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PyTorch elastic training - jonbaer https://github.com/pytorch/elastic ====== vikas-kumar We at AWS worked on this last year. We saw some promising results with our implementation with Apache MXNet DeepLearning framework. [https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/introducing- dy...](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/m...
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Our Responsibility as Analytics Providers: Building Trust in Your Product - goldvine https://hookfeed.com/blog/our-responsibility-as-analytics-providers/ ====== MichaelCrawford 127.0.0.1 www.hosted-pixel.com You can edit /etc/hosts on your mobile device if you jailbreak it; on iOS there is iFile from Cy...
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How to Get Engineers to Sort-of Respect You - gk1 https://medium.com/@sarahcpr/how-to-get-engineers-to-sort-of-respect-you-85bb89c12d70 ====== digita88 Haha, the only thing is that it's not exactly 'respect' but just more like how to get on well ------ lauradhamilton What's wrong with "cheers"? ~~~ gk1 I think the...
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Setup a single node Hadoop 2 cluster with 1 command - SteveMorin https://github.com/DemandCube/hadoop-single-node-cluster ====== dsplatonov nice one, but will not be able to test it or use it because of GPL ------ louzar Good job ! ------ everestnepali cool stuff!!! ~~~ SteveMorin Do you use hadoop much?
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A selection of posts on VC funding overall approach and process - STW http://wallen.typepad.com/wallen/2009/03/vc-funding-overall-approach-and-process-.html ====== mikeryan Nice set of articles, But I'm really not digging your UI. This is a set of links, needing a flash overlay is overkill. ~~~ STW Thanks for your...
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Conservation Drones - rizumu http://conservationdrones.org/about-2/ ====== MCBon "During flight, the electric motor of the drone does produce vibrations which could result in vibration blur in photographs. As a solution, we created a vibration dampening system using low density packing foam. We later discovered that t...
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Ask HN: Engineering team consists of all friends - 09182017 Hello HN,<p>A company I&#x27;ve recently had the opportunity to interview has a small engineering team consisting of &quot;best friends&quot;. My first reaction is that this seems to be a red flag because of the way in which friends interact with each other i...
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What does it cost to make a running shoe? - weisser http://www.solereview.com/what-does-it-cost-to-make-a-running-shoe/ ====== nnrocks Interesting facts revealed! I suspected 20-30% margin on production cost but these are far more.
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Powerful backdoor found in software used by 100 banks and energy cos - anthraxstars https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/08/powerful-backdoor-found-in-software-used-by-100-banks-and-energy-cos/ ====== tclover People can say whatever they want, but Kaspersky RE guys are really good.
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Timing square root - edw519 http://assemblyrequired.crashworks.org/2009/10/16/timing-square-root/ ====== joeld42 Nice article. Emphasizes that the only way to know what's going on is to test and inspect the assembly. I tried it, and without any flags gcc used 'sqrtsd' (the sse version) for me. -msse was enabled by ...
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Ask HN: People who employ contractors, what is it that makes them attractive? - taphangum I am currently in the market for a contractor PHP position, and am trying to figure out what it is (or what group of things) specifically that you look for in a contractors CV that makes them attractive to you as a prospect?<p>An...
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Big Data Is a Sham - kiyanwang https://medium.com/fast-company/big-data-is-a-sham-aac94894a568 ====== xiphias2 ,,Big companies are hoarding big data and doing nothing with it–except invading our privacy.'' I'm not able to read the rest of the article, but I don't need to: this is a lie, and I'm sure the author knows ...
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The Parser that Cracked the MediaWiki Code - rams http://dirkriehle.com/2011/05/01/the-parser-that-cracked-the-mediawiki-code/ ====== neilk This isn't the first alternative parser for MediaWiki content -- there are 28 rows in this table. (I just added Sweble's and my own project...) [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/A...
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Show HN: Honest Salary – Help make salaries fair and honest by sharing yours - titusblair http://honestsalary.com/ ====== siliconc0w I'd make this site more focus about apples to apples comparison within the same company. I.e 'Share your salary at X and invite your colleagues to do the same'. So people could go to hon...
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Android ActivityManager: isUserAMonkey() - Giggidy http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/ActivityManager.html#isUserAMonkey() ====== rtbm [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_test](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_test)
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Rift Is A Super New Game That All Game-players Will Enjoy - uniquearticle1 http://www.uniquedailyarticles.com/Art/216074/32/Rift-Is-A-Super-New-Game-That-All-Game-players-Will-Enjoy.html ====== rorrr SPAM
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Should You Hire a Bootcamp Graduate? - beekums http://blog.professorbeekums.com/2016/12/should-you-hire-bootcamp-graduate.html ====== herbst I agree on the article. But in my experience many Bootcamp graduates have the feeling they know everything now, while a college grad usually knows he just knows enough to get a j...
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Technology Must Know When to Say “I Don't Know” - rbanffy https://dev.to/ben/technology-must-know-when-to-say-i-dont-know-2ol ====== sharemywin a range could fix the original issue mentioned in the article.
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Android for all and the new Nexus 5 - hnalien http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/10/android-for-all-and-new-nexus-5.html ====== bsimpson I'm sad that the Galaxy Nexus isn't supported. My phone has increasingly been running out of RAM lately for reasons I don't understand - hearing Google boast about how KitKat has be...
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Open-source CMS for gamers - Kristories http://www.getdungeon.com/ ====== jbarrec Really cool concept. Good luck!
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The special effects for the computer display in “Escape From New York” - thibautg https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1066284025600339968 ====== hazeii The effect was actually done using retroreflective tape; the building were indeed a physical model, with the edges covered in 3M Scotchlite tape. From first-hand experien...
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Where to find some .onion marketplace urls - kristoff_it Hi everyone,<p>While I have a decent idea of how Tor generally works, I&#x27;ve never used the service very much in terms of surfing around .onion websites.<p>I&#x27;m currently in need of finding and have a look at some .onion marketplaces&#x2F;ecommerce-sites ...
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How-to detect and prevent malware infected user uploads - orlyb http://cloudinary.com/blog/how_to_detect_and_prevent_malware_infected_user_uploads ====== orlyb How to detect and prevent advanced known and unknown malware and threats by scanning and sanitizing your users' uploaded files with Cloudinary's Metascan add...
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Ask HN: Recommended OCR? - shiny I'm OCRing a bunch of TIFF files with tesseract, and while it works to some degree, it's nowhere near as accurate as I'd like it to be. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong and I could tune it to my liking, but I can't find too many resources on tesseract. Am I missing something?<p>Any ...
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Email security is greater threat than ever - notFrontPage https://www.techradar.com/news/email-security-is-greater-threat-than-ever ====== tya99 That article seems like product placement. They vaguely have a clickbaity title, and then just say "people click links in email".... they can click links in anything so that...
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An example of command-line bullshittery in computer science research - danso http://pgbovine.net/cmdline-bs-example.htm ====== dekhn In physics, most time is spend with "fiddling with experimental apparatus bullshittery". I don't see why CS research should be any different- if you want to do state of the art work (t...
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SXSW Interactive Full Schedule - eastsidegringo http://tracksuitceo.com/2008/03/05/sxsw-interactive-full-schedule/ Here is the full SXSW Interactive schedule with times, locations and descriptions. ====== utnick Does anyone know if there will be video of all the panels posted online? live or otherwise...
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Python `select` module - well explained step by step - tzury http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/select/ ====== metachris Keep in mind that select basically sucks for handling more than a few sockets -- it's slow and limited to max. 1024 concurrent sockets (unless you change FD_SETSIZE and recompile everything, which m...
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The Economist’s digital strategy and the limits of a model based on advertising - dnetesn http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/04/the-economists-tom-standage-on-digital-strategy-and-the-limits-of-a-model-based-on-advertising/?utm_source=Daily+Lab+email+list&utm_campaign=464c55f003-dailylabemail3&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d...
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How To Get Listed On Google - Just Blog It - spicywebdesign http://www.spicywebdesign.com/how-to-get-listed-on-google-just-blog-it/ Want to get your blog or website listed on Google? This tutorial will discuss a giant step toward getting your blog or website listed on Google. ====== ddemchuk Where is the substance o...
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Cerebral – Declarative state and side effects for popular JavaScript frameworks - christianalfoni http://www.cerebraljs.com ====== markers Been using Cerebral for two projects (one large and one small) so far and it's simply been an amazing experience. It's incredible how such a simple framework/concepts can cover eve...
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Metro Manila might fix its traffic jam by overhauling a World War II relic - ohjeez http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a20686/can-the-worlds-worst-traffic-problem-be-solved/ ====== johnsonjo I'm a US citizen, but I lived in the Philippines for over a year previously. I'm now back in my home state. I learned the lang...
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The One-Time Pad and the Index of Coincidence - maxerickson https://mice.cs.columbia.edu/getTechreport.php?techreportID=1576 ====== javamonn Friedman's original paper is well worth the read, and toy Vogel implementation if you have time! [0] [0] waring, pdf: [http://math.boisestate.edu/~liljanab/MATH509/IndexCoinci...
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Show HN: Watch any movie or TV show without violence - marco1 https://github.com/delight-im/MovieContentFilter ====== ape7189 the GoT example is nice, indeed. but it doesn't have any profanity. didn't the episode have profanity? i doubt it.
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Telegram Desktop reaches version 1.0 with custom themes - openmaze https://telegram.org/blog/desktop-1-0 ====== jhasse Wow, looks awesome! Loving it so far (using the dark theme).
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Eton College exam question asks students to justify the Army killing protesters - BerislavLopac https://www.indy100.com/article/eton-college-entrance-exam-question-army-killing-protesters-private-school-9090156 ====== leftyted The full question, from the article: > The year is 2040. There have been riots in the stree...
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Lowering memory usage in Opera and Blink with Heap compaction - riqbal http://www.opera.com/blogs/desktop/2016/07/memory-usage-opera-heap-compaction/ ====== jug Impressive work by the Opera team! Savings to cause up to around a third of the memory usage is huge. So it's coming up in Blink in the forthcoming months. I...
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What I learned bootstrapping a 6-figure business from school - morefranco http://danshipper.com/what-i-learned-bootstrapping-a-6-figure-business-from-school?utm_source=Dan%27s+Blog+List&utm_campaign=dfc66cbced-Newsletter_nice_design_17_8_11_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c18fe7384e-dfc66cbced-107279409 ====== awax...
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UK Prime Minister: We have put in place Internet filters to block extremism - tamersalama http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm131023/debtext/131023-0001.htm#13102356000002 ====== GVIrish Well that didn't take long. First it was about porn, now the naked power grab begins. Who gets to define ...
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Music for coding - ivankirigin http://anywhere.fm/amp26 ====== raju Some nice tracks there (Did not hear them all)... though I am a huge fan of listening to electronica or techno (or house or whatever it is you kids call it these days...:)) when programming. I find its great for the ambient noise, its very "active" mu...
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Yatri: First electric motorcycle to be made in Nepal - milap https://www.yatrimotorcycles.com/ ====== dharmab There are other companies targeting other areas of the market. Ultra high end: Harley Davidson Livewire, Zero SR/F High end: Fuell, Cake Mid range: Zero S/DS/FX Low end: Sur-on Light Bee, CSC City Slicker ...
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I am helping my country Philippines through Java Tutorials,what do you think? - xtrycatchx http://www.adobocode.com ====== rjbond3rd I like it a lot and +1 you're from the Visayas, and you have a pet snake :) ~~~ xtrycatchx hey, tnx bro.. im from Visayas too.. cebu :-) ------ xtrycatchx i had this submitted at red...
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EXAPUNKS – The new Zachtronics game - packetlss https://store.steampowered.com/app/716490/EXAPUNKS/ ====== didgeoridoo The YouTuber manyatruenerd called this game “Dark Souls, but for programming”. Looks like an even more mind-bendy version of Human Resource Machine. Def worth a play.
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Download Wrappers and Unwanted Software are pure evil - smacktoward http://www.hanselman.com/blog/DownloadWrappersAndUnwantedSoftwareArePureEvil.aspx ====== coloncapitald I hope this goes viral. This is very well written and illustrated with screenshots. I recall my "non-technical relative" had a netbook with 10-inc...
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Paul Buchheit: Not getting health insurance is a really bad idea - paul http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2007/06/not-having-health-insurance-is-really.html ====== brianmckenzie A few months back, a friend and I got hit by a car. We were minding our own business, talking about our startup activities, crossing on the g...
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'Missing link' memristor created: Rewrite the textbooks? - chaostheory http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207403521&printable=true ====== schtog [http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-04/hp- discovers-p...](http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-04/hp-discovers- potential-god-parti...
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Somu by solokeys – open-source security key - geppetto https://www.crowdsupply.com/solokeys/somu ====== geppetto I've just received my Somu by Solokeys. It's an open-source security key for 2FA. I've tested it on Windows and Linux adding it as a security key for 2-Step verification and it works flawlessly. I backed th...
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Nasdaq Index Reaches 5000 for First Time Since 2000 - antr http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-02/nasdaq-composite-index-reaches-5000-for-first-time-since-2000 ====== gmays I don't think this is correct. Sure, it reached the "same number" but I don't think the indices are inflation adjusted, so the value is...
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The Schism Over Bitcoin Is How Bitcoin Is Supposed to Work - bootload http://www.wired.com/2016/02/the-schism-over-bitcoin-is-how-bitcoin-is-supposed-to-work/ ====== pflats "He also complained of denial-of-service attacks against Coinbase and others, while The New York Times reported that some developers had received ...
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Brave – A private, secure and fast browser - wewake https://brave.com/index/ ====== BrendanEich Users banding together to send crypto anonymously toward their favorite sites and creators is not "parasitic" \-- you and your browser are the host, already colonized by tracking scripts for ads if you don't use a no-compro...
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Meet the Teen Who Translated a Bible Verse into DNA and Injected Himself with It - n0pe_p0pe https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wj3yy9/this-teen-translated-a-bible-verse-into-dna-and-injected-it-into-himself ====== _Schizotypy Forgive my ignorance, but what exactly is a "DNA protein"?
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Linode DDoS continues – Atlanta down for 16+ hours - gingerlime http://status.linode.com/incidents/cbbcjnhhpkgm ====== mjrpes Je suis Linode! This is nothing less than cyber-terrorism, and I hope the FBI is involved. A problem I see with people throwing Linode under the bus is that only the mega hosting providers (A...
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Genomics of Microbes and Microbiomes – Julie Segre (2016) - koolhead17 http://www.leucinerichbio.com/blogs/blog_title?id=119 ====== DrScump (video)
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Dividing Droplets Could Explain Life’s Origin - digital55 https://www.quantamagazine.org/20170119-active-droplets-cell-division/ ====== curtis This article reminded me of one I read a long time ago in Discover: First Cell - [http://discovermagazine.com/1995/nov/firstcell584](http://discovermagazine.com/1995/nov/first...
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What do you think of my Front-End? - tlong http://www.happyapps.io/features ====== haris3301 Looks cool.. :) ~~~ tlong Thanks :)
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Ask HN: How does cardpool make money? - pdx They claim they are getting 8 figure revenue, so let's call that $1M/month revenue to keep the math easy.<p>By their Alexa rank, we would assume they have on the order of 38K visitors a month at 152K pageviews.<p>So they're making an average of $26/visitor, and I don't see...
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TikTok Will Not Accept Political Advertising - tzm https://www.adweek.com/digital/tiktok-will-not-accept-political-advertising/ ====== sarcasmatwork You can google the title and usually bypass the Paywall or find a new site. [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/tiktok-says-it- won...](https://www.msn.com/en-us/...
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Youngest Person to Attract Venture Capital - dkroy http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/digital-media/9649209/Teenager-launches-Apple-iPhone-app-after-raising-1m-from-investors.html ====== eloquence I haven't heard of the application, but if it works well I would surely use it. ...
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Hot chillies might be good for us - sjcsjc http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39217603 ====== ianai Might be? I know they are. For one, they make healthy but boring food taste great without adding fat, sodium, or simple sugars. ~~~ simcop2387 Since moving away from the south east where my seasonal allergies were terrib...
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Aussie start-up in $1.5m funding win just two months after launch - shimms http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/aussie-startup-in-15m-funding-win-just-two-months-after-launch-20120418-1x6vx.html ====== chaddyar exec
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Newsweek's Statement on the Bitcoin Story - uptown http://www.newsweek.com/newsweeks-statement-bitcoin-story-231242 ====== DennisP So Newsweek "encourages all to be respectful of the privacy and rights of the individuals involved." It might have been nice to consider that before publishing a legible photo of Nakamot...
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Rackspace Unlikely to Withstand Amazon, Google Onslaught - larrys http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2013/12/18/rackspace-ubs-starts-at-hold-unlikely-to-withstand-amazon-google-onslaught/ ====== amadeuspzs We use Rackspace, AWS, Pair networks and a local VPS provider. Anecdotally, I would say Rackspace has the ...
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Ask HN: What are your startup ideas that you aren't pursuing? - marginalcodex (I&#x27;m going to keep posting this topic on HN - partially because I think the answers will be interesting, but also partially as an experiment to see how much randomness goes into a HN post becoming successful). ====== marginalcodex Heres...
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Polish company named Dariusz Jakubowski x'; DROP TABLE users; SELECT '1 - pfg https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pl&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fprod.ceidg.gov.pl%2FCEIDG%2Fceidg.public.ui%2FSearchDetails.aspx%3FId%3De82735cd-bc2b-4ac0-8bac-a1dc54d8c013 ====== nhance [http://xkcd.com/327/](http://xkcd.com/327/) ...
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Facebook is the new AOL - r0h1n http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/4/7488495/facebook-is-the-new-aol ====== rottyguy Been awhile since I worked at AOL. One of the funnier moments for me was when I started working there, someone referred to the client (the one they shipped via CD) as WAOL (pronounced - Whale). IIRC, the ex...
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Harder programming questions do a worse job of predicting outcomes - Harj https://triplebyte.com/blog/interview-questions-are-too-hard-and-too-short ====== drblast Google recruiters call me a lot. I think I'd do a good if not stellar job working there. I've passed multiple FAANG interviews and been very successful as ...
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Atomontage Engine - Stahll http://atomontage.com/ ====== Stahll I've been following this one-man project for several years now, and its amazing to see how far it has come. The engine can render giga-voxel scenes with one voxel per pixel detail, simulate voxel-voxel physics, and can even render dynamically deformed vox...
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Show HN: Security Checklist – resources to improve online privacy and security - brianlovin https://securitycheckli.st/ ====== parliament32 Not terrible, but there are a few problems with this list... 1) it advocates for use of "hosted" password managers which are a Bad Idea for obvious reasons 2) it recommends cent...
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Duck typing for .NET - chris_j_austin https://github.com/busterwood/Ducks ====== mcai4gl2 This is very interesting! Any plan to add .net core support? Currently, there is a lack of mocking library in .net core space. This would be a good alternative for light weight stubs.
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Osquery Security Audit - hiby007 http://yahoo-security.tumblr.com/post/118445868880/osquery-security-audit ====== kbar13 It would be cool if there were links to the reports and/or more detail about the issues they found. ~~~ lstyls Agreed, without details for others to learn from this post seems little more than se...
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'Elitist': angry book pirates hit back after author campaign sinks website - edward https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/08/elitist-angry-book-pirates-ocean-of-pdf-author-campaign-website ====== ggm Philip Pullman and Ursula leGuin both wrote quite well on the problem. They wished their adoring fans would respec...
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Show HN: Our weekly space industry newsletter is out of beta - tectonic Hello HN!<p>My partner and I just published issue #5 of The Orbital Index, our brief &amp; technical weekly newsletter about space science and the space industry, and so we&#x27;ve taken the project out of beta.<p>The process of finding a voice an...
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Anyone Interested in Collaboration on Wireflow.co? [Open Source] - kinderjaje https://forums.meteor.com/t/anyone-interested-in-collaboration-on-wireflow-co-open-source-project/40716 ====== realvjy I love to do so. I have already joined vanila community.
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Court permits joinder in BitTorrent filesharing case - anigbrowl http://legaltimes.typepad.com/files/huvelle-opinion-voltage.pdf ====== anigbrowl This is a rather technical decision in a content piracy lawsuit. Distributors of _The Hurt Locker_ and other films have accused BitTorrent filesharers of copyright infring...
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3 Guys Build a Start-up While Streaming the Process - tonyrice http://www.ustream.tv/channel/backly ====== swampboy911 its been fun to watch this start up from the very beginning.
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Lego Wants to Remake Its Bricks from Plants Not Oil Based Plastic - rmason https://www.seattletimes.com/business/lego-wants-to-completely-remake-its-toy-bricks-without-anyone-noticing/ ====== DerekL Previously discussed when it was published in the New York Times: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17888777](https:...
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Thousands of Turks accused of using Bylock app despite never having used it - plg http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/terrifying-how-a-single-line-of-computer-code-put-thousands-of-innocent-turks-in-jail-1.4495021 ====== mbrumlow This seems to be a growing trend, mostly in journalism; Blame technology. Just recently there w...
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Google’s AMP Poised to Take the Lead from Facebook’s and Apple’s Walled Gardens - webdisrupt http://www.mondaynote.com/2016/01/18/googles-amp-poised-to-take-the-lead-from-facebooks-and-apples-walled-gardens/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=UK%20Daily%202016-01-19&utm_term=Digiday%20UK%20Newsletter ==...
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Worldwide Tablet Market Continues to Decline - prostoalex http://idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS25811115 ====== AdmiralAsshat I don't know why anyone's shocked. The first few years of tablets sales were by people buying their first tablets because it was the hot new technology. Now that we all have one, there's no...
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Bill Gates AMA on Reddit - moonka https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/80ow6w/im_bill_gates_cochair_of_the_bill_melinda_gates/ ====== dingdongding Bill & Melinda have been very active on media in last one month since their 10 tough questions blog post. They are all over the social media with bunch of sponsored/promo...
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Nearing my 1 year cliff and have an offer elsewhere – when to give notice? - SleepyOcelot I have been working at a bay area startup for 11 months now. I have another job lined up and I plan on leaving my startup.<p>I have heard some bad things about the CEO wanting people gone immediately once they say they are going ...
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Cognitive abilities of 11-years-olds are up to three years behind where they were in 1975. - nickb http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20081027/tuk-class-of-76-cleverer-than-kids-of-to-dba1618.html ====== DaniFong "The tests - designed to assess grasp of abstract scientific concepts such as volume, density, quantity and weight...
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Guard-my-mabook-when-i-am-away.sh - jayeshsalvi https://gist.github.com/jay3sh/41d5f10293ba2aaa4019ec93766f4fdf ====== beamatronic # When you are working on your macbook sitting in cafe and you have to go pee, # you need some way to guard you machine. This script is a great idea, but to me the cost/benefit of leaving...
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GNU Compiler Collection Internals [pdf] - rvz https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint.pdf ====== pcr910303 As I believe that there are a lot of compiler people around at HN, I would like to ask: What would be a good starting point to learn about writing compilers? I have written a small tree-walk language (and is follo...
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The Groupon Editorial Manual - emilepetrone https://docs.google.com/View?id=dmv9rbh_2g92x4scj ====== rgarcia It's pretty remarkable to see something non-technical (e.g. broadly- appealing/humorous marketing) put into a framework like this. I just wonder if it dilutes the value a little bit. I've always enjoyed the ...
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Global Warming: For the record - billpg http://depletedcranium.com/global-warming-for-the-record/ ====== gfodor The way I've see, for all the noise, the world has a simple choice: do we build nuclear power everywhere now, or in 30 years once we've destroyed the environment completely? The solution to our problems has...
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What A.I. Learned from the Internet - Don_Patrick https://artistdetective.wordpress.com/2020/03/07/what-ai-learned-from-the-internet/ ====== kristerv best paragraph is the last one: > When will AI researchers learn? There is a saying in computer science: > “Garbage in, garbage out”. The most remarkable thing about th...
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Tell HN: Request for startups to solve our “Garbage World”? - fiokoden Hey Ycombinator, how about adding &quot;Solve the unbelievably huge problem of our Garbage World&quot; to the request for startups list?<p>YC emphasizes to &quot;find a problem&quot;, well here is one of monster proportions, completely unsolved.<p>...
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Kraken down 24 hours on system upgrade - ifdefdebug https://status.kraken.com/ ====== JorgeGT They erased this glorious status update: > _I fell asleep at my desk. In a dream, the ghost of a butterfly from the > future whispered to me "the dollar hit 0 bitcoin". I wake up, people around > me dabbing the blood from t...
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Paying Tribute to Thomas Stanley and His ‘Millionaire Next Door’ - e15ctr0n http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/07/your-money/paying-tribute-to-thomas-stanley-and-his-millionaire-next-door.html ====== lumberjack >Most of the rich grow wealthy because of modesty, thrift and prudence. They live happily in starter homes. Th...
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Cuisenaire Rods - seeker61 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisenaire_rods ====== heymijo Oh wow! Cuisenaire rods are both esoteric, and something I have seen used as an amazing teaching tool. How do you get 5 and 6 year olds to go from playing with Cuisenaire rods as blocks to modeling algebraic equations and learning...
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Apple is adding Facebook Integration in iOS 6 - srikar http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/01/facebook-ios-6-integration/ ====== clarky07 I just put Facebook sharing into a few apps of mine, and while not terrible, this will be a very welcome change. Much easier and faster to code as well as being a better interface for t...
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Show HN: Follow the Bookmarks of Leading Thinkers and Interesting People - dsowers http://briarpat.ch ====== grest Interesting site- if anything it's let me know how disorganized my bookmarks are. I can see how using this app would encourage one to categorize their daily inventory of interesting links to properly la...
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Supporting AI in the Enterprise - newzisgud https://medium.com/@chris_47577/supporting-ai-in-the-enterprise-8387eac16acd ====== gjmulhol This article is spot on. Using AI and ML in an enterprise setting is about changing behavior and helping people to understand why the AI/ML system is making the recommendations (or w...
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Show HN: Experimenting with Clojure 1.9's tools.deps and CLI - ethagnawl https://github.com/ethagnawl/tools-deps-experiment ====== vemv While I applaud every initiative, outsiders might be more interested in [https://github.com/juxt/edge](https://github.com/juxt/edge) which is more battle-tested. I specifically liked ...
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The $503 iOS Racing Game: The Expensive IAP Economics in Real Racing 3 - itsybaev http://www.148apps.com/news/503-ios-racing-game-shocking-reality-iap-real-racing-3/ ====== jetti This article is just useless fluff. First, how many people care enough to get 100%? Do you get anything for getting 100%? If not, then the...
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Show HN: We Let Machine Learning Design Your Logos - Faizann20 https://www.designwithai.com/ ====== jellevdv How is this AI/Machine learning? It's basically get an icon, place it on a canvas. Take the brand name, and either put it on the right of the icon or beneath it. ~~~ Faizann20 That's usually the first questio...
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Peepeth: a decentralized alternative to Twitter - maxencecornet https://peepeth.com/ ====== bevan I built Peepeth. Would appreciate your advice & suggestions. ------ dustin_c_c Looks like a really neat approach to an uncensored social network. ------ surfcoderepeat This is awesome! ~~~ bevan Thanks, appreciate your...
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Love JavaScript, but hate CSS? - rbanffy https://dev.to/dceddia/love-javascript-but-hate-css-254e ====== zygimantasdev Not directly related to the article, but IMO CSS is good for what we have now. There is no better alternative. As for Javascript - there are many great alternatives. (Scalajs, Purescript, Elm, Typescr...
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Bigfoot Networks teams up with Dell to kill game lag - qhoxie http://venturebeat.com/2008/09/18/bigfoot-networks-teams-up-with-dell/ ====== tuukkah I thought this was a scam. You don't "kill game lag" by speeding up one hop on the route. Their marketing: "Killer uses LLR™ Technology to reduce the lag and latency tha...
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