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3Blue1Brown: Hamming Codes [video] - eindiran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8jsijhllIA
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Buttons840
Interested viewers might also enjoy this free book:
[http://www.inference.org.uk/mackay/itila/](http://www.inference.org.uk/mackay/itila/)
An early chapter talks about Hamming Codes.
I've only worked through t... | {
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Machines shipping with Windows 10 may see OEMs enforcing Secure Boot - arnieswap
http://www.linuxveda.com/2015/03/21/no-love-lost-microsoft-tries-block-linux-windows-machines/
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umurkontaci
I think the post pretty speculative, given the past and current efforts of
Microsoft to get together with OSS and Linux comm... | {
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Bike Share Program Opens in New York City After Long Delay - ck2
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/28/nyregion/bike-share-program-opens-in-new-york-city-after-long-delay.html?_r=1&&pagewanted=all
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rm999
I had a chance to do five 10-40 minute bike rides yesterday (it was a
beautiful day) using the new citi bikes. ... | {
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3 Steps to a Great LinkedIn Invitation - andrewkkirk
http://facethebuzz.com/2011/06/07/great-linkedin-invitations/
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iamdave
Here's one step that encompasses them all and should be in your wallet at all
times: be authentic.
Point, set.
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Seattle lab uncovered coronavirus outbreak only after defying federal regulators - btilly
https://theweek.com/speedreads/901405/seattle-lab-uncovered-washingtons-coronavirus-outbreak-only-after-defying-federal-regulators
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btilly
The plural of anecdote is not data, but here is an anecdote that should give
pause.
... | {
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13 year-old invents doorbell that tricks burglars into thinking you're home - NonEUCitizen
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1394448/Doorbell-tricks-burglars-thinking-youre-home-invented-schoolboy-Laurence-Rook-13.html
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gr366
This sounds like a great solution for the problem of package deliveries ... | {
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Hungry for New Content, Google Tries to Grow Its Own in Africa - jsm386
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/25/technology/25link.html
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quant18
_Translation could be the key to bringing more material to non-English
speakers. It is the local knowledge that is vital from these Kenyan
contributors, the thinking goes, ... | {
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Turkish Citizenship Database Leaked - ponyous
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/turkey-political-hacktivist-leaks-citizen-database-containing-50-million-personal-records-1553123
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ttn
TR citizen here, for the last 10 years only those who are really close to AKP
got the government contracts including software like this etc... | {
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Noble or savage? Hunter-gatherers - zoltz
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10278703
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motoko
Q. Why does misery and inequality seem to coincide with technological
progress?
A. Because the dead don't fill surveys.
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zoltz
The current Economist issue contains a letter on this story by St... | {
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Simple Security - dcope
http://www.neglectedpotential.com/2012/12/simple-minded/
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joshstrange
I think you are blowing things a little out of proportion. As you mentioned in
your blog post you say that ever other bank's app you have tested has had the
same "shortcomings". That said I would venture a guess that ... | {
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Stack Exchange tag correlations - mwsherman
http://clipperhouse.github.io/stack-correlation/
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mholt
How do I correlate questions tagged "go"?
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mwsherman
Should be good now: [http://clipperhouse.github.io/stack-
correlation/#stackoverfl...](http://clipperhouse.github.io/stack-
correlation/#stackoverflow/go)... | {
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Python Debugging Techniques - edw519
http://aymanh.com/python-debugging-techniques
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spahl
The first one with 'import code; code.interact(local=locals())' is priceless.
Is there a way to attach a python shell to a running process? I saw something
similar for ruby but could not find a python equivalent.
~~~
amix... | {
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Ask HN: Advice on a passion project in a small (but growing) market - dbla
tl;dr; I'm building a fitness tracker for rock climbers[1] that will be sold though rock climbing gyms. The climbing gym market is small and we have heavy up front costs to bring to market. I'm looking for advice in getting past this ... | {
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Epstein Was a Known Sex Offender. Bezos, Musk and Brin Dined with Him Anyway - smacktoward
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/jeffrey-epstein-bezos-musk-billionaires-dinner
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codeddesign
Who cares. As long as they weren’t engaging in illegal sex activities and were
all there conducting business the... | {
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Ask HN: Is there an easy way to attach notes to each pane in tmux (or screen) - soulbadguy
I am heavily multitasking (as a way to hide the latency caused by ridiculously long compile/test cycles) using multiple tmux sessions and panes. I find myself constantly trying to remember what i was doing in each pane so ... | {
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Facebook is not worth $33B (2010) - rl12345
https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2585-facebook-is-not-worth-33000000000
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rl12345
It is easy to be a critic of private venture backed companies valuations as
these investments are done considering where the world _could_ be in the
future vs where it is now. These kind of ... | {
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Ask HN: Anyone interested in a Sydney HN Meetup? - jlangenauer
That's Sydney, Australia - though I'm sure the one in Nova Scotia is lovely.
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andrewtj
You guys might be interested in the Sydney Silicon Beach drinks — see
<http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/>
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CyberFonic
Could be interesting. I'm at Sydney ... | {
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Yahoo appoints Google's Henrique de Castro as COO - ximeng
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19957779
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ximeng
"According to a regulatory filing, de Castro will receive an annual base
salary of $600,000 and a one-time retention equity award comprising $US18
million in restricted stock units and $US18 million in ... | {
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Creating old school illustrations for physics book programmatically - codedokode
https://github.com/jemmybutton/fiziko
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codedokode
More awesome image examples:
[https://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=&to=en&a=ht...](https://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=&to=en&a=https://habr.com/post/423571/... | {
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No One Saw Tesla’s Solar Roof Coming - acjohnson55
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-31/no-one-saw-tesla-s-solar-roof-coming
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philipkglass
I had serious misgivings when Tesla/SolarCity announced a switch of focus to
building-integrated PV. Historically, BIPV is where a PV technology goes to
die aft... | {
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I Constantly Lie to Get Airplane Upgrades. Is That Unethical? - dpflan
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/is-lying-to-get-an-airplane-upgrade-so-bad-2014-12-05/?
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davelnewton
(It confuses me that someone even asked the question. Isn't it obvious?)
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Is economics a science? - zootar
http://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2013/nov/06/is-economics-a-science-robert-shiller
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saosebastiao
Of course it is a science, but most critics of it should remember that it is a
social science, and comes with all of the difficulty of proof that all social
sciences... | {
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FASTER cable, a new transpacific network link with a peak capacity of 60 Tbps - serialx
https://plus.google.com/+UrsH%C3%B6lzle/posts/Gwz3TFyvCAf
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c0nsumer
Linked from the Google Plus page, but kinda easy to miss, the original photos
are from this Gigazine article: [http://gigazine.net/news/20150615-kddi-
fast... | {
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Collaborative Decision-Making and Wasabi Gelato - mikasissonen
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/16959
I've been a Hacker News reader for a couple of years under a different username - but for this submission, I've created an account under my real name for full disclosure that I'm linking to someth... | {
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What will you trade me to send something to the space station? - ada1981
http://www.onetoyspaceship.com/2013/03/trade-6-send-something-to-space-station.html
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ada1981
Or what should I trade?
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IKEA platform for tech, interior designers to experiment w the future of homes - rbanffy
https://www.businessinsider.in/business/startups/news/ikea-launches-a-global-platform-for-tech-and-interior-design-experts-to-experiment-with-the-future-of-homes/articleshow/76425583.cms
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tpmx
It's an (interesting) portfolio... | {
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Palmer Luckey secretly funding meme army on Twitter, Reddit - kefka
https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/542dhf/palmer_luckey_the_facebook_billionaire_secretly/
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carsongross
Literally, the guy has fuck you money.
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throwanem
The Reddit post is just a link to a Daily Beast article which makes the actual... | {
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Brand new homepage for Taskforce... what do you think? - niccolop
http://www.taskforceapp.com/
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pclark
I kind of think the second line:
> Taskforce makes it easy to save time, stay organized, and cut down on email
Should spell out _what_ it is. You've told me you help fix my inbox, but you
tell me more marke... | {
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A 3D Exploration of Picasso's Guernica - eduardoflores
http://www.lena-gieseke.com/guernica/movie.html
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celticjames
I don't think cubism can represented in 3D models this way. Cubism is a way to
represent an object from many perspectives on a 2D plane. That's why the faces
of cubist subjects have both a profil... | {
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} |
Gophercises – Coding exercises for budding gophers - sea6ear
https://gophercises.com/
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keithnoizu
Are we using the word gophers now, my first thought was the internet protocol
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_\(protocol\))
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busfahrer
Perfect timing, ju... | {
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What’s a Woggin? A Bird, a Word, and a Linguistic Mystery - pepys
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/whats-a-woggin-a-bird-a-word-and-a-linguistic-mystery
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dodo
the bird is the word (y)
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Ask HN: Why are entity component systems not used widely in web development? - oooooof
Entity component systems https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity–component–system are used in game development, and claim great benefit in simplifying codebases.<p>A cursory glance around doesn’t show any web fron... | {
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Ask HN: Question about MySQL "create if not exists" performance. - NathanKP
After searching Google fairly extensively I haven't been able to find any analysis of the performance of "create if not exists" MySQL statements.<p>I want to ensure that a MySQL table is existent before using it. The question is whether or no... | {
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Ask HN: What is better than Evernote? - X-combinator
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ainiriand
Regarding your question, you can take a look at Google Keep but I think that
Google is not making a good competitor to Evernote byt itself. The advantage
over Evernote is the Google ecosystem integration.
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markdleblanc
Where can I download... | {
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Django for a Rails Developer - scorpion032
http://uswaretech.com/blog/2009/11/django-for-a-rails-developer/
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nailer
For me the hardest thing about Django was comprehending that the 'View' is
doing most of the work.
* urls point to views
* views do stuff. Perhaps hard, manly stuff. Perhaps involving models. Dja... | {
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Help Put Objective-C Back in the Top 10 This Weekend - danicgross
https://objectivechackathon.appspot.com/
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danicgross
Hi, OP here.
The actual goal isn't to "beat" any other language - it's just a theme for the
event.
Although proprietary, Objective C (and iOS) is a widely used platform. It also
has a relati... | {
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America Plans to Withdraw from 1987 Nuclear Treaty with Russia - mises
http://U.S.AnnouncesPlanstoWithdrawFhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-to-suspend-obligations-under-1987-nuclear-treaty-with-russia-11549028592
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aiCeivi9
url is malformed: https//www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-to-suspend-obligations-
under-1987-nucle... | {
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Interactive model showing effectiveness of airport screenings to catch Covid-19 - edh649
https://cmmid.github.io/visualisations/traveller-screening
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ck2
I thought with this virus you can be be infected but not show symptoms for
many days?
Hence when HHS sent untrained staff with zero protection to meet all the
... | {
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Wget thinks github.com is a threat - jerome_etienne
http://notes.jetienne.com/2011/04/15/wget-thinks-github.com-is-a-threat.html
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chc
This doesn't look like much of anything. It's certainly not wget "thinking
github is a threat." That cert says it's for subdomains of github.com, not the
root domain. He isn't ... | {
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Fridge caught sending spam emails in botnet attack - happyscrappy
http://www.cnet.com/news/fridge-caught-sending-spam-emails-in-botnet-attack/
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dredmorbius
Is your refrigerator running ... a spamming operation?
All the more reason to fill it with Vegamite instead of spiced pork and ham...
And yes, The Intern... | {
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Molecular circuitry: Team breaks one-diode-one resistor electronics - headalgorithm
https://phys.org/news/2020-06-molecular-circuitry-team-one-diode-one-resistor.html
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peter_d_sherman
>"Using a combination of electrical measurements and atomic-scale measurements
guided by quantum mechanics, the team found a _swe... | {
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How the science of human behavior is beginning to reshape the US government - Amorymeltzer
https://theconversation.com/how-the-science-of-human-behavior-is-beginning-to-reshape-the-us-government-48145
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MollyR
Aren't a lot of psychological studies coming under scrutiny for lack of
reproducibility, and now the gov... | {
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Why Female Soldiers Were Finally Added to Call of Duty's Multiplayer - protomyth
http://kotaku.com/why-female-soldiers-were-finally-added-to-call-of-duty-1142063196
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ryusage
Okay, so this is a dumb article, but it's not _quite_ as idiotic as it sounds.
Kotaku makes it sound like the devs are saying female chara... | {
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FreeType 2.6.4 released with new and better bytecode interpreter - cm3
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype-announce/2016-07/msg00000.html
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cm3
The new interpreter has absolutely improved rendering of fonts, at least
subjectively for me.
CHANGES BETWEEN 2.6.3 and 2.6.4
I.... | {
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Ask HN: Glassdoor for Medical Bills? - brundolf
I had an idea earlier after receiving an unreasonable medical bill.<p>As most here probably know, medical bills in the U.S. - in addition to being high - are almost never advertised, often erroneous, often inflated via agreements with insurers, and can often be talked do... | {
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TV HOST Temporary – Job ID: 571240 - kposehn
https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/571240/tv-host-temporary
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joshmn
> Currently, this is a temporary position to cover an absence due to
> pneumonia.
Edit: The more I read this the more I laugh because I realize it's not a joke.
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squozzer
They should consider hir... | {
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Long-Secret Stingray Manuals Detail How Police Can Spy on Phones - jrochkind1
https://theintercept.com/2016/09/12/long-secret-stingray-manuals-detail-how-police-can-spy-on-phones/
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alansmitheebk
Are the wireless carriers (ie Verizon, AT&T, etc) complicit in the manufacture
of these products? It would seem to me ... | {
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Association Between Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Cognitive Development - luxpir
http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1001792
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thinkcontext
This is an under appreciated benefit of electrifying transport. Even if you
aren't using clean energy it helps to not pump out neuroto... | {
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The Future of Indian Technology - cwan
http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/13/the-future-of-indian-technology/
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sateesh
The article states that
"The Indian technology industry got its start running
call centers and doing low-level IT work for western
firms".
The Indian technolo... | {
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People Recognize Objects by Visualizing Their “Skeletons” - headalgorithm
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-bones-about-it-people-recognize-objects-by-visualizing-their-skeletons/
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xaedes
Imho the most important part of the article:
_One concern with the study is that the authors generated the obje... | {
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Stephen Wolfram's TED Talk: Computing a theory of everything - amichail
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60P7717-XOQ
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dmfdmf
I think his whole approach is flawed... unless he proves that P=NP (with a
constructive not an existence proof) his research agenda and the aim of
Wolfram Alpha is stillborn. Setting aside... | {
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Ask HN: Are people using emojis less now that apple made them so easy to use? - rbcgerard
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rbcgerard
It feels like aren't using them anymore because the challenge was taken out of
it...
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Kickstart A Needy Kid’s Education With Conway-Backed Wishbone.org - aresant
http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/01/wishbone/
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aresant
I love this concept and donated to a worthy cause (Comp Sci Camp!!! Awesome)
But there's a blind spot here not integrating Amazon payment gateway or PayPal
(like Kickstarter)
I real... | {
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} |
Things I’ve Learned in Starting, Running, and Quitting Living for Monday - barrettabrooks
http://livingvalues.wordpress.com/2014/04/07/50-things-ive-learned-in-starting-running-and-quitting-living-for-monday/
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not_paul_graham
I'm confused why this is on the front page. The title left me with the
impression that ... | {
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Postgres is better than MySQL but not because of how long it took to fix a bug - linuxhiker
https://www.commandprompt.com/blog/postgres_better_than_mysql/
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Tostino
Really well written article. I agree that the community can do more to be more
inclusive.
Hell, just look at this interaction on Twitter from the de... | {
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Hack in the box: Hacking into companies with “warshipping” - Recurecur
https://arstechnica.com/
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Recurecur
The point about RFID cards was particularly interesting. Also being a vector
for extracting data from secure spaces...
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Ask HN: A Django BDD book - jozi9
I'm thinking about summing up my experience as I go along the way when applying BDD on Django projects. Like what tool to use, how to translate requirements/user stories to BDD tests, etc. This is one field that I think is a bit overlooked/undervalued in Django. I... | {
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Inside look at modern web browser – part 4 - feross
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/09/inside-browser-part4
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pcwalton
I like the writeup and drawings, but I have to mention that this is a bit too
specific to browsers as they work right now, specifically Chrome. Having to
pay attention to the paint... | {
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Emulators written in JavaScript - rockdiesel
https://hackerlists.com/javascript-emulators/
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Bino
Once one is done, its wow factor really starts to decline...
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Get notified when somebody mentions you on IRC - snatcher
http://mlomnicki.com/irc/2012/10/23/get-notified-when-somebody-mentions-you-on-irc.html
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andrzejkrzywda
I'm a big fan of IRC. At work, I'm forced to use HipChat, though. The feature
that OP described (mentions) works really great there.
It's great to h... | {
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Bringing asm.js to the Chakra JavaScript engine in Windows 10 - bpierre
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2015/02/18/bringing-asm-js-to-the-chakra-javascript-engine-in-windows-10.aspx
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corysama
Prior to asm.js I spoke out against Mozilla's hard stance that making JS
faster was the _only_ option -as opposed to m... | {
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How to Store Data Forever - ddevault
https://drewdevault.com/2020/04/22/How-to-store-data-forever.html
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Seirdy
If you think others might be interested in helping out, creating+seeding a
torrent and pinging r/DataHoarder [0] is one of the most effective ways of
getting redundancy for large amounts data. It's a su... | {
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Hello, GitHub - rafaelc
https://natfriedman.github.io/hello/
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dang
Since this is the newest big thread, it can take the front-page slot for now.
The big previous discussions are:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221527](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221527)
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id... | {
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Ask HN: Dashboard Stats - smcguinness
We are planning on setting a dashboard for info about our business. We are going to have the usual revenue, visitors, customer types and bugs displayed. I was curious as to what other startups were displaying to see if there was anything that we could possibly add that might be ... | {
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Intel Scales Neuromorphic Research System to 100M Neurons - joubert
https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-scales-neuromorphic-research-system-100-million-neurons/
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p1esk
Why does this bullshit keep being posted here? Zero reasons for this line of
research to exist.
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raidicy
Why is this a waste of time? I kno... | {
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Congress passes bill for web accessibility - kajecounterhack
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/09/congress_passes_disabilites_bi.html
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devmonk
And notice how they changed "requirement" to "objectives" in:
[http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-
bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=11...](http://frwebgate.access.gp... | {
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Better Intuition for Information Theory - hardmaru
https://www.blackhc.net/blog/2019/better-intuition-for-information-theory/
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adriantam
Yeung (author of the article mentioned) was my teacher in school. He wrote a
book more than a decade ago with a Venn diagram of four sets on the cover
[https://www.amazon.com/... | {
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You Should Self-Publish - wglb
http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/12/you-should-self-publish.html
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auxbuss
I "self-published" in 2003. I created a business that fulfilled all the
criteria to be a bona fide publisher; namely, I bought a block of ISBNs. The
rest was mechanical. Having ISBNs meant that book listin... | {
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} |
Twitter censoring conservative voices - cpr
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/02/16/exclusive-twitter-shadowbanning-is-real-say-inside-sources/
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briandear
It is rather interesting that this isn't upvoted it does reveal an interesting
bias.
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sacul
This was posted twice to Hacker News, the first article 9 day... | {
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Show HN: LemonTalk – Video calls with customers made easy - franblas
https://lemontalk.fr/?lang=en
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franblas
Hi there !
We are very excited to launch LemonTalk, a video call solution that allows you
to talk to your customers, directly from your website.
With LemonTalk :
there's no need to mix several tools to... | {
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Matasano hacked. A humbling lesson, even the pros are vulnerable. - olefoo
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2009/Jul/0388.html
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kevingadd
Why do people insist on giving these idiots the attention they want?
There's nothing valuable or productive about their inane, impossible-to-read
'hack logs' and they're no... | {
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Paralyzed Berkeley student walks again with robotic exoskeleton - aikinai
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/guest/26775/?p1=blogs
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jockc
As usual, this was foreseen by the Onion
[http://wwww.onion.com/articles/stephen-hawking-builds-
roboti...](http://wwww.onion.com/articles/stephen-hawking-builds-robotic-
... | {
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Ask HN: Is Angular Dead Yet? - purple_ducks
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JMTQp8lwXL
I work for a publicly-traded company and we use it quite heavily, though it's
not the only thing we use. I've heard secondhand that there's a lot of
AngularJS (aka Angular v1) out there too. Far more Angular 2+, however.
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jedisct1
Pretty much, yes.
A... | {
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Effect of bromhexine on clinical outcomes and mortality in Covid-19 [pdf] - drocer88
https://bi.tbzmed.ac.ir/Files/Inpress/bi-23240.pdf
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blacksqr
"A total of 78 patients with similar demographic and disease characteristics
were enrolled. There was a significant reduction in ICU admissions (2 out of
39 vs. 11 out... | {
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} |
Show HN: Simpler Database Interactions in PHP - erusev
https://github.com/erusev/base
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3dfan
I find it harder to read then plain SQL.
You do it like this:
$base->find('user')->whereEqual('is_verified', 1)->orderDesc('id')->read();
I do it like this:
$myDb->find('SE... | {
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A psychiatrist who didn’t believe in mental illness (2013) - mastazi
https://aeon.co/essays/the-psychiatrist-who-didn-t-believe-in-mental-illness
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elbasti
Szasz's "The Myth of Mental Illness" is one of those works which is completely
and utterly misinterpreted simply because of the title.
I don't have the book ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Gitcoin.co is Social Philanthropy with Bitcoin. - cgcardona
http://www.gitcoin.co/
======
cgcardona
This is Carlos Cardona the creator and project lead of gitcoin.co.
Please let me know if you have any questions regarding gitcoin, our choice of
building on the coinbase api, our goals, or anything else.
Thanks Hack... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Carla – An open-source simulator for autonomous driving research - programd
http://www.carla.org
======
telltruth
There is also...
AirSim from Microsoft -
[https://github.com/microsoft/airsim](https://github.com/microsoft/airsim)
Gazebo car simulator - [https://www.osrfoundation.org/simulated-car-
demo/](https://www... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
My wonderful world of macOS - thmslee
https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/my-mac-os/
======
wlesieutre
Weird that Sketch gets the "I'm not a fan of subscription pricing" warning
when it's not a subscription. Buying it only gives you a year of updates
instead of until the next major feature/version bump, sure, but you're... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Google's conflict of interest with Uber - surferbayarea
http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2014/11/google-maps-your-best-accessory-this.html<p>Given Google Ventures is an investor in Uber, this is a clear conflict of interest.<p>Google is supposed to be an unbiased search engine. So in this ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Why It’s So Hard to Get Solar in Florida - jseliger
https://www.wired.com/2016/10/florida-sunshine-state-hard-get-solar-energy
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noonespecial
Until very recently, installing a solar system came with a great big helping
of extra taxes!
Thankfully that was just fixed by a landslide.
[http://miami.cbslocal.com/201... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Blackhat SEO games Reddit, blogs about it - monkeygrinder
http://www.esrun.co.uk/blog/cheating-reddit-auto-votes/
======
ed
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1774854>
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fondue
"I’m absolutely stoked that my post made it onto two of my favourite sites-
HackaDay.com and TheRegister."
Congratulations, you've no... | {
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} |
A Science-Backed Guide to Taking Truly Restful Breaks - ohjeez
http://99u.com/articles/54325/a-science-backed-guide-to-taking-truly-restful-breaks
======
sundarurfriend
Pretty appropriate timing, I was just thinking of stuff to do in my Pomodoro
breaks to make them most effective.
I'd just added 'washing out my eyes ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Green Goose sensors monitor your life, you earn experience points - vyrotek
http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/23/green-goose-sensors-monitor-your-life-you-earn-experience-point/
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makmanalp
This was predicted:
[http://www.ted.com/talks/jesse_schell_when_games_invade_real...](http://www.ted.com/talks/jesse_schell_... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
AT&T trying to crackdown on unauth. tethering - paylesworth
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/03/att-shames-unauthorized-phone-tetherers-gives-ultimatum-deadline.ars
======
ChuckMcM
Add a bit of personal experience here. Google gave its employees unlocked
Android phones (not once but twice :-) and some of us (lik... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Git-hooks: yet another git hook manager - cattail
https://github.com/git-hooks/git-hooks
======
cattail
git-hooks is rewritten from icefox/git-hooks, with extra features. Especially
support for common used hooks.
| {
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} |
AMD's Cayman GPU Architecture - closure
http://realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=RWT121410213827
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Symmetry
So now it seems that AMD is going in a more GPGPU direction, incorporating the
equivalents of some of the changes that NVidia made with their most recent
architecture.
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forkqueue
TLDR; It's marg... | {
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} |
Why My Handwriting Sucks: A Typographical Analysis - hellomaggiema
https://medium.com/@manibatra23/why-my-handwriting-sucks-a-typographical-analysis-9e0fc4756b71
======
muraiki
I recently started working on fixing my handwriting, which was often so bad
that I couldn't even read my own notes. I found an excellent free ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Big tech should create a national service program to make the US more united - sacerdoti
https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/05/big-tech-should-create-a-national-service-program-to-make-the-us-more-united/
======
uberman
All in all I feel like this is a terrible idea to the point of absurdity.
Having something like a "vol... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Standing desks considered harmful - plessthanpt05
http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2013/08/27/standing-desks-considered-harmful/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheEndeavour+%28The+Endeavour%29
======
nashequilibrium
I have seen the results of this from two family members who worked in
factor... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Chip Aging Accelerates - Lind5
https://semiengineering.com/chip-aging-accelerates/
======
squarefoot
Chips aging aside, tin whiskers also are one of the main reasons why
manufacturers shouldn't use electronics except where it is really really
really necessary, especially on things that move at high speeds with humans ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A Short Story for Engineers - shawndumas
http://cs.txstate.edu/~br02/cs1428/ShortStoryForEngineers.htm
======
dkarl
I like the values that jokes like this reinforce (simplicity, creativity, and
proactivity versus complexity, expense, and bureaucracy) but I wonder if they
serve a positive purpose in engineering culture... | {
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} |
Help Us Build A World-Class Node.js Hosting Platform - nodesocket
http://www.nodesocket.com/survey.php
======
nodeman
nodesocket.com is going to revolutionize this whole space..amazing what you
guys are doing!
| {
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} |
Extending SSL to Google search - mattyb
http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2010/05/extending-ssl-to-google-search.html
======
mooism2
USA only? It redirects me to <http://www.google.co.uk>.
| {
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} |
Playing Pool with Pi (2003) [pdf] - tosh
https://www.maths.tcd.ie/~lebed/Galperin.%20Playing%20pool%20with%20pi.pdf
======
crypticlizard
If you haven't seen the 3blue1brown videos discussing this, I highly recommend
them. [https://youtu.be/jsYwFizhncE](https://youtu.be/jsYwFizhncE)
| {
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My Mac Mini - ashu
http://mattmaroon.com/?p=359
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axod
"First you download a dmg file which, when clicked, creates a virtual drive.
On the virtual drive is the program, which you then have to drag into your
Applications folder. Then you have to unmount the virtual drive and delete the
dmg file from your desktop... | {
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} |
Catch-22: Tech Blogging As a Woman - aiiane
http://codingkilledthecat.wordpress.com/2012/07/01/catch-22-tech-blogging-as-a-woman/
======
HarrietTubgirl
You're not going to change this. Yes, virtually every great programmer or
computer scientist is a male. So much so that we're all going to assume
they're male, and whe... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Bespin 0.4: Stop, Collaborate and Code - chanux
http://labs.mozilla.com/2009/08/bespin-0-4-stop-collaborate-and-code/
======
jiaaro
just tried it out... very cool project. My only concern is that you can't
check out a project bigger than 10 mb. Which would be find except that in
mercurial you ALWAYS checkout the entir... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Is there a bubble in software work? What's the 5/10 year forecast? - TurkishPoptart
I'm reading The Click Moment, where the author writes, "Ten years ago, if you wanted to guarantee yourself a life of financial security, one of the surest paths was to become a lawyer." So law programs and studen... | {
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} |
If you think O2 headers are bad, check this out. - richardburton
http://www.kiteandcode.com/post/16459436941/if-you-think-o2-headers-are-bad-check-this-out
======
darklajid
So the complaint is that no one tells the world about the insecurity of text
messages. And the blame is laid on a network provider.
This is wrong... | {
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} |
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