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Terminal tools that make my life easier - spudlyo
https://jonathanh.co.uk/blog/tools-that-make-my-life-easier.html
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dontdieych
Upvote for fzf, ripgrep, fd, bat.
\- shell history search with fzf(ctrl + r) is most productive use case in
addition to shell auto suggestion(fish shell).
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bengale
Bat sounds han... | {
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All Activities Monitored - dangerman
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/all-activities-monitored
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ohazi
So this surveillance technology started in the military to track insurgents,
expanded to law enforcement and government to track suspects and the general
public, and is now expanding to corporations t... | {
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HN Replies – Get notified of replies to your comments - sandebert
http://hnreplies.com
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sandebert
I know this has been posted six months ago, but it's so great that I thought
it deserved more exposure. Seriously, until HN has something like this built
in, dang & co should consider putting a link to it in the foo... | {
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Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but... - syrusakbary
https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768
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mikek
At a certain point, your resume should speak for itself. The fact that
experienced engineers with impressive resumes are put through these types of
interviews is insu... | {
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Mock your HTTP responses to test your REST API - yotsumi
http://www.mocky.io
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kanzure
Also, python people might be interested in
<https://github.com/gabrielfalcao/HTTPretty> or (bias disclaimer) my
serializer on top of requests+httpretty <https://github.com/kanzure/python-
requestions> for the httpetrified dec... | {
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Senate hearing on Bitcoin [video] - sinak
http://www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/beyond-silk-road-potential-risks-threats-and-promises-of-virtual-currencies
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eof
I've been watching since about 20 minutes in; it is overwhelmingly positive.
There seem to be 2 'groups' of testimonies, the first coming from law
enfor... | {
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The Trip Treatment - juanplusjuan
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/09/trip-treatment
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bdm
It's brilliant. I wonder why people have a knee-jerk reaction to drugs as
being "bad". Research and writing like this are quite promising.
> Only 10 percent of drug users have a problem with their substance. Som... | {
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Yes, websites are starting to look more similar - afrcnc
https://theconversation.com/yes-websites-really-are-starting-to-look-more-similar-136484
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KKPMW
Not only the websites, but art within them as well is starting to become more
and more similar.
In particular I have the style with disfigured colorful human f... | {
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} |
CMC Cartonwrap box packing machine [video] - vinnyglennon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rP1wjEsbak
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jcrites
This appears not to be a machine made by Amazon, but rather a commercially
available machine called CartonWrap 1000 made by an Italian firm named CMC
Srl. According to news reports I found online, Amazo... | {
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Father built a machine to transport his kids' teeth straight to the tooth fairy - Brajeshwar
http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2013/09/13/this-guy-built-a-machine-to-transport-his-kids-teeth-straight-to-the-tooth-fairy/
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doug1001
i know a guy who did the same thing a few years ago but when the tooth reached
the... | {
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Why Refback Still Matters - kiyanwang
https://gkbrk.com/2016/08/why-refback-still-matters/
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floatboth
Webmention implementations usually automatically check that there's an actual
link. You can go even further and require not just a link, but a proper
microformats2 reply/like/repost.
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onli
> Webmention imple... | {
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Show HN: Tiger Boss - I Kick Your Ass & Make You Achieve Your Goals Faster - themost123
https://tigerboss.co/
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gus_massa
If there is no free tier to try, I think it is not a good example of a ShowNH,
because we can't try it and give feedback.
Also, all-caps in the title will get this flagged. (Even if only a pa... | {
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Share Your Thoughts - theopencode
http://theopencode.org
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billyrobinson1
Great website! I think this is a very good initiative, and I can't wait to see
what you do. One suggestion, though; maybe you could get on social media? It
may help you out.
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theopencode
Thanks @billyrobinson1 for the kind words. We act... | {
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PC-XT Emulator on a ESP8266 (2018) - DanBC
https://mcuhacker.wordpress.com/2018/02/22/forsta-blogginlagget/
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elliottkember
I'm always fascinated to see these projects on ESP8266. The board is great,
but the ESP32 is a lot better - bluetooth LE, WiFi and dual-core at 240mhz, vs
the WiFi and 80mhz available on the... | {
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} |
How misaligning data can increase performance 12x by reducing cache misses - luu
http://danluu.com/3c-conflict/
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cowsandmilk
I see many comments here acting like this means not aligning on word
boundaries (e.g. using packed pragma, sandy bridge have unaligned access,
etc.). This has nothing to do with word align... | {
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The transgender populist fighting fascists with face glitter - kantord
https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/12/21/the-transgender-populist-fighting-fascists-with-face-glitter
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IronWolve
Interesting YouTube philosopher-pundit Natalie Wynn thinks everyone not left
are nazi's wanting to wipe out LGBT. That th... | {
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Ask HN: Do you blog using wordpress? - sharmi
My personal site is not much active but when I have something interesting I tend to post.<p>https://www.minvolai.com/blog I used to blog using wordpress in 2007. Then I migrated to static generator mynt and have been on this from atleast 5 years. Mynt is not... | {
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The Burden: Fossil Fuel, the Military and National Security - westurner
http://www.theburdenfilm.com/watch_the_film
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westurner
Here's a link to the video:
[https://vimeo.com/194560636](https://vimeo.com/194560636)
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Ask HN: Are you going to participate in this years Google Code Jam? - holdenk
Are you planning on participating in this years Google Code Jam? It starts on Friday.<p>I'm curious, what language,libraries or tools are you planning on using?<p>Do you have any pre-written contest code that you find usefu... | {
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It’s Time to Get over That Stored Procedure Aversion You Have - fastbmk_com
https://rob.conery.io/2015/02/20/its-time-to-get-over-that-stored-procedure-aversion-you-have/
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alunchbox
Erm. No. There's plenty of reasons why "rock star developers" and plenty of
blogs discuss this. ORM usage is only as good as the st... | {
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Intel Proposes to Use USB Type-C Digital Audio Technology - njaremko
http://www.anandtech.com/show/10273/intel-proposes-to-use-usb-typec-cables-to-connect-headsets-to-mobile-devices
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moskie
It's recently occurred to me that the prolificness of the 3.5mm audio
connector is something to revere. Wikipedia tells tha... | {
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Students advised to falsely claim to be racial minorities for college admissions - Hydraulix989
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/students-were-advised-to-falsely-claim-to-be-racial-minorities-in-college-admissions-scandal-2019-05-18
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danielscrubs
Should be noted that calling yourself asian is also disadvantageo... | {
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Herpes simplex virus is present in at least four out of five people - pmoriarty
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/j5q3gy/herpes-welcome-to-the-disease-you-probably-have
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eganist
Missing from this: all the research that points to a substantial link between
the virus (HSV1 specifically) and Alzheimer's in some su... | {
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} |
When Google talks about "do no evil", who do you think they were talking about? - johns
http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2008/05/why-cant-micros.html
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pg
It's pretty impressive of Fred to talk openly about Microsoft being evil. Very
few VCs would do that, because they wouldn't want to alienate such a powerful
partner... | {
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A Peek Inside the Niantic Real World AR Platform - srameshc
https://nianticlabs.com/blog/nianticrealworldplatform/
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ruytlm
As one of those who got stuck into Ingress in its early days, I'm always happy
to see Niantic pushing forward.
The only issue is they always seem to be a step ahead of themselves, in terms
... | {
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Responsive Design Won’t Fix Your Content Problem - Ashuu
http://alistapart.com/column/responsive-design-wont-fix-your-content-problem
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danso
It's astonishing how much "responsive design" gets thrown around as a
buzzword...however, unlike a lot of buzzwords, "responsive design" actually
means something and implem... | {
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} |
Font Awesome 4.1.0 Released – 71 New Icons - fortawesome
http://fontawesome.io/whats-new/?r=hn&v=4.1.0
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hiharryhere
Thanks for the hard work. It's a great contribution to the community.
One thing, could be my eyes, but is the box on the top of the cab a little off
centre? Am I going mad?
[http://fontawesome.... | {
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How to sell your company to Microsoft - kitsguy
http://www.techvibes.com/blog/jon-gelsey-director-of-acquisitions-and-investments-at-microsoft-talks-tactical-at-banff-venture-forum
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helveticaman
This appears to be the guy that makes acq decisitons, or works for the acq
department. I know I read this intently.
... | {
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Decades after Chernobyl disaster, engineers slide high-tech shelter over reactor - d_e_solomon
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/11/decades-after-chernobyl-disaster-engineers-slide-high-tech-shelter-over-reactor/
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Tempest1981
30 years later, what a project: "More than 40 governments have contributed to
funding... | {
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} |
23andme replies to the GAO: GAO Studies Science Non-Scientifically - jamesbritt
http://spittoon.23andme.com/2010/07/23/gao-studies-science-non-scientifically/
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jballanc
First, let me say that I'm very much in favor of the direction that 23andMe is
headed. Personalized genetic medicine _is_ the future. Generic sm... | {
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} |
Lossless compression of English messages using GPT-2 - kleiba
http://textsynth.org/sms.html
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cs702
...by the one and only Fabrice Bellard: "gpt2tc is a small program using the
GPT-2 language model to complete and compress (English) texts. It has no
external dependency, requires no GPU and is quite fast...The com... | {
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Voting is a Sham Mathematically Speaking - eibrahim
http://haacked.com/archive/2012/11/27/condorcet-paradox.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+haacked+%28you%27ve+been+HAACKED%29
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maratd
This is off. Voting is not a system for selecting the best candidate. Voting,
in whatever forms ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Mongodb vs Redis for Django? - fjabre
Hi,<p>We're slowly realizing that the benefits of using a non-relational db for our upcoming web app are too big to ignore in terms of scalability. We're running a typical Django/Postgres setup but are looking at alternatives. We're discovering that Postgres is becoming ... | {
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Faceted Search (2009) [pdf] - pmoriarty
http://disi.unitn.it/~bernardi/Courses/DL/faceted_search.pdf
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pmoriarty
Can anyone recommend any open-source faceted search tools?
Bonus for:
- being:
- easy to install (via yum, apt-get, brew, etc)
- accessible from the command line / she... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Man Billed $1,200 for Reading Email on a Plane - carlchenet
http://www.businessinsider.com/1200-for-reading-email-on-a-plane-2014-11
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steego
This isn't greed. It's incompetence. It sounds like they they've outfitted
their planes with high-end internet connections that are typically reserved
for private jets.
... | {
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Winning A/B results were not translating into improved user acquisition - pretzel
http://blog.sumall.com/journal/optimizely-got-me-fired.html
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pmiller2
The red flag here for me was that Optimizely encourages you to stop the test
as soon as it "reaches significance." You shouldn't do that. What you should
do is p... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What native features would you like to see in a browser - ThomPete
Hi all,<p>Leaving the HTML/CSS rendering alone for a while, if you could decide, what native features would you like to see in your browser that isn't already there?
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networked
— Trails! They are a branching history feature impl... | {
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Woman Drank Herself to Death with Coca-Cola - mikecane
http://news.discovery.com/human/health/deadly-coca-cola-habit-130212.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1
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kellishaver
> Crerar said the family had not considered her Coke habit dangerous because
> the drink did not carry any health warnings.
What!? Are people really that ... | {
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} |
Fog Creek's Intern Hiring Process - dodger
http://behindthescenesrecruiter.com/post/82005145232/the-single-most-sure-fire-hiring-decision-you-will-ever
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crazypyro
As someone who just went through the internship process with a few different
companies, I find this fascinating. This is pretty much what I expected... | {
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} |
Isn't it Byronic? Don Juan at 200 - gruseom
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/isnt-it-byronic-don-juan/
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gruseom
Here’s one passage I remember after many years: Byron explaining how
convenient it was for schoolboys that the editors of the classics had
thoughtfully collected all the obscene bits in one pl... | {
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} |
My fully optimized life allows me ample time to optimize yours - geoah
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/my-fully-optimized-life-allows-me-ample-time-to-optimize-yours
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cgrusden
I like to see how other people try to "optimize" their lives. Unfortunately
there is no silver bullet, but definitely some takeaways ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How did the Erlang articles disappear on HN yesterday? - socratees
Were we censored or did we flag the articles by ourselves, or did the admin remove all the Erlang entries from appearing on the front page? How did we get rid of the Erlang articles? I'm just curious about it.
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jacquesm
I guess enough p... | {
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Techniques for Distributed TensorFlow - jamesblonde
https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/distributed-tensorflow
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hopsworks
Disclaimer: developer of Hops. This blog basically argues that systems like
Horovod (Ring AllReduce) are architecturally superior to Parameter Server
models (like TensorFlowOnSpark).
| {
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Travel Writer Booted Off United Flight for Taking Picture of His Seat - rosser
http://upgrd.com/matthew/thrown-off-a-united-airlines-flight-for-taking-pictures.html
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randomdrake
>"I want you to understand why I was taking pictures. _I hope you didn't think
I was a terrorist._ Here is my business card [offering... | {
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Hey everyone, do you have some spare time to do my survey? - hkuhl
https://www.surveymonkey.de/r/D5QLLXP
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hkuhl
I hope it's okay to post this here, but I'm running a Developer Happiness
Survey at the moment and will publish the results in an index. If you have a
few minutes spare, it would be so helpful to have ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
AI-generated fake content could unleash a virtual arms race - kristintynski
https://venturebeat.com/2019/11/11/ai-generated-fake-content-could-unleash-a-virtual-arms-race/
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echelon
These deep fake articles are becoming a meme. They mostly seem alarmist, and
yet they're not authored by people actually in the indu... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A data visualization curriculum using Vega-Lite and Altair - Anon84
https://github.com/uwdata/visualization-curriculum
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randyzwitch
This is a really comprehensive tutorial, one of better uses of Jupyter
Notebooks
| {
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Show HN: Pass a URL, get summarized content - meeper16
http://54.86.121.4/recommend/getSummary.html
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peter_l_downs
Not summary, just sentence ranking and extraction. Still cool but not anything
new. Sweet side project though! For anyone wondering how this was done, I have
a similar project up at [http://bookshri... | {
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} |
The puzzle that started complexity theory. - gnosis
http://cs.nyu.edu/shasha/outofmind/mccarthypuzzle.html
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diiq
I guess I would have failed to create complexity theory with my solution ---
but everyone involved would have understood it, no long calculations required:
give the guard a lock and the spy a key. It'... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What are your general thoughts on ActionScript? - lakeeffect
Overall : What do you know or think of ActionScript?
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taitems
Making the transition from JavaScript to Actionscript 2.0, an vice versa, is
incredibly easy. Once you have your head wrapped around any form of
ECMAScript, it's really not too dif... | {
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Pinspire.com - daveambrose
http://www.pinspire.com/hot
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brandoncordell
I know imitation is supposed to be the sincerest form of flattery™ but this is
ridiculous. This is just a direct copy of Pinterest. I really hope this is a
joke or someone's development practice.
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robwgibbons
I'm not one to rain on any... | {
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DriveAssist - The Software that may safe your life while your driving - fungnyitfen
http://yaplc.blogspot.com/2008/10/driveassist-software-that-may-safe-your.html
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bdfh42
My phone comes with an "off" button - you just have to press that before
periods of time when you don't need any interruptions - works in and ... | {
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} |
PrettyPing - colinprince
http://denilson.sa.nom.br/prettyping/
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mrmondo
Note that the link to curl on the website is incorrect, you need to curl the
raw file to avoid downloading the 302 redirection message:
[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/denilsonsa/prettyping/mast...](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/denil... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Maza – Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating system - tanrax
https://github.com/tanrax/maza-ad-blocking
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hnarn
I've been using [https://nextdns.io/](https://nextdns.io/) for a while and I
really like it. You can do DNS over HTTPS through Firefox (sadly not on an OS
level in Windows for example, but tha... | {
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} |
I've been tracking everything about myself - ericnakagawa
http://aprilzero.com/#
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PStamatiou
Anand is my roommate. He's been doing this non-stop for the last 2-3 months
(but thinking about it for the last 9), including while traveling
internationally for the first month after he quit his job. The last month has
... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: How do you come up with a price for an API? - chirau
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elorant
1\. Check your competition, or anything remotely similar.
2\. Ask potential clients for various prices to see which one sounds more
affordable.
3\. If both 1&2 fail you'll have to improvise. Assume the worst case scenario
for adoption (aka le... | {
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} |
(A Few) Ops Lessons We All Learn the Hard Way - ryukafalz
https://www.netmeister.org/blog/ops-lessons.html
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rhabarba
> Serverless isn't.
This!
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Ask HN: How does Google Voice search get input w/o flash? - tibbon
In Google search now you can use your audio input to search. My question is how are they technically doing that in HTML/Javascript?<p>I've been told that HTML5 doesn't have an audio input object, but that's what it seems they are doing here. Any tips... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Application Idea - Local History - rodh257
http://cejest.com/2011/12/10/application-idea-local-history/
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teyc
I believe there is one start up who is doing this.
| {
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} |
What the new video compression strategy from Netflix means for Apple and Amazon - ca98am79
https://donmelton.com/2015/12/21/what-the-new-video-compression-strategy-from-netflix-means-for-apple-and-amazon/
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SwellJoe
I wonder at his premise that consumers are choosing things based on wanting
larger file sizes and ... | {
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} |
Announcing the C++ FAQ - fafner
http://isocpp.org/blog/2014/03/faq
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xjh
[http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/](http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/)
~~~
fafner
The FQA is silly and out of date.
| {
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Office UI Fabric - BobNisco
https://github.com/OfficeDev/Office-UI-Fabric
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mbesto
> Does not support IE8. [0]
Thank you MS, this is well-needed ammo.
[0] [https://github.com/OfficeDev/Office-UI-
Fabric/blob/master/gh...](https://github.com/OfficeDev/Office-UI-
Fabric/blob/master/ghdocs/GETTINGSTARTED.md#suppor... | {
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The void of undefined in JavaScript - Nassfyr
http://shapeshed.com/the-void-of-undefined-in-javascript/
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ars
The correct solution for this problem of undefined is to do nothing!
If someone redefined undefined and it causes a problem - too bad! Some
problems are just too stupid to worry about.
~~~
CodeCube
in... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Language/framework recommendation for a once-upon-a-time coder - customer
Dear HN:<p>I used to code a few years ago (Bachelor's in CS) and then moved to Technology Management. I want to come back to my roots again and "develop some web apps" (just downloaded Aptana) - I know it sounds silly.. What's the most... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
LA to use Open Source for transportation management - arnieswap
https://www.tfir.io/2019/08/29/city-led-open-mobility-foundation-uses-open-source-to-manage-transportation/
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oehtXRwMkIs
Good to hear, though I wish any sort of public money required public code
nationwide.
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"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Why Can't I Downvote Submissions? - jerhewet
I've been a registered user since 2010, but I haven't been active for the past six years (give or take).<p>I've recently had copious amounts of free time to catch up on everything, and when I logged back into HN I discovered my priviledges on the site... | {
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Secrets of the Little Blue Box: The Best Account of Telephone Hackers (1971) - linhir
http://www.lospadres.info/thorg/lbb.html
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Osiris
Wow, that was nostalgic. I remember when I was a kid reading about the blue
boxes. I was fascinated, but by that time the computer age had started and I
spent my time on Commod... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Don't Drown in Documentation - rbanffy
https://dev.to/grappleshark/enough-with-documentation
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daly
Funniest bit of satirical writing I've seen in years.
| {
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} |
When GitHub kills Open Source - rsaarelm
http://t-machine.org/index.php/2012/01/13/2012-the-year-of-uncollaborative-development-or-when-github-kills-open-source/
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pilif
For every contributor to an open source project in the old days, there might
be fifty failed forks on github, sure. But for every five failed ... | {
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} |
Emulation of Unix V6 on a PDP-11 with an emulated teletype - beefhash
https://pavel-krivanek.github.io/pdp11/
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kps
NICE DEMONSTRATION OF WHY KEN DIDN'T SPELL CREAT() WITH AN 'E'.
~~~
ajross
Yeah, though this feels artificially slow to me. Even the earliest Teletype
machines could manage 10+ cps, and by... | {
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Email Blacklist Check - kevwedotse
https://kevwe.se/blackcheck/
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kevwedotse
Blackcheck (BETA) helps Mailserver Admins to avoid being blacklisted.
| {
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Ask HN: Foursquare somehow surpasses Loopt - tempatempatempa
I have researching various mistakes and such that startups make, and in particular I have been looking at location-aware startups. I was recently looking at google trends for foursquare and loopt and noticed this: http://www.google.com/trends?q=foursquare+... | {
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Ask HN: Should we be concerned about benzene exposure from the BP Oil Spill? - notcrazyyet
I recently met someone claiming to have expertise in Organic Chemistry and Meteorology tell me that benzene levels in the region surrounding the BP oil spill are astoundingly high and will cause life threatening illnesses in t... | {
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The Future of Developing Firefox Add-Ons - bobajeff
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/08/21/the-future-of-developing-firefox-add-ons/
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sonnyp
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10097630](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10097630)
| {
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Now, 'standing room' on airlines - newacc
http://business.rediff.com/slide-show/2009/jul/16/slide-show-1-airline-plans-standing-room-for-more-passengers.htm
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jonursenbach
Logically speaking, I don't understand how this would work. You're sitting on
a stool when the plane takes off, you're going to call backwar... | {
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Neanderthal 'artwork' found in Gibraltar cave - Turukawa
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-28967746
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NatTurner
Some researchers said "the artifacts may not have been made by Neanderthals
but by modern humans." Until the truth of that be known, it is too soon to re
write human history, However 2001 ... | {
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Git Town – A high-level command line interface for Git - tnorthcutt
http://www.git-town.com/
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git-pull
Those who think a wrapper is going to help their development is in for
something when things break and they don't know how to operate things the way
they're meant to.
git is an especially poor choice for wrapp... | {
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Larry said to Gaga, ‘Do you ever a/b test your music?’ - youssefsarhan
http://blog.sefsar.com/post/35569040840/we-were-in-a-meeting-with-google-with-gaga-and
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kadjar
Lady Gaga's entire career has been an A/B test. She started out as a singer
and songwriter who actually poured some meaning into her music, and h... | {
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} |
Can Zapping Your Brain Make You Smarter? - RickJWagner
https://daily.jstor.org/can-zapping-your-brain-really-make-you-smarter/
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earthboundkid
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines)
| {
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Introduction to the Samsung Qmage Codec and Remote Attack Surface - janvdberg
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/07/mms-exploit-part-1-introduction-to-qmage.html
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jdsnape
This is excellent- I’m impressed with the attention to detail and
perseverance. I would have given up well before getting that amount... | {
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Open Source Search with Lucene & Solr - igrigorik
http://www.igvita.com/2010/10/22/open-source-search-with-lucene-solr/
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fizx
For anyone who would like to take Solr for a spin, I invite you to check out
nzadrozny's and my startup: <http://websolr.com/>
We are a bootstrapped startup providing managed Solr host... | {
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Six Flags on the Moon: What Is Their Current Condition? - shawndumas
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/ApolloFlags-Condition.html
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DanBC
Is it possible to simulate conditions on Earth with similar flags to see how
long they last?
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karmakaze
Great juxtaposition with the 'Roller Coaster' post.
| {
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Game Theory and the Startup Valuation Game - siegel
http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/200/Lessons-from-MIT-Game-Theory-and-The-Startup-Valuation-Game.aspx
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siegel
Answer can be found at this URL:
[http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/198/Game-Theory-and-
Sof...](http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/198/Game-T... | {
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Show HN: eBay rounding error results in incorrect credits - bdclimber14
About a month ago, I tried to sell a few items on eBay including a Nexus One phone. 2 items were left unpaid since the buyer's tried to scam me (fake PayPal payment emails, cancelled PayPal eChecks).<p>Once an item sells, eBay charges a Final Va... | {
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Interview with Doug Crockford, creator of JSON - alavrik
http://www.simple-talk.com/opinion/geek-of-the-week/doug-crockford-geek-of-the-week/
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docgnome
He also wrote what is, imho, one of the best programming language books,
JavaScript: The Good Parts. (<http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596517748>) I
found it su... | {
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} |
GoPro Evolution: From 35mm Film To America's Fastest-Growing Camera Company - thealexknapp
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2013/03/04/gopro-evolution-from-35mm-film-to-americas-fastest-growing-camera-company/
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3327
The key to GoPro is content. As the saying goes, "Content is King". Camera
Phones just do no... | {
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} |
Google joins .NET Foundation as Samsung brings .NET support to Tizen - ickler8
https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/16/google-signs-on-to-the-net-foundation-and-samsung-brings-net-support-to-tizen/
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mentat2737
Nice.
Now please make C# a first-class citizen in Android and start to migrate from
Java to C#.
~~~
geodel
... | {
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Scheme Project that People will Find Use For? - sicpguy
I'm currently going through SICP (in chapter 4 now) and I'd like to start a 3-4 month project but I'm not sure what project to start building.<p>I know the answer is "scratch your itch" but I find that I don't usually have any itches. Usually, my main motivator... | {
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Monte carlo methods vs Markov chains - mathola16
http://blog.wolfram.com/2011/06/08/what-shall-we-do-with-the-drunken-sailor-make-him-walk-the-plank/
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dodo53
Or presumably you could go one further and solve for the fundamental matrix
which gives total probabilities (given unlimited steps) of ending at either
end... | {
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Call for support for Lisp in WebAssembly development - patrickmay
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.steel-bank.devel/19495
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klodolph
From digging, it looks like the issue here (or one of the issues) is that the
Web Assembly encoding for some Lisp uses cases (multiple value return) is not
very compact. Making t... | {
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} |
Racing at 127mph in a Tunnel Under LA - awiesenhofer
https://twitter.com/boringcompany/status/1131809805876654080
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ryzvonusef
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcMedyfcpvQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcMedyfcpvQ)
Youtube video, better quality
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ryzvonusef
Route:
[https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/633... | {
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An Unschooling Manifesto - dangoldin
http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2009/04/25.html
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tokenadult
Previously submitted:
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=580209>
I see what URL difference kept the HN duplicate detector from noticing this
duplicate.
| {
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Artificial Data Gravity - alexwilliams
http://blog.mccrory.me/2012/02/20/artificial-data-gravity/
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njyx
This makes total sense for the data storage providers, but it's also clearly
not an equilibrium in the long run since it'll be economical for all of the
data to replicate to multiple locations (where each gr... | {
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Ask HN: F*ck HostGator. Can anyone suggest a better managed VPS alternative? - vicken
I'm sick of HostGator's constant outages, including today's. Can anyone recommend a solid managed VPS service not related to BlueHost/HostGator?<p>I'm currently paying $51.95/mo for the following and w... | {
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Growing a UX tool - juliushuijnk
https://medium.com/proof-of-concept/growing-free-ux-design-tool-prototype-with-ui-wireframing-and-user-scenarios-f2b0015516ef
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daleco
When my Symbols are done in sketch, I can build a mockup very quickly. Have
you considered building a plugin for Sketch?
I meet with the InVision... | {
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} |
Pledge support to Wikipedia if they do a SOPA blackout - yanowitz
http://www.wikipediablackout.com/
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kevinalexbrown
I support an HN blackout, a Reddit blackout, and I would even be happy, if
somewhat hesitant, about a Wikipedia blackout.
But I absolutely do not support the conditional donation (excuse me, pay... | {
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} |
Trump's immigration crackdown could sink US home prices - schintan
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-22/why-trump-s-immigration-crackdown-could-sink-u-s-home-prices
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woliveirajr
Perhaps it won't get near the last mortage bubble, but it would have some
interesting consequences on the economy...
| {
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Ask HN: what are the best looking web application user interfaces? - hoodoof
What are sexiest, most stylish AND functional web application user interfaces you know? I'm NOT talking here about garden variety websites. Talking about web applications that are functional, that require significant user interaction.
===... | {
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Don't Ban “Bossy” - atomical
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2014/03/dont-ban-bossy.html?mbid=gnep&google_editors_picks=true
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growupkids
That's funny, I actually heard the word used when I was a military cadet in
high school. It was used to teach the difference between being a a leader, or
just, we... | {
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AmigaDOS Command Reference - doener
http://wiki.amigaos.net/wiki/AmigaOS_Manual:_AmigaDOS_Command_Reference
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anexprogrammer
Apart from wondering where this sprang from, if anyone wonders why AmigaDOS
was such an ugly fit with the rest of exec and written in BCPL not C:
They'd contracted a SV company to produce ... | {
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} |
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