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Who’s Been Accessing Your Facebook Account? - knaox
http://marketaire.com/2011/02/01/whos-been-accessing-your-facebook-account/
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kalpeshjoshi
Is there a super secret feature which keeps ol Mark Zuckerberg from accessing
my info?!
But on the whole, good info to know about finding out other devices who may be
a... | {
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Beware of those who say they help entrepreneurs - abarrera
http://alwaysnewmistakes.wordpress.com/2010/12/13/beware-of-those-who-say-they-help-entrepreneurs/
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mixmax
This sounds eerily similar to the so-called startupscene in Denmark.
The events revolve around bankers, bureaucrats, lawyers and consultants try... | {
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Linux driver map: paste the output of lspci -n, get your hardware and appropriate drivers. - kaens
http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/
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ComputerGuru
Why does HN show the domain as (.kmuto.jp) with that leading dot?
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Is It Ethical to Own an iPhone? - minecraftman
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=is-it-ethical-to-own-an-iphone
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batista
Why not: is it ethical to use any product or pay any company that has
employees working more than the eight hour day, with possibly unpaid overtime
and only gives them < 4 weeks... | {
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Explaining React's license - y4m4b4
https://code.facebook.com/posts/112130496157735/explaining-react-s-license/
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kevinflo
I love love love love love react as a technology, but this is just awful. I
believe any developer not on Facebook's payroll still contributing to React or
React native at this point has a mor... | {
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How Our Marketing Team Spends Money Each Month - kawera
https://open.buffer.com/marketing-budget/
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capkutay
Most people are focussing on their advertising spend, but it looks like
they've built their marketing team for inside sales rather than growth.
$3k/month on advertising means they're getting spending abou... | {
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Dan Cohen Named Founding Director of the Digital Public Library of America - boonebgorges
http://dp.la/2013/03/05/dan-cohen-named-founding-executive-director-of-the-digital-public-library-of-america/
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japaget
I up-voted this article because I didn't know about the "Digital Public
Library of America". It has se... | {
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Nintendo says this amazing Super Mario site is illegal - cheeaun
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/10/17/nintendo-says-this-amazing-super-mario-site-is-illegal-heres-why-it-shouldnt-be/
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scrabble
_Creating a game like that from scratch is a lot of work, but it would be a
lot easier to do i... | {
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Ask YC: What is your take on web2py? - aitoehigie
i am new to web2py and i must confess that i have fallen in love with it. if you have used the framework before, what is your take on it?
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fredcy
I've been experimenting with web2py over the last week and I like it. Simple
web apps are easy to create with very li... | {
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Kicking My Caffeine Addiction - mathgenius
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/kicking-my-caffeine-addiction/?amp
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WheelsAtLarge
I totally agree with the idea of caffeine being more destructive than
beneficial to one's life. We think it's a mild addiction but it is not.
I didn't start until my 30's... | {
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Google Street View Images Reveal the Demographic Makeup of the U.S. - adsouza1
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603779/how-google-street-view-images-reveal-the-demographic-makeup-of-the-us/
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nl
Previous discussion:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13742449](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13742449)
... | {
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Backtesting Our 100% YoY Profit Generating Strategy - lettergram
https://austingwalters.com/backtesting-our-100-yoy-profit-generating-strategy/
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cimmanom
They backtested this only against a recent period with no major economic
downturns. Buyer beware.
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Global market share of Google Public DNS and OpenDNS - sajal83
http://www.cdnplanet.com/blog/google-dns-opendns-and-cdn-performance/
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nuttendorfer
I used to use Googles DNS but when I started to move away from Google products
for privacy reasons (I still use some, can't help it) this one was one of the
easier ... | {
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Show HN: Interactive Maps for IoT Search Engine Shodan - achillean
https://maps.shodan.io/#36.421282443649496/-99.228515625/5/green/apache
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Stately
Very cool. But you're using basemaps that require attribution[0], which you're
very conveniently covering with the Shodan Maps logo.
[0] -
[http://wiki.openstreetma... | {
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Climate Change Inst. Hacked - Email Leak - Climate Change a Possible Farce - keltecp11
http://news.aol.com/article/hacked-e-mails-heat-up-global-warming/778525?icid=main|main|dl1|link3|http%3A%2F%2Fnews.aol.com%2Farticle%2Fhacked-e-mails-heat-up-global-warming%2F778525
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jacquesm
Can we please stop posting the ... | {
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Buddy Beers: How they are becoming the world's mobile beer tap - robwoodbridge
http://untether.tv/ellb/sessions/new-mobile-business-models/buddy-beers-how-they-are-becoming-the-worlds-mobile-beer-tap-and-how-they-landed-carlsberg-as-their-first-client-with-founder-travis-todd//
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nerdben
What I've been waiting fo... | {
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Ask HN: Strategies for single source HTML5 mobile apps? - abhisec
Is it even possible? Most of the js toolkits like Jquery Mobile say they are cross platform and cross device ready, but none of them actually look and feel like a WEB app (They look awesome on desktop browsers but you probably need a little more on a ... | {
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Do it yourself first - rantfoil
http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1296-do-it-yourself-first
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SwellJoe
I've always done this...but sometimes to an extreme that is unhealthy (for
myself and my company). I come from a DIY family. My dad never hired anyone to
do anything: plumbing, car repair, electrical (he was ... | {
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Michael Nielsen on open science at TEDxWaterloo [video] - munderwood
http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/open-science-2/
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extension
Funny how it's become a novel idea to do science collaboratively on the web,
which was invented _by physicists_ at a _particle accelerator_ specifically
for that purpose.
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Want a new HackerNews? HackersUnit.com - karlclement
Hello everyone,<p>I would like to know if you would all want a new, upgraded version of HackerNews. I would like to create a realtime version of HackerNews with user classes and communication tools.<p>If you would like me to create this project, please feel free t... | {
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Google to court: Galaxy Nexus code is closed just like that of the iPhone - revorad
http://www.fosspatents.com/2012/04/google-to-court-galaxy-nexus-code-is.html
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ZeroGravitas
For someone with "FOSS" in the title of his blog, he seems strangely surprised
that you can release proprietary products based on open sou... | {
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Building a local, people-focused tech jobs site for PDX - sanzen
https://techjobspdx.com/about/
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sanzen
I've worked in tech for over 20 years. I'm tired of throwing resumes at global
job sites and hoping for the best.
So, I'm building something local for tech jobs in PDX, focused on helping
local companies and ... | {
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Differential Debugging - ctoth
http://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20130910/
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peter_l_downs
Although only mentioned in a single line in this article, `git bisect` is well
worth reading about by itself. I found the following tutorial to be extremely
helpful:
[https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-
bise... | {
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Diary of a Failed Startup: Aftermath - nostrademons
http://diffle-history.blogspot.com/2008/12/aftermath.html
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vlad
Regarding getting any type of programming job after doing it yourself for a
time, it's not very difficult to do.
I didn't have any difficulty getting a job at a billion dollar company after
doin... | {
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How Exercise Boosts Your Brain - jamesbritt
http://singularityhub.com/2010/08/05/exercise-boosts-your-brain-%e2%80%93-here%e2%80%99s-how/
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DavidSJ
_So the next time you sit down to watch television, or, um, surf the internet,
remember: your BMP count might be getting into dangerous territory._
Try to imagine ... | {
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Tesla: Don't use our Superchargers all the time - electic
http://www.autoblog.com/2015/08/19/tesla-superchargers-letter/
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sunstone
It's a good sign for Tesla that the charge stations are so popular. Sure it
might be a pain for now but if consumers like them so much the charge stations
could become a compelling... | {
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} |
Show HN: A static file server in x86 Assembly - Jeaye
https://github.com/jeaye/toybox/tree/master/httpd-asm#readme
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stevekemp
Nicely written though I think you could shave some bytes off it.
For example in your `error_failed_allocation` function you don't need to jump
to the `error_die` function - just fall-thr... | {
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Twitter, make your choice, acquire a media sharing service or launch your own - abraham
http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2010/12/28/image-upload-twitter-difficult/
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kmfrk
What she wants is Tumblr. And, from a developer perspective, look how they are
coping with downtime. (Horribly.)
I think Twitter already pisse... | {
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} |
React-Laravel: Use ReactJS with Laravel - talyssonoc
https://github.com/talyssonoc/react-laravel
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sbarre
Is there any data around the benefits of server-side rendering and client-side
mounting vs. client-side rendering & mounting?
Can the server-side render be cached in any way?
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talyssonoc
Yes, there is:... | {
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Android banking malware is on Google Play over month with over 10,000 installs - boni11
https://lukasstefanko.com/2018/10/android-banking-malware-found-on-google-play-with-over-10000-installs-targets-brazil.html
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ohazi
The Android ecosystem today is like Windows circa 1998-2002, even with the
Play store. It's no... | {
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} |
Book Review: The Book of Inkscape - abennett
http://www.itworld.com/software/86062/book-review-the-book-inkscape
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gengstrand
I like Inkscape. It is certainly not as fancy as Illustrator but it gets the
job done for making wireframes.
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Invidious: what YouTube should be - skrps
https://invidio.us/
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nafizh
Just looking at the first page, seems like a dedicated alt-right sight.
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How to avoid building a Frankenstein product - samgetty
https://dislack.com/blog/how-to-avoid-building-a-frankenstein-product/
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samgetty
Any tips you all have on building the right features for the right audience?
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A megathread on breaking away from Google - rinze
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/8l3vjy/can_we_get_a_megathread_on_breaking_away_from/
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ejrv
I've recently moved from Gmail to Fastmail (which also has a calendar), and to
MicroG + Yalp instead of Google Apps on my phone. Both have worked very well
for m... | {
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} |
How I almost killed Facebook - neilc
http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2009/02/how-i-almost-killed-facebook.html
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mixmax
_"Of course, at that time I thought that social networking sites were a
complete waste of time -- both for the users and those developing the sites --
so I earnestly tried to talk Mark out of squ... | {
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What Would Real Brain-To-Brain Communication Look Like? - DiabloD3
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2015/10/17/what-would-real-brain-to-brain-communication-look-like/
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plg
I use this form of brain-to-brain communication that involves using other
parts of my body to make sounds that I assume other p... | {
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PulseWallet lets you pay with your veins - vinceleo
http://pulsewallet.com/
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kseistrup
Veins don't have pulse, arteries do.
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Bitcoin Exposed Silicon Valley's Ultimate Aim: Making Money - petethomas
https://www.wired.com/story/bitcoin-exposed-silicon-valley-aim-making-money/
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jraedisch
The author states that he heard of Bitcoin at $17 and then goes on describing
Bitcoin as providing "oligarchic control" to early investors.
This means ... | {
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Javascript Arrays and Functional Programming - zabana
http://zabanaa.github.io/notes/functional-programming-and-javascript-arrays.html
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seanwilson
I accept that this is a widely used phrase now but I never understood why just
using map/filter/reduce and avoiding state is enough for code to be called
"functional ... | {
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Java Advent Calendar - code-dog
http://nerds-central.blogspot.com/2012/12/java-advent-calendar.html
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code-dog
Good point - what is clojure actually for?
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APFS and HFS+ Benchmarks on High Sierra - robk
https://hk.saowen.com/a/e9c3e3a82f4000f86663ba10526d1a3d5e6e68face971ebd61a3f3f2244730fb
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cerberusss
Interesting read, but written in July last year, so things might be different
now.
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Lost Generation: The Relay Computers - cfmcdonald
https://technicshistory.wordpress.com/2017/05/10/lost-generation-the-relay-computers/
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pavlov
My favorite "lost" type of computer is the balanced ternary machines. These
were actually built in the Soviet Union in the 1960s:
[https://dev.to/buntine/the-balanced-t... | {
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The picture that makes you feel as if you're on Mars - amerf1
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2301619/Amazing-FOUR-BILLION-PIXEL-interactive-panorama-gives-360-degree-view-Mars-standing-Curiosity-rover.html
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anigbrowl
Not only does it provide impressive Martian panoramas, this is also a good way... | {
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} |
This Is Why Apple Won’t Be Fine If Steve Doesn’t Return - kanebennett
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/01/this-is-why-apple-wont-be-fine-if-steve-doesnt-return/
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kanebennett
I generally don't like Gizmodo's articles (generally being sensationalist
rubbish) but I found this article very interesting.
| {
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TLDRead – Sparknotes for Research Papers - tayvz
https://www.tldread.org
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tayvz
Hey All, I built a program that takes research articles and uses Machine
Learning to automatically summarize papers and mount them as a dashboard to
get a quick overview. If you enjoy it please show some love on product hunt:
www.pro... | {
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} |
Professional Software Engineer Exam coming in April 2013 - stephen
http://ncees.org/About_NCEES/News/News_Pages/New_PE_Software_exam.php
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spamizbad
Looks like "How to do Waterfall" (62.5% of the test) with additional coverage
of Security (15%), QA (7.5%), and Engineering process (7.5%), and
Configuration Mainten... | {
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Iceland-Bound Jet for Edward Snowden 'Could Take Off Tomorrow' - stfu
http://www.usnews.com/news/newsgram/articles/2013/06/21/iceland-bound-jet-for-edward-snowden-could-take-off-tomorrow
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crazygringo
I'm assuming that the chartered yet ($240,000, yikes!) is necessary because
there are no direct flights between... | {
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} |
Duck Duck Go's traffic has tripled in 2012 - reitzensteinm
http://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html?
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zmmmmm
I've switched to ddg for my basic searches. Hard searches still go through
Google but the truth is, most of my searches these days are because I can't be
bothered bookmarking stuff, not because they are diffi... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Snortable Chocolate Arrives in U.S. Stores - notscj
https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2017-06-16/snortable-chocolate-arrives-in-us-stores
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lwlml
First thing I thought of when I read this was of the two people who thought it
would be fun to play with cocoa powder. They died.
[http://1000waystodie.wikia.com/wi... | {
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Failed $4.4 billion bid for Nortel patents comes back to haunt Google&Friends - pietrofmaggi
http://www.fosspatents.com/2013/11/failed-44-billion-bid-for-nortel.html
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tehabe
Florian Müller is not an independent voice. He was/is a consultant for
Microsoft and Oracle. Also he was wrong in his predictions when Or... | {
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} |
Show HN: I built this simple Trello clone today and launched it before lunch - aculver
https://bt-cardboard.herokuapp.com
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kinduff
Looks nice but it's more a kanban board rather than a Trello clone. I don't
doubt you're that skilled to build something like this "before lunch", but in
my experience it is highly u... | {
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} |
A website for human-centered news using location verification - aellaboudy
http://peoples-word.com
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aellaboudy
The People’s Word is a project dedicated to bringing more human-centered news
to the people. This means publishing news that is produced from the actual
places where it’s happening, by the people affect... | {
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} |
We're in an icon-sharpness limbo - tbassetto
http://simurai.com/post/19895985870/icon-sharpness-limbo
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WiseWeasel
I think the answer is SVG for anything we've got vectorized, and I've started
delving more deeply into the format, which turns out to be pretty awesome.
First, to create them, I draw icons with vect... | {
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} |
Designer/Programmer Harmony: Not Just a Myth - omgsean
http://factore.ca/on-the-floor/22-designer-programmer-harmony-not-just-a-myth
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whiskeyjack
This is a difficult dynamic to manage and depends really heavily on the
designer and programmer involved, how good they actually are and how much they
credit the oth... | {
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Amazing Career Advice For College Grads From LinkedIn's Billionaire Founder - rahulroy
http://www.businessinsider.com/amazing-career-advice-for-college-grads-from-linkedins-billionaire-founder-2013-5?op=1
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pcrh
Fairly standard stuff. However, here is one piece of advice for Hoffman: do
not use one hundred and ... | {
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Drone Flies Over NSA Complex in Germany, Dropping Leaflets - cryoshon
https://theintercept.com/2015/10/05/drone-flies-over-nsa-complex-in-germany-dropping-pamphlets/
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dogma1138
While it's a nifty gesture it's also one of the easiest ways of getting drones
banned (especially considering that according to openAIP ... | {
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Tech firms shell out to hire and hoard talent - prostoalex
http://www.economist.com/news/business/21709574-tech-firms-battle-hire-and-hoard-talented-employees-huge-pay-packages-silicon-valley
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xenadu02
Translation: hey all you other crabs, LOOK! One of you is making it out of the
bucket! Pull them back!
Am I th... | {
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Defensibility as an touchstone for development decisions « Hints and Kinks - mceachen
http://matthew.mceachen.us/blog/defensibility-as-an-touchstone-for-development-decisions-786.html
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bediger
I have to question the _universal_ truth of "there's more than one way to do
it". That saying bears truth for algorithmi... | {
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Capt. “Sully” Sullenberger Slams Boeing for Inadequate Pilot Training - jgwil2
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/capt-sully-sullenberger-slams-boeing-093246566.html
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PowerfulWizard
The thing that still bothers me about the 737 MAX information I've seen, in
particular from the NYT article that was discussed here:
[h... | {
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} |
MTU Study: 3D printers may soon be in every home - makos
http://www.3ders.org/articles/20130730-mtu-study-3d-printers-may-soon-be-in-every-home.html
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anigbrowl
_In the study, Pearce and his team chose 20 common household items listed on
Thingiverse, such as cellphone accessories, a garlic press, a showerhead, a
... | {
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Audience Interaction System running on iPod - demetree
http://demetree.yourqforme.com
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demetree
Go ahead and try it. Ask a question.
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MacBook Pro 2012: 15″ Retina Display, USB 3.0 and ultra-thin - PaulMcCartney
http://www.slashgear.com/macbook-pro-2012-15-retina-display-usb-3-0-and-ultra-thin-14228062/
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bigs324
It will be interesting to see if they found a way to deal with the reported
heat issues related to ivy-bridge. Supposedly it was rel... | {
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} |
McDonald's is to replace human servers with voice gen in its US drive-throughs - johanam
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49664633
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hirundo
Next they'll come for the cooks:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKCVol2iWcc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKCVol2iWcc)
There are ~487k fast food cooks employed at ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
JavaScript Charting in Angular 2 - derekfletes
https://blog.zingchart.com/2016/07/19/zingchart-and-angular-2-back-at-it-again/
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derekfletes
If you are interested in Angular, you might also be interested in getting
started with charting in Angular.
As the description says, this tutorial will get you started in m... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Startup Myth - inglorian
http://www.sixmonthmba.com/2009/03/the-startup-myth.html
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blackguardx
I thought it was a great article.
The author is basically telling people not to create bubble startups. If you
want to create a business, create one that has value. Don't just create a
startup for some romantici... | {
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} |
Bob Dylan Has a Lot on His Mind - artur_makly
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/arts/music/bob-dylan-rough-and-rowdy-ways.html
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bredren
Speaking of being lost you might enjoy this story from 2009 where people
called the cops on Bob Dylan for being "an 'eccentric-looking old man' in
their yard," and the officer ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Draggabilly - JS library to make elements draggable - areski
http://draggabilly.desandro.com/
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duopixel
This is great, it even provides hardware acceleration for browsers that
support CSS 3D transformations (which is important on mobile devices), all
without the overhead of jQuery UI.
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joeyespo
This is ... | {
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RAISR Sharp Images with Machine Learning - wsxiaoys
https://research.googleblog.com/2016/11/enhance-raisr-sharp-images-with-machine.html
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romaniv
I would not compare a fancy NN algorithm to Bicubic interpolation, even as an
example. Bicubic sucks. If someone really wants to get a decent high-res
upscale of an im... | {
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} |
The Anatomy Of Search Technology: Crawling Using Combinators - pathdependent
http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/5/28/the-anatomy-of-search-technology-crawling-using-combinators.html
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walrus
Ok, I'll bite. From the article:
Now let's see how combinators (which we discussed in the previous blo... | {
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Why You Won't Quit Your Job - georgecmu
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/01/why_you_wont_quit_your_job.html
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cafard
I have been conditioned to discount "blog posts by and about the new
generation of purpose-driven leaders." (And shouldn't purpose pull rather than
drive one?)
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gregjor
Good example of the term ... | {
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Ask HN: How do you keep your coffee fresh? - a_lifters_life
For those who buy a full bag of unground or ground coffee?
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eco
I don't go through my coffee quickly but I buy a 3 lb bag at Costco so I
divide it into 1 lb portions, vacuum seal them, and keep them in the freezer.
I've never found it tasted stale while... | {
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} |
Japan’s sexual apathy is endangering the global economy - networked
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/10/22/japans-sexual-apathy-is-endangering-the-global-economy/
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greggyb
A simple (though far from easy, and likely complex in political reality)
solution to this sort of problem is to import ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What are the best audiobooks you have ever listened to? - rblion
I'm interested in science, technology, engineering, art, math, music, history, biographies.<p>I am open to good works of fiction (particularly historical and science) too.<p>I have one Audible credit left and I plan to cancel after that. I h... | {
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Create on-line portfolio from Dropbox files - wojk
http://www.triangly.com
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wojk
Triangly will use Dropbox API to build on-line portfolio from graphic files
located on your Dropbox/Applications/Triangly folder. Each user will have
custom domain (e.g. joe.triangly.com) with a few customisation options, like
mai... | {
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} |
Polyaxon – An open source platform for reproducible machine learning at scale - jonbaer
https://polyaxon.com/
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aflam
It's great to see this sort of tool open-sourced. I am excited by new tools
enabling better algo/ML engineering workflows.
In addition to the infra management, it's quickly tricky to support
qa/v... | {
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} |
Do I need to pay for Java now? - nfrankel
https://dev.karakun.com/java/2018/06/25/java-releases.html
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fcurts
The conclusions that the article draws in "What does the new release train
mean to my company?" are completely wrong.
Starting with Java 11, Oracle JDK is no longer free for commercial use, not
even for ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How we might abolish Cabal Hell, part 1 - tux1968
http://www.well-typed.com/blog/2014/09/how-we-might-abolish-cabal-hell-part-1/
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jordigh
Why do we keep running into this problem over and over again? Why do we need
one package manager per programming language? Why is software distribution so
damn hard?
~~~
makm... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Serving Customers in New Ways: Walmart Begins Testing Associate Delivery - Nelkins
http://blog.walmart.com/innovation/20170601/serving-customers-in-new-ways-walmart-begins-testing-associate-delivery
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Nelkins
Fun fact: the mobile app for associate delivery was written in F# using
Xamarin.
Source: I work at Jet, ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Rising Anxiety Among American Whites - 11thEarlOfMar
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/04/race-rising-anxiety-white-america/
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ralusek
Identity politics beget identity politics, and it's _always_ bad, period. The
amount of comments in this thread alone talking about what "white people" are
and aren... | {
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} |
RedHack leaks reveal the rise of Turkey's pro-government Twitter trolls - mynameislegion
http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/redhack-turkey-albayrak-censorship/
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JumpCrisscross
> _Simultaneously, Albayrak’s wife, Esra, who is a Ph.D. graduate from the
> University of California, Berkeley, arranged a social media moni... | {
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} |
Ubuntu Linux: Donationware? - CrankyBear
http://www.zdnet.com/ubuntu-linux-donationware-7000005497/
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s_henry_paulson
This solidifies the idea for me that Canonical is completely clueless.
Asking for donations AND bundling Amazon shopping ads? That's over the line
IMHO.
Yes, you can disable the Amazon stuff, ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Massive genetic study shows how humans are evolving - gwern
https://www.nature.com/news/massive-genetic-study-shows-how-humans-are-evolving-1.22565
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Will_Parker
Now that we have access to the entire genome directly, instead of relying on
twin and adoption studies, we are going to get many more of these insights.... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
US Apple iPad to be released in April - computinggeek
http://thecomputinggeek.com/us-apple-ipad-to-be-released-in-april/
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ktf
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1169343>
Or:
<http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/03/05ipad.html>
| {
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Ask HN: How do you handle Excel import/exports in your apps - NOtherDev
Hi folks!<p>I'm implementing Excel-related functionality for at least 4th project in my career. As usual, an ability to save the data set into an XLSX file in a custom format and the way to ingest the data back, using the same data format, or... | {
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How to fix knockout/playoff tournament format - awa
http://letuscode.blogspot.com/2009/09/why-every-other-playoff-system-sucks.html
A nice hack for fixing the knockout tournament format.
The discussion on soccer (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=850202) reminded me of this piece I wanted to write about for a long ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Spotify plans to join the hardware race, but what can it offer? - adrian_mrd
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/spotify-is-building-a-hardware-product-and-it-could-be-a-smart-speaker/
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adrian_mrd
Really hope this is something unique and interesting - rather than just a
copycat smart speaker, for instance.
... | {
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} |
How Big Banks Thread the Software Performance Needle - osullivj
http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/02/02/threading-the-performance-needling-with-automated-pinning/
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Chyzwar
Self advertising on crappy tech. Running everything on one box is like moving
back to mainframe era.
Thread pinning described in article is B... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Would you risk $31,000 for milliseconds of application response time? - lmacvittie
http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/macvittie/archive/2009/03/30/would-you-risk-31000-for-milliseconds-of-application-response-time.aspx
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sho
Your thesis is at odds with the experiences of others. For example, Marissa
Mayer from G... | {
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} |
Intel Gives Moore’s Law a Makeover - jonbaer
https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/05/13/intel-gives-moores-law-a-makeover/
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Fjolsvith
Must be rewriting it to address performance hits from Meltdown and Spectre.
| {
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} |
A collection of open AWS security solutions - hackeralmond
https://asecure.cloud/solutions/
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hackeralmond
I wanted to have an easily searchable collection for security solutions posted
by AWS and the community, and something that could be updated on an ongoing
basis.
I would love to get some feedback or suggest... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Tell HN: How to ban url shorteners from linking to your site - pj
This is just an idea I'm going to throw out there. It seems a bit odd to suggest it because any link is a good link, right? Maybe not.<p>Anyway, something like this in a bit of javascript would prevent people from linking to your site using a url sh... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Every Ubuntu Karmic user will have an address book stored in CouchDB - paulcarey
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/200910.mbox/%3c4AD53996.3090104@canonical.com%3e
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felixc
Though the comments here so far seem positive, there has also been a lot of
negative backlash, primarily out of privacy ... | {
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} |
Hacker known as “fxmsp,” charged with fraud hacking 40 different countries - vuln
https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/citizen-kazakhstan-known-fxmsp-charged-computer-fraud-wire-fraud-and-conspiracy-hacking
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rurban
He is known under his real name Turchin, not his handle fxmsp.
| {
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Windows HAL Functions (Hal.dll) - peter_d_sherman
https://www.geoffchappell.com/studies/windows/km/hal/api/index.htm?tx=155;13
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peter_d_sherman
Even though Windows is not open source, from a pure OS design perspective, I
like the idea that OS functions which touch hardware directly -- are placed
into their own l... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
On End-To-End Program Generation from User Intention by Deep Neural Networks - apsec112
http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.07211
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teraflop
RNN's are pretty cool, and I don't want to be a downer, but we need to keep
the hype under control. Ever since Karpathy's excellent article[1] and sample
code made the rounds, it seem... | {
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} |
When everybody’s reading, but nobody’s smarter, what value has the word? - pmcpinto
http://www.themorningnews.org/article/binge-reading-disorder
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macromaniac
I think it would be cool if, when scrolling through an article, the word size
changes based on how far along the article you are.
For instance, at the top... | {
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} |
Negative Carbon Emissions - biofox
https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2019/03/02/negative-carbon-emissions/
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hannob
This starts to sound right and at the end takes the completely wrong turn when
he says: "I especially like the idea of CO2 scrubbing for coal-fired power
plants."
I actually believe this is the ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Internship/Apprenticeship in Buenos Aires - gluque
I'm an Electronics Engineering student. I'm moving to Argentina to finish my degree and would really appreciate any [info | hints | tips] to find a job or internship there.
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tomascot
Do you know spanish?
Search for satellogic, they build satel... | {
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} |
Facebook open-sources a speech-recognition system and a machine learning library - runesoerensen
https://code.fb.com/ai-research/wav2letter/
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mark_l_watson
Very nice. In my work, as much as I love working with RNNs, convolutional
models are faster to train and use. Years ago, FB blew away text modeling
speed wit... | {
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} |
Scientists have figured out exactly how much fun it is to get drunk - falcor84
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/05/24/scientists-have-figured-out-exactly-how-much-fun-it-is-to-get-drunk/
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falcor84
TL;DR: UK researchers studying the data coming from the Mappiness mood
tracking app found a 10.79 we... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
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