willis77
https://www.kaggle.com/c/dogs-vs-cats
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chris_mahan
All it needs is a robot that says: "Come Here Boy, Come! That's a good
doggie."
If the animal comes, it's a dog. If it continues without looking at you, it's
a cat.
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josefresco
Lots of good cat jo... | {
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Histo.c – histograms in the terminal for static or streaming data - toni
https://github.com/visionmedia/histo
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Toenex
Gnuplot [<http://www.gnuplot.info/>] can plot histograms and supports terminal
output. In fact here is an example of it being used to show live memory useage
on a console [[http://filipivianna.... | {
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Abusing the unit test philosophy - nocivus
http://nocivus.posterous.com/the-dogmas-of-unit-testing
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kschrader
Why would your code coverage metrics include Hibernate (to speak to the
example in the post)?
Your code coverage metrics are only going to cover what you've written, not
the included jar files. If you... | {
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Google is a Sexist Pig - spot
http://blog.isabeldraves.com/2010/06/google-is-a-sexist-pig.html
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CJefferson
While I agree that not allowing you to change your name is annoying, I feel
relating it to sexism seems a bit extreme.
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michael_dorfman
I disagree.
It fits in with Patrick's article yesterday, about ... | {
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In the Desert - Anechoic
https://gimletmedia.com/episode/53-in-the-desert/
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Anechoic
This is a followup to
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10947023](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10947023)
(why people keep coming to one couple's house to find stolen/lost cell phones)
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Ask HN: Please review my new App (Premium Themes) - csomar
http://premiumthemes.com?ref=hn
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jhgaylor
I really enjoy being able to see the theme without having to navigate away
from the page. On the themes near the bottom the page gets cut off because the
top of the page is starting near the cursor. I can't scr... | {
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Where have all the MacBooks gone at Linux conferences - rbanffy
http://www.networkworld.com/article/3064273/linux/where-have-all-the-macbooks-gone-at-linux-conferences.html
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buserror
It's pretty simple really. OSX used to be pretty nice, back then. Quick, very
stable, lots of features etc.
Then, the ioOSificati... | {
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Pricing&compensation plans are all you need to evaluate a startup - ArekDymalski
http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/10/forget-business-plans-heres-how-to-really-size-up-a-startup/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+harvardbusiness+%28HBR.org%29
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ArekDymalski
IMHO these operational details are ve... | {
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Tobacco, caffeine, alcohol, and carpal tunnel syndrome in American industry - hellofunk
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8882102
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brudgers
Study report from 1996.
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How America Converted Its 1980 Olympic Village into a Prison - thisjustinm
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-time-that-the-us-turned-an-olympic-village-into-a-prison
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brudgers
One of the first buildings completed for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics was the
Atlanta City Detention Center.[1] It was in preparation... | {
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Treat Medicines Like Netflix Treats Shows - katiey
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/05/opinion/can-netflix-show-americans-how-to-cut-the-cost-of-drugs.html
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KaiserPro
This is insurance. Literally insurance.
You pay a monthly fee in return for a good, service or cash payment should
something happen.
however in t... | {
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Ask HN: Rest server project suggestions - adam419
Hey everyone,<p>I'm looking for project ideas to practice building back-end services and was wondering if anyone had any ideas for relatively nontrivial projects?<p>Mostly looking to get my hands dirty building Java API's that serve JSON, or could power a r... | {
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Ask HN: Do you believe the Russia hacking story? - apeace
I'm interested to hear from security experts: have you seen any evidence of the claims in the media? From a technical perspective, do you believe that 1) Russia hacked the DNC and John Podesta, and 2) Russia provided exfiltrated data to WikiLeaks and under... | {
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Future of Engineering [video] - ckluis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEnFBHqHJT8&feature=youtu.be
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ckluis
This was a talk I just did at the NFMT (National Facilities Maintenance &
Technology Show in Orlando). It's about 80-90% about automation and the
exponential nature of technology. Let me know what you thin... | {
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Jio's free VoLTE feature phone to run on KaiOS - Abishek_Muthian
http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/news/reliance-jio-feature-phone-kaios-apps-games-battery-1727285
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Abishek_Muthian
Jio, the VoLTE only telecom operator has announced a feature phone - Jio Phone
which can be bought for refundable security deposit of ... | {
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Freelancer.com has ruined my life - hohaa
https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/59fdae7d31302a07249dc4fe
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lsmod
Stay away from Freelancer.com
They reversed two milestone payments i had received, becasue they had to
suspend the buyer's account due to some issues with the buyer's payment
method. Note that this is af... | {
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Redhat & Canonical: UEFI Secure Boot Impact on Linux - chalst
http://ozlabs.org/docs/uefi-secure-boot-impact-on-linux.pdf
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pasbesoin
Google Docs Viewer:
[http://docs.google.com/gview?url=http%3A%2F%2Fozlabs.org%2Fd...](http://docs.google.com/gview?url=http%3A%2F%2Fozlabs.org%2Fdocs%2Fuefi-
secure-boot-impact-o... | {
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How algorithms rule our working lives - bootload
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/01/how-algorithms-rule-our-working-lives
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matteuan
The title is slightly misleading but the article is very interesting. It does
not blame algorithms and big data themselves, but it points out how the misuse
of these te... | {
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Apple Moving from Samsung to TSMC for A6 Chips - adeelarshad82
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2387702,00.asp
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ddagradi
Maybe start the title with "Rumor:"...
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Get Helvetica Off Our Money - rads
http://gethelveticaoffourmoney.com/
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mga
i'd rather support 'get "in god we trust" off our money'
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duck
Alright, since no one else is commenting on this... why?
~~~
techiferous
It's about as appropriate as "In Zeus We Trust". It's not something that is
representative of ... | {
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Z – A JavaScript pattern matching library - maxpert
https://z-pattern-matching.github.io
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Ideabile
This is a beautiful syntax for pattern matching! Love it! Although some
advice, that you might thing are right or not. Doesn't matter.
Disclaimer: I'm just saw the idea and I din't run any investigation on
existin... | {
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Laugh along with GNU - runn1ng
http://www.gnu.org/fun/humor.html
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jfaucett
First time I've ever seen this page and I've spent a fair amount of time
scrolling through the gnu site over the years. The definitions are great
though, these were my favorits:
Balderdash (n.) A rapidly receding hairline.
Abdicate (v.)... | {
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How Google Works: A Google Ranking Engineer's Story - kyle6884
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJPu4vHETXw
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nostrademons
"A Google ranking engineer" is really understating it. Paul Haahr is probably
one of the most knowledgeable and respected persons within Search.
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Show HN: First time I got interested in game probability, the Monty Hall problem - atum47
https://github.com/victorqribeiro/montyhall
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atum47
I think this is the first "game" I ever coded in my life. And I did it cause I
was intrigued by the fact that you have 2/3 chance of winning by switching
doors. Instead of... | {
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Ask HN: How to become a technical sales engineer? - curiously
So I really enjoy explaining complicated technical products in terms a customer can understand, having done so through my own SaaS projects, I've also worked as a developer before.<p>I'm very much attracted by technical sales engineer position, ho... | {
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The Painting Fool - ryanmolden
http://www.thepaintingfool.com/about/index.html
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ryanmolden
There was an interesting article in the latest New Scientist about this that
caught my eye. The artwork shown in the article is better than what is on the
page I linked, but alas the article is behind a pay-wall it appea... | {
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Unorthodox Methods of Choosing the Right Startup - vic317yeh
http://vicyeh.com/unorthodox-methods-of-choosing-the-right-startup
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yowlingcat
This is bad advice and confirmation bias. It is written by a new grad barely a
year out of college at their first job, with no frame of reference to compare
to. From illiqui... | {
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Flash Player H.264 hardware decoding in Mac OS X - steadicat
http://blog.kaourantin.net/?p=89
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not_an_alien
Apple enables hardware-accelerated video decoding, Flash Player beta now has
faster video rendering on Macs.
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IPage.me - Create web pages just by sending e-mails - cosmok
http://www.ipage.me/
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davi
"Users System API: There is no fault information allowed. Your account may be
terminated anytime with a fault information."
Fails to inspire confidence, for several reasons. Generally, clicking around,
lots of loose ends & t... | {
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} |
Love Selenium? It may be cheating on you - tech_reviews
https://hackernoon.com/youve-been-using-selenium-and-are-pretty-happy-with-it-right-8eeac1bc875c
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PebblesHD
It’s for a number of these reasons that our (internal) testing framework
integrates a number of different technologies, including selenium for
functi... | {
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New iPhone worm can act like botnet - allenp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8373739.stm
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tvon
1) They wait until the 3rd paragraph to mention that you have to have unlocked
[edit: I mean jailbroken] your phone to be at risk.
2) They wait until the 6th paragraph to mention that you need to have the
defa... | {
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At Schwab, your voice is your password - te
Just received this email from Schwab:<p>"""
As a leader in the financial services industry, Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. is pleased to introduce our voice ID service.1 Whether you want to use our automated phone service or speak with a Financial Professional... | {
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The Art of user engagement - dpakrk
http://www.slideshare.net/wushupork/art-of-user-engagement-presentation
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dpakrk
[http://eu.techcrunch.com/2012/02/06/appoxee-raises-
funding-h...](http://eu.techcrunch.com/2012/02/06/appoxee-raises-funding-
helps-mobile-app-developers-boost-user-engagement/)
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HMRC outlay on Amazon over six times what firm paid in corporation tax - GordonS
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jun/11/hmrc-outlay-on-amazon-over-six-times-what-firm-paid-in-corporation-tax-gmb
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GordonS
Not really the point of the article, but 11M/year is a _lot_ of AWS spend -
I'd like to know how ... | {
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TweeterGetter is very cool. So why aren't the top Web 2.0 blogs talking about it? - amichail
Maybe it's not in their self-interest to promote this service?<p>http://tweetergetter.com
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sam_in_nyc
Did somebody hack your account to post this spam?
It's quite clearly a pyramid scheme.
Edit: I now think it's lik... | {
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Ask HN: Trazec claims a 900% GPU boost, is it real? - akhtar
Trazec is a startup company, they claim the invention of a new algorithm to speed up the GPU based rendering by 900%.
http://trazec.com
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chrisbennet
Their home page say "GPU speed increase of 66%." Did it change since you
looked at it?
~~~... | {
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Ask HN: Implications of faster than light speed travel? - tren
What are the major things that need to be rethought if this is in fact possible?
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tren
There's a prize for the best answer here: [http://zombal.com/zomb/scientific-
question/implications-for-...](http://zombal.com/zomb/scientific-
question/implicat... | {
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Adobe releases Flash Player 10 beta - nickb
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/adobe_releases_flash_10_beta.php
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nickb
Too bad Flash 10 is still using the old Netscape Plugin Interface (npi). This
is one of the biggest perf killers on a Mac. Safari supports new plugin
interface that is a lot more flexible and ... | {
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Making Lego Into Art: Nathan Sawaya's Impossible Brick Sculptures - MattRogish
http://www.fastcocreate.com/1682144/making-lego-into-art-nathan-sawayas-impossible-brick-sculptures
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uptown
For anyone else annoyed by the continually re-positioning "next" arrow, using
the keyboard right-arrow seems to work.
~~~
t... | {
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SEO - mistcharl
Are there any tips towards reaching success by the start up SEO business? That might be very helpfull! Oh, any idea by choosing the right SEO Tools?
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PeOe
We use ahrefs and Similarweb for SEO.
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Windows 10 and Python = VS Code and WSL - cryo8822
http://www.queworx.com/2019/12/10/windows-10-python-vs-code-wsl/
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diehunde
I've been using this setup for a couple of weeks. Works good in general with
some bugs. The main issue is you can't run Docker on WSL. You have to install
Docker for Windows and connect y... | {
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Buy and Hold 31 Cryptocurrencies for 365 Days – Week 4 – It's Blood Bath - kirbypineapple
http://blog.mclain.ca/buy-and-hold-31-cryptocurrencies-for-365-days-week-4/
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Zekio
Probably not the best time to tell people they can use Equifax to do something
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kirbypineapple
Thanks for pointing that out; hopefully E... | {
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Ask hN: Most difficult positions to fill? - grep
Which is the most difficult positions for an IT company to fill?
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maxdemarzi
Head of IT? <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrQUWUfmR_I>
Seriously, I would say the Software Architects are hard to fill. Sure, you can
find Senior Devs and Development Managers that c... | {
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oDesk to merge with Elance - goblin89
https://www.odesk.com/blog/2013/12/odeskelancemerge/
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lingben
As long as oDesk does not change at all, I'm happy. The only reason I hire on
oDesk is because it is NOT elance - have had horrible experience with elance
both with providers and the company itself and how it cond... | {
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NSA Can Spy on Smart Phone Data - mcantelon
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/privacy-scandal-nsa-can-spy-on-smart-phone-data-a-920971.htmlQ
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001sky
Link is 404, but previously posted to HN as
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6348891](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6348891)
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Ask HN: PayPal vs Direct CC affect on sales - dustyreagan
I've heard claims that accepting credit cards directly on your website, using a merchant account, converts better than only offering credit card payments through PayPal's offsite workflow. Can anyone back this claim up?<p>I realize that there may be other rea... | {
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Playing Tetris while wearing an EEG shows human like AI is impossible - yters
https://mindmatters.ai/2019/12/playing-tetris-shows-that-true-ai-is-impossible/
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nabla9
Just quick look of spectrogram but I'm sure that they don't show changes in
brainwave.
Your spectrogram shows difference in muscle tension and act... | {
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} |
What’s New in Bootstrap 4 - prostoalex
https://scotch.io/bar-talk/whats-new-in-bootstrap-4?imm_mid=0d7e38&cmp=em-web-na-na-newsltr_20150902
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mtmail
duplicate of
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10116916](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10116916)
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Vaclav Smil: ‘Growth must end. Our economist friends don’t seem to realise that’ - rblion
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/21/vaclav-smil-interview-growth-must-end-economists
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jmnicolas
Hint : they're not our friends.
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Tube Stations And Rent (How much does it cost to live near Hyde Park Corner?) - calpaterson
http://flatnik.com/blog/1
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jumblesale
Most of these are mainline stations, not tube stations. Would be interesting
to see a ratio of price and zone to figure out where the cheapest, central
area to rent is.
~~~
calpate... | {
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Investigate Chris Dodd and the MPAA for bribery - palebluedot
https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/investigate-chris-dodd-and-mpaa-bribery-after-he-publicly-admited-bribing-politicans-pass/DffX0YQv
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mMark
20,000+ votes and counting!
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Please don't use hnreputation - pg
A bunch of people have been emailing me asking to have their IP unblocked after using this script<p>http://github.com/brainkarma/hnreputation/tree/master<p>which apparently hits the server so hard that it gets their IP ignored.
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nir
The whole idea of "Karma" is silly. It enco... | {
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Show HN: SideProjects v2.0 – A platform to share your side project - sakofchit
https://sideprojects.net/changelog
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breck
What a well designed site! I was able to successfully post a project.
I really like the left side bar. The dark mode slider was neat. Everything is
very clear and simple. Nice job!
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sa... | {
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Free Will Is as Real as Baseball (2011) - benbreen
https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2011/07/13/free-will-is-as-real-as-baseball/
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jasunflower
Yes, the external laws are well understood, but what about the internal laws?
It's like saying the finite world out there is well understood, so the
infinite worl... | {
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The Great Emu War of 1932 - pbsk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
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pbsk
After the withdrawal, Major Meredith compared the emus to Zulus, and commented
on the striking maneuverability of the emus, even while badly wounded: "If we
had a military division with the bullet-carrying capacity of these birds it
wo... | {
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Minimalism - Omit Needless Code - visitor4rmindia
http://www.two-sdg.demon.co.uk/curbralan/papers/minimalism/OmitNeedlessCode.html
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makecheck
It's not just short words that count; simple words count too.
A 5-word sentence with words that nobody knows, communicates nothing (or at
least wastes time, as the dict... | {
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Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel Peace Prize - Suraj-Sun
http://www.policymic.com/articles/54929/could-edward-snowden-get-a-nobel-peace-prize
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pachydermic
Anyone could be nominated for the prize. It just means some guy wrote a letter
to the committee.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize#Nomination... | {
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This One Leadership Quality Will Make or Break You - equilibrium
http://www.forbes.com/sites/mikemyatt/2011/12/19/this-one-leadership-quality-will-make-or-break-you/
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swombat
What a load of hogwash. Short version: Leadership is pursuit because it leads
to attainment, and therefore leaders should study "pursuit... | {
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Facebook Username Easter Egg? - BRadmin
http://www.facebook.com/themostinterestingmanalive
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abrahamvegh
This is just someone who has opted to keep their profile out of search
listings.
If you aren't friends with them, or your friend isn't a friend of theirs, it
just redirects you back to the homepage.
------
... | {
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Local newspaper boasts ultimate passive-aggressive paywall policy - miked
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/10/25/local-newspaper-boas.html
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nkurz
Let's ignore the site in question for a moment, and ask the more general
question: is this approach legally defensible?
While it seems reasonable to presume that non-pa... | {
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Ask HN: What news sources do you follow? - alecbibat
If any, what news sources do you follow and for what?
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tokenadult
Google News, with some custom sections to emphasize news about science and
technology and about education, and the many friends I have on Facebook, who
post interesting links regularly. I foll... | {
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Ask HN: Is trolling on social media a sign that machine learning is overhyped? - glondi
YouTube comments, Facebook and Twitter are all full of trolls. *<p>Facebook also has lots of business profiles (not pages) that aren't trying very hard to pass as people, as well as spam pages, forums and the like also using h... | {
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FlashCache at Facebook from 2010 to 2013 and beyond - wakaflockafliz
https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/flashcache-at-facebook-from-2010-to-2013-and-beyond/10151725297413920/
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McGlockenshire
How does flashcache compare to dm-cache / bcache, integrated into linux
kernels 3.9 and 3.10?
The text... | {
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The Gracie jiu-jitsu story - fezz
http://grantland.com/one-hundred-years-arm-bars-gracie-jiu-jitsu-mma/?ex_cid=GrantlandTW
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peatmoss
Fascinating history. It's strange to see what the various jujitsu-descended
arts choose as their comfort level with injury. The traditional jujitsu ryu
had lots of maming / killing... | {
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The Guardian Release Progressive Web App to Coincide with Rio Games - rich_harris
https://riorun.theguardian.com/
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Noseshine
"Please rotate your screen" (on an ultrabook)
I have no idea what I'm looking at (since that is all I get). Whatever the
intent, why does my screen orientation matter? There certainly is ... | {
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Just Read the Book Already - howsilly
https://slate.com/culture/2018/08/reader-come-home-by-maryanne-wolf-reviewed.html
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Taylor_OD
I've gone from reading 10 books a year to reading 25+ books a year over the
last few years. Mostly I've cut down on my screen time. I am on a computer all
day for work but once I go ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Show HN: Pyxxi – static website builder with client-side search - pyxxi
http://www.pyxxi.com
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pyxxi
I built this for a travel company I'm involved with, which needed simple
client-side trip filtering and search. I've tried to improve it since then,
but it's still a work in progress and only works on Firefox and ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Giant Squid, Elusive Creature of the Deep, Gets a Vivid Close-Up - azatris
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/30/science/giant-squid-video-japan.html
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rm_-rf_slash
I was recently at a museum in Adelaide, Australia, which featured a scale
giant squid exhibit. Story goes the museum cleared out a shaft for a new
elevat... | {
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Code Firefox - robin_reala
http://codefirefox.com/
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fhd2
I love contributing to Mozilla. I contributed to a bunch of projects in the
past years, including Chromium (a very friendly bunch BTW), but Mozilla makes
me feel like I'm a real part of this, not just some guy sending a patch.
\- Literally everything they... | {
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Reptile: A Scalable Meta-Learning Algorithm - stochastic_monk
https://blog.openai.com/reptile/
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JacobiX
Very impressive, but it has also some limitations, the softmax output that
shows the confidence is often unreliable (tested empirically). This is an
example of misclassification that has a score of 99%:
[https... | {
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Show HN: RushTap - Greek Recruitment Management - snoldak924
http://rushtap.com
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snoldak924
In case it wasn't clear, Greek=Fraternity
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jaypenguin150
Good stuff!
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Microsoft Tag: Microsoft’s own 2D barcode - est
http://www.istartedsomething.com/20090108/microsoft-tag-microsofts-own-2d-barcode/
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cgranade
OK, I'll admit that color barcodes are cool, but there's several problems with
this:
* There's no compelling usecase that cannot be accomplished with existing technologi... | {
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} |
A Tale Of Two Oil States - teawithcarl
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324695104578416871045535226.html
======
surrealize
> California has the natural resources and technical expertise to be the next
> Texas if it wants to be. What it needs is the political will. California
> Governor Jerry Brown at le... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Review my idea for a notes app - WesleyJohnson
As I mentioned in a previous post (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=874827), I typically don't seek out feedback on any of my ideas. However, I'm trying to turn over a new leaf in letting go of that mindset and to start I'm asking for some feedback on an idea... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Compensation for a "growth hacker/marketer" as first four hire? - sotu25
In your opinion/experience and without you knowing anything about the company, what's a fair offer for a first employee of an angel-funded (between $500k-$1mil) startup for a "growth marketing" position. I know you m... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Fire Box – Rhythmic Fire Waves - joeyspn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixH1Mmdhlkw
======
joeyspn
Skip to to 6:50 to see some cool frequency patterns...
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixH1Mmdhlkw&t=6m50s](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixH1Mmdhlkw&t=6m50s)
| {
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Declines in Sexual Frequency Among American Adults, 1989–2014 - rodionos
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10508-017-0953-1
======
avenoir
I know a lot of you guys/gals here are very successful and have your "shit"
together. Do you ever ask yourself what a man or a woman of your interest has
to offer to you... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How did you migrate to the country you are living in now? - hippo8
======
skc
Gaborone, Botswana -> Johannesburg, South Africa.
The year is 2001. I'm fresh out of varsity with a computer science degree and
I'm stuck doing copywriting work for an ad agency because there is no
semblance of an IT industry in Bots... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Serious Intel CPU bugs (2016) - derek
https://danluu.com/cpu-bugs/
======
slivym
As a former Intel employee this aligns closely with my experience. I didn't
work in validation (actually joined as part of Altera) but velocity is an
absolute buzzword and the senior management's approach to complex challenges
is sheer pa... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: How does Hacker News keep up with its SEO ranking? - palashkulsh
Hacker news or news.ycombinator.com consists purely of links to other articles from the web (other than show HN and Ask HN [like this one]). It doesn't adheres to nofollow from search engine company. Then how does it still rank up first, is... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
When is a good time to submit a story to Hacker News? - ColinWright
http://hnpickup.appspot.com/#flip
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ColinWright
It's been pointed out to me that this has been submitted before:
* <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3251877>
* <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3703024>
In fact, the question has been dis... | {
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} |
5 common password sins that weaken security - crneff
http://blogs.csc.com/2016/01/24/five-common-password-sins-that-weaken-security/
======
roddux
On the whole, good advice. Nothing new.
However; "[on reusing usernames] .. _Your username and password combination is
a lock, and your username is half of it, so obscure ... | {
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} |
What was your first “hack”? - Mendenhall
======
DomenicGasman
My dad put our only TV out with the trash because it would not turn on. It was
a tube B&W model and I fixed it by soldering the power cord directly to the
chassis, bypassing a bad connector on the rear panel. I put it in my bedroom
and claimed it as mine sin... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Elon Musk on the Apple Car - hartator
https://global.handelsblatt.com/edition/271/ressort/companies-markets/article/all-charged-up-in-berlin
======
hartator
Without pay wall:
[https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A practical Git introduction - mrchlblng
http://mrchlblng.me/2014/09/practical-git-introduction/
======
mattip
The main gripe I have with many git tutorials is how quickly I am exposed to
git internals, before even describing how to do basic things like "get the
last commit id" or " find where a file changed". I am on... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Thanks for Ruining Another Game Forever, Computers - mhw
http://blog.codinghorror.com/thanks-for-ruining-another-game-forever-computers/
======
samwestdev
Another stupid article by Jeff Atwood
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Gigamouse
The computers didn't ruin the games. The programmers of the computers did
| {
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} |
Ask HN: What's a recent insight you had that changed the way you think? - perpetualcrayon
In my experience, the greatest gains I've ever had in understanding the world around me have come in small "explosions" of insight. And a lot of times the substance of those insights I was likely equipped to under... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Zeplin Raises $1.2M to Sync Designers and Developers with Less Hassle - artur_makly
http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/24/zeplin-raises-1-2m-to-sync-designers-and-developers-with-less-hassle/
======
artur_makly
As an early beta user, i'm very proud to see this talented small group from
Turkey grow and build one hell of pro... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Cancel All Student Debt - notsony
http://cancelallstudentdebt.com/
======
coreyp_1
I don't know how I feel about this. I worked my butt off to pay for my own
schooling, while others got loan after loan. I think it cheapens my sacrifices
(and the sacrifices of many others) to nullify student loans for those that
were... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Solitaire, written inside the bootloader - masneyb
https://github.com/masneyb/boot2sol
======
s3arch
awesome...good job.....
You guys did it inside the bootloader.
Whenever I switch on my computer just for watching a movie or listen to music
and nothing else... I feel it so unnecessary to boot up my fedora, load my ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (1996) [pdf] - susam
https://opendocs.github.io/sicp/sicp.pdf
======
pixelmonkey
I took a one-week SICP course with 5 or 6 other professional programmers last
year. It was amazing. I wrote about my personal motivation for doing so here:
[https://amontalenti.com/2018/0... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What is your developer workstation? - tajd
I'm currently running with a 2015 Macbook Pro. My shift from academia to the real world comes with a fund to buy new toys. What is your current set up and what would you change?
======
uberman
My main workstation is an Alienware Aurora. For the most part it works... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
What's the best way to interview UI/UX candidate? - aihui
I'm a rails developer, not designer. I plan to revamp my site (http://lovewithfood.com) to accommodate a fluid design for web, tablets and mobile. What's are the best ways you've used to interview UI/UX candidates? Is looking at their past portfolio enough?
=... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Where are all the Python jobs? - j_baker
Alright, I hate to post another "Who's hiring?" thread, but it seems as though Python jobs are suddenly getting a bit hard to come by lately. Am I just not looking in the right places, or is Python not a very hot skill right now?
======
RiderOfGiraffes
My experience... | {
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} |
Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 17 - Deep Thought - r4vik
http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/24464587112/peter-thiels-cs183-startup-class-17-deep-thought
======
playhard
Funniest part from the notes!
"And then there’s the probably apocryphal story about Columbus on the voyage
to the New World. Everybody thoug... | {
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} |
Metal as a Service - cow9
https://maas.io/
======
cow9
A way to provision and remotely manage your servers using IPMI and AMT.
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Warren Buffett Has No Problem Backing the Buffett Rule - mitchie_luna
http://knowledgehubnetworks.com/finance/warren-buffett-has-no-problem-backing-the-buffett-rule/
======
mitchie_luna
For those people who don't want to give their share to the government would
have a hard time in complying on this rule. But if they... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Why the universe might be conscious - dsr12
https://grin.news/why-the-universe-might-be-conscious-e4f8c4f6432e
======
qubex
The final question, about whether investigating consciousness _in a post-
pandemic world_ is more urgent, absolutely baffles me. I can’t imagine
anything more remote from the pragmatic necessitie... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Cracking the resume” type of books aimed at top companies? - ccajas
I frequently hear about interview books that are aimed at various kinds of tech companies and top startups. But if your resume isn't up to par, you won't get the chance to interview and use what you learned in those books. Your major... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
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