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Show HN: Chrome ext., Musicality – Playback controls for your favorite players - kkamperschroer
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/musicality-music-player/fjiolbglibkahkipcdgeepdfdgfkdbee
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kkamperschroer
Feedback appreciated. This is one of my first big javascript projects. It's
open source if you'd lik... | {
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Photo check deposits - aaronbrethorst
http://www.marco.org/2012/04/06/photo-check-deposits
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yason
_Sometimes, new technology is not progress._
Well, the last contact with _checks_ was, IIRC, in the 80's when I saw my
mother occasionally using them and they were being phased out at the time
already. This was in ... | {
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How to build a small hardware component/computer - puffyresearch
Hi all. This is my first HN question, so lets see how it goes. I am a software programmer. I can manage well with a compiler, a unix computer, and a web browser. However, I have only a basic understanding of computer hardware.<p>I have an idea for a sm... | {
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University of Waterloo created a goose-tracking map, because geese are bullies - Tomte
http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/21/13677516/goose-watch-geese-tracking-app-university-of-waterloo
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AdamSC1
There was a door on campus that was locked, had signs up and was unusable for
a good few years due to a goose that kept... | {
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} |
MkDocs 1.0 - kylebarron
https://www.mkdocs.org/about/release-notes/#version-10-2018-08-03
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therealmarv
We migrated a while ago all our python docs from sphinx and the free
readthedocs to mkdocs. Two main reasons:
\- we like markdown more and starting (actually we converted to markdown with
pandoc) with a bunch ... | {
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Show HN: trsry.com, a shortening synonym finder - szopa
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szopa
I had a free weekend, and the thsrs idea by Ironic Sans [1] looked like
something too cool to let it go (and <http://thsrs.com/> didn't work too well
for me). Also, it was a chance to implement my very own instant search ;-)
The thing is done in ... | {
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FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet - doener
https://fosdem.org/2019/
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michaelanckaert
I’m there right now and it’s a wonderful event. Other conventions are
commercial, in your face events but Fosdem is a welcoming, open event. Over
600 talks and some 8000+ people present.
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seba_dos1
I'd s... | {
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Mapping how the United States generates its electricity - velodrome
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/power-plants/
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grzm
Some pretty charts, but I find some of them more difficult to read than
necessary. For example, "Electricity generation by power source, January to
May 2015" attempts to balanc... | {
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} |
We are Treehouse, and this is why we exist - chrysb
http://blog.gotreehouse.com/introducing-treehouse
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jazzychad
Hi Chrys,
I have tried Treehouse for a bit on my phone, and here are some thoughts:
It appears that there is no way (currently) to share photos with subsets of
friends, is that right? Since that i... | {
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} |
SAP agrees to buy expense software maker Concur for $7.3B - loganfrederick
http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/09/19/concur-tech-sap-se-ma-idINL6N0RJ5G020140919
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jacques_chester
I use Concur as part of my job.
It is stunningly, stupefyingly awful.
However, it is popular with the kind of hyperglobocom companies ... | {
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Millions of Women Will Make Fortnite a Billion-Dollar Game - petethomas
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-29/millions-of-women-will-make-fortnite-a-billion-dollar-game
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282883392
This is a poor article. Props to Fortnite for having a higher percentage of
female players, but the article doesn't prov... | {
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} |
Lift Web Framework - nickb
http://liftweb.net/
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DougBTX
Why all the italics?
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FarmVillains - teej
http://www.sfweekly.com/2010-09-08/news/farmvillains/
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brianbreslin
They have a distinct advantage in being able to test/modify/adapt their games
faster than everyone else, because they have 700 employees & a huge warchest
of cash.
It is unfortunate that copyright protection doesn't kick i... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Is there any community for e-commerce developers? - sedzia
If I wanted to read news / learn some best practices about:
- using e-shops: Magento, Woocommerce, Spree etc.,
- designing email workflows with Mandrill/MailChimp,
- configuring CRMs,
- getting customer tracking and A/B testing infrastru... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Exercise is to sports as Learning is to __? - dbtc
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valarauca1
Premises is flawed on several levels.
1) Sports do not require exercise; Darts, Bowling, Curling, Competitive
Eating, Competetive Video games, etc.
2) Learning is required for Sports. Strategy, practice, muscle memory, etc.
Learning is ... | {
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} |
This is how ancient Rome’s republic died - YeGoblynQueenne
https://theconversation.com/this-is-how-ancient-romes-republic-died-a-classicist-sees-troubling-parallels-at-trumps-impeachment-trial-131121
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anonsivalley652
It's worth reviewing Chris Hedges' _America: The Farewell Tour_ and the late
Chalmers Johnson's ... | {
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} |
Arduino pop3 email checker - chasingsparks
http://opensourceprojects-torchris.blogspot.com/2009/09/arduino-pop3-email-checker.html
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PStamatiou
I've had an arduino kit sitting around for pretty much exactly this reason.
Along with a ridiculously bright BlinkM MaxM RGB led, I want create some sort
of ambient not... | {
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} |
Oh-My-God particle - mherrmann
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh-My-God_particle
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scrumper
This is a week-old article in Quanta on the subject:
[https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150514-the-particle-that-
br...](https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150514-the-particle-that-broke-a-
cosmic-speed-limit/)
| {
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How the 'John Oliver Effect' Is Having a Real-Life Impact - adamnemecek
http://time.com/3674807/john-oliver-net-neutrality-civil-forfeiture-miss-america/
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quadrangle
John Oliver's show has honestly taken things to a far better level, dealing
with real issues in approachable ways.
The Daily Show is just cluttere... | {
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} |
Sci-hub.io domain is down - oscii
The sci-hub.io domain is down<p>Sci-Hub is the site for downloading copyrighted research papers, which provides the access to the cutting edge human knowledge for the people who don't have money to pay highly expensive fees of Springer, Thomson-Reuters, etc. (even Harvard can... | {
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Amazon Spars With The Times Over Investigative Article - hvo
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/20/business/amazon-spars-with-the-times-over-investigative-article.html?&moduleDetail=section-news-4&action=click&contentCollection=Media®ion=Footer&module=MoreInSection&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&pgtype=article
=... | {
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For traction, should I focus in the quantity or quality of my waiting list? - IsraCV
I'm building the landing page for my mobile app that is going to be available in three or four weeks.<p>For the user subscription section of the landing page, I'm using mailchimp, but they use double opt-in. Checking out o... | {
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Paper Dashboard – Free Bootstrap Admin Panel for Your Next Project - axelut
http://demos.creative-tim.com/paper-dashboard/dashboard.html
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a_imho
I would say it is a rather misleading title, it is only free in some very
limited sense.
Which is quite interesting, looking through some similar packages I noticed
th... | {
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Guido's Proposal: Moratorium on Python language changes - sammcd
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2009-October/006305.html
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andreyf
_frequent changes to the language cause pain for implementors of alternate
implementations (Jython, IronPython, PyPy, and others probably already in the
wings) at lit... | {
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Why may allopregnanolone help alleviate loneliness? (2015) - bookofjoe
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26365247
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bookofjoe
Context: "Scientists are working on a pill for loneliness"
[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/26/pill-for-
lon...](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/26/pill-for-lon... | {
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Why Instacart and Doordash workers don't always receive the tips you give them - dodders
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/why-instacart-doordash-workers-don-t-always-receive-tips-you-n965926
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sl1ck731
Happy to see this is getting some coverage. After the last Instacart article a
few days ago I star... | {
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Go generate - zekers
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V03LUfjSADDooDMhe-_K59EgpTEm3V8uvQRuNMAEnjg/edit#
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swartkrans
> yacc: generating .go files from yacc grammar (.y) files
Go has its own parser already[1], and who still uses yacc? Don't people use
Flex/Bison?
[1] [http://golang.org/pkg/go/parser/](http://... | {
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} |
Chomper: Electric Obstacle Avoiding Snowblower - bberenberg
http://transistor-man.com/electric_snowblower_9000.html
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transistor-man
Small world, thanks for whoever posted this, this is indeed my contraption.
This is a bit of last year's documentation, as the vision processing stuff was
still mid-testing when the... | {
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Chicago technologist Harper Reed joins President Barack Obama's 2012 campaign - jcasman
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-0602-confidential-reed-20110602,0,7924072.column
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paulsmith
And even better headline would have been something like, “Obama 2012 Hires
Startup Hacker as CTO.” One of us!
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Eight Years On, Google Fiber Is a Faint Echo of the Disruption Promised - olds
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/zmwkdx/eight-years-later-google-fiber-is-a-faint-echo-of-the-disruption-we-were-promised
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apeace
As you can surmise by reading this article, the rise of the wireless ISPs (or
WISPs) is not be... | {
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} |
Why decentralized social networking never makes it - rchaudhary
https://upon2020.com/blog/2018/08/why-decentralized-social-networking-never-makes-it-ever-heard-of-crossing-the-chasm/
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cjslep
> Trending cannot be implemented at all … I don’t mean to pick on Mastodon
> specifically, but it’s the latest whose growt... | {
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Show HN: An easy way to optimize routes - _ilpv
https://routible.com/
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_ilpv
I've been a longtime reader of PG articles and just joined startup school.
I accidentally started a pest control company out of university and we scaled
to 10 employees in one year. I had no clue how to run a pest control company.
It ... | {
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} |
Show HN: Social network buttons for Twitter Bootstrap - noizwaves
http://noizwaves.github.io/bootstrap-social-buttons/
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adlpz
Nice. It's just a collection of background colours for the buttons, though.
These don't have any functionality, not even add the icons.
But nice eye candy anyway.
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ezraroi
reall... | {
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Python 2.7 alpha 1 - arthurk
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2009-December/1228671.html
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cpr
Interesting--the Python-Dev folks are moving more and more of 3.x into the 2.x
series (2.7 corresponds to 3.1). They're pretty effectively shortening the gap
that people will eventually have to jump when... | {
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} |
Google Uses Web Searches to Track Flu’s Spread - peter123
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/technology/internet/12flu.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
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tocomment
There must be so many innovative uses of real time search data. I can't
imagine what people would come up with if they opened it up. I suppose there
are some p... | {
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Could someone give me some feedback on my site, please - Drughi
http://ultrabooksreview.com/
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lifeguard
Just quick web design/usability notes:
* I like the "Best 3 Ultrabooks" page and that there are many photos on the site
1\. the search options are a waste of space at top of the page, hide them
until neede... | {
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Startup's Deep Roots: Stanford - jedwhite
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424127887324020504578396912443242512-lMyQjAxMTAzMDAwMzEwNDMyWj.html?mod=wsj_valettop_email
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jedwhite
This appears to be Clinkle's launch page:
<https://www.clinkle.com/>
| {
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Ruby, Rails, MongoDB and the Object-Relational Mismatch - sunseb
http://blog.mongodb.org/post/53271876885/ruby-rails-mongodb-and-the-object-relational-mismatch
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ivan_ah
what would be the equiv. of Mongoid for flask?
Or should I use PyMongo directly?
| {
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Toyota to buy $1B stake in Grab - atulatul
http://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/toyota-pumps-1-bln-in-grab-in-auto-industrys-biggest-ride-hailing-bet/article24156807.ece
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atulatul
Please remove if it is a repost. Reminds me of this Steve Yegge post: Why I
left Google to join Grab
[https://medium.com/@steve... | {
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} |
Microsoft Is Hibernating Its SMB Efforts Because of Covid-19 - cm2187
https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/microsoft-365/234773/microsoft-is-hibernating-its-smb-efforts-because-of-covid-19
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cm2187
Rationale: _According to the data provided by the memo, Microsoft expects up
to 25 percent of its SMB customers to not sur... | {
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} |
Flip Flop Operator in Ruby - rohitarondekar
http://nithinbekal.com/posts/ruby-flip-flop/
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MrBra
Nice, I wonder where have those flip flops been hiding so far..
| {
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How to start a startup - wumi
http://www.squidoo.com/startup
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mlinsey
In the linked article, the first two sentences of "Step 1" are: "Before you
can solicit interest in your product, there are two things that you need to
do. The first step is to obtain a provisional patent for your invention..."
This step com... | {
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How to avoid duplicates when you insert millions of entries into a MySQL table - djug
http://youghourta.com/2017/11/21/avoid-duplicates-insert-hundreds-thousands-entries-mysql-table/
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jlgaddis
I'm not a DBA and, without bothering to RTFA, I'm going to guess the answer is
along the lines of "use unique indexes"?
... | {
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Show HN: Nutrition explained in a 13 part audio series - ha8o8le
http://peak-human.com
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ha8o8le
I'm making the film [http://FoodLies.org](http://FoodLies.org) and have
interviewed a lot of top researchers, doctors, and though leaders of all
aspects of nutrition and even the environmental impact of eating differe... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A new technology, virtual embodiment, challenges our understanding of who we are - ehudla
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/02/are-we-already-living-in-virtual-reality
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mitchellshow
As someone with chronic sleep paralysis
([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sle... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Founder laments how US govt caused his growing startup to die - petercooper
http://www.quora.com/Is-Lotus-Vodka-going-out-of-business/answer/Rob-Bailey
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kls
Forgive me, if I don't understand this market but why not reformulate while
the FDA investigation is going on? Or at least provide a reformulation
conting... | {
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} |
How-to generate thumbnails for Office documents using Cloudinary and Aspose - nadavs
http://cloudinary.com/blog/how_to_generate_thumbnails_for_office_documents_using_cloudinary_and_aspose
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nadavs
This post explains how to programmatically create image thumbnails from Word,
Powerpoint and Excel documents, using... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
EdenSCM – A cross-platform, scalable source control management system - imoldfella
https://github.com/facebookexperimental/eden
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Game_Ender
Facebook rewrote Mercurial, while Microsoft has essentially expanded git with
their own virtual file system VFSforGit [0] and a bunch of performance
improvements.
0 - [http... | {
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} |
Launch HN: Deepgram (YC W16) – Scalable Speech API for Businesses - stephensonsco
Hey HN,<p>I’m Scott Stephenson, one of the cofounders of Deepgram (<a href="https://www.deepgram.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.deepgram.com/</a>). Getting information from recorded phone calls and meeting... | {
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Ask HN: Is Apple repeating the same mistakes it made 25 years ago? - fnl
This is a possibly interesting question; I will try to explain how I just arrived at this conclusion in a discussion with some friends. Back in the rainbow-colored Apple area we were big fans of the architecture, alongside with Amiga and Atari. H... | {
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Bing censors sexual & LGBT content in Arab nations - nir
http://opennet.net/sex-social-mores-and-keyword-filtering-microsoft-bing-arabian-countries
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wheels
Different default safe-search settings per region makes total sense as moral
sensibilities vary significantly (for example, in parts of Europe, nudity is
c... | {
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} |
Game Developers Are Trolling the Makers of Candy Crush With Other "Candy" Games - x43b
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/01/30/candy_crush_gets_trolled_by_developers_making_games_with_the_word_candy.html
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jere
I think Penny Arcade sums up best how ridiculous this whole issue is:
[http://penny-arcade.c... | {
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Pentagon offers $150,000 bounty for hackers - justinzollars
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/01/pentagon-offers-150000-bounty-for-hackers.html?__source=facebook%7Cother%7Cstatus%7C040116%7C5PM%7Cpentagon-bounty
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drallison
Oh, the irony. To participate, you must, per the announcement, "agree to
comply with all applica... | {
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The Elements of UI Engineering - danabramov
https://overreacted.io/the-elements-of-ui-engineering/
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miguelrochefort
I've been building consumer apps professionally since 2013 on iOS, Android,
Windows Phone and the web. I also spent a few years designing and implementing
UI frameworks. I've had to deal with all o... | {
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INTERNATIONAL CAPSLOCK DAY, TODAY - mikeanders
http://capslockday.com/
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Zenst
Everyday is capslock day somewere on the internet, sadly.
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mikeanders
WHO ELSE BESIDES ME ARE/WILL HONOR IT?
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sharjeel
i had to type while holding shift key
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Tech employees protest in front of Palantir HQ - sarahbuhr
https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/18/tech-employees-protest-in-front-of-palantir-hq-over-fears-it-will-build-trumps-muslim-registry/
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Chris2048
> they are concerned Palantir and its co-founder and Trump advisor Peter Thiel
> stand to profit off the makings ... | {
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Maxed Out: A Closer Look at Coffee Consumption in Finland - pizza
http://nordiccoffeeculture.com/maxed-out-a-closer-look-at-coffee-consumption-in-finland/
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trm42
Finn here, although just drinking tea :p Can't understand why people drink and
drink that much of bad coffee and bad beer in Finland. There are good ar... | {
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StackEdit: A free, open-source Markdown editor based on PageDown - wqfeng
http://benweet.github.io/stackedit/#
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Shank
(Context: Using ChromeOS)
The biggest flaw I see in this (and in several alternatives suggested below)
is that it doesn't support native browser spell check because it uses Ace (and
in the case ... | {
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Copyright is Out of Control - Kopion
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/04/copyright-is-out-of-control.html
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masswerk
So, authorship is out of control?
Thinking of textbook authors as mere "rebundlers", where does this leave the
author of the article? Is authorship/IP really yet another con... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
What Is the Technology Stack and Architecture Behind MoonMail? - amazonkaiv
https://blog.moonmail.io/what-is-the-technology-stack-and-architecture-behind-moonmail-4d7d6a113ed6#.zbl71mexy
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bikamonki
I see your architecture highly exposed to vendor lock-in. Also, your
operations cost could become non-competive sin... | {
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} |
Groupon getting pummeled daily in Israeli deal market, Buy2 leads - creativeone
http://www.vccafe.com/grouper/groupon-getting-pummeled-daily-in-the-israeli-deal-market-buy2-leads/
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ig1
It's ridiculous to measure the popularity of any non-Facebook service by
number of Facebook fans. The percentage of users who ... | {
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} |
Japanese addresses: No street names. Block numbers - sebg
https://sivers.org/jadr
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veidr
I live in Japan. This is stupid.
I don't mean the blog post; I mean Japanese addresses are stupid.
From any perspective other than maybe obfuscation, and confusing invaders 400
years ago, they are idiotic. Every country in... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Apple Lying About “User Agent” in iPad Pro – Blocking PWAs - getpolarized
https://getpolarized.io/2019/12/21/Apple-Lying-About-User-Agent-in-iPad-Pro.html
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FreakyT
I, for one, am glad Apple opted to use the macOS user agent for the iPad
browser. Previously, so many sites would give iPad users the mobile version ... | {
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} |
Family intranet startup - would love your feedback - aasarava
My partners and I are building a service that lets any family set up a family intranet site. We've just put up a beta and would love to get your honest feedback (even the brutal stuff.)<p>http://kinverge.com/<p>Registration is required, but it's just an e... | {
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} |
Marker: Web selections to Markdown - unheaped
http://brettterpstra.com/2013/12/22/marker-web-selections-to-markdown/
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bowerbird
another gem from brett terpstra.
-bowerbird
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Software Heritage and GNU Guix join forces to enable long term reproducibility - Fice
https://www.softwareheritage.org/2019/04/18/software-heritage-and-gnu-guix-join-forces-to-enable-long-term-reproducibility/
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josteink
That’s pretty cool.
I’ve formerly tried to build some old stuff no longer packaged by
Debian... | {
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I Invested All My Spending Money in Ethereum (And So Did My Friends) - importantbrian
https://news.ycombinator.com/bookmarklet.html
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gus_massa
Wrong URL. Try submitting again.
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Suspension Bridges of Disbelief - szczys
http://hackaday.com/2015/11/18/suspension-bridges-of-disbelief/
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encoderer
This is a really well done piece.
Totally unrelated, but I've always been fascinated by suspension bridges. When
I was 12 I built one out of Lego blocks with a road deck 5 feet long, using
fishing... | {
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} |
Mortality in People with ADHD [pdf] - DanBC
http://www.nice.org.uk/Media/Default/newsletter/Eyes-on-Evidence-September-2015.pdf
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unfasten
All-cause mortality was 5.85 per 10,000 person–years among people
with ADHD, compared with 2.21 per 10,000 person–years in people without ADHD. The risk of d... | {
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How I got a root shell in my NAS, 0day inside - Garbage
http://blog.pentbox.net/index.php?controller=post&action=view&id_post=4
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kogir
This is cool, but typically it's not considered a vulnerability when the user
in possession of the hardware or with admin access can root the box. It's
actually inevitable.
Unle... | {
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System 76's new site - dillon
http://www.system76.com/home/
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ceejayoz
Took a look at the server pane and was a bit frustrated that I couldn't
compare them on a grid. It's not at all clear what the difference is between
the 1U Jackal and the 1U Jackal Pro, for example.
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sadfasdfads
Site looks nice. Very Ap... | {
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Apple App Store Surprise: Giving credit where credit is due - vlucas
http://withfoam.com/post/269213531/giving-credit-where-credit-is-due
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umangjaipuria
Classic case of lowering expectations so much that even fulfilling the basic
needs seems like a fantastic experience.
~~~
roc
I can understand taking a pot-s... | {
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Show HN: TypeScript to GraphQL conversion tool with type inference - acro5piano
https://github.com/acro5piano/typed-graphqlify
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altschuler
An alternative to this and Apollo codegen is GraphQL Code Generator[1]. Like
codegen it takes the opposite approach by generating typescript from graphql.
It's similar to cod... | {
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} |
My programming apps with one button on my Mac - harrys
First of all, I don't like having allot of apps on my Dock, so every morning before I start working I open each app from Spotlight. So this morning I thought...mmm, let me make this easier...<p>I just made an Automator Utility to open my apps with one click, ope... | {
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IE 8: web dev tools: color picker, JS debugger, CSS prototyper - gtani
http://www.thewayithink.co.uk/post/Good-Bye-FireBug-Hello-Developer-Tools.aspx
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thwarted
"If you work regularly in IE you may have also used the fantastic IE web tool
bar."
This author has obviously never used the IE web tool bar for serio... | {
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} |
Ask HN: how do you decide which idea to use? - leecho0
I've got a lot of ideas to try to solve problems and create value for the user. Some are smaller that a two person team can complete, and others that require at least a business person and a finance person and a bigger investment. Right now I'm trying to decide ... | {
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Spirograph Simulator (2014) - ChuckMcM
http://nathanfriend.io/inspirograph/
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vinchuco
There's a one-line formula that is supposed to capture most of these motions.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypotrochoid](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypotrochoid)
What always struck me as interesting is how some of them 's... | {
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} |
Facebook will begin letting anyone post Instant Articles - davidiach
http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/17/11027594/facebook-instant-articles-all-publishers
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herbst
I've tried to find out what Instant Articles is. So its a Drag&Drop HTML
editor with image and code optimizer to make those big picture articles? Thats
... | {
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} |
E.W.Dijkstra Archive: Home page - ColinWright
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/
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jacques_chester
A rich mine of karma both here and on Reddit.
Read the scanned originals where possible; Dijkstra's lovely handwriting
(there's even a font based on it!) adds a nice professorial twist.
| {
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3 useful advices while migrating from GitHub to GitLab - starikovs
https://medium.com/@starikovs/3-useful-advices-while-migrating-from-github-to-gitlab-cc9e4a78613b
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dsumenkovic
Thanks for sharing these tips with the community.
| {
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If you get a PhD, make it an economics PhD - 1337biz
http://theweek.com/article/index/255209/if-you-get-a-phd-make-it-an-economics-phd
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reporter
I think the author forgot to mention you must love economics. People get their
PhD in the field they love, they don't do it for money or job prospects.
I am one of ... | {
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} |
Jira: Thumbs up or Thumbs down? - jiteshdugar
What is your overall opinion about Jira?<p>Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down?
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mymotta
Too complicated to use, especially in roles and permissions. I don’t need a
Ferrari,where a bicycle will do just fine.
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jiteshdugar
True. It is probably very powerful but is very compli... | {
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} |
RateMySite: Mailing list for niche programming and startups - jonromero
http://jon.io/
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iamgoat
I wish there was a sample newsletter to view. How is content curated? Also
missing a privacy policy and T&C even though the MailChimp reference helps
somewhat.
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jonromero
Good feedback! Fixing right now :D
----... | {
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Ask YC: Which OS are you using on your app's server(s)? - rob
I'm just curious as to what OS everyone is using for their app (e.g., CentOS, Debian, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, Ubuntu) and did you have any particular reason for choosing that OS?<p>For me, I just have a 'play' VPS right now that I'm running Ubuntu 7.10 ... | {
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Safari users win right to sue Google over privacy - luxpir
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-32083188
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emehrkay
This seems to be from the mobile iframe workaround that Google implemented.
Apple decided that Safari should not allow an iframe with different source
urls to drop cookies unless the user interact... | {
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} |
How Shogun (YC W18) Got to 1000 Positive Reviews in the Shopify App Store - Finbarr
https://getshogun.com/blog/shogun-1000-positive-shopify-app-store-reviews/
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jakejarvis
> "Our support team asks for reviews only if they sense that the customer is
> having a positive experience. We also utilize canned responses... | {
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Show HN: How we static site - edjboston
https://makers.airware.com/open-source/this-blog/
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codeddesign
ive always wondered how these static generators handle ajax or dynamic
content?
| {
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} |
Ask HN: Remote Linux Environment - siscia
Hi HN,<p>I am yet again asking for your experience.<p>I am in need of a linux remote development environment.
Basically I just need a linux box on somebody else server with some disk space, enough CPU and RAM to run the compiler, and network connection to download stuff and to... | {
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Ask HN: Why can I not delete News.app from Mac OS X Mojave? - samjna
This is very Microsoft Windows or Google Android behavior from Apple, making it impossible to delete or uninstall the News.app from a fresh Mac OS X Mojave installation. Extremely user hostile.
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throw03172019
I want to delete iTunes as well. Th... | {
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} |
The Octonion Math That Could Underpin Physics - jonbaer
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-octonion-math-that-could-underpin-physics-20180720
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sdenton4
I think this is the first article I've ever read about the octonions that
didn't include the following John Baez quip:
"There are exactly four normed division a... | {
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} |
How Old Is The Shepherd? (2013) - autokill
http://robertkaplinsky.com/how-old-is-the-shepherd/
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svat
Timothy Gowers had a similar point at
[https://plus.google.com/+TimothyGowers0/posts/4bkfusUoXot](https://plus.google.com/+TimothyGowers0/posts/4bkfusUoXot)
(dead link now):
> if one asks children a question suc... | {
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} |
Coronavirus is mutating: Chinese scientists find a second strain of Covid-19 - ryan_j_naughton
https://fortune.com/2020/03/04/coronavirus-mutating-second-strain-covid-19-wuhan-china/
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fspeech
The main point of the finding is actually there were two strains to begin
with. Each strain may create different pattern ... | {
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} |
Thoughts On Becoming Self-Sufficient and Defeating Personal Homelessness - colinprince
http://paradox1x.org/archives/2009/12/on-get-a-job.shtml
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wallflower
For context, he was homeless about fifteen years ago. And is still very
involved in helping the homeless.
My impression is you wouldn't have been able to ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Do any of you do data science as a hobby? - RealAnalysis
I work in mergers & acquisitions (math major undergrad, Python classes) but enjoy looking at interesting financial and non-financial datasets in what little free time I have.<p>What project(s) have you worked on? Can a self-taught hobby data scientis... | {
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} |
The least-liked programming languages - zeveb
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/the-least-liked-programming-languages/
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metalrain
I wonder why PHP isn't in this post, is it too obvious?
| {
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Understanding Debt, Risk and Leverage - nickb
http://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-debt-risk-and-leverage/
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jerf
Even as a libertarian, I find the temptation to call for a ban on leveraging
past about 10x very strong. It's just insane. As the article says, at 30x
you're looking at a 3% drop wiping y... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Why Are Some Groceries Still So Hard to Find During Covid? - bookofjoe
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-are-some-groceries-still-so-hard-to-find-during-covid-11597069761
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bookofjoe
[https://archive.vn/ydg08](https://archive.vn/ydg08)
| {
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Apple Reviews NetShare; Permanent Ban Likely - ksvs
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/08/netshares-retur.html
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invisible
The problem is that they're putting a price on something that they shouldn't
be able to put a price on: The way you use what you paid for. It's a strong
suit in court, and luckily for them ... | {
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} |
Want to live longer? Cut the carbs! - ckuehne
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1323758/Can-cutting-Carbohydrates-diet-make-live-longer.html
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smcl
The Daily Mail is famous for stories like these. See the website "Kill or
Cure" (<http://kill-or-cure.heroku.com>)
~~~
RiderOfGiraffes
Indeed, the Daily Ma... | {
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} |
Building a blog using Jekyll, Bootstrap and Github pages. A beginners guide - gkwelding
http://in-the-attic.com/2013/01/04/building-a-blog-using-jekyll-bootstrap-and-github-pages-a-beginners-guide/
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pavel_lishin
> _I'd already set up all the 301 redirects on the .co.uk domain and I had to
> piggy back on a ser... | {
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} |
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