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After A Four Year Run, Firefox Is No Longer The Top Browser On TechCrunch - abraham
http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/30/top-browsers/
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fleitz
What got me hooked on chrome was the unified address bar that just worked, and
tabs on top (and the close button stays in the right place when you close half
a dozen tabs), b... | {
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Most heinous hoaxes on the Net - Ye-Ha
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33589239/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/
BTW, I have witnessed this behavior time after time on WoW.
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Ye-Ha
This has some good examples of what can go wrong in a free-for-all
environment, as well as some other just plain bad behavior... | {
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BetNext-Play Virtual betting on Twitter - Ramanean
http://www.betnext.in
Betnext.in allows virtual betting on your favorite teams in leagues like NFL,NBA,EPL,La liga,NHL etc.,<p>You can bet directly from Twitter tool or client without signing in..:)
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Ramanean
I hope my site would provide a good gaming opportu... | {
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New FAA drone rule is a giant middle finger to aviation hobbyists - NikolaeVarius
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/new-faa-drone-rule-is-a-giant-middle-finger-to-aviation-hobbyists/
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hatsunearu
Brought to you by FAA, the same people who let Boeing self certify their
shitbox and killed 600+ people!
Th... | {
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How a Dead Millionaire Convinced Women to Have as Many Babies as Possible - dgelks
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-a-dead-millionaire-convinced-dozens-of-women-to-have-as-many-babies-as-possible/?ex_cid=538fb
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danieltillett
I wonder how well an equivalent competition would work today?
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Service to determine site platform - vwtom
Does anyone know of a website which will accept a URI and return a description of the platform and applications used to host, deliver and build the site. I thought I had one in my del.icio.us saves...but seems to be mia.<p>Thanks,
Tom
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xirium
<http://www.netcraft.com... | {
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IBM pitched Watson as a revolution in cancer care, but it’s nowhere close - notlob
https://www.statnews.com/2017/09/05/watson-ibm-cancer/
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code4tee
IBM has some OK offerings but they've really screwed themselves with all this
hyped up marketing around Watson. They've become somewhat of a joke within the
real dat... | {
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Sparrow now supports Push Notification. SIKE - jarederondu
http://blog.jarederondu.com/
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tuananh
this account should be banned!
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jarederondu
why?
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Rubber that can make and store power from light and vibration - pmoriarty
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/18/national/fukushima-professor-develops-rubber-can-make-store-power-light-vibration/
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derefr
If it can convert vibration into electricity, does this imply that it would be
a good sound-dampening m... | {
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Ask HN: Canada for tech jobs? - nicdc
Is now a good time to move to Canada for tech-related jobs, data science/analytics in particular? What parts of Canada should one consider?
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MikeTheRocker
I'm a Canadian software that moved from Victoria, BC to San Francisco, CA to
begin my career two years ago. My top ... | {
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Why doesn't iPhone/iPod touch have wi-fi timeout to increase battery life? - amichail
Turning it on and off manually is really annoying.
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iaian
jailbreak then get sbsettings from cydia, with this you can slide your finger
across the status bar and access a bunch of customizable toggle switches.
I use the Togg... | {
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BiteLabs – Eat Celebrity Meat - sinak
http://www.bitelabs.org/
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extra88
I never heard of Thunderclap before, maybe this is a viral campaign to
advertise a viral campaigning tool.
Anyhow, Antiviral is a pretty good movie.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiviral_(film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiviral_\... | {
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React and .NET Core and SignalR = Amazing - dsuryd
https://medium.com/@dsuryd/react-net-core-signalr-amazing-ea0a83e4357e#.2o5jixh6z
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tracker1
That sounds either great or a state nightmare waiting to happen, depending on
the approach.
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The Onlife Manifesto – Being Human in a Hyperconnected Era - peterhartree
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/onlife-manifesto
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peterhartree
An EU-backed research project, lead by Luciano Floridi.
"The deployment of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and their
uptake by society affect radica... | {
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Show HN: Compile-time typechecked Akka actors - Chasmo
https://github.com/knutwalker/typed-actors
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ryeguy
Why would you name it this? A feature by this name already exists as part of
akka. That's confusing and hard to find via google.
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agentultra
This is rather cool and makes me want to look at Scala agai... | {
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How I Passed My U.S. Citizenship Test: By Keeping the Right Answers to Myself - danso
http://www.propublica.org/article/how-i-passed-my-us-citizenship-test-by-keeping-the-right-answers-to-myself
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rm999
>Why does the flag have 13 stripes? The official answer: "because there were
13 original colonies." In fact, ... | {
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V8 Optimization Killers - diggan
https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird/wiki/Optimization-killers
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_greim_
Which of these (if any) are purely incidental to the current state of the V8
project, rather than being inherently insurmountable problems for JS
optimization? In other words, if I memorize this particula... | {
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Building Conversational Interfaces to Make the Web More Accessible for All - leighbryant
https://medium.com/myplanet-musings/building-conversational-interfaces-to-make-the-web-accessible-for-all-2e7635d20521
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obaid
This is great, OP. We are building a prototyping tool [1] for conversational
interfaces and with o... | {
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Find True Love Using Game Theory - philfreo
http://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/2008/01/08/game-theory-tuesdays-how-can-i-find-true-love/
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mahmud
No! Not this week. Xoopit and Zappos just sold; romance can wait, this week I
am turned on by acquisitions.
Please save the dating links for the weekend.
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frossi... | {
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How Jack Ma took on eBay with Taobao - williswee
https://www.techinasia.com/were-war-story-jack-ma-ebay-taobao
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not_that_noob
Some of this is of course the Chinese government placing its thumb on the
scales in favor of local businesses. It does this for a lot of reasons, but
it's clear it happens.
However, comp... | {
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Everything Technical in F1 - dmmalam
http://scarbsf1.com/blog1/
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junto
A friend of mine was a transmission/gearbox designer for F1 cars. It was
fascinating to hear about the things going on behind the scenes.
Most teams have components built by a handful of specialized external
engineering companies. Some thing... | {
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Show HN: Let's Chat, a self-hosted chat app for small teams - hhaidar
https://sdelements.github.io/lets-chat/
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alfg
This looks great. Thanks for making it open-source. I've tried other self-
hosted chat apps, but this one looks promising. IRC integration would be
great. :)
When I was experimenting with websocke... | {
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Ask HN: I lost years of bookmarks because of Chrome's new design - latenightcoding
I was on a vacation and didn't realize Google added an "auto-login" feature to chrome, I work with sensitive data so naturally I tried to logout and accidentally deleted the person #1 on my browser, and just like that wit... | {
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Consensus Algorithms – What Are Dags, PBFT, FBA, and Poet? - tmlee
https://www.coingecko.com/buzz/coingecko-consensus-algorithms-guide-part-2
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cakes_laptop
Great share, thank you! Read this (part 2) along with the earlier post (part
1) which has been informative!
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1Password Is Coming to Linux - irontinkerer
https://www.zdnet.com/article/1password-is-coming-to-linux/
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jermier
One thing I never got about _premium_ password managers is the question of: If
I stop paying for the subscription, do I still get to access my secrets? I
imagine there is still some grace period to ba... | {
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All that You Would Want to know About FB Graph Search - ap_rv
http://lurnq.com/lesson/all-that-you-would-want-to-know-about-fb-graph-search/
An exhaustive article on the Facebook Graph Search covering all aspects including dating, advertising, entertainment, recommendations, recruiting, the war with Google, privacy c... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Soylent debuts new top shelf drink, Soylent Beige Label - aberoham
https://www.techloaf.io/2019/02/08/soylent-debuts-new-top-shelf-drink-soylent-beige-label/
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shaqncheese
Does anyone have Soy Boy’s contact info? Would love to contact him for an
interview.
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k__
This is still a thing? I backed this with $20... | {
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Firefox OS Simulator 4.0 released - rnyman
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/07/firefox-os-simulator-4-0-released/
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ndesaulniers
Leave us some feedback or report any issues in our bug tracker! [1]
[1]
[https://github.com/mozilla/r2d2b2g/issues](https://github.com/mozilla/r2d2b2g/issues)
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executive
The lef... | {
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Show HN: I made a simple but smart note taking application - kilian
https://fromscratch.rocks
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kilian
Author here. I wrote FromScratch to accommodate how I want note taking to
work: it's always an alt-tab away, it takes care of all the tedious bits
(saving, window positioning) and allows me to very quickly take ... | {
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Show HN: /frink, a Slack app for Simpsons gifs - gesteves
https://slashfrink.herokuapp.com/
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gesteves
Just a fun little timewaster that uses frinkiac.com to post Simpsons gifs in
Slack. It's not the first Frinkiac integration, but the ones I've seen post
jpgs instead of gifs (Frinkiac was just recently updated w... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How to check if your website works for all ISPs and locations? - rokhayakebe
I found a few times that there are some places where internauts could not access our website. Some people suggested that it may be a DNS issue and others said it may be an issue with a particular internet service provider.<p>Is th... | {
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Building a PostgreSQL load tester - lawrjone
https://blog.lawrencejones.dev/building-a-postgresql-load-tester/
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michelpp
> When faced with a technical problem it’s often better to use an existing
> tool than jump into writing one yourself. Having benchmarked Postgres
> clusters before, I was already familiar wit... | {
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A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple math errors - okket
http://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2016/9/30/13077658/statcheck-psychology-replication
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justinclift
In case it's of interest, the code for this is on GitHub.
There seem to be two repos for it:
https://github.com/Michel... | {
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Read this one if you have no idea what to read - danvoell
I dabble in technology but I am not very good at it. I want to learn but when I try to learn a new tool I generally end up on pages like this (Python) - http://www.python.org/download/ - and I have no idea which version I should be using. I realized this when... | {
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The first YouTube streaming of a freediving competition captured by drone - postila
http://www.cmas.org/news/new-era-has-been-opened-in-free-diving-by-cmas
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postila
The very short video posted in CMAS news doesn't fully reflect the awesomeness
of what's been done. The full recordings of one of the competition's ... | {
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The dangerous downsides of perfectionism - ernsheong
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180219-toxic-perfectionism-is-on-the-rise
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shoover
_“They give up more easily. They have quite avoidant coping tendencies when
things can 't be perfect.” That, of course, hinders them from the very success
that they want to ac... | {
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Ask HN: What's the best place to hire part-time Python consultants? - node-bayarea
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jlgaddis
Who not here, on HN?
Look through the most recent "Who wants to be hired?" thread [0].
[0]:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21419534](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21419534)
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It's 2012, HTML5 is awesome, and I'm surfing a PDF - tbassetto
http://stephanierieger.com/its-about-the-content-stupid/
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ekidd
This isn't a problem with HTML 5, it's a problem with the Camper site itself.
The Chrome developer tools show _202_ HTTP requests, including tons of tiny
images, and many non-minified J... | {
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Elon Musk: artificial intelligence is our biggest existential threat - bloat
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/27/elon-musk-artificial-intelligence-ai-biggest-existential-threat
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razzaj
I always though our biggest existential threat were Nukes and other WMDs. AI
could potentially become yet anothe... | {
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A clone of Microsoft Paint in JavaScript, using the WHATWG Canvas - alifaziz
http://canvaspaint.org/
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c3o
Whoa, that's a surprise – I wrote this back in late 2006 and it has been
unmaintained since then. A lot has happened in the <canvas> world in the past
four and a half years (font drawing API, get/setImageD... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Finnish bank opens extensive Public APIs - velmu
https://metropolitan.fi/entry/finnish-financial-group-opens-extensive-public-apis
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nherment
This is a PR piece.
A European law called PSD2 (Payment Services Directive v2) enters into effect
tomorrow (Jan 13th) that forces EU banks to provide APIs to third parties... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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A home microhydro plant (2009) - fanf2
https://ludens.cl/paradise/turbine/turbine.html
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stephen_g
There’s a very cool hydro system built over a few years by a YouTuber called
‘Mr HydroHead’ over a bunch of videos spanning several years - the first here:
[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=edEhvmNlYqk](https://m.youtu... | {
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Prank Startup Pitch To A Real Investor (VIDEO) - alexjmann
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI99phzofk8
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nioroiwiowjij
Something similar to the described software has already been made by a group
of artists ~ The transborder immigrant tool: [http://www.vice.com/read/follow-
the-gps-225-v16n11](http://www.vice.co... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Apple Cracking Down on Sites Selling Access to iOS 6 Developer Betas - paulschlacter
http://www.macrumors.com/2012/07/08/apple-cracking-down-on-sites-selling-access-to-ios-6-developer-betas/
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michaelpinto
Why not just this into a business and charge fanboys $1000 to get the new
thing before everyone else?
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Ask HN: It's been a month and I still haven't heard from dmoz.org - pennyfiller
What can be done?
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exec
I never heard back from dmoz.org. I have tried to add my customer's website
years ago...
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matdwyer
dmoz is complete b/s - if you don't know a moderator there, you're basically
SOL.
You'll be in that ... | {
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The OpenSSH Bug That Wasn't - glass-
http://bsdly.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-openssh-bug-that-wasnt.html
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geerlingguy
Key takeaway:
> And as several correspondents have reminded me already -- switching your
> sshd to keys only authentication will let you sleep better at night.
Even with fail2ban and limited retr... | {
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} |
‘It's techno-racism’: Detroit is using facial recognition to make arrests - pseudolus
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/16/its-techno-racism-detroit-is-quietly-using-facial-recognition-to-make-arrests
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lacker
Facial recognition technology with some error rate doesn’t seem like a huge
problem for polic... | {
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} |
New York Times has more Twitter followers than print readers - skbohra123
http://www.textually.org/textually/archives/2010/10/027107.htm
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goodwinb
Non link-jacked [http://www.socialtimes.com/2010/10/report-new-york-times-
has...](http://www.socialtimes.com/2010/10/report-new-york-times-has-more-
twitter-follow... | {
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Lady Java Video Marks Exact Point Where Geek Culture Jumped The Shark - bwaldorf
http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/20/lady-java
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KC8ZKF
This person seems to be confusing _culture_ with _random shit I click on._
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btilly
Does anyone else find it disturbing that the image of Java programmers in the
video is a ... | {
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New Mac Malware Used in Cyberespionage Campaign - Fjolsvith
http://www.fireeye.com/blog/technical/malware-research/2014/09/forced-to-adapt-xslcmd-backdoor-now-on-os-x.html
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officialjunk
An employee at an apple store literally told me macs can't get viruses. I
laughed and replied that you may just not know if y... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
What is the best way to accept payments in Latin America countries? - ronaldrios
Is a world processor like Paypal or Stripe will help me or do I need another provider? Wich one? Also, can my company receive the payments in USD or do I will need to open a bank account in those countries to receive the payments?<p>Thank... | {
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Missouri to use deafening military LRAD tech in construction zones - sologoub
http://www.leftlanenews.com/missouri-to-use-deafening-military-lrad-tech-to-warn-speeders-in-construction-zones.html
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greenyoda
_"...though it is unclear if the sound levels that are capable of overpowering
'loud tunes' inside a car ... | {
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A guide to mathematical emotions - Radim
https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017/01/25/a-guide-to-mathematical-emotions/
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NotAmazin
I thought with a title like that, that this would be a guide on how to
calculate emotions and numerical presentation of emotions. But it's pretty
pictures.
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Facebook’s Anti-Semitic Ad-Targeting Disaster - rbanffy
https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/608882/facebooks-anti-semitic-ad-targeting-disaster/
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nariinano
Am I the only one who thinks it's obvious and evident that those categories
were generated automatically?
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tortasaur
I'd hardly call it anyt... | {
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Fast Bing Tokenizer for BERT - catam
https://blogs.bing.com/Developers-Blog/march-2020/Bling-FIRE-Tokenizer-for-BERT
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chuah
Super fast BERT tokenizer. It will save you 100x time in preprocessing text.
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sergeio76
Mainly it will help improve latency at inference time. For preprocessing
training one can always ... | {
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Will Switzerland give every adult $2,500 a month? - apo
http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/24/news/economy/switzerland-guaranteed-basic-income/index.html
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billytetrud
"a rich country that can afford it" is an absolutely terrible argument.
I agree with tracker1, its better than the bevy of welfare programs in the US
f... | {
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} |
How to spot a fake Canon flash - unwind
http://petapixel.com/2013/09/03/spot-fake-canon-flash-learned-hard-way/
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dangero
Having worked with factories in China I'm not sure the sleuthing relating to
glue types, etc really mean a lot. Our vendors regularly changed things like
that, sometimes without even consult... | {
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} |
Nearly Half of Men Say They Do Most of the Home Schooling. 3% of Women Agree - laurex
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/upshot/pandemic-chores-homeschooling-gender.html
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downerending
Seems like flamebait.
A modestly more interesting set of questions would ask how spouses _feel_
about their level of contributio... | {
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} |
Why I run my business like an open source project (2013) - luu
http://www.stubbornella.org/content/2013/02/26/why-i-run-my-business-like-an-open-source-project/
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partycoder
I think this is valuable.
The worst engineering behavior I've found is when development teams are not
accountable for their code quality. J... | {
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} |
Indonesia to Fault 737 MAX Design, U.S. Oversight in Lion Air Crash Report - cmurf
https://www.wsj.com/articles/indonesia-to-fault-737-max-design-u-s-oversight-in-lion-air-crash-report-11569185664
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grecy
I'm calling it now: The US Government will pass a law protecting Boeing from
litigation over this, or they wi... | {
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} |
Logistic Regression from Bayes’ Theorem - Homunculiheaded
https://www.countbayesie.com/blog/2019/6/12/logistic-regression-from-bayes-theorem
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imbusy111
If you fit a linear model for the coffee making problem and one of the
parameters is temperature and the coefficient for the temperature in the
linear model is p... | {
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} |
Facebook trapped in MySQL fate worse than death - dblock
http://gigaom.com/cloud/facebook-trapped-in-mysql-fate-worse-than-death
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goldmab
Summary: The creator of VoltDB thinks MySQL is hopelessly slow. No other
sources are cited.
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How to reduce the cognitive load of your code - ingve
http://chrismm.com/blog/how-to-reduce-the-cognitive-load-of-your-code/
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hbt
There are so many similarities between writing code and writing English.
\- Thinking of paragraphs as functions with one purpose
\- keeping sentences short to reduce load on working... | {
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REST APIs with Node.js? Develop,manage,scale with the new StrongLoop API Server - shubhra51
http://strongloop.com/strongblog/node-js-api-server-announcement/
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ijroth
Wait so this lets you create REST APIs in JS by just using Yeoman? Sweet...
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What Is Poverty (2000) - baud147258
https://www.city-journal.org/html/what-poverty-11845.html
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kubanczyk
Gotta love the lively language:
> [...] see someone toss aside the can whose contents he has just consumed, as
> a Russian vodka drinker throws down his glass.
> City Journal is a publication of the Manhatt... | {
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The simplest, cleanest todo list for command line - shcallaway
https://github.com/shcallaway/todo
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thepapanoob
taskwarrior > this
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Prototyping, Mockup, and Wireframing Tools for iPhone App Development - iphoneized
http://iphoneized.com/2009/11/21-prototyping-mockup-wireframing-tools-iphone-app-development/
It's far from being the definitive list, but it's definitely a good place to start if you are creating an iPhone app mockup.
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grinich
W... | {
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The Linux Programming Interface - fogus
http://www.man7.org/tlpi/index.html#ordering
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jgrahamc
My short review of this book:
[http://www.amazon.com/review/R5XJW6NQUUKSR/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm...](http://www.amazon.com/review/R5XJW6NQUUKSR/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1593272200&nodeID=&tag=&linkCode=)
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mattyb
T... | {
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Create Google Deep Dream-style images in your browser - derwiki
https://dreamscopeapp.com
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JosephRedfern
It's good to make such things easily accessible, but would be nice if you
linked/credited Google with the implementation behind this project.
You should also make it clear that processed images are publicl... | {
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One-bit Computing at 60 Hertz - Tomte
http://laughtonelectronics.com/Arcana/One-bit%20computer/One-bit%20computer.html
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Dr_Jefyll
Thanks for posting, Tomte. This is a project that's been discussed on HN on
the past.
\-- Jeff
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7616831](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=76... | {
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Offshore in central London: the curious case of 29 Harley Street - sergeant3
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/apr/19/offshore-central-london-curious-case-29-harley-street
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Animats
Here's the list of all companies at 29 Harley St.[1] If you want to find
accommodation addresses for companies in the UK, you... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How To Sell Software Without Setting Up Website Or Payment System - asimjalis
Question: Is there something similar to the App Store for other platforms? Meaning something that takes care of the selling and the billing infrastructure and lets me focus just on the development.<p>One of the neat things about Ap... | {
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Activision CEO Bobby Kotick now one of America’s highest paid executives - shawndumas
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/04/activision-ceo-bobby-kotick-now-one-of-americas-highest-paid-executives/
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adventured
"Even spreading that stock award out, though, puts Kotick's 2012 compensation
at more than $20 million."... | {
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The Fat Lady Is Singing - akakievich
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/fat-lady-singing/
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spchampion2
American opera is suffering from the same problem faced by a lot of mainstream
culture from the 20th century - it's too used to operating at scale and too
expensive to cut back.
This isn't to say that... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Has anyone used Flippa.com for domain sale - wilsonfiifi
I tried to sell ineedquickly.com on Flippa but I didn't get any bids. The only advice from Flippa was to pay them more to have the domain listed on more sites.<p>Does anyone have any suggestions of alternative sites that charge you after the sale ... | {
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No-Name Companies Selling More Phones Than Samsung, LG, and Apple Combined - NonEUCitizen
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/09/the-no-name-companies-selling-more-phones-than-samsung-lg-and-apple-combined/245232/
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GeneralMaximus
Spice and MicroMax are huge in India. The handsets are dirt cheap[... | {
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} |
Show HN: Live Dangerously – 1-for-1 anonymous photo sharing via SMS - idealboy
http://danger.life/
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tombrossman
Are you scrubbing Exif metadata on all these? I spot-checked a few and there
didn't seem to be any embedded. A surprising number of people have no idea
that their mobile phone may embed GPS coordinates... | {
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Ask HN: Why do you run multiple VM's? - Tvorba
Hey everyone!<p>I'm a developer working mostly on MS technologies so I don't really use VM's. I've been reading HN for quite some time and every time there's a development thread (or the latest Dell XPS13 and its 8GB RAM thread) a lot of develop... | {
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HN/YC BBQ today - catch23
http://anyvite.com/events/home/lld60cypag
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byrneseyeview
Hm. When I saw that the link was to something on ycombinator.com, it looked
like it might have been endorsed by YC. Perhaps this should be changed, to
prevent abuse -- links to something on news.yc could be treated like 'ask YC'... | {
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Ask HN: Why will my startup fail? - tenashas
Why will my startup fail?<p>Hi HN,<p>I am creating my first online startup and would greatly appreciate your input.<p>ONE LINE PITCH:<p>Outfyts.com is the easiest way to create, share and purchase outfits from your favorite retailers and fashion bloggers<p>LONG WINDED SUMMA... | {
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“Sea Launch” mothballed due to termination of “Zenit” launches - trhway
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Ftop.rbc.ru%2Feconomics%2F22%2F08%2F2014%2F944544.shtml%23xtor%3DAL-[internal_traffic]--[rbc.ru]-[main_body]-[item_10]&edit-text=&act=url
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markta... | {
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Safari will soon reject any HTTPS certificate valid for more than 13 months - tosh
https://thenextweb.com/security/2020/02/24/safari-will-soon-reject-any-https-certificate-valid-for-more-than-13-months/
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raxxorrax
> For end-users, this means that the sites you’re visiting have the latest
> encryption and securit... | {
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Oxford University gives women more time to pass exams - ptaipale
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2018/01/22/oxford-university-gives-women-time-pass-exams/
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poster123
The headline is a lie. All students were given more time, in an effort to
reduce the ratio of men to women getting the highest grade.
~~~
pta... | {
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How I Built a $600 / mo Product In One Day | kpkaiser.com - hboon
http://www.kpkaiser.com/mindhack/how-i-built-a-600-mo-product-in-one-day/
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sime
It appears wpplugins now take a 30% cut rather than the 10% mentioned in the
article, which makes more sense. Plugin authors can also charge for a monthly
support subs... | {
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} |
The FBI, CIA and NSA say American citizens shouldn't use Huawei phones - daegloe
http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/14/technology/huawei-intelligence-chiefs/index.html
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devhead
Maybe it's tinfoil hat time; the more the government says to not use Huawei,
offering no proof at all, the more I think they are unable to tra... | {
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} |
Hermes – a Nix/Guix-like package manager for Linux - open-paren
https://acha.ninja/blog/introducing_hermes/
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solarkraft
But how does it compare to Nix and Guix? On first look it seems like it brings
very little infrastructure, which may well be an advantage.
Can you somehow provide pre-built binaries?
~~~
open... | {
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Ask HN: Noise in HN, an idea to throttle it down - heelhook
It has been pointed out several times that new items submitted to HN have increasingly less chance of being picked up because of how fast the new items page scrolls items out of sight. This problem will be growing as HN gets more users.<p>Maybe the approach... | {
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How Changing WebFonts Made Rubygems.org 10x Faster - rtcoms
https://www.nateberkopec.com/2015/11/30/how-changing-webfonts-made-rubygems-10x-faster.html
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csense
> As developers, our job isn't to tell the designers "Hey, you're dumb for
> including over 500KB of WebFonts in your design!"
Yes. Yes it is. I want to... | {
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} |
“Microsoft security software (...) removes this unwanted software” (AskToolbar) - luso_brazilian
http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/threat/encyclopedia/entry.aspx?Name=BrowserModifier%3AWin32%2FAskToolbarNotifier&wa=wsignin1.0#tab=1
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devopsproject
I'm visiting the inlaws in a few days which means I'll be... | {
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} |
Being cool has ruined Berlin (2016) - Pamar
http://roadsandkingdoms.com/2016/being-cool-has-ruined-berlin/
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chappi42
(⊙︿⊙)
| {
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Disrupting Internet Access Is a Human Rights Violation, UN Says - jonbaer
http://thinkprogress.org/world/2016/07/01/3795026/un-affirms-online-rights/
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trav4225
I'm wondering... what _isn 't_ a human right these days...
| {
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Ask HN: How to propose “we should merge companies”? - boltzmannbrain
1. If company A and B are both early startups with complimentary services, and a merger objectively benefits both A and B, how is the topic broached? How would B sell A on a merger?<p>2. Now what if A and B are competitors?<p>3. Enter big public comp... | {
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Make the Most of Muxtape: A Field Guide to Playlists - naish
http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/04/make-the-most-o.html
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aston
Muxtape is getting a lot more coverage than YC's own Mixwit, despite the
latter looking a lot cooler and more polished. Unintuitive...
| {
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Show HN: Feeds Pub – A social RSS aggregator - timqian
https://feeds.pub
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brudgers
For a social aggregator, sharing seems more important than elegance and live
above it on the landing page. Indeed mentioning elegance is a bit inelegant.
It's probably ok to let elegance be implicit. It matters a lot to you, but
y... | {
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A GPU Approach to Conway's Game of Life - mkirsche
http://nullprogram.com/blog/2014/06/10/
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theoh
What would blow my mind is the discovery of a "spigot" algorithm for the game
of life, i.e. it would calculate generation n for a particular starting state
without having to compute intermediate generations.
| {
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As Bitcoin ETF Nears, Analysts Warn of Trading Frenzy - kordless
https://www.wsj.com/articles/irrational-exuberance-for-bitcoin-etfs-1486350601
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kristianp
"After a nearly four-year wait, the SEC faces a deadline of March 11 to decide
on a rule change that would allow the Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust ETF to trade on
... | {
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Ask HN: How do you focus and track your goals? - vsergiu
I am frustrated of not finding a decent app to help me set, track and achieve all my big goals. Everyone focuses on daily small tasks but not on big goals and breaking those goals into smaller steps.
What apps/methods do you guys use?
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bemmu
I use an ... | {
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Printing Therapeutic Proteins in 3D Using Nanoengineered Bioink - bookofjoe
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/adhm.201801553
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mometsi
At the forefront of technology we occasionally get a chance to steer the
language around a new concept while it's still pliable. A bit of imagination
at the right ti... | {
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} |
Apply HN: RoomEase – Ease and organise flat sharing - kostas_f
<i>Problem</i> : Until now flatmates end up using different apps for communication, shopping lists, task organisation, social planning, house finances, reminders and house service delivery. That's too many apps!<p><i>Solution</i> : We are building a p... | {
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} |
Meat based diets made us smarter - barmstrong
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128849908
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dejb
This title appears to be knowingly misleading. Towards the end it actually
goes on to say 'And cooking is what he thinks really changed our modern body'.
In fact it could just have easily been cooke... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
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