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Scribd (YC07) Has FREE (full book) by Chris Anderson online - ALee
http://www.scribd.com/doc/17135767/FREE-full-book-by-Chris-Anderson
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jacquesm
wasn't this on here yesterday ?
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=691077>
and before that...
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=691070>
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syntaxfree
Scr... | {
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Airbnb Racks Up Hundreds of Millions in Losses Due to Coronavirus - dcgudeman
https://www.wsj.com/articles/airbnb-racks-up-hundreds-of-millions-in-losses-due-to-coronavirus-11584723498
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chadmeister
It's kind of frightening to think of the broader economic impact it would have
on the whole real estate market if A... | {
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Self-Interruption and Distraction - rbanffy
http://nautil.us/issue/48/chaos/are-you-a-self_interrupter
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krrishd
I recently stopped using all of my social media, inspired by Cal Newport's
Deep Work, and this resonates deeply with me.
At risk of sounding like an out-of-touch baby boomer (I'm 18), I think the
port... | {
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Xinhua's first English AI anchor makes debut [video] - ccozan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAfiATTQufk
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ElBarto
Interestingly, there are many Chinese videos on Youtube, discussing current
events usually, which are not voiced by an actual human but by a synthetic
voice.
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The Low Risk Way to Start a Business - ramabk
http://www.activefilings.com/startups/the-low-risk-way-to-start-a-business/
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rafikech
Those are very simple facts. I think there is way more into it. I recently a
good article similar to this one. I wil try to find it and post in here...
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Take a sneak peak at Moonstone's UI and tell us what you think - bitsapphire
https://marvelapp.com/a31d7h#3555223
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ben_pr
Looks nice overall.
I have a hard time reading the light green on grey or white background. Not
sure if it's possible to improve the contrast without wrecking your color
scheme.
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Pa... | {
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Questions about work visa and founders unable to relocate to SF for YC - justinireland
My co-founders and I are interested in applying to YC. However, one of them is unsure of his ability to be in the Bay Area during the semester. He is willing to work remotely in his spare time during the YC process but would be un... | {
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The American Press on Suicide Watch - tokenadult
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/opinion/10rich.htm
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cma
Newspapers are a product sold for personal consumption and priced accordingly,
but they have enormous positive externalities. The traditional solution to
dealing with something with positive externalities... | {
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Thor Stefansson reportedly escapes from prison, goes to airport and flies away - petethomas
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/04/19/alleged-bitcoin-heist-mastermind-escapes-from-iceland-prison-goes-to-airport-and-flies-away/?noredirect=on
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DrScump
I like the quote from the professor: “Priso... | {
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Ask HN: Is there an API for HN ? - olalonde
Is there an API for HN ? I've seen a lot of apps around HN and I'd like to build my own. Is there an API for HN or are those apps scraping the content?
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tpyo
<http://news.ycombinator.com/rss> ?
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mmastrac
Thanks, I've been looking for that for a while. Is that lin... | {
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The $10,000-a-year college education has arrived (1981) - Futurebot
http://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/19/nyregion/the-10000-a-year-college-education-has-arrived.html
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cassieramen
This article hints at schools inability to justify their ever increasing
prices. Why is tuition continuing to rise so much faster than in... | {
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Ask HN: What's your dream career? - quizbiz
I always wanted to manage a hotel resort even though it has little to do with my specific passions.
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chaosprophet
Commercial airline pilot. Especially one that keeps flying into disaster-prone
areas and managing to touch down without incident.
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jacobb
I'd like... | {
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Simplify Your Message, and Repeat Often - andyraskin
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/23/business/john-lilly-simplify-your-message-and-repeat-often.html
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dceddia
This is a really interesting point:
_When I was a V.C. at first, I would just ask my questions and kind of poke,
poke, poke, poke. And now I’ll say: “L... | {
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Ask HN: How do some Twitter users respond so fast to get in the first comments? - bobjordan
I regularly see a few twitter users that are always among the first to respond to controversial tweets, like anything from Donald Trump and apparently, anyone else that posts content that turns into a lot of likes/hits. It... | {
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Oracle copied Amazon’s API – was that copyright infringement? - callwaiting
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/01/oracle-copied-amazons-api-was-that-copyright-infringement/
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smiljo
Seems like Oracle is taking totally contradictory positions in this case and
the Google one.
> Did Oracle infringe Amazon's c... | {
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Philips Hue API Hacking - craigkerstiens
http://www.issackelly.com/blog/2012/11/10/philips-hue-api-hacking/
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izak30
As an aside, What I really need for this system is a wall-switch that doesn't
clobber the state. Right now if you cut power completely (use the wall switch)
it loses all it's last settings and turn... | {
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RFC: Blanking all Wikipedia as SOPA protest - lelf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#Request_for_Comment:_SOPA_and_a_strike
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jxcole
Here is what I recommend:
Facebook, google, youtube and wikipedia should take down their sites and
replace them with a message about SOPA all on the same day. But... | {
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Attributing the DNC Hacks to Russia – Bruce Schneier - Cozumel
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/01/attributing_the_1.html
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rwallace
Given the absence of evidence that it was the Russians, this looks like the
Iraqi WMDs all over again.
However, suppose for the sake of argument it was indeed the Russia... | {
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10,000 Artists Sign Up for Pirate Bay Promotion - anons2011
http://torrentfreak.com/10000-artists-signed-up-for-pirate-bay-promotion-121103/
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fjorder
As Neil Young put it, "Piracy is the new radio".
A pirate torrent site providing promotion for artists at the artists' request
is not something new. Private music... | {
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Social News: Improving the Content Gene Pool - lbrandy
http://lbrandy.com/blog/2008/09/submit-yourself-to-social-news-sites/
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lbrandy
Another essay I wrote on my vacation. Slowly posting them all... The best (or
worst) part is my idea list is growing faster than my actual output.
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Media Coverage of Car Crashes Downplays the Role of Drivers - jseliger
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/12/news-journalism-traffic-deaths-road-safety-accident-research/603289
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jtlienwis
Stories about opioid addiction downplay the role of users.
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Sweden is deporting entrepreneur for lowering his own salary - stareatgoats
https://www.thelocal.se/20180202/sweden-is-deporting-this-entrepreneur-for-lowering-his-own-salary
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bjornedstrom
This happens over and over again in Sweden: skilled worker immigrants get
deported over small technicalities, that is often ... | {
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Song of GitHub - goddabuzz
http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/
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ajacksified
Author here. Thanks for the wonderful comments! I also fixed the https issues.
This was really taken to the next level thanks to a couple of pull requests
from some really talented developers; rpflorence, phuu, and everyone else with... | {
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Show HN: AppScreens.io – Create and Localize App Screens - alexmarktl
https://appscreens.io
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alexmarktl
I was tired of wasting so much time making and localizing App Store Screens
for our iTranslate Apps and wanted to have a nice WYSIWYG web tool to create
those fancy screens. So I teamed up with the nice guys... | {
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Show HN: Get a private VPN server for free, no questions asked - satoshivpn
https://satoshivpn.com/learn/new-get-a-free-vpn-server-from-satoshivpn
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Kaze404
Should make it clear in the title that this is a 1 hour trial.
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Inspired by HN: Beta signups open, local social news site run on Node.js/MongoDB - travisglines
http://www.exipe.com/
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travisglines
Feel free to ask any questions or give any comments. Feedback is greatly
appreciated.
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pghimire
Is there a demo/preview page? It's rather hard to give you feedback without
... | {
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The Uncertain Future of Ham Radio - MindGods
https://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/wireless/the-uncertain-future-of-ham-radio
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irrational
This summer I was supposed to go on a week long backcountry hike with a youth
group. The youth would be split into multiple teams and they wanted an adult
with a ham radio to be w... | {
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Gary Taubes: The Inanity of Overeating - cwan
http://www.garytaubes.com/2010/12/inanity-of-overeating/
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mkn
_Since a pound of fat is roughly equal to 3500 calories, this means you
accumulate roughly 7000 calories worth of fat every year. Divide that 7000 by
365 and you get the number of calories of fat you stor... | {
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Ask HN: Who has started a business because they couldn't get hired for work? - ccajas
Many people start businesses for more financial independence, or simply want to be their own boss. How many of those started it out of a more dire need, from being unable to get hired anywhere and so needed to make money independentl... | {
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New Estimate for an Oil Leak: A Thousand Times Worse Than Rig Owner Says - matt2000
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/climate/taylor-energy-gulf-of-mexico.html
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dang
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20266878](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20266878)
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SwellJoe
I have a growing concern that even... | {
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Ask HN: Who are the most innovative law firms/lawyers for startups in the US? - hendler
After incubation, this matters more. Examples<p>* becoming a B corp.<p>* creative equity strategies<p>* crowdfunding risk mitigation<p>* intellectual property and building value while being against software patents, traditional c... | {
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The Real Time Chat and Collaboration Tool, we are launching very soon... - arunagarwal
https://catchuphere.com/pages/beta
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syncpeople
New Campfire??
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Quora Down? - hhimanshu
telling me Page Not Found (Error 500)
http://i.imgur.com/B9IDd.png
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tokenadult
Who cares?
(A site that has been badly unreliable for me in past searches says that Quora
is down at the moment.)
<http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/quora.com>
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bashzor
"Looks down from here" - but... | {
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Ask HN: What if Microsoft held the country's pcs for ransom? - xauronx
This is slightly "silly" but I was thinking today about how much of the country runs on Microsoft products, including the government. How much power could they leverage from that? For instance, if Bill Gates made a public announcement &... | {
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Ars Technica reviews Photoshop CS3 - mattculbreth
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/apps/photoshop-cs3.ars
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webwright
Not much of a "review"...
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Someone hacked Amazon’s Alexa into one of those singing fish - davidst
https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/04/finally-at-long-last-someone-hacked-amazons-alexa-into-one-of-those-singing-fish/
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douche
I love this. If there were a walk-through someday, I would definitely think
about doing this with my old Billy Bass. A... | {
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Surprising salaries for jobs you’d never imagine - garagumu
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20140814-that-job-pays-how-much
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rm999
I really dislike this - an article with unverified sources and no original
content in the BBC, what I consider a very reliable, ethical news source. To
me this is yet another exampl... | {
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Galaxy S III preorders approach 10 million - kemper
http://www.bgr.com/2012/05/18/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-preorders-9-million/
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cryptoz
This phone is one of the most exciting things happening, at least for me: It
has a barometer! Joining the ranks of the Galaxy Nexus, Note, and Moto Xoom.
Except, I think the SGS3... | {
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Response to Sam Odio - kaptain
http://jonathanstark.com/blog/2011/08/13/an-open-letter-to-sam-odio/
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ColinWright
Some backstory here:
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2880126>
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2880126>
Further, this exact item was submitted earlier today. It's obviously been
killed b... | {
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One Year of PostmarketOS: Mainline Calling - ollieparanoid
https://postmarketos.org/blog/2018/06/09/one-year/
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djsumdog
This is a totally amazing project and I totally applaud their effort. Linux
got it's big boost on x86 back in the 90s/2000s because the PC is an actual
architecture. You're guaranteed so many s... | {
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What I hear when people cite the Zimbardo experiment - bradleysmith
http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3025
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feelthepain
Ha! Here's what happened when they re-ran the 'experiment'
[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v417/n6886/full/417213a...](http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v417/n6886/full/417213a.html)
~... | {
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Cheat sheets for front end web developers - Zenbach
http://sixrevisions.com/resources/cheat_sheets_web_developer/
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alnayyir
Thanks, bookmarked this for later.
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The Life and Death of an Amazon Warehouse Temp - mayneack
http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/life-and-death-amazon-temp/
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yomritoyj
The death was a tragedy. But not even the family blames Amazon for it. And the
article does not really point to any evidence that the company was
responsible. So I'm not... | {
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} |
He Helped Discover Evolution, and Then Became Extinct - keiferski
https://www.npr.org/2013/04/30/177781424/he-helped-discover-evolution-and-then-became-extinct
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Finnucane
Yep, when Darwin got Wallace's letter, he realized that Wallace's ideas were
close enough to his own that he would be scooped if Wallace publi... | {
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How Bloomberg Is Advancing C++ at Scale - wslh
http://www.techatbloomberg.com/blog/bloomberg-advancing-c-scale/
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cheez
This is so devoid of actual information. Doesn't sound like Lakos has moved
much past "Large scale C++ software design".
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The New Cheating Economy - firebones
http://www.chronicle.com/article/The-New-Cheating-Economy/237587?key=O998qdDb93HBMW6pFSQu7k2-7whQ1v-5yYJBsWeIFOjez2UA5seF8Kbhc15aZAp_YzhPMC1XcHRJSWMwWHA1eVhSRnNXQ1FBcm5uVm9kbjVGbG5WWWNyRmdkOA
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jmknoll
As I was reading through the section on the difficulty of catching cheaters... | {
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Microsoft, Apple, and Google: where does the money come from? - matan_a
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/microsoft-apple-and-google-where-does-the-money-come-from/4469?tag=mantle_skin;content
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tikhonj
A couple of interesting things popped out to me.
Microsoft is surprisingly diversified. It's nice to see their ... | {
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App Store Pricing: Worth Less than a Cup of Coffee - floriankugler
http://floriankugler.com/blog/2013/9/30/worth-less-than-a-cup-of-coffee
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crazygringo
The whole problem comes from Apple not allowing trial apps.
I would easily pay $20 for Dark Sky, or Moves, or FitnessFast, InstaPaper,
even ExitStrategy -- but ... | {
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} |
A digestible introduction to the wave equation with working code - dionyziz
https://github.com/dionyziz/wave-experiment
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raverbashing
Very interesting
And a good example of why the 'exact' solution is often not used, because it's
so slow
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jheriko
its not an exact solution, and actually the implementation ... | {
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Defensible App Updated to include overlay for PGE projected outages - xfour
https://defensibleapp.com/
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xfour
Modern MapboxGL based map of general wildfire risk updated with PGE’s
“Historic” power outage planned for later today.
Easier to view than the various other sources, especially on mobile.
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wglb
T... | {
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Survival in Space Unprotected Is Possible, Briefly (2008) - Thevet
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/survival-in-space-unprotected-possible/
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HCIdivision17
This kind of illustrates that it's not that your blood boils or anything crazy
like that, but rather that without external pressure, your body relies... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
“Amazon’s choice” recommends fraudulent listing - bryced
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07T8LGWQ5/
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jedimastert
Two interesting things from this, I think:
1\. This goes a long way to show that there isn't probably zero human
interaction with the "Amazon's Choice" listings and that it's completely
algorithmic.
2\. ... | {
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Thought: On Convincing - SimJapan2005
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SimJapan2005
"Convincing people one by one for an outcome is surely a trouble than by
convincing them altogether once with an outcome."
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Libtls: Rethinking the TLS/SSL API [video] - gbrown_
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd_dyRbE4AA
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gbrown_
Slides available at the following link.
[https://www.openbsd.org/papers/linuxconfau2017-libtls/](https://www.openbsd.org/papers/linuxconfau2017-libtls/)
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epistasis
What a fantastic man page.
~~~
dax... | {
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Namecoin - bpierre
https://namecoin.org/
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__xtrimsky
This is almost 4 years old. This isn't "Hacker Archives", it's "Harcker News".
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Nuclear – Popcorn Time for music - devcriollo
https://github.com/nukeop/nuclear
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porkloin
It seems like calling this "Popcorn Time" for music isn't necessarily a great
comparison.
PT allowed streaming playback of torrented movies and was very clearly piracy
and illegal.
Meanwhile, this seems like an aggregator... | {
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} |
My First 12 Years at Amazon.com - jeffbarr
http://jeff-barr.com/2014/08/19/my-first-12-years-at-amazon-dot-com/
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simonebrunozzi
I had the privilege to work at Amazon for 6 years, and Jeff Barr was my first
manager.
I convinced him to hire me through Second Life - read the full story here:
[http://brunozzi.com/2... | {
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} |
Neil Young Archives - Tomte
https://neilyoungarchives.com/
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rubberbandage
I love this. Such a perfect web presentation for a man who has both
experimented with cutting-edge technology (e.g. drum machine, vocoder and
synclavier in 1981, the ill-fated Pono player) and been a near-luddite in his
approach to digital... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Lip Reading Sentences in the Wild - anishathalye
https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.05358
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anishathalye
Demo video:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aogzAUPilE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aogzAUPilE)
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Hundreds of practical ASP.NET Core samples to learn the fundamentals - benaadams
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/HundredsOfPracticalASPNETCoreSamplesToLearnTheFundamentals.aspx
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32gbsd
I love these massive code dumps but its going to be hard to piece them all
together.
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Hunt: A high-level D Programming Language Web framework - chenzhekl
https://github.com/huntlabs/hunt-framework
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continuations
Why does D perform so poorly for web programming?
[https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/](https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/)
I was expecting Rust or C level of performance for D... | {
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} |
RoR Quality Checklist - bradgessler
http://www.matthewpaulmoore.com/articles/1276-ruby-on-rails-code-quality-checklist#sti
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1gor
Totally disagree about STI.
I once had abstracted a complex application as a directed graph that have only
nodes and edges. From there I STIed most of my business entities.
The resul... | {
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PuzzleScript – an open-source HTML5 puzzle game engine - octosphere
https://www.puzzlescript.net/
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leafo
A while back I wrote a puzzlescript detector for itch.io, all the browser
based games that use it are automatically tagged. You can see them here:
[https://itch.io/games/made-with-puzzlescript](https://itch.i... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Hacking Christmas lights - jroseattle
http://www.deepdarc.com/2010/11/27/hacking-christmas-lights/
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slug
The price surely beats buying/building a bunch of i2c rgb leds ( buy:
<https://www.sparkfun.com/products/8579> clone:
<http://hackaday.com/2011/06/22/building-diy-blinkm-clones/> )
It also reminds me of th... | {
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Ask HN: What techniques do you use for personal goal setting? - wacheena
I've had a laundry list of goals for a few years now that I review every month. I don't think it's working for me because I don't seem to be achieving them.<p>What methods, techniques and strategies do HNers use to set goals and achieve them?
... | {
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Homestead High School Newspaper, May 22, 1977 - timdierks
http://imgur.com/st7eyiR
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nealabq
The paper was, and still is, called The Epitaph.
Chris at the time was also one of the publishers/writers of an "underground"
school paper called The Road Apple.
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DrScump
That McDonald's still exists in the same l... | {
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Making the 'IMDB for games': how we hope to boost discoverability in gaming - elcoldtown
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-02-06-making-rawg-the-imbd-for-games
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eridius
I assume the RAWG being talked about here is
[https://rawg.io](https://rawg.io). Odd that they didn't include a single link
in the art... | {
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} |
For a cleaner and safer internet (video) - seven
http://www.cleanternet.org/
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ff0066mote
This is definitely a satire, but it's so deadpan that it was hard for me to
pick up on until nearing the end of the video. Amazing.
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Hexstream
Somewhere on the internet, someone is taking this seriously.
~~~
crocowhil... | {
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Early Startup Time Wasters - icey
http://talkfast.org/2012/05/05/early-startup-time-wasters
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localhost3000
I've had the opposite experience with working at home vs working in a shared
space. I was much, much more productive working at home (having a 'home
office', aka a room with a desk and no tv was key) but I ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Redux is Overhyped - shakiba
https://medium.com/@shakiba/redux-is-overhyped-3ad6e42b7730#.3z55wexom
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ng12
> Is it easy to replace Redux with another state-container or data-storage
> without updating entire app?
Yes. This is why I use Redux. All the other stuff like reproducibility, state
persistence, and devto... | {
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Put "Web 2.0" Out to Pasture - VonGuard
http://www.sdtimes.com/blog/post/2009/04/06/Put-Web-20-Out-to-Pasture.aspx
The term is now meaningless. At least increment it, or just forget the term and conferences all together.
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catone
I'm kind of sick of the "kill Web 2.0" meme... it's easily as tired as the
term Web... | {
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I Can't Code, But You Can't Sell - MarlonPro
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130506164555-10486099-i-can-t-code-and-you-can-t-sell-crap
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DamnYuppie
There is a great deal of honest introspection that has to be done in order for
someone to reach the conclusion that they are a #2 or #3 and not a #1. I ... | {
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The Best E-Mail Program Ever: How Gmail destroyed Outlook. - robg
http://www.slate.com/toolbar.aspx?action=print&id=2210090
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bk
"The best e-mail program ever"? Hardly. "One of the least shitty of the bunch"
is probably more appropriate.
Gmail easily beats the old-school bunch, but the quantum leap of email is
d... | {
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} |
New Study: Rewarding Good Teachers and Firing Bad Ones Accomplishes Nothing - curtis
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/06/new-study-concludes-that-rewarding-good-teachers-and-firing-bad-ones-accomplishes-nothing/#disqus-container
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turingcompeteme
My sister is a teacher, and had been recognized as "high... | {
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22M pounds of plastics enter the Great Lakes each year - spking
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/environment/ct-met-lake-michigan-plastic-pollution-20190904-2xf3qogqv5bpfco2plndapak2q-story.html
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groundlogic
"Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European
countries. We are engaged on the... | {
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How MTA shut down my app for Penn Station commuters - zavulon
https://medium.com/@alexkharlamov/how-mta-shut-down-my-app-for-penn-station-commuters-39e1cf69395f
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state_machine
I can see why the MTA wouldn't want you telling people to go to a track before
it is actually assigned -- if the train ends up on a diffe... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Facebook splitting up the word “sponsored” to sneak past adblocker - pknerd
https://www.instagram.com/p/BtjeQrcBSof/
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mimixco
Just more evidence that FB cares only about their profits and is willing to
manipulate people (and democracy) in order to gain more of them. This is a
company that's ok with encouraging r... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Anyone Get a YC S19 Videocall? - cleansewater
Did anyone get a YC video call? How did it go? - S2019 batch
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reynergiovanni
Yess I got one, they basically asked us simple questions like what are we
building, what the available solution on the market, when we're going to
launch (We're pre-launch), and etc. It is v... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How To Be a Software Developer Without a CS Degree - Envincible
http://simpledeveloper.com/how-to-be-a-software-developer-without-a-college-degree/
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mumbi
Easy. Prove you know how to develop software. I've never had anyone ask about
my degree(which doesn't exist).
| {
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} |
Trump withdraws from postal treaty in new front against China - gamblor956
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/17/trump-withdraws-from-postal-treaty-910675
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gamblor956
Relevance to tech: The Postal Treaty is used by AliBabi manufacturers to ship
to the US from China for substantially less than it costs for US... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Simple Windows GUI Application Written in Go - dsr12
https://gist.github.com/nathan-osman/18c2e227ad00a223b61c0b3c16d452c3
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Impossible
Pretty basic Window creation and message loop code, but its nice to see a
starting example in Go. For comparison here is a C version:
[https://github.com/LeZuse/minimal-
win32-a... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What's being done with the HTTP protocol to fix DDOS attacks? - joslin01
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feralmoan
DDOS has nothing to do with HTTP, its a network layer (routing protocols)
issue. Put another way, if frames are making it all the way to your stack and
up to a webserver in user space before a decision is made, you're ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Multi-Zone and Multi-Cloud Deployments in Kubernetes 1.3 - TheIronYuppie
http://blog.kubernetes.io/2016/07/cross-cluster-services.html
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TheIronYuppie
Customers that want to deploy on-prem and/or across multiple clouds (think a
Google Container Engine deployment + an AWS deployment) now can do so without
worrying... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Snapchat is raising another $55M, with a $2B valuation - louhong
http://venturebeat.com/2013/12/05/who-needs-facebook-snapchat-is-raising-another-55m-with-a-2b-valuation/
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Mankhool
Would someone more informed that I am about VC please explain why this is a
better move than taking $3B or $4B in cash?
------
00... | {
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The Breathtaking Magnitude of Our Technology - abi
http://blog.abi.sh/2010/the-breathtaking-magnitude-of-our-technology/
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ewams
People make fun of me all the time when I stop in the middle of what I (or we)
am doing and say, "Holy cow man, look at what we CAN do! Look at what we ARE
doing!" Dreams of 10 years ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Perkiness Check - c1sc0
http://fr.anc.is/2012/08/02/perkiness-check/
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c1sc0
I'm submitting our list of perks for our indiegogo crowdfunding campaign to
the infinite wisdom of HN. This is the first time I'm doing a crowdfunding
campaign & I have no clue if these perks are actually any good or not. People
with m... | {
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} |
Woods first athlete to earn $1 billion - alexitosrv
http://www.ohio.com/sports/63381677.html
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hughprime
I have nothing against golf as a game, and I've played it a few times myself,
but the idea that there's _this_ much money floating around just in sticking
logos on the shirts of guys who hit balls into holes... | {
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} |
We do not use C to build web apps - ElectronShak
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3079153/why-do-you-not-use-c-for-your-web-apps
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craftoman
Cause we have to kill every hacker existed on this planet first unless if
every web developer had a team of 100+ specialists for free. For example, from
a hacker perspect... | {
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} |
Comparing how security experts and non-experts stay safe online - devhxinc
http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2015/07/new-research-comparing-how-security.html
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modeless
_[Non-experts] mistakenly worry that software updates are a security risk._
I think this betrays a lack of thought about the risks to non... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Lack of regulation is the main reason for huge success of the web - emmanuelory
http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/comment/articles/2011-03/02/gq-comment-ed-vaizey-internet-neutrality-censorship-bt-virgin
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ramanujan
This is more true than most people realize. The web was inherently hard to
regulate from the beginning ... | {
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} |
'Child-friendly' search engine Kiddle is promoting ignorance, not safety - tomkwok
http://thenextweb.com/opinion/2016/03/01/child-friendly-search-engine-kiddle-is-promoting-ignorance-not-safety/
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paulddraper
> Well, it means your daughter won’t be able check if the cramps she has in
> her tummy might be her firs... | {
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} |
Social Music Startup Looking For Marketing Savvy Co-Founder - dglassan
Disrupt.fm offers musicians word of mouth music distribution through Facebook.<p>Musicians can leverage their fan base to help promote their brand by offering free music downloads in exchange for sharing the song on Facebook. I've seen some good ... | {
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} |
DARPA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR): Topics - phugoid
http://www.acq.osd.mil/osbp/sbir/solicitations/sbir093/darpa093.htm
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bravura
Don't forget to other funding agencies besides DARPA:
[http://www.acq.osd.mil/osbp/sbir/solicitations/sbir093/index...](http://www.acq.osd.mil/osbp/sbir/solicitations... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Beijing to Shut All Major Coal Power Plants to Cut Pollution - vincvinc
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-24/beijing-to-close-all-major-coal-power-plants-to-curb-pollution
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kcorbitt
I really wish that articles like this would give more context for all the
numbers that inevitably get thrown around.
... | {
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} |
What It’s Like to Describe Porn for a Blind Audience - DemiGuru
https://slate.com/culture/2020/02/pornhub-audio-description-interview-accessibility.html
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sgt
On a recent flight I decided to check what movies were available, and out of
curiosity I selected the "Audio Description" option for Avengers.
It basicall... | {
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} |
The Body Is Not a Computer–Stop Thinking of It as One - DiabloD3
http://gizmodo.com/the-body-is-not-a-computer-stop-thinking-of-it-as-one-1795067037
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conception
This article is terrible. Of course the body and brain are complicated. But
that doesn't mean they don't operate based on rules and systems and mechanic... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Year-End Report on Why Developers Love iOS - FluidDjango
http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/20/distimos-year-end-report-shows-why-developers-love-ios-iphone-4x-android-revenue-ipad-2x/
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saturdaysaint
Owning the high end has its advantages. I've long seen anyone with a
smartphone as an early adopter with a bit of disp... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
IKEA’s Best-Selling Product Is Not a Piece of Furniture - Gedxx
https://medium.com/better-marketing/ikeas-best-selling-product-is-not-a-piece-of-furniture-bc8c30fcd378
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ksaj
I can't tell: Are they referring to individual meatballs, the meatballs in one
plate at the restaurant, or one bag of meatballs from their ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Release Open Source HTML5 Games on the Windows Store - CoryG89
http://coryg89.github.io/experiences/2013/06/11/release-open-source-html5-games-on-the-windows-store
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duncan_bayne
Curious ... why would you write Free Software, then release it to a walled-
garden app store? If you're going to all that effort, why n... | {
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} |
Path of Exile's patch post mortem - antsam
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/659606
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thristian
It's worth noting that Path of Exile is a free-to-play game that had an un-
scheduled 45-minute outage, and the resulting post-mortem is written with more
detail and attention than I've seen in cases involv... | {
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} |
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