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You don't need a grid framework on top of the CSS grid layout - kawera
https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2017/07/01/you-do-not-need-a-css-grid-based-grid-system
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Brajeshwar
Wow, it's been a while. Back in the days[1], it was a feat to do even a simple
Faux 3-Column layout[2]. I made lots of friends and followi... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Why is still so hard to detect spam? - nkkollaw
I'm using macOS Mail as a secondary client alongside Google Inbox (which works great), and it's amazing how bad the spam filter is.<p>I've been training it to detect spam by marking emails manually for about 2 weeks, and it's still having a ha... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
(2012) Obama, Facebook and the power of friendship: the 2012 data election - luso_brazilian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/feb/17/obama-digital-data-machine-facebook-election
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luso_brazilian
Context for the significance of this article
> Barack Obama's re-election team are building a vast digital data o... | {
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} |
The Broken Promise of No Man’s Sky and Why It Matters - webwielder2
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/08/17/broken-promises-of-no-mans-sky/
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DamnYuppie
Everytime I read about this game I keep thinking "it is a stripped down
version of Eve Online with better graphics."
I like Eve Online but it is not very fu... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Germany's Giant Windmills Are Unpopular - blast
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-31/germany-s-nationalist-party-has-wind-industry-in-limbo
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linuxhansl
As a German I find that article... uhm... Interesting. I could also just call
bulls*it.
First: With a population of about 2m and as part of for... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Flirting with ideas - skorks
http://www.thousandtyone.com/blog/EntrepreneurshipTipYouDoNotFindAGenuineIdeaItFindsYou.aspx
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prawn
I flirt with ideas, sneak off into the bushes with ideas, have affairs with
ideas, but I can't finish anything. If it's not procrastination that kills me,
it's not getting ideas to t... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Final project reports from 2012 Stanford Machine Learning class - admp
http://cs229.stanford.edu/projects2012.html
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forrestthewoods
Maybe it's just me, but I absolute loathe the format and language style of
"proper" papers. The column view heavy on text and weak on media feels highly
outdated. They come across a... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Learning from Animals That Resist Cancer - dnetesn
http://cancer.nautil.us/article/234/what-medicine-is-learning-from-animals-that-resist-cancer
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skypather
When I see the title of this article, I expected to see sharks on the list. Am
I mistaken?
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zeofig
While actually reading articles is considered a faux p... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Top start-up incubators - Finntastic
http://www.startupsmart.com.au/funding/top-10-start-up-incubators.html
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pg
"Every single one of the more than 300 start-ups backed by the US seed fund
has gone on to receive further funding"
I wish this were true, but it isn't. It's been true for the last 2 batches,
thank... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
SINQ - Swift queries fluently - brmunk
https://github.com/slazyk/SINQ
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brmunk
Will the fluent interface catch on now that Swift syntactically makes it nice
to look at (as opposed to Objective-C)? Or will you still prefer a string in
the old Predicate format?
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} |
What does gun violence really cost? - radmuzom
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/04/true-cost-of-gun-violence-in-america
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kluck
I love this article. It had to be said. Some may say: Its not the guns that
are dangerous, but the people using them. Thats wrong, guns themselves are
dangerous, because they m... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Astronomers discover super-Earth around Barnard's star - dnetesn
https://phys.org/news/2018-11-astronomers-super-earth-barnard-star.html
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autocorr
One of the most exciting things about this discovery is that because Barnard's
star is so close, the planet should have a maximum angular separation of 0.22
arcsecond... | {
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} |
Nassim Taleb on IQ - ptbello
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1076845397795065856.html
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ellius
I like Taleb's work. It's always good food for thought and frequently
insightful. That said, his posture towards academia of late seems a bit
juvenile and not a little annoying. Which isn't to say that he doesn't hav... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Moodymann on Rollerskating in Detroit - pmcpinto
https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/3544
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BenGosub
I am a DJ and a programmer, didn't expect to see Moodymann on Hacker News, but
kudos for this :)
Moodymann is a legend, I haven't yet read this interview, but there was one
video interview recently, done by ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Why is the result of ('b'+'a'+ + 'a' + 'a').toLowerCase() 'banana'? - el_benhameen
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57456188/why-is-the-result-of-ba-a-a-tolowercase-banana
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perl4ever
([![]] + [][[]])[(![] + []).length]+([![]] + [][[]])[(![] + []).length +
+!+[]]+ (![] + [])[+[]+ +[]]+([![]] + [][[]])[([][[]]+... | {
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CyberSource outages Day #2 - spd997m23
For the second day in a row CyberSource is timing out and not authenticating customer payment information. We lose an order each time this happens. Is anyone else having this problem?
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dangrossman
When this costs you enough money, consider building your next payment
int... | {
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} |
POTUS Twitter account is registered to a private Gmail account - Daviey
https://theintercept.com/2017/01/26/donald-trump-is-using-a-private-gmail-account-to-secure-the-most-powerful-twitter-account-in-the-world/
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cronjobber
> Update: Jan. 26, 2017
> An earlier version of this story did not address the possibili... | {
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} |
Logitech disables local access on Harmony Hubs, breaks automation systems - Deinos
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/12/logitech-firmware-update-breaks-locally-controlled-harmony-hub-systems/
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all2
I am sad to see that Logitech has fallen into the business model of
technological churn.
I've found their devic... | {
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} |
Don't let sharedWorkers die - malko
https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/315#issuecomment-244903762
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malko
If you think sharedWorkers are for a better web experience it's time to cast
your vote and say no to the deprecation of this feature. Follow the url and
add a thumbs up :)
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} |
John Carmack on “Facebook listening to you” conspiracy theory - tosh
https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1227234781886386176
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willis936
While I haven’t done rigorous science, there were times last year that youtube
suggestions were a little too timely in regards to conversations I had within
the past hour. ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
WebAssembly: A New Compiler Target for the Web [video] - jandem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RByPdCN1RQ4
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bluejekyll
I wish webassembly was already here. I honestly can't wait for more language
choice for targeting the browser DOM.
I believe this will bring a revolution in client side apps on the browser.
Ul... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The first open company - zende
http://blog.gittip.com/post/26350459746/the-first-open-company
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amix
I like the idea behind Gittip, but I think this is bullshit: "company are
developed for the benefit of society as a whole, and not just the mutual
benefit of the members of the cooperative" Most companies are deve... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
With an official description, Google Drive is more real than ever - froo
http://venturebeat.com/2009/01/30/with-an-official-description-google-drive-is-more-real-than-ever/
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eli
I think this is the most clear-cut case of people getting excited about a
product _solely_ because the brand name is Google.
Online ... | {
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} |
Img/loading-related jQuery plugin I posted as a comment on some blog... - soundphed
http://engineeredweb.com/blog/09/12/preloading-images-jquery-and-javascript#comment-92
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soundphed
I don't have my own blog and I'm not sure of the etiquette here. I've been
using this jQuery plugin I wrote for awhile now and a... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Pixelapse (YC W12): GitHub-Style Sharing and Version Control For Design Projects - lominming
http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/13/yc-backed-pixelapse-brings-github-style-sharing-version-control-to-your-design-projects/
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cantlin
There's tremendous value in the history of a design file. Virtually every
design agency... | {
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} |
Why this 63-year-old teacher ditched the US to retire in the highlands of Panama - xivzgrev
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/it-is-an-act-of-insanity-to-stay-in-the-us-why-this-63-year-old-teacher-ditched-massachusetts-to-retire-in-the-highlands-of-panama-2019-08-23
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adonnjohn
It certainly doesn't strike as a s... | {
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} |
Google Cloud shell Command injection - cujanovic
http://www.pranav-venkat.com/2016/03/command-injection-which-got-me-6000.html
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samuellb
Mobile version that doesn't require Javascript: [http://www.pranav-
venkat.com/2016/03/command-injection-which...](http://www.pranav-
venkat.com/2016/03/command-injection-which... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Waveboard: Google Wave Client for Mac and iPhone is Coming - holoohapter
http://mashable.com/2009/10/19/waveboard/
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cpr
Not a real client on the Mac. Just a Fluid-like (Fluid-based?) wrapper app.
Don't know about the iPhone.
The real test of Wave's openness is going to be whether a client can
realistically be... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Install Android 2.2 on a jailbroken iPhone over the air - hardik
http://mobiputing.com/2010/11/how-to-install-android-2-2-on-a-jailbroken-iphone/
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kevinelliott
I've been helping with iDroid and Bootlace, and I can tell you that a lot has
progressed over the last couple of months. Power management has been a hu... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Is That Really a Cappuccino? - zabramow
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/fashion/mens-style/is-that-cappuccino-youre-drinking-really-a-cappuccino.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur
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lisper
I made a brief foray into coffee snobbery about three years ago. I quickly got
lost in all the permutations of espresso machine... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Greener pastures? A tale of the Minnesota startup that was - johns
http://tech.mn/news/2010/07/14/greener-pastures-a-tale-of-the-minnesota-startup-that-was/
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CitizenKane
As a former Minnesotan I can say that it goes beyond taxes. The culture in
Minnesota is very risk averse and if you're starting a software comp... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
To PGP/MIME or not to PGP/MIME - HerraBRE
https://www.mailpile.is/blog/2014-11-21_To_PGP_MIME_Or_Not.html
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darklajid
I just started looking into PGP (well, gnupg to be honest).
The plan is to both use gpg for communication/email, but also for backups
(duplicity), secret stuff/passwords (pass) and authenticati... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Why HackerRank and other coding tests are ageist - forrestbrazeal
http://news.efinancialcareers.com/uk-en/287595/hackerrank-tests-banking
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carlmr
<<Most damningly, he says the questions posed by HackerRank and similar tests
aren’t necessarily relevant to the work actually done in finance technology
roles: “They’... | {
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} |
Come to Silicon Valley and Learn to Code for Free - teklaperry
https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/education/come-to-silicon-valley-and-learn-to-code-for-free
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cannontwentytwo
This really seems like the future of education. Wish the program was offered
here in Toronto.
| {
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} |
Russian researchers expose U.S. hard drive spyware program - georgecmu
http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/02/16/usa-cyberspying-idINKBN0LK1R320150216
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dandelion_lover
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9059156](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9059156)
| {
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} |
Tokyo Wants People to Go to Work Earlier to Ease Train Crush - BanzaiTokyo
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-17/tokyo-encourages-earlier-work-commutes-to-ease-jam-packed-trains
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black_puppydog
I've long been wondering why anyone would require (or accept) workin hours so
inflexible that they force t... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Baptism by Fire: A New York Firefighter Confronts His First Test (2014) - Bud
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/06/22/nyregion/rookie-new-york-firefighter-faces-first-test.html?ref=sonny
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xname2
I really hate this kind of writing. After five paragraphs, I still don't know
where it is going. What a waste of... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A JavaScript repository for leetcode solutions - hanzichi
https://github.com/hanzichi/leetcode
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hanzichi
I love JavaScript and algorithm, but it seems there is not many JSers that
like to have fun with solving algorithm questions
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
New Google Chrome Beta - agotterer
http://chrome.blogspot.com/2009/03/google-chrome-has-new-beta_17.html
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mpk
And .... still no linux build.
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agotterer
or Mac :(
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reconbot
A significant amount of work is going into both those builds but a lot more is
needed. As much as I love having a multiprocess brow... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Riddle of cement’s structure is finally solved - augb
http://news.mit.edu/2016/cement-structure-solved-0208
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devindotcom
I love these base-level, practical advances where even a slight improvement in
a formula (provided it is not closely guarded) can, say, improve the strength
of a material by 5-10%, meaning tha... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What is the impact of opening FB and Twitter offices in Vancouver? - gummify
How will the opening of new Facebook and Twitter offices in Vancouver, Canada affect the city and will it affect the Bay Area (i.e. recruitment of Canadians)?
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t1m
One of the reasons the big SF/Valley companies are opening Can... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How to improve the performance of your new HP TouchPad - shawndumas
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/mobile-news/how-to-improve-the-performance-of-your-new-hp-touchpad/3866
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reemrevnivek
Unfortunately, the article doesn't talk at all about overclocking. It simply
disables logging across the OS - and I _want_ verbose lo... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Machine Learning Can't Handle Long-Term Time-Series Data - jocker12
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/N594EF44CZD2aGkSh/machine-learning-can-t-understand-long-term-time-series-data
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mjburgess
Time is only a symptom of what's missing: causation.
ML operates with associative models of billions of parameters: trying... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Canning Spam: Why is it so difficult to prevent junk e-mail? - dpapathanasiou
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9805795
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chmike
I see at least two problems at the source of junk e-mail. 1X no authentication
of sender. One of the most problematic consequence is that reporting errors to
senders ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Deep learning for source to source computer language translation? - naveen99
Anyone know of any recent work on deep learning for source to source computer language translation ?
Since go and real time strategy games were the last out of reach items for machine learning, i feel like this is the next thing that's o... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Building Photoshop 1.0 - nglevin
http://basalgangster.macgui.com/RetroMacComputing/The_Long_View/Entries/2013/3/30_Building_Photoshop.html
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kristofferR
I really hope the author of this great piece shares his rare copy of MacApp
1.1 with the world, so it won't end up as another piece of lost software
history on... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Employees of Facebook, what's it like to work there? - rblion
Former or current. Use a new username if you have to. I've learned about the suicide of Qin Chen and it's made me wonder what life is like inside Facebook.<p>Thanks for taking the time to answer and discuss this.
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jsjckendj
I was a f... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
OpenMediaVault 1.0 “Kralizec” released - gandave
http://www.nasstorageserver.com/2014/09/15/nas-openmediavault-1-0-kralizec-released/
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gandave
OpenMediaVault (“a next generation network attached storage (NAS) solution”)
has gone 1.0. Free and Open Source NAS, challenging FreeNAS.
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Txtodo – a day-to-day todo list for coronavirus quarantine - figbert
https://txtodo.app/
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codingninjas
How's building on SWIFT UI? We will be using it for the first time for a
client.
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figbert
TLDR: I like it.
Working with SwiftUI is fantastic – I always had trouble getting the
storyboards to work ... | {
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} |
Kippt: A Bookmarking App to Watch - jorde
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/kippt_a_bookmarking_app_to_watch.php
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spokey
Hi Jori and Karri.
Kippt does look promising. I have a little bit of a meta-question for you.
Do you have any tips or advice you could share about getting covered on RWW
with an early s... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Nicco says: Google = Evil - bootload
http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/03/10/niccoSaysGoogleEvil.html
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bootload
_"... What you may not know is that we also spend a lot of time thinking about
the security that goes into those products, and more specifically the ways we
can protect you and your private infor... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Where: Like Foursquare, except with profits and lots more users - cwan
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/04/14/youve-heard-of-foursquare-how-about-this-start-up/
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gojomo
The name change from 'uLocate Communications' to 'Where' was sideways at best.
'Where' is hard to google, prone to confusion in spoken communica... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Sslnotify.me, a free serverless opensource SSL cert monitoring service - alexfortin
https://alexanderfortin.tumblr.com/post/159003883536/sslnotifyme-yet-another-opensource-serverless
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alexfortin
Hello, I've posted about my experiment here not because I think is
particularly cool nor useful, but because ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Language/framework pros and cons for writing a web server nowadays? - pvnick
I'm not looking for "best," but I would like to hear what you guys would consider for choosing between some of the modern languages/frameworks.<p>Despite the flak that PHP gets, many successful web servers have tra... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
US intelligence reports from January and February warned about a likely pandemic - cyang08
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/us-intelligence-reports-from-january-and-february-warned-about-a-likely-pandemic/2020/03/20/299d8cda-6ad5-11ea-b5f1-a5a804158597_story.html
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digikazi
Any intelligence servic... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What resource allocation strategies do IaaS providers use? - push7joshi
This is a classic case of multidimensional bin packing problem. The problem of assigning VMs to PMs is known to be NP-Hard. It would be great to understand/know a high level solution ignoring the detailed complexity (SLA etc.)
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... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Do you use Managed Servers? - Complete
Im wondering: Do you use manages servers for hosting your applications? I do so and would like to discuss the pros and cons of various providers. But I have the feeling most of you here on HN use servers where you have root access.<p>To me, it seems very logical to use ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Story Of Joseph Nacchio And The NSA - Esifer
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-story-of-joseph-nacchio-and-the-nsa-2013-6
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tptacek
This came up last week, too. Joseph Nacchio sold millions of dollars of Qwest
stock after gaining access to information about weak future sales and,
according to other Qwest i... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Google is the number one employer of Bernie Sanders donors - karangoeluw
http://qz.com/665099/google-is-the-number-one-employer-of-bernie-sanders-donors/
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ocdtrekkie
Google employees are also among the top donators of Obama's last reelection
campaign, and Google employees have contributed to over half the curren... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Is Roundup the Cause of 'Gluten Intolerance'? - yiedyie
http://www.motherearthnews.com/real-food/gluten-intolerance-from-roundup-herbicide-zw0z1402zkin.aspx?newsletter=1&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=RF%20eNews&utm_campaign=03.03.14%20RFSR
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Angostura
Ummm. Those authors look familiar: [http://www... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Treksit – Graph theory game - thenormal
http://treksit.com/?graph
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pimlottc
Nifty. The arbitrary size of the playfield (and its invisible border) was
annoying at times, though.
More suggestions:
* A reset button when things get too messed up
* A "check my work" button that highlights errors, which can be hard... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Database of Criminal Politicians? - charliemagee
Does anyone know of a database that contains criminal convictions of local, state, federal politicians? There is some text stuff on Wikipedia but I would like the ability to sort.
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Top19
The closest thing I can think of is that Utah has a database of a white-colla... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Pagoda goes in private beta - Heroku for PHP - ranza
http://www.pagodabox.com/
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apl
Their website is ridiculously well designed -- possibly on par with Heroku.
Doesn't say much about their solutions and infrastructure, but it does signal
great care.
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sparkygoblue
Pulling only from github seems very rest... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Introducing Gruen Tenders - a simple way to induce an unbiased prognosis - datageek
http://kaggle.com/blog/2010/08/01/introducing-gruen-tenders-a-simple-way-to-induce-an-unbiased-prognosis/
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datageek
I wonder if there's a business model in this?
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
IPhone 5 Scorns Standards Promise To European Commission - neya
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/09/14/2053241/iphone-5-scorns-standards-promise-to-european-commission?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=facebook
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mtgx
I'm not an Apple user, so I might not fully understand how Apple's connectors
work, but it seem... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Google SRE vs. Google TSE - nextinline
I have been debating whether to go for SRE or TSE (Google Cloud Technical Solutions Engineer), as I understand if I go with TSE interview, the offer will be TSE, not SRE.<p>Recruiter gave me a good tour and in this YT video [1] it does seem TSE
will do development too (m... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How do you reverse burnout? - randomnumber314
I've been working 50+ hours a week for the last six months. Between my "9-5" freelancing for a full-time client, and my evening personal projects, I pretty much spend 7am-10pm concentrating and mentally engaged. For the last couple of weeks I'm having a... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
We can know whether we are in a simulation - carlos
http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2012/10/we-can-know-whether-we-are-in-a-simulation.html
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lutusp
No, as a matter of fact, we cannot know this. No matter how many people
speculate about it, it's not a property of the universe we can determine in a
scienti... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Marvin Pipkin, inventor of the frosted light bulb - everbody
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Pipkin
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axaxs
> Not being aware his assignment was a type of joke, he went about the task as
> if it was something that could be done and had been done before.
I've read stories similar to this before, iirc assignm... | {
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CEO Turns a Seldom Used ccTLD Into a Booming Global Brand - DotSauce
http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2010/november-december.htm
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iwwr
Companies just have to pay a little more for domain hosting due to the threat
of .co brand hijacking or phishing. It's the nearest legitimate thing to
blackmailing, not a brillia... | {
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} |
Why is programming fun? - signa11
http://www.grok2.com/progfun.html
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michaels0620
I remember early in my programming career, I had a program that was a tangled
mess and making changes was requiring more and more effort just to keep
everything straight. I was able to refactor the code into three well
contained,... | {
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} |
Meet Mila, your smart Business Assistant - pstadler
http://about.mila.com/
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mweibel
Disclaimer: I'm working for this project.
We're hiring passionate developers/engineers. Take a look at the Hiring Page:
<http://about.mila.com/en/jobs/>
| {
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American parenting is killing the American marriage (2014) - kareemm
http://qz.com/273255/how-american-parenting-is-killing-the-american-marriage/
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Vexs
While I think his insights on how we treat our children is amazingly
insightful, and I love how it's described as a religion (the point that
children are our sa... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN : What print magazines do you still subscribe to? - kqr2
Given the demise of Dr. Dobbs, just curious what print magazines people here still subscribe to?<p>I subscribe to Circuit Cellar and Make Magazine.
======
burrokeet
I still love magasines- no iTablet to read on the toilet yet...
Wired Billboard Urb The... | {
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} |
Some Thoughts on the Cost Disease - dsr_
http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/331
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marchenko
This article also hints at one of the reasons why humans chafe at economic
inequality, and a rising tide lifting all boats is not enough to produce
utopia: there are some resources - desirable reproductive partners, status,
la... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How to choose colours everyone likes - juliang
http://www.creativepro.com/article/how-choose-colors-everyone-likes
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jacobolus
This is bogus. Basically the popular combinations are "liked" because (a) they
are colorful, and (b) they have value (lightness) contrast, whereas the others
are both less colorful, and... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Help foil the NSA by Encrypting Google Drive - SilliMon
http://www.syncdocs.com/keep-google-drive-files-private-with-syncdocs-encryption/
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CPAhem
With the news that the NSA is tapping Google's internal fibre links, local
encryption of Google is the way to go.
The problem is that it makes it harder to use, and... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Why SQL Sucks for NoSQL Unstructured Databases - dscape
http://writings.nunojob.com/2011/06/why-sql-sucks-for-nosql-unstructured-databases.html
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favd44
Great article!!! ... and I agree. I work for IBM, and I dealt with SQL/XML
before ... and I still agree with the article.
Thanks.
------
datagirl
What's bett... | {
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} |
Amazon.com and The Atlantic Will Sell Short Stories on the Kindle - byrneseyeview
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/05/books/05fiction.html
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waterlesscloud
$3.99 each. Gonna have to lower that price point a little. Too many people
with their hands in the till.
~~~
anigbrowl
Agree...but it strikes me that there's... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Don't like Brexit? We have a plan - beniaminmincu
http://www.transylvaniabeyond.com/
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lemiant
This is really cool and well done. I'm unhappy with the stats they chose
though.
I thought that 20x less robberies seemed unlikely so I clicked their source.
They were using the absolute number of robberies not per cap... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Chargify to Increase Prices In May, Asking For Customer Feedback - speric
http://chargify.com/blog/may-2012-price-change/
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toast76
From an email sent to customers re: their last price increase:
Price assurance guarantee.
We now understand that it’s impossible to grow your business if you can’t be
sure how mu... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
ChromeOS will no longer support ext2/3/4 on external drives/SD cards - doublextremevil
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=315401
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sah88
First you have to void your warranty to properly dual boot now this? They want
to drop support for a file format so they can make renaming drives easier?
I'm a... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How to get feedback from people who signed up but churned? - diegogoncalves
When someone use my product for a while and I send a message, for a good percentage I get feedback but for people who signed up and didn't use much the product/dropout before even activating I'm having a hard time to get... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Moving The New York Times Games Platform to Google App Engine - spyspy
https://open.nytimes.com/moving-the-new-york-times-games-platform-to-google-app-engine-e9337f2c9444
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obulpathi
Two things keep coming up while comparing GCP and AWS:
* This accomplishment would not have been possible for our three-person tea... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Do any startups have dress codes? - johndavidback
https://medium.com/@johndavidback/kill-dress-codes-3dbeec685dbd#.83927bpkv
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dalke
I do not like how the author jokes that women in workout shorts make him
sweaty, nor the call out to "Be the bro tank you want to see in the world.".
If you want to get rid of dres... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
People’s Bank of China started advanced testing of digital currency - CalmStorm
https://www.forbes.com/sites/biserdimitrov/2020/04/16/these-chinese-blockchain-platforms-are-launching-soon-here-is-why/
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CalmStorm
It is mentioned in the article that the digital currency supports offline
transactions. How can this ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Bitcoin for Gold – Major Gold Dealer Now Accepting Bitcoin - glmxstd
http://blockchaincourier.com/2017/12/08/bitcoin-for-gold-major-gold-dealer-now-accepting-bitcoin/
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GhostVII
If the cost in Bitcoin changes when the value of Bitcoin in USD changes, you
aren't paying in Bitcoin - you are paying in USD, you just ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The electric scooter Bird startup with big workplace problems - zoolander2
https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/23/21231802/bird-electric-scooter-company-workplace-culture-layoffs
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ashtonkem
I live in the area where Bird is headquartered, and they have an absolutely
toxic reputation around town. Not the scooters them... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Reddit's traffic grew by 300% in 2010 - Aqwis
http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/evmek/2010_we_hardly_knew_ye/
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Mystalic
Title's wrong. Growing by 300% means Reddit would be at 1 billion pageviews.
Grow by 100%, you get 500 million. Grow by 200%, you get 750 million. Grow by
231.6%, you get 829 million.
--... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Email is dying among mobile’s youngest users - rezist808
http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/24/email-is-dying-among-mobiles-youngest-users/
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lazylizard
was it ever "alive" among those users?
| {
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How DreamHost Builds Its Cloud: Selecting Hard Drives - kungfudoi
https://www.dreamhost.com/blog/2016/10/01/dreamhost-builds-cloud-selecting-hard-drives/
======
hackuser
There's something I don't understand about the enterprise vs consumer (or
"client") SSD classification: According to the widely quoted JEDEC standard... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Majority of Bitcoin mining can give you control over the block chain - onecooldev24
Is is true that if a agent controls majority of the miners on the bitcoin network he/she can control the blockchain?
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sharemywin
[https://learncryptography.com/cryptocurrency/51-attack](https://learncryptography.com/... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Affective Wear – Recognizing Facial Expressions - kgarten
http://kaikunze.de/posts/-affective-wear/
======
mr_O
It reminds me of affective, developed in MIT. I hope this time it will be Open
Sourced instead of sold like the other one. I think marketing companies have
already enough tools to fool us...
~~~
mr_O
* af... | {
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} |
Pterosaur: Full power of Vim in each Firefox text field - airnomad
https://github.com/ardagnir/pterosaur
======
sinkasapa
I've really enjoyed the "It's All Text" extension that allows you to use
whatever editor you like to edit text fields.
[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/its-all-
text/](https://addon... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
To save on weight, a detour to the moon is the best route to Mars - jimsojim
http://news.mit.edu/2015/mars-mission-save-weight-fuel-on-moon-1015
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Ankaios
“This is completely against the established common wisdom
of how to go to Mars, which is a straight shot to Mars,
carry everything with you,... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
EquipmentShare (YC W15) Is Like Airbnb for Construction Equipment - sunilkumarc
http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/09/equipmentshare/
======
sitkack
Isn't this Hertz, Sunbelt or United?
I see how this is a startup, get people with capital equipment sitting around,
monetize it, make a cut of the transaction.
But serious... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Is it still relevant to send you website to DMOZ - fffrad
I rarely if ever hear people suggesting dmoz.org anymore. It used to be the craze when I was getting started in web development and SEO<p>Did dmoz become irrelevant? Do you even go to dmoz ever? Are search engines not considering its weight anymore?
=... | {
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} |
Show HN: Honeybadger Chrome Extension - jaequery
http://gethoneybadger.com
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tzaman
The orange nearly killed my eyes. Apart from that, why do you use fake
testimonials? I'm assuming that, since in the bottom you have a person, called
"Antonina K. Director of Operations, TrustGuard". The lady on the picture is
S... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Microsoft Signals It Would Rather Talk To An Icahn-Controlled Yahoo - nickb
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/07/microsoft-signals-it-would-rather-talk-to-an-icahn-controlled-yahoo/
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pg
Of course they would. Icahn couldn't actually run Yahoo. So if they were
negotiating with him they'd be negotiating with someo... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How much does employee turnover really cost? - wyclif
https://medium.com/latticehq/how-much-does-employee-turnover-really-cost-d61df5eed151
======
wyclif
I'm still constantly told by engineering friends that the easiest way to get a
raise is to get a new job. That indicates to me that employers aren't that
worried abo... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
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