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Countdown of Life: How much time do you have left? - dkan
http://iamexec.com/blog/countdown-of-life-how-much-time-do-you-have-left-infographic
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fxthea
I get the point of the infographic - "carpe diem" - but I don't agree that
time doing things like sleeping, studying, working, eating are not times that
you own... | {
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Speech accent archive (English) - siromoney
http://accent.gmu.edu/
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Wintamute
The paragraph is pretty Americanised ... dropped conjunctions all over the
place. "we will go _and_ meet her _on_ Wednesday at the train station". Most
of the speakers that likely learnt British English trip up over this sentence.
~~~... | {
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Why MasterCard implements OAuth 1.0a instead of OAuth 2.0 - woranl
https://developer.mastercard.com/blog/why-mastercard-doesnt-use-oauth-20
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woranl
Do you prefer OAuth 1.0a or OAuth 2.0? Which is more secured?
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Are partial derivatives the computational primitives of deep neural networks? - aidanrocke
https://keplerlounge.com/neural-computation/2020/01/26/partial-derivatives.html
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aidanrocke
tl;dr
1\. The typical deep neural network tutorial introduces deep networks as
compositions of nonlinearities and affine transfor... | {
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Gov Tech Events – calendar of local civic events - sidburgess
http://govtechevents.com
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sidburgess
Got tired of trying to track down all the local civic group meetups and
events.
iCal feeds FTW!
Use Categories to sort by state. Tags to sort by local organization.
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South Korea now recycles 95% of its food waste - okket
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/04/south-korea-recycling-food-waste/
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punnerud
Norway: 50% of food, 77% of energy in waste, and 97% of toxic waste is
recycled.
[https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&...](https://translate.googleuser... | {
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Twivia - Twitter based Trivia Game - nirmal
http://www.timdorr.com/twivia/
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timdorr
OK, I made answer checking a little less exactly after seeing what people were
actually putting in for answers. I've also added the direct message response
when you submit.
I'm open to other ideas if anyone else has any.
------... | {
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Ask HN: Any open source alternatives to intercom.io? - bossx
intercom.io is excellent, but can be quite costly for a startup. Anyone know of any open source alternatives?
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drl42
Serious question: What would you be willing to pay for Intercom? Which
features would you use the most?
Intercom is a cross between a ... | {
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Young Developers Get Old Mainframers’ Jobs - edw519
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/features/article.php/3842721/Young-Developers-Get-Old-Mainframers-Jobs.htm
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wglb
Goodness. Some of that stuff is awful.
I wonder what the relative salaries are?
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Revisiting the Norm of Normality of Individual Performance (2011) [pdf] - a3voices
http://www.hrma.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/rb-the-best-and-the-rest.pdf
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methodOverdrive
This concept is interesting, but the relative lack of mathematical argument or
detail made the paper unconvincing.
There was also at le... | {
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Show HN: SoS Notebook – Using multiple kernels in one Jupyter notebook - bpeng2000
https://vatlab.github.io/blog/post/sos-notebook/
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bpeng2000
Just a bit more background. We are bioinformaticians who routinely analyze
large datasets using tools and libraries in many different languages. Jupyter
Notebook supports... | {
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Tips for Unit Testing - bhb
http://devver.net/blog/2008/07/tips-for-unit-testing/
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wastedbrains
I still haven't gone fully TDD. I do find myself using it on many of the
little pieces of code I write before I ever try to integrate it into the full
app. It is just a lot faster to verify each little piece separat... | {
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One of my all time favorite videos - Where the Hell is Matt? - shafqat
http://blog.newscred.com/?p=128
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shafqat
This is developer Matt Harding's tour around the world. I just love the
visuals, the music, his dance. Brings a smile to my face every time. Why can't
we all just get along?
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Open sourcing Embedding Projector: a tool for visualizing high dimensional data - runesoerensen
https://research.googleblog.com/2016/12/open-sourcing-embedding-projector-tool.html
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jph00
I'm really happy to see this. I demonstrated an (in some ways) more advanced
version of this a few years ago in my talk on TED... | {
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Encourage two of your Linkedin connections to join for a lunch - gmodena
http://www.youguysshouldlunch.com/
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jdwhit2
I know two friends that should join me for lunch. How does youguysshouldlunch
work? Normally I'd give them a call or email and say "lunch is on me" or "I
saw a new restaurant on X street, want t... | {
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Show HN: Sourcestack – an “antiframework” for serverless TypeScript web apps - zmkzrk
https://github.com/stackplanet/sourcestack
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zmkzrk
Author here. I created sourcestack as an alternative to AWS Amplify for
creating full-stack serverless web apps. Amplify is a great tool, but as it's
a high-abstraction framewo... | {
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Ninite (YC W08) is Microsoft's startup of the day - swies
http://www.microsoftstartupzone.com/Blogs/Microspark-BizSpark-Startup-of-the-Day/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=185
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vyrotek
I'm curious to know how this exposure has helped. (Traffic? Sales?) Our
startup is part of the BizSpark program and I've always wonder... | {
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Ask HN: Is there a Shopify for selling “physical” courses on a website? - gcatalfamo
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rogerkirkness
Shopify can be used for that, just set inventory to "continue" instead of deny
when out of stock. You might also want something for scheduling, depending on
use case.
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gcatalfamo
Yeah I was hoping there was som... | {
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Court says Winklevoss twins must accept Facebook deal - jedwhite
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/11/us-facebook-winklevoss-idUSTRE73A5DX20110411
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grellas
If anyone still cares, this was the case that created such an uproar last May
when it was widely reported that Mark Zuckerberg had been accused of
commi... | {
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Tumblr introduces highlighted posts for $1 - jonathanmoore
http://staff.tumblr.com/post/16980189397/highlighted-posts
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jonathanmoore
Here is a screenshot example of what a promoted posts looks like in the
dashboard - <http://cloud.jonathanmoore.com/Dsu4>. Users have the option of
choosing from several dozen fe... | {
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Serverless Computing: One Step FW, Two Steps Back - kiyanwang
https://databeta.wordpress.com/2018/12/13/serverless-computing-one-step-fw-two-steps-back/
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tirumaraiselvan
My preferred title would have been: One step sideways
A much needed paper which goes into the programming model in serverless rather
than the ... | {
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Ask HN: Easiest way to process payments (starting witho a business entity) - ian1321
I've got a side project, and I'd like to see if it has legs (image-scale.com). It's a SaaS business. I would like to charge customers for use i.e. get a credit card at sign-up.<p>After a little searching, it looks like ... | {
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The Idiot’s Advantage - seanmel
http://www.slicingpie.com/the-idiots-advantage/
I used to own a small company in Kansas that, among other things, sold North Face jackets to ski teams and groups of mountain climbers. I liked the product and enjoyed selling it. It was cool. One day I called them up to place an order on... | {
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Go 1 Release Candidate 1 - jbarham
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-nuts/mHyYDSynkPk/9uB-FY9KXngJ
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jbarham
One thing I especially appreciate about Go that's a huge win over other
statically compiled languages is how phenomenally fast the compiler is. E.g.,
I just re-built the current RC release on my... | {
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Transit App: They have lots of resources.… But then again… we have Anton. - peterbonney
https://medium.com/@transitapp/transit-maps-apple-vs-google-vs-us-cb3d7cd2c362#.d7g9rth7t
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dalke
You can see where my head is. Anton is person who is an algorithms designer. I
was thinking it was the parallel supercomputer
[h... | {
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Facebook bots grope our 'privates', and every wronged user should get $10,000 - kirtijthorat
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/01/03/facebook_sued_for_scanning_private_messages_for_advertising_gain/
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kirtijthorat
Here we go again: another class action lawsuit against a big tech company
accused of over-stepping... | {
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Amicus brief on behalf of 97 tech companies - gwintrob
https://cloud.app.box.com/s/mx6vhp0m8c1jyc8fh5yvned3nlu6ihec
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chx
> If this approach were upheld, future orders might apply to any nation, and
> suddenly and unexpectedly bar its nationals from entering or returning to
> the United States.
Aye, this is the ... | {
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Ask HN: How to keep entire office up to date of metrics? - gerds2007
Hi HN,<p>In an attempt to make our team more aware of our key metrics like user signup, sales, amount sold, etc., we were planning on putting up a monitor on the wall.<p>Inspired by http://loggly.com/blog/2011/03/woot/,
we now want to play a loud s... | {
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Announcing built-in email support for server-side JavaScript with Meteor - twakefield
http://blog.mailgun.net/post/41324647061/native-mailgun-integration-lets-meteor-apps-send-email
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thurn
Great stuff. Meteor is getting more and more compelling as a platform. At this
point, I'd seriously consider using it for ... | {
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} |
A very brief introduction to Samba, scaffolding for all languages and frameworks - pedsmoreira
https://medium.com/@pedsmoreira/a-very-brief-introduction-to-samba-a-modern-scaffolding-tool-for-all-languages-and-frameworks-7ccc880ec7ca
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icedchai
Too bad "Samba" has been used as the name of another much more popula... | {
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Open Source Radio Telescope [pdf] - wglb
https://www.gnuradio.org/grcon/grcon18/presentations/open_source_radio_telescopes/2-John_Makous-OSRT.pdf
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sprash
It mentions FRBs which are the new hot thing in radio astronomy. Can those be
measured with hobbyist methods? How?
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SiempreViernes
I think these are more d... | {
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SSH Backdoor found in Fortinet firewalls - afreak
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Jan/26
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EvanAnderson
It's a custom SSH authentication method invoked with a special username,
"Fortimanager_Access". The protocol is a weak "challenge/response" using hash
of the challenge concatenated with a string (used i... | {
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Every 30 minutes Windows 10 sends all typed text to Microsoft - cantrevealname
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=cs&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Faeronet.cz%2Fnews%2Fanalyza-windows-10-ve-svem-principu-jde-o-pouhy-terminal-na-sber-informaci-o-uzivateli-jeho-prstech-ocich-a-hlasu%2F
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czechdeveloper
About inf... | {
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“OK, but there are two rules…” - speek
http://andyswan.com/blog/2011/01/05/two-rules/
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redthrowaway
I appreciate the message, but am I the only one for whom the "fail fast"
mantra is becoming grating? It seems like it was originally a good idea: if
your startup is dead, let it die. Don't cling to a failed idea... | {
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Felix Baumgartner: Mars is a waste of your tax dollars - suprgeek
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57541674-71/felix-baumgartner-mars-is-a-waste-of-your-tax-dollars/
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laacz
Well, a man, who jumped from ish kilometers in a space suit and tried to
justify his jump and money spent with some highly debatable pote... | {
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Ask HN: Working for a German Company, Living in France - stormwatcher
Hi all,
I work for a German company and currently live in Frankfurt.
Last week, my employer told me I can have full remote if I want it either as a fulltime employee or a freelancer.<p>Before I investigate the Freelance option I want to see if the f... | {
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A perspective on friendly C - ingve
http://www.philipreames.com/Blog/2016/01/03/a-perspective-on-friendly-c/
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pcwalton
Fantastic article. This nails down in a very precise way what I've always said
whenever the "compilers should just stop doing optimizations that rely on
undefined behavior" meme comes up here. Y... | {
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} |
Dial-up is still the main revenue source for AOL - indiekid
http://cir.ca/story/dial-up-still-thrives-at-aol
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jlogsdon
Headline, and article, is sensationalist.
The article states "that its Membership Group — the division that includes its
dial-up Internet business — still generates most of the company's reve... | {
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} |
BACE1 deletion in the adult mouse reverses preformed amyloid deposition - jonbaer
http://jem.rupress.org/content/early/2018/02/13/jem.20171831
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JamesBarney
Many drugs work on mouse models of a disease but fail to do anything in human
trials. Alzheimer's is especially bad about this. And even more specifically
th... | {
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} |
Russia pushing to partner with NASA on lunar gateway - rbanffy
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/01/russia-forms-lunar-strategy-team-works-on-orbital-station-design/
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valuearb
A lunar gateway makes zero sense for any purpose (exploring the moon, mining
the moon, going to mars), it's only been proposed to give... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Audi releases more e-tron details - protomyth
https://www.yahoo.com/news/audi-releases-more-e-tron-details-110247090.html
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protomyth
_A dual-motor powertrain with a 95 kWh lithium ion battery capable of 150 kW
DC fast charging powers the e-tron. This reported charging prowess would be a
world-first, and 30 kW mo... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Best Way to Reach Local Business Owners? - jbarrec
Good morning HN,<p>I am in the early stages of researching a potential start up concept for local restaurant owners. What do you think is the best / most efficient way of going about this? Ideally I would like to obtain email addresses and reach out so I ... | {
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Al Zimmermann's Programming Contests - muyyatin
http://azspcs.net/
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andrewcooke
is the current problem (or earlier ones) complex enough for this to be more
than a hardware contest?
~~~
YZF
This one seems at first glance to be complex enough that you will not see any
perfect solution (NP-complete?)
I would say ... | {
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Simulating Supply and Demand (12 min. animated video) - mettamage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNtKXWNKGN8
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mettamage
The video made a lot of intuitive sense mathematically due to the animations,
just like 3Blue1Brown does.
I wonder what other sources regarding this topic would be good to learn. I'm
very int... | {
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} |
Apple's First CEO - pay attention to product, but also people - simplezeal
http://www.businessinsider.com/apples-first-ceo-michael-scott-2011-5?op=1
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simplezeal
Quote -
Attention to detail is what Steve is known for, but it also is his weakness
because he pays attention to the detail of the product, but not to ... | {
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Forbes: Abolish the TSA - mcantelon
http://blogs.forbes.com/artcarden/2010/11/14/full-frontal-nudity-doesnt-make-us-safer-abolish-the-tsa/
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donohoe
I don't think abolishing the TSA is realistic but I have no doubt there is a
better way to run that organization, provide actual security without violating
the US ... | {
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} |
WannaCry: End of Year Retrospective - jgrahamc
https://blog.kryptoslogic.com/malware/2017/12/20/end-of-year.html
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kodablah
A bit disappointed, but not surprised, that this retrospective chose not to
discuss the origin of the 0day itself.
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pegas1
"When federal law enforcement is detached from the mission o... | {
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Ask HN: What are the top textbooks for data structures? - Jodastt
I've been looking at some textbooks for algorithms and I came across the Skeina book and CLRS, but they seem to be pretty advanced. I've been programming for almost 2 years and never really formally taught myself the fundamentals like algorit... | {
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Confessions of a Boston-area restaurant owner - ilamont
https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2019/01/11/confessions-boston-area-restaurant-owner/FaKHVbPWeXPUpE4Czl6fLM/story.html
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ohiovr
In Marion most restaurant goers are over the age of 55. I am wondering what
restaurant owners are going to do in 20 years with ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Hacker News Thread Dynamics - joe_the_user
Have you ever noticed an interesting quality of HN. Once a topic gets a lot of posts, the first post on the page determines the discussion: the replies to this posts go before even the second highest rated post and any comment on the raw body goes far, far to the bo... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Microchip Adds RISC-V Cores to PolarFire FPGAs - unwind
https://www.electronicsweekly.com/open-source-engineering/risc-v-day-microchip-adds-risc-v-hard-ip-polarfire-fpgas-2019-10/
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metaphor
> _From existing PolarFire FPGAs, Risc-V versions are inheriting security
> functions including: DPA-resistant bit-stream p... | {
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Getting Started with TDD in React - Liriel
https://semaphoreci.com/community/tutorials/getting-started-with-tdd-in-react
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ColCh
Good article. Also, you can use mount to test component lifecycle hooks.
Article was pretty basic.
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A new approach to text rendering - podgib
http://blog.atom.io/2017/06/22/a-new-approach-to-text-rendering.html
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jtokoph
> But if we’re going so far as to bypass Chrome’s CSS engine, maybe we should
> try to bypass the DOM entirely.
Seems like Atom will eventually just be a native app.
~~~
djfm
Yeah, technology... | {
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The Startup Game: What women want: Celebrity gossip - dawie
http://blogs.business2.com/startups/2007/06/thousands-of-ma.html
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davidw
If we're going to generalize about what different large groups want, I suppose
we could look at traffic stats and probably say what men want: pictures of
naked women. Probably by o... | {
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} |
High-tax states like California and New York make it hard for rich to leave - mykowebhn
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/03/04/high-tax-states-make-it-hard-for-the-rich-to-leave/
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myrandomcomment
As a personal point, my taxes went up $18K because of this change. It is my
personal belief that the change in the ta... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Dwolla Begins PayPal-Style Account Suspensions for Bitcoiners - enmaku
http://codinginmysleep.com/dwolla-begins-suspensions/
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redegg
I've had my account for 2 years with no problems; however, that doesn't ease
me the fear that my account may be suspended and require government ID when I
hit some limit.
I barely... | {
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} |
A Morning Cola Instead of Coffee? (1988) - amelius
https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/20/business/a-morning-cola-instead-of-coffee.html
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ams6110
When I was in my 20s I would often drink a Coke first thing in the morning.
But when I learned how bad it is to consume that much sugar, I switched to
black coffee or occa... | {
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} |
Put out the UDP's on pasture [illustrated] - immerseit
http://www.brainart.se/blog/2017/02/10/put-out-the-upds-on-pasture-illustrated/
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rijoja
I hate to be a negative nancy but ... this makes no sense is this article
about security in the sense that no packets are lost or in whether they can be
read or not? Ther... | {
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} |
The "problem" with Github (although, he has a point) - DiabloD3
http://v3.sk/~lkundrak/blog/entries/github-ribbons.html
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marssaxman
The problem with github is that people pass around links to their repositories
without providing any context. This happens on practically every page of
Hacker News: there's some f... | {
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} |
My interruption-resistant workflow - hiezecihel
http://i.imgur.com/LWPpbuH.png
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Throwadev
I do EXACTLY this. Another thing I do in addition, is when I break (leave a
cafe, leave the office, or stop working for the night), I write down a summary
of exactly what I was in the middle of doing when i stopped, and w... | {
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Good Practices for Writing Rust Libraries - jaxondu
https://pascalhertleif.de/artikel/good-practices-for-writing-rust-libraries/
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jerf
This isn't really specific to Rust, but, while I wouldn't necessarily do all
this stuff while working through a tutorial on Rust, the start of a brand new
language is a great tim... | {
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} |
The Unnecessary Demise of Local and Regional Print Newspapers - asnyder
http://danshafer.com/onemind/node/1017
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brandnewlow
Writer asks why local newspapers abandoned neighborhood news and intensely
local coverage. Says going back to that will save them, along with going
deeper in their reporting, running fewe... | {
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} |
Insomnia costs U.S. $63 billion annually - colinprince
http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/01/health/insomnia-cost-productivity/index.html
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hugh3
How much do stupid articles with made-up numbers cost the US annually?
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Ask HN: What was your first programming milestone? - wihon
I've just started my first big (personal) project. What was your first programming milestone, and why?
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madhouse
My first milestone was to write a C+4 basic program alone, without my father's
help.
My first program was a little dancing stick figure, w... | {
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} |
HD Transfer of Star Trek: TNG To Arrive This Year - pwg
http://tng.trekcore.com/bluray/
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fuzionmonkey
TNG is a great show. They really don't make television like that anymore.
Young kids probably wouldn't watch it if it wasn't in HD. Its like people of
my age watching black and white movies. The dated special... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
New Evidence of Age Bias in Hiring, and a Push to Fight It - howard941
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/07/business/economy/age-discrimination-jobs-hiring.html
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jtr1
A few years ago I worked at a ~50 person startup, where an informal poll
revealed everyone on the engineering team to be in an age range of ~24-30. ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How to approach writing a web crawler that can handle JavaScript? - awclives
Greetings,<p>I am interested in writing a web crawler that can handle JavaScript, i.e. that can access the DOM after any JavaScript has run.<p>I recognize that this could get arbitrarily complicated; however, I wanted to know whether ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Xbox Series X: A standard or common 60fps is not a mandate - doener
https://twitter.com/aarongreenberg/status/1260017717001678849
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particledecay
This hasn't been a debate in PC gaming for years, why do folks still look to
buy consoles these days? Serious question.
Is the only real hangup the exclusivity of cert... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Is HackerX worth attending? - paulddraper
http://hackerx.org/<p>Is it good for employees? Is it good for employers?
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bediger4000
i did a hackerx in Denver, about a year ago. Not worth it. Too many hackers
and not enough employers, also even though it was a "back end" developer
event, the potential... | {
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Just launched jerknessreminder.com, feedbacks highly appreciated. Thanks - bustamove
here is the url http://jerknessreminder.com
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jacquesm
Don't you guys think you should credit Zachary and put up a link to
awesomenessreminders.com as a source of your inspiration?
To say that you are not affiliated on a non-c... | {
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Blood on the Corn: Tale of Murdered DEA Agent Enrique Camerena - rjayatilleka
https://medium.com/matter/blood-on-the-corn-52ac13f7e643
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rjayatilleka
I finally finished reading parts 2 and 3 of this just now. Honestly, this
story is horrifying. I'm not sure if I want to read Webb's article or not. But
what I th... | {
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12% of Hacker News job listings offer remote work - suitabletech
http://suitabletech.posterous.com/whos-hiring-remotely
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tnuc
Less that 12% of Hacker News Jobs listings reply to emails when you apply for
any work.
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vanni
This post would be even better with "remote" stats split into US-only and
worldwide... | {
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} |
History Of The Color Wheel - rms
http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2008/05/08/history-of-the-color-wheel/?
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michael_dorfman
Hasn't this article been posted here recently, or am I misremembering?
In any event, it's a fascinating article, and a great introduction to a
interesting and overlooked subject-- the histo... | {
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} |
I've Been Acquired by Amazon - cagataygurturk
https://startupnextdoor.com/ive-been-acquired-by-amazon
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ezekg
Isn't this the guy who was trying to get a gig at Google? What happened with
that? Seems every place that previously mentioned Google now says 'large
company.'
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cagataygurturk
The very same guy
| {
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Previously untouched 600BC palace discovered under shrine in Mosul - nns
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/27/previously-untouched-600bc-palace-discovered-shrine-demolished/
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mcphage
Is there any article or essay or something, attempting to track the
antiquities plundered by ISIL? ISIL digs these sites up ... | {
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} |
Stop future-proofing software - kiyanwang
https://medium.com/@george3d6/stop-future-proofing-software-c984cbd65e78
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ChuckMcM
This article reminds me of the adage about ops people which goes, "You know
you're doing a great job in operations when nobody thinks you do anything."
The problem with taking the experie... | {
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} |
Why We Should Be Excited About the Future of Work - jhaas12
https://medium.com/swlh/7-reasons-to-be-excited-about-the-future-of-work-e8c9fbb61e52#.balst2ytx
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TwoNecklaces
Is there any chance that widespread adoption/disemmination of basic income
will take place prior to the rapid increase of automated jobs?
(Or... | {
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} |
Video Games Characters Get Physical with 3D Prints - timoslav
http://all3dp.com/video-games-characters-get-physical-3d-prints/?utm_source=show-hn&utm_medium=submit&utm_campaign=hacker-news
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dang
Please read the Show HN rules:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html](https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html).... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Vue.js virtual scrollbar - wangyi7099
http://vuescrolljs.yvescoding.org/
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4NiL4
[dupe]
| {
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} |
Intel announces full set of new Atom and Xeon server processors to fend off ARM - baazaar
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/152979-intel-announces-full-set-of-new-atom-and-xeon-server-processors-to-fend-off-arm
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ChuckMcM
This is from 2013 (please add that to the title) and of interest historically
because her... | {
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} |
Show HN: Explore coding contests and hackathons from around the world - architv07
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/challenge-hunt/cgbnhngdlmhjbmgkekedepoapmoingjj/?
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architv07
Hi fellow HNers!
I am Archit, one of the co-creators of Challenge Hunt.
We felt the need for building Challenge Hunt when we s... | {
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} |
Microsoft’s WinMobile team: Big on futures, slow on deliverables - ttol
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1562
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bdfh42
Brilliant quote from a Microsofty "That’s why we’re putting Internet Explorer
6.0 on Windows Mobile where we’ll complete that in the next six months, and
that’s so that you get the full PC e... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Memo To Peter Thiel: Start-Up CEOs Are Not Heroes - bjonathan
http://blogs.forbes.com/petercohan/2011/06/27/memo-to-peter-thiel-start-up-ceos-are-not-heroes/
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BadassFractal
Writer's clearly butthurt.
Not sure where Thiel is stating that entrepreneurs are only ever born. He's
saying that your time and money are ... | {
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} |
Vocal: A Podcast Client for the Modern Desktop - aroman
http://www.vocalproject.net
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coppolaemilio
Looks very nice, but the color on the toolbar is kind of weird. Specially with
the settings cog.
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aroman
That's not really controlled by Vocal, that's the GTK+ theme, which in this
case is the elementary OS G... | {
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} |
Genetic Algorithms in Multivariate Email Optimization - erickerr
https://tech.bellycard.com/blog/genetic-algorithms-in-multivariate-email-optimization/
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dlss
> The minimum threshold odds [to stop showing a variation] are calculated by
> 40% / number enabled variations
Uh... How did you choose those cutoffs? L... | {
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} |
SoftBank-backed Zume Pizza to lay off up to 80% of its staff: Business Insider - throwaway5752
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-zume-pizza-layoffs/softbank-backed-zume-pizza-to-lay-off-up-to-80-of-its-staff-business-insider-idUSKBN1Z5257
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golem14
It would be a pity. Their pizza is pretty decent, compared to so... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Browser-based PowerPoint alternative with view alerts and analytics - jeremysizle
https://sizle.io/education/
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jeremysizle
Hey all, I run a presentation sharing platform called Sizle, it's still quite
new to the market having only been around for about a year, but I'm hoping
that it might be useful to s... | {
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} |
Customer Tracking at Ralphs Grocery Store - mikece
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/01/customer_tracki.html
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JohnFen
This is a nice analysis of what Ralph's is up to, but they aren't exactly
exceptional. The entire purpose of any store's "loyalty program" is to collect
as much data on their customers ... | {
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} |
Meteor hits 1.0 - debergalis
https://www.meteor.com/
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state
I'm still a bit unclear on what the target market for Meteor is. Is this just
for small to medium sized projects, or is it intended to be used for large-
scale projects as well?
Since it seems like everyone wants to think of themselves as doing somethi... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Introducing Stack Decisions - GordonS
https://stackshare.io/posts/introducing-stack-decisions
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bryanrasmussen
This doesn't seem that good an idea, reading about people's chosen stack is
somewhat interesting but they all seem somewhat the same, in some cases you
know that the stack explanation boils down to this ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Blue-ribbon commission says IP theft costs the US economy more than $300B/yr - not_that_noob
http://ipcommission.org/report/IP_Commission_Report_052213.pdf
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bediger4000
They're paid to say that. They could come to no other conclusion except that
"IP" "theft" costs some other Large Number of dollars per year.
... | {
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} |
Creating New Documents - ugh
http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2009/05/31/creating-new-documents/
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carterschonwald
I've actually set up something a bit more handrolled and useful for generating
new documents.
In particular, I factored out the "generate a new template file" code that is
in a lot of Textmate packag... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Fungal Architecture - lainon
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.13262
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jefft255
I just love the name of the journal they're publishing in: "International
Journal of Unconventional Computing". That's new to me!!
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filkatron
fungal computer:
[https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsfs.201...](https://r... | {
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} |
Show HN: Send encrypted secrets from the command line - paulfurley
https://www.fluidkeys.com/blog/release-0-3-send-encrypted-secrets/
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tptacek
The tool for this that everyone I know uses is Magic Wormhole. Wormhole has a
more straightforward security model and is more thoughtfully designed: it uses
a PAKE and re... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How Animals Think - alexandrerond
http://theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/05/how-animals-think/476364/?single_page=true
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proc0
The article seems to push the idea that we think less of animals and that
should change, but I don't think it's clear that the motive behind us humans
pulverizing the animal kingdom... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Selling Apps: What am I doing wrong? Need outside perspective - mmackh
Hi HN,<p>As a side job, I've taken up developing, designing and trying to sell apps. The market is crowded and there seems to be no room for my apps. I had a pretty good first week selling an app that I've spent seven months of my free time on, m... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Noteref – Maintain references to notes in your codebase - curryhoward
https://github.com/stepchowfun/noteref
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bausshf
The link does not seem to work.
| {
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} |
DO Installer – An installer for getting apps running quickly on DigitalOcean - styfle
http://installer.71m.us/
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timmorgan
Well, hello! This is my project -- I didn't expect to see it posted here!
It is as jgh said: "it's basically just a script that provisions a new
digitalocean instance via the DO api, install... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: How much do you make as a software/web developer in Portland, Oregon? - drewblaisdell
Inspired by the other salary threads today (and the other salary threads inspired by those threads), I thought this would be the best time to ask this while HN is getting this whole salary issue out of its system.<p>I'm con... | {
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} |
Perils of Convenience – In Technology, In Life - bryang
http://www.bryanmgreen.com/perils-of-convenience-in-technology-in-life/
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tawgx
A vey interesting post. I'm actually excited about the ability to pa by mail
and in general paying for things online in a more convenient way than having
to create accounts at... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
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