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Nationwide internet outage affects CenturyLink customers - elihu
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/28/nationwide-internet-outage-affects-centurylink-customers.html
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elihu
The Portland area got an emergency phone alert that 911 service was down in
some areas. (Supposedly, the outage only affected areas around Vancouve... | {
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Heartbleed, 2 Weeks Later: A Graphical Report - zhongjiewu
http://blog.trustlook.com/2014/04/24/heartbleed-two-weeks-later-4-4-ssl-enabled-websites-still-vulnerable/
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JohnTHaller
For anyone who thinks it doesn't matter that apps like Candy Crush Saga are
vulnerable to heartbleed, remember that the majority of ... | {
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CPanel To Add IPv6 Support in 2013 - danyork
http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/blog/2013/01/cpanel-to-add-ipv6-support-in-2013/
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bede
If you're tired of cPanel and looking for a lighter weight alternative,
Virtualmin has served me well for the last couple of years and it's had IPv6
support since 2010.
Th... | {
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} |
Map interfaces from enhanced disorientation to playful geo-imagination - chippy
http://www.jammersplit.de/displayce/index.html
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SchizoDuckie
nice tech demo, I would say, but it hurts my brain.
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TrevorJ
the fourth one is really impressive.
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The BS-Industrial Complex of Phony A.I. - scottlocklin
https://gen.medium.com/the-bs-industrial-complex-of-phony-a-i-44bf1c0c60f8
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atoav
At the Biennale in Venice (one of the most important art shows there is) I saw
a work which looked like this:
There was a metal frame holding two glas plates with ventian sedi... | {
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Ask HN: Founders in China personally liable to pay back investors? - cwxm
Hi,<p>My father has a startup in China. Apparently there startup founders often take investments for which if the startup fails, the founder is personally liable to pay back investors, even if it was started as an LLC (or whatever the chinese eq... | {
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Show HN: Chat with people around you - vasanthv
https://oyoy.app
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vmednis
If I understand correctly the "people around you" is decided purely by
distance. In that case is there anything done to avoid seemingly nonsensical
conversations for a random observer? With this I mean if two people are in
distance close e... | {
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} |
Introduction to runc - prakashdanish
https://danishpraka.sh/2020/07/24/introduction-to-runc.html
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nezirus
In addition to runc, I'd like to point out an alternative OCI runtime
implementation, crun
([https://github.com/containers/crun](https://github.com/containers/crun)).
You can play with both either directly, ... | {
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} |
Show HN: Bookreadin.gs – assisting bookstores with content hosting - jlazer
https://bookreadin.gs
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jlazer
Hey guys -- I wanted to show you my side project I've been working on for
awhile now. It's angular.js with firebase. I'm also using a node.js server on
heroku for Elastic Search. Filepicker.io and AWS S3/C... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Why does software development suck so much in finance? - superhater
I've been working as a dev at a hedge fund for less than a year and I just can't believe how awful it is:<p>- all I do is operate and maintain hacky old ETL jobs<p>- I spend hours and sometimes days editing databases and config files... | {
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Ask HN: Do any small profile changes increase usage in your app? - nr123
http://rypple.com/blog/2009/09/21/uploading-your-logo/
We found that adding an avatar can increase response rates in Rypple by 20%.
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patio11
Yes, small profile changes increase usage in my app.
However, I've got to be that guy because "na... | {
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} |
TensorFlow Distributions - dustintran
https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.10604
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captainpete
"TensorFlow Distributions is widely used in diverse
applications. It is used by production systems within
Google and by Google Brain and DeepMind for research
prototypes. It is the backend for Edward"
... | {
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Apple Confirms 2018 MacBook Pro Has 'Membrane' to 'Prevent Debris from Entering' - okket
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/07/19/apple-confirms-2018-mbp-keyboard-prevents-debris/
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kristofferR
It's absurdly douchy of Apple to not to install the membrane on older MacBooks
in for keyboard replacement, due to the desig... | {
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} |
Macro-Benchmark with Django, Flask and AsyncIO - GMLudo
http://blog.gmludo.eu/2015/02/macro-benchmark-with-django-flask-and-asyncio.html
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falcolas
Disclaimer - I have not used AsyncIO. I have, however, tried to implement
things on top of Twisted, from which this framework derives many concepts.
Asynchronous p... | {
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} |
Google Is Censoring Search Results to Hide Russian Corruption - sahin-boydas
https://futurism.com/google-censoring-search-results-russia
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luckylion
Misleading headline. Google is censoring their results IN RUSSIA according to
whatever local law is in action there. They do the same in European countries
and, be s... | {
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} |
Why Science is Failing Us - quasistar
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/12/ff_causation/all/1
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mindstab
I don't quite know how to adequatly articulate my displeasure with this
article but lets try.
The article basically seems to be relying on some philosophy and muddy and
different definitions in different c... | {
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} |
World's tallest skyscraper to be built in just 90 days - bitcartel
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57552186-1/developer-reaffirms-plan-to-finish-worlds-tallest-building-in-90-days
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ChuckMcM
This should be interesting to watch, as others have noted on the 30 story
building they did it is both 'boring' since t... | {
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} |
Personal data of a billion Indians sold online for $8 - djrogers
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/04/india-national-id-database-data-leak-bought-online-aadhaar
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aag8
It's ironic how two-faced the Aadhar system is. On one hand, this is the
largest scale modern public identification system I can think of... | {
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} |
Vendor Lock-In - hhs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_lock-in
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1cvmask
The biggest vendor lock-in is institutional inertia or “laziness”.
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Today's the last day to apply to Startup School - ladybro
https://www.startupschool.org/
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ivan_ah
Will the videos be posted somewhere public as they become available? YouTube
channel? RSS feed?
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ladybro
If you didn't find this already, you can subscribe for content updates at
[https://www.startupschool.org/s... | {
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Ice sheet contributions to future sea-level rise from structured expert judgment - howard941
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/05/14/1817205116
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evandijk70
EDIT: The title has been updated: it used to say: "Ice sheet contributions to
future sea-level rise to exceed 2m by 2100"
____________________________... | {
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Gender Graph: Quantifying Gender Bias - kedmi
http://gendergraph.tk
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snayz
Thanks for checking out the Gender Graph project:)
The binary model is made by word2vec:
[https://github.com/dav/word2vec](https://github.com/dav/word2vec)
Gender graph uses word embeddings trained by word2vec, the implementation is
in... | {
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} |
Can I ask for your help with testing some js loop syntax? - arash_milani
http://jsperf.com/am-js-loops
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michaelw
I gave this a try and added the functional form (i.e. bigArray.forEach).
I was a little surprised at how much slower this was. I ended up creating
another test where every case had a function cal... | {
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} |
Operation Sunrise (World War II) - AndrewBissell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sunrise_(World_War_II)
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082349872349872
related:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23401308](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23401308)
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How Wall Street takes advantage of very confused Ivy League graduates - ilamont
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/wall-street-steps-in-when-ivy-league-fails/2012/02/16/gIQAX2weIR_story.html
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joncooper
This article jibes with my analysis.
I worked in finance (as a proprietary trader) for 6-ish yea... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (May 2012) - whoishiring
Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.<p>Please a... | {
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What lies in your Node_Modules directory - learnaholic
https://medium.com/friendship-dot-js/i-peeked-into-my-node-modules-directory-and-you-wont-believe-what-happened-next-b89f63d21558#.8up4jxl2g
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greenyoda
Recent submissions:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12235789](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=... | {
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The Moral Bankruptcy of Manipulating Human Psychology to Turn Users into Addicts - kiyanwang
https://hackernoon.com/the-complete-moral-bankruptcy-of-manipulating-human-psychology-to-turn-users-into-addicts-d09b98281ef
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steanne
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15717649](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1... | {
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Nextdoor, a local social network, has launched in the UK - askafriend
https://blog.nextdoor.com/2016/09/13/bringing-nextdoor-to-the-uk/
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just_observing
This is deceptive.
I entered my details and it said that neighbours were already using it and
gave examples. Examples that are very like those on the local (clo... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Death in China Stirs Anger Over Urban Rule Enforcers - danso
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/world/asia/death-in-china-stirs-anger-over-urban-rule-enforcers.html?hp&_r=0
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ferdo
> “This is in fact a metaphor for today’s China, where the state is seizing
> property everywhere through a variety of means,” Mr. L... | {
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OS X Yosemite Security and Privacy Guide - epsylon
https://github.com/drduh/OS-X-Yosemite-Security-and-Privacy-Guide/blob/master/README.md
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therealmarv
great guide!! Did not know everything there.
| {
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} |
Dissecting Marissa Mayer’s Yahoo Compensation - mhb
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/technology/yahoo-marissa-mayer-compensation.html
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kyleschiller
There are a lot of good points here, but it feels like most of her
compensation is explained right here
To lure Ms. Mayer from Google and compensa... | {
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} |
Meshbird – distributed private networking - antonkozlov
https://github.com/meshbird/meshbird
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joshstrange
How does this compare to something like zerotier? And how does this "All
traffic transmit directly to recipient peer without passing any gateways."
without hitting some server to negotiate the first connect?... | {
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} |
Show HN: Topsoil, a gardening puzzle game - kneeko
https://topsoilgame.com
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celticninja
over quota error message appearing for me.
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kneeko
fixed! thanks for letting me know.
| {
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Would you pay for freelance marketing and user research? - schutte
I'm thinking about going independent as a freelance marketing and user research contractor for startups. Think of me as one person method, ideo, or other marketing and usability / user research shop without the overhead, but all of the experience.<p>I... | {
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Coronavirus high risk countries visualization according to German RKI - yeldiR
https://geolic.net/covid19-risk-areas
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Dahoon
Or "A visualization of the modern health systems in the world".
| {
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} |
World’s Largest Video Commercial P2P Deployment - shacharz
http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/3079128
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billyp123
Hey everybody! If you want to learn more about Peer5's Serverless CDN email us
at info@peer5.com
| {
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I've taught quite a few friends how to code. Here are my thoughts: - rotemtam
https://medium.com/@rotemtam/the-law-of-bruised-foreheads-1e86cfc40eb5
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bl4ckdu5t
Don't give me money, teach me how to make money. That's like a common saying.
In this case, if I ever have a friend that needs to learn to code I think... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How to find a high paying software developer position - brogrammer2019
I have been programming since age 9 nearly every day (now 31 years of age)<p>I have made various web and mobile apps (all failed in terms of profitability), have experience in various database engines (Oracle Database, MySQL, SQL Server, Mo... | {
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400 vs. 422 response to POST of data - rahulroy9202
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16133923/400-vs-422-response-to-post-of-data
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rahulroy9202
I was overwhelm by the answer and had to share it. Sometimes the depth of
discussions/answers on stackoverflow baffles me.
| {
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Back to the Futu-Rr-e: Deterministic Debugging with Rr - mnemonik
http://fitzgeraldnick.com/weblog/64/
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kragen
Michael Elizabeth Chastain became the maintainer of the Linux ioctl list in
the early days because he wanted his mec-replay tool to be able to work, and
ioctls were a fly in the ointment — each ioctl ha... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Vector - A High-Level Programming Language for GPU Computing - zhemao
http://zhehaomao.com/project/2013/12/20/vector.html
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sitkack
Please think about renaming it. This is the most generic, hard to find thing
possible. Consider `vecmao` has only 13.5k hits on google.
~~~
theophrastus
hear-hear! some of ... | {
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Many Colleges Fail to Improve Critical-Thinking Skills - guildwriter
https://www.wsj.com/articles/exclusive-test-data-many-colleges-fail-to-improve-critical-thinking-skills-1496686662
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jseliger
I've taught college. This study is wildly unsurprising. I've written about
this in various places (e.g. [https://jakese... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: direnv shell extension - zimbatm
http://direnv.net/
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zimbatm
I'm interested in positive and negative feedback on the project. This is
something that I use every day and I suppose it can be useful to other people.
Does it seem useful to you ? Is the project explained well enough or is it
confusing ?
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Instagram for Android landing page - lleims
http://instagr.am/android/
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trafnar
What a nice page. I can't wait to see what their new designers come up with in
the future.
They recently hired Tim Van Damme (<http://timvandamme.com/>) and Maykel
Loomans (<http://miekd.com/>)
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hellokhoaphan
For while you'... | {
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This is actually what America would look like without gerrymandering - csense
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/13/this-is-actually-what-america-would-look-like-without-gerrymandering/
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grayje
The same story from 2014:
[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/06/03/this-...](https://ww... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The 'Busy' Trap - suprgeek
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/30/the-busy-trap/
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keithpeter
"I write in the morning, go for a long bike ride and run errands in the
afternoon, and in the evening I see friends, read or watch a movie. This, it
seems to me, is a sane and pleasant pace for a day. "
Summa... | {
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} |
Tesla to triple supercharger network by the end of June - jcdavis
http://www.teslamotors.com/about/press/releases/tesla-dramatically-expands-supercharger-network-delivering-convenient-free-long
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mrmaddog
If I were in the hospitality industry, I'd be buying adjacent shops next to
every Tesla charging station. Hav... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Kent Pitman on Equal Rights -- and Wrongs -- in Lisp (1993) - gnosis
http://www.nhplace.com/kent/PS/EQUAL.html
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ScottBurson
The problem with equality in Common Lisp is that the fundamental data
structures don't come with enough semantics that one can tell, just by looking
at one, what it is being used for. For i... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Science ponders 'zombie attack' - ca98am79
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8206280.stm
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ca98am79
I like how Professor Robert Smith? actually has a question mark in his
surname.
| {
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} |
Show HN: Smugg.com (Rottentomatoes.com for Tech Gadgets) - fernandose
http://www.smugg.com
Smugg.com.<p>Critic review aggregator for consumer electronics.
I admit the progress of this project has been very slow, mostly due to me learning how to code properly this time while also developing this site. However in this ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How Does Codementor Work? - pankyj
I am a software developer and would like to provide my services on Codementor. Does anyone who is listed as a mentor share some insights on how this would work? For e.g. how do I get myself listed as a mentor, how would they determine my expertize, rates, availability, etc. I saw som... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Non-uniform memory access meets the OOM killer - r4um
http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/03/30/oom/
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adrianmonk
The OOM uses a heuristic to figure out what to kill. If the primary purpose of
your system is to run some process that hangs on to a lot of RAM, that
heuristic is exactly the opposite of what you need, s... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
You Drink, Uber Drives – For Free - pfusiarz
http://www.startuppanel.co/you-drink-uber-drives-for-free/
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jawns
This publicity stunt by Uber actually creates a perverse incentive for
drinkers to _increase_ their blood alcohol level.
If cab fare home is more expensive than the cost of the drinks needed to get
you... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Why Amazon Can't Make A Kindle In the USA - DanielRibeiro
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/08/17/why-amazon-cant-make-a-kindle-in-the-usa/
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patio11
I live in central Japan's manufacturing hub. If you ever come visit me, and
_really_ want to return depressed, I'll arrange for us to take a tour of the... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: My weekend project - Hacker News inside Sublime Text 2 - kaolinite
https://github.com/dotty/HackerNews-SublimeTextPlugin
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kaolinite
Weekend project - my first Sublime Text 2 plugin. If you have package control
installed, no need to go to the Github page, just search "Hacker News" and you
should be abl... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Bitcoin won't last in world of finance, warns Nobel-winning economist - Cbasedlifeform
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jan/25/bitcoin-wont-last-in-world-of-finance-warns-nobel-winning-economist
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airbreather
Economists rarely agree, so by definition are rarely correct.
As economics is the study of huma... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How 4chan hacked ReCAPTCHA to win the TIME 100 Poll - mariorz
http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/27/moot-wins-time-inc-loses/
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albertsun
While I don't doubt that TIME's poll security team (if it existed) was more
than overmatched, how could a website defend the integrity of their online
poll against such an att... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ang Lee Is Embracing a Faster Film Format. Can Theaters Keep Up? - dnetesn
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/23/movies/ang-lee-billy-lynns-long-halftime-walk-new-york-film-festival.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience&action=click&contentCollection=science®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&con... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Phoenix Channels vs. Rails ActionCable - bcardarella
https://dockyard.com/blog/2016/08/09/phoenix-channels-vs-rails-action-cable?updated
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chrismccord
We put these tests together after clients with existing Rails stacks wanted
our input on choosing Phoenix or Rails for their specific real-time push
features. The ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Microwave Mortuary - chaosmachine
http://www.microwaves101.com/content/microwavemortuary.cfm
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RevRal
Once as a kid I attempted to make an "electro-magnet."
It made perfect sense to take my huge speaker magnet, trim an AC cord, then
tape each exposed wire to a side of the speaker magnet. Before plugging my... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Incremental Search in Vim - pmihaylov
https://pmihaylov.com/incremental-search-vim/
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johncoltrane
This is silly. Incremental search has been built-in for more than fifteen
years:
:help 'incsearch'
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
TweetDeck launches web client alternative to Twitter.com - rradu
http://blog.tweetdeck.com/testing-the-future-introducing-tweetdeck-web
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mckoss
Isn't this exactly what Twitter said they DON'T want to see (replacement
clients using the Twitter API). Is TweetDeck just "grandfathered in"?
~~~
olivercameron
They ... | {
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Quaternions: The Strange Numbers That Birthed Modern Algebra - guerrilla
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-strange-numbers-that-birthed-modern-algebra-20180906/
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avmich
We don't discuss Cayley-Dickson construction often enough. Why all systems
starting with sedenions are power-associative and have non-zero divi... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Fastest and best way to learn iOS programming? - eibrahim
I am an experienced programmer with experience across the board, node, .net, rails, js, python, etc... but for some reason i find iphone programming so freaking difficult and un-intuitive and i don't know where to start... I am currently doing t... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Privileged Have Entered Their Escape Pods - jbegley
https://onezero.medium.com/the-privileged-have-entered-their-escape-pods-4706b4893af7
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metalliqaz
This article was loaded with nonsense.
| {
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} |
Ask HN: Why all the rejects? - invisible_dev
Hello HN. Long time lurker, first time poster.<p>I'm will be graduating this year with a Masters degree, and so I've been applying to a few places (big and small). And so far, all I've gotten are the polite "we don't have a position for your skills" replies or silence. Ev... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Just started consulting and got a better offer - Bombthecat
Hello,<p>I just started in consulting with axway and websphere so I'm still just a junior consultant. ( 6 months into job) now i got another offer from another firm. They offer around 10 thousand more (in euro) in VMware and nsx consulting.<p>I'm t... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Twitter said to be testing two-step security in wake of AP hack - greyman
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/software/twitter-said-to-be-testing-two-step-security-in-wake-of-ap-hack-50011027/
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citricsquid
A few years ago there was a strange byline on a few tweets from @spam, it said
"by {username}" indicating that there wa... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Amazon, Macmillan: an outsider's guide to the fight - barry-cotter
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/01/amazon-macmillan-an-outsiders.html
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barry-cotter
If you don't read the post
Publishing is made out of pipes. Traditionally the supply chain ran: author ->
publisher -> wholesaler -> bookstore... | {
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} |
The Rise (& Fall?) of NoSQL - buffyoda
http://degoes.net/articles/rise-of-nosql/
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CmonDev
"MongoDB, the most widely-adopted NoSQL database, recently raised $150 million
dollars on a $1,200,000,000 dollar valuation.
Yes, that’s more than a billion dollars for a “boring” database company built
around pure open ... | {
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Ask YC: Get paid to read your email? Your attention is worth something right? - amichail
The idea is not to get rid of traditional spam (spam filters already work well), but rather, to have an auction for your attention from email senders just as there is an auction for your attention from advertisers.
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xiri... | {
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Ask HN: Potato knish recipe? - tjr
I know a lot of people here are seriously into food and cooking, so I figured, why not ask?<p>Any ideas for a good potato knish recipe? Aiming for the round, baked knishes a la Yonah Schimmel's in New York (or what they used to sell at Mort's Deli in Minneapolis, or at Bill... | {
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The final step for huge-page swapping - bitcharmer
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/758677/0d004feb1bbc862b/
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mmt
> The advent of nonvolatile memory is changing the equation, though, and
> swapping is starting to look interesting again
It's not clear to me why the _nonvolatile_ part makes any difference to swap.
... | {
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Show HN: Chatroulette Spy - RoyceFullerton
I have just launched a project that has been sitting on my hard drive 80% finished for the better part of a year. http://www.chatroulettespy.com<p>It detects your 'anonymous' chat partner's IP address and performs a geolocation lookup on it to show the user the partner's ap... | {
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Ask HN: How do I come up with a name for programming language? - philonoist
Thank you for the technicalities and legal methods, but I am here for some creative musing. I am currently thinking of 'Anarchy'. The language is heavily mathematical( to put it at best, while at the same time I want to be purposeful... | {
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} |
Ask YC: How to avoid front-end clutter? - robertgaal
I suppose most front-end developers/designers heard of this problem before: too much CSS and Javascript files and too much declarations in 'em. After a while it gets hard to find your way around all the classes in there and add or fix things. Next to that you migh... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Is it time to take SOPA protests to the streets? - sathishmanohar
We have collectively written thousands of articles educating about effects of SOPA. We have made phone calls and created special websites etc.<p>But, we are still on the same stream of funny cats and Lady Gaga. We may know the magnitude of eff... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A hacker's loneliness - maryrosecook
"The computer is more interesting than most people. I love to spend time with my computer. It is fun to write programs for it, play games on it, and to build new parts for it. It is fascinating to try to figure out what part of the program it is in by the way the lights flicke... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Considering a job offer at a “unicorn.” What should I know about equity? - trying222
I'm deciding between job offers - one at a Big 4 company, one at a so-called 'unicorn.' I like them both and know I'd enjoy the work and teams at either. On paper, the later offer is better - slightly high... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Any good open source sports games? - kenjackson
Despite the fact that most devs at one point or another have wanted to do a game -- and sports games are among the best selling -- why are there no open source sports games?<p>I was looking at the trailer for NBA 2K12 and just awestruck by how nice it looked. ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: where's a good place to look for smart contract work? - menloparkbum
I've decided to leave my current job to work on my startup. It turns out working on a startup while you work at another startup doesn't work out, time wise. However, I only have enough money to last through the end of the year. I'd like to ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
USA loses again in OAS: 23-3. Foreign ministers reunion 8/24, case Assange. - pitiburi
http://www.telesurtv.net/articulos/2012/08/17/oea-convoca-a-reunion-de-cancilleres-en-washington-para-analizar-amenaza-britanica-a-ecuador-656.html
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coco236
I don't get it, I went to both the CNN and the BBC sites, and they ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Easy way out or hard way freelancing? - mythriel
I left my high payed job 2 months ago and now I got an offer that is even better than the previous payed job...my dilemma is to take this job or continue freelancing and working on small projects for myself and looking for projects. The thing is it wasn't bad ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
CDC banned from using 'evidence-based' and 'science-based - Ice_cream_suit
http://thehill.com/news-by-subject/healthcare/365204-trump-admin-bans-cdc-from-using-evidence-based-and-science-based
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Ice_cream_suit
"The administration has reportedly banned the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) from usin... | {
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} |
Lifestyle Startups Stigma - hristiank
http://appicurious.com/2011/10/27/lifestyle-startups-stigma/
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cwp
Gimme a break. There's no mystery here. "Tech elite" is a code word for
venture capital. VCs pooh-pooh lifestyle and bootstrapped businesses because
there's no opportunity for them to profit. VC-backed founder... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
What increases signups by 28%? ‘Watch a video’ or ‘Get instant access’ - paraschopra
http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/increase-newsletter-signups-watch-a-video/
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sp4rki
I just want to point out two things:
1) Get instant access means nothing to me. Watch a video does, and if I take
the tim... | {
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} |
F.lux in 10 lines of code - danielng01
So I decided to try in how many lines I can make blue light and brightness reduction software for Linux and this is the result.<p>10 lines and works on all linux distributions<p>See the source code here<p>https://github.com/danielng01/iris-floss<p>More about I... | {
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} |
What Does Redux Do? (and when should you use it?) - dlcmh
https://daveceddia.com/what-does-redux-do/
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acemarke
Great article from Dave, as always.
Worth noting that this is primarily about how Redux works with data flow in a
React app, and doesn't go further into its other benefits, like predictability
and debu... | {
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} |
NetSpectre: Read Arbitrary Memory Over Network [pdf] - razer6
https://misc0110.net/web/files/netspectre.pdf
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tptacek
The AVX side channel is neat. It relies on power management rather than cache:
after 1ms of AVX2 inactivity (no 256 bit operations being performed), it goes
into a power-saving mode; the next 256-... | {
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} |
How Git shines above Subversion at Merging - niyazpk
http://tuxychandru.blogspot.com/2010/01/how-git-shines-above-subversion-at.html
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hasenj
I think this post is missing the point entirely.
The strength of git has nothing to do with "magically resolving all possible
corner cases". That was never the intended pu... | {
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} |
Up to 88% of Hong Kong Population Exposed to Tear Gas Since June - dsr12
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-05/up-to-88-of-hong-kong-population-exposed-to-tear-gas-since-june
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hkmaxpro
Hong Kong started using China-made tear gas canisters recently [1].
Reddit discussions on why those made in China ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Remark: The most efficient inbox in the world? - JoelMarsh
http://www.getremark.com
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ChrisNorstrom
Please someone. Just listen. All my email problems will be solved if you just
make a plugin for Thunderbird that groups all emails (recieved and sent)
according to who they're from and to. If I had cancer and the m... | {
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} |
Practical Reverse Engineering Part 5 – Digging Through the Firmware - j_s
http://jcjc-dev.com/2016/12/14/reversing-huawei-5-reversing-firmware/
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NateyJay
The link for deciding whether to be nasty or nice when enforcing open source
licences is fascinating: [https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-
dis... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Hacker-Travelers, please share your techniques and experience. - jberryman
This recent submission[1] sparked a really inspiring bunch of "me too" comments from folks with experience travelling the world while doing their life/company's work. I'd like to know how you travelling hackers work and what tricks yo... | {
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How I deployed a Julia web-app using Genie framework with Docker - anirudhmurali
https://blog.hasura.io/how-i-deployed-a-julia-web-app-using-genie-framework-with-docker-1e04b24d3798
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piever
Very nice write up! I haven't tried doing web apps in Julia since Escher
([https://github.com/shashi/Escher.jl](https://git... | {
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} |
A Native American Tribe Hopes Digital Currency Boosts Its Sovereignty - RougeFemme
http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/03/07/287258968/a-native-american-tribe-hopes-digital-currency-boosts-its-sovereignty
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jedunnigan
Note, this coin is not officially backed by the Oglala Lakota Nation Tribal
President Bry... | {
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} |
The Downside of Specialization - alrex021
http://personalmba.com/downside-specialization/
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yannis
Good points. Specialization is for insects!
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24.5 Trillion Gallons of Water - jostmey
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/08/30/harvey-has-unloaded-24-5-trillion-gallons-of-water-on-texas-and-louisiana/?tid=a_inl
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secabeen
My favorite statistic is that 24.5 trillion gallons of water is 75 million
acre-feet, or slightly more wat... | {
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} |
Google adding gamified check-ins to G+? - mtkd
http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/02/19/googles-new-latitude-leaderboards-suggest-gamified-check-ins-are-coming-to-google/
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AznHisoka
Noone "plays together".. People use Foursquare to broadcast where they are to
the world, not play a silly game. Google Locations a... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
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