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Finding Your Co-Founders - terpua
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/11/finding-your-co-founders/
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akkartik
To everyone pointing out sites for networking with potential co-founders: I
find them disappointing. They're great places to chat with interesting folks,
but if you're like me you've been to them for months... | {
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Amazon Announces Login with Amazon - wanghq
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1824961&highlight=
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hemancuso
I was shocked to discover this is the canonical URL & domain for the Amazon
press releases. After I clicked the link and saw the URL I initially thought
this was some... | {
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DreamWorks Releases Software Used in 'Guardians' - Quekster
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424127887323622904578129551861947218-lMyQjAxMTAyMDIwMDEyNDAyWj.html
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corysama
The software: <http://www.openvdb.org/>
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Ask HN: why do you get up in the morning - davidjhamp
Mine was reason was to try to make the world a better place so that I could feel fulfilled when I died.<p>Now I'm looking for better alternatives.
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adzeds
Because the Mrs kicks me out the bed and gives me a list of jobs to do!
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davidjhamp
That sounds... | {
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A basic forking server in Oberon-2 - eatonphil
https://github.com/norayr/voc/tree/master/src/test/server
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mizzao
Any comment on what is so special about this?
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nine_k
If you ever wondered where Go took a lot of good ideas from, look at Modula /
Oberon.
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theamk
In the code the link points to, I just see a... | {
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Why Bitcoin lives in a “legal gray area” - shawndumas
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/why-bitcoin-lives-in-a-legal-gray-area/
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ChuckMcM
Actually its not legal in the US, as part of the original Federation of states
and later under 31 U.S.C Sec 5103 the United States has held that it is not
legal to co... | {
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Proposal: Go should have generics - dsymonds
https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/15292-generics.md
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NateDad
I work on juju ([https://github.com/juju/juju](https://github.com/juju/juju)),
which all told is about 1M LOC. In my almost 3 years on the project, I have
not been bothered by lack of gen... | {
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Regular Expression Denial of Service and Catastrophic Backtracking - guypod
https://snyk.io/blog/redos-and-catastrophic-backtracking/
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tkadlec
Thanks for adding. As a related aside, someone who read the post pointed me in
the direction of [http://stackstatus.net/post/147710624694/outage-
postmortem-j...](http://... | {
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Ask HN: Early employees – What won you over? - beat
Early non-founder employees (first ten or so) at startups - what attracted you to the job? Why did you choose your company over other opportunities? How did the company find you? And what advice do you have for founders looking to make those first critical hires?
=... | {
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The Simple Example of the Double Tetris Lamp - TheRedBarron
https://barronwasteland.wordpress.com/2015/07/21/527/
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jpeggg
Hey, original Tetris proof guy here. Glad to see it works with two lamps!
However, since the 'one of each colour' property is a necessary property for a
rectangular arrangement to exist, no... | {
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Ask HN: Where can I buy 10-100 iPhone 3GS - wagerlabs
I'm located in the Canary Islands, Spain. Any suggestions on where I can buy 10-100 iPhone 3GS and how much it will cost me? My intention is to buy 10 devices a month initially and I want to be able to use them with any carrier, no contract.
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sganesh
[http:... | {
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Nasim Aghdam, the YouTube Shooting, and the Anxiety of Demonetization - anthotny
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/nasim-aghdam-the-youtube-shooting-and-the-anxiety-of-demonetization
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Mononokay
No. Just no. She was obviously mentally ill beforehand, and the mentally ill
are prone to doing irrational things... | {
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Radiologist-Level Pneumonia Detection on Chest X-Rays with Deep Learning - superfx
https://stanfordmlgroup.github.io/projects/chexnet/
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nopinsight
A high-quality blog series by Luke Oakden-Rayner, a radiologist (MD) who is
doing a PhD focusing on applying machine learning to medical images and text.
The End of ... | {
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Click around, hover over a link - ericz
http://desandro.com/
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DigitalSea
This simple effect reminds me of the hey day of horrible animated GIF files,
entertaining nonetheless and pretty awesome that this kind of effect can be
done without using images.
Aside: David DeSandro is awesome. His jQuery Masonry plug... | {
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} |
PayPal Goes In-Store - 3lit3H4ck3r
http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/15/paypal-here/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29
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fluidcruft
Yeah, sure. I'll let someone use a smart phone to take a picture of my credit
card. That has to be the dumbest idea ever.
~~~
gamach... | {
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Alexis Ohanian, reddit's co-founder, has returned as an advisor - thecoffman
http://blog.reddit.com/2011/04/good-news-everyone.html
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wheels
So, what I find more interesting in this is that Reddit did bring in a "new"
general manager.
What worries me is that it's not actually someone new. Neither is Alexis, f... | {
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The Professor Has a Daring Past - hvo
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/nyregion/professor-justus-rosenberg-has-a-past.html
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doug1001
some lucky 20-year olds at Bard college who happen to sign up for a class by
Prof Justus Rosenberg are in for an intellectual experience that they will
likely never forget. This N... | {
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Apache Wave on Sandstorm.io - srpeck
https://blog.sandstorm.io/news/2014-08-20-apache-wave.html
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ChikkaChiChi
Wave was a great idea that was completely misunderstood. Unfortunately, it
also seemed to have been misunderstood by the people who designed it.
Wave was supposed to be a collaborative replacement for e... | {
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} |
AWS Service Operator for Kubernetes Now Available - SoapSeller
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/aws-service-operator-kubernetes-available/
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bearforcenine
> _we need to set up a way to manage AWS IAM credentials to Kubernetes pods...
> In a production system, this should be done using a tool such as kube2i... | {
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Ultracapacitor Nanotech Breakthrough Could Boost Storage Capacity and Power Output - MikeCapone
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/09/ultracapacitor-nanotechnology-breakthrough-power-storage.php
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LogicHoleFlaw
Power storage and distribution is the limiting factor in _so many things_ that
it's not even funny.... | {
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The climate crisis is our third world war. It needs a bold response - ciconia
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/04/climate-change-world-war-iii-green-new-deal
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LinuxBender
Please don't turn climate change into a war. The war on drugs has backfired
immensely. I don't trust governments to play wit... | {
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} |
The Xinjiang Procedure - revorad
http://www.weeklystandard.com/print/articles/xinjiang-procedure_610145.html
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blrgeek
Warning - extremely disturbing read - and I've read a ton of crazy shit.
As interesting as it was - I couldn't actually compel myself to complete
reading this. Perhaps later.
~~~
alf
I couldn't... | {
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Need some advice: I'm losing confidence trying to find a job as a Jr Rails dev. - Lhopitals_rule
I graduated months ago with a non-computer science degree but spent the latter half of university diving into Rails, Vim, Linux, and other peripheral technologies. I'm comfortable (at varying degrees) with the menagerie ... | {
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Can You Trust An Early-Stage VC With a HIR and EIR? - mschonfeld
http://alexstechthoughts.com/post/45913644960/can-you-trust-an-early-stage-vc-with-a-hir-and-eir
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itsprofitbaron
I think you can trust VC firms because they are _incentivised_ to not steal
your idea. In fact, they see that many ideas there will p... | {
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} |
On building systems that will fail - sbmthakur
https://fermatslibrary.com/s/on-building-systems-that-will-fail
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dredmorbius
For those who prefer PDFs (for local reading / archival):
[https://www.cs.umass.edu/~emery/classes/cmpsci691st/readings...](https://www.cs.umass.edu/~emery/classes/cmpsci691st/readings/OS/... | {
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LCROSS Impact Data Indicates Water on Moon - brlewis
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/main/prelim_water_results.html
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anigbrowl
_But Colaprete couldn't resist a further tease, saying that other features in
the spectra hinted at a variety of additional chemicals. "This goes beyond the
water," he said, b... | {
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Messaging as the Single Source of Truth - deegles
https://www.confluent.io/blog/messaging-single-source-truth/
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mpweiher
Messaging as state was described very thoroughly by David Reed[1] in his 1978
thesis[2][3]:
[1]
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_P._Reed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_P._Reed)
[2]... | {
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The State of LTE - cleis
http://opensignal.com/reports/state-of-lte/#
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JamesCRR
This was my first attempt at Data-visualisation using d3. I've done a few
things with GoogleVis and R, the one is awesome for the web the other is
awesome for its flexibility, D3 is awesome for both. I was also pretty much a
novice... | {
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} |
I'm Moving to the Valley What next? - MenaMena123
So what next, I have enough money for a year to live, looking for a parnter/programmer to mix up some ideas. Then what! Tell me your game plan, I have an idea, but my time is limited so i gotta hit the ground running.
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seanmccann
Are you a programmer or just id... | {
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Ask HN: Who is launching MVP? - pyeu
We're super interested in knowing what you are launching in March 2018. Please include in your replies the short description of what you are launching, how you got the idea, and URL.
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good123d67
just launched [http://startmydomain.com](http://startmydomain.com)
would lo... | {
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Node Predictions for 2015 - shubhra51
http://strongloop.com/strongblog/2015-node-js-predictions/
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ijroth
Glad to see Node making strong progress
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centrinoblue
it was a very good year
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Future Software Superheroes - It’s time for your CodeMontage - vanessa
http://developersforgood.org/post/35212705141/introducingcodemontage
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shuaib
$500 fee?!? I don't get it. This is the first time I am hearing
about"Developers for Good". Am I missing something? Why would someone pay $500
to solve a problem t... | {
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Are humans cruel to be kind? - robg
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227081.400-are-humans-cruel-to-be-kind.html?full=true
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TheSOB88
Holy crap, this article is amazingly interesting. Please repost it or
something. I'd vote for it again.
| {
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Stealthy, destructive malware infects half a million routers - milankragujevic
https://www.wired.com/story/vpnfilter-router-malware-outbreak/amp
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milankragujevic
Non-amp version: [https://www.wired.com/story/vpnfilter-router-malware-
outbrea...](https://www.wired.com/story/vpnfilter-router-malware-outbreak/)
--... | {
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I tried to find out how much my son's birth would cost. No one would tell me - lkurtz
http://www.vox.com/2016/5/5/11591592/birth-cost-hospital-bills
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anywhichway
My company has developed several tools to answer these kinds of questions. One
of which is publicly available and done for a non-profit:
[http://guroo.... | {
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The Wolfram Physics Project - pokolovsky
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-have-a-path-to-the-fundamental-theory-of-physics-and-its-beautiful/
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dang
We merged this thread with
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867707](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867707)
and kept its titl... | {
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Google+ Demo - cskau
http://www.google.com/intl/en/+/demo/
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kyro
I'm really looking forward to trying this out, and here's why:
With Facebook, I felt as if I was on this huge football field with all of my
'friends.' I could lean in to whisper with a friend here and there, or even
put on some face paint and hu... | {
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$699 Apple Pro Wheels - onewhonknocks
https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MX572ZM/A/apple-mac-pro-wheels-kit
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kyledrake
The Apple apologists are going to call this a marketing stunt, but
functionally it's just the inevitable conclusion of a platform monopoly that's
extremely hard to leave. All it really does for ... | {
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Man Who Built the Retweet: “We Handed a Loaded Weapon to 4-Year-Olds” - rmbryan
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/how-the-retweet-ruined-the-internet
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mattknox
Wetherell was not involved with launching retweet, and didn't implement much
(maybe any?) of the code in that Nov 2009 launch. He proba... | {
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LOOP (programming language) - anqurvanillapy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOOP_(programming_language)
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niklasd
We are learning these (meaning LOOP, WHILE, GOTO) in university right now, the
course is designed after a short German textbook of Schöning. The proofs on
how powerful they are are quite interesting (e... | {
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Ask HN: How to find the full court documents from Zuck/Andreessen article? - arikr
"The case In RE Facebook Class C Reclassification Litigation, CA 12228, Delaware Chancery Court (Wilmington)"<p>https://www.chimicles.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/File-Stamped-Facebook-Comp... | {
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Storing Data in DNA [pdf] - ChuckMcM
https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~luisceze/publications/dnastorage-asplos16.pdf
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aaronmck
If this kind of work interests you, I'd also recommending reading Yaniv Erlich
and Dina Zielinski's DNA fountain paper (which just came out in Science).
They've done some really nice work... | {
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} |
The iPad is transforming media firms, and frustrating them - cwan
http://www.economist.com/node/17043882
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tumult
The real reason media companies are frustrated (no, really) by the iPad and
iPhone is that their entire workflow, and often culture, are based around
Flash.
| {
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The $16M offer letter Yahoo sent to poach its CRO from Amazon - coloneltcb
http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-offer-letter-lisa-utzschneider-2016-2
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eganist
16 million that could've gone towards an innovative product developed under a
separate (non-Yahoo) label.
If the brand is that expensive to fix, build a ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How hard would it be to build a TARS robot? - allenleein
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sgillen
It depends what exactly you mean. Just building 4 metal beams that connect to
each other and move in some of the ways you see in the movie is doable.
The balance displayed may be accomplished, I suspect a lot of energy would be
needed to d... | {
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Ask HN: Why is "Reform the PhD system or close it down" dead? - arethuza
I just logged in to add a comment on this thread to find out that it is dead - why has this happened?
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owensmartin
For quick reference: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2474573>
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arethuza
Thanks - I guess I should have added that ... | {
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Responsibility and the Encryption Debate: A Response to DAG Rosenstein - cratermoon
https://www.justsecurity.org/46036/responsibility-encryption-debate-response-dag-rosenstein/
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berbec
Didnt we try this before
([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper)
chip) and it was determ... | {
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Ask YC: Why can't you down-mod people's responses to you? - time_management
I understand the potential for abuse here, but I feel like the pros outweigh the cons, and I highly doubt that adding this ability would have a "chilling effect" on disagreements. Quite frankly, most of us don't care about karma enough that ... | {
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Harvey Weinstein tests positive for Covid in prison - mmhsieh
https://www.niagara-gazette.com/covid-19/at-new-york-prison-harvey-weinstein-put-in-isolation-after/article_26e38374-6c7d-11ea-9f8a-3b2c09e7817d.html
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JensRex
Blocked in Europe.
[https://archive.ph/xVj1D](https://archive.ph/xVj1D)
| {
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Groupon: from dotcom star to just another coupon business - Libertatea
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/dec/02/groupon-dotcom-star-just-another-coupon-business
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corporalagumbo
_Really it never was a social media company. It's a coupon business, which is
a perfectly respectable business – but not one wor... | {
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Is Dreamjb Another Fake iOS 6.0.1 Untethered Jailbreak? - ausman
http://www.shoutpedia.com/dreamjb-ios-6.0.1-untethered-jailbreak-release-december-22nd/
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Ndrey
everybody are welcome to discuss the future Dream JB release and give your
personall thought at <http://dreamjb.net/> fan page
| {
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Ask HN: Will people use blockchain without knowing what it is at some point? - JulienDevoir
I mean if I take Internet as an example, no one cares about IPv6 protocol. Do you think it will be the same with blockchain? And what is the best way to go there?
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duiker101
Maybe, but currently, people that use "the bloc... | {
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13 Xcode Tips That Will Help You Conquer Xcode - mcgraw
http://www.xmcgraw.com/13-xcode-tips-that-will-help-you-conquer-xcode/
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chrisdroukas
On the topic of useful keyboard shortcuts, I like auto indentation of selected
lines with control (not command) + i.
~~~
mcgraw
I'm really digging this. Thanks for shari... | {
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Ubuntu should zig to Apple’s zag - ahmicro
http://bytebaker.com/2011/10/19/ubuntu-should-zig-to-apples-zag/
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div
I don't really understand what the author is trying to say. Granted, it's been
a while since I used Ubuntu, but as a developer I mainly live in my editor and
terminal.
Anything I ever wanted is just ... | {
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} |
Kylie Jenner is set to become the youngest self-made billionaire ever - nniroclax
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesdigitalcovers/2018/07/11/how-20-year-old-kylie-jenner-built-a-900-million-fortune-in-less-than-3-years/#1f28a1ddaa62
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natorum_9
"Self-made"
O Rly
~~~
spraak
My thoughts exactly
~~~
borkt
All sh... | {
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Yeoman on FreeBSD 9 - sergeylukin
http://sergeylukin.com/2012/yeoman-on-freebsd-9/
How I got Yeoman up and running on FreeBSD 9
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lmm
The idea of doing "curl -L <URL> | bash" fills me with horror. Is this really
the best way to install software in 2012?
~~~
sergeylukin
Well what would you offer instead?
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Wrap on integer overflow is not a good idea - AndreyKarpov
https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0589/
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shikoba
It's just the faster method we know. It's not about safety, it's about speed.
| {
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Indonesian cave art may be world's oldest - daegloe
http://news.sciencemag.org/archaeology/2014/10/indonesian-cave-art-may-be-worlds-oldest
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moioci
They mention the oldest depiction of a rhinoceros --- in a cave in France.
Mind = blown.
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The TSA's FAST Personality Screening Program Violates the Fourth Amendment [pdf] - CapitalistCartr
http://www.aulawreview.org/pdfs/64/64.2/Rogers.Off.To.Website.pdf
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rayiner
This is a note, written by a law student. Not a reason to discount the
analysis, per se, but worth keeping in mind if you were thinking of ... | {
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Obama Administration Has Missed Half Of Obamacare's Legally Imposed Deadlines - Suraj-Sun
http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/08/18/unpublished-crs-memo-obama-administration-has-missed-half-of-obamacares-legally-imposed-implementation-deadlines/
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beat
Congress has voted 40 times this year to overtur... | {
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} |
Google Colaboratory - goptimize
https://research.google.com/colaboratory/
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Dowwie
This has the potential to serve as a general-use collaborative Python
environment
| {
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Masquerade Acquired by Facebook - espinchi
http://msqrd.me/joining-facebook.html
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drum
This strikes me as a response to Snapchat's recent success with fun video
filters. If you look at the App Store rankings, they've clearly boosted
Snapchat's ranking past Instagram and Facebook recently, as they're totally
vira... | {
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Ambient weather display for your home - pstadler
http://www.tempescope.com/
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bhhaskin
This is pretty cool! I would love to see a better "consumer product". The one
in the video doesn't appear to be sealed very well.
| {
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Nokia’s Losses Fires Up Finland's Start-Up Culture - pbahra
http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2011/08/04/nokias-losses-become-finlands-gains/
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latch
I went through hundreds of resumes from Nortel employees (and a few
interviews) while Nortel was bleeding employees. It was pretty brutal, their
skill set was irre... | {
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Ask HN: Fastest way to get to MVP for something I'd like to try - sendos
What's the fastest/easiest way to get to an MVP for a site where people post some text, and then others vote on that text, and can also add comments of their own. The submissions are ranked by the number of upvotes minus downvotes.<p>Sort of li... | {
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Usability of Programming Languages - Garbage
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/1011/R201/
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phrotoma
The section on experts is fascinating!
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Amsterdam – My (Not Mine) Home 4Klapse Film - teekert
https://youtu.be/yu3pvWGnYVs
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aequitas
This (Dutch) article goes a little more in depth about the process and the
tools used: [https://tweakers.net/geek/168250/tweaker-toont-
timelapsevide...](https://tweakers.net/geek/168250/tweaker-toont-
timelapsevideo-van... | {
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Watch: MICA, Magic Leap's Eerily Human AI Avatar Who Looks You in the Eye - Kroeler
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2018/10/video-mica-ai-avatar-magic-leap.html
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karmakaze
I wouldn't list machines being able to communicate emotions to people as
important. The limited value I do sed is having a machine express uncertain... | {
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Ask HN: RSS feed of my comments/submissions - aj
Is it possible to get the RSS feed of my submissions and comments? It would be useful to have and display on other sites
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nreece
_shameless plug_ Try our webapp to create a custom RSS feed from any webpage:
<http://feedity.com>
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aj
Not too bad. But it does n... | {
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Dark Patterns: Inside the interfaces designed to trick you - Evolved
http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/29/4640308/dark-patterns-inside-the-interfaces-designed-to-trick-you
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praptak
I have recently spotted a real-life dark pattern:
[http://imgur.com/wFsfrfl](http://imgur.com/wFsfrfl)
It's a gas station in Poland.... | {
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} |
The Twelve Days of Crisis – A Retrospective on Linode’s Holiday DDoS Attacks - alexforster
https://blog.linode.com/2016/01/29/christmas-ddos-retrospective/
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kyledrake
I strongly believe it's not possible to safely run a site without DDoS
protection for all servers anymore. Anyone with $20 can take down anything ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
New silicon valley in international waters near SF - PetoU
http://blueseed.co
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matt__rose
Why does this remind me of:
[http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/The_Mansion_Family](http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/The_Mansion_Family)
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nemasu
I'm getting Bad Gateway / Gateway Timeout.
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johndegree
Doesn't work... | {
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} |
ASDF Version Manager - Croaky
https://www.statusok.com/asdf-version-manager
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jolmg
Not to be confused as related to Common Lisp's ASDF build system.
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Apple backtracks on netbooks, zoom - meelash
The announcements today were interesting because Apple seems to have backtracked on a couple of their philosophies, one of them quite long-standing. The release of a low power, very small new version of the macbook air (basically a netbook, given the old processor, low me... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
7 Search Engines vs. Google = Fail - nickb
http://www.compuplus.com/blog/2008/05/27/7-search-engines-google/
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schtog
yes the link fails...am i missing the point?
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
What computer and software is used by the Falcon 9? - raybb
https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/9243/what-computer-and-software-is-used-by-the-falcon-9
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dang
Comments moved to
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23368109](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23368109).
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
New Horizons Will Have Little Time to Measure Pluto’s Atmosphere - omnibrain
http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/astrophysics/after-a-9-year-voyage-new-horizons-will-have-little-time-to-measure-plutos-atmosphere
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dakr
Just last night the SOFIA Observatory observed Pluto during an occultation
[1], a very rare ev... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
"Alone Together": An MIT Professor's New Book Urges Us to Unplug - J3L2404
http://www.fastcompany.com/1716844/alone-together-an-mit-professors-new-book-urges-us-to-unplug
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pygy_
Please change the title of the submission, this isn't editorialization but
downright insult.
Meanwhile: flag.
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noahr
I thought ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
ShowHN: MuleDrive email attachments to Google Drive and Dropbox - freddy
I wanted to be able to forward attachments from any email client and save it to Google Drive. So I created http://muledrive.com. All feedback is appreciated.
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s10r
Clickable: <http://muledrive.com>
| {
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} |
What a Small World: Carmen Ortiz, Aaron Swartz, and Tarek Mehanna - pms
http://translationexercises.wordpress.com/2013/01/14/what-a-small-world-carmen-ortiz-aaron-swartz-and-tarek-mehanna/
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hamai
> _under Massachusetts law, the potential sentence that Swartz faced was more
> than the maximum sentence given to ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
OAuth Device Authorization for Roku, AppleTV, Xbox - brokenwren
https://fusionauth.io/blog/2019/10/29/oauth-device-authorization-roku-appletv-xbox
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robotdan
The last time I had to type in my Netflix password into my Roku using a d-pad
I nearly chucked the remote at my TV.
Not sure why everyone doesn't use this ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
VistaDB shutting down because of business operating costs - fraXis
http://infinitecodex.com/post/2010/07/07/Closing-VistaDB-Office.aspx
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Nwallins
> _Option – Open Source the Product_
> _No, Not really an option at all. Who would work on it? Sure lots of people
> love to consume open source projects, but very ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Detroit police chief admits facial recognition is wrong “96% of the time” - furcyd
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/detroit-police-chief-admits-facial-recognition-is-wrong-96-of-the-time/
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rurban
Unscientific. The best facial recognition is accurate 98%-99.9% of the time.
There are minor known problem... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How workers ended up in cubes – and how they could break free - e15ctr0n
http://www.economist.com/news/international/21637359-how-workers-ended-up-cubesand-how-they-could-break-free-inside-box
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hristov
The Economist are being rather disingenuous here. They explain how the cubicle
is a bad thing, and then they go... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Vy – a powerful but retro and minimalist IDE - iogf
https://github.com/vyapp/vy
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nine_k
What I love about this project is that a lot of it is glue code.
It is an _integrated_ development environment because it takes existing tools
and integrates them, not rewrites.
I also like that you can develop plu... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Linear Web Design: info - design - code - benblodgett
http://sitecollab.com/web-design-process/
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mundizzle
This article describes an outdated process.
"Adjusting round corners for a button in photoshop is easier then[sic]
adjusting border-radius in css"
Actually, in CSS it couldn't be more simple... border-r... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
From Markdown to RCE in Atom - 0x0
https://statuscode.ch/2017/11/from-markdown-to-rce-in-atom/
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shams93
I get clowned sometimes for using emacs but this is a great example of why
using a "long in the tooth" editor can be an advantage.
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ash HN: What are great free resources for hackers? - hx_
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andrewstuart2
MIT OpenCourseware [1] -- Free lectures (probably at least half the value of a
college course -- free) from some of the best teachers out there.
Youtube -- Skip the entertainment aisle and YouTube is chock full of learning
on tons of subject... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What's stopping anyone of you from creating a bitcoin alternative? - machilin
Judging from the prices of Bitcoin and more recently, Litecoin and the creation of new currency, it dawned on me: What's stopping me or anyone of you guys from creating your own "currency" and making a quick profit? Here's the plan... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
EA Takes Down 'Open Source' SimCity 2000 Remake - throwaway180118
https://torrentfreak.com/ea-takes-down-open-source-simcity-2000-remake-180730/
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kup0
Bundling the graphic assets doomed this from the beginning. It was only a
matter of time.
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Cypher
fuck EA
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wingi
If anyone on the project knows the cop... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Editor Wars - lnalx
https://hackaday.com/2016/07/26/editor-wars/
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ktRolster
ok, so the article made this claim:
>[emacs users] tend to be touch typists.
That really made me wonder: aren't most programmers touch typists?
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Regression and extraction - masnick
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3325-regression-and-extraction
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endlessvoid94
All valid points.
I do suspect, though, that "the ones who came before" noticed this years ago.
Things are worse (re: patents and app stores), but the idea of the industry
slowly taking a turn for th... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Star Trek Economy - FD3SA
https://medium.com/editors-picks/29bab88d50
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harshreality
I think this is a useless exercise. The economics of Star Trek won't be
coherent, because it was pieced together through multiple series and some
wishful thinking while retaining certain properties needed for the universe to
... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Fragmenting Linux is not the way to beat Apple - AndrewWarner
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-20004567-16.html
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MikeCapone
Interesting. So it's not "beat Microsoft" anymore. That must hurt in
Redmond...
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tzs
Perhaps the idea is that if you can't beat Apple, then you can't beat
something bigger either, suc... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Now THIS Is Entrepreneurial Hustle - with Jennifer Reuting - Gabriel_Martin
http://mixergy.com/jennifer-reuting-myllc-interview/
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tians
watched this on mixergy
| {
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} |
SVGjs 3.0 Advent Calendar – Day 18 - fuzzyma
https://codepen.io/fuzzyma/pen/wRzjXo
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fuzzyma
You can find the whole calendar at twitter (@svg_js):
[https://twitter.com/svg_js](https://twitter.com/svg_js)
| {
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} |
Why James Baldwin Still Matters - samclemens
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2016/04/why-james-baldwin-still-matters
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habosa
I recently read my first two Baldwin books (Go Tell It On The Mountain and The
Fire Next Time) and in both cases I was blown away by the completeness of his
treatment of racism at a time... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A Modern Programming Operating System - rays
http://slakinski.com/a-modern-programming-operating-system/
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hakaaaaak
Any modern operating system that allows open development fits the bill. I
think what the OP is saying is that he would settle for having it run on top
of Linux, but I'd bet that he wants the core... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
BitTorrent to Fork IPFS to Create Decentralized File-Storage System - okket
https://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-to-fork-ipfs-to-create-decentralized-storage-system-190531/
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convolvatron
is this a fork for protocol/technical reasons or to use a different currency?
it wasn't clear from the linked article.
| {
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} |
The Thrill of Flying the SR-71 Blackbird - jaxc
http://www.vfp62.com/SR-71.html
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fizx
I just wanted to chime in that the reason I'm a programmer today is that my
grandpa helped program the navigation systems on the SR-71. I found that
slightly inspirational :)
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jacquesm
That's so cool. Imagine, most of us do... | {
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} |
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