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Auctomatic featured in The Irish Times - collision
http://collison.ie/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/times.png
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collision
It's behind a subscription wall so we linked to a screenshot. Are we bad
people?
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pc
The original is at
[http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/finance/2007/0713/118419634...](http://www.ire... | {
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Psychology’s reproducibility problem is exaggerated – say psychologists - salmonet
http://www.nature.com/news/psychology-s-reproducibility-problem-is-exaggerated-say-psychologists-1.19498
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AstralStorm
A really biased source with an interest in the outcome.
I'd rather listen to an opinion of a good statistician,... | {
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The Army goes Android - minecraftman
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/the-army-goes-android/10061?tag=content;feature-roto
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e03179
The US ARMY and Apple have been in talks for years and it is clear that Apple
isn't desperate enough for the ARMY's biz. That is, Apple doesn't want to bend
enough to satisfy ... | {
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} |
Is There Any Room for the Not-Passionate Developer? - philou
http://philippe.bourgau.net/is-there-any-room-for-the-not-passionate-developer/
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daviross
This is always worrying to see when set as an expectation. I mean, I enjoy
coding. My employer gets my 40-ish hours of attention. But I just can't seem
to get int... | {
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Marc Andreessen: Building Startups Is Like Baking A Cake In 3 Minutes - icki
http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2011/10/29/marc-andreessen-building-startups-is-like-baking-a-cake-in-3-minutes/
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dmk23
In my opinion, Marc's segment was the most interesting because his perspective
/ experience cannot be found... | {
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Show HN: Topico – Temporary Test Environments for Each Pull Request or Branch - nlyn
https://trytopico.com
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gingerlime
How do you deal with databases, redis stores, secure env vars etc?
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nlyn
You can set environment variables and container ports in the settings area for
each repository you connect. These the... | {
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Poland was no walkover for the Reich - danielam
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/11/poland-was-no-walkover-for-the-reich/
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ngcc_hk
Great to hear that people resist as human would do, even though they were not
considered human.
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COGNITIVE SLAVES (aka Crowdslaving) - yiedyie
http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2010/09/cognitive-slaves.html
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rdlecler1
biologists typically use the word 'symbiosis' for this kind of mutual benefit.
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virgilkf
I think for those superusers mentioned in the article the invested energy
surpas... | {
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Launch HN: Raycast (YC W20) – CLI-inspired desktop app for non-coding tasks - thomaspaulmann
Hey,<p>Thomas and Petr here from Raycast (<a href="https://www.raycast.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.raycast.com</a>). We are building a command-line inspired native app to save developers time on non-cod... | {
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Ask HN: Self-study of basic accounting principles? - tokenadult
I did the expected HN search before asking. I'm wondering what recommendations you business owners have for learning enough about accounting principles for a business to maintain the business accounts during the initial growth phase and to understand wh... | {
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Understanding the “improved” in VIM - Super User Blog - ivoflipse
http://blog.superuser.com/2012/03/06/understanding-the-improved-in-vim/
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chalst
I don't see the point in copying this answer whole into a blog post. It does
not help to understand the "improved" in vim, as Jim Dennis' answer says he
does not try t... | {
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} |
Earth receiving mysterious radio signals - q7
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/earth-receiving-mysterious-radio-signals-outer-space-alien-life-source-possibility-believe-1494686
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dfryer
The paper is much more conservative than the article about it. They're saying
that the close relationship between the signal and the hu... | {
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New Microsoft Security ‘Nightmare’: Users Warned Your Passwords Are Now at Risk - LinuxBender
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/03/04/microsoft-nightmare-login-hack-this-new-video-shows-how-your-password-can-now-be-stolen/
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christopherbalz
An oldie but a goodie: [https://labs.detectify.com/2014/12/08/... | {
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Ask HN: What's your favorite technical formulation (i.e., the XY problem)? - doggo
I chanced upon the XY problem (http://xyproblem.info) and found the concept to be really applicable in my day-to-day when asking <i>and</i> answering questions.<p>I also recently discovered that my manager had never encountere... | {
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Can any of you explain how to do this particle effect? - bugmango
https://www.ff.com/en/our-company/
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bugmango
Hey, can any of you hackers explain to a lowly designer how to do this
particle-to-photo effect on Faraday Future's new website? Or direct me towards
a tutorial that could explain or be helpful in learn... | {
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} |
Drupal 8 is here - khromium
https://drupal.org/8
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ausjke
My favorite CMS for years, time to upgrade over the holiday season.
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charginghawk
w00t!
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ksqlDB: Event streaming database for stream processing applications - synthc
https://ksqldb.io/
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xearl
The naming strikes me as quite unfortunate. Kdb+ is a (time-series) database
that supports the languages K and SQL. Naming a product in a similar space
KSQL was already a questionable idea. Jumping through the ... | {
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Show HN: Hacked Jawbone UP24 to get text and call Notifications on your wrist - cybercase
http://stefano.brilli.me/up24-hacking.html
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cybercase
I always found weird Jawbone did not include this as a standard feature...
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When Rome Fell, the Chief Culprits Were Climate and Disease. Sound Familiar? - Erlangolem
https://undark.org/article/book-review-harper-fate-of-rome/
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scythe
_" From the eighteenth century onward, we have been obsessed with the fall: it
has been valued as an archetype for every perceived decline, and, hence, as ... | {
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Innovation Doesn't Take a Vacation in an Economic Downturn - daveambrose
http://ventureblog.com/articles/2009/01/innovation_doesnt_take_a_vacation_in_an_economic_downturn.php
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gojomo
Innovation might still take a 'staycation'. Those driven to innovate will do
it at their current employer, or as a limited moonlig... | {
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Ask HN: Review my web app / filtering Digg by languages (french, german, ...) - abebat
http://babeligg.com/
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DanielStraight
Some categorization would be really nice.
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How a Hydrogen Fuel Cell Engine Works - jonbaer
http://www.rybrook.co.uk/magazine/news/how-a-hydrogen-fuel-cell-engine-works/
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audunw
Has anyone tried to calculate roughly how cheap and energy dense batteries
have to get before hydrogen fuel cells become uncompetetive for small/medium
vehicles?
I figure, hydrog... | {
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} |
James Dyson’s ‘Wrong Garden’ Fountain Inspired By MC Escher - cwan
http://www.ohgizmo.com/2009/08/22/james-dysons-wrong-garden-fountain-inspired-by-escher/
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JimmyL
You wouldn't know it from the shoddy copy-pasting, but this garden was
actually displayed at the 2003 Chelsea Flower Show [1,2], thus stretching th... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How to get word association from Google? - voiceclonr
If I go to Google and type "vpn vs", it automatically shows ["proxy","tor","remotedesktop"] associated words. Google's NLP API do not seem to provide list of associated words. Are there any pre trained corpus ava... | {
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Job Titles That Can Sink Your Startup - taylorwc
http://steveblank.com/2010/09/13/job-titles-that-can-sink-your-startup/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
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hga
A duplicate of <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1686430>.
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ConferenceQuotas.com - flyosity
http://conferencequotas.com
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raganwald
Mike, what was your thinking behind submitting this to Hacker News?
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Ask HN: The Future of Mobile Payments Processing - bbissoon
Hi HN, I'm working on a project and I just wanted to get a general feel from peers with a pulse on public perception.
I'm caught between working on hardware to read banking cards via the audio jack and via optics (i.e. Card IO). Also as a heads up... | {
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Ask HN: Cost of servers & bandwidth - paul9290
I am curious the infrastructure cost of running a streaming audio site with 50K to 100K users per month. Users would be uploading files to server and streaming them.<p>Does anyone know of a link resource that details this type of information or able to detail their ex... | {
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Coming up with a GUI replacement for Hello World - AlfredTwo
http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2010/03/23/rethinking-hello-world.aspx
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jmount
I think popping up a "Hello World" is an even more relevant first assignment
in this magic world of IDEs and toolkits. The point of the program doing
absolutely not... | {
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Why We’re Patriotic - pmcpinto
http://nautil.us/issue/30/identity/why-were-patriotic
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tempodox
In the bad old times, patriotism might have been appropriate. Hell, there was
a time when “l’état, c’est moi“ was appropriate. Since the opponents of
civilized progress have grown to be transnational, patriotism is a q... | {
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} |
Ask Successful People of HN: What influenced your personal growth the most? - kyro
<i>I want this directed at those that have a net worth of at least $3 million. While that's by no means a definition of success, my question is geared towards achieving financial freedom.</i><p>Assuming many of you were once at a stag... | {
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Why Russians are Dying - chulk90
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2014/sep/02/dying-russians/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nybooks+%28The+New+York+Review+of+Books%29
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kghose
Russia seems to me to be a tragic nation. No matter what the management the
people seem to get a bad deal... | {
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} |
Female Russian founder. Should I talk in Y Combinator video? - AnnaGuzova
Hello, I am a female founder from Russia, and I am looking for advice, about my video for the YCombinator application. Thank you, for helping!<p>Here is my challenge: I have an accent when I speak English. Not so strong, but very obviously not n... | {
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Ask HN: What mobile app did you make and how much are you making from it? - tagabek
<i>Please use this structure</i><p>App Name:<p>App Price:<p>Days In Appstore:<p>Daily/Monthly Revenue:<p>Any other comments:
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BigBalli
you wanna start? :)
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Ask HN: Real time communication for .NET Core - interdrift
Building something in .NET Core that will require client-server and server-client communication. SignalR Core is currently not released. Any alternatives?
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macca321
It's actually dead easy to write a controller implementing Server Sent Events
(SSE) which... | {
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} |
Women more likely to date men with iPhones - jmillerinc
http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/21/54-of-women-more-likely-to-date-men-with-iphones-says-iphone-retailer/
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FluidDjango
Local survey results: 100% of males in my IT department said they were less
likely to date women who based their dating decisions on men's... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Segment was just breached in a Cyber attack - abari
Got a mail today from segment Analytics that my account was part of their data breach. Who knows of what really happened please?
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120bits
Maybe this[1] can give you more insight
[1]
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20886872](https://news.ycombinator.com/i... | {
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Windows 10 to make the Secure Boot alt-OS lock out a reality - doublextremevil
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/windows-10-to-make-the-secure-boot-alt-os-lock-out-a-reality/
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abrodersen
This is very concerning. I can imagine a future where only the "premium"
hardware has the option to disa... | {
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Apple WWDC 2017 live video - AlexeyBrin
https://www.apple.com/apple-events/june-2017/?xyz
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cjCamel
Any recommendations for following along on live text?
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AlexeyBrin
Here you go (no idea about the quality of the live comments though):
[https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/05/live-from-apples-
wwdc-2017...](https:/... | {
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Apple’s secret iPhone lock-in feature? - tilt
http://www.sethlevine.com/wp/2012/03/apples-secret-iphone-lock-in-feature
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rubynerd
"Secret...lock-in feature"
iCloud doesn't poll your phone every damn minute to check if it still has that
number's SIM card inserted
The author even acknowledges it's a bug, and s... | {
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} |
Space Quest 4 commentary by creators Scott Murphy & Mark Crowe (Monday, 6/4/12) - nimh
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spaceventure/two-guys-spaceventure-by-the-creators-of-space-que/posts
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nimh
These are very interesting as Scott and Mark go behind the scenes of each
Space Quest game and explain their des... | {
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NIST Releases Version 1.1 of Its Popular Cybersecurity Framework - jessaustin
https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2018/04/nist-releases-version-11-its-popular-cybersecurity-framework
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nas
Do they have to use the term "cyber"? Sounds like they are old fogeys who are
frightened by this new "information superhigh... | {
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“Universal-Federated-Analytics” - valgaze
https://dap.digitalgov.gov/Universal-Federated-Analytics-Min.js?agency=GSA
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valgaze
Looks like this is it: [https://github.com/digital-analytics-program/gov-wide-
code](https://github.com/digital-analytics-program/gov-wide-code)
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Ask HN: Is there a Google for searching website source code? - tootahe45
If a website was referencing a JS file at https://evil.com/keylog.js, how could I see how many other sites this is embedded in?
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r721
Here: [https://publicwww.com/](https://publicwww.com/)
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brainomite
I hate to say it ... | {
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Chrome adds experimental extension permission API - abraham
https://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/trunk/experimental.permissions.html
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cmorrisrsg
I like this, supposing that it lets extensions request permissions at the
point when the user tries to do something requiring the permission, rather
than at inst... | {
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Discover how much power you have as a UK voter in your constituency - monkeygrinder
http://www.voterpower.org.uk/
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pmjoyce
Doesn't wseem to work for me. Entered a couple of different postcodes and
constituency names but kept coming back with
_Sorry, we didn't find any results for this search._
Postcodes resol... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Alternative for Truecrypt - GBiT
Due to recent events with Truecrypt security, what alternatives and tools we have for secure disk encryption?
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tptacek
If you're using a Mac, Filevault 2 is sector-level AES-XTS with a solid user
interface and good performance.
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buro9
My scenario is simply replac... | {
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Curated list security tools that do what they say (The good list) - jkohrman
https://ciso.tools
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azhenley
I found this _too_ amusing.
Make sure to read the About page since it does provide a bit more useful of an
explanation: [https://ciso.tools/about/](https://ciso.tools/about/)
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bigiain
"Curated list s... | {
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Ask HN: What is the most popular desktop Linux distro? - langf
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mtmail
[https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major](https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major)
claims Mint (1 minute google search). As you've seen in
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19254903](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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WhatsApp is blocking links to a competing messenger app - uptown
http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/30/9819460/whatsapp-telegram-link-block-copy-paste
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Amir6
Welcome to the new WhatsApp owned by Facebook!
| {
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One Person Profitable (In defense of single founders) - babyshake
http://www.jamtoday.org/post/399466007/one-person-profitable
I'm compiling a list of founders who have achieved OPP. There are the obvious ones like Markus Frind and Gabe Rivera, but I'm sure there are many HN readers who have also successfully bootstr... | {
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Friendster founder on the rise and fall of America's first big social network - JournalistHack
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/07/friendster.html
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karzeem
I'm surprised that they only spend one sentence on the site's technical
problems. In late 2003 and early 2004, just about all my friends and I... | {
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} |
The Rise of Return-Anything Culture - prostoalex
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/12/return-policy-retail/422145/?google_editors_picks=true&single_page=true
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Futurebot
Another oblique example of the Peltzman effect: make something less risky
(purchase) and people will take more chances (in th... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
States Can Require Internet Tax Collection, Supreme Court Rules - uptown
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-21/states-can-require-internet-tax-collection-supreme-court-rules-jiomtl5c
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kels
What no one is talking about here is how this would be handled, especially for
a small online sellers. There ar... | {
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} |
Star Wars: Despecialized Edition v2.5 - deletes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHfLX_TMduY
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throwawaw
I won't be downloading the film itself, but this Youtube video about its
source was strangely fascinating. I had no idea the Star Wars hardcore fan
base was so resourceful and technically adept.
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chm
L... | {
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Bell Canada To Track Web, TV, Surfing Habits For Ad Purposes - mrcharles
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/10/22/bell-track-customers-ads_n_4138197.html
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iamshs
No, oh god no. Bell doing it means Rogers and Telus are not far behind. Which
means Shaw will jump in too. This should be opt-in rather than out-out. ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
JavaScript TV – Tech Talks on JavaScript, CSS, React etc. - gj0
https://jstv.loop8.io/
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gj0
Any other interesting JS talk ?
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Build vs. buy: patterns and antipatterns - jon_dahl
https://mux.com/blog/build-or-buy-patterns/
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praveenkannan
Nice write up! I would add another dimension to when you build on your own. If
your business requires customization.Eg. build your own CDN with custom
transport protocol(just came up with something)
--... | {
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} |
The real Casanova - pepys
https://aeon.co/essays/is-there-more-to-the-legendary-lover-than-his-reputation
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doug1001
fascinating. For instance, Casanova (who was without a doubt a real historical
person):
\- arrested by the Venetian Inquisition and locked up in the infamous Piombi
prison, from which no one ever ... | {
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HN: Most frustrating process at your company? - joddystreet
At my company, you need to fill 3 excel sheets, with exactly the same information, just to get on-board to HRMS.<p>- It takes 45 days for any reimbursement approval and 15 more to get the money in your account
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mtmail
Yes, dealing with tax offices, insu... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Do you conduct product/user research before writing code for a product? - enraged_camel
When I have a new idea, I usually start hacking on it right away in order to develop a minimally viable first version and get it out the door. Doing so allows me to get feedback from potential users and also use it myself t... | {
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Game of Life written in Swift - yon
https://github.com/yonbergman/swift-gameoflife
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Tomte
By now we have all realized that yes, Swift is indead a Turing-complete
language and has even got bindings to Apple's own APIs.
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Show HN: Productivity / Goal Management Tool - arikr
https://complice.co/
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arikr
Not mine, just think it looks neat.
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gus_massa
If it's not yours please remove the "Show HN" from the title. From
[https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html](https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html)
> _What to Submit_
> _Show ... | {
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No GCs for your allocations? (.NET) - benaadams
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/maoni/2017/04/02/no-gcs-for-your-allocations/
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flukus
Would this be good for a typical web request where you're basically getting a
bunch of data from the database and returning it?
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The WikiLeaks AMA is now live at Reddit - rahrahrah
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5c8u9l/we_are_the_wikileaks_staff_despite_our_editor/
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goshx
It seems to me they are shooting themselves in the foot with this AMA.
The person answering the question is showing a lot of contradictions in how
they don't th... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What book should I recommend to someone who just finished LPTHW? - mohsen
More Info:<p>I recently recommended Learn Python the Hard Way to someone who has no programming background.<p>He just finished the book and is asking for:<p>1)A python book to read next.<p>2)A book for another programming language that... | {
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Obama restricts 'military' gear going to police - rl3
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-32786241
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meric
It would be interesting to see how much of that military gear will be
requisitioned last minute by the police in the days leading up to the ban.
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ColinWright
[https://hn.algolia.com/?query=milit... | {
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Show HN: I made a better Secret Santa generator - diogoredin
https://www.secretsanta.run
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diogoredin
Hi!
I was tired of all the existing alternatives so I built a better Secret Santa
organiser. This one works with mobile numbers, so you don't have to bug your
friends for their emails.
Once the participants rec... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Songkick (YC summer 07) Launches “Alexa For Bands” - jasonlbaptiste
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/15/songkick-launches-alexa-for-bands/
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mattmaroon
Pretty sweet idea. This startup keeps finding innovative, non-copyright-
infringing ways to make money off of music on the web.
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eusman
"So does that me... | {
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Does the distro matter when applying for a job as a Linux admin? - Sandman
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/does-distro-matter
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jsz0
"Why, in the Linux world should it matter if I have experience with CentOS
instead of Unbreakable?"
I think it should matter to employers. No doubt you could learn OEL very
q... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What will a crash in Silicon Valley do to the job market? - throwaway43
Should ordinary developers be worried ?
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MichaelCrawford
Yes.
Invest in things that you can use to survive. If you drive a car, then
purchase car tools - like a sears craftsman ratchet set.
Don't buy a house that you won't be abl... | {
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} |
Complete Scans of the Penguin Atlas of Medieval History (1961) - benbreen
http://www.learn.columbia.edu/courses/medmil/pages/non-mma-pages/maps/penguin.html
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contingencies
On the subject of historic maps of trade routes... I'm very interested in
Asian history. One thing I've noticed is that, when viewing the 'Ma... | {
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Show HN: Tired of doing coding interviews on Skype? We've built this - asadlionpk
http://remoteinterview.io
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afandian
I've written code in a few job interviews (and been in the opposite position,
asking someone to write code in an interview). In all cases they were more
interested (rightly so) about the conversa... | {
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Handheld Torch Accelerates Hot Breaching - jackgavigan
http://defense-update.com/20150703_tectorch.html
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jacquesm
Not sure why this was flagged, first (I think) time I've used my 'vouch'
powers. This is a legitimate article describing a hand-held thermite powered
torch, with much the same effects as an oxy-acety... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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“New home page seems like Stack Overflow doesn't allow free use any more” - nsoonhui
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/386505/3834
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jasode
First, it looks like the StackOverflow homepage was changed to not require a
sign-in. The heavily downvoted (about -50) answer[0] by Cesar M at the bottom
of the page also sho... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How do you see the world governance/politics in about 30 years? - MKais
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MKais
I mean we are deprecated. AI has to stop our madness. not the reverse #Trump
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Show HN: Helium - Simple web automation - mherrmann
http://heliumhq.com
Hi everyone,<p>I'm working for a startup called BugFree Software and would love to hear your feedback on a new product we are launching today.<p>Helium is a library that wraps around Selenium to simplify web automation. It does away with man... | {
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} |
Orbitz and United Airlines sue 22-year-old over his genius travel hack - rockdiesel
http://www.dailydot.com/business/aktarer-zaman-skiplagged-united-orbitz-lawsuit/?fb=dd
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JoeAltmaier
You can sue somebody because your policies are violated? When did it become
actionable to ignore airline policy? IMHO policy is... | {
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} |
Why do tourists love to rub the balls of Wall Street's charging bull statue? - Facemelters
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/tourists-love-to-rub-the-bronze-balls-of-wall-streets-charging-bull-statue-why
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mhuffman
Also see the Adam and Eve statues at the shops at Columbus Circle[1]
[1] [http://nypost.com/201... | {
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} |
Ask HN: I/O Ventures? - JCThoughtscream
Out of curiosity, does anybody know what happened with I/O Ventures? Their program was supposed to kick off at the beginning of this month, but my last correspondence with them indicated that they had postponed it due to a high influx of applications. I haven't heard from them... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: How do you manage passwords across your team? - GaiusCoffee
We're having a bit of trouble managing passwords while keeping it secure and reasonably convenient across our development team.<p>We have tried a number solutions such as written notes on sealed envelopes with a logbook to access (our oldest ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: How does one start and scale an open source project? - hsikka
I'm a graduate neuroscience student, and while teaching myself JavaScript I'm starting to create a library for computational biology simulation. I have no doubt that building it on web technology can be useful to someone, and can benefit f... | {
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} |
Dropbox: Startup Lessons Learned - icki
http://www.slideshare.net/startuplessonslearned/dropbox-startup-lessons-learned-2011
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icki
You can compare it to last year's Startup Lessons Learned here:
[http://www.slideshare.net/gueste94e4c/dropbox-startup-
lesson...](http://www.slideshare.net/gueste94e4c/dropbox-sta... | {
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} |
Entrepreneur Tries His Midas Touch in Space (2003) - nether
http://articles.latimes.com/2003/apr/22/business/fi-spacex22
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nether
> Whether Musk becomes a space industry visionary -- or the latest in a string
> of delusional Don Quixotes -- remains to be seen. Doubters call Musk's
> vision pie in the sky, a gross... | {
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} |
Cloud Computing Without Containers - cek
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloud-computing-without-containers/
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divbzero
The downside mentioned in the blog post is worth calling out:
> No technology is magical, every transition comes with disadvantages. An
> Isolate-based system can’t run arbitrary compiled code. Pro... | {
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} |
Show HN: Quotekey – Personalize your SSH keys - santosh_ankr
https://github.com/santoshankr/quotekey
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nvusuvu
Reminds me of my personalized Bitcoin address:
1HiMoMgBaAikFHgAt3M4YJtetp4HrnsiXu
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Fogest
You already can personalize them?
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santosh_ankr
I'm not sure what you mean - by personalize here, I'm ... | {
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} |
Attack Ad: Google CEO Moonlights as an Evil Ice Cream Truck Driver - robg
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/opinions/view/opinion/Attack-Ad-Google-CEO-Moonlights-as-Evil-Ice-Cream-Truck-Driver-4925
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andyn
Firstly I'm glad we don't have attack ads like this in the UK.
Secondly I was curious as to how a consumer g... | {
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} |
1Password, Heartbleed, and You - superchink
http://email.agilewebsolutions.com/t/ViewEmail/r/205B068AF33ED1012540EF23F30FEDED/72CE3B338492EA361A01488700E2614F
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tomelders
Perhaps, once a service has addressed the heart bleed vulnerability on their
servers, deleting all passwords and forcing users to go through th... | {
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} |
Our Nearest Star Has a Planet, and These Are the Ways It Could Be Habitable - dnetesn
http://nautil.us/blog/our-nearest-star-has-a-planet-and-these-are-the-ways-it-could-be-habitable
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mortenjorck
As vast a distance as 4.3 light years is, it's still amazing to think how much
closer Proxima is than most of the oth... | {
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} |
Show HN: A decent cms for .Net (in development) - NicoJuicy
https://github.com/piranhacms/piranha.vnext/wiki
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foxpc
I have never tried this but had my fair share of Umbraco. How does this CMS
compare to Umbraco?
| {
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Kimberly-Clark rolls out tube-free Scott toilet paper - bretthellman
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/environment/2010-10-27-1Atube27_ST_N.htm
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bretthellman
Innovative and disruptive.
~~~
bhiggins
yeah totally. viral too.
| {
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} |
Show HN: DesignerJobs.co – A simple jobs board for designers - oliv__
https://www.designerjobs.co
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oliv__
Hey all,
I'm a designer and I made this with hapi.js as I was learning the framework.
It's minimal but it works and so far the server has been sitting real pretty
at .5% cpu (even though the site has staye... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Watching Porn Produces as Much Carbon Dioxide Emissions as Whole Countries - Vaslo
https://sputniknews.com/science/201907131076235927-porn-carbon-dioxide-emissions-research/
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mtmail
The study is an interesting read, but the article on sputniknews chose the
most attention grabbing headline.
From the study "Porno... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
It is statistically likely humans are doomed in the near future - spullara
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_argument
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csense
This is actually an idea I came up with on my own: If increasing technology
causes human population to increase exponentially until a civilization-
destroying catastrophe, this im... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Car Engines: The incredible shrinking machine - e15ctr0n
http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21679767-internal-combustion-engines-are-getting-smaller-more-economical-and-cleanerall
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cconcepts
Most people remember the analogy that if car engines had progressed at the
same rate as computing then a... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Would you work out of a Costco shed over an open office setup? - steeves
I'm trying to think of ways to build cheap offices instead of the dreaded open office plan. My first stop was a recording both since they are basically what I am looking for but are way to expensive. Is there a way you could take a C... | {
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} |
NAFTA Renegotiation Will Resurrect Failed TPP Proposals - DiabloD3
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/03/nafta-renegotiation-will-resurrect-failed-tpp-proposals
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TheAdamAndChe
I am not surprised large corporations are lobbying to enforce strict copyright
laws onto even more countries. The problem with trade with... | {
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} |
Customizable date (and time) picker. No jQuery - bevacqua
https://github.com/bevacqua/rome?latest
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easytiger
If you care less about browser support HTML has time and date now
| {
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} |
CD Projekt RED unveils their new game mod toolkit - primesuspect
http://icrontic.com/article/redkit-revealed-a-new-mod-toolset-for-the-witcher-2
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aw3c2
Blogspam by a spam account. Sadly I seem to have my flagging rights taken
away.
| {
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} |
Ask HN: What langauges to learn if I wanted to build a site like nomadlist.com - ybalkind
I subscribe to the sentiment that a good way to learn development is by taking on a project. I have a few projects in mind for online directories similar to nomadlist.com.<p>So far I've been building them in Wordpress and hi... | {
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} |
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