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Jacket Demo - CPU vs GPU runtimes on Matlab code - sandeepmm http://blog.accelereyes.com/blog/2011/09/01/jacket_demo/ ====== malcolm Very few demos out there that show side-by-side CPU,GPU. This one uses the same MATLAB code for both simulations, but just changes what data type gets passed in: CPU or GPU.
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Epic has published an in-game Macintosh commercial spoof in response to Apple - tbodt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYXnaKmXqGs ====== minxomat Going after Apple's policies seems to require fanfare. Spotify made a whole website: [https://timetoplayfair.com/](https://timetoplayfair.com/) This follows other public de...
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Fanouts and Percentiles: Visualizing Latency in Distributed Systems - ptc https://paulcavallaro.com/blog/fanouts-and-percentiles/ ====== tolstoyevsky Looks very interesting! Could be nice to get links in the body of the article for further reading and definitions of technical terms.
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Sharing an SQLite database across containers is surprisingly brilliant - vinnyglennon https://medium.com/@rbranson/sharing-sqlite-databases-across-containers-is-surprisingly-brilliant-bacb8d753054 ====== whack Can someone explain the technical details around this? Specifically: 1) How are writes/updates propagated to...
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Gary McKinnon saved from extradition to the US - RobAley http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19962844 ====== jeswin I have been following this for many years. Nobody in England wanted him to be extradited. Most Americans seemed to be against extradition. The rest of the world didn't want it either. I am surprised this wen...
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Parallel DBMSs faster than MapReduce - finin http://database.cs.brown.edu/sigmod09/ ====== andr They are different beasts really. It'd be hard to implement something complex, like the PageRank algorithm, in SQL. On the other hand, MapReduce is not designed for tasks such as "SELECT * FROM table WHERE field > 5", whi...
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Recreating the THX Deep Note - nkurz http://www.earslap.com/instruction/recreating-the-thx-deep-note ====== flycaliguy The song Spaced by Beaver & Krause made this sound before THX, in 1970 on the album Wild Sanctuary 3:10 at [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xKO3KAtDZ0](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xKO3KAtDZ0) Ed...
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Real democracy? Hungary to give mothers an extra vote for each child - sep http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/17/hungary-mothers-get-extra-votes ====== abeld This idea was scrapped after some public polling, see: [http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&h...](http://translate.google.com/translate?j...
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Designing an Insider Threat Program - heidibrayer http://blog.sei.cmu.edu/post.cfm/designing-insider-thread-programs-272 ====== AndrewKemendo _The CDS advocates that an employer monitor insider actions 60 days prior to termination and for 60 days after termination._ This is a strawman based on faulty statistics. Th...
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A man kept one of the ‘world’s most dangerous’ birds on his farm. It killed him - pseudolus https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/04/14/florida-cassowary-attack-man-dies-after-encounter-with-worlds-deadliest-bird/ ====== coldtea Darwin award.
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New References to AMD Processors Discovered in macOS 10.15.4 Beta - swznd https://www.macrumors.com/2020/02/07/macos-catalina-amd-apu-references/ ====== ngcc_hk Wait for the Arm more. But this makes a lot of sense as AMD is cheaper in medium to high end on non- data centre machines. And Apple not only is in that nich...
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The Accidental Artistry of Wire Wrapped Circuitry - zw123456 http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-accidental-artistry-of-wire-wrapped-circuitry ====== tlb I made a number of boards this way. Routing the wires neatly was cool, but detrimental to circuit performance. It increased capacitive and inductive coupling betw...
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Physics explains why time flies as we age - laurex https://neurosciencenews.com/aging-time-10924/ ====== shmooth English?
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How to Make Your Open-Source Project Successful - glazskunrukitis http://codelike.com/blog/2013/04/21/how-to-make-your-open-source-project-successful/ ====== Stranger2013 The sad part is now there is a pressure to put _your_ OSS project on GitHub instead of BitBucket just to boost its chances...
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Rebooting Computer Lib/Dream Machines - MaysonL http://scripting.com/stories/2010/10/03/emailingWithTedNelson.html ====== geophile Wow. I remember reading CL/DM in college, in maybe 1976. I was running my programs on IBM mainframes, entered using punchcards, so this book really spoke to me. I think I remember it descr...
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Parallelized Decision Making (2019) - yarapavan https://arkwright.github.io/parallelized-decision-making.html ====== haggy Going to play devil's advocate here. This is one of those "strategies" that looks great in retrospect but doing this up front will be nearly impossible within the confines of a non-fictional organ...
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FCC has “serious doubts” that SpaceX can deliver latencies under 100ms - sxcurry https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/fcc-has-serious-doubts-that-spacex-can-deliver-latencies-under-100ms/ ====== LinuxBender There are many of them already in orbit. The U.S. Army is the first customer and they will probably be ha...
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How does Google Maps server authenticate android device? - i_am_static Recently I have been digging in google maps authentication. When you are generating API keys for using google map for android, you can give `SHA-1` and `package name` of android apk for restricting api calls. Now the question I have is, How does go...
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NPR‘s Best Books of 2018 - acdanger https://apps.npr.org/best-books-2018/ ====== favorited For comparison, here is Goodreads readers' choice winners: [https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best- books-2018](https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-books-2018) Overlapping books look to be: \- Circe \- The Kiss ...
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Marc Andreessen: Series A investments still bread and butter of A16Z - kloncks http://m.techcrunch.com/2013/10/11/marc-andreessen-series-a-investments-are-still-the-bread-and-butter-of-a16z/ ====== pmarca I'm posting on this topic at: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6530536](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...
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Show HN: Instantsearch.js, UI components for high performance search - vvoyer https://community.algolia.com/instantsearch.js/ ====== fiatjaf This website is beautiful, but as far as I could understand it is not "UI components for high performance search", but "UI components for Algolia search", i.e., not a standalone ...
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The Bit Player, Claude Shannon Documentary, PW: Shannon-ISIT - BenoitEssiambre https://vimeo.com/315813606 ====== BenoitEssiambre This is a bit late but those of you on the west cost might still have a chance to catch it. It's only available this weekend: [https://thebitplayer.com/latest-information#special- online-s....
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Ask HN: How do people learn technologies fast? - test001only I keep on reading blogs and tweets about how somebody just sat through few days, learned a new technology and hacked together a new project in a weekend. It is simply unfathomable for me. I recently was studying WPF and it took me a whole of 3 months to ge...
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How the Tesla Model S is made - shawndumas http://www.loopinsight.com/2013/07/18/how-the-tesla-model-s-is-made/ ====== deadfall [https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=How+Tesla](https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=How+Tesla)
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There's no 'I/O' in 'team' - mkrecny http://x.myles.io/13yyngB ====== applecore Hey Myles, update your site to have links to your most recent writing :) ~~~ mkrecny I typically only link to stuff that reaches a certain level of popularity. Because popularity's a good proxy for quality, right?! :p ------ ww520 What...
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Hacked Gmail Account - madewulf http://www.multitasked.net/2011/jun/27/hacked-gmail-google-account/ ====== Matt_Cutts The key part of the blog post for me is this: "To mitigate the risk, Google recently launched two-factor authentication, a mechanism that requires you to input, on top of your password, a code genera...
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Lets create a collaborative Book List on Computer Science & Programming - akarambir https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XDGF6R-A4z_KuAc68rZuqQDtVVg0O21YsnXe0678Lfo/edit?hl=en_US ====== rgonzalez We should compliment that list with this one about free programming books [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-...
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I was rejected by ThemeForest so I did this... - JoeyDoey http://themesc.com/ ====== prawn Some feedback: - tabs should be reversed. They make no sense as is. - the orange down arrow top right needs to go or change. Looks like it's pointing at the tab for a reason. Nothing about the design sug...
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Hacker News RSS Feed - jsingleton https://news.ycombinator.com/rss ====== jsingleton I didn't realise HN had an RSS feed so here it is for anyone who didn't know either. Doesn't seem to be documented anywhere. ~~~ greenyoda If you go to the HN home page in Firefox, you'll see the RSS icon light up at the top of the w...
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A response to ESR - CoralineAda https://medium.com/@coralineada/why-hackers-must-welcome-social-justice-advocates-1f8d7e216b00#.j0d6snbw6 ====== andriesm Is it just me, or anyone else getting annoyed by the social justice crowd's emotional manipulations? I say manipulation, because the modus opporandi is to make us f...
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Sniffing keystrokes via laser, power lines - cyunker http://hackaday.com/2009/03/20/sniffing-keystrokes-via-laser-power-lines/ ====== yan The actual talk was very well-presented also. Andrea is usually a very lively presenter.
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Stop Fetishizing Failure - muratmutlu http://creativeintelligencebook.com/post/41570210573/stop-fetishizing-failure ====== dasil003 The choice of words is telling. Serious entrepreneurs (even unsuccessful ones) are not "fetishizing" failure at all. To be an entrepreneur is to live and breathe execution, and fetishizin...
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Diaspora breaks $100k and all of Kickstarter's records - adamhowell http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/196017994/diaspora-the-personally-controlled-do-it-all-distr?pos=2&ref=spotlight ====== thaumaturgy Rats -- someone here said, "I'd be worried if I was kickstarter at this point...", and as I went to reply to that, ...
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Uber leaves San Antonio to protest regulations: It wasn’t an empty threat - jseliger http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/04/02/uber_leaves_san_antonio_to_protest_regulations_it_wasn_t_an_empty_threat.html?wpisrc=obnetwork ====== GFK_of_xmaspast Good riddance.
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Bridging analytics and data science workflows with GPUs - tmostak https://www.omnisci.com/blog/announcing-omnisci-4.8 ====== josep2 A few comments: 1\. I'm usually down on dark-mode but this looks clean as hell 2\. The JupyterHub integration looks nice! It was mentioned in the article it was the "tip of the iceberg" ...
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'My Airbnb flat was turned into a pop-up brothel' - kristianc http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39528479 ====== illuminati1911 What's the problem here? Did they leave the apartments uncleaned or...? One of the biggest human rights insults around the world is making prostitution illegal. 1) It's not governments busi...
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IBM: ‘Mac users are happier and more productive’ - elorant https://www.computerworld.com/article/3452847/ibm-mac-users-are-happier-and-more-productive.html ====== mikro2nd "compared to Windows users" (ftfa) Did they survey Linux users, too? It would seem not, but I only skimmed the article.
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Saudi court sentences poet to death for renouncing Islam - dismal2 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/20/saudi-court-sentences-poet-to-death-for-renouncing-islam?CMP=share_btn_tw ====== maxharris "Why Islam Needs a Reformation," by Ayaan Hirsi Ali: [http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-reformation-for- islam-14268596...
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Blueprints for Apple's New Campus - jamesjyu http://cdn.macrumors.com/images-new/downloads/FloorPlan_Cross_Section.pdf ====== egiva Don't forget Job's presentation of the building to city officials (good video to watch): <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2632158>
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Building a Live WebCam Face Detector using Node.js and OpenCV - codeforgeek https://codeforgeek.com/2017/07/building-live-webcam-face-detector-node-js-opencv/ ====== spullara You are really swimming against the current by using Node (or Java, or other languages) and not Python or C++ to do things with OpenCV. There ar...
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14 Megapixel Image of the Moon by Bartosz Wojczyński - 20kleagues http://i.imgur.com/lL42zTS.jpg ====== 20kleagues Further details on how he made this photograph here. [http://petapixel.com/2015/05/04/this-high-res-moon-photo- was...](http://petapixel.com/2015/05/04/this-high-res-moon-photo-was-made-by- a-self-taug...
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Design Resources for Developers - surfer77 https://github.com/bradtraversy/design-resources-for-developers ====== ver_ture Bless open source
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Police robot shot - otoburb http://singularityhub.com/2013/03/04/ohio-man-charged-with-shooting-robot/ ====== otoburb " [charged with] vandalism of government property [...]" Will this be an de-facto charge added to similar situations where government robots are damaged in the line of duty?
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CSS Frameworks + CSS Reset: Design From Scratch - drm237 http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/09/21/css-frameworks-css-reset-design-from-scratch/ You don't have to write the same CSS-code or (X)HTML-Markup over and over again. Whatever project you're starting to work with, at some point you have to define classes and...
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Atom 1.11 - madspindel http://blog.atom.io/2016/10/11/atom-1-11.html ====== edditoria People said V8 is power hungry and drain the battery so much. A few days ago I forgot to bring the power adaptor, so I have no choice but run on battery. Then, I try again today. And here is the result: Day 1: Atom and Google Chrome...
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Facebook bans adafruit ‘s Ladyada… Facebook finkd « Adafruit Industries - mikecarlton https://blog.adafruit.com/2017/10/17/facebook-bans-adafruit-s-ladyada-facebook-finkd/ ====== reustle What a bizarre post... Copying it here \--- Facebook banned our founder Ladyada. Nothing public, just trying to log in and manage...
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Pirate Party Germany now at 8% in nationwide polls - FrojoS http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/etn/news_content.php?id=1726590 ====== Igor_Bratnikov As someone on the ground in Germany I can tell that a lot of Germans, even techies are still confused and not sure what the Pirate Party represents or what their actual polit...
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Sirius: A distributed system library from Comcast - akkartik http://comcast.github.io/sirius/overview.html?attempt=2 ====== ojilles I'm not an american citizen, but I can't have been the only one with a reaction of: "Comcast? ... Comcast?!". But this is really awesome -- hope more tech is going to get open sourced f...
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This 'plastic' bag is 100% biodegradable and made of plants - ingve https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/05/this-plastic-bag-is-100-biodegradable-and-made-of-plants ====== spicymaki Where can I buy this?
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Why Nokia is releasing a netbook - tuukkah http://www.techradar.com/news/mobile-computing/laptops/why-nokia-is-releasing-a-netbook-628515 ====== nuweborder Its about time a mobile phone company gets into the netbook market. 3G broadband, WiFi, bluetooth, 12 hr battery etc etc. Sold! I can definately run my business ...
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Ask HN: System uptime monitoring software? - xook Digital Ocean&#x27;s interface shows disk I&#x2F;O, CPU, memory, disk usage, process list, and bandwidth total. It&#x27;s nice to have without having to tunnel in every time. Sometimes I just want to have a quick glance without running through lines of text (not to say...
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IdleRPG: an IRC RPG in which the players idle - mabynogy http://idlerpg.net/ ====== mabynogy How the game looks like: <idlerpg> Mag, the level 87 shmurrr, is #2! Next level in 203 days, 17:18:33. <idlerpg> SgtKeroro, the level 85 Frog, is #3! Next level in 193 days, 22:17:56. <idlerp...
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If you’re still using ifconfig, you’re living in the past - janober https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/07/07/if-youre-still-using-ifconfig-youre-living-in-the-past/ ====== daly <sarcasm> Great. You've got a new tool with incompatible options that will require rewriting network scripts worldwide. </sarcasm> Can you provi...
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First open-sourced budget - nreece http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/02/02/five-new-things-about-the-fy2016-budget ====== vortico Maybe I'm nitpicking, but using the word "open source" for anything but source code (this project is a collection of Markdown and CSV files) sounds odd to me, and a bit like a meaningless...
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AI can be trusted to take our 911 calls - vladws https://thenextweb.com/podium/2019/03/24/ai-can-be-trusted-to-take-our-911-calls/ ====== Thetawaves I think this is probably the purest vision of a dystopian hell hole that I have ever seen. Just what I want to do, dick around with a computer when life is on the line. ...
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Finally a way to get your script read and get your movie made - hermitwriter http://www.scriptlens.com ====== sethwebster Hey, thanks for sharing! As one of the founders, happy to answer any questions. How'd you find this? ~~~ hermitwriter I heard about it at Fantasia Film Festival. I am hoping to see some feedback ...
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#TradeForDesign – Trade your design or developer skills to travel the world - tiagonarciso http://trade.fordesign.io/ ====== tiagonarciso Hey guys! We are super excited to announce our newest project — #TradeForDesign #TradeForDesign connects creatives and business owners that want to exchange their services instead ...
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Show HN: Our last product, favmonster - fuzzyalej http://www.favmonster.com ====== fuzzyalej Hey, we have just opened our closed beta for favmonster, a kind of social sharing/bookmarking site. All kinds of feedback are welcome, we just want to create a very useful product. Thanks! ------ werelax This is so cool! B...
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Your Phone Number Is Going To Get A Reputation Score - Amadou http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/11/13/your-phone-number-is-going-to-be-scored/ ====== malandrew Reputation for phone numbers? Sounds like a good idea. I want my reputation to be "Never answers unrecognized numbers and never buys anything over ...
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Peter Norvig on Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle - panaggio http://www.norvig.com/sudoku.html ====== alttag _> A2 has 4 possibilities (1679) and A3 has 5 possibilities (12679); together that's 20, and if we keep multiplying, we get 4.62838344192 × 1038 possibilities for the whole puzzle_ I realize this is the start of his...
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In His Own Words: Gary Kildall - EvanAnderson http://www.computerhistory.org/_static/atchm/in-his-own-words-gary-kildall/ ====== VonGuard If you want to learn more about Gary, watch the Computer Chronicles on YouTube or Archive.org: [https://archive.org/details/computerchronicles](https://archive.org/details/computerc...
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Demo: Incremental Parser in action - eliah-lakhin http://lakhin.com/projects/papa-carlo/demo ====== eliah-lakhin I would like to hear any feedback from you: good or bad. Also, if you like this demo, please star the project on GitHub: [https://github.com/Eliah-Lakhin/papa-carlo](https://github.com/Eliah- Lakhin/papa...
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DOOM Level Generation Using Generative Adversarial Networks - Impossible https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.09154 ====== icefox Not really answered in the paper... were those levels fun to play? The "Levels Evaluation" seemed a little lackluster too. Back in early 2000 I ran a Quake server that generated levels that were dec...
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Insomnia, fear and isolation: Inside one Wuhan apartment, virus toll on healthy - skmurphy https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-insomnia-fear-and-isolation-inside-one-wuhan-apartment-a-virus-toll/ ====== skmurphy Key points: On the second floor of a residential building in northwest Wuhan, John Zhu has made ...
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Phonebloks: The phone you can build like Lego - chrisacky http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24490331 ====== Zigurd I do not see why this gets any publicity after a moment to think "Has any modular upgrade-able system ever worked?" The best example I can think of are home-built PCs which sometimes go through one gene...
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Dark matter may be older than the Big Bang - DemiGuru https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/08/190807190816.htm ====== fanf2 > _the study shows that dark matter may have been produced before the Big Bang > during an era known as the cosmic inflation when space was expanding very > rapidly_ Er what? I thought inf...
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HD 555 to HD 595 mod (or: how Sennheiser cripples cheaper headphones) - ryanf http://mikebeauchamp.com/misc/sennheiser-hd-555-to-hd-595-mod/ ====== apl I understand that this raises eyebrows, but it's hardly _fraud_. Do people actually think that retail price is a function of production/R&D cost? It's not, never has ...
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Op-ed: Why I’m not giving up on PGP - nwalfield http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2016/12/signal-does-not-replace-pgp/2/ ====== rbii Looks like this links to page 2. Can a mod change it to link to the first page? [http://arstechnica.co.uk/information- technology/2016/12/sign...](http://arstechnica.co.uk/...
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Are you a mobile developer? We are looking for US apps - Mekza http://www.swelen.com/ ====== waxzce looks like great deal
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Ask HN: Would programming be easier if we had more types of brackets? - woah ====== hasheagle I prefer less brackets for sure. Programming will be worse if we have more types of brackets. Less is more. ------ noiv Honestly, I'd prefer less brackets or none. Just like natural language: Punctuation is enough to defi...
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Can i learn math - blobb Hello guys i have a question and i need clean answer to clear my mind so im 22 year old and now im practicing front end development and i dont know nothing in math so i want to learn math because i see now i need to learn math someone can tell me is to late to learn math or not if not how ca...
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How Not To Be Viral - skmurphy http://epeus.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-not-to-be-viral.html ====== skmurphy Very interesting application of ecology models to marketing contrasting an r-strategy of seed scattering or fast reproduction with a K-strategy of high niche fitness and high nurture of young. Best line: ...
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You Can Now Trade Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash on Robinhood Crypto - sahin-boydas https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/12/you-can-now-trade-litecoin-and-bitcoin-cash-on-robinhood-crypto/ ====== dawhizkid Said it once before: do not link your bank account on RH with Plaid (i.e. bank login). Plaid is the API they use that includ...
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Podcast Advertising: What We Learned - jger15 https://ahrefs.com/blog/podcast-advertising/ ====== perlgeek I listen to quite a few podcasts, and I'm increasingly annoyed by ads being repeated word for word in each episode. There are two podcasts that do things a bit differently, which I enjoy more: * [https://risky....
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'Those who want to beat us will be defeated': Israel's David's Sling goes live - davidf18 http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/diplomacy-defense/141699-170402-netanyahu-declares-david-s-sling-missile-defense-system-operational ====== davidf18 Anti-missle system. "Having been officially declared operational, David's S...
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A Tesla Model 3 Produces More CO2 Than a Diesel Car, Says New Study - starbugs https://interestingengineering.com/a-tesla-model-3-produces-more-co2-than-a-diesel-car-says-new-study ====== NotPaidToPost This is based on Germany's current energy mix, which produces a lot of CO2 because Germany still relies heavily on co...
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Where to get startup cash now - AirBnB (YC W09) - zaveri http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/smallbusiness/1003/gallery.startup_cash_now/index.html ====== patio11 I loved that story (selling political-theme cereal) since I heard it in the PG Mixergy interview. Apparently they still have it on their site, too: <http:...
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Thoughts on Yahoo BOSS Monetization (from Duck Duck Go Founder) - epi0Bauqu http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2009/02/thoughts-on-yahoo-boss-monetization-announcement.html ====== pclark great post. Where _are_ the competitors in this market? Could duckduckgo have been made with Google tools? ~~~ epi0Bauqu Not under...
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Security.txt - janvdberg https://securitytxt.org/ ====== tptacek I don't think this is fully baked. Most importantly: there are no formal definitions for what these disclosure terms mean, the distinctions between them are not unimportant, and the most important distinctions have nothing at all to do with "disclosure"...
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Wild bees are recycling plastic, study finds (2014) - Mz http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/recycling/blogs/wild-bees-are-recycling-plastic-study-finds ====== codeshaman The planet will be here a long long time after we're gone.. And it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, because that's what it does. It's a self corre...
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Revised JavaScript Dictionary Search - atularora http://ejohn.org/blog/revised-javascript-dictionary-search/ ====== mckoss This was a fun (and distracting) challenge. After a lot of iterations, I' think I've squeezed about as much compression and performance as I can. You can play with the Trie/DAWG generator here: ...
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New screen recording shortcut in macOS Catalina 10.15.4 - geerlingguy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU86Lo47NlU ====== geerlingguy Thanks to [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22692523](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22692523), where I learned about this (and it motivated me to actually upgrade to 10.15.4, ...
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Comcast: The Consumerist's Worst Company in America - samd http://consumerist.com/2010/04/congratulations-comcast-youre-the-worst-company-in-america.html ====== dpcan What did I miss? I didn't see a "why" in there. Is there further reading somewhere? That being said, my experience with Comcast has been REALLY GOOD....
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Ask HN: How do you go about choosing a cool code name for your hack? - bhoomit ====== ElongatedTowel How do you choose a name for anything anyway? From company names to personal blogs, naming them is a fruitless exercise. In the end you're trying to be clever but instead you end up with something that means wang in...
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The Exxon Valdez of Cyberspace - antgoldbloom https://www.economist.com/business/2019/08/08/the-exxon-valdez-of-cyberspace ====== chovy TLDR: hacking and data leaks are the new Valdez.
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MySpace's Tom Get Hacked? - Metzae http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=306246670 ====== Metzae The profile is a fake. It's meant to look like the real one, but it's all human-generated content. All of the top friends links point to MySpace's special link catching program, and if i...
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Coder Recruiting Platform CodeEval Now Out Of Beta - veritas9 http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/09/coder-recruiting-platform-codeeval-now-out-of-beta/ ====== jbapple They displayed my email address in plain text on a world-readable page, so I tried to delete my account, but that feature is not available yet. Failed sol...
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Categorize tweets automatically through machine learning. Any startup? Silly? - croakun I&#x27;m working on a new project that helps you to categorize your tweets automatically through machine learning.<p>You just need to insert some keywords&#x2F;hashtags, select your categories, possible ones are sentiment, identi...
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Refined NeoVim Experience for MacOS - msravi http://vimr.org ====== msravi As of June 2016, VimR moved from using a MacVim backend to a NeoVim backend. I've been using it for a while now, and the combination of VimR and NeoVim has been great.
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Inbox feel too quiet? Hidden consequences for temporary breaking your email - shazow https://hellowebbooks.com/news/does-your-inbox-feel-too-quiet-hidden-consequences-temporarily-breaking-your-email/? ====== Nextgrid The world would be better without these nasty abstraction layers over email - outbound transactional e...
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Air umbrella - amelius https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1243275397/air-umbrella ====== bogdan_m Am I the only one that finds this umbrella unrealistic from practicality's point of view? What happens if 10 persons wait on a traffic light, some will definitely get spilled by the ones surrounding them, this umbrellas...
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Spotify: President of Playlists - kdazzle https://www.spotify.com/us/jobs/view/o0CA4fw0/ ====== kdazzle Har har har
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AMD has no plans to release PSP code - rnhmjoj https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/6o2e6t/amd_is_not_opensourcing_their_psp_code_anytime ====== sonium For everybody wondering: PSP stands for Platform Security Processor, a secure enclave in the processor and AMD's version of the Intel Management Engine. Quoting from...
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uBlock Origin still won’t be supported on Safari 14 - latexr https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/hdz0bo/will_ublock_origin_back_to_macos_big_sur/fvoc7wk/ ====== latexr Despite Apple announcing Safari 14 supports the Web Extensions API[1], uBlock Origin still cannot be supported. [1]: [https://youtu.be/GEZh...
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I dropped over 40 grand when I could have spent $100 - timborden http://boondainc.wordpress.com/2013/04/18/i-dropped-over-40-grand-when-i-could-have-spent-100/ ====== ericabiz I agree with you that perfect sizing is the future of fashion retail-- especially online. However, I completely disagree with your methodology....
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Leaked iPhone 8 Screen Protector Includes Reduced Bezels and Front-Facing Camera - janober https://www.macrumors.com/2017/06/19/leaked-iphone-8-screen-protector/ ====== pupppet I wish they'd move the power button back to the top. The number of times I've shut my phone off when I just meant to adjust the volume or take...
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Node-noop – Implements a noop function - willvarfar https://github.com/euank/node-noop ====== ddebernardy Isn't this typical of what you get when you have a language that's easy for newcomers to pick up? At one point it was PHP. Then it was Rails. Of late it's been Node. I'm sure Windows users might have some old VB ...
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Official Google Enterprise Blog: Disaster Recovery by Google - ashishbharthi http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/03/disaster-recovery-by-google.html# ====== boredguy8 There's still not a way to recover from user errors like accidental deletion, which is a much more regular recovery activity where I work. And I d...
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Java is becoming the new Cobol - shayan http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/12/28/52FE-underreported-java_1.html ====== mdemare Does this article contain any facts that are actually correct? Java losing marketshare to AJAX? "One bit of good news: developers and analysts agree that Java is alive and well for internall...
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Chrome as a Service, in a Docker Container - rewq4321 https://github.com/browserless/chrome ====== rewq4321 Note that it is not open-source: > If you want to use browserless to build commercial sites, applications, or > in a continuous-integration system that's closed-source then you'll need to > purchase a commercia...
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