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FAA's Drone Rules May Already Be Outlawed By Congress - szczys
http://hackaday.com/2015/12/21/heres-the-reason-the-faas-drone-registration-system-doesnt-make-sense/
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teovall
I'm not sure why the title leads with the registration system not making sense
rather than the fact that it's illegal. It seems like that's... | {
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The Adobe/Apple Flame war - anderzole
http://www.mondaynote.com/2010/04/11/the-adobe-apple-flame-war/
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Terretta
Jean-Louis Gassée (born March 1944 in Paris, France) was an executive at Apple
Computer from 1981 to 1990. He is most famous for founding Be Inc., creators
of the BeOS computer operating system. Afte... | {
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Hacker News Nation is Live - castig
http://blog.onemonthrails.com/hacker-news-nation-episode-1/
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mooted1
I love the idea. And this deserves more attention. But two gripes:
1.) "Hacker News Nation is Live" is a very ambiguous headline. A lot of people
who would've found this interesting never clicked through ... | {
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Show HN: 99Gamers.com, free video game trading. From Reddit post to 2000 trades. - brandonthejames
http://99gamers.com/
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brandonthejames
A few months ago I made a post on Reddit (<http://redd.it/v8y2o>) about an
idea for a video game trading community. I had always wanted a way to get more
value for my games b... | {
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A Vote of No Confidence in Shari Steele - bahjoite
https://medium.com/@stderr/a-vote-of-no-confidence-in-shari-steele-380e327d73b8
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bahjoite
The content of this medium.com article was posted to the tor-project mailing
list, educing the following (summarised) responses:-
\- the email address of the OP was flagge... | {
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Paycheck Protection Program Recipient Map - miles
https://www.quiverquant.com/sources/sbaloans
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virusduck
Only 9 states data are present...
~~~
ed312
From the site: "data upload in progress: 9/50 states completed"
~~~
skoskie
A day later it’s up to 12.
This should be resubmitted next month.
| {
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Ask HN: Why isn't Silverlight more popular? - d4nt
I mean, I work for a Microsoft Gold partner building (mostly) internal business apps, and I spend literally hours trying to get ASP.NET, MS AJAX Toolkit, jQuery, IE6 and HTML/CSS/Javascript to all play along nicely. I'm exactly the sort of person who should be switc... | {
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Why Is Anime Obsessed With Power Lines? - drops
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-power-lines-anime-electrical-infrastructure
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coolandsmartrr
Short Answer: Anno
Until their depiction in _Neon Genesis Evangelion_ in 1995, power lines were
virtually non-existent in anime. After all, why draw them when the... | {
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Apple malware affects mostly Chinese users - dan1234
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29928751
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0x0
A more informative technical explanation is given here:
[http://www.zdziarski.com/blog/?p=4140](http://www.zdziarski.com/blog/?p=4140)
TL;DR: Pirated OSX apps with components that listen for iphone usb
connec... | {
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Men rescued from Pacific island after writing SOS in sand - hooboy
https://apnews.com/1566b3c6a377ee907a0f2e143a5b26c9
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contingencies
What is interesting is that they set out from Puluwat[0], which was the site
at which one of the pacific's last master navigators was interviewed by modern
anthropologists in _We:... | {
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Apple Factory Thefts: Secret Tunnels, Hidden Crawl Spaces - ballmers_peak
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-apple-factory-thefts-secret-tunnels-hidden-crawl-spaces?pu=hackernews11vvpt&utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=unlock
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ballmers_peak
Hi everyone, Jay from The Information here. We have unlocked ... | {
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The Single Sign On - billpg
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Single-Sign-On.aspx
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patio11
This situation is virtually made for client-side certificates:
1) You won't need passwords beyond whatever it takes to log in locally.
2) You can assume the hospital computers are physically secured. (Well, I
wouldn't,... | {
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} |
Google homepage redesign project - barryhand
http://www.lettersociety.com/tagged/Project-9
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NicoJuicy
At first i didn't see the changes, but as i scrolled lower, i must admit...
It's truly amazing.
Perhaps you should remind that people look at screenshots without reading the
text and they don't see a lot of ... | {
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Over one thousand children illegally registered - yesbabyyes
http://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/over-one-thousand-children-illegally-registered/
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amybe
Um. Does ancestry.com disclose statistics on requests by law enforcement?
Could governments get any creepier?
| {
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Easy and simple server push with JRuby and JWt - gvitez
http://blog.elevat.eu/2012/03/server-push-made-easy-with-jruby-and-jwt/
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gvitez
Constructive criticism is welcome!
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A Pythoneers directory - kachhalimbu
http://blog.ziade.org/2013/06/13/a-pythoneers-directory/
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yakxxx
Is it only me who finds inviting women to be speakers only because they are
women wrong and in fact sexist? You shouldn't differentiate people like this.
It's basically wrong in the same way as saying "Im loo... | {
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Wait for User to Stop Typing, in JavaScript - gschier
https://schier.co/blog/wait-for-user-to-stop-typing-using-javascript
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jamespetercook
The immensely useful lodash library comes with a debounce utility you can use
for this.
[https://lodash.com/docs/4.17.15#debounce](https://lodash.com/docs/4.17.15#debounce)
... | {
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Microsoft joins HTML 5 standard fray in earnest - suprgeek
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10305822-92.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
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suprgeek
Microsoft has a well-known strategy.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish> Embrace, Extend
and Extinguish. As one of the other comme... | {
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How we boosted in-app conversions by 125% - splitforce
http://blog.splitforce.com/post/66332510495/driving-in-app-revenue-through-a-b-testing-reigndesign
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ikura
That's really interesting... I'd have gone with the same assumption about the
time penalty - am gonna have to try this out myself!
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Before the shock wave, the brightness of a nuclear explosion boils everything - DoreenMichele
http://engineer--cat.tumblr.com/post/85107895095/lumoblaze-jonkakes-bigcoolscorner
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Simulacra
Is this light converted into Kinetic energy? I don't see how this is possible.
~~~
angersock
Photons are absorbed by surface... | {
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Show HN: Turn any door intercom into a programmable Internet device - darrennix
https://www.doorbuzzing.com
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lotsofcows
Title should be "Turn any door intercom that calls a 'phone into ..."
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jgrahamc
No, please don't. Just make it ring a bell.
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An introduction to Clean Architecture - Triiistan
http://www.theodo.fr/blog/2014/12/sfpot-paris-2014-12-12-pepiniere-27/
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jmnicolas
> _In a few words, it’s an evolution of Domain Driven Design, with more
> abstractions. It’s based on UseCase Drive Design and Hexagonal
> Architecture._
Lost me here ...
What h... | {
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Pi - an e-book reader from Infibeam, an Indian Company - deepakjois
http://infibeam.com/Pi
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anigbrowl
Looks...strangely...familiar...
~~~
deepakjois
Yes it does. Engadget did a post on the blatant rip-off of both the Amazon.com
website and Kindle [http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/keepin-it-real-fake-
part-.... | {
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Google Search Results for Blm - theduder99
look at autocomplete suggestions for "blm is " on google compared to bing. just some manual search results limitations, nothing to see here. try the same exercise for any other organization.
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jeffbee
Bing also completes "is hillary clinton" with "at gitmo". ... | {
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OneNote Mac – The Song [Parody of One Day More from Les Misérables] - awa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUsAPdv8JZ4&feature=share
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davidras
What a fun team.
| {
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Ask HN: What do you use for Javascript, CSS, and image dependency management? - neilk
Past a certain point of complexity, it becomes desirable to have a framework to manage all the various JS, CSS and image files that one uses into "modules" of functionality, some of which might even be loaded on-demand from the cli... | {
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Plenty of Sex and Nowhere to Sit: Art, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris - pepys
https://literaryreview.co.uk/plenty-of-sex-nowhere-to-sit
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nottorp
The title looked interesting (though it's possibly clickbait) so I opened it
in a new tab. When I switched to the tab the article was covered by a
'subscribe to our n... | {
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} |
Patatap - erickhill
http://www.patatap.com/
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clintonc
Before you press the space bar,
"nowisthetimeforallgoodmentocometotheaidoftheircountry" sounds like the music
they used to play early in the mornings on VH1...
| {
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The Concurnas Programming Language - blopeur
https://concurnas.com/
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smithza
Never seen anything like this before in a programming language (VHDL/Verilog
supports this sort of stuff of course):
onchange(x){ doSomething()}//on change of x, perform an action
every(x){ doSomething(x)}//as abo... | {
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The secret life of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange - nkurz
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/the-secret-life-of-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-20100521-w1um.html
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tptacek
_Wikileaks appeared on the internet three years ago. It acts as an electronic
dead drop for highly sensitive or secret inf... | {
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} |
Trump Hosted Zuckerberg for Undisclosed Dinner at the White House in October - uptown
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/trump-hosted-zuckerberg-undisclosed-dinner-white-house-october-n1087986
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davidw
Kind of seeing a pattern here...
[https://popular.info/p/facebooks-top-news-executive-
has](https://popular... | {
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NASA Images of Oil Slick - J3L2404
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=43846
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alt219
Ironic that at the same time a fossil fuel disaster of this scope is
occurring, there are folks in Massachusetts still fighting to prevent offshore
wind turbines because of concerns over the ecological impact.
~... | {
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} |
Smaller – Batch Minify HTML, CSS and JavaScript Files - chenluois
http://smallerapp.com
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pedalpete
Would you want a desktop app to minify your html/css/javascript files rather
than including this as part of your build process? If so, can you explain why?
| {
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Monitoring service/server with Arduino microcontroller - helwr
http://burnsforce.com/original-guides/project-arduino-nagios-server-monitoring/
======
jellisjapan
Really cool, but I'd love to see the code you use to monitor your gmail
account as well.
| {
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Male college students also victims of violence at girlfriends' hands - toni
http://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/feb10/univviol21210.html
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cjbprime
FTA:
_Thinking about a typical victim of college dating violence, you're probably
imagining her, not him._
Yes, that's because the typical victim of dating v... | {
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User loses 1400 BTC to malicious Electrum node - typpo
https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/5072#issuecomment-683356052
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Arnt
The answer seems to say: "Because there exists least some user errors that the
software cannot guard against, guarding against this class of error isn't
worthwhile".
My bank manag... | {
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Demon-Haunted World - drabiega
http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2017/09/cory-doctorow-demon-haunted-world/
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jordigh
There is so much "Stallman was right" in all of these examples... non-free
software always manages to eventually sneak in malicious anti-user features,
where the user has no recourse. At least ... | {
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Federal prosecutors freeze accounts of people who play poker online. - vaksel
http://www.cnbc.com/id/31201075
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kirse
When I think of dumb laws, the US laws against internet gambling (especially
poker) are high on that list.
I have never played online poker, but if stupid people want to flush their
money down ... | {
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} |
Open Dylan 2013.1 released - BruceM
http://opendylan.org/news/2013/07/11/new-release.html
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sspiff
I've been seeing OpenDylan pass by on /r/lisp and HN the past few months. I've
installed it, and it looks nice, but it could use some maturing and I'm not
sure what the advantage over other LISPs is. Can someone e... | {
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Show HN: Comūn - rastn
https://comun.us/
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dang
You guys have posted this 9 times in the last few weeks. A small number of
reposts is ok
([https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html](https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)),
but this is on the other side of that line, and users have complained, so
please stop.
... | {
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} |
Facebook Has Decided That I Am Not Interested In My Wife - forrestkyle
http://thinkforrestthink.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/facebook-is-a-website-that-does-nothing-except-spy-on-you/
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missechokit
...explain? I honestly don't understand what happened. How does promoted posts
tie in?
~~~
forrestkyle
[http://danger... | {
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How to Be a More Productive Web Developer - willfarrell
http://sixrevisions.com/project-management/ways-more-productive-web-developer/
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dholowiski
I would add either using the noprocrast option on this site, or a hosts entry
pointing news.ycombinator.com to 127.0.0.1 for a huge increase in
productivity.
| {
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Ask HN: What sit/stand desk should I buy for home? - SoftwarePatent
Title says it all, I'm setting up a home office and am going to buy myself a nice sit/stand desk.
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akulbe
I'll go against the grain here.
I think moving is better than just standing. I'd get a treadmill desk.
Lifespan Fitness makes a... | {
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} |
Tell HN: readwriteweb.com Canvassing HN'ers for their 'HN Love' - jacquesm
http://jacquesmattheij.com/readwriteweb.com-canvassing-hn-members
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icey
All of these meta-police postings are starting to get ridiculous.
I get that you're outraged because someone asked you to read or post
something, or vote for somethi... | {
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} |
I’m a student launching my first app, need advice on how to launch / market - danreed07
Hi guys,
I’m working on an app called BubblyPlanet, it’s an social augmented reality app that’s kind of like Twitter meets Google StreetView.<p>I have no idea how to market this to people short of showing it to my friends and famil... | {
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Ask HN: Crawl the entire web? - nullundefined
If you were tasked with crawling the entire web, how would you go about doing it?
======
Eridrus
I'd grab the CommonCrawl data and keep moving on what my actual problem is.
| {
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How to Accomplish Big Things, Even When You Feel Small - rspivak
https://unstoppable.me/accomplish-big-things/
======
ambivalents
Has anyone else given up TV and noticed beneficial effects?
"I replaced all TV time with reading time. TV is full of stories of murder,
betrayal, and pain. It’s riveting, but it also messe... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Checkout our app Hot5 - artilheiro
http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/22/hot5/
Workout videos with personal trainers. 5 minutes. 5 exercises. 1 intense workout. Train like you live.
======
artilheiro
Let me know what you think.
| {
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Feerless: Crowd-sourced, preemptive notifications for Netflix watchers with PTSD - lmahini
https://feerless.us/
======
ccorcoran
This is a really creative approach to a problem that far too many people need
to deal with. I think this project is going to end up helping a lot of people.
~~~
tsunamino
Thanks! I'm really... | {
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Tesla’s Push to Build a Self-Driving Car Sparks Dissent Among Its Engineers - dcgudeman
https://www.wsj.com/articles/teslas-push-to-build-a-self-driving-car-sparks-dissent-among-its-engineers-1503593742
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empath75
The level-2 driving that Tesla is pushing seems like a worst case scenario to
me. Requiring the driv... | {
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} |
Review of Studies About Standing Desks - JohnHammersley
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3045217/evidence/everything-science-knows-right-now-about-standing-desks
======
carsongross
OT, but this image from the article:
[http://b.fastcompany.net/multisite_files/fastcompany/imageca...](http://b.fastcompany.net/multisite_file... | {
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Ask HN: What makes consoles so much better than PCs for games at their price? - notknifescience
A PS4 currently 300 dollars on Amazon. It would be difficult to build a PC for 300 dollars that could play video games at the same quality / performance. So where does the gap come from, or what is so specialized about... | {
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} |
Show HN: Headlights.io - A Different way to Lease Transfer - psp219
http://headlights.io
======
psp219
My partner and I started this project after I had a really bad experience
trying to get out of an existing car lease. I either had to cough up the
remaining lease amount up front, which was thousands of dollars I cou... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Google to stop showing news snippets for French users - tannhaeuser
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-france/google-to-stop-showing-news-snippets-for-french-users-idUSKBN1WA1FK
======
pavelludiq
Congratulations to the EU commission and the EU parliament on achieving the
exact opposite of what they wan... | {
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“Thank You” in Hindi and English Mean Very Different Things - darkroasted
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/06/thank-you-culture-india-america/395069/?single_page=true
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littletimmy
As a non-American, this was one of the biggest culture shocks I faced. On the
surface, relationships in the US s... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What projects have you worked on that ended up failing - ctnieves
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itamarst
1\. Small, fixable failures: software crashed in production every night at
4AM.
2\. Utter failures: long ago tried to do something like
[https://capnproto.org/](https://capnproto.org/), wasn't up to it.
3\. Worked on many projec... | {
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Nymph: A slightly different version of C - nymph1324
https://github.com/roecrew/nymph
======
taspeotis
It seems like the compiler allocates memory a lot, and is very optimistic in
assuming a) the allocation will succeed and b) strings won't exceed 999
characters plus a null terminator.
[https://github.com/roecrew/nym... | {
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} |
DragonBox creator launches new game to teach geometry to kids - aymeric
http://wewanttoknow.com/elements/
======
aymeric
Their first game DragonBox, that teaches algebra, managed to beat Angry Birds
in the App Store rankings
| {
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} |
Official Spotify Web Player - mysterywhiteboy
https://www.spotify.com/uk/blog/archives/2013/03/20/want-to-try-our-new-web-player/
======
mtgx
Does it work on ChromeOS, too?
~~~
mysterywhiteboy
Looks like they have gone down the flash route - so no.
I assume part of that decision is to make sure it doesn't work on ... | {
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} |
Haskell in the Real World - patrickxb
http://vimeo.com/24676617
======
poelie
We use Haskell intensively. It is a very useful and easy language. Once you
mastered Haskell (and get used to the type system), it feels very natural. It
is both usable for scripting and "real" tasks.
The trick with Haskell is to model th... | {
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} |
Couple 'fined' £100 for leaving a bad review - davepm
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30100973
======
netcan
I think this is an example of contracts being broken, often online but
elsewhere too. You can't rent a hotel room without a credit card which helps
hotels avoid you running off without paying for minibar pea... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: I'm 17 - have an opportunity to work at a VC firm right out of HS. - internshipsftw
Hey HN,<p>I’ve been asked to send my resume to a venture capital firm in Boston, MA regarding an internship as a developer/designer for the firm. I’m really excited about this opportunity and thought I’d turn to this communit... | {
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Good Samaritan Backfire - blearyeyed
https://medium.com/human-parts/9f53ef6a1c10
======
rburhum
Sadly, I have many friends with similar stories from police departments in
different places. I attribute the officer's behavior to constantly being
surrounded by violence. If everyday, most people around you are violent
unr... | {
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} |
The Carmack Plan - sidcool
https://garbagecollected.org/2017/10/24/the-carmack-plan/
======
signa11
previous submission:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15556387](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15556387)
| {
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What are you avoiding working on? - akkartik
https://openhatch.org/blog/2010/what-are-you-avoiding-working-on
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barry-cotter
That econometrics project that's due next Friday mostly. Also a past
examination paper I want to have done in same as practice and a Macroeconomics
paper. I iz _lazy_.
~~~
jodrellblank
N... | {
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Concurrency in Ruby almost as good as Node.js - rgbrgb
http://openhood.com/ruby/node/heroku/sinatra/mongo_mapper/unicorn/express/mongoose/cluster/2011/06/14/benchmark-ruby-versus-node-js/
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desireco42
I just can't resist, Serbs have saying 'almost is what makes girl unhappy' :).
On more serious note, ruby is def... | {
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} |
Show HN: Intuitive nutrition information - gusgordon
http://spe.lt/
======
shostack
Wow--I really clicked with this immediately--super intuitive. Also, holy crap
is it fast--instant results.
Some initial reactions/suggestions:
\- I want to be able to edit entries in a list in-line. When I looked at it on
my Android ... | {
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Groupon Traffic Declines Nearly 50% - domino
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?art_aid=157597&fa=Articles.showArticle
======
kinofcain
My bet is that facing insolvency and the lukewarm reaction to their IPO
filings they've reigned in ad spend and are relying on their existing
customers to bring in revenue, rather... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Is 5G Dangerous for Humans? - ToFab123
My Facebook wall is floated with non-technical people posting articles about the danger of 5G to humans. The mainstream tech press rarely addresses the topic. The same goes for HN. If the subject comes up, most comments seem to agree that it is not dangerous, yet many out... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Best Way to Learn Coding: CS Degree, Bootcamp, or Self Teach? - algodaily
https://algodaily.com/lessons/best-way-to-learn-coding-cs-degree-bootcamp-or-self-teach
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mikece
What one learns in a CS degree is (ought to be?) considerably more and
different from just "learning to code" so it's somewhat of a false compa... | {
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Should I Block ICMP? - based2
http://shouldiblockicmp.com/
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noinsight
What I've been wondering is, do people actually set up fine-grained firewall
rules for ICMP traffic or not? If they do, what are the rules specifically?
Generally speaking, just allowing all of ICMP does not seem like a major
issue. Denial of... | {
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Why I’m Kissing Spotify Goodbye - wyclif
http://nerdgap.com/why-im-kissing-spotify-goodbye/
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frou_dh
I just wish Spotify could serve up a stream of _recommended_ tracks, based on
your listening history, like Last.fm can.
Spotify's "Radio" feature compounds my dislike of "genres" as a means of
navigating and dis... | {
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Using Micro-Optimizations (Improving TCL Core Performance) - vasili111
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJrsl3fHQ74
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dalke
This is Richard Hipp's presentation (of SQLite fame) at EuroTCL 2016. They
"more than doubled the performance of SQLite using microoptimizations of the
underlying C code". The same methods ca... | {
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Evolution of Asynchronous JavaScript - vasanthkay
https://github.com/vasanthk/async-javascript
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johnhenry
This is a very good resource. Not technically being part of an ECMA standard,
I can understanding leaving out streams. That being said, it would be awesome
if there were also a section on streams, and possib... | {
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Escaping a Python sandbox (NdH 2013 quals writeup) - delroth
http://blog.delroth.net/2013/03/escaping-a-python-sandbox-ndh-2013-quals-writeup/
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Erwin
I recommend Zope's Restricted Python:
<https://pypi.python.org/pypi/RestrictedPython> for that sort of thing (this
is not like Python's now-dead restricted mode)... | {
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Teens Now Getting High Off 'Digital Drugs' - mikecane
http://www.newson6.com/global/story.asp?s=12793977
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aristus
When I was in grade school, the police passed out warnings about "blue star"
rub on tattoos that contained heroin. That was total bullshit too.
Every time I read "proper" journalism I am reminded ... | {
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The New York couple donating millions to the anti-vax movement - rbanffy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/meet-the-new-york-couple-donating-millions-to-the-anti-vax-movement/2019/06/18/9d791bcc-8e28-11e9-b08e-cfd89bd36d4e_story.html#click=https://t.co/CBL8O2q3lz
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tropdrop
In all seriousness... | {
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Mental State of the Poor - negamax
http://mohit.me/logs/mental_state_of_the_poor.html
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patrickmclaren
A few months ago, after moving apartments and traveling to renew some official
documents (passport, visa, etc.), I had exhausted my emergency fund.
It turned out that in my next pay period, someone in account... | {
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Microsoft Responds to Abusive Labor Conditions at Chinese Manufacturer - pinstriped_dude
http://www.fastcompany.com/1617116/microsoft-chinese-suppliers-ncl-kernaghan-kye
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Tichy
I wonder, are the reporters here genuinely concerned about improving workers
lives, or are they mostly enjoying having some leverage o... | {
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Glidey Cat - remixz
http://zachbruggeman.me/glidey-cat/
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remixz
As a note: This is intended to be satirical, making fun of the many Flappy
Bird clones and their general poorly made nature. The bad game design is on
purpose! It's also to make fun of the nature of mobile games being based on
bought powerups rath... | {
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} |
Rust Dataframe: Update 1 - nevi-me
https://github.com/nevi-me/rust-dataframe/blob/master/notes/update-01__04-04-2020.md
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quotemstr
One of the things that most pisses me off about numpy, pandas, and the whole
scipy ecosystem is that everything is "immediate mode": all operations
evaluate _instantly_ to new arrays... | {
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Cutting the Cord, American Snipping Cable - Half a Million Cut in Q3 Alone - expathos
http://www.appmarket.tv/opinion/810-cutting-the-cord-american-snipping-cable-new-teevee-reports-half-a-million-snipped-in-q3-alone.html
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expathos
Not only are our friends at NewTeeVee reporting the ax wound with US cable
bleed... | {
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Roko's basilisk - lepht
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk
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dreamweapon
_The smartest people I know who do personally work on AI think the
scaremongering coming from people who don 't work on AI is lunacy._
_\-- Marc Andreessen_
Given that a significant portion of what marca himself says and adv... | {
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Is this rotating cube interface user-friendly? - sedachv
http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/11229/is-this-rotating-cube-interface-user-friendly
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zippie
I can't recall where I saw a site navigation laid out in a cube but I thought
it was unique when I first encountered it. What I didn't realize was the
incre... | {
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Beaker Notebook v1.2 released - spot
http://BeakerNotebook.com
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spot
Among many improvements, this release has: • Support for Java and Scala,
including sharing classes with Groovy. • Support for running Python2 and
Python3 at the same time. • A better method of finding and configuring
language backends. • Supp... | {
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Ask HN: What makes you want to open up a recruiter email? - aml183
I'm sure you get emails all the times from recruiters. Why do you open them and respond? Are the subjects interesting? Good timing? Salary is within your range?<p>I'm trying to change my emails to get higher response rates from developers.
==... | {
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Octane: Javascript Benchmark Suite for the modern web - ZeroGravitas
http://blog.chromium.org/2012/08/octane-javascript-benchmark-suite-for.html
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ck2
Interesting, as Firefox 17 has caught up to Chrome in older benchmarks.
[http://www.arewefastyet.com/?machine=11&view=regress](http://www.arewefastyet.com/?mach... | {
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} |
Docker, Containers, and the Future of Application Delivery - bdon
http://www.slideshare.net/dotCloud/why-docker2bisv4
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jacques_chester
I feel like the long-term architectural implications of virtual machines and
now containers haven't quite sunk in. I'm not talking about the
_administrative_ advantages, which I ... | {
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} |
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on Amazon’s Web Services, Startups and Innovation - hshah
http://gigaom.com/2010/02/01/amazon-cto-werner-vogels-on-amazon’s-web-services-startups-and-innovation/
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timf
Always interested in what Vogels is saying, but this was pretty thin and the
content of what he did say was generic ma... | {
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The Birkana hexadecimal number symbols - yawaramin
http://yawar.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-birkana-hexadecimal-number-symbols.html
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david-given
Fun fact: you can count to hexadecimal on the fingers of one hand.
The way it works is that each of your four fingers has four well-defined
places on them: the three join... | {
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} |
Easy concurrent subprocessing in Ruby - nevinera
http://nevinera.net/elegant-subprocessing
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nevinera
The source is at
[http://github.com/emcien/parenting](http://github.com/emcien/parenting) if
anyone prefers to go straight there.
| {
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TIOBE is (unintentionally) misleading; in truth, interest in Java is surging - lukaseder
http://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/241acq/tiobe_is_unintentionally_misleading_in_truth/
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facorreia
> The core component of the method seems to be search statistics for the name
> of each language followed by the word "p... | {
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Give Them the Button - wheresvic1
http://www.michaelnygard.com/blog/2015/10/give-them-the-button/
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diminoten
I'm a big fan of having automation enforce as many rules as possible, but
mostly because the cost for a person to enforce a rule (overly simple example
being tabs vs. spaces) from a relationship standpoin... | {
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} |
First flight of Lunar plant growth experiment - murtza
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/cct/office/cif/2013/lunar_plant.html
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bfe
The lead contact point for this proposal, Chris McKay of NASA Ames, had a
similar proposal around 14 years ago for growing a rose plant on a Mars
lander. It'll be fun to see this id... | {
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Craving Growth, Walgreens Dismissed Its Doubts About Theranos - dbcooper
http://on.wsj.com/1ONLNxk
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dbcooper
An interesting note:
>In October 2012, Walgreens sent two executives and Paul Rust, a retired
executive from clinical-lab company Quest Diagnostics Corp. , on a trip that
included a review of quality-con... | {
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Developer Time - craigkerstiens
http://pydanny.com/developer-time.html
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willholloway
This is why I created my own alternative to ordinary clocks - Maker Time:
<http://willholloway.net/makertime.html>
Clocks get it wrong because they count up, but one day we will all die, so
from our perspective time is counting... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Does classic Thinkpad like keyboard portable come as bluetooth keyboard - sreenadh
I just come across a [bluetooth keyboard](https://www.amazon.com/1byone-Foldable-Bluetooth-Keyboard-Smartphone/dp/B00VRCKK1Y). It looks nice. But chiclet keyboard is an issue.<p>Is a [classic Thinkpad li... | {
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Ask HN: Do you still use Antivirus in 2019? - bishala
I have not installed a single antivirus software in the past 5 years or so and haven't been infected either(used to get constantly infected during the XP days). I think Windows Defender is pretty good these days. Do other HN'rs feel the same way?
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... | {
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Is the online advertising bubble finally starting to pop? - rinze
http://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2016/05/09/is-the-online-advertising-bubble-finally-starting-to-pop/
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fchollet
> I started calling online advertising a bubble in 2008.
Then maybe it's time to quit punditry; that was 8 years ago and the online
advert... | {
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The F.D.A.’s Medical Device Problem - sethbannon
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/17/opinion/the-fdas-medical-device-problem.html
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crisnoble
As an insulin dependent diabetic I am consistently frustrated at how slow the
medical device approval market moves. There is a reason that the most advanced
insulin pump that... | {
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} |
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