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Switched away from App Engine, couldn't be happier - codeka
http://www.war-worlds.com/blog/2013/06/switched-away-from-app-engine-couldnt-be-happier
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jbeda
I'm the tech lead for GCE. I'm sorry to hear that App Engine didn't work out
for the poster. Perhaps someone from that team may have some suggestions. In
ad... | {
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} |
The Lost Lesson Of Instant Typing - blasdel
http://jens.mooseyard.com/2009/10/the-lost-lesson-of-instant-typing/
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nwinter
I love Wave's instant typing. Chat happens so much faster, and both parties
stay engaged instead of drifting away while they wait. It raises the
bandwidth.
This kind of editing isn't somethi... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How to plan the optimal route for a moving van? - newobj
This might be a bit weird for HN, but I thought it posed a good hacker challenge :)<p>I'm moving from Phoenix, AZ to Seattle, WA next week. I'm driving my own 24' moving van (with car in-tow).<p>I'm trying to figure out what the optimal route is for th... | {
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Roadmap to Alpha Centauri - dnetesn
http://nautil.us/issue/3/in-transit/roadmap-to-alpha-centauri?utm_source=tss&utm_medium=desktop&utm_campaign=linkfrom_feature
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dredmorbius
Read Charlie Stross's "High Frontier Redux". It's simply not that easy (and a.
cent. is the wrong target).
And no, it's not a simple matt... | {
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} |
Firefox 22 proves the Web is the platform for 3D games and video calls - trendspotter
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/22.0/releasenotes/
headline source: https://twitter.com/firefox/status/349544064120655872
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trendspotter
It runs Epic Citadel :) and BananaBread demo.
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You All Have No Business Writing - zacjszewczyk
http://zacjszewczyk.com/Structure/You%20All%20Have%20No%20Business%20Writing.htm
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bckmn
I like your site, man.
You should check out contributing to <http://sthgnw.com> \- I think it fits
with your content style nicely.
| {
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} |
Microsoft is downloading Windows 10 to your machine 'just in case' - edwintorok
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2425381/microsoft-is-downloading-windows-10-to-your-machine-just-in-case
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dynomight
On windows 7 I have my updates set to 'tell about updates and let me install
them' and the box 'treat recomm... | {
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} |
Review Board 2.5 released with many improvements for code and document review - gtewallace
https://www.reviewboard.org/news/2015/10/28/review-board-2-5-is-here/
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neves
I'm a great fan of ReviewBoard, the best opensource code review tool. Great to
see that they are improving. Its greatest problem is the difficult... | {
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} |
Mark Wise's long-lost tribute for Joe Polchinski's 60th birthday - seycombi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGJSkd2BP-c
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seycombi
some background info:
[http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2017/09/08/joe-
polc...](http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2017/09/08/joe-polchinskis-
memories-and-a-mark-wise-... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Could Solar Radiation Pressure Explain Oumuamua’s Peculiar Acceleration? - madeuptempacct
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.11490
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okket
Previous discussion from 4 days ago:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18338927](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18338927)
(100 comments)
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mindfulplay
Before we jump t... | {
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How it [really] feels to deal with customers - idanb
https://medium.com/@idanbeck/how-it-really-feels-to-deal-with-customers-7abe7417bf4b
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timrosenblatt
Thanks for sharing, Idan. It is very important to ask questions with an open
mind. Seems like that person was making a lot of assumptions about what you're
ha... | {
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} |
Show HN: Is your favorite “craft” brewery owned by InBev? - ptzim
http://inbevchecker.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com
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ptzim
I'm surprised something like this doesn't already exist (that I know of). It's
getting more difficult to avoid the sprawling list of InBev beers, so
hopefully this speeds up discovery t... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
App Container and Docker - thousandx
https://coreos.com/blog/app-container-and-docker/
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nstott
This is useful for us.
We've been using containers rather heavily in our infrastructure for a few
years now (neither rocket, nor docker) and we've developed our own toolset to
handle the container images, and to man... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Wikileaks former spokesman ‘destroyed' secret Bank of America hard drive - Netadmin
http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/it-business/3298650/wikileaks-former-spokesman-destroyed-secret-boa-data/
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reemrevnivek
Why is the organization designed in such a way that _anyone_ \- Assange
included - can permanently dele... | {
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} |
Well said, Mr. Wallace. A great list of essays by David Foster Wallace. - clarasmiles
https://www.dotdotdot.me/behindthemat/Well-said--Mr-Wallace
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intopieces
This is very interesting, something I will read as I take a break from
Infinite Jest.
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ClaireGains
Awesome list. Thank you!
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What's Wrong with Your Definition of “Hacker” - karangoeluw
https://goel.io/whats-wrong-with-your-definitions-of-hacker/
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angersock
Decent read.
I do disagree a bit with this point:
_" What is useful, and what is core to the identity of a hacker, I think, is
putting in extra effort to make sure the solution... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How to bring on co-founder almost two years later? - dalerus
Hey all!<p>I am the founder of a small company, mostly consulting work for large organizations, but we do have our own SaaS product that is gaining traction in our small market. I'm in a strange position and would love if the HN community coul... | {
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Slack 'bans users' who have visited US sanctioned countries - frereubu
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46642760
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jstanley
Discussion from earlier today:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18724107](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18724107)
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yellowapple
That's a slightly different situation, tho... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Thoughts on a service to pool startup equity grants and reduce risk? - fapi1974
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fapi1974
Seems like VCs get all the diversification benefits while startup employees
usually end up with nothing. How about creating pools of startup equity? This
would lower upside but increase chances of an actual payout - ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Google : Facts about our network neutrality - dreur
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/facts-about-our-network-neutrality.html
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jokermatt999
Dupe: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1598737>
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spooneybarger
Google's veil of not evil while always hyperbole has been pierced. At this
point, it feels l... | {
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} |
Surprise, surprise. Having no secure icon on page increased conversions by 400% - paraschopra
http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/surprise-surprise-having-no-secure-icon-on-a-page-increased-conversions-by-400/
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thirsteh
Maybe don't test with an icon that looks like the "XP AntiVirus 2009"
scam... | {
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} |
Hacker Titles for Business Cards - pavs
http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/titles.html
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pavel_lishin
I borrowed mine from a Vernor Vinge novel - programmer at arms.
| {
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Gestimer – For little reminders during the day - daralthus
http://maddin.io/gestimer/
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jbrooksuk
I use OSX every day, but I immediately thought that this was a Ubuntu app
because of the wallpaper colours and dark mode used in the screenshots and
demo.
Although the gesture to set the time is super cool, how pr... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Davos Elite Genetic Secrets for Sale: The Davos Collection Heads to Auction - onreact
https://designyoutrust.com/2020/02/davos-elite-genetic-secrets-for-sale-the-davos-collection-heads-to-auction/
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onreact
The event had to be postponed due to "unresolved legal issues" already.
| {
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The culture shock of coming home from Silicon Valley - Swizec
http://swizec.com/blog/i-returned-to-slovenia-after-3-months-and-i-am-culturally-shocked/swizec/6530
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david927
I'm originally from Northern California and did my time in the Bay Area, and
even though it would be better for my startup* to be there, I... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Command line only CRM's? - curuinor
Are there any? Like, customer relations management. The AND of the people who use CRMs and people who mainly use command line utilities is small, but it has to exist.
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_RPM
That honestly sounds horrible. Your average CRM probably has a relatively
complex data schema. C... | {
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} |
Webhooks Are Magic - paddyforan
http://blog.iron.io/2013/09/7-reasons-webhooks-are-magic.html
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e12e
Thanks for summing up, concisely, why webhooks really aren't magic at all, in
the fourth paragraph:
"All [webhooks] are is a promise by an application or API: “when this thing
happens, I’ll send this HTTP reque... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Nadella as Microsoft CEO: A slap in the face for Indian system - ghosh
http://www.firstpost.com/india/nadella-as-microsoft-ceo-a-slap-in-the-face-for-indian-system-1374951.html
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mhurron
“We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.”
This is my position on the Olympics and basical... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
RESTHeart – Java REST Non-blocking Server for MongoDB - mkj6
http://restheart.org
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mkj6
RESTHEART, THE REST DATA API SERVER FOR MONGODB
[http://restheart.org](http://restheart.org)
* CRUD operations API on your data
* Data model operations API: create dbs, collections, indexes and the data structure
* Supe... | {
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} |
If all Rejection Letters could be so nice... - 24pfilms
You guys are a class act..<p>We're sorry to say we couldn't accept your proposal for funding.
Please don't take it personally. The applications we receive get
better every funding cycle, and since there's a limit on the number
of startups we can interview in per... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
If you're alive in 30 years, chances are good u may also be alive in 1000 years - fforflo
http://haakonsk.blogg.no/1456259429_if_youre_alive_in_30_.html
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smonff
What about the people who will have access to these treatments and those who
won't? It looks like very similar to the birth of a new kind of aristocraty... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Hans Reiser Sentenced to 15-to-Life - mqt
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/29/BAIQ12KT15.DTL
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compay
I find it scary that an insane murderer was offered a mere 3 years in prison.
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Hutzpah
>> Hans and Nina Reiser met in her native Russia in 1998 and married a year
later.
more a naive ... | {
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} |
RaptorCS Power9 Blackbird PC: An expensive mistake - stargrave
https://drewdevault.com/2019/09/23/RaptorCS-Blackbird-a-horror-story.html
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kev009
I lost a Talos II board due to what we are fairly sure was a shitty PSU on the
first few powerups. I replaced the PSU with a store bought Corsair one and the
new unit a... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
DeSoto County School District - Gang Policy - morfy50
http://images.pcmac.org/Uploads/DesotoCSD/DesotoCSD/Departments/DocumentsCategories/Documents/jdca-gangpolicy.pdf
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morfy50
The back story [https://www.aclu.org/racial-justice/mississippi-school-
distr...](https://www.aclu.org/racial-justice/mississippi-scho... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What features for an EC2 iPhone app? - geuis
What features do you want in an iPhone app to manage your EC2 instances from anywhere on your iPhone?
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yourabi
I don't think managing EC2 in isolation I think at a minimum you would need a
basic S3 browser as well (for browsing/selecting custom AMIs)
_) SS... | {
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} |
Qatar airways to loan laptops to passengers to overcome the laptop ban - gopalakrishnans
http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2017/03/complimentary-computers
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Havoc
Can I bring my VPN, certificates & custom software with me too? Didn't think
so.
Also not sticking confidential info on some random laptop.
Bey... | {
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} |
Blogger in Draft: Introducing Google Scribe in Blogger - darkduck
http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2011/08/introducing-google-scribe-in-blogger.html
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esk
I turned off Chrome's prediction service once I found myself relying upon
it—it was becoming difficult for me to perform searches on DuckDuckGo without
it! G... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot - elorant
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52532930
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pesenti
Blog post: [https://ai.facebook.com/blog/state-of-the-art-open-source-
ch...](https://ai.facebook.com/blog/state-of-the-art-open-source-chatbot/)
Paper:
[https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.13637.pdf](https:... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Case Study of Top Performers Emails During Job Hunt - garrethdottin
https://medium.com/the-mission/anatomy-of-a-job-hunt-6154d102510#.q4hpnrkd5
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joewee
This piece contains no data and seems to rely heavily on one individuals
experience.
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christiangenco
Isn't that what case studies are?
| {
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Tell HN: I just wanted to say: thank you, Hacker News - d33d33
a few years ago i posted a question:<p>Ask HN: Chances for Restarting a Career in CS @ 30+ ?
( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7997624 )<p>after reading all the answers and recommendations, i decided to study CS in 2015.<p>it was quite ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ngmoco Axes Bulk Of Staff At iOS Game Studio Freeverse - mikek
http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/30/ngmoco-dena-freeverse-layoffs/
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mikek
They had some huge hits on iOS: Flick Fishing, Skee Ball.
| {
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"Silence is for the weak" - pbiggar
http://blog.circleci.com/silence-is-for-the-weak/
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arohner
[Disclaimer: I'm cofounders with OP]
One other thing to note is that office space, while expensive, is much cheaper
than your developers. You can easily get 10-20% more productivity with a
better working environment.
... | {
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} |
The Price of Progress - arikr
http://theirrelevantinvestor.com/2017/10/10/the-price-of-progress/
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wallace_f
>So, Uber has said to the global workforce, in hushed but clear tones:
‘Thanks, and fuck you.'”
I have lived years of my life under the poverty line, and so perhaps that's
why I get annoyed by the above.
... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Large Hadron Collider forced to halt - bradgessler
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7626256.stm
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ivey
Physicists from the future strike again!
"It was speculated that all accelerators producing large amounts of Higgs
particles like the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC for short) would call
for initi... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Windows X86-64 System Call Table - badrabbit
https://j00ru.vexillium.org/syscalls/nt/64/
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quotemstr
It's important to note that unlike Linux, NT system call numbers are not
stable. That's a very good thing --- it effectively forces all system calls to
go through ntdll, which can coordinate closely with userspace... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Perfalytics – Postgres Performance Made Easy - malisper
http://perfalytics.com
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malisper
Hi. Creator here. I developed Perfalytics out of my frustration with analyzing
Postgres performance. I've been optimizing Postgres full time for the last
three years and I still find it difficult to get a good under... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Go and Android - stickhandle
http://dennisforbes.ca/index.php/2014/03/19/go-golang-and-android/
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aray
Every six months or so another way to run go code on android devices is
published. Sometimes it's SDK wrappers, other times (like this) it's native
executables.
The author's approach is interesting, but lacks M... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Remarkable Results of Teamwork - worldvoyageur
http://kottke.org/11/04/it-takdisassemble-then-reassemble-a-jeep
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worldvoyageur
One neat observation is that a lot of the time a team member's job is to stand
there and unobtrusively wait for another team member to finish what they are
doing.
I also like how ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Facebook hated as much as airlines, cable companies - gasull
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/38324957/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/t/facebook-hated-much-airlines-cable-companies
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jfasi
What I want to know is: does it matter? People hate airline companies and
cable companies, but the companies are clearly... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ansible-taskrunner: ansible-playbook wrapper with YAML-abstracted Python - based2
https://github.com/berttejeda/ansible-taskrunner#tldr
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based2
[https://www.reddit.com/r/ansible/comments/clcc9r/ansible_tas...](https://www.reddit.com/r/ansible/comments/clcc9r/ansible_taskrunner_ansibleplaybook_wrapper_with/)
| {
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AI finds that toothpaste ingredient may help fight drug-resistant malaria - denzil_correa
http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/ai-scientist-finds-that-toothpaste-ingredient-may-help-fight-drug-resistant-malaria
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DrScump
Triclosan is, at best, a two-edged sword.
[https://www.fda.gov/forconsumers/consumerupdates/uc... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Spirit of Lisp - fogus
http://redlinernotes.com/blog/?p=1252
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hvs
As a lisp nerd, I always like seeing lisp articles on HN, but this one
lacks... substance. I know there were qualifiers at the beginning of the
article, but I just got the feeling that if I didn't know what he was talking
about, then I wouldn'... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
OpenCL Rocks: Why You Care - eries
http://chadaustin.me/2009/08/opencl-rocks-why-you-care/
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chasingsparks
I'd love to play with OpenCL on my i7. Since no Intel implementation exists,
I'll stick to CUDA on my Tesla. I am not sure learning OpenCL is a worthwhile
investment yet. I am skeptical about the ability o... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A US university is tracking students’ locations to predict future dropouts - kushti
https://qz.com/1226474/a-us-university-is-tracking-students-locations-to-predict-future-dropouts/
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lazyasciiart
This article, and most of the discussion here, appears to be conflating two
things. 1\. The University of Arizona tri... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Is “Star Trek” Socialist? - saurabh
https://medium.com/armchair-economics/83f766828b33
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michaelpinto
Black-and-white cultural ideas like "socialism vs. capitalism" may be curious
relics in a few centuries — think about the fact that even paper currency is a
pretty new thing (740 B.C. China) and you get a taste f... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Review others websites and they review yours - pdx
http://feedbackroulette.com/
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patio11
I feel that there is the danger here of a blind leading the blind effect. I
tried it out for giggles. Not to pick on my reviewer, but here:
_There are alot of words on the landing page [of BCC]. Look at some of the
ycombin... | {
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} |
$new_salary = fn($current_salary); //? - gesman
// Actual email conversation with recruiter
Recruiter: This position offers great pay and competitive benefits...
Me: Could you describe "great pay" in more details please?
Recruiter: The pay will depend on what you are making now...<p>Your reply on that?
======
offici... | {
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} |
FP for the rest of us - dedalus
http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/fp.html
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marvin
I have read a decent amount of material on functional programming now, and the
biggest problem I have is getting into the right mindset. I think in OO style
and can't quite think of what to do when I need to keep state for longer... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
LA and SF DAs: A Killer, a Burglar and a Kidnapper All Drove for Uber - boomzilla
http://recode.net/2015/08/19/la-and-sf-das-a-killer-a-burglar-and-a-kidnapper-all-drove-for-uber/
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zer00eyz
We say this about stocks, and companies: "past performance is not indicative
of future results"
People are the same way.... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Firefox 4 with lots of speed improvements and inline SVG - jeff18
http://ajaxian.com/archives/firefox-4-with-lots-of-speed-improvements-and-inline-svg?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ajaxian+%28Ajaxian+Blog%29
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barredo
Just installed the Beta on OSX. It's Fast. I mean: Chrome fast.
~~... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How long US tech companies need to bring Sudan's sanctions easing into reality? - nimir
It's been almost a month since the US deparment of treasury announced the easing of Sudan's technology and communication sanction to help Sudan's people communicate with each other! [1] Which should give Sudanese s... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Kinect Hacked to Control Humanoid Robot: First Steps to Avatar - bretpiatt
http://www.fastcompany.com/1713032/kinect-hacked-to-control-humanoid-robot-first-steps-to-avatar
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byteclub
Another impressive aspect is how quickly Kinect hacks are coming out. Some
products seem to strike a chord with the enthusiasts, ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Lawsuit Claims SAT, ACT Are Illegal in California Admissions - hhs
https://www.npr.org/2019/12/10/786257347/lawsuit-claims-sat-and-act-are-illegal-in-california-admissions
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Bostonian
The SAT actually overpredicts the performance of minorities in college, as
discussed in a College Board report "Nine Facts About t... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: How do you manage side projects? - juvoni
I'm trying to find the right balance between development efforts for work and my own personal side projects.I was also inspired by John Resig's blog about coding everyday. I feel if I had a more structured approach to going about side projects this would be... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Bonobo and chimpanzee gestures overlap extensively in meaning - pvaldes
http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2004825
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dreyfiz
The idea that bonobos and chimpanzees can speak the same language is
absolutely thrilling. Even though bonobos are chimps, I always saw the two
species as ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Don’t just hate, write bug reports - bitboxer
http://bitboxer.de/2010/06/12/dont-just-hate-write-bug-reports/
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PieSquared
My problem: submitting bug reports is sometimes _hard_.
Every so often, I come across a bug with one of the apps I use on my Ubuntu
machine - be it Chrome, Firefox, Amarok, or something el... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
We Called It Gutenberg for a Reason - ziodave
https://ma.tt/2017/08/we-called-it-gutenberg-for-a-reason/
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pwg
Someone here seems to be unaware of the already existing "Project Gutenberg":
[https://www.gutenberg.org/](https://www.gutenberg.org/)
| {
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} |
My open source social networking protocol and companion iOS app released today - kylnew
http://postcardsocial.net/
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kylnew
OP Here. Just wanted to add that I think this is of particular interest to the
HN community because the iOS app, which conforms to the open protocol, allows
any developer to create a web s... | {
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NYC Job Opportunity: CTO of GoodCrush - joshwprinceton
GoodCrush started in 2007 as an intra-Princeton, Valentine's Day program drawing nearly 30% of Princeton's student body within 24 hours of its launch. Now, GoodCrush provides web-based and mobile anonymous matching services to all college students. GoodCrush has... | {
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The Lost Horizon Night Market, bespoke experiences in box trucks - cubes
http://missionlocal.org/2010/12/guerrilla-art-night-market-rolls-in-on-trucks-saturday-and-then-disappears/
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Jun8
This is a brilliant idea! Why isn't it being done in large scale?
~~~
cubes
What do you mean by large scale? The first San ... | {
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Can Self-Compassion Overcome Procrastination? - oyvindeh
http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/can_self_compassion_overcome_procrastination
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klancaster
Probably good advice, but the first thing that came to mind in reading the
article was
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DIETlxquzY](https://www.youtube... | {
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Minimalistic and playful prints, free worldwide shipping! - interiordesign
https://wallpley.com
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jonescoder
Beautiful posters!
| {
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Some Thoughts About Concurrency by Ivan Sutherland (2010) [video] - dang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR9pAaQlVRc
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nicklaf
Interesting.
My interpretation: when writing code for synchronous machines, you are
immediately encouraged to construct things that have no notion of spatial
locality. But what if progra... | {
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Leeflets - A free, minimal content management system - techaddict009
https://leeflets.com/
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contextual
Leeflets looks interesting and I'm attempting to install. In Wordpress, I know
to edit the wp-config file for login name and password, but I don't know what
file(s) to edit for leeflets.
Very little document... | {
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Interview with Freeman Dyson, Reluctant Global Warming Skeptic - nether
http://e360.yale.edu/digest/with-freeman-dyson-reluctant-global-warming-skeptic
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nether
Full interview:
[http://e360.yale.edu/features/freeman_dyson_takes_on_the_cli...](http://e360.yale.edu/features/freeman_dyson_takes_on_the_climate_establ... | {
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How to train your brain - tu7001
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2123945-how-to-train-your-brain-to-be-like-a-memory-champions/?utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=ILC&utm_campaign=webpush&cmpid=ILC%257CNSNS%257C2016-GLOBAL-webpush-MEMORYTRAINING
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Lio
FTA:-
“I have spoken to many memory competitors who can perform ... | {
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Show HN: I released my first Android game: “Black Hole Escape” - psy_
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.quarkdev.blackhole
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th0br0
It's pretty easy to get a high score by keeping the finger on the display.
Just got 299 without doing anything.
~~~
psy_
yep, I also found this bug. It will be fixed... | {
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Small animals perceive time slower than larger animals - hexagonc
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24078179
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coin
Misleading title. There's a difference between perceiving time slower and slow
motion.
| {
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The Myth of Sisyphus - nicholjs
http://www.instapaper.com/text?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.instapaper.com%2Ftext%3Fu%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.sccs.swarthmore.edu%252Fusers%252F00%252Fpwillen1%252Flit%252Fmsysip.htm
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nicholjs
Whether an open source project, struggling with a startup, or leading a
profitable corporate gi... | {
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Gas Prices Climbing Toward $5 Per Gallon - chailatte
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/04/11/gas-prices-climbing-toward-5-per-gallon/
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mgkimsal
Interesting how the media pundits call "$5/gallon" a few months back, and
somehow we move towards that. I'd like more people to predict $2/gallon, and
perhaps we'll mov... | {
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} |
Camera Obscura: A biography of street photographer Vivian Maier - samclemens
http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/024_03/18453
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kevlar1818
For those interested in a great documentary about Vivian Maier, I would
recommend Finding Vivian Maier [1]. It includes an interview with the person
who found the chest(s?) of he... | {
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} |
Show HN: Launch your very own subscription site like dollarshaveclub - jointhebox
http://JoinTheBox.com
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Paulods
I'm confused. What are you providing? Design & hosting? Or a whole management
platform down to shipping? Actual shipping?
Doesn't seem very clear.
~~~
hanniabu
Yeah, I'd like to second that. Your si... | {
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Louisiana, Sinking Fast, Prepares to Empty Out Its Coastal Plain - pulisse
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-22/louisiana-sinking-fast-prepares-to-empty-out-its-coastal-plain
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_red
No mention of the cause: Diverting the Mississippi River. In the 20's / 30's
The Army Core of Engineers built a series... | {
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} |
Towards a Scalable Modular QUIC Server - josephscott
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3098587
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jsnell
Link is broken for me. Maybe
[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3098587](http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3098587)
instead?
~~~
dang
Thanks! Changed from
[http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/3100000/3098587/p19-D... | {
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Looking for a Technical Co-Founder - socialleaf
I'm working on a MarTech product specifically for content marketers. The idea is to make content marketing 'better'. Cannot reveal the actual product idea for obvious reasons but happy to answer your questions.<p>My strength lies in product management, mar... | {
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Frontiers in Computing: Simulating the World to Predict the Future - ziyadb
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-machine-that-would-predict
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inetsee
Another article, entitled "Europe's Plan to Simulate the Entire Planet",
discusses this issue in slightly more detail, without requiring a
subscri... | {
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} |
Private Git Repository on Any Computer - akras14
https://www.alexkras.com/private-git-repository-on-any-computer/
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tomc1985
It pains me to think that people nowadays need to be reminded that many cloud
services were/are originally available locally, for unlimited use. Amazon's
whole services model seems to revol... | {
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} |
Anytime Algorithm - dqpb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anytime_algorithm#:~:text=In%20computer%20science%2C%20an%20anytime,the%20longer%20it%20keeps%20running.
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memexy
Highlighting text with a wikpedia link is a really useful feature. I wasn't
aware it existed. How did you find out about it? Is there a list of s... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Android 4.3 Factory images for Nexus 7 (2013) Available - myko
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#razorjss15j
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binarycrusader
Looks like the individual binaries are available now too for AOSP builds:
[https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/drivers#razorjss...](https://developers.google.com/... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
PISA: Poor academic standards – and an even poorer test - wslh
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/10488665/PISA-Poor-academic-standards-and-an-even-poorer-test.html
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orian
The article is written in highly manipulative way. It uses statements "it's
fact", "it's known", "it's true" to express author's opinion.... | {
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} |
Announcing WebKit2 - tlrobinson
https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2010-April/012235.html
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mbrubeck
Ooh, and with multi-process coming to Firefox and other Mozilla apps
(<https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis>), soon we'll have multiprocess/async
web browsing everywhere.
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LoupSolitaire
Once w... | {
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Protesters at Middlebury College shout down speaker, attack him and a professor - CapitalistCartr
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/03/04/protesters-at-middlebury-college-shout-down-speaker-attack-him-and-a-professor/
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symlinkk
Free speech goes both ways. From the NYTimes article:
> ... | {
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Going Anti-Postal (2012) - Tomte
http://thehumanist.com/magazine/march-april-2012/up-front/going-anti-postal
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brudgers
Recently:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11781269](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11781269)
| {
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Ask HN: How can I start a small software shop? - max-a
Hi!<p>I am first year electronic engineering student from Poland. I really like web development, had worked on handful of small projects and I feel I could start doing software for local customers.<p>I have moved in here six months ago, currently I have no busin... | {
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Ameo – Redis-compatible distributed key-value store with WebSocket API - networked
http://marianoguerra.org/posts/ameo-redis-compatible-getsetdel-and-publishsubscribe-on-riak_core-with-websocket-api/
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chatmasta
Cool. I implemented a similar toy project once, to directly expose a database
on the server to the cli... | {
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} |
Google said to launch ad-free subscription service 'YouTube Music Key' - anigbrowl
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Google+launch+free+paid+YouTube+service+report/10131728/story.html
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anigbrowl
Original story is here: [http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/08/18/exclusive-
this-is-yo...](http://www.androidpoli... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Remote Pair Programming Resources - zapnap
http://dobbscodetalk.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Remote-Pair-Programming-Resource.html&Itemid=29
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callmeed
Interesting. All the tool he mentions are fairly separate. Makes me think you
could build a startup around "remote pair programming". Something like the... | {
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} |
We have a winner (startup choosing RoR) - mattculbreth
http://blog.pretheory.com/arch/000527.php
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zaidf
You guys are lucky. I had a torturous time playing with RoR. I had a week to
learn it in and just couldn't get a hang of all the automatic things it did
being a guy who likes to know exactly why some thing wor... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
What could you do with $41 Million? - chaosmachine
http://photoshoplayerstyles.com/blog/41-million-dollars-color
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jonnathanson
I would almost rather turn down $41M in the first round. I just don't need
that much money so early on, and quite frankly, I think it would corrupt me.
I'd be much more prone to making... | {
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} |
How to exploit home routers for anonymity - DanMcInerney
http://danmcinerney.org/how-to-exploit-home-routers-for-anonymity/
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bradleyland
Probably worth pointing out that one should remain aware of their local laws
when carrying out such activities as the ones outlined in this HOW TO. Because
you're blindly hitti... | {
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} |
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