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Twitter founders address all-staff meeting on eve of IPO filing (photos) - xadxad
http://qz.com/131651/photos-twitter-founders-address-all-staff-meeting-on-eve-of-ipo-filing/
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xadxad
Notable absence is Noah Glass (imho) - the 4th cofounder pushed out in 2006
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Ask HN: Best company structure for a CA resident running a lifestyle business? - ericvorheese
My side project has been growing pretty quickly, and I'm making it my full-time focus. I'm the only owner (I do plan on having employees), I have no plans to ever raise money, and I'm a CA resident.<p>What'... | {
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"We have hard/challenging problems" replacing "Looking for Ruby Ninja"? - sebilasse
It seems that this years "we have hard/challenging (technical) problems" is replacing last years "looking for programmer Rockstars/Ninjiutsu-Ninjas".<p>Am I the only one that gets slightly annoyed by these generic drink-the-kool-aid ... | {
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Ask HN: How to persuade a traditional Java company to use Node.js - bodelecta
I realise this is a very subjective topic but IMO node.js from a development point of view, is much faster to market for a traditional web app than a Java application.<p>There's been many blogs and topics over the last few years espousi... | {
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One Medical S-1 - coloneltcb
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1404123/000119312520001429/d806726ds1.htm
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karl11
Medicine comes down to human-to-human interactions (doctor and patient) and
those are really hard to scale. One Medical is basically a novelty offering
nice offices and predictable visit times. ... | {
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What Can Prewar Germany Teach Us About Social-Media Regulation? - TheLastSamurai
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/05/germany-war-radio-social-media/590149/
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tomohawk
History shows again and again that regulating speech just doesn't work, and
has many negative consequences.
The best thing i... | {
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Fiverr Raises $30M for Online Services Marketplace - louhong
http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2014/08/11/fiverr-raises-30m-for-online-services-marketplace/
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sgdesign
Relevant: my post about my experiences hiring logo designers on Fiverr from
last week: [https://medium.com/@sachagreif/in-the-past-couple-years-... | {
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Show HN: Node Based Vector Designer Mac App - nthState
Hi!<p>I've been working for a few weeks on a node based vector design tool.<p>It's non-destructive and exports to Sketch and Illustrator.<p>You can create graphs of Vector Nodes which feed into each other and produce a new Vector shape.<p>I've creat... | {
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Smart Home Surveillance: Governments Tell Google's Nest Hand Over Data - edejong
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2018/10/13/smart-home-surveillance-governments-tell-googles-nest-to-hand-over-data-300-times/
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ChuckMcM
My hope is that this is another push toward on-prem data management.
One of the thi... | {
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Choose Your Paradox – the downside of the Axiom of Choice - rutenspitz
https://billwadge.wordpress.com/2017/06/12/thanks-axiom-of-choice-the-banachtarski-paradox/
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danharaj
Constructive/Computable insights into variants of choice:
[https://mathoverflow.net/questions/22990/choice-vs-
countable...](https://mathov... | {
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Google+ API Launch Still Months Away - jdp23
http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/06/google-api-launch-still-months-away/
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lucisferre
This is disappointing news. Watching G+ was a bit like watching a wave crash
and roll back. My twitter feed actually slowed down for a few days while
everyone played with the new kid, ... | {
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Why is quality of pseudorandom number generators important? - DrinkWater
http://superuser.com/questions/712551/why-are-people-so-bothered-about-truly-random-numbers-instead-of-ones-generated
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chriswarbo
When I see the word "random" I parse it as "unpredictable", since this is
usually what people mean (even if th... | {
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Ask HN: Best Sales Training for an Engineer? - greatatuin
Hi!<p>I run a small agency doing mostly enterprise mobile apps and web development. I'm an engineer first so I feel like I have so much to learn about sales to best run and grow the business.<p>Does anyone have any recommendations on good B2B sales trainin... | {
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Yelp University Dataset - adi92
http://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2011/09/calling-all-data-miners.html
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PaulHoule
Why not make it available to everybody?
There's a lot of data mining talent in academia, but there's also a lot of us
in the "real world" who follow what they do closely and add our own special
twis... | {
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Question that Harvard Students Get Wrong - jhull
http://www.businessinsider.com/question-that-harvard-students-get-wrong-2012-12
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anon6567
Huh, I got it wrong, and I didn't go to any of the schools mentioned in the
article, maybe I just stupid?
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WTF is the Blockchain? - smb06
https://hackernoon.com/wtf-is-the-blockchain-1da89ba19348?source=linkShare-3e4d3e72fc4a-1498858843
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Frogolocalypse
quite a lot of effort went into making something so complex seem so sillyly
(have i just invented a word?) easy. There were a few complexities left out
but it certainl... | {
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What happens if authorities seize your laptop? - drucken
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25458533
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joshka
"Or you can scrub your laptop clean, storing everything on an external hard
drive that you leave at home. Then you know you are safe from prying
authorities, at least at the border."
That is unless you b... | {
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Ask HN: Any decent postgreSQL tutorial for a newbie - codecrusade
Its been extremely depressing and frustrating. Can anyone help please?
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csdreamer7
I go into configuring postgres for my automation book. You can also check out
the source code to see how my script set ups postgres.
[http://www.amazon.com/Deplo... | {
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Rumor: Baidu Hires Stanford AI Lab Director - turingbook
http://www.marbridgeconsulting.com/marbridgedaily/2014-05-15/article/74934/rumor_baidu_hires_stanford_ai_lab_director
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sabalaba
This seems to be "reporting" from an unconfirmed rumor that was originally
posted here and has been bouncing around the chines... | {
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SymSpell vs. BK-tree: 100x faster fuzzy string search and spell checking - chandanrai
https://medium.com/towards-data-science/symspell-vs-bk-tree-100x-faster-fuzzy-string-search-spell-checking
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inetsee
Link is broken. Try this: [https://medium.com/towards-data-science/symspell-
vs-bk-tree-...](https://medium.com... | {
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MetaFilter comment about public libraries (2012) - Tomte
http://www.metafilter.com/112698/California-Dreamin#4183210
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vpribish
basically the post (in long, melodramatic style) is making the point that
libraries have evolved into vital social services, tech support, and community
centers for the underclass.
I've... | {
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Couch Theory - Imaginathan
I have been trying to man my way through getting a couch through a doorway, I exhausted all mental capabilities of visually the different ways in which I could perceive it could fit due to moving several pieces of furniture in my life, I am now stumped, stumbled apon this sit and feel I may ... | {
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The Real Deal about Jonathans Card - creativityhurts
https://www.facebook.com/notes/jonathans-card/the-real-deal/174391689299156
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Pheter
Could someone please explain to me why this is such a big deal?
Let us assume that Jonathan is deceiving us and that this is a marketing
ploy... what does it matter? We have... | {
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Good place to code in SF? - yayitswei
I'll be in San Francisco all day, and I'm trying to figure out a good place to work on my app.<p>Ideally somewhere relatively quiet with ample cheap parking (rare or nonexistent in the city, I know) and free Wi-Fi. Any suggestions?
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codeswimmer
Citizen Space (<http://citiz... | {
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NSTM: Real-Time Query-Driven News Overview Composition at Bloomberg - ArtWomb
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01117
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Der_Einzige
From the moment that I tried my hand at making a queryable summarizer
([https://github.com/Hellisotherpeople/CX_DB8](https://github.com/Hellisotherpeople/CX_DB8))
I've been obsessed with th... | {
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Analytics in Bootstrap, Boilerplate etc. Is Google spying while Development - micronax
After I set up the 1000th Bootrap or Boilerplate I wondered if the integrated (and active!) Google Analytics snipped would collect and submit data while development progress to Google servers.<p>That would allow Google to collect ... | {
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Chladni Patterns - lbotos
http://skullsinthestars.com/2013/05/02/physics-demonstrations-chladni-patterns/
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kabla
Really cool post! I wrote a blog post on calculating/simulating these
patterns: [http://blog.kaistale.com/?p=1295](http://blog.kaistale.com/?p=1295)
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lbotos
Awesome! I figured someone here would h... | {
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Does a national health care plan make people more likely to start a company? - yequalsx
Some years ago I had an idea for a startup but didn't want to go without health insurance. I have a good job and I felt the risk of getting sick or injured without health care insurance outweighed the likely gains from starting ... | {
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Cancer: the mountain lion in your fridge - jacobkg
https://somehedgehog.tumblr.com/post/119415185391/cancer-the-mountain-lion-in-your-fridge
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jacobkg
My wife went through Breast Cancer treatment last year. We both agreed that
this metaphor is the most accurate description of the experience we could find
(with en... | {
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Why Software is Expensive - edw519
http://itscommonsensestupid.blogspot.com/2009/10/why-software-is-expensive.html
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a-priori
The most important one is the last one: anything custom-made is far more
expensive than something that's mass produced. Would you go into a tailor and
expect them to make you a suit at the... | {
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Backtype (YC summer 08): Twitter for comments launches - rokhayakebe
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/27/backtype-a-twitter-for-comments/
Although the article calls it Twitter for comments I think it is more a Google for Comments.
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tdavis
We've been using BackType in Beta for a while now and it has been an
inc... | {
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Who Put the IPv6 in my Internet? - there
http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2009/09/who-put-the-ipv6-in-my-internet/
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Kadin
Well that's reasonably promising.
I think there's still a race between IPv6 adoption and carrier-grade NAT. If
the big ISPs deploy CGN rather than IPv6, that will eliminate the big
motivatio... | {
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HAProxy can block a 100,000-connection-per-second DoS - wmf
http://haproxy.1wt.eu/10g.html
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datums
A DoS is usually trivial to stop. Now a DDoS, that would be impressive. I
don't need haproxy to stop a specific request or from a specific ip. The
kernel routing tables can do that.
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wmf
Yes, for a known IP a... | {
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Ask HN: What's the best service for phone number verification? - akhilcacharya
Considering writing an app with phone number login using a verification system - I was considering rolling my own using Twilio (asking the user to call a number and add a code or get an SMS and enter a code), but I was wondering if there ... | {
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Ask HN: Advice on founding startup during PhD? - anthonye
I'm in a CS PhD program at a decent school. My eventual goal is to launch a start-up. I'm also just getting by financially (I support my family).<p>I know of people who've launched a startup <i>after</i> their PhD, but anyone have advice on ho... | {
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'Frenzy of hatred': The dramatic rise of far-right extremists - DanBC
https://news.sky.com/story/frenzy-of-hatred-the-dramatic-rise-of-far-right-extremists-11609611
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beobab
I can’t help feeling that the general rise in hatred is fuelled by the press
reporting every news story with so much “outraging”.
“You must... | {
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Advertising Standards Authority Ruling on LiveDrive Internet Ltd - DanBC
https://www.asa.org.uk/Rulings/Adjudications/2015/12/Livedrive-Internet-Ltd/SHP_ADJ_311623.aspx#.VoKQaraLS00
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mchahn
FWIW, I disagree with the ruling. The fact that you have to use an admin
account to backup the whole computer is a technica... | {
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Lenovo shipping a BiOS rootkit? - plantain
http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=29497693#p29497693
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condescendence
greenyoda posted a link to discussion about this. On that thread there's also
a few links to other decent discussions about it.
There's some discussion in the top comments of this link to... | {
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Google Chrome Harlem Shake - sajithdilshan
http://pastebin.com/YbnNuQuw
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ninjanoise
So tired of these videos but this is pretty awesome!
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sairamkunala
works great on a google search result (for a sample page)
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Show HN: Bash function to run concurrent tasks and display pretty statuses - themattrix
https://github.com/themattrix/bash-concurrent
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calebm
Very pretty. Looks useful too!
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woud420
Good work. Looks good.
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Part-time founders more productive than full-time founders? - vlad
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webwright
I built a company as a "part-time founder". I think it's quite do-able and
really forces you to focus your time. Parkinson's Law states that tasks tend
to expend to fill to time allotted for them... That's true with Founders as
well.
T... | {
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Insights from FindTheMasks-US Data - ISL
https://findthemasks.com/blog/2020-04-21-Data-Insights
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ISL
Corresponding author here -- happy to answer questions.
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Why MongoDB is worth $1.2 billion - felixr
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-2013/131010-why-mongodb-is-worth.html?source=nww_rss
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shin_lao
_Not only is MongoDB considerably lower in cost than Oracle, but adding nodes
to a MongoDB cluster is an exercise in simplicity._
It was my understanding that Mong... | {
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Obvious Goes Beyond Meat - atestu
http://obvious.com/beyondmeat.html
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samstokes
Obligatory Title Police comment: not knowing that Obvious and Beyond Meat were
companies, this headline gave no clues as to the topic of the article. In fact
I only clicked to see how on earth that title could parse as English...
I ... | {
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Why Doesn't Anyone Answer the Phone Anymore? - stepstop
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/ring-ring-ring-ring/561545/
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mindcrime
That's an awful lot of words just to say "because 98% of phone calls are
spam".
It's really kind of sad. Spammers seem to find a way to ruin everything,
eventuall... | {
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Turtles on the Wire: Understanding How the OS Uses the Modern NIC (2016) - nz
http://dtrace.org/blogs/rm/2016/09/15/turtles-on-the-wire-understanding-how-the-os-uses-the-modern-nic/
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drewg123
The biggest innovation that I've seen in quite some time in terms of making
creative use of hardware offloads is Hans Pet... | {
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How to tune a guitar with Ruby and FFT - danso
http://makaroni4.com/ruby/hacking/2014/03/26/how-to-tune-guitar-with-ruby/
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tantalor
"As you can see we need to pull the string for 77.09Hz :)"
What does that mean?
Edit: 329.63 (desired) - 252.54 (actual) = 77.09
I was confused because the frequency/magnitude ... | {
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Oracle shuts down PostgreSQL test servers - murrayb
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/221051,oracle-shuts-down-open-source-test-servers.aspx
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lsc
Man, Oracle works /hard/ to maintain their bad reputation. I mean, they do
some good work, look at BTRFS, but it looks like their general public
relations to nerds is re... | {
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Dear Miss Disruption - McKittrick
https://medium.com/p/d7e5d14065f1
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pytrin
Lots of gems, but this is my personal favorite:
"However… you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t get him to drink. Even
if the water comes in the form of an endless supply of VitaminWater in the
company fridge."
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mantas
... | {
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Flippaper: Draw your own pinball in real time - neo2001
http://www.flippaper.org/
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chipsy
This is a nicely polished-and-optimized hardware version of the UI in Stephen
Lavelle's Plingpling. [0] I have a prototype sitting around of a directly
inspired "draw-to-physics" thing myself.
[0] [http://www.plingpling.or... | {
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Silicon Valley Finds Trump’s Disruption Unwelcome - my_first_acct
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/02/technology/silicon-valley-finds-trumps-disruption-unwelcome.html
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chillacy
Tech is less and less the everyman/underdog and becoming the establishment.
It's no surprise to me that it begins protecting itself and it... | {
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Web Hosting Dilemmas: Who To Avoid - MatCarpenter
http://www.sofamoolah.com/blogging/web-hosting-dilemmas-who-to-avoid/
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bradleyland
A couple of things:
If you follow tech news, you'll notice that every major cloud based service
has experienced some level of down time, so while you should "avoid" shared
hosts... | {
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Ask HN: How to Improve Typing Accuracy - jdowner
I have been using a keyboard for a long time, but I struggle to type accurately. I am more a 'touch-typer' than a 'hunt-and-pecker' but my accuracy is poor. There are two particular times when I find this frustrating. I work on the command line quite... | {
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Di-ary – mathematical note-taking app built on Ruby on Rails, React and Redux - mkalygin
https://github.com/mkalygin/di-ary
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brudgers
If it meets the guidelines, this might make a good "Show HN".
Show HN Guidelines:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html](https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html)
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mkalyg... | {
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Why is Facebook blue? The science of colors in marketing - andygcook
http://blog.bufferapp.com/the-science-of-colors-in-marketing-why-is-facebook-blue
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mnicole
While color psychology is an excellent topic, I think this post relies too
much on data that isn't reliable/was meant to be marketing linkbait vs.
legi... | {
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American Express fails miserably at basic security - ice799
http://timetobleed.com/warning-american-express-fails-miserably-at-basic-security/
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edj
This sounds scarier than it really is. Why? Because credit card companies
focus on identifying fraudulent transactions rather than verifying your id.
From Bruce Sch... | {
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Groundbreaking blood test can detect cancer years before symptoms appear - hanniabu
https://jpost.com/health-science/groundbreaking-blood-test-can-detect-cancer-years-before-symptoms-appear-636443/
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s09dfhks
Is this what Theranos was trying to do before they got busted?
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DOJ: Billionaire pharma owner fueled the opioid epidemic with bribery scheme - rbanffy
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/doj-billionaire-pharma-owner-fueled-the-opioid-epidemic-with-bribery-scheme/
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alkonaut
I trust this guy will get what he deserves, but surely there should be other
people falling her... | {
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Second known interstellar visitor after Oumuamua - QueensGambit
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6465/558.1
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fernly
Does this suggest a serious danger to any hypothetical interstellar ship? If
the density of such kilometer-scale objects is such that disk of our solar
system intercepts them by the dozen... | {
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Ask HN: Where does consciousness come from? - jmtame
I've been pondering this with several other friends. If you take a psychology class, you learn all about the brain, neurons, and neurotransmitters. But at some point, do you wonder how do we feel a sense of "personality" and consciousness based on nothing more tha... | {
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Live: Huawei Unveils AI Chip and Computing Framework - roboys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHNdVZp1lsc
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roboys
From the description "Huawei launches its Ascend 910 AI Processor & MindSpore
Computing Framework in south China's Shenzhen. The company aims at boosting
computing power for the development of artifi... | {
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Too small to fail: How startups can grow in recessions - lrm242
http://blog.asmartbear.com/blog/too-small-to-fail-how-startups-can-grow-in-recessions.html
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ABrandt
I find this post rather inspiring (who doesn't like cheering for an underdog?)
Although I believe he is right to use Balsamiq as an example of grea... | {
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Profilr.me | Pull everything together. - profilrme
http://profilr.me/
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lewisflude
Is that the final product?
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Program Uses Interactive Genetic Algorithm to Help Witnesses Remember Criminals - CaptainMorgan
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091005161328.htm
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scott_s
Our memories are notoriously unreliable, and subject to outside influence. I
want to see how this would hold up in controlled experiments. Simpl... | {
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} |
Court Rejects Google's Book Settlement With Publishers - mikecane
http://www.businessinsider.com/court-rejects-googles-book-settlement-with-publishers-2011-3
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The scariest part about the Internet of Things - Libertatea
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/11/19/heres-the-scariest-part-about-the-internet-of-things/
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Pxtl
I disagree that the wifi is a terrible single-point-of-failure. The chief
concern in privacy security is not a criminal on the str... | {
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Ask HN: How can I get people at school to check out my 'game'? - thatusertwo
I'm a student at college and I've made a 'game' that I think is well targeted for the demographics here. I've tried putting fliers on the walls, but the turn around hasn't been so great. Anyone have any other suggestions? I've only got a we... | {
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BMW wants to sell subscriptions to in-car features - loriverkutya
https://www.engadget.com/bmw-connected-drive-store-subscriptions-193746962.html
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nicbou
I am not in the market for a car, but I don't think I'd ever want to buy a
vehicle I don't fully own. Cars last for decades. That's a lot longer than
short-liv... | {
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} |
Microsoft and Shell are building a better gas station with AI and IoT - benryon
https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai/shell-iot-ai-safety-intelligent-tools-001
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easytiger
Working link: [https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai/shell-iot-ai-safety-
intellige...](https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai/shell-iot-ai-safety-intelligent-
tool... | {
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} |
I hate Honeydew or: Why you should always ask "Why?" - theyCallMeSwift
http://theycallmeswift.com/2012/10/03/I-hate-honeydew-or-why-why-matters-in-user-tests/
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bilalq
Honeydew melons are my favorite. They have an amazing texture with just the
right amount of sweetness. Putting your terrible taste in fruits aside... | {
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} |
5 more essentials for your programming toolbox - dood
http://www.spiteful.com/2008/02/25/5-more-essentials-for-your-programming-toolbox/
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anupamkapoor
skip lists are not bad at all. also, i guess for unrolled-linked-list you
might have to have different 'num-items' for different cache sizes.
better would be t... | {
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Working in Oxford university - amjadcsu
Hello,<p>I am a Sys admin/Devops with over 10 years experience. At my current job, i am getting good pay and savings, though career wise , it is a hole with no career/professional growth.
I had applied to oxford university and am in final stages of hiring process. Th... | {
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Hacking TechCrunch Disrupt's Hackathon - jason_shah
http://blog.jasonshah.org/post/31592808546/hacking-techcrunch-disrupts-hackathon
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jason_shah
I really learned a ton during this hackathon and want to share everything I
can with the HN community. Let me know if there's anything I can add!
| {
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Spot the Drowning Child (2015) - vinnyglennon
http://spotthedrowningchild.com/#
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balls187
When I was 12, I went on a week long hike as a scout. We decided to swim
across a lake, and 1/2 way through, I got tired, and tried swimming back, but
couldn't.
I remember having the presence of mind to yell out help befor... | {
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} |
Australian metadata retention changes explained - andrewstuart
http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/metadata-retention-changes-explained-20151011-gk6m7p.html
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andrewstuart
What could possibly go wrong?
How soon till the worlds hackers start releasing details of Australian
citizens digital activit... | {
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Scene Reconstruction from High Spatio-Angular Resolution Light Fields - anigbrowl
http://www.disneyresearch.com/project/lightfields
======
jasimq
For some reason having Mickey Mouse on top of a research paper page makes me
not take the site seriously.
| {
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Stackify Launches Free CertAlert.me Service to Monitor SSL Certificates - spo81rty
http://www.stackify.com/stackify-launches-free-certalert-me-service-to-monitor-ssl-certificates/
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jspaur
hah, i did the same thing this weekend :)
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5281794>
care to merge these?
| {
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Binom Bijection - Storing k-Subsets Efficiently - volkergrabsch
http://www.profv.de/Binom_Bijection/
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bumbledraven
It's odd that in listing the ways to store a choice of 40 numbers from the set
{1..100} the paper doesn't mentioning the traditional approach of using a
string of 100 bits. Bit _n_ is set to 1 if ... | {
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Success & Motivation: A Lesson & The Worst Sales Letter Ever.. - peter123
http://blogmaverick.com/2010/01/05/success-motivation-a-lesson-the-worst-sales-letter-ever/
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lmkg
My gut says, this was not written by a native english-speaker. I don't know if
it was pieced together by a computer program, or outsourced C... | {
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Working around the EC2 outage - jpetazzo
http://blog.dotcloud.com/working-around-the-ec2-outage
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ulope
Having read that (and assuming it's accurate) I really wonder how anyone in
their right mind can see EC2 as a viable hosting solution.
~~~
pan69
EC2 is built for scalability and distributed systems. The arti... | {
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} |
A Speculation on DNS DDOS [video] - okket
https://ripe73.ripe.net/archives/video/1536/
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webscaleizfun
Interesting idea, but then you are essentially forcing everyone to go through
their upstream provider or Google's DNS servers, since when DDOS attacks
occur, smaller networks won't be in your 8000 resolver white... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Best static web site host? - danvoell
I'm trying to figure out the best place to host a static (html/php) company web site. I'm looking for a good combination of render speed, up-time, support, and price. I'm currently using shared web hosting on dreamhost and I just want to make sure tha... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Thermosonic Bonding - peter_d_sherman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermosonic_bonding
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peter_d_sherman
Excerpts:
"Thermosonic bonding is widely used to wire bond silicon integrated circuits
into computers."
[...]
"A thermosonic bond is formed using a set of parameters which include
ultrasonic, thermal and m... | {
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CLOCKER – CREATING A DOCKER CLOUD WITH APACHE BROOKLYN - msolujic
http://www.cloudsoftcorp.com/blog/2014/06/clocker-creating-a-docker-cloud-with-apache-brooklyn/
======
grkvlt
Author here. This project uses jclouds to provision VMs in a cloud, installs
Docker on them and then deploys an application across those VMs ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Best Remote XYZ jobs found in the World this week - xoelop
https://blog.noicejobs.com/best-remote-jobs-found-between-sep-04-and-sep-11/
======
xoelop
Hey HN!
Some months ago I shared
([https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23500588](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23500588))
a bot I made that finds and c... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Solutions to Easy Tip for Sites - SubuSS
I see a lot of sites now locking down with per month article limits etc. As annoying as that is on one hand, I also see the value of content without ads. I ALSO don't want to go through the whole process of creating yet another account / giving them my paypal ... | {
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Secondary indexes support in Sophia 2.2 - pmwkaa
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sophia-database/70cPZ-LWDW4
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crudbug
Great work. Is there an ETA on Tarantool integration ?
~~~
pmwkaa
thanks. if everything goes well, it will be ready for testing within one-two
week time.
| {
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Show HN: Promotion/Raise Salary Data - beefjerkylover
http://perks.guide/promo
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beefjerkylover
Hey Hacker news! we were inspired by other salary tracking sites to build a
tool for engineers, product managers & other tech workers. Our observation was
that the yearly raise and promotion process is even more opaque... | {
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} |
Parsing HTML in Python with BeautifulSoup - jgrahamc
http://www.jgc.org/blog/2009/11/parsing-html-in-python-with.html
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spatulon
I think there's an important distinction between telling someone they've
written "poor code" and telling them they're a "poor programmer". Whether the
latter is true or not is irrelevan... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Nvidia Launches Patent Suits Focused on Samsung Galaxy Phones, Tablets - readerrrr
http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2014/09/04/nvidia-launches-patent-suits/comment-page-3/#comments
======
grageth
Really Nvidia? Respect is gone. Where is the suit against Apple? Don't they
use PowerVR too?
| {
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} |
Ask HN: Max no. of EC2 instances used by a single web app? - jm3
Including DB & API machines, our web app occupies 18 heavily utilized Amazon EC2 instances under a traffic load of ~7k RPM. "Conventional wisdom" says that we're mis-using EC2 by keeping so many virtual instances running but I prefer hard data to ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
When ‘he’ll be kept on payroll, somewhere’ is where you are - Tomte
https://medium.com/@hdevalence/when-hell-kept-on-payroll-somewhere-is-where-you-are-f419d3022d0#.3lr09533w
======
skystrife
If this had occurred in the US (and the mentioned confidential conversation
did in fact allege sexual misconduct), DJB would be... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Y Combinator's Graham Discusses Start-Up Industry - zaveri
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/83135286/
======
aculver
In the later part of the interview she asks some questions about the recent
discussions regarding minorities in the startup community. I thought his
response was insightful:
"Well, I think the problem is... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What change in your programming technique has been most transformative? - dmux
As an example, the team I work on has been adding more precondition checking to all of our applications. The simple act of stepping back from the perceived data-flow and explicitly declaring what we believe should hold true has unco... | {
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} |
Pyston 0.2 released with experimental GIL-free mode - bilalhusain
http://lists.pyston.org/pipermail/pyston-dev/2014-September/000063.html
======
tlmr
Will this run numpy etc?
~~~
bilalhusain
The project is at a very nascent stage. I am not sure if 0.2 can run numpy put
eventually it will.
| {
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} |
Show HN: Build your own location-aware logistics app in an hour - deniszpua
https://github.com/hypertrack/logistics-android
======
prateeks
Looks great! Quick q about geofencing: given the android device and OS
fragmentation, what's the best way for PMs to create effective geofences that
work consistently?
~~~
denisz... | {
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} |
Xeround discontinuing cloud DB service - concerto
Dear Sir/Madam,<p>We are deeply sorry to inform you that Xeround's public cloud offering will be discontinued as of May 15th, 2013.<p>Xeround's leadership forum has recently decided to re-focus the company's effort. This means we will no longer be able to support our... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How to compare costs of compute providers? - jononor
I've got some services which are mostly compute bound (image processing etc). They are packaged as Docker images, don't require much else (blob storage and a message queue), so it can run on almost any cloud provider. AWS, GCE, Azure, etc..
Natura... | {
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} |
Yahoo Announces Settlement with Carl Icahn - nickb
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080721/20080721005563.html
======
markbao
Yang is screwed.
| {
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} |
3 Essentials of Effective Team Management - Jessicamiller
https://medium.com/flowmagic/3-essentials-of-effective-team-management-db77f9382223
======
redhale
This is just an ad.
| {
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} |
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