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How to Go from a Engineering Student to an Entrepreneur - stevederico
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaJKPCdimLA
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scrrr
Hm so all the successful entrepreneurs were younger than 30 years old when
they started?
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Releasing early with bugs: GrandCentral A Little Too Beta For Some - brett
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/26/grandcentral-a-little-too-beta-for-some/
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brett
It's interesting that this write up is not as negative as it could be. For a
phone service some of the failures he mentions are pretty bad. Is Arrington
... | {
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Wesabe's Bank Aggregation Engine Open Sourced - tonystubblebine
https://github.com/wesabe/ssu
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tonystubblebine
This is code for pulling transaction data from a huge number of financial
institutions. Consider it an alternative to Yodlee.
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Hidden Secrets of the Amazon Shopping Cart - peter123
http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/26/amazon-shopping-cart/
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dschoon
I have great admiration for the amount of time and precision put into this
article--as well as Amazon's relentless, cold, uncool devotion to
optimization.
These meditations on A/B optimizat... | {
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} |
Microsoft Admits Normal Windows 10 Users Are 'Testing' Unstable Updates - Santosh83
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2018/12/12/microsoft-admits-normal-windows-10-users-are-testing-unstable-updates/
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newen
I actually disabled all updates a while back because of stability and driver
issues when I had a... | {
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} |
Denim Breaker Club (Beta Test) - anu_gupta
http://hiutdenim.co.uk/pages/denim-breaker-club
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anigbrowl
This seems a ridiculous idea at first blush but on reflection I think it can
work, and well. Too bad there's no button to sign up.
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Will Google Crush The iPhone? - terpua
http://www.forbes.com/home/technology/2007/10/18/gphone-iphone-wireless-technology-personaltech-cx_bc_1019gphone.html
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joeguilmette
Not unless they can think outside the "40 buttons and small screen" box.
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Ask HN Devs: What's up with the expiring pages? - arctic
(Not sure if this has been asked/answered before. If it has, can you link me?)<p>So, I browse hacker news pretty much every day. Thing is, I go about it reasonably slowly while I do other things. So, when I come to change page a few minutes after trawling thro... | {
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Ask HN: Best resources for running a Linux dedicated server? - Ileca
I never touched Linux but I plan to rent a dedicated server for running a website on it and I fear doing a lot of wrong things.
What did you read at first, up to mastering that field, especially on a security point of view?<p>Keep the list simple, fo... | {
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} |
A Surge in Meth Use in Colorado Complicates Opioid Recovery - DoreenMichele
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/07/14/628134831/a-surge-in-meth-use-in-colorado-complicates-opioid-recovery
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liquidise
This strikes as correlation not causation.
As someone in denver since before the legalization, i belie... | {
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} |
Jonah Lehrer’s Journalistic Misdeeds at Wired.com - tptacek
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2012/08/jonah_lehrer_plagiarism_in_wired_com_an_investigation_into_plagiarism_quotes_and_factual_inaccuracies_.html
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tokenadult
This one nails Lehrer to the wall:
"In a third post from mid-20... | {
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Show HN: A Fortran web framework - mapmeld
https://github.com/mapmeld/fortran-machine
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projectramo
I would love it if these projects were accompanied by a little blog post
stating who the person is, why they decided to do it etc. for projects where
it is obviously a labor of love.
Especially because of the effo... | {
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FCC, FTC Demand Gateway Providers Cut Off Covid-19 Robocall Scammers [pdf] - QUFB
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-363522A1.pdf
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troydavis
The named offenders are:
> SIPJoin of Suffolk, Virginia; Connexum of Orange, California; and VoIP
> Terminator/BLMarketing of Lake Mary, Florida
SIPJoin: [http:/... | {
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First U.S. use of CRISPR to directly target cancer seeks approval - ChefboyOG
https://www.statnews.com/2019/05/02/crispr-targeting-cancer-seeking-go-ahead/
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Funes-
As someone who lives with and takes care of a cancer patient, I'm really
frustrated with how little effort has been devoted to cancer research in suc... | {
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} |
Show HN: Prototyping board for making motion sensitive wearable light - thefool
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2055918540/1295169121?ref=hn
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thefool
Hi there! I made this, it turn electro-luminescent materials (the make EL
wire, EL panels/tape, EL paint) into a capacitive touch sensor
It is also an open s... | {
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} |
Hacking Google for Fun and Profit - tectonic
http://blog.andrewcantino.com/blog/2011/12/14/hacking-google-for-fun-and-profit/
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_djc_
Well done -- an accomplishment indeed.
Great content aside, I found the tone especially refreshing. Too often, it's
"look how smart I am, and how stupid you all are" -- the bril... | {
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} |
Google is pledging $4M to support U.S. immigration organizations - suprgeek
https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/29/google-us-immigration-fund
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ocdtrekkie
This isn't really an accurate headline, Google is pledging $2 million, and
offering to let their employees contribute another $2 million.
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Show HN: An interactive CLI ArXiv explorer - 191101
https://github.com/knguyenanhoa/cli-arxiv
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191101
I wrote a simple arXiv quick browser + article suggester in the terminal. I
personally use it on a day to day basis and would love suggestions on ways to
improve it.
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sixhobbits
I love the combination of TF-... | {
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The 'Art' of Being Donald Knuth - bentoner
http://mags.acm.org/communications/200807/?pm=2&zin=169&u1=texterity&pg=36&z=106
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simplegeek
Also this is amazing
_Then a startup came to me and said 'Don, write compilers for us and we will
take care of finding computers to debug them. Name your price.' I said, 'Oh... | {
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What's all this fuss about Erlang? (2007) - krat0sprakhar
https://pragprog.com/articles/erlang/
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chrisseaton
> Your Erlang program should just run N times faster on an N core processor
But only if your program is embarrassingly parallel with at least N times
available parallelism in the first place! If you have... | {
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} |
Enabling Offline "Facebook Likes" Via QR Codes For Your Brand - nreece
http://www.dericloh.com/enabling-offline-facebook-likes-via-qr-codes
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andrewacove
My project ties QR codes to Twitter, Foursquare, and Facebook profiles:
<http://www.getaquirk.com/> So you can scan a QR and easily follow, check-in,
etc.
Curr... | {
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} |
Best Buy charging $100 extra for some iPhone X purchases - gnicholas
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/10/27/16562228/best-buy-iphone-x-price-100-dollars-more-installment-plan
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gnicholas
TLDR: They're pushing people to their installment plans, so if you want to pay
upfront they'll charge an extra $100... | {
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} |
Arrgh Facebook is lying about me - davewiner
http://scripting.com/stories/2011/11/28/facebookFraud.html
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phwd
Maybe I am wrong, but Dave you said you deleted your account. Are you sure
that is your account, if it was shouldn't it resolve to your _username_ you
chose?
> But when I went to my URL, or at least wha... | {
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Who runs the world? - robg
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11664289
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nazgulnarsil
people constantly ask this question because the idea that no one is running
things is too scary to contemplate. this is the reason for both organized
religion and conspiracy theories.
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tx
I like the bias... | {
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Sexbots development: Ethical? - waroc
http://www.geeksnack.com/2015/09/16/sexbots-development-further-objectifies-women-and-children-says-ethicist-campaign-to-ban-them-already-underway/
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waroc
Where there's demand, there's supply. On the bright side, sexbots may force
women in sex industries to study and pursue ... | {
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} |
Scientists discover Indonesian cave with 'stunning' record of tsunamis - kschua
http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/scientists-discover-indonesian-cave-with-stunning-record-of-tsunamis-dating-back-thousands-of-years/story-fn5fsgyc-1226782895230
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jsaxton86
I can't find the original paper, unfortunately. W... | {
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} |
Show HN: Cloud Maker – Rapidly create cloud architecture diagrams - t4l0s
https://cloudmaker.ai#
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arkadiyt
Gave it a try. Here's my feedback in no particular order:
\- I couldn't get into my account to start playing around for a while because
your email verification is flagged as spam
\- Basic resources like A... | {
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} |
Y Combinator by the Numbers - ssclafani
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ERQ7ZtseWo
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rajeshvaya
wow!
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MongoDB Gotchas - vlucas
http://www.vancelucas.com/blog/mongodb-gotchas/
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TrevorBurnham
These seem a bit obvious to me. "String searches are case-sensitive"? "Strings
and integers aren't equivalent"? I was hoping the article would be a bit
deeper.
~~~
jkmcf
For the majority of people migrating from MySQL, the... | {
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} |
Ask HN for comments: Popular math article: Sailing Hydrofoils - RiderOfGiraffes
http://www.penzba.co.uk/Catastrophe/
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frig
If the article's really about catastrophe theory I'd better-motivate the
catastrophe reference; dropping it in at the last second is pretty much a wtf
moment for a reader not forewarned.
... | {
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} |
Humans are Liars - tckr
https://coderbyheart.com/humans-are-liars/
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chongli
This piece is interesting but it misses the elephant in the room: Work is
transactional at its heart. When somebody is your boss and you depend on them
to pay your bills and feed your family then they are not your friend no matter
how pl... | {
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} |
The Fallacy of Move Fast and Break Things - kiyanwang
https://launchdarkly.com/blog/the-fallacy-of-move-fast-and-break-things/
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jasode
The _" move fast and break things"_ is just a web app version of previous
sayings in other domains:
\- _" A ship in harbor is safe but that's not what ships are made for."_
\- ... | {
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How to make a stop-motion video in Ubuntu Linux - robotico
http://www.jcopro.net/2012/11/14/how-to-make-a-stop-motion-video-in-ubuntu-linux/
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robotico
Would also like to hear about any better and/or different ways of doing this.
~~~
qbrass
<http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html#Examples-5>
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Pipistrel Velis Electro: first fully electric aeroplane to be type certified - jka
https://www.pipistrel-aircraft.com/pipistrel-obtains-first-ever-type-certificate-in-the-world-for-an-electric-aeroplane-from-easa/
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jka
See also a video from a couple of years ago covering some details of the
aircraft and in-fligh... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What would you do with $5k/mo basic income for rest of life? - throw99887
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Cshelton
If assuming that everyone was also receiving $5k/mo "UBI"...
Nothing different, because the cost of everything I buy will go up by a total
of $5k/mo. Hence why UBI is flawed. My total purchasing power will be
unchanged.
... | {
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} |
Have scientists found a crashed UFO on the seabed? - harold
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2021174/Have-scientists-crashed-flying-saucer-seabed.html
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paulhauggis
"Now, however, his team do not have the money or resources to examine the
shape further."
If it really has any chance of being an al... | {
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} |
Enough about the NSA, already - orchdork10159
Are there any tech blogs that aren't currently flooded with NSA foolishness?
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obstacle1
Do you think that maybe it's an extremely important issue for people who live
in the tech space, and that is why it is dominating the discourse right now?
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mikecane
... | {
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Poloniex loses around $50,000 in Bitcoin - taybin
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/03/yet-another-exchange-hacked-poloniex-loses-around-50000-in-bitcoin/
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sp332
This story was already discussed
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7340908](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7340908)
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taybin
I'm g... | {
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The problem with Facebook - loisaidasam
https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/976563870322999296
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astalwick
[https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/976783608219279360](https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/976783608219279360)
He goes on to defend his work at Google, arguing that they're similar on the
surface, but Fac... | {
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} |
FBI asks public for help breaking encrypted notes tied to 1999 murder - garrettgillas
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110329/ts_yblog_thelookout/fbi-asks-public-for-help-breaking-encrypted-notes-tied-to-1999-murder
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garrettgillas
Quoted:
The bureau isn't offering any reward for assistance in solvin... | {
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} |
UK Rejects International Court of Justice Opinion on the Chagos Islands - yasp
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/02/uk-rejects-international-court-of-justice-opinion-on-the-chagos-islands/
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yasp
>I have taken it for granted that you know that the reason the UK refuses to
decolonise the Chagos Islands ... | {
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Ask HN: How does one help a teenager teach himself how to read? - markessien
I live in Africa, and in many houses there are these "gateboys" who are typically teenage boys that came from some small village far away to the cities looking for work. Their jobs involve opening the gates for visitors, gardening... | {
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Terms of Service; Didn't Read - dz0ny
http://tos-dr.info/
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IvyMike
Step 1: Write a .dll that interposes on common windows controls used to
display EULA messages.
Step 2: Whenever this .dll sees common EULA agreements, it randomly modifies
them before displaying them. Changes "SHALL" to "SHALL NOT", changes "GPL... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A Cavity-Fighting Liquid Lets Kids Avoid Dentists’ Drills - aaronbrethorst
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/health/silver-diamine-fluoride-dentist-cavities.html
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msie
W/O reading the article I'm guessing that this technology is 10 years away?
Edit: I'm delighted to be wrong. But the problem is uptake by
practi... | {
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} |
Extending Legal Protection to Social Robots - vectorbunny
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/extending-legal-protection-to-social-robots?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IeeeSpectrumFullText+%28IEEE+Spectrum+Full+Text%29
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bediger4000
Shouldn't we first g... | {
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The Best-Paying Companies For Software Engineers - negrit
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-worlds-highest-paid-software-engineers-work-for-these-25-companies-2013-4
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mynewwork
I wonder how this works out for take-home pay. Many of the companies listed
have offices in Austin as well as the bay area (Cisco, Pa... | {
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} |
Phtevenize Me - marvwhere
http://phtevenize.me
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newmetl
Haha, that's a nice idea. But still needs some polishing!
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Python Resume - lukasm
https://github.com/lukasz-madon/resume/blob/master/resume.py
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Winterflow3r
A fellow Caplin alum!
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lxw
experience is misspelled :)
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Facebook hiring monetization principle - robot
https://www.facebook.com/careers/department?dept=data&req=a2KA0000000LtgxMAC
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askimto
You mean principal. Pretty sure they try to avoid principles.
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robot
Its funny they do this after the IPO.
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The C# compiler and ‘Lowering’ - matthewwarren
http://mattwarren.org/2017/05/25/Lowering-in-the-C-Compiler/
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dfox
Coming from Lisp background one would take this as pretty obvious approach.
In fact I somewhat suspect that CL's tagbody is explicitly designed such that
every non-trivial control structure in the l... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How do you handle debates with non-scientists? - seertaak
I find myself getting into arguments with non-scientists and coming out of them satisfied that I've argued my case well and fairly, only to find my friends subsequently insisting that I've been "aggressive" or "rude". It bothers me, because I'm convin... | {
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} |
Thoughts about transitioning from SysAdmin to DevOps - m4b0
This is my article about the transition from SysAdmin to DevOps where I navigate through some considerations:<p>- Version control
- From pets to cattle
- Logs and observability
- Idempotency and automation
- Security<p>Hopefully will help to others.
======
m4... | {
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Were you watching on TV when Challenger broke up? - DavidWanjiru
I've just watched footage of the Challenger space shuttle breaking up in this documentary [0], and although I knew what happened, I've instinctively reacted like I didn't know it was going to happen. You know how they show replays of a spo... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Twitter Data Up For Sale: 1 Billion Connections - lrm242
http://www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2009/11/12/12readwriteweb-twitter-data-dump-infochimp-puts-1b-connect-51616.html
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akkartik
Nice to see Scoble referred to as journalist rather than blogger.
| {
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Faster arithmetic by flipping signs - ingve
https://nfrechette.github.io/2019/05/08/sign_flip_optimization/
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benj111
I thought this was going to be about 2s complement bit flipping. But no it's
for floating point!
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MayeulC
Shadow of the Tomb Raider is a quite recent game, and was not released on Xbox
360 ... | {
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} |
PriceTea – Simple Amazon Price Guides - ajaymehta
http://pricetea.com/
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smadam9
Lovely. Exactly the sort of thing people into "economical order quantity"
ordering are into.
Plans to expand?
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guci22
The alert box ruins your website.
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xur17
Agreed. It's showing up any time I click on a link on your s... | {
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Ask HN: About to interview for Android Developer role. What should I read up on? - drepricruf
iOS Developer about to interview for Android Developer role. What should I read up on?
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amacalac
Activity and Fragment lifecycles are a good topic. Understanding commonly used
libraries often comes up e.g. Volley, Gson,... | {
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} |
Michael Crichton: “Why Speculate?” & The Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect (2002) - emptybits
http://geer.tinho.net/crichton.why.speculate.txt
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secondbreakfast
One of my favorite talks ever, up there with Munger's "psychology of human
misjudgment"
Disagree with the conclusion (that climate change isn't worth worr... | {
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} |
Extracting timestamp and MAC address from UUIDs - mooreds
http://rpbouman.blogspot.com/2014/06/mysql-extracting-timstamp-and-mac.html
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geofft
There's a story that the creator of 1999's "Melissa" virus was found via a
GUID in the Word document that included their MAC address.
(I'm having trouble confirming the... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Music Animation Machine Notation - acqq
http://www.musanim.com/mam/closer.html
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acqq
For examples see <http://www.musanim.com/watch/>
J. S. Bach's Air on a G-string, from his 3rd orchestral suite in D major on
youtube (just for convenience, note that vimeo has better quality of his
videos): <http://www.youtub... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Linux kernel 5.1 data loss bug when using devicemapper and SSDs - djsumdog
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/62693
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dreix
Nice, I match ' the other people ' too
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} |
Mailgun hack day: Making our API documentation smarter - safun
http://blog.mailgun.com/mailgun-hack-day-making-our-developer-docs-smarter/
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jstoiko
I am curious. What did you use to spec out your documentation? Have been using
RAML lately.
| {
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A Visit to the R&D Dept of the New York Times - keltecp11
http://www.headshift.com/blog/2009/03/a-visit-to-the-rd-deparmtent-o.php
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bkudria
This is the same exact coverage of the R&D lab we hear about every time - the
large collection of gadgets (look at us! we can spend money!), the living room
of the "future... | {
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} |
Facebook and Twitter are creating a vain generation of self-obsessed people - rblion
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2020378/Facebook-Twitter-creating-vain-generation-self-obsessed-people.html#ixzz1U21zZjzi
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pyoung
I highly doubt vanity is a unique trait of our generation. It has been around
for... | {
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} |
Would a Google car sacrifice you for the sake of the many? - 147
https://medium.com/@dweinberger/e9d6abcf6fed
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japhyr
I have been thinking about this the last few days. My first thought is that I
would accept being sacrificed so that the overall impact of any collision is
minimized.
When I get into a car, I'm... | {
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} |
Show HN: WebMTG, manage Magic the Gathering games, tournaments and decks - bartzon
https://github.com/bartzon/webmtg
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bartzon
I've added some screenshots!
[https://github.com/bartzon/webmtg#features](https://github.com/bartzon/webmtg#features)
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fiatjaf
After some time, this becomes a website for managi... | {
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} |
A Conversation with Arthur Whitney (2009) - radicalbyte
http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1531242
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rubyn00bie
This little section just blew my mind...
=================================================
BC: Do you ever look at your own code and think, "What the hell was I doing
here?"
AW: No, I guess I don't.
... | {
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A Federal Privacy Board Is Reviewing DHS’ Airport Facial Recognition Programs - lp001
https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2019/10/federal-privacy-board-reviewing-dhs-airport-facial-recognition-programs/160341/
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sarcasmatwork
The data will be leaked. It's a matter of time. Not if, its when. History has
already ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How do you measure developers productivity? - jsifalda
Hey guys, i am wondering, how do you measure productivity of developers in your team? I have been using RescueTime app but is too general, not focused on developers. Also, i tried WakaTime plugin into code editor, but it is saying a much... just general s... | {
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} |
Website Hackers Slip Under the Radar with Impersonator Bots - carlchenet
http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/14/website-hackers-slip-under-the-radar-with-impersonator-bots/
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SCAQTony
Reminds me of a line from a short story by William Gibson titled, "Burning
Chrome:
"...“Congratulations,” I heard Bobby say. “We just... | {
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29 Days with Android - sandipc
http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/13/3082261/29-days-with-android
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stcredzero
_There are a number of things in this picture that can only be done via iPhone
jailbreaking, and even then, it may lead to a very unstable system. Just on
this screen we have:_
- App-spe... | {
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React-app-rewired: override create-react-app webpack configs without ejecting - mxstbr
https://github.com/timarney/react-app-rewired
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captainmuon
react-app-rewired looks cool, I'll have to try it the next time I hit a wall
(and just need a little tweak)!
One rant while I'm here: I don't really like create-react... | {
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Realistic Facebook Privacy Simulator - ColinWright
http://toys.usvsth3m.com/realistic-facebook-privacy-simulator/
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crazygringo
Don't not make everything not private
[ ] Not No
[ ] Not Not Not Yes
My brain was too slow!
Great game.
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Sektor
Took me another 30 seconds just s... | {
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The One Wheel Micro-Cycle - flippyhead
http://rynomotors2.wordpress.com/
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JoeAltmaier
Is its top speed really the snails pace shown in the video? For heaven's sake,
why not ride a bike?
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signalsignal
It only goes 20 mph?
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flippyhead
I know seems so slow
| {
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Pet Peeve: "You Guys" - clintonb11
http://avc.com/2014/05/pet-peeve-you-guys
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calciphus
Curious, as I've stumbled over this one myself - do you have a non-gendered
group pronoun you prefer? I feel odd saying "you guys" to mixed groups, but I
feel odder with "you all" and "you folks". I've had many female cowor... | {
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Y Combinator Needs to Teach Better Business Communication Skills - hexagonc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h66PNIUtaaE
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angersock
Pretty good customer reaction to an overly-familiar business email and a solid
criticism of a botched customer interaction.
| {
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Google Blacklists bit.ly - avinassh
http://blog.sucuri.net/2014/10/bit-ly-blacklisted-by-google-safe-browsing.html
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andygambles
This is why it is a good idea to use your own custom domain with bit.ly
~~~
avinassh
Yes, here's the official tutorial link for the lazy:
[http://support.bitly.com/knowledgebase/arti... | {
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} |
Blekko Review - obelix
http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/19/techcrunch-review-the-blekko-search-engine-prepares-to-launch/
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moultano
I'm really excited about having a new search engine to try. More competition
isn't just good for consumers, it's also good for the field of IR.
I work in search quality at Google, a... | {
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} |
The four year vesting schedule doesn't make sense - groth
http://stuckinthevalley.tumblr.com/
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tptacek
I don't invest in companies, but if I did, having nonstandard vesting schemes
would be a no-deal red flag, at least for any team that didn't have a mile-
long pedigree starting and successfully building compani... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Stanford students asking, how to help out with the coronavirus response? - davidtsong
Hi HN,<p>My friend and I are Stanford CS students pursuing biocomp and AI. We are terrified at the thought of hospitals being overwhelmed soon and we want to do whatever it takes to help save lives from Coronavirus in the US.... | {
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Utter Disregard for Git Commit History - hodgesmr
http://zachholman.com/posts/git-commit-history/
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QuercusMax
Sounds like the author wants something like Mercurial's
[https://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ChangesetEvolution](https://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ChangesetEvolution).
It will allow you to rebase and d... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What motivates MOOC subscribers? - sunflash5
For those of you who take online classes from organizations like Coursera, EdX and Udemy, what motivated you to take the class?<p>I'm interested in MOOCs and wanted to get a perspective on what motivates people taking the class, how long they stick with the class,... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
McKinsey warns banks face wipeout in some financial services - jeo1234
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/a5cafe92-66bf-11e5-97d0-1456a776a4f5.html
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grandalf
_“Most of the attackers do not want to become a bank,” said Mr Härle. “They
want to squeeze themselves in between the customer and the bank and skim the
cream ... | {
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How to (Scientifically) Pick the Best Company Name - rharris
http://customerdevlabs.com/2013/03/05/test-company-domain-name-with-mturk-survey-data/
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JohnyLy
Very interesting approach. Choosing a company name is very important. I
especially like the name-association part. I would just add 'meaning in
foreign la... | {
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Persistent PostgreSQL inside Docker - myacce
https://crondev.com/persistent-postgresql-inside-docker/
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jmnicolas
A benchmark to see how much perfs you loose by virtualizing Postgres would
have been nice.
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kennu
It would be interesting. But I would also note that Docker doesn't do
virtualization. It uses e.g.... | {
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Mir vs. Wayland Drama commencing - iso-8859-1
https://plus.google.com/100409717163242445476/posts
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iso-8859-1
IRC log: <http://pastebin.com/KjRm3be1>
| {
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He can’t smoke weed and drink whiskey at least not on a podcast - marmot777
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/elon-musk-nasa-spacex-commercial-crew-safety-review/576997/
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mimixco
The suggestion that Apollo astronauts were burned up on the launch pad might
have something to do with weed (or whis... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Using Wayland from Rust, Part 1 - steveklabnik
http://blog.levans.fr/rust_wayland_1-en.html
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kibwen
If you have any questions for the author, he's present over in the /r/rust
thread:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/3uwtz6/using_wayland_...](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/3uwtz6/using_wayland_from... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Ask HN: Are there any other topics in FP then simple composition and CT - eskimobloood
Most of the articles about functional Programming are either simple descriptions on composition and currying or about how a monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors. I wonder if there are no other topics in this fiel... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
San Francisco Legalizing Airbnb - larryzhou
http://dnwbl.blogspot.com/2013/01/san-francisco-legalizing-airbnb.html
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larryzhou
I want to make some money through Airbnb especially when the rent is so high
in the city.
| {
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} |
UFO VPN claims zero-logs policy, leaks 20M user logs - DyslexicAtheist
https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/ufo-vpn-data-exposure/
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outworlder
Unsecured Elasticsearch, once again.
([https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/17/ufo_vpn_database/](https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/17/ufo_vpn_database/))
So E... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How Everything Became the Culture War - paulpauper
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/11/02/culture-war-liberals-conservatives-trump-2018-222095
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sbierwagen
>Politics has always been adversarial. Traditionally, though, we’ve had a
fairly robust national consensus about a fairly broad set of goals—a str... | {
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} |
Deja Vu: Google Settles Age Discrimination Lawsuit for $11M - rmason
https://www.forbes.com/sites/patriciagbarnes/2019/07/20/deja-vu-google-settles-age-discrimination-lawsuit-for-11-million/#456d9f5971f1
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btown
> In 2010, Google settled a lawsuit filed by a one-time Silicon Valley
> superstar, Brian Reid, then 5... | {
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Stripe Launches UK private beta - lifeisstillgood
Just got my mail - looks nice folks. And the timing is perfect - was about to unleash my inner jasonkester and patio11 on a side project!
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oliverdavenport
This isn't new - I was invited to the UK beta in early April.
| {
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Uber and Lyft can be just as bad as taxis when it comes to racial discrimination - buckbova
http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/31/13478102/uber-lyft-race-gender-discrimination-study-findings-mit-stanford
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hackuser
Many repeat the story that Lyft, Uber, etc. improve service to minority
communities. Was there ever da... | {
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} |
Ask HN: what are some essential theoretical computer science books? - zeitg3ist
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primitivesuave
Sipser's Theory of Computation is the closest thing I could think of to an
all-round essential.
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ddp
[http://research.microsoft.com/en-
us/um/people/lamport/pubs/p...](http://research.microsoft.com/en-
us/um... | {
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} |
Game Developers Are Flocking to Sony and Fleeing From Microsoft - keepitkosher
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/04/sony-indies/?cid=co6980084
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bashinator
It's interesting how Sony seems to be finally "getting it" with regard to
attracting developers. I just read about how they interviewed software
developers... | {
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} |
Show HN: HN Sakura – see quick rising/falling HN posts before they're gone - dosy
https://hnsakura.xyz/
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dosy
The Sakura season is short-lived.
So too are some posts on HN.
The rise sharply (blossom), only to fall even faster
Off the rankings forever.
This re-ranks HN by how fast the posts are moving through... | {
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} |
FOUC with Firefox Quantum - vinayakkulkarni
After all the hype, I finally downloaded Firefox Quantum and the first thing i noticed, while opening GitHub, FOUC happened! I was like, OK, it might be an anomaly but happened again on multiple websites with loads of css & javascript.
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mtmail
If anybody else is wo... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What tools do you still run on DOSBOX and why? - neatcoder
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binarydinosaur
ShareGenius - Came free on UK ComputerShopper magazine in early 90's. Still
nothing as good. QLAY for DOS (Sinclair QL emulator).
| {
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} |
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