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Canada adopting plastic bank note technology starting next year - MikeCapone
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/bureau-blog/open-your-wallets-for-plastic-cash/article1489845/
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pedalpete
After using Australian bills for just a short period of time, I'm amazed more
countries haven't adopted the plastic money. ... | {
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Y Combinator Startup School Notelab 2006 - hhm
http://notelab.infogami.com/startupschool2006
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ivankirigin
Loopt used to be named Flipt? What, were potential investors worried that
flipped implies a lack of long term commitment? :-P
This is an awesome page. The speaker list rocks. It reads like the crib notes
... | {
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} |
Analyzing Techmeme’s Top 100 Blogs: Techmeme Presence vs. Monthly Traffic - kimboslice
http://ryanspoon.com/blog/2008/06/01/analyzing-techmemes-top-100-blogs-techmeme-presence-vs-monthly-traffic/
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tejava
Would be interesting to see top digg users, the sites they regularly digg and
their traffic
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Popular startup advice that misleads entrepreneurs - Priyaj
http://whittleidea.com/blog/24-popular-startup-advice-that-misleads-entrepreneurs
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kstenerud
5\. The CEO doesn't need to be a techie, but (s)he needs to understand how the
sausage is made.
7\. Some people hit a home run first time, but this is rare. ... | {
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Ask YC: How can I help in Japan? - tirrellp
I know I can help in the 'normal ways with donations'. But I actually have time to travel out there and give time, effort, and sweat. Whether its technical/hacker stuff, or organization/project management stuff, or just plain old get hands dirty and help with cleanup st... | {
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Yahoo’s Tough Week Ahead - noname99
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/03/yahoos-tough-week-ahead/
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mynameishere
Bah, Microsoft can just get some interns to replicate Yahoo now.
At any rate, a google+yahoo merger would be a nasty monopoly--something you
can only really understand if you've dealt with their res... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Which Scheme book to read? - sophiebits
I'm a high-school student interested in programming and I'm trying to decide between The Little Schemer and SICP (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs). Haven't really found any comparison anywhere and both books seem to have many fans online. Does anyone he... | {
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} |
‘eyeDisk’ USB drive secured with iris recognition reveals password in plain text - rbanffy
https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/eyedisk-hacking-the-unhackable-again/
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ezoe
This _unhackable_ USB drive has a camera and it check the iris pattern as well
as a password before unlocking the storage.
USB driv... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How was Vimeo built? - sscheper
I really like the look/feel and light-weight design of vimeo.<p>Would anyone mind giving their 2 cents on what languages it was built using, or how it was built?<p>Thanks :)
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pclark
it uses mootools for a lot of the pretty UI stuff, and it's ruby on rails.
~~~
sscheper
... | {
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Ask HN: What is up with these awful albums in Rdio's heavy rotation section? - Rodeoclash
The current number two top album on Rdio is "Jazz for Dogs" by Little Robertson. It's also on iTunes (see here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/sniff/id668974536?i=668974736) and ... | {
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Ideas are Worthless? Wrong! Ideas can solve problems - juwo
http://juwo-works.blogspot.com/2007/05/ideas-are-worthless-wrong-ideas-can.html
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juwo
Agree/Disagree?
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Comcast says it will not sell customer browsing histories - jgrahamc
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fcc-data-idUSKBN1722D6?il=0
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salesguy222
Which is why they lobbied for the bill to be passed, right!
It'll be just like the FBI v Apple saga. "We need the courts and Congress to
give us some very specific ... | {
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} |
Is Berlin Europe's next big tech hub? - doener
https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/is-berlin-europes-next-big-tech-hub
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ChrisRR
Betteridge's Law of Headlines
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines)
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Training Officers to Shoot First, and He Will Answer Questions Later - rrauenza
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/us/training-officers-to-shoot-first-and-he-will-answer-questions-later.html
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rrauenza
(From 2015)
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Why Are Geniuses Destroying Jobs in Uganda? - 1PlayerOne
https://www.cgdev.org/blog/why-are-geniuses-destroying-jobs-uganda
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Finnucane
This is true to a certain extent. Clearly, labor costs would be affected if
labor could move more freely. We see this in the US in the fights over
immigrant labor and minimum wag... | {
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} |
West Oakland Is For Startups - rekoros
https://medium.com/i-love-you-san-francisco/5142e32747e8
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malandrew
I used to bike from SF to Berkeley when our office was there and I would
always start my East Bay leg of the trip from the West Oakland Bart station.
It really is a huge shame that that area is such a dum... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Data to Booty extension - quickgiant
https://github.com/quickgiant/data-to-booty/
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byoung2
_Chrome extension that replaces occurrences of 'big booty' with 'big booty'_
Shouldn't that first 'big booty' be 'big data'? Also, what is the reason for
doing 4 regex replaces with different case? Why not just do one c... | {
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} |
Just a Puzzle Game – A new mobile game, definitely Not a sinister conspiracy - psloth
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.justapuzzlegame
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psloth
I've made a few games in my spare time, but this is the first one I've
actually released. I hope you enjoy it!
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Why footballers are worth every penny - JacobAldridge
http://www.crunch.co.uk/blog/business-advice/2014/04/24/footballers-paid-average-wage/
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mooism2
That's just bizarre.
If you pay the players that much less, then they'll play for clubs in other
leagues without pay caps. This will lead to less revenue to clu... | {
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} |
Show HN: I Wrote CSS and JavaScript Style Guides - bevacqua
https://github.com/bevacqua/css
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kagamine
First thing I noticed, because it's first on the list, was namespaces. Very
good to use ddl-this-list as you suggest an dthis is what I do, but it breaks
in Angular when using, iirc, ng-show & hide and ng-if. ... | {
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Softbank to Take Control of WeWork - hkmurakami
https://www.wsj.com/articles/softbank-to-take-control-of-wework-11571746483?mod=rsswn
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aussiegreenie
I wonder how the Saudi and the other Arab investors in the Vision Fund must
really be happy.
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say_it_as_it_is
Is Bernie Madoff running Softbank from prison?
... | {
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CipherCloud Responds to the Crypto StackExchange Controversy - signifiers
http://blog.ciphercloud.com/responding-to-the-myths-about-cipherclouds-encryption-technology/
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tptacek
Weasel wording filter:
Graf 1, sentence 1: "a few board threads" -> Internet's current most important
programming forum.
Graf 1, sente... | {
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Ask HN: Ethics of bonuses tied to diversity targets? - anonSVer
Anon for this one. I'm a mid level manager at a large (10k+ people) company HQed in the SF Bay Area. Like most companies here we have a diversity issue - our proportion of women and underrepresented minorities is not inline with where we want it to b... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Where can I find info on low-latency audio programming? - omginternets
As a cognitive neuroscience grad student, I have a sudden need for low-latency audio stimulation. In short I have two needs:<p>1. I need to reduce jitter between programmatic audio playback and actual response in the headset. This is the... | {
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} |
The World's New Numbers (2009) - jessekeys
http://www.wilsonquarterly.com/article.cfm?aid=1408
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lutusp
> Defying predictions of demographic decline, northern Europeans have started
> having more babies. Britain and France are now projecting steady population
> growth through the middle of the century. In North... | {
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} |
Decentralized blockchain enables businesses to capitalize on data protection - flywithdolp
https://tide.org/blog/blockchain-data-protection
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Yuval_Halevi
>In 2019 alone companies including Toyota, Canva, First American, Facebook,
Westpac (the list goes on) have reported data breaches. It’s not hard to
conceive t... | {
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Get Shit Done with Finish Up Weekend - gdltec
http://ontechies.com/2013/02/06/get-shit-done-with-finish-up-weekend/
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secure
When I first read the abbreviation, I thought it’d mean “F __* you, weekend!
Let’s work instead.” :-)
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offdrey
Yes, the name is a little confusing, but a good idea nevetheless.
-----... | {
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Any good resources to learn PHP? - mdickson
I'm just starting out learning certain languages and was wondering if anyone knew of any good sites for PHP beginers or what not. Thanks in advance.
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hrasm
If you already have a programming background, my advice is build a simple app.
Pick up a fairly easy framework ... | {
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} |
AMD to build fastest supercomputer for... games - BvS
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090108/amd-build-fastest-supercomputer-games_all.htm
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riobard
How do they solve the bandwidth issue for HD?
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Pwning banks – Miika Turkia [pdf] - Buetol
http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2017ams/materials/D1T4%20-%20Miika%20Turkia%20-%20Pwning%20Banks.pdf
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Buetol
Coming from "Hack In The Box - Amsterdam", here are other slides:
[http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2017ams/materials/](http://conference.hitb.org/hit... | {
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} |
How to Make More Published Research True - phreeza
http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1001747
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stevenschmatz
I did research at a lab at Harvard Medical School. I can verify that the
"publish-or-perish" mindset of academia drives researchers to do anything to
get that signific... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Canadian incorporated employees, how do you deal with the CRA risk? - adetrest
More and more companies demand that you as a developer work for them as an incorporated employee: you should be an employee (9-5, no autonomy, 40h/week, cannot subcontract, told where when and how to do the work) but they want ... | {
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Facebook ads targeting Australian teenagers Predatory advertising sparks outrage - Jerry2
http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/leaked-document-reveals-facebook-conducted-research-to-target-emotionally-vulnerable-and-insecure-youth/news-story/d256f850be6b1c8a21aec6e32dae16fd
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throaway333
Reminds me of ... | {
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The Power of Speaking Polari - lermontov
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/power-speaking-polari
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dang
Earlier this year:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19522953](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19522953)
2017:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15238366](https://news.ycombinator.com/it... | {
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Juul, Philip Morris Sued Under Racketeer Act for Targeting Kids - JumpCrisscross
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-19/juul-philip-morris-sued-under-racketeer-act-for-targeting-kids
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WheelsAtLarge
Juul had this radio campaign that was made up of 2 spots one after the other.
The 1st spot would give y... | {
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} |
Steve Jobs on “entrepreneurs” - kitsune_
'I hate it when people call themselves “entrepreneurs” when what they’re really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell or go public, so they can cash in and move on. They’re unwilling to do the work it takes to build a real company, which is the hardest work in busine... | {
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Mange your aliases online and browse cool aliases submitted by others - shaunpud
http://www.alias.sh
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bradsmithinc
Cool idea. It could be useful once it has a bit more content. Maybe it should
be seeded with some more aliases from public dotfiles repos.
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Alt-f2 is your friend - da_coke_chef
http://digitaldiplomacy.tumblr.com/post/3230936606/alt-f2-provides-many-generic-functions-for
alt-f2 is your friend. try it!!!!
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da_coke_chef
i honestly don't think enough people are using gtk or qt.
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If I Launched a Startup - rpledge
http://startuplawyer.com/startup-issues/if-i-launched-a-startup
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wyclif
Regarding #2, his second link: "Top 5 Reasons To Incorporate in Delaware":
[http://startuplawyer.com/incorporation/top-5-reasons-to-
inco...](http://startuplawyer.com/incorporation/top-5-reasons-to-incorpora... | {
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Guardian may face terror charges over stolen secrets (see comments) - junto
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2517561/Alan-Rusbridger-says-love-Britain-defends-Snowden-leaks.html#comments
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junto
Although the Daily Mail is known to be a hotbed of right winger view, I found
that the comments against this a... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Has there been any attempt to Wikify HN? - scheff
Has there been some attempt to compile Hacker News knowledge into a hierarchical FAQ/Resource format?<p>eg. "if you're looking for Scalability architecture solutions currently in use, start here."
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benologist
FAQ/resource for what exactly? HN is primar... | {
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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2017) - whoishiring
Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:<p><pre><code> Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
</code></pre>
Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunitie... | {
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} |
a16z on Rigetti Computing (YC S14) - dangirsh
http://a16z.com/2017/06/20/rigetti-computing/
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jnwrd
Are there other examples of startups tackling problems that were only
addressed by departments of larger problems and those startups then using
their focus as an advantage?
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Crowdfunding for Nitrokey Open Hardware Security USB Key Started - jans23
http://igg.me/at/nitrokey/
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hellbanner
Been wondering when this would happen. Great to see, funding!
| {
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} |
Does the World’s Top Weed Killer Cause Cancer? - urahara
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-07-13/does-the-world-s-top-weed-killer-cause-cancer-video
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evolve2k
TLDR; it's a $66 billion dollar question, World Health Organisation Report
says probably, yes - it is cancer causing.
~~~
7sigma
No the World He... | {
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} |
Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel Peace Prize - Suraj-Sun
http://www.policymic.com/articles/54929/could-edward-snowden-get-a-nobel-peace-prize
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pachydermic
Anyone could be nominated for the prize. It just means some guy wrote a letter
to the committee.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize#Nomination... | {
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} |
Enjoyable UX vs. Usable UX - antonsten
https://antonsten.com/enjoyableux/
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unicornporn
Making page content unreadable if viewport is too narrow[1] is neither
enjoyable, nor usable.
[1] [https://i.imgur.com/DmuyA1w.png](https://i.imgur.com/DmuyA1w.png)
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Google Analytics Goes Async - enomar
http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2009/12/01/google-analytics-goes-async/
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tezza
Previously, what stopped you async adding the google JS to the DOM via a
setTimeout()?
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} |
Disrupting Internet Access Is a Human Rights Violation, UN Says - jonbaer
http://thinkprogress.org/world/2016/07/01/3795026/un-affirms-online-rights/
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trav4225
I'm wondering... what _isn 't_ a human right these days...
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How to Word a Profit Sharing Agreement - neospice
Hello,<p>I am a founder of a startup along with two other non-technical founders. I handle all technical/software/deployment etc.<p>Our corp. is about to release a product which has promise to be quite profitable. My personal goals are:<p>1. Share equity in t... | {
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} |
Fed Names Recipients of $3.3 Trillion in Crisis Aid - Bloomberg - stretchwithme
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-01/fed-names-recipients-of-3-3-trillion-of-aid-during-u-s-financial-crisis.html
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jpa
The article wasn't clear: were these funds paid back with interest? Or is it
just revolving debt? What would h... | {
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} |
Novel 'on-off' switch discovered in plant defenses - dnetesn
https://phys.org/news/2020-07-on-off-defenses.html
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vikramkr
This is some really cool stuff on a scientific level - RNA binding proteins
are just really fascinating and throwing in some post transcriptional splicing
and, wow. That's some really fun stu... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Facebook draws criticism for ‘ethnic affinity’ ad targeting - protomyth
https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/28/facebook-ethnic-affinity/
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kafkaesq
_" EXCLUDE people who match at least ONE of the following:_
_African American (US)_
_Asian American (US)_
_Hispanic (US - Spanish dominant)_
The lack of top-level o... | {
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Scientists find brain hormone that triggers fat burning - upen
http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/9816.html
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DrScump
Blogspam of
[http://www.scripps.edu/news/press/2017/20170127srinivasan.ht...](http://www.scripps.edu/news/press/2017/20170127srinivasan.html)
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Google's ads just look like search results now - newshunter
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2020/1/23/21078343/google-ad-desktop-design-change-favicon-icon-ftc-guidelines
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el_duderino
Previous discussion on this topic:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22107823](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22107823)
... | {
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} |
The Decline of College Newspapers - pseudolus
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/death-college-newspapers/595849/
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8bitsrule
Another college medium under some financial/PR pressures is student-operated
college radio stations. About 10 years back, multiple stations on the air
since radio began were... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What tools do you use for creating diagrams? - BucketSort
We're looking for some open source tools for creating UML diagrams and the sort. What's your goto tool set for creating diagrams/visual organizations of systems?
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lfx
[https://www.draw.io](https://www.draw.io) works great for genera... | {
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} |
Famicom Party: Making NES Games in Assembly - ingve
https://book.famicom.party/
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jordigh
> Use your distribution's package manager to install WINE (e.g. apt-get
> install wine), then launch NES Screen Tool from the command line as above
> under "Mac"
This is something that I find rather off-putting about NESdev... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Apple Can No Longer Launch Groundbreaking Products, but they still build them - thowar2
https://medium.com/art-marketing/apple-can-no-longer-launch-groundbreaking-products-26fddfc419f0
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karimdag
Man.. This reminded me how much I love Apple.
| {
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} |
People who tend to be optimistic are likelier to live to 85 or more: study - dhimes
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/09/01/755185560/optimists-for-the-win-finding-the-bright-side-might-help-you-live-longer
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aytekin
More likely: "People who live 85 or more have more of the good things like
health an... | {
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} |
Low Fat Diet and Sunscreen: a Recipe for Disaster - bayareaguy
http://people.csail.mit.edu/seneff/sunscreen_lowfat_autism.html
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mechanical_fish
Ignoring the window dressing about the health risks of extreme low-fat diets
(which are real, and there's plenty of better writeups on them) this is an
article about V... | {
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} |
Ask HN: VM Automation for Unit Testing? - provito
We are developing a desktop tool and would like to unit test this in different environments automatically. Are there VM providers which are more or less suitable? I don't want to have only one proprietary solution which is not interchangeable anymore - Hyper-V w... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Pebble Teardown - WestCoastJustin
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Pebble+Teardown/13319
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OafTobark
Considering it breaks just to open this thing, shouldn't repairability be 0 or
1 (whatever the lowest rating is)
| {
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} |
College degree or Udemy courses? Which is Better? - jkuria
https://capitalandgrowth.org/questions/1243/college-degree-or-udemy-courses.html
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socaller
Udemy is very disappointing, Packt publishing and a mapt subscription is so
worth it for everyone www.packtpub.com
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Cassettes – better than you don't remember - hberg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVoSQP2yUYA
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timonoko
Yesss. Does this happen nowadays: when technology makes some amazing leap, you
decide this must be "the end" and "culmination point" and "things can only get
worse from now on" and "I have better buy two unit... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A Biofuel Dream Gone Bad - danso
http://fortune.com/kior-vinod-khosla-clean-tech/
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mikeyouse
I worked for a competing biofuel company and our story reads very similarly to
Kior's. Aside from the internal problems that everyone has, the price of a
barrel of oil moving from $100 when we were founded to $180 while ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Water treatment plant hacked, chemical mix changed for tap supplies - bifrost
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/24/water_utility_hacked/
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medymed
The article deems as 'hacktivist' a group that 'changed the levels of
chemicals being used to treat tap water.' This doesn't sound much like
activism, defined by go... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
On Skipping College - j7
http://philososaur.reddino.org/on-skipping-college/
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robabbott
Depending upon the individual, I agree with the sentiment behind this article.
Even if you go to work for a company - and I currently work for a _huge_
company - it is not a requirement to have a bachelor's degree to get a ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
RabbitMQ integer overflow that leads to heap memory corruption - DyslexicAtheist
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-18609
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tonyg
Note this is for one of the client libraries - the C library, to be specific -
not the server (written predominantly in Erlang, a memory-safe language).
~~~
tonyg... | {
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} |
Universal basic income is no panacea - lucozade
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/18/universal-income-no-panacea-labour
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lucozade
I don't think this is a particularly well argued piece but it covers a lot of
the arguments for and against quite succinctly.
I do agree with the underlying premise ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Impact of Daylight Saving Time on the Clinical Laboratory - fanf2
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6047237/
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killjoywashere
Hah! As a pathologist running a clinical lab, nice to see something from my
world on HN besides than Theranos. The ports and protocols to interface a lot
of lab instruments is i... | {
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As HN: Are HN comment bots allowed? - amingilani
I realized there was a problem in HN that a comment can solve and have a meaningful impact on the community. I couldn't find anything in the FAQ. Can I build one?<p>Not telling what the bot will be about since it's super awesome, and I don't want anyone ... | {
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} |
Alt-Wrong: The Australian right is startling for its incoherence - ponco
https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2017/april/1490965200/richard-cooke/alt-wrong
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ponco
N.B. Pauline Hanson is a xenophobic Trump-esque politician who rose to power
once again in the Australian Senate with her "One Nation" party. The Liber... | {
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} |
Show HN: Help me writing a list of tools for a decentralized web - nicolagreco
https://github.com/decentralizedweb/decentralized-tools
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edtechdev
[https://github.com/redecentralize/alternative-
internet/blob/...](https://github.com/redecentralize/alternative-
internet/blob/master/README.md)
[https://github.co... | {
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Go for it on fourth down? Ask Coach Watson - kerben
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/030711-sports-analytics-conference.html?hpg1=bn
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bartonfink
I've often wondered what real impact it would have if an American football
team decided, as a rule, to never punt and always go for it on 4th down.
Current strat... | {
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} |
Japanese toilet can save penalty kicks - redDragon
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/30/sgtk_japan_toto_toilet_football/
======
D_Alex
Ah, future... you promised us the flying car, and what did you give us
instead???
~~~
shanelja
The sweet irony of this is that the Japanese will have flying toilets before
the U.S.... | {
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} |
Transitioning a Company to Remote - tosh
https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/transition/
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samanthalee233
GitLab employee, thanks for sharing this. People can also consider checking
out this link to learn more about GitLab's All Remote culture.
[https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-
remote... | {
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} |
Mr. Robot S3: If you abandoned f-society last year, it’s time to come back - evo_9
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/12/mr-robot-s3-if-you-abandoned-f-society-last-year-its-time-to-come-back/
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marssaxman
I loved Mr. Robot season 2 precisely _because_ it refused to follow the first
season's buildup to a dramati... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Kindle Fire Review: Yes, it's that good - alexwolfe
http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/14/8790557-kindle-fire-review-yes-its-that-good
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ajg1977
Far more detailed Engadget review: [http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/14/amazon-
kindle-fire-review...](http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/14/amazon-kindle-fire-
... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Does the news reflect what we die from? - okket
https://ourworldindata.org/does-the-news-reflect-what-we-die-from
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defeomike
This is great.
We also all have the wrong idea of how to prevent death. Chronic disease
avoidance should be #1, but we all treat that like it’s luck of the draw and
that things like terro... | {
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} |
A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her to Work by 7 A.M - el_benhameen
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/business/economy/san-francisco-commute.html
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ucaetano
San Francisco has more than twice the area of Manhattan, with half the
population.
The San Francisco Bay Area CSA has about the same population as Swi... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Are upvotes considered a factor in search ranking? - spraveen80
http://spraveen.posterous.com/upvotes-and-page-ranking
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benologist
I doubt they are:
1) the volume of popular stories on digg/reddit/stumbleupon/hn etc cover a
miniscule portion of the internet and aren't necessarily more important or
bet... | {
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} |
Columnar Storage - mattyb
http://the-paper-trail.org/blog/columnar-storage/
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nwatson
I worked on a columnar database engine deployed on commodity Linux clusters in
2001, initial release 2002. This was at Sensage. We built a very fast DB
engine that could store log data with 40x compression over traditional RDBMS... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells Review – Our Terrifying Future - homarp
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/27/the-uninhabitable-earth-review-david-wallace-wells
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blastbeat
I think the "raise [..] of our baseline of acceptable human suffering" will at
some point escalate very quickly. It is... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Jacob Appelbaum detained at U.S. border, questioned about Wikileaks - Rod
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20012253-245.html
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Niten
_> [...] when he was pulled aside by customs and border protection agents who
told him he was randomly selected for a security search
> [...] Receipts from his bag were photocopie... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
NVidia Turf Effects - my3681
https://developer.nvidia.com/turfeffects
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PavlovsCat
> "this permits _totally_ new types of gameplay"
Hunting other players down and shooting them? Come on now ^^
| {
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} |
Uber Goes Unconventional: Using Driver Phones as a Backup Datacenter - antman
http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/9/21/uber-goes-unconventional-using-driver-phones-as-a-backup-dat.html
======
empressplay
I'm not sure the EU privacy people are going to be all that enamoured with
this once it comes to their attention. ... | {
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} |
Atomic Gardens: Breeding Plants with Gamma Radiation - thret
http://pruned.blogspot.com/2011/04/atomic-gardens.html
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gdubs
As far as I understood, blasting seeds with radiation is still a common
practice. [1]
One of the reasons the debate over genetically engineered (GE) crops seems so
silly -- we've been usi... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Radio Broadcasts and Chat - mertlog
http://radioo.co
======
cagrican
very good project
~~~
mertlog
thanks
| {
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} |
FB’s Policy on Enforcing Against Manipulated Media - artur_makly
https://about.fb.com/news/2020/01/enforcing-against-manipulated-media/?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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toymachine
>>Collaboration is key. Across the world, we’ve been driving conversations
with more than 50 global experts with technical, policy, media, leg... | {
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} |
Show HN: Iguana, a micro-ODM for AngularJS - barillax
https://github.com/pedago/iguana
More info here: http://blog.pedago.com/2013/11/04/pedago-releases-3-angularjs-projects-to-the-open-source-community/
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barillax
More info in the associated blog post: bit.ly/Hr9HSQ
| {
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} |
Ask HN: How do you get a user forum off the ground? - thewordpainter
A forum can be key to user retention and connection (helping establish that family-like community). Anybody have experience building one from the ground up?<p>How do you kickstart the conversation? How do you keep it going?<p>If done properly, I th... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Corporate Merit of Technical Change (and an Invitation) - cpt1138
http://www.connectsolutions.com/when-to-implement-technical-change
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cpt1138
Direct link to EventBrite meetup
[https://frontendframeworkshowdown.eventbrite.com/](https://frontendframeworkshowdown.eventbrite.com/)
showdown with Backbone (Sam B... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Fool's gold: what fish oil is doing to our health and the planet - ValentineC
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jul/25/fish-oil-hype-health-planet-supplements-study-no-benefit
======
WalterSear
It's brain medicine, and autoimmune medicine. Nobody is taking it for their
heart.
| {
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} |
Why you should fly United Airlines - mmaunder
http://markmaunder.com/2013/12/26/united-airlines-pet-policy-baggage-lost-found/
======
lukifer
If losing your MacBook is a single point of failure for your crypto-coins (in
terms of both backup and encryption), can you really say you own them at all?
~~~
mmaunder
I hav... | {
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} |
The Value of Grey Thinking (2016) - UrbanPiper
https://fs.blog/2016/06/value-grey-thinking/
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Ozzie_osman
I agree with the article in general, but that said, I do think a lot of
successful people are successful because they are highly opinionated in black-
and-white ways. Coming across people like this in life ca... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Israel Quietly Legalizes Pirate Outposts in the West Bank - chenster
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/31/world/middleeast/israel-west-bank-outposts-mitzpe-danny.html
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S_Daedalus
If they're legalized, then "Pirate" is not the word for it. Maybe "Privateer",
if you feel the need to aim for pathos rather than logos.
... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
New Magic Leap demo video - mwilcox
https://twitter.com/nicole/status/656618867301572608/video/1
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billconan
how can they achieve occlusion?
~~~
mwilcox
depth sensors
| {
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} |
Attacking Merkle Trees with a second preimage attack - wepple
https://flawed.net.nz/2018/02/21/attacking-merkle-trees-with-a-second-preimage-attack/
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KMag
The authors of Keccak / SHA-3 came up with Sakura[0], a hash tree construction
that's provably as collision-resistant as the underlying hash function and
very... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Microsoft cuts Windows virtualization features - "Windows development is just broken..." - gibsonf1
http://news.com.com/Microsoft+cuts+Windows+virtualization+features/2100-1016_3-6182852.html?tag=nefd.pop
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far33d
"Shipping is a feature too," Neil said.
WTF?!? This guy should be fired for that statement.
| {
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} |
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