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Three Strikes of Injustice - kenshiro_o
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/09/opinion/three-strikes-of-injustice.html?_r=0
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stephengillie
It's very sad that these _convicted criminials_ could have committed much more
hurtful crimes for their _3rd offense_ and received the same penalty: life in
prison.
I don't fee... | {
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Windows NT 3.50 Build 782 (RC2) source code leaked - ASVVVAD
https://boards.4channel.org/vp/thread/43555197#p43583389
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ASVVVAD
An article about it:
[https://securitronlinux.com/bejiitaswrath/nt-3-50-build-782-...](https://securitronlinux.com/bejiitaswrath/nt-3-50-build-782-rc2-source-
code-has-been-leaked/) Vide... | {
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PagerDuty makes their security training public - vuln
https://sudo.pagerduty.com/
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Bucephalus355
In a few years, employers are going to start screening for and rejecting /
hiring employees based on how secure they think they are in their personal
lives.
A user who is compromised in their personal/computer life ... | {
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Five surprising salaries (Astronomers 96K/year) - willz
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/worklife/04/09/cb.surprising.salaries/index.html
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noodle
iirc, we already had this on the front page, but i'm adding my $0.02 to it:
i read this article, and then heard this
(<http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sche... | {
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Shipping Startup Shyp Raises $10M, Plans Expansion to New York City - dkasper
http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/16/shyp-10m-sherpaventures/
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akurilin
Really convenient product, excellent customer experience. Shipped half an
apartment through these guys, would have taken me forever without their crew
taking care of... | {
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} |
S&P 500 to exclude Snap after voting rights debate - gabbo
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/01/sp-500-to-exclude-snap-after-voting-rights-debate.html
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hendzen
This is huge. There are a huge amount of capital inflows from indexers from
being part of the SP500. This will be a strong disencentive to future IPO
candidat... | {
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} |
Apple is suing its former lead chip designer - mywittyname
https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-suing-ex-employee-after-he-quit-tech-giant-2019-12
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ReptileMan
Weren't non competes unenforceable in California?
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Big Breach Of Patient Data In California - joellarsson
http://www.businessinsider.com/patient-data-breach-in-california-2014-3
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Zenst
One key aspect of this is that the data was not stolen thru hacking or other
networking evilness, but was physicaly stolen.
Another aspect of note is that the data appears to n... | {
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Picocli v4.1.0 - remkop2
https://github.com/remkop/picocli/releases/tag/v4.1.0
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remkop2
this release includes a built-in `generate-completion` subcommand that end
users can use to easily install Bash/ZSH completion for your application
| {
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Maily Herald – Rails open source self-hosted Mailchimp alternative - tortilla
http://mailyherald.org/
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solidgumby
Ever had to deal with email deliverability issues? This alone is a very good
reason to go with a hosted service. The self-hosted software looks good but
I'd never touch that with a stick. There might... | {
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PolarSSL Remote Code Execution and a Denial of Service - draugadrotten
https://www.certifiedsecure.com/polarssl-advisory/
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feld
In the case of OpenVPN -- can anyone confirm if this is mitigated simply by
requiring a ta key? I believe it would, as the server won't move to the next
step and process certificates/... | {
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Restricting User Access by Country using an IP Geolocation API - kevinjyc
https://smartip.io
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kevinjyc
Using an IP geolocation API like [https://smartip.io](https://smartip.io) can
help on restricting access to your website to users connecting from specific
countries.
| {
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Show HN: Find the fastest route via a place - FriedPickles
http://road.li
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rwhitman
This is brilliant. Just such a useful idea. But I would say that this should
have been 'mobile first', and would strongly suggest expending effort on
mobile experience. This is large and by far something I'd be more likely to
use... | {
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Group buying: Fad or future Facebook? - anya
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/01/06/group.buying.2011.prospects/index.html
Group buying websites enjoyed massive growth in 2010 grabbing new customers and the headlines as the sector's biggest player, Groupon turned down a reported $6 billion offer from Google in e... | {
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How much money to set aside for legal work/fees? - chwolfe
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zaidf
It cost us about $500 to incorporate/get a PO box. I figure another few
hundred - on the cheap side - if we paid to get our TOS and/or Privacy Policy
written by a lawyer.
~~~
chwolfe
Thanks... Did you go the LLC route?
~~~
zaidf
We went with an... | {
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Peer-to-peer markets [pdf] - deweerdt
http://papers.nber.org/tmp/95308-w21496.pdf
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deweerdt
> Internet marketplaces also have managed to deal fairly successfully with the
> incentive problems that arise in long-distance and semi-anonymous trade, and
> in doing so have enabled the entry and participation of sma... | {
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The most beautiful equation - ldayley
http://www.quora.com/Mathematics/What-is-the-most-beautiful-equation
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RiderOfGiraffes
Dup: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2193377>
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The Story of Oculus Rift - jonbaer
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/09/oculus-rift-mark-zuckerberg-cover-story-palmer-lucky
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staunch
> _Before I met them, I’d assumed that Zuckerberg and Luckey would have much
> in common. They’re both hackers who started valuable companies before they
> turned 20, but the si... | {
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Boeing Crashes Highlight the High Costs of Cheap Government - molecule
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/03/boeing-737-max-crashes-highlight-the-high-costs-of-cheap-government.html
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kazinator
Throwing money at government just to make it expensive won't fix this kind of
problem.
What if a bigger, fatter, bette... | {
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“My position as Product Manager of Automation Technologies was eliminated” - binaryapparatus
https://macosxautomation.com/about.html
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binaryapparatus
Q. I hear you no longer work for Apple; is that true?
A. Correct. I joined Apple in January of 1997, almost twenty years ago,
because of my profound belief that “... | {
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What are your top 5 most frequently used apps on your phone? - avni000
I came across an interesting article about how to better understand how much users are using your app (http://recode.net/2015/01/13/theres-an-app-for-that-but-how-much-are-you-actually-using-it/) but wanted to s... | {
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The best things and stuff of 2013 - platz
http://blog.fogus.me/2013/12/27/the-best-things-and-stuff-of-2013/
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shahzad_76
For the politically inclined - the GQ interview with Kim Jong-Il's sushi chef
is brilliant (and will probably become a movie someday because the arc is so
crazy).
Excerpt: "The chef's name, a... | {
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5G: The Next Big Public Health Experiment - rhollos
https://anh-usa.org/5g-the-next-big-public-health-experiment/
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Crosseye_Jack
The comment section of that page and the page itself seems like just general
FUD.
| {
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Uploading files which method you prefer? - jamongkad
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jamongkad
Hi guys I've been wondering where would be the best place to upload files such
as photos, music, videos and etc? into the file system? or database?
This pretty much answers my question but what do the wizards here in YC think?
<http://www.sitepoin... | {
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Please stand with me [What happens when you critisize the Ukraine government] - tete
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1slk265
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anonbanker
been in more than one argument on HN about this one, taking this person's
side, and am usually downvoted to oblivion. no surprise this is buried on HN.
| {
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'Don't Panic' Is Rotten Advice - bookofjoe
https://www.wsj.com/articles/dont-panic-is-rotten-advice-11584054431
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bookofjoe
[https://archive.is/xZmaU](https://archive.is/xZmaU)
| {
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US lifts restrictions on more detailed satellite images - darrhiggs
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27868703
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guylhem
I don't like this. What is the business of a government in regulating the
resolution of whatever form of imagery???
If it can be seen from the sky, or from the street, it's public. Planes,
... | {
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} |
Clearwire Launches 4G WiMAX Network in Silicon Valley - johnnybgoode
http://newsroom.clearwire.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=214419&p=irol-newsArticle_print&ID=1331811&highlight=
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laut
"Developers can expect to see peak download speeds of up to 10 Mbps, with
average download speeds of 3 to 6 Mbps. In contrast, some of t... | {
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nnn v1.2 – The missing terminal file browser for X - apjana
https://github.com/jarun/nnn/releases/tag/v1.2
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apjana
## What's in?
\- Use the desktop opener (xdg-open on Linux, open(1) on OS X) to open files
\- Option `NNN_USE_EDITOR` to open text files in EDITOR (fallback vi)
\- Bookmark support (maximum 10, k... | {
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The United States slaughters 1M pigs every 3 days - arbuge
https://publicemails.com/blog/display/1043/The-United-States-slaughters-1-million-pigs-every-3-days
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jelliclesfarm
I am more concerned about the pollution and environmental impact this kind of
factory farming and CAFOs are responsible for...
| {
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Photocracy.org = Revolutionizing photo-sorting? - joshwprinceton
Hi everyone,
For my Senior Thesis, I'm working on implementing pair-wise comparisons for sorting photos, in particular for national perception and cross-cultural identity (I'm an East Asian Studies Major). As of now, there are limited implementations o... | {
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On Liberating My Smartwatch from Cloud Services - zdw
https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5863
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Shared404
> The point of open source is not to ritualistically compile our stuff from
> source. It’s the awareness that technology is not magic: that there is a
> trail of breadcrumbs any of us could follow to liber... | {
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How to get rich in America: A dozen entrepreneurs, a dozen success stories - staunch
http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/moneymag/0706/gallery.success_stories.moneymag/index.html
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brlewis
The second guy lives in my town, is about my age, prepped while on payroll as
I'm doing, and entered an established market as... | {
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} |
Show HN: CheckUp – Social network suicide prevention in Go - rkirkendall
http://www.CheckUpApp.org
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phfez
I can understand why you think this might be a good idea. But it completely
doesn't take the depressed person into account at all. It thinks it can solve
suicide by checking up on the individual? Do you thin... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Corn biofuels worse than gasoline on global warming in short term - 001sky
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/20/corn-biofuels-gasoline-global-warming
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001sky
There seem to be limits on both sides of this debate.
What is 'news' here is not that one-side or the other has 'won'.
| {
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Mint.com turns 404 ad page into date ad for developer - punkrobby
https://www.mint.com/accounting
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chimeracoder
I love it when companies add a little personal touch to their 404 pages
(though they're taking 'personal' to a whole new level here!)
I saw an incredibly great collection of creative 404 pages a few m... | {
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} |
Need Some Feedback on the Python Job Positions Aggregator - vmesel
http://www.pyjobs.xyz/#refer
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txsh
Menu bar overlaps heading on mobile. iPhone 6, chrome.
~~~
vmesel
Thanks for reporting, bro! Gonna change it xD
| {
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Stockfish – open source chess engine - uriva
https://stockfishchess.org/
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ganeshkrishnan
I use this as my primary chess engine. Most top chess engines are better than
any human grandmaster. However none of them use deep learning like Google did
with go and I am trying to setup tensor flow with stockfish so that ... | {
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} |
Bill Gates: Chinese censorship is "very limited" - ilamont
http://blogs.computerworld.com/15466/bill_gates_chinese_censorship_is_very_limited
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nailer
I quite like a lot of Microsoft's older products, and I think the Bill &
Melinda Gates foundation does great work with his (and others' contributed)
money. But e... | {
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What Microsoft gets for $2 billion - loboman
http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2010/what-microsoft-gets-for-2-billion/
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cletus
Isn't it simple? Microsoft is sinking a huge pile of money into improve Bing,
getting market share and making acquisitions (altough I guess these wouldn't
be expensed directly against inco... | {
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} |
Germany to meet EU guidelines to ban single-use plastics by 2021 - yboris
https://mymodernmet.com/germany-single-use-plastic-ban/
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air7
From my reading of the data, I feel that banning plastic bags (for example)
would do more harm than good (in 1st world countries). The alternatives
require more reuse than actua... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Grafana v6.2 - el_duderino
https://grafana.com/blog/2019/05/22/grafana-v6.2-released/
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mikepurvis
Tried Grafana briefly a year or two ago, and I wanted to like it, but similar
to Kibana, it's laser-focused on the task of realtime monitoring current data.
I wanted to use it for a high-level view of historical stu... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Google/Alphabet partners with GSK to develop nerve implants - ucaetano
http://www.dw.com/en/google-parent-alphabet-makes-foray-into-futuristic-biotech/a-19441725
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danielmorozoff
It's interesting to see where google sees this will go, given BMI tech is in
its infancy. Has anyone else heard more about this?
| {
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SwiftUI and Catalyst: Apple executes its invisible transition strategy - colinprince
https://www.macworld.com/article/3402057/swiftui-and-catalyst-apple-executes-its-invisible-transition-strategy.html
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thought_alarm
There is a disconnect between what Apple's engineers say vs. what the Apple
pundits at large thin... | {
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What's the history behind 192.168.1.1? - vinnyglennon
https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-history-behind-192-168-1-1-Why-not-192-169-1-1-or-any-other-IP-address-When-did-it-start-being-used-Who-started-it-Why-Why-not-1-1-1-1-What-is-the-relation-to-127-0-0-1-What-about-10-0-0-1-Apple?share=1
======
insickness
This explain... | {
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Wedding Startup RegistryLove (YC S12) Lets Couples Register For Anything - Jerpo
http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/16/yc-backed-wedding-startup-registrylove-lets-couples-register-for-anything/
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creativename
From their "Tour" page:
_The fun part! Browse and shop our gorgeous gift catalogue filled with
inspiration... | {
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Google Wave Patent License (what does this mean?) - paulgb
http://www.waveprotocol.org/patent-license
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tlrobinson
Google promises not to sue you (or rather gives you a license so they can't
sue you) for violating any of their patents while implementing the Wave
Protocol. Unless you sue them.
Pretty standard f... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
My Favorite Pieces of Syntax in 8 Different Programming Languages - yakkomajuri
https://medium.com/@yakko.majuri/my-favorite-pieces-of-syntax-in-8-different-programming-languages-ba37b64fc232
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perfunctory
def even_numbers(limit):
return [num for num in range(0, limit, 2)]
It’s unfortunate th... | {
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Shunting-yard Algorithm - wooby
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunting-yard_algorithm
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BigZaphod
Yeah, it's a neat algorithm. I think we implemented it in college. I'm not
sure why it was posted here, though. Is there a greater context to this that
I'm missing?
~~~
memetichazard
Possibly related to this story ... | {
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Karl Rove's book vs. Rework - what the American People need to know - henning
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2209-karl-roves-book-vs-rework-what-the-american-people-need-to-know
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mixmax
This is genius. 37signals is already a strong brand, but only in a relatively
narrow niche. This is an excellent way of mark... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Please review my crazy idea. - thetrumanshow
So I took one of jacquesm's ideas from his list:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1790564<p>... as I told him I would do:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1791494<p>... and build a gadget around the (5) AdProfs idea:
http://fcgadgets.blogspot.com/2010/10/ad-... | {
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US Patent system so dysfunctional you can patent a stick from a tree - lotusleaf1987
http://www.google.com/patents?id=hhYJAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false
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ck2
We need to sponsor that image as a billboard in Washington D.C. to get the
mainstream news to cover it and then maybe Congress to lo... | {
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Making QUIC Quicker with NIC Offload - ederlf
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3405796.3405827
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secondcoming
> We find that the kernel to userspace communication, ... often the cause of
> application performance degradation
Assuming they're talking about Linux here, I wonder if they used io_uring.
~~~
mustst... | {
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Fast AMF0 library written in pure TypeScript - Zaseth
https://github.com/Zaseth/AMF0-TS
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tonetheman
If only somewhere on the page it explained WTF amf0 is ...
~~~
dragonwriter
My guess is that the people a fast amf0 library is trying to reach know what
amf0 is.
For the rest of us, there's always
[https://en.m.... | {
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How did Europe become the richest part of the world? - pepys
https://aeon.co/essays/how-did-europe-become-the-richest-part-of-the-world
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ttsubotai
The article overlooks a very important factor, that only Europe had colonies
in the Americas, and that brought massive wealth to the continent since the
XVI century. ... | {
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} |
Show HN: Affordable counseling by future psychologists for people in tech - selimjeffrey
http://www.talk-buddies.com
======
selimjeffrey
Hi everybody,
I noticed there where so many people in my environment who suffered from
psychological problems like a burn-out or feeling down but couldn't find the
right help. Cause... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Can we build Ironman's Jarvis with 2019 tech? - hsikka
I was rewatching movies in preparation for the new Marvel movie, and I felt some nostalgia and childhood fascination when I saw the depiction of Jarvis in the Ironman movies.<p>I work in ML research and am currently in graduate school, and I know we'r... | {
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Catalonia Declares Independence as Spain Gets Power to Hit Back - merqurio
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-27/spanish-senate-gives-rajoy-the-power-to-oust-catalan-government-j99z8pj1
======
ColinWright
Discussion:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15568078](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1556... | {
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Show HN: Games from a jam with a 1 BTC prize - jajoosam
https://gamejam2019.repl.co
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jajoosam
This is a gallery featuring the winners, along with all other entries in the
repl.it game jam, where the winner won a Bitcoin.
There are some really amazing games in thee, many built by high school
students using repl.... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Binary tree traversal in Python with generators - pkrumins
http://thatmattbone.com/2009/09/binary-tree-traversal-in-python-with-generators/
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pkrumins
This is a test. I had my previous two submissions go [dead]. No idea why. So I
test one more time with a random URL.
| {
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Show HN: Chime - A Notification Center for the Web - trq_
http://www.chimeapp.com/
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Yzupnick
This looks great, congratulations.
1) Do you have any plans to allow arbitrary RSS as notifications, or
integrating with ITTT? This could allow people to create notifications for
services that you don't support.
2) Whi... | {
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} |
The reason riding a unicycle is difficult - mariorz
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/07/the-reason-riding-a-unicycle-is-difficult.html
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RiderOfGiraffes
That's only true if you learn unicycling purely by trying it until you get it.
I've taught dozens of people how to unicycle, all of whom felt they we... | {
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} |
Amazon becomes fastest-growing music streaming service - artsandsci
https://www.ft.com/content/60633178-a282-11e9-974c-ad1c6ab5efd1
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UMBReate
Can I read this without a subscription?
| {
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Forget silicon – SQL on DNA is the next frontier for databases - LopRabbit
https://www.zdnet.com/article/forget-silicon-sql-on-dna-is-the-next-frontier-for-databases/
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not_a_cop75
Encoding what is essentially able to produce random proteins by backing up
data to it.
What could possibly go wrong?
------
epiphan... | {
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Gut bacteria may change the way many drugs work in the body - idl3Y
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/gut-bacteria-may-change-way-many-drugs-work-body
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tachyonbeam
Not to take away from these findings, but in general, individual genetics can
radically change the way many drugs work, and even doctors seem bliss... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
2 California men fall off edge of ocean bluff while playing 'Pokemon Go' - elmar
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pokemon-go-players-stabbed-fall-off-cliff-20160714-snap-story.html
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Cpoll
Tunnel vision is a scary thing.
On the other hand, some of the other anecdotes are, I think, completely
coinciden... | {
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} |
Experimenting with sweet.js macros - int3
http://jezng.com/2012/11/experimenting-with-sweet-js-macros/
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int3
For those who don't know what sweet.js is: It's a macro system for Javascript,
designed by the folks at Mozilla. With any luck it'll pave the way for macros
in post-ES6.
| {
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Why humans can't draw - KennethMyers
http://techno-anthropology.blogspot.com/2011/07/why-humans-cant-draw.html
======
Jupe
_Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain_ is an excellent book. I still use
some of the techniques to "turn-on" my right brain, and turn off the analytic,
sombol-based left-brain (comes in handy ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Why we made Vorlon.js and how to use it to debug your JavaScript remotely - codepo8-hn
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/eternalcoding/archive/2015/04/30/why-we-made-vorlon-js-and-how-to-use-it-to-debug-your-javascript-remotely.aspx
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orand
How is this different from weinre?
[http://people.apache.org/~pmuellr/weinre/docs/l... | {
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Ask HN: Should external links open in the same browser tab or new tab? - srisaila
I know links opening in the same page is the default behavior. Do you set same behavior (links opening in same tab) to both internal and external links?
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lsiunsuex
As a web developer, I feel external links opening in the same tab... | {
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Show HN: 5400 TED talk texts open sourced - svig
https://github.com/saranyan/TED-Talks
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levistoddard
I have a cool way to use these transcripts. One question... I noticed the MIT
Licence... but did TED authorize this? or have these just been scraped without
explicit permission?
(No judgement, but wanted to know... | {
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NASA's $1B Jupiter probe takes mind-bending new photos of the gas giant - MilnerRoute
http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/NASA-s-1-billion-Jupiter-probe-has-taken-12478909.php
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SHAKEDECADE
Oh man, I want to find some High-res versions of these.
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“Nearly 25000 allocations are made for every keystroke in [Chrome's] Omnibox” - dustingetz
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/chromium-dev/EUqoIz2iFU4/kPZ5ZK0K3gEJ
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dang
Comments moved to
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8704318](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8704318).
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ter... | {
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No ‘carmageddon’ on auto-free Market Street: study shows bikes and buses benefit - luu
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Results-of-car-free-Market-Street-so-so-for-SF-15087210.php
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Symbiote
The linked article (1) says the redesign will have "sidewalk level bike
lanes".
If there's a way for local peop... | {
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} |
The SF Hacker Loft - newy
http://euwyn.com/post/4087921596/the-sf-hacker-loft
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neurotech1
Noisebridge, another hackerspace is in SF. (www.noisebridge.net) It's located
at 2169 Mission St (Between 17th and 18th)
Drop by. I'm a member and regular visitor.
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hparra
It's this "let's hack together" mentality... | {
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JEP 295: Ahead-of-Time Compilation - yarapavan
http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/295
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valarauca1
Seeing as nobody is reading the fine text
* Only 64bit Linux on AMD64 is supported, so no ARM or Android support _currently_.
* Files must be ran on computers they were compiled on, or identical hardware
* Still needs ... | {
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Is there such a thing as the NoMock movement? - sentiental
http://henk53.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/is-there-such-a-thing-as-the-nomock-movement/
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boyter
Pointless example. There is no value in testing the method for success.
However how it deals with failures/exceptions inside the dependencies might be
worth te... | {
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} |
Does your startup use MSFT technology? - bootload
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bootload
_'... One thing that causes me more alarm, is that I see a lot of startups
using MSFT technology these days. See, startups give you early warnings on
trends of what people use. Something is going here. Startups are the early
warning signs of on-coming ... | {
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Nice Read on Hardware Startups - nlolks
https://blog.bolt.io/keurig-accidentally-created-the-perfect-business-model-for-hardware-startups-18e9c3b4e796
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appedus
Good read indeed. Kindle example was good.
| {
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Self extracting tar archives - izabera
https://github.com/izabera/selfextracttar
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jepler
I went and researched this before reading the link, and found a slightly
different solution than the author. By taking advantage of python's 'tarfile'
module, it was easy to create a (us)tar-compatible header. My solution is... | {
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} |
Revolut Prepared for Brexit - aginovski
https://blog.revolut.com/how-we-protected-our-customers-from-brexit/
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ChrisRR
I'm glad to see someone is prepared, but it's annoying that they had to spend
money to prepare for the possibility of a no deal brexit, just because we're
past the deadline and people/companies s... | {
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} |
ZFS on Linux still has annoying issues with ARC size - protomyth
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/ZFSOnLinuxARCShrinkage
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twic
There's a good lesson in operability here: log reasons for decisions!
I have had to re-learn this lesson over and over again with my own software.
"Tom, why did the system... | {
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} |
Good Things Happen to Bad People - brendancahill
https://brendancahill.io/blog-3/blog-post-title-three-epnlm
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event-horizon
Is this suggesting that only bad people get knocked off their horses? Or that
everyone does.
If it's the former - do you believe the universe is keeping track of and
making judgements on p... | {
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} |
Students Support Socialism, but not when it comes to their GPA - tomohawk
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=12038
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jimrhods23
They only support it because they feel like they will never be wealthy and
won't have to pay the tax increases. This is also most people that I know that
support radical changes to the cur... | {
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} |
Peeping Tom: A free (open source) site pinger - duck
http://terrbear.org/?p=253
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Roridge
Excellent Terry, nice and simple and free, have bookmarked this for use very
soon.
| {
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Reddit Is Down - ropable
https://www.reddit.com/
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kevingrahl
Works for me and their status page [1] looks good too..
[1] - [https://reddit.statuspage.io](https://reddit.statuspage.io)
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ropable
"Service Unavailable". Only noteworthy because it's Reddit, man.
| {
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The Geomagnetic Apocalypse — And How to Stop It - ffernan
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/2012storms.html
all I can say is:<p>AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!<p>Entitled "Severe Space Weather Events — Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts," it describes the consequences of solar flares unle... | {
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An Introduction to Static Site Generators - azat_co
http://www.mickgardner.com/2012/12/an-introduction-to-static-site.html
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graue
Previous discussion: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2489040>
The posting date says December 2012, but as you can see there, this article is
over a year old. It looks like th... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
China’s Grueling Formula for Success: 9-9-6 - shubhamjain
https://www.wsj.com/articles/long-days-a-staple-at-chinese-tech-firms-1487787775
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koolba
> Chinese labor law dictates a 40-hour workweek and extra pay for overtime,
> but many companies circumvent those rules by asking employees to sign
> contracts that s... | {
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} |
Show HN: What I think Elon Musk means by ‚reasoning from first principles‘ - benjohnson1707
https://link.medium.com/NqoAewqtT8<p>I wrote a (relatively lengthy) case study about Musk and his ‚physics-driven‘ approach to problem-solving (my own research and interpretations).<p>Feedback is very much apprec... | {
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} |
ACLU Has Concerns Over Military Weapons Used By Local Police - OGinparadise
http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2013/03/07/a-c-l-u-has-concerns-over-military-weapons-used-by-local-police/
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aethertap
I was getting ready to go on a rant about how unfortunate it is that so much
more money and effort is spent on what you ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
160k+ students will only graduate if a statistical model allows them to - ishan_dikshit
http://positivelysemidefinite.com/2020/06/160k-students.html
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hvinayak1968
Very Well Researched and written.Your analysis points out the outcome pitfalls
that IB and other educational institutions should consider and correct ... | {
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} |
A dark day for the future of books - ColinWright
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/04/15/opinion/coker-book-publishing/index.html
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ComputerGuru
I will never buy an eBook when I can get an actual used copy of the same book
in mid to great condition for a tenth or a twentieth of the price of the
eBook, both from Amazon.... | {
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} |
Show HN: Search for a domain expert on Reddit - lettergram
https://redditprofile.com/
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yorwba
If you want to find mods and bots, try searching for "please". It works on the
HN version to pick out dang and sctb and it seems to work on Reddit as well.
There are some false positives, however. E.g. a comment saying... | {
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Ask HN: How to get a job after a failed startup? - startuplife01
I worked it for 8 months. I've now completely exhausted my savings. Our product is live but the growth is super slow. There is no way I can see it reaching product market fit. Investors are not interested with such low numbers.<p>I am a product guy ... | {
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Swift: Simple, Safe, Inflexible - aaronbrager
https://medium.com/@getaaron/swift-simple-safe-inflexible-68ff6fa927dc
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Someone
_" Allow required initializers in extensions, and require subclasses to
implement these initializers (even if they just call super)"_
Is that possible? The subclass could live in your ... | {
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} |
New organ named in digestive system - DanBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-38506708
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CarolineW
In case anyone is interested there is some discussion of this over here:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13308092](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13308092)
The same story has been submitted from other s... | {
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} |
Wix Code - dna_polymerase
https://www.wix.com/code/home
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jszymborski
Man-oh-man did that take a while to load...
You can always tell you've landed on a wix site when you're faced with blank
screen for a while.
Edit: 10MB... this page is 10MB.
[https://i.imgur.com/uAoc05H.png](https://i.imgur.com/uAoc05H.png)
... | {
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} |
Etsy: Crafting an IPO - sharkweek
http://blog.pitchbook.com/etsy-crafting-an-ipo/
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jonathanpeterwu
Interesting infographic on the history of Etsys history to IPO. Including
details about their fundraising and what VC's participated in each round.
| {
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} |
Interview: John McAfee Answers Your Questions - xpop2027
http://beta.slashdot.org/story/200403
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mindcrime
Very nice. Maybe the best /. interview I've ever read. McAfee may be crazy (or
not, I don't know) but he sure as heck is entertaining. I'd love to sit at a
bar and drink with him sometime.
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