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Twitter-like dating service just launched. Can't promise it'll get you laid - talkaboutadate
Built on a LAMP stack. Anyone think there'll be scaling problems? http://www.TalkAboutADate.com
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ambition
Help me understand. Is this basically twitter + filtering based on profiles?
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talkaboutadate
It's based on t... | {
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The economics of Lady Gaga - anigbrowl
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704094304575029621644867154.html?mod=rss_Todays_Most_Popular
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Towle_
Lady Gaga is such a uniquely positioned figure in music, and you have to give
her all the credit for that. What she has been able to do with her image would
... | {
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A Mastodon toot has reached the front page of Hacker News for the first time - ipnon
https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/104768703650147309
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ipnon
Toot:
[https://qoto.org/@freemo/104765288863293481](https://qoto.org/@freemo/104765288863293481)
HN discussion:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24304275](https://n... | {
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Spoofing Your User-Agent as Googlebot on Quora, Forbes, and Tumblr - August-Garcia
https://www.256kilobytes.com/index.php/content/show/1934/spoofing-your-user-agent-as-googlebot-avoid-paywalls-circumvent-log-in-requirements-and-exploit-other-quality-loopholes
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Space_Lord_
The funniest part is that what Forbes is... | {
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J-expressions (2012) - galfarragem
http://sriku.org/blog/2012/04/15/j-expressions/
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nine_k
See
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule)
That 'half of Common Lisp' thing keeps popping everywhere, unless explicitly
planned.
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duaneb
Ironic... | {
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When Destructive Behavior Makes Biological Sense - dnetesn
http://nautil.us/issue/31/stress/when-destructive-behavior-makes-biological-sense
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lordnacho
Long article but I'll boil it down to a poker analogy:
If you're short stacked, you have to take some chances.
Biology, economics, and just about any multiplay... | {
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Introducing AdonisJS (v5 Preview) - Louistiti
https://blog.adonisjs.com/introducing-adonisjs-v5/
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romainlanz
Hey all!
AdonisJS is a fully-featured MVC framework for Node.js highly focused on
developer ergonomics, stability and confidence. It removes most of your web
development hassles and come packed-in with:
... | {
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Google Has ‘No Plans’ To Launch Retail Stores - derpenxyne
http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/26/andy-rubin-google-has-no-plans-to-launch-retail-stores/
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bane
That's too bad, a store dedicated to Android devices (phones and tablets,
maybe just nexus devices), chromeOS laptops, glass, TV, whatever that home
video sphe... | {
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GWT i18n Overview - Garbage
http://www.misterj2ee.com/2010/09/gwt-i18n-overview/
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sushrutbidwai
The theme of the blog makes it completely unreadable.
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Canada Group Sues Government over Google's Sidewalk Labs - colinprince
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47956760
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userbinator
I've long become aware of the fact that everything promoted with the adjective
"smart" is usually somehow dystopian, because it usually acts in the interest
of someone else. In ot... | {
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Favicons in the retina age - michaeltwofish
http://nashape.com/blog/2012/09/12/big-favicons/
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taylorfausak
The section about iOS home screen icons has an error. Retina iPad icons are
144 pixels square, not 114. I wrote a blog post [1] that covers that.
Also, I'd recommend using ConvertICO [2] instead of the X... | {
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WhatsApp is broken, really broken - espinchi
http://fileperms.org/whatsapp-is-broken-really-broken/
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zachalexander
OT, but I'm intrigued by their business model.
I don't know the history, but currently, the Android app is free, and it says
the use of the service is free for the first year, then will be $0.99 pe... | {
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Show HN: DevSwag – swag opportunities for developers #Hacktoberfest - swapagarwal
http://devswag.io/
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swapagarwal
As a developer, nothing piques my interest more than developer swag! I made
devSwag to scratch my own itch by starting a simple list on a GitHub
repository (swag-for-dev). I'm excited to share devSwa... | {
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Ask HN: How does billing in man-days work? - agilek
Hey guys,
I would like to get your opinion on billing in man-days. Take this example:<p>- you are billing in MD
- you have a client who requests some work on Tuesday and you finish it the same day in 2 hours and send it back to the client by the end of the day
- on T... | {
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Dutch government to donate 500k to encryption projects (translation in comments) - lucb1e
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Ftweakers.net%2Fnieuws%2F106723%2Fopen-encryptieprojecten-krijgen-half-miljoen-euro-van-nederlandse-overheid.html
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lucb1e
Non-robot translation... | {
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Canada Uses Civil Anti-Spam Law in Bid to Fine Malware Purveyors - feross
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/05/canada-uses-civil-anti-spam-law-in-bid-to-fine-malware-purveyors/
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kazinator
> _“CASL defines spam as commercial electronic messages without consent or the
> installation of software without consent or t... | {
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Martin Gardner, puzzle master extraordinaire - Bzomak
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29688355
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jlees
Lovely article with some interesting puzzles near the bottom (and top). When I
was young, Martin Gardner's puzzle books, along with Raymond Smullyan's 'What
Is The Name Of This Book?'[1], introduced me to l... | {
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Please collapse HN comments - amiune
Can you please add an option to collapse comments. I find comments very interesting and there are so many responses to each comment that it's difficult to find the second most voted comment
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c17r
Hackernews Enhancement Suite
[https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hac... | {
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A Proposal for Simplified Definitions of “Object” and “Object Oriented” (2012) - abecedarius
http://wcook.blogspot.com/2012/07/proposal-for-simplified-modern.html
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dllthomas
_" An object is a first-class, dynamically dispatched behavior. A behavior is
a collection of named operations that can be invoked by cli... | {
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Trump attacks Amazon for paying 'little or no taxes' - polskibus
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-43584764
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makecheck
It’s amazing what you can find out by seeing someone’s tax returns, right
Trump?
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Ask HN: Access alternatives? - mcantor
A friend of mine is computer savvy, but not a developer. She helps run a nonprofit organization with a bi-monthly gathering; it has an entry charge that is cheaper for members of the organization. She wants a way to keep track of attendance, memberships, renewals, and so fort... | {
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Visual, multi-language XKCD-style password generator - sbaruzza
http://password.optionfactory.net/
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sbaruzza
To have fun on April Fools' Day we wanted to build something useful and funny:
we created a new XKCD-like password generator that can use different languages
dictionaries and show a picture for each gen... | {
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} |
Bedrock – A modular, WAN-replicated, blockchain-based database - dhruvkar
https://bedrockdb.com/
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cakoose
The "blockchain-based" part is misleading.
For one, when people say "blockchain", they're almost always including the
clever protocol that enables a currency with no central authority. That's the
interestin... | {
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} |
Managing successful employees - blewis
http://www.onesock.net/2011/06/a-management-lesson-from-my-wife/
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mattdeboard
Interesting anecdote, I guess, but what does it have to do with managing
successful employees?
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khookie
second that
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Command-line file sharing - masolino
https://transfer.sh/
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andy_ppp
That's great, you can encrypt stuff then as follows (on a Mac).
brew install gpg
gpg --gen-key
gpg -ac < file.unencrypted | curl http://transfer.sh/file.encrypted -T -
To decrypt, take the returned URL:
... | {
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Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon Valley ‘Echo Chamber’ - sillypuddy
https://www.wsj.com/articles/like-peter-thiel-others-feel-alienated-by-silicon-valley-groupthink-1518962400
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twblalock
I don't get it. I grew up in Silicon Valley and I work in tech, and so do many
other people I know. Th... | {
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Revisiting Software Vulnerabilities in the Boeing 787 - hsnewman
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/09/revisiting_soft.html
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jdsully
“Not practical to exploit” raises the hairs on the back of my neck. All you
need is one person to make a tool and suddenly its practical for everyone.
If you had told me ... | {
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Why we should care about the Nate Silver vs. Nassim Taleb Twitter war - oska
https://towardsdatascience.com/why-you-should-care-about-the-nate-silver-vs-nassim-taleb-twitter-war-a581dce1f5fc
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mturmon
This is an intellectually confused post. It is so unclear and muddled that
only a charitable reader would suppose... | {
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New Facebook Places Logo Is A “4.” In A Square. Yeah. - bwaldorf
http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/19/facesquare/
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jyothi
It is both a "4" (upright) and "f" from right almost similar to its favicon.
Very creative confluence.
Sadly it can also be seen as facebook nailing down the 4 in a square.
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scrrr
So wh... | {
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Real-World Rubber Ducky Attacks with Empire Stagers - sc0tfree
https://www.sc0tfree.com/sc0tfree-blog/optimizing-rubber-ducky-attacks-with-empire-stagers
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vuln
If you're going to get close enough to the machine to interface with it I
would rather use PoisonTap[1] which tricks the machine to route everything
thro... | {
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The Open Source Report Card - obilgic
http://osrc.dfm.io/
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krrishd
The only thing I didn't really like is the : "note that {user} is less of a
{language} aficionado", because it compared my github to someone else's
profile who wrote very little code and only filed issues, yet somehow was far
more superior in {la... | {
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Vivian Maier's undeveloped film on hold amid legal fight - jacquesm
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-vivian-maier-photos-legal-fight-20140912-story.html
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falcolas
I find it ironic that the bit that bothers me the most about this article is
the expressed need to be "touched up to remove imperfect... | {
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Ask HN: What do you hate about finding a new job? - varunjuice
I'm trying to learn about a candidate's perspective on recruiting.<p>+ What do you like and dislike about finding a new job?
+ What do you value when looking for a new job?
+ If you could change one thing about "job search", what would ... | {
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MessagePack: the missing serializer - kzk_mover
http://blog.treasure-data.com/post/12232702451/messagepack-the-missing-serializer
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pjscott
I've been very happy with MessagePack. It pretty much just does what I want it
to: serialize and deserialize things in an efficient, streamable binary
format. It can be use... | {
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} |
Microsoft ready to kill Windows RT as Larson-Green says three is too many - jonathansizz
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/26/microsoft-kill-windows-rt-larson-green
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ywyrd
According to this article, they were never trying to create Windows on ARM,
just another locked-down walled garden a la the iP... | {
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You win, RIM (An open letter to RIM's developer relations) - jammur
http://blog.jamiemurai.com/2011/02/you-win-rim/
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btipling
The complaints are:
$200 price to develop with 10 app limit.
Multiple registration forms.
Requiring multiple downloads.
Requiring to purchase vmware fusion.
Installer that just copie... | {
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} |
I’m Not the Product, but I Play One on the Internet - sharcerer
http://powazek.com/posts/3229
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sharcerer
Opinions on this article ?
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TxFS: Leveraging File-System Crash Consistency to Provide Transactions [pdf] - nayuki
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/%7Evijay/papers/atc18-txfs.pdf
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nayuki
Additional links: [https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=TxFS-
Tex...](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=TxFS-Texas-
Transactional-... | {
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Static site generators need less rigid content APIs - fvsch
https://fvsch.com/static-site-generators/
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JeanMarcS
For sure everyone have his favorite way of doing things and what seemed
obvious for some will look strange for others.
As I tested myself several SSG, I (as many it seems !) thought « Well, none
fit ... | {
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Ask HN: Do you use default top color for HN? - waqasaday
Interested to see if people go with default top color or choose to use a custom one (from profile page).<p>I use #ebebeb.
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valine
You can see the most popular HN bar colors here:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/topcolors](https://news.ycombinator.com/topcolo... | {
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Ask HN: HCI Careers at Google/Disney/Microsoft? - WilandOr1903
I'm currently working as an iOS / OS X developer, but my main passion and interest (which includes my MSc work), lies in Human-Computer Interaction. I'd love to work at places like Google ATAP, Disney Research, or Microsoft Research in the H... | {
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Racism is spreading like arsenic in the water supply - gedrap
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/28/racism-neo-nazis-britain
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sajid
It's not that half the UK is racist. It's that the racists now think half the
UK agrees with them.
| {
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USA is in danger of squandering the AI race to China, House report warns - Blognoggle
https://diginomica.com/2018/09/26/usa-is-in-danger-of-squandering-the-ai-race-to-china-house-report-warns/
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alrs
To run a race you need a finish line. Last time there was an AI race all
parties staggered to collapse, no finishi... | {
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} |
Show HN: Please rate and share - igbow
We are Igbow, a small upcoming game development studio, founded by a group of friends. We recently released our forth game AMBIDEXTER.
It is a fast paced game, testing your reactions and concentration skills. Played continuously, you can train those skills and get better. And who... | {
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PCB Layout in your Browser - proee
http://www.pcbweb.com/
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sqqqrly
No Linux support? No thanks.
| {
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Dumb JSON API for Coronavirus Data - kranzky
https://corona.kranzky.com/
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kranzky
I know it's bleak, but the API now includes build server style badges, like
this:
[https://corona.kranzky.com/badge.svg](https://corona.kranzky.com/badge.svg)
| {
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Berlingske Media steals sports fantasy game from small partner [in danish] - peo
http://mediawatch.dk/artikel/bt-i-konflikt-om-maneger-spil
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peo
A handful of screenshots that proofs the case can be found here:
<http://swush.com/berlingske-media/>
The partner (Swush.com) was even mentioned by name in the rule... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Obesity in US 1985-2006 - kia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BRFSS_obesity_1985-2006.gif
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dhughes
I wonder how that aligns with age, does each generation get fatter as they hit
a certain age, the parents' eating habits get worse and that is passed on to
their children.
It seems as if California went back, ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Monads and Arrows: modelling a build system - jaspervdj
http://jaspervdj.be/posts/2012-01-14-monads-arrows-build-systems.html
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Newky
If for nothing else, this article has lead me to the paste command. Looks
something which would be incredibly useful. Marking it down. Look forward to
the rest of the article.
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When It Comes to Success, Age Really Is Just a Number - HugoDaniel
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/04/science/stem-careers-success-achievement.html
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morpheous
There's not much point posting an article here, if it's behind a paid wall ...
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Palantir’s Top-Secret User Manual for Cops - gambler
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/neapqg/300-californian-cities-secretly-have-access-to-palantir
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dredmorbius
Dupe:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20421490](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20421490)
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IRS Wealth Statistics Paint Fascinating Picture of Top One Percent - jermaustin1
https://evergreensmallbusiness.com/irs-wealth-statistics-paint-fascinating-picture-top-one-percent/
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ashark
Anyones else getting really strong vibes of "author doesn't understand what
they're analyzing" from this?
[edit] In particu... | {
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Announcing TypeScript 3.2 - DanRosenwasser
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/typescript/2018/11/29/announcing-typescript-3-2/
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omeze
TypeScript is amazing. Not just from a feature point of view, but also from a
tooling and usability point of view. The flexibility of tsconfig.json and the
sheer volume of @types pa... | {
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} |
Promising new search microservice (Docker/Lucene based) - ekeller
https://hub.docker.com/r/qwazr/search/
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ekeller
Guys, feel free to test and give us feedback. 5 minutes quick start using
Docker and curl.
| {
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Ask YC: What do founders do after they have been bought out? - zitterbewegung
I am wondering what founders do after they have been bought out?
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menloparkbum
I once had a contract working with the division of a big company formed after
the acquisition of a startup. From my vantage point most of the negative
thi... | {
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Contempt Culture (2015) - Gigablah
http://blog.aurynn.com/contempt-culture
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yummyfajitas
I disagree with the article.
There is a lot of bad technology being pushed via social hacks - examples
include PHP, MongoDB, NodeJS and Go. Typically the social hacks are low
learning curve + easy tutorials that gloss over ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
What we know about Lockheed Martin's mysterious SR-72 - Anon84
https://www.businessinsider.com/lockheed-martin-sr-72-fastest-plane-ever-71-blackbird-military-defense-tech-fastest-spy-plane-mach-2017-10
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dfee
What we (actually know in 2019) about Lockheed Martin’s mysterious SR-72:
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik... | {
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} |
Why Afternoon May Be the Best Time to Exercise - mhb
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/12/why-afternoon-may-be-the-best-time-to-exercise/?hp
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c1u
... if you are a mouse.
The best time to exercise is whenever you can push yourself the hardest.
Although I come from the cardio-is-stupid-just-eat-right-and-li... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Google’s Nexus 4 Sold Out In Less Than Half An Hour - velodrome
http://www.businessinsider.com/nexus-4-sold-out-again-2012-11
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sidcool
Ask me, I am risking my job for this phone...
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} |
Ask HN: How should I organize my portfolio? What should even be in it? - hanyoon
Growing up as a Generation Y, I fell in love with computers at a very early age. Since then, I have accumulated tons and tons of work (personal and for work). These range from running PPC campaigns, social media marketing consultant for h... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Is there a captcha service that is intentionally hard? - deft
I'm looking for the most difficult challenge-response service. Recaptcha is really hard but eventually goes into trusted mode regardless of settings. I want something even harder. Essentially my goal is to force users to solve a puzzle of some ... | {
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Programming Wisdom Center - njn
http://www.geocities.com/tablizer/
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chronomex
I recommend changing the link to point to a permanent archive of Geocities,
such as <http://reocities.com/tablizer/>
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njn
i thought Reocities' header detracted from the experience, but thank you the
permalink all the same
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Show HN:Free Feedback widget for websites - dhirajbajaj
Need to have reviews about feedbacker.
URL: http://feedbacker.bakarbox.com/
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adityar
Maybe you should allow people to mark out/highlight an area for feedback? the
issue may not be obvious from a whole page screenshot. Other than that, nice.
~~~
dhirajbaj... | {
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TikTok and the Sorting Hat - hardmaru
https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2020/8/3/tiktok-and-the-sorting-hat
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mgraczyk
> How did an app designed by two guys in Shanghai managed to run circles
> around U.S. video apps
Part of the explanation is that they weren't in Shanghai. The founders both
worked full time at US ... | {
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} |
Public Data Release of Stack Overflow’s 2019 Developer Survey - jonbaer
https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/05/21/public-data-release-of-stack-overflows-2019-developer-survey/
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seektable
Here you can analyze the data with pivot tables:
[http://stackoverflow.seektable.com/cube/4b8d18bfa62b4204a46e...](http://stackove... | {
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Vitamin D Hormone - adammichaelc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D
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ilkhd2
And a rat poison.
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How does Facebook disable Developer Tools? - gedrap
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21692646/how-does-facebook-disable-developer-tools
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magicalist
I don't think Developer Tools are going to be able to allow overriding like
this for long, or we're going to be seeing a lot of this on sites soon, just
like the w... | {
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} |
Faces of Open Source - andyjpb
http://www.facesofopensource.com/
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Juliate
More like, Faces of Open Source Seen from North America?
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Are You Rich? This Income-Rank Quiz Might Change How You See Yourself - dankohn1
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/01/upshot/are-you-rich.html
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esotericn
> In your view, being “rich” means having an income in the ... > Don’t
> know/none of these
Wealth.
Or unearned income. Which approximately no-one ... | {
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No more missing out on movies - jayniz
http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/24/no-more-missing-out-moviepilot-lets-fans-upcoming-films/
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omdb
written in backbone.js and coffeescript - pure js beauty.
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Facebook Instant - hardik988
http://www.fbinstant.net/
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noorsyron
ohh thanks for posting it here :) and thanks for the points. to they guy who
talked about breaking privacy: no sir it doesn't do that, because it simply
uses facebook api...
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aleeno
You dont even need an account to stalk ppl, sweet
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With Porches and Parks, a Texas Community Aims for Urban Utopia - rbanffy
http://www.npr.org/2015/02/12/385474414/with-porches-and-parks-a-texas-community-aims-for-urban-utopia
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HarryHirsch
That's nice. But does it have supermarkets, cafes, physicians and schools
within walking distance? The article omits to s... | {
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Apple’s next iPhone may feature one of Steve Jobs’s last designs - zacharye
http://www.bgr.com/2012/05/18/apple-iphone-5-design-steve-jobs/
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jumpbug
the real source: [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-17/apple-said-to-
plan-...](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-17/apple-said-to-plan-
overhaul-of-iphone-... | {
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Google’s origin partly lies in CIA and NSA research grants for mass surveillance - joosters
https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-cia-and-nsa-research-grants-for-mass-surveillance
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mankash666
Most breakthrough tech can trace it's origins to federal grants, many from
defense agencies.
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Ivory: an embedded domain-specific language for safer systems programming - manaskarekar
https://ivorylang.org/ivory-introduction.html
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nickpsecurity
Galois is essentially a commercial R&D lab for businesses and governments.
Although having trouble a while back, this business model plus talent at
solving problem... | {
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} |
Werc, minimal plan9-based web framework, receives updates after over 3 years - Karunamon
http://code.9front.org/hg/werc/rev/fb460a671d19
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Karunamon
The last commits were done by Uriel himself back in August of 2012.. great to
see this project still lives!
The main page is here: [http://werc.cat-v.org/](http://w... | {
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} |
Indra Nooyi, PepsiCo C.E.O. Behind Health Drive, Steps Down - 3minus1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/06/business/indra-nooyi-pepsi.html
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3minus1
Interesting statistic in the article about a 25% reduction of Fortune 500
female CEOs in the last year. They have discussed female CEOs on Freakonomics
podcast a fair ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Tell HN: The "Doogie Howser" Startup Test - devmonk
If your startup has eclipsed "Doogie Howser" in Google Trends, you can feel satisfied that you've crossed the first line and are well on your way to becoming a household name.<p>For example, Posterous passed the Doogie Houser test in mid-2009:<p>http://www.google.c... | {
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} |
Why Putting SSH On Another Port is a Good Idea - danielrm26
http://www.danielmiessler.com/blog/putting-ssh-another-port-good-idea#.Umsq_hbdDzU.hackernews
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djcapelis
2. Next he talks about this non-root listener issue. He
claims that you shouldn’t run your SSH daemon on a
non-privileged port ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Would an open source SDK for federated/distributed ML be useful? - hsikka
I’ve been working on a federated learning system, and I realized the practical applicability for a lot of organizations. Would an sdk be useful?<p>Also, so you think there are any advantages to automating and distributing ML operations f... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What data set would you like to see/use, but doesn't exist? - jlangenauer
I was inspired by the Movity guys post showing how they're collecting a dataset for noise in the Tenderloin.<p>So what other datasets would you like to see/use that don't yet exist? Perhaps there's a startup idea for somebody in here..... | {
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Why I Don’t Celebrate Income Inequality - bvanvugt
http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2016/01/02/income-inequality/
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WalterBright
> I have libertarian biases [...] But I also have a social conscious
Being a libertarian does not in any way imply having no social conscience.
Nothing whatsoever about libertarianis... | {
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“Orson Welles’ Sketch Book,” a British TV series from 1955 - how-about-this
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/orson_welles_sketch_book_marvelous_british_tv_series_from_1955
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kevinwang
All I got from this is that the sound of quill on paper is super fucking
discomforting.
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Show HN: Convert HTML to CSV under command line - hanwentao
https://github.com/hanwentao/html2csv
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throwaway13000
Add a few examples?
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hanwentao
Thanks. A screencast is added in README.
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Sentiment Analysis in Scala with Stanford CoreNLP - shekhargulati
https://github.com/shekhargulati/52-technologies-in-2016/blob/master/03-stanford-corenlp/README.md
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java4all
Thanks for the post. I have used corenlp in my personal project and it does a
good job in sentiment analysis. sentiment analysis is not an... | {
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} |
Traceroute bad.horse - noobie
http://i.imgur.com/0z0xBSk.png
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rafaelgaspar
[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/15/star_wars_traceroute...](http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/15/star_wars_traceroute/)
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j_mcnally
And this is why were out of ipv4 addresses
| {
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Do I understand the Y combinator? - martyalain
According to Steven McGeady, Cunningham advised him in the early 1980s, "The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer." McGeady dubbed this "Cunningham's law".<p>According to the... | {
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} |
Crowdsourcing prior art research - entangld
http://peertopatent.org/
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entangld
Another link to something similar - <http://www.articleonepartners.com>
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} |
Ask HN: How Do Texts (SMS) Work? And Who's Wrong: Me or T-Mobile? - gareim
I ask this because my girlfriend often gets texts from me that are merged with texts from up to a year ago. This, combined with her not receiving my texts often, frustrates me.<p>The old texts that are merged into the new ones have been delet... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Does your company have a software apprenticeship program? - jeffreybaird
I am giving a talk on introducing an apprenticeship program in your company at Ruby Hoedown this weekend focusing mainly on my experiences. I would love to know if anyone else has had an experience with a successful program or have impl... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Google App Engine Java security sandbox bypasses - tshtf
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/26
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_wmd
It a pretty fair assumption to expect the Java runtime itself to be in an OS-
level sandbox, Google would never treat that much native code as the last
layer of security.
The App Engine CPython runtime ... | {
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} |
Czech Republic, seeking a snappier name, considers a change - acheron
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/15/world/europe/czech-republic-seeking-a-snappier-nameconsiders-a-change.html
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panarky
If they do this, Czechia will be forever confused with Chechnya.
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Piskvorrr
Business as usual, then. The most frequent qu... | {
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} |
Tic Tac Toe: Understanding The Minimax Algorithm (2013) - madflame991
http://neverstopbuilding.com/minimax
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xiaoma
One of my friends made a strong chess engine in high school:
[http://www.tckerrigan.com/Chess/TSCP/](http://www.tckerrigan.com/Chess/TSCP/)
It's far, far more sophisticated than this and still on... | {
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} |
Google gives UK government “super flagger” status for YouTube? - choult
http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2334027/google-gives-uk-government-super-flagger-status-for-youtube
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guylhem
What if I don't agree with the UK government views on say freedom of speech?
And why the UK government? What about giving that ... | {
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} |
San Francisco Bans Cashless Stores - latchkey
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Cashless-ban-FAQ-food-truck-amazon-go-no-cash-14373909.php
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kozak
I pay electronically almost everywhere, but I do recognize that cash payments
are a basic human right. Going 100% cashless opens doors to all sorts of
monopoly/disto... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How do you "fix" the curse of the gifted? - speeder
I saw one post today in HN about failure, on the comments someone linked that e-mail that Eric Raymond sent to Linus saying that he suffered from curse of gifted programmer...<p>I thought it was interesting,, reading the e-mail felt like it was a grandpa lamb... | {
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Show HN: Well Deserved - hodgesmr
http://welldeserved.me/
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minimaxir
You should probably make it more apparent that it's satire.
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BillyParadise
Where's the fun in that? Excellent satire. Is this project up on Angel list
yet?
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cbtacy
Genius! Well done.
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Glance: A smartwatch that you can use with your existing watch - intull
http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/03/glance-is-a-smartwatch-that-you-can-use-with-your-existing-watch/
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gcb0
Will be perfect for the fashion conscious nerd and geek. Right next to their
gshock...
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Python Hour of Code activities - timdawborn
http://blog.groklearning.com/2013/12/hour-of-code-serving-it-up-python-style.html
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coppolaemilio
I like it but it's not that easy to run Python on the web.
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Show HN: Wolf3d-style game in 512 bytes - nanochess
https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=83795
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sigmaprimus
This is great, I really like the clean, well commented source code.
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