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Asana Status - flyt
http://www.asanastatus.com/
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Villodre
I'm sorry if this is a dumb question, but, what is this webpage for?
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crixlet
I'm guessing it's tongue in cheek? Or at least, this is what I typically see
for the Asana Android app.
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ewang1
Seems to just be a loading bar and nothing else...
... | {
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After killing investigation, Bloomberg News sought to silence reporter's wife - kyleblarson
https://www.npr.org/2020/04/14/828565428/bloomberg-news-killed-investigation-fired-reporter-then-sought-to-silence-his-wi
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floatingatoll
The article that Bloomberg refused to publish, that was later published at
NYT, is h... | {
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The Distinctly American Ethos of the Grifter - rmason
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/12/t-magazine/the-distinctly-american-ethos-of-the-grifter.html
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espeed
Grifting is obsolete. Mass data and AI are pushing time to identify to zero.
Risk vs Reward is now upside down.
The Internet is written in ink. Integrity ... | {
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} |
Google Rounds Out Insight into TPU Architecture and Inference - jonbaer
https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/09/19/google-rounds-out-insight-into-tpu-architecture-and-inference/
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puzzle
From the original article:
"Most architecture research papers are based on simulations running small,
easily portable benchmarks ... | {
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Latest PS3 update swaps out existing browser for WebKit - robin_reala
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=462325
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sgentle
That's pretty interesting. WebKit-based browsers currently have about 30% of
desktop browser market share, and basically all of the mobile browser share
(iOS, Android, BlackBerry, ... | {
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50+ Everyday Products That Use ARM Microcontroller - ionela
http://dev.emcelettronica.com/50-everyday-products-use-arm-microcontroller
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ionela
ARM is by now as God - it is in everything: in our mobile phones, in our GPS,
PDA or in our laptops. Let's see a list with 50 products that use ARM Linux
technology.
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Day of the Triffords: A live coding performance in Scheme with Impromptu - pygy_
http://vimeo.com/2735394
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pygy_
It starts with quiet howls and hums, but gradually gathers in strength into
layers of heavy industrial beats.
The whole piece is coded right in front of your eyes, in Scheme. The code
controls vari... | {
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} |
Show HN: Appbase - Fast graph data store for building web apps - sidi
http://appbase.io/
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yashness
Sounds interesting ! Waiting to try 't out
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brenobmo
Are there any free credits for new users?
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telespablo
Let's together!
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pisrael
Go appbase!
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felipebyrro
Great!
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Ask HN: Have I earned the right to edit my HN username? - babyshake
When I first signed up for News YC as a junior in college, I gave myself one of the few throwaway account names I was using on other tech-oriented forums at the time.<p>Well, two and a half years later, and I'm increasingly unhappy with my username,... | {
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Computer Program for Simulating Time Travel and a Solution to Grandfather Paradox - mindcrime
http://arxiv.org/abs/1609.08470
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squozzer
Interesting. (Sorry, Spock.) I offer the following conjectures -- because they
lack the falsifiability for them to rise to the level of hypotheses.
1) Causality may resemble in... | {
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Paperless: Scan and index paper documents - DaGardner
https://github.com/danielquinn/paperless
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bonoboTP
For me the problem is stability and future-proofness. Technology changes very
quickly. If the maintainer loses interest, the software may rot away as the
dependencies change, etc.
Important documents often n... | {
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Benefits of Using .Net for Startup Development - freezepro
http://freezeprosoftware.com/news/benefits-of-using-net-for-startup-development.aspx
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vhogemann
Until .NET Core is mature, and gains support of the major packages from the
Nugget repository I'll say: Thanks, but no thanks.
Java, more specifically the JV... | {
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Even casually smoking marijuana can change your brain, study says - taylorbuley
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/04/16/even-casually-smoking-marijuana-can-change-your-brain-study-says/
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moron4hire
This guy claims it was bad science:
[http://www.medpagetoday.com/Neurology/GeneralNeurology/... | {
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DDecode – Hex,Octal,HTML Decoder - steeples
http://ddecode.com/hexdecoder/
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whitten
Seems to be a useful tool based on a research project, but very little example
of what it expects for input.
I tried it with some HTML entity notation, and didn't see the letters
represented, but was disappointed. Maybe my use... | {
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} |
16-year old teen claims his search engine is 47% more accurate than Google - kshatrea
http://m.timesofindia.com/tech/tech-news/This-16-year-old-Indian-origin-teen-claims-his-search-engine-is-47-more-accurate-than-Google/articleshow/48553228.cms
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VOYD
"60 hours to code a search engine", sounds like someone is s... | {
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Millionaires Who Don't Feel Rich - nreece
http://www.nilkanth.com/2007/09/07/millionaires-who-don%e2%80%99t-feel-rich/
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byoung2
_"One might ask then, are these people fools to work so hard even after all
that stack of cash?"_
I think the problem is that they might be millionaires on paper, but they
don't have c... | {
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This Is Generation Flux: Meet The Pioneers Of The New Frontier Of Business - benjlang
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/162/generation-flux-future-of-business
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richoakley
One of the most brilliant articles I've read in a long time.
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Ask HN: Is there some unwritten code of conduct for code reviews? - MichaelMoser123
Code reviews are all the rage these days: I am getting code reviews at work from people whom I don't even know; Is there some accepted code of conduct for this kind of situations?
I mean is one supposed to just do what any review... | {
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An open letter to Yelp's CEO - RickS
https://medium.com/@taliajane/an-open-letter-to-my-ceo-fb73df021e7a#.5lakumugq
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dogecoinbase
As an update, Talia has now been fired for writing this open letter asking for
a living wage for Yelp/Eat24 employees:
[https://twitter.com/itsa_talia/status/700862005834444800](https... | {
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Open Thread: How Would You Fix Yahoo? - terpua
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/open_thread_how_would_you_fix_yahoo.php
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tyohn
If I was put in charge; I'd start by examining each unit of the business and
the leadership of each of the units. I'd make the tough calls; such as
eliminating under performing manag... | {
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Bangka Island: The WW2 massacre and a 'truth too awful to speak' - rmason
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-47796046
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GreeniFi
In my late teens, in the late 90s I attended university in the United Kingdom.
In my first year, the Japanese Emperor visited the Queen. And was met by
British WW2 soldiers on the... | {
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} |
Show HN: Staffjoy Flex – Marketplace Scheduling for Contractors - philip1209
https://www.staffjoy.com/flex/
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philip1209
Today we are launching Staffjoy Flex, which is our product for scheduling
independent contractors. Last month, we launched Staffjoy Boss, which is our
employee product.
The key difference is t... | {
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Is Cyberpunk Dead? A Conversation with Bruce Bethke - keiferski
https://www.markeverglade.com/iscyberpunkdead
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currymj
The book "Void Star" is an interesting one. It has a William Gibson style plot
very similar to Neuromancer but instead of 1980s aesthetic choices, it has
2017 aesthetic choices.
So instead of n... | {
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} |
When online gambling is legalized, Facebook will be $100 billion company - gdhillon
http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-gambling-2012-1
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sbtest
What concerns me is behavioral information obtained through games
(particularly ones of the push-a-button, get point variety) could be used to
target individuals w... | {
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A Drug to Cure Fear - andrewl
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/opinion/sunday/a-drug-to-cure-fear.html
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jqm
I'm of the opinion that eventually (soon) human emotions/gut level feelings
will be replaced with a controlled layer.
In an earlier time hunger, fear, (and probably even things like love and
religious se... | {
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Ask HN: What is your employer doing to improve the commute? - mapster
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mtmail
Not my commute (I cycle), but friends get subsidized public transport, there a
scheme to buy a bicycle and pay off later (not even the full 100%), locked
bicycle parking obviously, company bike for running errands. The company has
two r... | {
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Exploiting a Go Binary - fabriceleal
http://codearcana.com/posts/2013/04/23/exploiting-a-go-binary.html
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laumars
This is what should happen in IT. Someone looks for a vulnerability; find it.
Determine if the project owners need prior warning; then go public. Everyone
becomes aware of the issue and upgrades the... | {
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Ask HN: What are some best resources for learning R? - xijuan
I will be starting graduate school this year September for quantitative psychology program. I really need to learn R to be able to conduct the research. My undergraduate degree is just psychology so I don't have too much background in programming although I... | {
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GNU Octave 3.8 - lelf
http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/NEWS-3.8.html
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clintonc
A GUI!? Oh, my stars...
Honestly, I like Octave a lot, and this new feature gives me the option to use
it in collaboration with folks who aren't as UNIX-happy as I. I'm interested
to know how "unpolished" the GUI is.
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Google Acquires Jibe Mobile - stingrae
http://www.jibemobile.com/
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wyldfire
Would this/could this replace Hangouts? Or maybe WebRTC is a good complement
for Project Fi?
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DiabloD3
This would be nice, but Google has a habit of buying companies for certain
people or certain technologies and just ditches the act... | {
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North Korea – Vintage Socialist Architecture - curtis
http://www.raphaelolivier.com/urban/documentary/photographer/north-korea/pyongyang/vintage/socialist/architecture/
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nikolay
Not working in Firefox.
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A Tcpdump Tutorial and Primer - danielrm26
http://danielmiessler.com/study/tcpdump/
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0x0
If you are planning on poking around with captures in Wireshark, keep in mind
that there have been quite a lot of exploits for that app, particularly in the
various protocol dissectors.
You should avoid working on captures ... | {
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Samsung buying WebOS? I wish they would. It's great. - EGreg
http://www.fabcapo.com/2011/08/samsung-buying-webos-it-makes-sense.html
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yardie
_webOS still has no developers, which is the reason they did not make it._
WTF! As a webOS developer I'll be damned if someone says that the developers
were the reason t... | {
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Formally Verified Software in the Real World (2018) - icc97
https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/10/231372-formally-verified-software-in-the-real-world/fulltext
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tpaschalis
Second day in a row where HN frontpage features formally verified software!
If you're like me, and would like to get started, or just see wh... | {
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Closure of NM solar observatory a mystery - DyslexicAtheist
https://www.abqjournal.com/1219922/nm-solar-observatory-closed-authorities-mum.html
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eitally
Dupe:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17978598](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17978598)
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dang
Thanks. We moved the other comments there.
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The Life of a Forgotten employee - jcslzr
http://shii.org/knows/American_Dream
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AngryParsley
I'm surprised none of the comments (so far) are critical of the author. What's
the point of mooching if you're not going to use that time productively?
Eventually he'll have to find a new job, and not very many places wa... | {
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Letter to a Young PL Enthusiast - vamsee
http://axisofeval.blogspot.com/2010/06/letter-to-young-pl-enthusiast.html
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jules
> Ignore the siren calls of the virtual machines. You have to be the master of
> your domain. Use C or assembler to implemente your language. The free Unices
> are your friends. Learne abou... | {
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Political data on over 198M US citizens exposed - kjhughes
http://gizmodo.com/gop-data-firm-accidentally-leaks-personal-details-of-ne-1796211612
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sctb
Comments moved to
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14586833](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14586833).
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695k TPS with Node.js and VoltDB - dscape
http://voltdb.com/company/blog/695k-tps-nodejs-and-voltdb
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MichaelGG
I'd like to add an independent voice too. I tried VoltDB out around a year
ago. Ran it on 3 servers, with k=1 (all data replicated on 2 nodes). Servers
were Dell PowerEdge 860 - only 8GB RAM, and a Q6... | {
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Timelion: The time series composer for Kibana – Elastic - rbanffy
https://www.elastic.co/blog/timelion-timeline?ultron=luke-warm-email17&blade=touch-email&hulk=email&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT0Rjd1lqZzBNMkpsWVdFeCIsInQiOiJSYWw1RmJmNkpWTHJTWDdHeDM2c1I5TVFuVDYyZFN5MUVQTmRCVEVUR2grNVZcL1FJTklpZHZoK1diQmc3UWlzWXRvZG5jWWc5SnhXUk5jR... | {
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The Two Types of Friends You Make on Facebook - Or Why I Use Facebook Less - dreambird
http://thefastertimes.com/theweb/2010/07/14/why-i-use-facebook-less-and-less/?preview=true&preview_id=123&preview_nonce=44ba7479be
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spooneybarger
Right now, I just get a 'you are not permitted to view drafts' message.
~~~
n... | {
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Live data from Chandra satellite - helwr
http://cxc.harvard.edu/mta/G15.html
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helwr
About: <http://chandra.harvard.edu/about/tracking.html>
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With 200M daily users, Giphy will soon test sponsored GIFs - mcone
https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/31/with-200m-daily-users-giphy-will-soon-test-sponsored-gifs/
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anilgulecha
Unit economics never works out for gifs. It's historically not worked out well
for normal JPG image hosts. It will most definitely not work ... | {
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Anachro-PC – The Anachronistic Personal Computer - MindGods
https://jamesmunns.com/blog/anachro-pc-001/
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traverseda
I think there's definitely a market for some kind of "forever PC". A 20 year
old PC is powerful enough to do a lot of stuff, and the really impressive part
is that it wouldn't ever need to change s... | {
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Your degree determines your salary: Choose wisely - volandovengo
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/education-degrees-that-almost-guarantee-jobs-1295023.html
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comm_it
Not just this, but your GCSEs and A-Levels too.
I was actually turned down from a graduate job because my GCSEs were no... | {
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} |
Trademark lawyer to 3-man startup: hand over your domain–or else - velodrome
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/trademark-lawyer-to-3-man-startup-hand-over-your-domain-or-else/
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benologist
This is exactly how trademarks are supposed to work... he used and protected
the name first by several years and t... | {
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} |
Freemium Vs. Premium - AndrewWarner
http://michaelpriceless.com/freemium-vs-premium-which-is-better/08/25/2010/
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michaelpriceles
Thanks for the post Andrew!
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Trump Prepares to Unveil a Vast Reworking of Clean Water Protections - macawfish
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/climate/trump-clean-water-rollback.html
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mindslight
It is truly amazing how well these shitheads prey on our understandable
frustration with the government to gather support, and redirect that ener... | {
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Ask HN: What would change in a neighborhood that installed Gigabit Internet? - Articulate
I am helping a non-profit that is trying to bring gigabit internet to a main street in a neighborhood of Saint Louis. I want to explain to small businesses (restaurants, coffee shops, movie theaters, retail stores) how interne... | {
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Pre-Eminent VC – Forward Partners Is Hiring a Senior Developer - ForwardChris
https://forward-partners.workable.com/j/73E3782BC4
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ForwardChris
Work on greenfield projects, build MVP's, get equity in a successful fund,
help build world class businesses. Click through and see what the fuss is
about.
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sharem... | {
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Ask HN: Stockholm Startups? - dsimard
I recently moved to Stockholm for my wife's job. I'd like to work at a startup, and I've heard that there's supposed to be a decent community for that here (not like the valley, but better than most places). However, I'm starting from zero, with no network of people to talk to.... | {
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CopCards: Cheatsheets for dealing with the police - saraid216
http://s.ai/copcards/
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batguano
I love this bit at the end:
"I am not a lawyer and I am sure as hell not your lawyer."
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HTML5: With Great Templates Comes Great Responsivity - jverrecchia
http://verekia.com/initializr/responsive-template
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ceol
Great beginner article on "responsive web design". I found the walkthrough to
be very friendly.
Does anyone else feel like there are lots of buzzwords in HTML articles? For
instance,
_"Th... | {
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} |
Electricity Map – Live CO2 emissions of electricity consumption - robin_reala
https://www.electricitymap.org/
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trzeci
This page shows that some countries produce electric power in cleaner way than
other. This projects only one point of view, and congratulations for countries
that are shifting towards green sourc... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Employee surveillance at your work place? - badrabbit
HN,<p>I've seen both ends of the spectrum but I wanted to know what the consensus with the HN crowd was:<p>Does your work place monitor employee activity?
Does it extend to their personal devices?
How about off work activity?
How extensive are we ta... | {
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} |
Show HN: Land conservation through crowdfunding - cromulent
https://www.helsinkifoundation.org
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fiatjaf
If this is successful you should somehow open it to people that have land or
want to buy land in other parts of the globe to let it be sold like that.
Which is probably very difficult legally speaking.
Ok, I... | {
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} |
Why so many celebrities have died in 2016 - ohjeez
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-36108133
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MicroBerto
The biggest and scariest issue is that all of these celebrities are going
completely unreplaced.
I am a fan of rock and heavy metal, and it is clear that rock stardom is
literally dying off. The da... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Socratic dialogue between two cybersecurity experts? - RodericDay
I cannot for the life of me find this fantastic resource I saw posted on HN a while ago.<p>It was a fake conversation between Alice and Bob, where they took turns explaining how Alice would protect a password submission form, and then how Bob wo... | {
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Tell HN: JPL Annual Open House this weekend - krisneuharth
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/events/open-house.cfm
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abecedarius
I went to this once back in the 90s when I worked there -- there was a
science-fair vibe (I guess; never been to one of those) with little booths and
posters and some demos of things like activ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
GitLab Announcing January 16, 2018 Critical Security Update - teoruiz
https://about.gitlab.com/2018/01/12/gitlab-critical-release-preannouncement/
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AdamJacobMuller
One thing I'll say about GitLab (even if I'm not its biggest fan) their
packaging/installation/upgrade is absolutely top-notch.
I've never seen anyo... | {
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startup 2.0 - european startup competition - brett
http://www.startup2.eu/
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whacked_new
So the deadline is over. It'll be interesting to see how this goes.
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Noam Chomsky: The world is at the most dangerous moment in human history - susam
https://www.newstatesman.com/world/2020/09/noam-chomsky-world-most-dangerous-moment-human-history
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ncmncm
It is curious to have omitted Duterte and Erdogan from the list.
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Ask HN: Sacrifice Seniority for Better Long Term Career Prospects? - OneSummersDay
I’m currently at Job A where I have some seniority (5+ years) and a minor leadership role (tech lead on a small project). I enjoy what I’m doing and like the leadership experience. A larger leadership role is my goal, but I don’t see ... | {
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Is kickstarter the new process for product? - sfrancisatx
http://www.bp-3.com/blogs/2011/12/a-new-process-for-products/
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bradleyland
Editorializing in the title is frowned upon. There is a gulf of difference
between:
"A New Process for Products?"
and
"Is kickstarter the new process for product?"
Use of the... | {
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} |
Super talented employee driving you crazy - sonabinu
http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2012/11/30/talented-employees-management/
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rpwilcox
The question raised in this question and answer column seems to me to serve as
a warning for companies who are only looking for "rockstar" developers: often
they come with ... | {
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How I built a keyboard by hand - rhinoceraptor
https://jacklew.is/keyboard/
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trevize
Have to give a shoutout to keyboard.io -
[https://shop.keyboard.io](https://shop.keyboard.io). Backing this project and
watching the process and creation of this keyboard has been very rewarding.
They are creating band new keyca... | {
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} |
The student loan crisis will dwarf the housing market crash. - mikekarnj
http://www.mikekarnj.com/blog/2010/08/11/college-inc/
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patio11
It isn't going to be as bad as the housing market crash, because degrees are
revenue producing assets for the overwhelming majority of people and houses
are costs for the overwh... | {
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} |
Show HN: VidFall – Pay with time, not your wallet - badgercapital
https://vidfall.com
======
dkyc
The age old problem that the demographic that watches video ads for .50$ is
not the demographic you want to advertise to...
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ianamartin
So what? The people who click on google ad words and Facebook ads aren't the
ta... | {
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Udacity Says It Can Teach Tech Skills to Millions, and Fast - olalonde
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/17/technology/udacity-says-it-can-teach-tech-skills-to-millions.html?_r=0
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pakled_engineer
I prefer the MIT OpenCourseware style, where there's no signing up, no trying
to get money out of you and you can come i... | {
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} |
Beyond English, the language of the future - rjknight
http://www.salon.com/2011/11/06/whats_the_language_of_the_future/singleton/
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bryanlarsen
The most salient point I got from the article: an increasing number of people
learning English are using it only to speak to others who do not speak it
natively. A coup... | {
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The Overfitted Brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization - johnsimer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.09560
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cs702
_> ... all DNNs face the issue of overfitting as they learn, which is when
performance on one data set increases but the network's performance fails to
generalize (often measured by the divergence of... | {
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Show HN: Use DuckDuckGo for !bangs and Google for everything else - mcrittenden
http://www.duckduckgoog.com
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jemfinch
Every time I see someone laud ddg's !bang searches, I ask myself, "What makes
managing your browser's configuration so damn hard?" I go to Chrome's
"settings", I click "Manage Search Engines", an... | {
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Ask HN: How can I learn reverse engineering? - hacjjjjjjjj
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cnvogel
"Reverse engineering" is too broad of a term.
Do you want to jailbreak the newest smartphone? Or want to repurpose some neat
and cheap childrens' toy into a spectrum analyzer?
Maybe your central heating has a odd habit of keeping your bedro... | {
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Why Engineers build crappy products - cygnus
http://willschenk.com/why-engineers-build-crappy-products/
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DanBC
It's weird to criticise engineers for bad UIs by writing an article and then
designing your website to allow only about 25 words on screen at a time.
[http://imgur.com/dAM2RT6](http://imgur.com/dAM2R... | {
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Coding Is Not a Life Skill - jsrmath
https://medium.com/@jsrmath/coding-is-not-a-life-skill-3db7bd743965#.66ch29shx
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danso
What does "life skill" mean? Is math a "life skill"? Why do we think that,
other than the fact that math is force-fed to us and made part of our
standardized testing? I've worked with many f... | {
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} |
U.N. postal union clinches deal to keep U.S. in - ineedasername
http://reuters.com/article/us-un-postal/u-n-postal-union-clinches-deal-to-keep-u-s-in-club-idUSKBN1WA247
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lettergram
Good. It was insane that we were subsidizing shipping from China. This, more
than anything, will shift to a more balanced manufactur... | {
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} |
Wesaturate – 6000 Free Raw Photos - kashgoudarzi
https://www.wesaturate.com
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fulldecent2
Okay photo selection. I test with: lemons, boudoir, African
RAW download button did not work for me. But you can download using this
script by putting in the photo ID:
wget
[https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.3fr](htt... | {
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Amazon AWS Training Self-Paced Labs - sebg
http://aws.amazon.com/training/self-paced-labs/
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neoedu
I looked at this today and took a lab, seems very helpful. There are a few
labs right now there, I hope they have more soon and then I can take some of
the complex labs.
| {
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Sharable, Open Source Workers for Scalable Processing - treeder
http://blog.iron.io/2012/11/sharable-open-source-workers-for.html
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jpsilvashy2
I like this idea too, I feel there are a lot of typical tasks that most web
applications all need to do. Nice work!
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malachismith
This is SO cool!!! Cannot wait ... | {
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Goboy: Multi-Platform Nintendo Game Boy Color Emulator Written in Go - mrahbar
https://github.com/Humpheh/goboy
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giovannibajo1
For something more complex, I have written a mostly working Nintendo DS
emulator in Go, with JIT, 3D graphics, and whatnot:
[https://github.com/rasky/ndsemu/](https://github.com/rasky/nd... | {
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} |
The weird world of fossil worm cocoons (2016) [pdf] - Breadmaker
http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1047133/FULLTEXT02.pdf
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gwern
Abstract for [http://www.diva-
portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1047133/FULLTEXT0...](http://www.diva-
portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1047133/FULLTEXT02.pdf)
~~~
sctb
Since that loads ... | {
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Oxidizing Fedora: Try Rust and Its Applications Today - rayascott
https://fedoramagazine.org/oxidizing-fedora-try-rust-applications-today/
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VohuMana
Been using ripgrep for a while now, I love it. One other Rust tool people
might find useful is fd
([https://github.com/sharkdp/fd](https://github.com/sharkdp/fd)) w... | {
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Ask HN: Good literature for a technical guy - m1k3r
during the last year i've been reading complex and highly technical books, from programing to linear algebra and computational biology, i'm starting to miss some good literature, some recommendations?
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jackfoxy
Articles about Apple censoring the illustrated U... | {
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Star Trek: Picard - hestipod
https://www.startrek.com/news/brent-spiner-jeri-ryan-jonathan-frakes-return-star-trek-picard-sdcc-hall-h
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hestipod
New trailer for the series. I am putting the YouTube link below as well but it
may be regional. It might sound ridiculous to be so excited over a TV show,
but TNG was fo... | {
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} |
Why hasn't Zerocator found a VP of Engineering yet? - pm24601
Links not included because of anti spam But try this search:
'zerocater "VP of engineering" site:news.ycombinator.com'<p>1 hour ago, 14 hours ago, 12 days ago, 25 days ago, ... for FOUR pages of search results! All the way back to 20... | {
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The Next Web Index - sfvisser
http://thenextweb.com/voice/2011/11/29/first-introduction-to-our-new-research-tool-tnw-index/
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rutgervw
This is a great use of Silk (silkapp.com).
| {
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} |
Thieves Are Using Bluetooth to Target Vehicle Break-Ins - cowsandmilk
https://www.outsideonline.com/2406433/thieves-bluetooth-scanner-vehicle-break-in
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gxon
This seems like a trivial problem for law enforcement to honeypot. You
wouldn't even need to actively monitor. Just get an alert when the devices
start movi... | {
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} |
A general purpose library for C - samuelrowe
I have been working a C library for the past four years. It was originally designed for the compiler I am writing. However, I realized many of the components could be reused, which gave birth to Jez Toolkit (JTK). Currently, the library implements collections, unit tests, f... | {
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Speaking Fees of Media/Internet "celebs" - aj
http://paidcontent.org/article/419-bonfire-of-vanities-part-deux-speaking-fees-of-mediainternet-types/
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onreact-com
Crime pays: Kevin Mitnick: "the most wanted computer criminal in United States
history" $15K to $20K.
| {
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} |
History of the browser user-agent string - bhaisaab
http://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/
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pornel
And now we have Chromium-based Opera which can't call itself Opera and has to
use "OPR/16" instead, and pretends to be Chrome, which pretends to be Safari,
which pretends to be KHTML, which pretends to... | {
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} |
A/B Testing, Too Little Too Soon? [pdf] - mahmud
http://www.futurenowinc.com/resources/abtesting.pdf
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rrikhy
Where is Patrick BCC when you need him? I'd love his take on this.
| {
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I, Cringely 2019 Prediction 1- Apple Under Tim Cook Emulates GE Under Jack Welch - protomyth
https://www.cringely.com/2019/02/27/2019-prediction-1-apple-under-tim-cook-emulates-ge-under-jack-welch/
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kevin_b_er
Jack Welch pioneered stack ranking. Anyone trying to emulate him should be
looked at dimly by the worke... | {
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} |
In-Person Coding Bootcamps Are Terrible Businesses - wikyd
https://medium.com/@clintmania/in-person-coding-bootcamps-are-terrible-businesses-d4c9f122814
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jonny_eh
Points are somewhat valid, but only looks at the downsides. Keep in mind this
was written by the CEO of a company that offers a competing education mo... | {
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} |
Economic signs in Apple's bond sale to pay for dividend? - jhowell
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2013/04/30/apple-17-billion-bond-offer/2124791/
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jhowell
Apple is selling bonds to pay for their upcoming dividend. Perhaps this is a
precursor to raising interest rates. Otherwise, they may have wait... | {
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} |
Small Dogs Pee Higher to Lie About Their Size - cambaceres
https://gizmodo.com/small-dogs-pee-higher-to-lie-about-their-size-new-stud-1828084681
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hinkley
Once, at a dog park, I witnessed a chihuahua-sized dog _do a handstand_ in
order to pee higher on a tree.
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chaoticmass
My Australian Cattle Dog is a tot... | {
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} |
Calculating Mean Time To Data Loss (and probability of silent data corruption) - prakash
http://www.zetta.net/_wp/?p=147
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kurtosis
I have a laptop harddrive that is about 5 years old. I backup to a USB drive
every other day. It is inevitable that this drive will fail at some point.
When is the optimal time to b... | {
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} |
Sacrificing Inheritance for Equality - dasmithii
https://medium.com/p/64284924df1a
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PaulHoule
I'd say that classism is the issue and not racism.
Leftists of the 1960s handed the government on a silver platter to Republicans
by promoting a 1-d view of "race".
I grew up in New England where it didn't matter if y... | {
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} |
Startups tend to ignore children privacy law - adamhaworth
http://russellbulletin.com/2013/06/02/children-privacy-law/
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L4mppu
Not all startups are from USA.
| {
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} |
New Tube for London - jpescada
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/campaign/new-tube-for-london
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SideburnsOfDoom
A related BBC news article is here: [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-
london-29520761](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-29520761)
Including comment from the RMT Union about how they are "deeply con... | {
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} |
Where to get free PHP reservation scripts? - martintoth
Hi guys, I need to create PHP reservation form similar to this one: http://goo.gl/EhcsX9<p>Can anyone tell how to create such a PHP without PHP knowledge?
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el33th4xx0r
no. you have to learn it, or use any other language that you know.
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