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Tail Call Elimination - eatonphil
http://notes.eatonphil.com/tail-call-elimination.html
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Waterluvian
Anyone able to reccommend a good graphical exploration of the lifecycle of a
tail call recursive function? I understand it but I can't really grok what's
going on throughout the whole lifecycle.
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Ask HN: How should i present my skill sets with my cv - thedangler
Recently when applying for jobs i've come across fill in the blank type resume submission.<p>In the CV part I've been providing my skill sets as a list. What is the best way to list the skills with out just slapping key words and listing languages.<p... | {
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The Elephant is Not its Trunk: Stop fooling yourself about marketing - ahoyhere
http://slash7.com/2009/12/11/the-elephant-is-not-its-trunk/
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potatolicious
Some salient and insightful points - but hard to reach because of all of the
shameless anti-geek stereotyping (coming from an alleged geek no less).
Protip: ... | {
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Linux Containers Coming to Windows Server Though Hyper-V Isolation - taylorbrown
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/hybridcloud/2017/04/18/dockercon-2017-powering-new-linux-innovations-with-hyper-v-isolation-and-windows-server/
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rhencke
I can't help but think the real endgame for the Windows Subsystem for Linux... | {
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Play framework 2.0 released - mrspeaker
http://blog.typesafe.com/introducing-play-20
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sdoowpilihp
I have been waiting for this update for a while. Has anyone gone through the
process of updating from 1.2.x to 2.0 yet? Was the process painful? Did you
run into any "gotchas"?
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Breaking the physical limits of fonts - graphitemaster
https://github.com/graphitemaster/breaking_the_physical_limits_of_fonts#breaking-the-physical-limits-of-fonts
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sehugg
A weird thing about some early discrete arcade games is that they generated
3x5 pixel digits without a ROM. They used a 7448 seven-segment d... | {
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Create a perfect sketch of your car accident - blasdel
http://draw.accidentsketch.com/
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quizbiz
One of the rare times I have seen an app, instantly realized what it does and
instantly started playing around with it. And Safari is my default browser.
It needs motion and cross-browser compatibility. It needs a wa... | {
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Color postcards of Istanbul, circa 1890 - enraged_camel
http://mashable.com/2016/08/20/istanbul-photochrom/#CinpjVvM78qK
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enraged_camel
As someone born and raised in Turkey, and very familiar with Istanbul, these
were stunning, so I wanted to share them. It's kind of funny how color really
adds life to pictures.... | {
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Ask HN: Im a programmer who feels deficient at solving puzzles. How to improve? - UpMyAlgoGame
Hi HN,<p>I've been programming my whole life (and, professionally, for 6 years).<p>However, I feel very deficient in solving puzzles and algorithms.<p>The things I feel deficient at are problems that sound like: 'g... | {
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Jezebel on Snowden's girlfriend - gonzo
http://jezebel.com/nsa-leakers-romantic-life-reads-like-escapist-fan-fict-512585576
Jezebel reports on Edward Snowden's "dancer" girlfriend, or at least her blog and social media stream(s).
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LoganCale
> It's bullshit to focus on Snowden's personal life ins... | {
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Merb has a wiki, built with Merb. - luccastera
http://wiki.merbivore.com/
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rcoder
..and for those interested in the Wiki itself, allow me to save you the few
seconds required to find the footer link:
<http://github.com/meekish/collective>
Looking through the source, I notice they used Defensio as a spam filter... | {
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Ask HN: Why are you not using semver? - pedrorijo91
While many OSS have adopted semver (http://semver.org/) it is not hard to find one that it doesn't. I'm sure the maintainers must have its reasons (I hope it's not laziness), and would like to know them.
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jstoja
I don't exactly kno... | {
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Let’s Quit Fetishizing the Single-Family Home - tysone
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/opinion/california-single-family-housing.html
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JohnFen
It doesn't help to call the desire for single-family homes "fetishizing".
The reality is that single-family homes are the most desirable way to live for
most people. I... | {
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Deep sea 'mushroom' may be new branch of life - anigbrowl
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29054889
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irickt
To put this in perspective, there are very few animals that are not bilateral.
Look at the outline on the right side here:
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anim... | {
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Ask HN: using tweets from happy users on website? - lemming
So I'm working on a product and I'm getting lots of enthusiastic tweets. I've seen products embedding tweets as advertising on their websites, what's the etiquette around this? You can't really ask for permission, and tweets are all... | {
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Ask HN: How can we make the web more seamlessly translated/multilingual? - arikr
It seems at this point that deep learning language translation is pretty solid.<p>But it also seems that Google in other countries doesn't index machine translated versions of webpages that are written in English.<p>That means that w... | {
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Joyous Africans Take to the Rails, with China’s Help - e15ctr0n
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/world/africa/africa-china-train.html
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bcks
I was surprised that the NYT article did not have a map of the route. Luckily,
WikiPedia has it covered:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addis_Ababa–Djibouti_Railway](https... | {
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Don't criticize. Be solidary. Get yourself useful - liveweird
https://no-kill-switch.ghost.io/dont-criticize-be-solidary-get-yourself-useful/
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Johnjonjoan
Don't criticise.. I'll be sure to pass this on to any Hungarians I meet.
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239 Experts with 1 Big Claim: The Coronavirus Is Airborne - ryanar
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/04/health/239-experts-with-1-big-claim-the-coronavirus-is-airborne.html
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deegles
I really don’t want to go back to the office. This week will be a tough
conversation with my manager about WFH until there’s a vaccin... | {
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This American Life: Last Man Standing - yan
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/421/last-man-standing
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yan
Wanted to share a beautiful episode of This American Life (1hr, audio), which
I think is very relevant to this community, especially Act II. Tackles
perseverance, failure and drive.
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Ask HN: HN Favourites Insights - spapas82
Is there a way to access aggregate statistics about the favourite posts and comments of HN users? It would be really great if I could see the top 10 (or top 100) posts and comments across HN.<p>If there's not maybe somebody could use the HN API to aggregate that somehow? ... | {
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Reasons we don’t write code like we used to - jonbaer
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3519612/5-reasons-we-dont-write-code-like-we-used-to.html
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Mountain_Skies
Programming often seems to be more about configuring various frameworks than
figuring out how to express business rules or work flows in logic and then... | {
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A pattern for prime numbers may have been found by a japanese - morphir
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/12/abc-conjecture-shinichi-mochizuki-prime-numbers_n_1877692.html
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tokenadult
Previous extensive Hacker News discussion of the better source mentioned in
the first comment here:
<http://news.ycombinat... | {
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Why technologists don't want to work at a government agency - rmason
http://ben.balter.com/2015/04/21/why-technologists-dont-want-to-work-at-your-agency/
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therobot24
As someone who has worked for more than one agency, reading this list is like
listening to a high schooler complain about getting up early for scho... | {
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Illinois might start charging $1k per year to own an electric vehicle - gravy
https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-electric-vehicle-fee-illinois-20190509-story.html
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dang
Political might-or-might-not stories aren't substantive enough to be on topic
here. They're cousins to announcement-of-an-announceme... | {
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Show HN: What do you think of my landing page? - ajjuliani
http://ebook.educationismylife.com/free-ebook-club/
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ChrisBland
You should look at the case usage on the page. book, Book, ebook, eBook - it
makes it feel like a foreign spam site.
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tspike
Looks spammy and I have no idea why I would enter my inf... | {
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Server-Sent Events: The simplest realtime browser spec - ianstormtaylor
https://segment.io/blog/2014-04-03-server-sent-events-the-simplest-realtime-browser-spec/
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klibertp
Isn't this basically what we did some 10 years ago with a hidden, slowly
loading iframe? It was widely known and used then, I suppose the tec... | {
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What's your one song? Jack started us off at SUS13 - scotthtaylor
http://open.spotify.com/user/staylor09/playlist/7tkGvWGn0dy3qGn9RjD0Nk
Jack Dorsey gave us the one song that supports and inspires him. What's your one song?<p>I've created a shared playlist on Spotify.
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dzink
Mysterious (With Music Bo... | {
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Microsoft is making Xbox body wash - _bxg1
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2019/6/4/18652484/microsoft-xbox-lynx-body-wash-axe-lifestyle-gaming-products
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thomasjudge
Brought to you by Microsoft, Axe Body Spray, and gamer's moms...
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Flickr Engineers Do It Offline - joshwa
http://code.flickr.com/blog/2008/09/26/flickr-engineers-do-it-offline/
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timtrueman
The point of having a backend queue is that on very large scale systems an
easy way to boost the "speed" of your site is never do synchronous writes
(writes being loosely defined as anything... | {
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Creating an AndroidWear watchface using Kotlin - robjperez
https://medium.com/@robj.perez/creating-an-androidwear-watchface-using-kotlin-e5f725813fa9#.ge0ejo3wv
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okonomiyaki3000
I hope you had a good time at the diner with Rob. Did you have dinner there?
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Ask HN: What's your must-have software for OS X? - kuwze
Just curious if anyone has any recommendations.
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yarapavan
Search for previous HN discussions. Follow it up with:
[https://github.com/iCHAIT/awesome-macOS](https://github.com/iCHAIT/awesome-
macOS) [https://github.com/jaywcjlove/awesome-
mac](https://githu... | {
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Computer Programmers the 7th most sleep deprived profession - mathattack
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/americas-10-most-sleep-deprived-222203794.html
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JoeAltmaier
Wow! I can get 11 more minutes of sleep a day, simply by calling myself an
Engineer instead of a Computer Programmer.
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mathattack
And you'll sav... | {
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Intelligent Machines Might Want to Become Biological Again - vo2maxer
https://aeon.co/essays/intelligent-machines-might-want-to-become-biological-again
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Engineering-MD
On a similar note to this article I have always wondered what would happen if
we try male an artificial neural network out of actual neurones. La... | {
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Louis C.K. is selling another comedian's standup on his site for $5 - csmajorfive
http://buy.louisck.net/purchase/tig-notaro-live
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fluxon
Well, that's awesome. I've liked Tig's stuff for years, too.
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Yahoo’s Perplexing Remote Workers Decision - johnjlocke
http://www.lockedowndesign.com/yahoo-new-remote-workers-policy/
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millstone
I applaud Mayer's decision, because I loathe collaborating with remotes at my
workplace. I can't just walk to a remote's office to ask them a question. I
can't do in-person code revi... | {
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Jacob Goldman, Xerox Lab Founder, Dies - iamandrus
http://mashable.com/2011/12/23/jacob-goldman-xerox-parc-founder-dies/
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brianstorms
I interviewed him in 2003. He was a real Macintosh fan.
[http://brianstorms.com/2011/12/xeroxs-jack-goldman-mac-
fanat...](http://brianstorms.com/2011/12/xeroxs-jack-goldman-ma... | {
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Ask HN: A variant approach on Basic Income - Pamar
Basic Income is a hotly debated issue, especially on HN (I understand that YCombinator are doing their own experiments there) so I would like to discuss a variant that (as far as I know) has not been discussed by anyone yet.<p>(feel free to provide links or other poin... | {
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Last-khajiit/vkb: Java bot for vk.com competitions - last_khajiit
https://github.com/last-khajiit/vkb
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YeGoblynQueenne
Last khajiit greets me (a stranger) and lets me wondering what happened to the
first one.
Is this supposed to be interacted with, somehow?
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last_khajiit
He is the last, because the others h... | {
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Eigenvectors and eigenvalues explained visually - sonabinu
http://setosa.io/ev/eigenvectors-and-eigenvalues/
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pvg
Eigenthread at:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8918259](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8918259)
[https://hn.algolia.com/?query=eigenvalues%20setosia&sort=byP...](https://hn.algolia.co... | {
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Gender Roles with Text Mining and N-grams - denzil_correa
http://juliasilge.com/blog/Gender-Pronouns/
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emodendroket
I kind of expected this to say something about "married" being flipped between
Jane Austen and George Elliot rather than just glossing over it and saying the
results for both authors are substantia... | {
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Cloud based email filtering and bidding service - olidu
http://ecloudguard.com
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Throwadev
Can you give one or two use cases for this product? I guess if you are on
email newsletter lists this would filter those out. But what's the purpose for
the bidding feature?
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olidu
It could be used for some public ema... | {
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MINIX Creator Andrew Tanenbaum Sends Open Letter to Intel Over MINIX Drama - pulisse
https://www.techpowerup.com/238677/minix-creator-andrew-tanenbaum-sends-open-letter-to-intel-over-minix-drama
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phoe-krk
This is pretty old news. This letter was created a month ago.
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etiam
The added notes were not in that, a... | {
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Where grep came from [video] - signa11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTfOnGZUZDk
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amorousf00p
Kernighan is so nice to listen to compared to some of the the hot air balloons
in software today. I use awk everywhere (and have for many years) and am
deeply indebted to BK and AR for their work on and custody of tha... | {
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Ask HN: Trademark/LLC Dispute Questions - trdmrkthrowaway
Throwaway account here. I have an LLC and Trademark registered as the same name. I bought the .us version of my trademark domain. I offered the .com owner of the trademark domain a few hundred bucks for his domain as it wasn't really being used. His site ... | {
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Ask HN and PG - Justin.tv Question? - keltecp11
How does Justin.tv get by still with so many people broadcasting pirated and copyrighted material? How have they not been shut down ie. Napster?
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qeorge
_(Not affiliated with either party, but here's my take)_
Simple: clear fair use, and responsiveness to taked... | {
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Scaling Engineering Teams via Writing Things Down and Sharing – Aka RFCs - jbredeche
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/scaling-engineering-teams-via-writing-things-down-rfcs/
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prepend
This one of those things that sounds simple to do, but is rarely done. And
there’s lots of cultural forces that work against it.... | {
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Stop the Apple and Google contact tracing platform - jrepinc
https://blog.xot.nl/2020/04/11/stop-the-apple-and-google-contact-tracing-platform-or-be-ready-to-ditch-your-smartphone/
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jmull
This guy is wrong about the Apple/Google contact tracing program.
As created, it’s opt-in only and does not report matches t... | {
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} |
Our Brand Could Be Your Crisis - chippy
http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/our-brand-could-be-your-crisis/
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chippy
Whilst a bit rambling and somewhat repetitive about the film, the article does
introduce some interesting perspectives on today's millennial culture. I think
it is signalling an exciting future...
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The Null Ritual (2004) [pdf] - zby
https://library.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/ft/gg/GG_Null_2004.pdf
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AstralStorm
Medical science sometimes escapes the wrong approach by actually providing
odds ratios (conditional probability estimate between events or phones) or
effect sizes including confidence bounds on these. That i... | {
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Ask HN: I don't like front end anymore. What should I do? - t-90--
I self-learned frontend, because it was easy to start a new career with it.<p>I'm overwhelmed quickly when i have to solve a (simple) problem with javascript, so i think backend would not be an option.<p>I did some UX but don't see a real car... | {
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$2T in Proceeds of Corruption Removed from China and Taken to US, AUS, CAN, NL - kspaans
http://www.antimoneylaunderinglaw.com/2017/01/qa-on-the-2-trillion-in-proceeds-of-corruption-removed-from-china-and-taken-to-us-australia-canada-and-netherlands.html
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a_bonobo
This is a relatively big problem in Australia - ... | {
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} |
Gmail Will Soon Warn Users When Emails Arrive Over Unencrypted Connections - lujim
http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/12/gmail-will-soon-warn-users-when-emails-arrive-over-unencrypted-connections/
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Someone1234
What depresses me is that many organisations agree that SMTP needs some work.
However the stakeholders simpl... | {
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Get the Anti-Startup and Anti-Angel Provisions Struck From Dodd's Banking Bill - davidblerner
http://www.davidblerner.com/david_b_lerner/2010/03/get-the-antistartup-and-antiangel-provisions-struck-from-senator-dodds-banking-bill.html
There is a rather large missile rapidly approaching America's innovation culture. Pr... | {
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} |
Show HN: tld-list.com – 818 Top Level Domains and Their Cheapest Registrars - timbowhite
http://tld-list.com
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mindo
Listing is not accurate, prices for some domains are way too high (even twice
the price I've seen elsewhere). I would guess someone is making bucks from
advertising Hover and Gandi...
~~~
timbow... | {
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SQL Database on Blockchain: CovenantSQL - auxten
https://medium.com/@covenant_labs/covenantsql-the-sql-database-on-blockchain-db027aaf1e0e
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auxten
[https://github.com/CovenantSQL/CovenantSQL](https://github.com/CovenantSQL/CovenantSQL)
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The Limits of Language - pron
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/classes/2015/09/take_a_wittgenstein_class_he_explains_the_problems_of_translating_language.single.html
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ttctciyf
It is quite striking to me that the decentralised, statistical, emergent
treatment of meaning in PI fits so well with neural-networks... | {
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2 Guys Made an App Called Channels for Android and iPhone: Post – Find – Chat - renaissancelabs
http://www.channelsapp.co
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renaissancelabs
App: Channels App Website: www.channelsapp.co Twitter: @TheChannelsApp
What is Channels: Channels is a simple way to create posts about any topic
(something for sale, event,... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Where do save your source code on desk? - _shadi
Under which directory do you keep your source code? And any benefits of keeping it under that path?
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brudgers
I have directories by language in ~/home/. At the scale of code I write, if
there's code in another language, then I just put alongside the other
... | {
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Scientists say most likely number of contactable alien civilisations is 36 - lohfu
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jun/15/scientists-say-most-likely-number-of-contactable-alien-civilisations-is-36
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doener
Harsh criticism of that study in German:
[https://www.spektrum.de/kolumne/planlos-durchs-
weltall/... | {
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} |
Google Wave: There Will Be Backlash - vaksel
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/30/google-wave-there-will-be-backlash/
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ugh
Wave is complex and ambitious, some like it, some don’t and we don’t really
know whether it will succeed.
Now that’s what I call great insight. I would never ever have thought of that.
~~~... | {
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} |
Raspberry Pis + Solenoids + Acoustic Instruments = Live Action NES Music - robodrum
http://youtube.com/watch?v=T1wlaj7RyKI
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robodrum
This system allows for Nintendo gameplay audio to be played through an
acoustic player piano and robotically controlled percussive instruments. The
piano and percussion play live... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Any developers interested in working on something new? - warewolf
I'm an early stage UI/UX designer for Whatsapp and Instacart. Every year I work on 2 startups either personal or as an advisor, I'm looking to start a new project with a interested developer. Someone who is the true definition of ... | {
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How to lose $8k worth of Bitcoin in 15 minutes with Verizon and Coinbase.com - jpatokal
https://medium.com/@CodyBrown/how-to-lose-8k-worth-of-bitcoin-in-15-minutes-with-verizon-and-coinbase-com-ba75fb8d0bac
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WrtCdEvrydy
Before opening: Phone was ported somewhere, SMS was hijacked for two-factor...
and I was righ... | {
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} |
Knossos: Redis and Linearizability - m0nastic
http://aphyr.com/posts/309-knossos-redis-and-linearizability
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sudhirj
Much respect for both Antirez and Aphyr.
I keep thinking Antirez is being forced into these problems by community
pressure, though. There seems to be a lot of effort going into trying to make
Re... | {
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What it feels like to get hit by a pitch - DiabloD3
http://www.espn.co.uk/mlb/story/_/id/8195515
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eximius
The only major pitch hit I've experienced was in the side of the head, so I
was spared the immediate jolt and pain by simply having my next conscious
moment on the ground.
Also, it was probably going 50mph ... | {
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} |
CSS Bugs and Inconsistencies in Firefox 3.x - cwan
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2010/03/css-bugs-and-inconsistencies-in-firefox-3-x/
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mmastrac
Good reference. Thankfully a pretty small list.
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Amazon’s Latest Experiment: Retraining Its Work Force - artsandsci
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/11/technology/amazon-workers-retraining-automation.html
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super-serial
I wonder what the success rate is for their retraining program to turn factory
workers into coders.
When watching Andrew Yang's Presidential pi... | {
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} |
How many people have sound enabled on their computers? - iamyoohoo
Can someone point me to a study or stat on how many people have sound enabled on their computers.<p>We need to do some analysis for an app we're building which depends on sound being enabled.
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RobGR
Some of my computers have sound, my main one ... | {
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} |
The Power of Now - andreas_s
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/05/the-power-of-now/
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Locke1689
"The Power of Now taught me that there is no line segment. The point is all
there is. The past and the future are illusions. They only exist to the degree
we focus our attention on them right now. We create the p... | {
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Wooden combination lock - chaosmachine
https://woodgears.ca/combolock/index.html
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MatthiasWandel
Hi, it's Matthias here (I built the lock). Got any questions for me?
~~~
11thEarlOfMar
Very fun. Is there any reason the basic design can't extend to more than 3
numbers?
~~~
MatthiasWandel
You could go to more num... | {
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Ask HN: What are some cool new technologies/databases to learn up? - scalatohaskell
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jbranchaud
Postgres, though not new, has some incredibly powerful features these days
that make it worth investing in.
\- JSONB column type, get NoSQL-esque document storage when you need it.
\- Generated columns, computed from... | {
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} |
Woman earns college degree two decades after complete memory loss - GiraffeNecktie
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/gaithersburg-woman-earns-college-degree-two-decades-after-complete-memory-loss/2011/05/19/AFWAMg8G_story.html
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AngryParsley
_“It was literally like she had died,” Jim said. “Her person... | {
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} |
Blinkk.me launch Facebook application “Pix0Mix” - prateek_4
http://nogle.in/blinkk-me-launch-facebook-application-pix0mix-2/
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prateek_4
I like this app. Before I had to use windows movie maker to create the video
but pixomix creates memory in just 2 clicks.
| {
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} |
Bootstrap 4 Alpha 4 Released - rev
http://blog.getbootstrap.com/2016/09/05/bootstrap-4-alpha-4/
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usaphp
I see a lot of people here and on GitHub project page complaining about
compatibility with older versions of bootstrap. I don't get it - if your
project is already working on older version of bootstrap - why e... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Revolutionary self-fertilizing corn enables better agriculture productivity - ironchief
https://medium.com/@ktemme/revolutionary-self-fertilizing-corn-enables-better-agriculture-productivity-2be5b0045e03
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JoeAltmaier
Possibly the biggest news in agriculture since hybrid corn. Some crops (like
soybeans) can 'fix ... | {
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} |
For a small fee, you can become a digital Estonian - respinal
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20190718-e-residency
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Quequau
I wonder what the true benefits and drawbacks are... and not just the
marketing speak.
| {
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} |
Marian Rejewski and the first break of the Enigma machine - DanBC
http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-enigma
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DanBC
Submitting this because I don't think I've ever heard the name Marian Rejewski
before. Here's the Wikipedia article:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Rejewski](https://en.wikiped... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Machine Learning to Identify Environmentally At-Risk Communities in the U.S - bctwilson
http://arcg.is/2j5jEIS
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guitarbill
It's useful, but very laggy. And the raw(?) data in the popups don't have any
units or any comparison values/indicators. "DieselPM 97.57" \- could be
awesome, average or awful, e.g. lowest/w... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: A React Native Puzzle Game: RGB Logic - amimetic
http://complexview.com/apps/rgb-logic/index.html
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amimetic
I built the first version for iOS, but it only took a couple of hours to
_ship_ a customised version for Android (and quite a bit of that time was
actually on improvements to both versions).
Didn... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Google brain connects his StarCraft past with AI future - mthwsjc_
https://www.ft.com/content/6a48eb5e-627b-11e7-8814-0ac7eb84e5f1
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ainiriand
'...how to play popular 1990s shoot-’em-up...'. Oh god.
| {
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} |
VirtualBox E1000 Guest-to-Host Escape - kpcyrd
https://github.com/MorteNoir1/virtualbox_e1000_0day
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metafunctor
This [1] gives a little more background. The same security researcher found
another vulnerability in VirtualBox earlier this year, and didn't have a great
experience with Oracle:
“We reported this vul... | {
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} |
The 1970 Kidnapping of an N.Y.U. Computer - jonbaer
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/07/nyregion/the-mathematicians-who-ended-the-kidnapping-of-an-nyu-computer.html
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greenyoda
I used that very computer a couple of years after these events occurred. It
was a CDC 6600.[1]
[1]
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_6600... | {
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10 years of Ruby security disclosures analyzed - hcm
https://dependabot.com/blog/the-latest-dependency-version-is-probably-the-most-secure
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greysteil
Hey, Grey from Dependabot here. Happy to answer any questions people have
about the data or the analysis we've done.
| {
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} |
Carmack says Apple is not proud of the iPhone being a game machine - cesare
http://www.edibleapple.com/doom-creator-john-carmack-on-working-with-apple-and-their-view-of-gaming/
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lsb
Imagine all the satellite engineers, dismayed that people use GPS to geocache
junk in tupperware around the world.
Imagine all the... | {
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} |
Optimization-unstable code - DmitryNovikov
http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/575563/da8d3ff5f35e8220/
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AndreyKarpov
Yes, null pointer dereference is often situation:
[http://www.viva64.com/en/examples/V595/](http://www.viva64.com/en/examples/V595/)
| {
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24 Things You Might Be Saying Wrong - stevenp
http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/life/24-things-you-might-be-saying-wrong-2338028/
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smallblacksun
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtMU8nvZzOs#t=0m29s>
| {
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Ask HN: Defeating infinite scroll: a bureaucratic defense mechanism - NYezhov
Formality: This is a non-political post if you want access to information it should cross party lines.<p>This URL will direct you to the Facebook Ad library for the president's reelection campaign.
[https://www.facebook.com&#... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Stop making apps with surveillance-based components - kgraves
https://twitter.com/aral/status/1253980623812923392
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anotheryou
On that note: every company I've been at struggles with even just KPIs (yet
they all have google analytics).
I love tools like Mixpanel/Amplitude/Indicative which give you great
statisti... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Studies show testosterone offers little benefits to aging men - amelius
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/02/testosterone-pills-wont-beef-up-your-brain-but-could-harm-your-heart/
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padraic7a
There are large numbers of men who take testosterone and I don't imagine
[m]any of them do it for improvements in "cogni... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Cybersecurity Effects of Fourth-Parties on Websites - Reflectiz
https://www.reflectiz.com/the-cybersecurity-effects-of-fourth-parties-on-websites/
======
rikroots
I think this article is a useful overview of the risks associated with relying
on 3rd party software loaded into a website, which in turn rely on their ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Coin is awesome - but my mind is on fees - tomasien
http://istommydrunk.svbtle.com/coin-an-awesome-step-in-a-sideways-direction
======
PaulHoule
Yeah and the rent is too damn high too.
Compared to all the costs of marketing and doing business (like the landlord
who'd rather charge $2X for rent and have 30% of the s... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Why is Smalltalk Dead? - Permit
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyIsSmalltalkDead
======
recuter
The Early History of Smalltalk:
[http://gagne.homedns.org/~tgagne/contrib/EarlyHistoryST.html](http://gagne.homedns.org/~tgagne/contrib/EarlyHistoryST.html)
If you have an extra hour, there's a beautifully written People's Histor... | {
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} |
Chrome Beta channel for phones and tablets on Android 4.0+ - arrowgunz
http://chrome.blogspot.com/2013/01/our-newest-beta-for-android-phones-and.html
======
jsnell
I can't properly express how disappointed I am by this release. Chrome on
mobile has been a redheaded stepchild for almost a year, with the vague
promise... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: I am about to be fired. What should I do? - s_q_b
I am currently a data scientist for a major firm, and I am facing a manager who wishes to fire me.<p>He assigned me to follow the instructions of an "expert" in completing a compliance document (a task in which I am not trained), and the "expert&... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Nokia's Upcoming 10.1-inch Tablet - Sneak Preview - technogist
http://www.technogist.com/2012/12/nokia-upcoming-10.1-inch-tablet-sneak-preview.html
======
thedrbrian
Less sneak preview more collection of rumours
| {
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Lesser known DNS tools and BIND tricks (2012) - jaytaylor
http://strotmann.de/~cas/bind-tricks-talk/
======
sciurus
Here are the debian packages for most of the tools mentioned in the
presentation.
dnsutils: dig, nslookup
udns-utils: dnsget, rblcheck
adns-tools: adnsheloex, adnshos... | {
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} |
Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems (2015) - zt
http://jsomers.net/blog/speed-matters
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koonsolo
40 year old here. Speed doesn't matter as much as WHAT you deliver. First of
all, people do not know how much time something takes. And secondly, they will
forget how much time it took, ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: European founders in YC? - knarf
I know I've read about some founders from outside US and what they had to do to get working permissions, but I can't find the link. Anybody got that link or some other advice?
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hooande
YC has a lot of founders from outside of the US. There were four teams from
outside ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Lyft looking to raise $500M in new funding at valuation of about $4B - Jerry2
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/18/business/dealbook/lyft-said-to-seek-dollar500-million-in-funding.html
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jcdavis
"At the Robin Hood Investors Conference in New York on Tuesday, Lyft said it
expected to generate about $1 billion in annu... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
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