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Scientists plan to ignite tiny man-made star - nickb
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/3981697/Scientists-plan-to-ignite-tiny-man-made-star.html
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ngvrnd
I counsel hopeful skepticism. Engineers (and these guys are doing engineering,
better if they realize it, worse if they don't)... | {
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Transitioning to Flux Architecture - hownowbrowncow
http://engineering.kapost.com/2015/05/transitioning-to-flux-architecture/
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pluma
As far as I understand Flux (I'm wondering if "understanding Flux" is becoming
2015's "understanding Monads"), in its pure form it is based on the idea that
state is an aggregate... | {
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In a continued appeal to Trump, Tim Cook says 250 Apple employees are Dreamers - yincrash
https://www.recode.net/2017/9/3/16249280/apple-ceo-tim-cook-donald-trump-daca-dreamers-immigration
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olivermarks
I really wish we could stop using these terms such as 'dreamers'. 'Obamacare'
instead of 'the Affordable Care A... | {
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} |
Show HN: Discover for Telegram – a list of interesting Telegram groups - svenvdz
http://groups.svenvdz.com
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svenvdz
Hey Hackers!,
I created Discover because I found it difficult to find new Telegram groups. I
hope you like it and if you know a cool group, please add it.
Thanks, Sven van der Zee
~~~
brudgers
A... | {
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Jet Engineer Designs a Saucepan That Boils Water Ridiculously Fast - mkuhn
http://www.wired.com/2014/07/a-jet-engineer-designs-a-saucepan-that-heats-up-super-fast/
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jasonlaramburu
$112 is a lot of money just to save a minute boiling water.
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How private armies will remake modern warfare - rbanffy
http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21638096-how-private-armies-will-remake-modern-warfare-return-hired-gun?fsrc=scn/tw/te/pe/ed/returnofthehiredgun
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rayiner
> The author fears that the world is entering an era of “neomedievalism” in
> which the st... | {
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A Really Nasty Ad Slips Past Google - vaksel
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/22/a-really-nasty-ad-slips-past-google/
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michael_dorfman
That's very nasty, indeed.
Why does Google allow advertisers to display a different URL than the one they
are sending people to?
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jraines
They don't. I've typo'd my destina... | {
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ICANN Begins Accepting Applications For New TLDs Today - joshuahedlund
http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/information-for-governments-18aug11-en.pdf
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joshuahedlund
Note: I'm not sure yet if it's encouraged/discouraged to link to PDFs on HN,
as I know there is inconsistent browser support for them (althou... | {
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Ask HN: Best desk chair, sub-$300? - alanh
I notice that I feel uncomfortable after sitting in my home office $50 Target chair for more than an hour, whereas at some office spaces I have worked in, I was much more comfortable.<p>Recommendations?
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smacktoward
I would challenge the "sub-$300" qualifier.
I had one... | {
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Cherry MX History - sohkamyung
https://tedium.co/2018/07/19/cherry-mx-keyboard-history/
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Karrot_Kream
In 2004 it was trivial to get a New In Box IBM Model M keyboards in the US
from online shops. It's fascinating to me how designer keyboards became a
niche hobby of its own, despite having little-to-no empirical ... | {
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How to form a new habit – and make it stick - NiviBh
https://www.techinasia.com/how-to-form-a-habit
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NiviBh
do any of these work for you?
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AV? Google says no - DanWaterworth
http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22yes+to+av%22%2C+%22no+to+av%22
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dazzawazza
Matches with the current Opinion Polls
<http://today.yougov.co.uk/politics/views-av-stable>
It's a shame as the no-to-av camp is using scare tactics to win the argument
and the press are lapping it... | {
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The Riemann Hypothesis - gballan
https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2019/09/the_riemann_hypothesis_part_1.html
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Cybiote
Here's a quite friendly elucidation by the inimitable Avi Wigderson, from:
[https://www.ias.edu/ideas/2009/wigderson-randomness-
pseudora...](https://www.ias.edu/ideas/2009/wigderson-randomne... | {
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Show HN: Crypto Jobs List - ksaitor
https://cryptojobslist.com/
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ksaitor
Hello HN!
Excited to share this job board with you! Launched just a few weeks ago, and
it’s been getting some good attention from developers subscribing and
companies posting. The site is pretty simple at the moment, but we have search
and... | {
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FCC extends deadline for user comments on net neutrality - line-zero
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/15/fcc-extends-deadline-user-comments-net-neutrality
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line-zero
REMINDER TO EVERYONE: WE MUST STOP THIS. IT'S NOT TOO LATE. DO YOUR PART. YOUR
CHILDREN WITH THANK YOU.
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Etherpad protocol support for Emacs and Vim. - anon_d
Why doesn't something like this exist? This would be <i></i>unbelievably<i></i> useful, and it seems to be a solved problem. I want to see this happen.
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HedgeMage
So do it!
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anon_d
I would very much love to! However, this seems like a 6+ month project; ... | {
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Mandrill Alternative That Leverages Mailgun and Sendgrid - 20years
http://gosmartsolutions.github.io/mandrill-alternative/
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detaro
How is a newsletter-sending tool a "Mandrill Alternative"?
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Facebook sinks as Nasdaq scrambles to square trades - nextstep
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/21/net-us-facebook-struggle-idUSBRE84J0D620120521
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joezydeco
_"As the stock fell, there was a long list of questions -- ranging from
whether the underwriters priced the shares too high..."_
I understand there... | {
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XKeyscore job listing post from 2010? - chakalakasp
http://kbarlist.blogspot.com/2010/04/k-bar-list-jobs-13-april-2010.html
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chakalakasp
I wondered if this was legit, but Google's cached version from 2 weeks ago
also mentions the programs, and I'm not sure if the name "XKeyscore" was
publicly known back then. ... | {
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Heart of Earth's inner core revealed - GotAnyMegadeth
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-31322817
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kens
As for what the east-west axis means... According to the paper, they use a
cylindrical anisotropy model and the best-fit axis is located at (9° N, 89° W)
or its antipode at (9° S, 91° E). In other w... | {
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Guy Steele: Types and Run-time Types - kssreeram
http://projectfortress.sun.com/Projects/Community/blog/TypesAndRunTImeTypes?src=rss
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blasdel
At their core, these two techniques are not the same thing at all:
<http://www.pphsg.org/cdsmith/types.html>
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Less Than 40 Percent of Web Traffic Comes From Humans - JacobAldridge
http://www.statista.com/chart/1894/global-website-traffic-by-source/
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masa00
I'm wondering how they determine good traffic or malicious traffic.
| {
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Does memory leak? (1995) - rot25
https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=comp.lang.ada/E9bNCvDQ12k/1tezW24ZxdAJ
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derefr
Erlang has a parameter called initial_heap_size. Each new actor-process in
Erlang gets its own isolated heap, for which it does its own garbage-
collection on its own execution thread. ... | {
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Things We Still Don’t Know About Water - dnetesn
http://nautil.us/issue/25/water/five-things-we-still-dont-know-about-water
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stephengillie
> Yes, water is common—in fact, it is the third most common molecule in the
> universe.
What are the first 2 most common molecules? H2 and O2?
In another thread on HN this ... | {
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How Dogecoin Proved its Worth with Kindness and Generosity - pouzy
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/how-dogecoin-proved-its-worth-kindness-generosity-1433561
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BlackDeath3
While I get that a kind community can go a long way, I just don't really see
how a new currency fits into this.
If Dogecoin has technical advantage... | {
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Mac OS X isn't POSIX compliant - geocar
http://www.weirdnet.nl/apple/rename.html
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wmf
I agree that this bug is worth fixing, but I don't think appealing to POSIX
authority is a good idea. As we saw in the ext4 fsync debacle, what matters is
expected behavior. POSIX (and its cousin UNIX®) doesn't matter.
~~~
Dar... | {
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India's electronic voting machines are vulnerable to attack - wglb
http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=7667
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awa
The point is whether they are less secure than paper ballots. Is it more
trivial to tamper with these machines change/destroy valid paper ballots in a
similar situation. I think the m... | {
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Why your password can’t have symbols—or be longer than 16 characters - darxius
http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/04/why-your-password-cant-have-symbols-or-be-longer-than-16-characters/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29
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columbo
I wo... | {
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Rebooting the cosmos? - jackfoxy
http://motls.blogspot.com/2011/06/rebooting-cosmos.html
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jerf
This debate always reminds me of an older debate, about how the universe must
have a maximum speed, and how the universe can not have a maximum speed, as
outlined in [1]. The resolution was ultimately that yes, both ... | {
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} |
Mossberg: The Disappearing Computer - mrleiter
https://www.recode.net/2017/5/25/15689094/mossberg-final-column
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decasteve
Should be tagged 2017.
| {
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The Alien OffWorld Colony Simulator – Amazon Alexa Skill - hhsnopek
https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/26/17284408/alexa-skill-alien-offworld-colony-simulator-escape-from-xenomorph-rpg-game
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imglorp
Someone should mash up a Z-machine with some opensource speech to text
libraries and jamb them on a raspberry pi.
| {
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Why We Get Fat - simonreed
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/why-we-get-fat/
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jdminhbg
"So, why does it get warmer in the summer?"
"Because our hemisphere takes in more calories than it gives off, causing it
to get warmer."
"Well, I mean I suppose that's true in the strictest sense, but is there ... | {
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This is Your Brain On Caffeine - gibsonf1
http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_articles/your_brain_caffeine
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radu_floricica
Lately I'm using black tea to regulate my schedule. I find I'm at my lowest
around 4-5 in the afternoon, so cup or two help me get over it in an elegant
matter. I guess a short nap would ... | {
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} |
NYC Proposes API Requirement Bill - contrahax
http://fortune.com/2017/05/23/new-york-city-government-apps/
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throwaway2016a
I read the title and I immediately went to a dark place. "Oh no, do they want
to somehow regulate APIs?"And then I read it and realized what this is and it
is a brilliant initiative.
Govern... | {
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} |
Making $0 in Sales in 31 Days - MasterScrat
https://medium.com/@florianlaurent/making-0-in-sales-in-31-days-433b1622d0d1
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MasterScrat
I am working on a long-term project (an app for collaborative voice
translation). Since I will be running out of funding for this project by the
end of the month I tried spinning ... | {
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Who Needs GitHub? - kevwedotse
https://kevwe.se/article/build-your-own-git-server/
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bartvk
Really nice walkthrough of setting up your own git server.
| {
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Food and Water - FEMA [pdf] - padobson
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=food%20for%20emergency&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CEEQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fema.gov%2Fpdf%2Flibrary%2Ff%26web.pdf&ei=nP-NUO6dG--r0AH72IHYBQ&usg=AFQjCNFVtR0zBnAu55hp7a9q0xKVpWW9Dw
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padobson
If you're one of the 60 million Ameri... | {
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Practical Data Ethics - tosh
http://ethics.fast.ai
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mark_l_watson
Fast.ai really is a one stop shop for all things related to being a deep
learning practitioner.
I used to manage a deep learning team, concentrated on using TensorFlow
properly, etc. I am all but retired now so I am making the switch to using the... | {
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} |
Austrian court blocks Uber in Vienna - the_mitsuhiko
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-austria/austrian-court-blocks-uber-in-vienna-taxi-group-idUSKBN1HW1VE
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the_mitsuhiko
The TLDR is that uber operatesas prebooked car service im Vienna to avoid
having to use and charge with a taxi meter. Those are require... | {
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} |
Open the Music Industry’s Black Box - stuartmemo
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/opinion/sunday/open-the-music-industrys-black-box.html
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ruffrey
Some fellow entrepreneurs had an awesome idea recently to create a jukebox-
like service for businesses, where they could get payed per request and pay a
monthly fee ... | {
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} |
Julian Assange Deserves First Amendment Protection - juliusmusseau
https://harpers.org/archive/2019/04/more-than-a-data-dump-julian-assange/
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calhoun137
It's unsurprising that political leaders would want to convince people that
the true criminals are those who expose acts of high-level political
corruption and ... | {
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LeoCAD software to build Lego models - ekianjo
http://www.leocad.org/trac
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wslh
How does this application benchmark with LEGO Digital Designer? [1] I see that
LeoCAD supports Linux while LDD not.
[1] [http://ldd.lego.com/](http://ldd.lego.com/)
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davidaa
Having used both, LDD has a much better UI, but LeoC... | {
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Parsing C++ is literally undecidable - luu
http://blog.reverberate.org/2013/08/parsing-c-is-literally-undecidable.html
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MichaelBurge
This seems like an observation about how people currently write C++ compilers,
rather than a theoretical difficulty.
Does parsing end at the parse tree, or at the AST?
And if t... | {
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} |
Visualizing Layers in Web Inspector - ingve
https://webkit.org/blog/8262/visualizing-layers-in-web-inspector/
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kevinSuttle
Remember when Firefox had 3D View? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
[https://developer.mozilla.org/en-
US/docs/Tools/3D_View](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/3D_View)
~~~
tvmalsv
I... | {
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Ask HN: Examples of great start-up job adverts? - dawson
Hi, I'm looking to hire a couple of local compsci students for my start-up and wondered if anyone could link me to examples of some of the best, unique, clever, fun etc. job adverts? I would also be grateful for tips of what [not] to include? Thanks
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dca... | {
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Cymmetria (YC S15) provides $1M warranty on APT solution - ddiinn
http://blog.cymmetria.com/cymmetria-now-offering-a-1-million-usd-warranty-for-apt-attacks
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ddiinn
I'm CEO of Cymmetria, please feel free to ask any questions about this.
| {
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Members of congress who voted to reverse FCC web browsing privacy rule - aaronbrethorst
https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/29/15100620/congress-fcc-isp-web-browsing-privacy-fire-sale
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jenga22
This is interesting. I wonder why only Republicans are targeted consistently
for these types of laws that are blatantly bad ... | {
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List of 61 senators refusing to meet and discuss PIPA/SOPA - nextparadigms
http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/oe3mf/these_61_senators_are_refusing_to_meet_with_their/
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ImprovedSilence
I think the top comment on Reddit deserves a re-post here:
"As a former Senate staffer and redditor, I will tell you th... | {
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Ask HN: "Just Works" Solution for MIT OpenCourseWare? - Jarred
I was looking at the MIT OpenCourseware and it's not very easy to use, or learn from. It's not presented in a particularly intuitive way. What about a "just works" front-end for MIT OpenCourseware that would help people learn from home?<p>For example, if... | {
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Investing Prophet Jeremy Grantham Takes Aim at Climate Change - mooreds
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-17/jeremy-grantham-s-1-billion-plan-to-fight-climate-change
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dhh2106
>With topsoil disappearing at a rate of 1 percent a year and “only 30 to 70
good harvest years left depending on your locati... | {
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The Endowment Effect - brett
http://particletree.com/notebook/the-endowment-effect/
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myoung8
This completely makes sense and in some ways justifies the success of
companies like Apple and 37signals. Rather competing on features, companies
should compete on ease-of-use.
Getting past the endowment effect also c... | {
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} |
Crema: A Sub-Turing Programming Language - omnibrain
http://ainfosec.github.io/crema/
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schoen
This is comparable to a more practically usable version of Douglas
Hofstadter's BlooP.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlooP_and_FlooP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlooP_and_FlooP)
The inspiration for claiming this m... | {
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Why Don't We Hear About More Species Going Extinct? - headalgorithm
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/why-dont-we-hear-about-more-species-going-extinct/
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decasia
One of the big things that comes to my mind is that kids who grow up in cities
are literally, tangibly cut off from wild natura... | {
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} |
Gamification is bullshit - asanwal
http://m.bogost.com/blog/gamification_is_bullshit.shtml
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neilk
I hate this whole trend of "gamification" or "game mechanics". It's profoundly
ignorant and just the latest thing for consultants to hype. Because, due to
some high profile successes, it is now easy for them to sugg... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Buyer of SCO assets mistakenly thinks it bought Unix trademarks - grellas
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110411195227234
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wtallis
unXis Inc. was created for the purpose of buying SCO's assets. To say that it
exists to cause trouble is not a stretch. To say that it is a mistake when
they claim to ow... | {
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} |
Who Is Dead? (2018) - longdefeat
https://nursingclio.org/2018/09/26/who-is-dead/
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agumonkey
A very profound subject.. didn't realize that people 200 years ago already
faced the struggle.
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Koshkin
"Brain death" == "irreversible coma," which is technically different from
having an organ that has suffered a ... | {
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} |
IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to Java 8 - ingve
http://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2015/12/intellij-idea-16-eap-144-2608-is-out/
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StevePerkins
Interesting that all of the discussion is rambling about IntelliJ in general
(e.g. Is it slow? Is it better than this other IDE? Ermagherd, Java suck... | {
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} |
How we got 1.400.000 downloads on our app (now 1.5M) - D3lux3
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-we-got-1350000-downloads-our-app-tilen-ga%C5%A1per%C5%A1i%C4%8D?trk=prof-post
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findyourway
Quite an interesting story. Highly competitive market you got in to tho.
| {
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Village Green Project (public air quality display) - tacon
http://villagegreen.airnowtech.org/welcome
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tacon
The Houston public radio station aired a segment on how the City of Houston
was all for installing one of these air quality monitors, at an elementary
school no less, but it needed some funding from the... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Football Genius of F. Scott Fitzgerald - ritchiea
http://online.wsj.com/articles/the-football-genius-of-f-scott-fitzgerald-1414166403
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kazinator
So what this is saying is that Fitzgerald may have helped to shape the "old
sport".
| {
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Which option do you choose to login - AbhishekBiswal
If you just found a new product that you want to try out, and you go to the login/signup page to find that you can signup using Facebook/Google/Twitter/Email, which option do you choose generally?<p>And why?
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ColinWright
Email with a thro... | {
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OpenCL "Hello World" - pieter
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Performance/Conceptual/OpenCL_MacProgGuide/Example:Hello,World/Example:Hello,World.html
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hypermatt
I can't wait to see some useful applications of this.
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spitfire
So am I.
But my second thought was "Oh my GOD, how many page... | {
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Lies Google and Facebook Spouted About Privacy Before Congress - dsr12
https://gizmodo.com/the-three-biggest-lies-google-and-facebook-spouted-abou-1844557693
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tyrankh
Headline is a bit inflammatory, no?
Headline: "Google and Facebook are lying about privacy!" Content: "Ok,
_technically_ they weren't lying"
~~~... | {
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} |
Swift-Keylogger – Keylogger for MacOS written in Swift using HID - unknownymouse
https://github.com/SkrewEverything/Swift-Keylogger
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xchaotic
It doesn't log passwords using EnableSecureEventInput. There are probably
other use cases, but Apple seems to have implemented things rather well here.
~~~
dannyw
It woul... | {
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2015 Trends and Predictions for Web Design - collistaeed
http://inside.envato.com/2015-predictions-for-web-design/
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datashovel
Thank you for the great list of resources and insights.
| {
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} |
Getting a Job Abroad - dcole2929
So I am a fourth year CS major in a 5 year program with mandatory coops/internships. I've already done a 6 month coop at Oracle doing mostly web dev, with a little bit of back end work in java. And I really want to get an internship abroad but I have no idea how to go about this and ... | {
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How I got 50K views on Slideshare and 706 subscribers for less than $350 - jiten_bansal
https://medium.com/swlh/how-i-got-50-851-views-on-slideshare-and-706-email-subscribers-for-less-than-350-9138a23d18b5
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nitin_flanker
seriously this post was bullshit.
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gus_massa
From the guidelines:
> _Be civil. Don 't s... | {
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} |
James Hogue pleads guilty after camouflaged shack discovered - BrailleHunting
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/09/palo-alto-high-school-con-man-james-hogue-his-bizarre-tale-continues/
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BrailleHunting
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hogue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hogue)
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Benchmarking Spreadsheet Systems - manigandham
https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/12/06/benchmarking-spreadsheet-systems/
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sheetjs
Performance is affected by a myriad of factors, many of which aren't visible
by looking at the worksheet.
For example, XLS/XLSX support a special "shared formula" representation which
te... | {
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New payments architecture: the next big innovation in UK banking - fanf2
https://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2018/june/new-payments-architecture-innovation-in-payments-/
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zeristor
Interesting, it seems that the newer banks are better placed to implement this
technology with their newer systems.
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Googe productivity apps for iOS now support Office file formats - simonh
http://googledrive.blogspot.com/2014/08/docssheetsslidesios.html
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simonh
Not surprising given Google's acquisition of QuickOffice. There are a few
interesting angles to this story.
One the one hand there's the native app versus web app i... | {
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} |
Robot Octopus Points the Way to Soft Robotics - mzehrer
http://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/robotics-hardware/robot-octopus-points-the-way-to-soft-robotics-with-eight-wiggly-arms
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radarsat1
This article has a really nice little summary of alternative actuator designs.
(Alternatives to the DC / stepper motor that i... | {
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} |
What's the difference between an advocate of open space office and an idiot? - scalahacker
http://geekingspree.com/mess/whats-the-difference-between-an-advocate-of-open-space-office-and-an-idiot-40
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potatolicious
That's twice I've hit the flag button this week, I think that's a new record.
The debate isn't ne... | {
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} |
The Joy of Lockdown Laziness - mpweiher
https://unherd.com/2020/04/how-lockdown-helped-us-rediscover-laziness/
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jyfzbj
I think this crisis period may end up being a defining moment for mankind -
the last truly shared experience that changes our relationship to work.
| {
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Ask HN: From WebDev to JsDev - ofcapl_
Hi everyone,
I'm a Web Developer, focused mainly on frontend part. Currently I encounter with more and more job offers, which are focused on plain javascript app development and salary higher than I could ever expect as webdeveloper.<p>My question is - how complicated can ... | {
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Sees Worse Tail Risks Than in 2007 [video] - ry4n413
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-05-18/taleb-sees-worse-tail-risks-than-in-2007-video
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tim333
tl;dr his main point re the markets is that they are priced higher than 2007
so have further to fall. He implies unhedged stock owners... | {
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} |
The Yoda of Silicon Valley - sohkamyung
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/science/donald-knuth-computers-algorithms-programming.html
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maxtollenaar
My favorite Knuth quote: "Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in
life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom
of thing... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
With Funding In Tow, Uniiverse Launches Platform For Collaborative Living - FluidDjango
http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/07/with-funding-in-tow-uniiverse-launches-a-platform-for-collaborative-living/
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BenjaminCoe
Adam, the CTO at Uniiverse, is a good friend of mine. I know for a fact that
they believe fully in what... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
YubiKey Manager CLI - nikolay
https://developers.yubico.com/yubikey-manager/
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nikolay
macOS:
brew install ykman
Ubuntu:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:yubico/stable
sudo apt update
sudo apt install yubikey-manager
Using pip:
pip install yubi... | {
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} |
Photos That Capture Incredible Moments in History - signa11
http://interestingdude.com/photos-that-capture-incredible-moments-in-history/
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nadezhda18
amazing pictures, we should look at them more often to remember
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The price difference between Macs and PCs widens - spydez
http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/archives/2008/08/the_price_difference_between_macs_and_pcs_wid.html
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KirinDave
Yes, they're much more expensive. But I think that saying it's the hardware is
to miss the point. People don't really think as much about the ma... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Pedagogy of the Oppressor - rglovejoy
http://city-journal.org/2009/19_2_freirian-pedagogy.html
======
aik
Interesting article, however I question how widespread this book actually is,
and the bias of the author of the article. Has anyone here ever come across
this book? Are there any teachers here?
In all the years o... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Mysterious spike in WordPress hacks silently delivers ransomware to visitors - pavornyoh
http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/02/mysterious-spike-in-wordpress-hacks-silently-delivers-ransomware-to-visitors/
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thecodemonkey
Hacks like these are scary, and unfortunately they happen way to often.
The fundamental pr... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
VIM as IDE - ingve
https://github.com/xmementoit/vim-ide#vim-as-ide-by-damian-ziobro
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speedplane
It gives me a certain level of happiness that threads still exist discussing
whether VIM is an appropriate IDE.
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johncoltrane
Just what the world needed: another personal config full of ugly antipatterns,
myop... | {
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} |
A Django Developer’s First Look at Play - motter
http://blueprintforge.com/blog/2012/01/31/a-django-developers-first-experience-of-play/
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dkhenry
You should check out Play 2.0. It takes all that is awesome about Play and
adds even more nice features to it. Its lacking all the modules that are
currently out the... | {
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} |
KDE Project releases KDE 1 - oever
http://www.heliocastro.info/?p=291
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thom
KDE was the first desktop environment I really stuck with on Linux, previously
I'd just used Blackbox and whatever apps seemed to work. For me, it peaked
around KDE 3.2 - it felt like a nicely structured, object-oriented system. You
coul... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A Journalist-Agitator Facing Prison Over a Link - Thereasione
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/09/business/media/a-journalist-agitator-facing-prison-over-a-link.html
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dnautics
I sympathize with Barret Brown; the NY times article unfortunately is rife
with the attitude that 'journalists' (as in 'the class of people... | {
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} |
Golo – a lightweight dynamic language for the JVM - Immortalin
http://golo-lang.org/
======
mimg
Interesting language. The comprehensions are a neat feature and similar to
Python in syntax. No support for ternary or assignment operators. The lambda
syntax is not very intuitive if you have no arguments and more than on... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What should I read to learn more about SEO? - nahcub
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Dnguyen
[http://moz.com/learn/seo](http://moz.com/learn/seo) is a good start. I don't
work for them.
| {
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} |
Wikipedia in 2001 - mudge
http://web.archive.org/web/20010517002121/www.wikipedia.com/
======
Alex3917
I remember before February 2002 there wasn't even really a history feature, so
you had to save all your edits to a text file in case someone vandalized it.
The site has sure come a long way since then.
~~~
dangph
... | {
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} |
My [Google] Compute Engine Pipe Dream - tghw
http://bjk5.com/post/26346827037/my-compute-engine-pipe-dream
======
ChuckMcM
I read this, and I wonder "What happens to your company when Google goes
away?"
It seems like Google has everyone gunning for it, from anti-trust, to privacy,
to patents, to governments. Every ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Seattle office space for startups - opening soon - cookingrobot
http://blog.shopobot.com/amazing-new-office-space
There's a new startup-only sublet space that's opening in March in downtown Seattle. It's an entire floor in the Exchange building (classic office tower) on 2nd and Marion.<p>It seems pretty great, so we... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
“Python already replaced Excel in banking” - stablemap
https://news.efinancialcareers.com/uk-en/3002556/python-replaced-excel-banking
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axisofpleasure
Certainly seen a huge rise in Python use in private banking sector where I
work. The problem is that we get people who aren't devs writing Python code
against sour... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A Cool jQuery Cheat Sheet - dewreg
http://overapi.com/jquery/
======
fencepost
Not just jQuery - overapi.com has cheat sheets for dozens of languages, with
each item on the sheets linked to the relevant part of the online
documentation for that language.
| {
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} |
Non coding job types for digital nomads - remotetribelife
https://www.remotetribe.life/remote-jobs/best-remote-non-coding-jobs-for-digital-nomads-2020/
======
remotetribelife
There are plenty of non technical IT related jobs you can do, without writing
a single line of code. Yes, roles like this exist and we’ve curate... | {
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} |
New cross platform Git GUI client – GitKraken - dustinmoris
http://www.gitkraken.com/
======
qewrffewqwfqew
Not open source, no plans to monetise, nothing to see on the website but
expensive-looking animation ...
what's the point? Who is this supposed to appeal to?
(yes, this is kinda snarky, but I'm also genuinely ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Merry Grav-mass - pfedor
http://www.stallman.org/grav-mass.html
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rodrigo
Cannot hang apples from the pole. We're Festivus people.
| {
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} |
Coming Soon - The I2 Instance Type - High I/O Performance Via SSD - samspenc
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/11/coming-soon-the-i2-instance-type-high-io-performance-via-ssd.html
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Dave_Rosenthal
Of particular note for distributed operational data stores is the focus on
"significantly higher [network] performanc... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Economy Class Seating On A Pan Am 747 In The Late 1960's - aditya
http://imgur.com/852xQDM
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sp332
As pointed out in the comments, this is just a mock-up.
[http://i.imgur.com/U17Js1V.jpg](http://i.imgur.com/U17Js1V.jpg)
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jbester
The original 747-100 /was/ spacious on international flights, the upper deck
ha... | {
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} |
Avoiding hospital over-charging - obiefernandez
https://www.rickbradley.com/healthcare
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prostheticvamp
I’m too ugh to engage with this at length but just a word:
If you don’t have insurance, go for it.
If you have insurance:
People standing on EMTALA are generally another word for “we are never going
to see a... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
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