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Angular Router - vsavkin
http://victorsavkin.com/post/145672529346/angular-router
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wardobello
A must read for anyone thinking about Angular2
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Why You Didn't Get the Job - fecak
http://jobtipsforgeeks.com/2012/06/20/why-you-didnt-get-the-job/
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ChuckMcM
This is pure awesomeness. I've rejected people for all of those reasons but
haven't ever put them together so succinctly.
The one that can really swing my vote one way or another is the lack of
passion.... | {
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Running Lua on Mac OS X - ruda
http://rudamoura.com/luaonmacosx.html
Lua is a lightweight programming language and has good reputation among game engines. In this article, you will learn how to install and use the latest version of Lua (5.2.1) on Mac OS X Mountain Lion, Lion or Snow Leopard.
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ajacksified
I have... | {
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$10 laptop coming from India on February 3rd, or so they say - erickhill
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/01/30/10-laptop-coming-from-india-on-february-3rd-or-so-they-say/
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gravitycop
Indiatimes link posted earlier: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=458077>
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Everyone will be a software engineer and barely any will know how to code - BerislavLopac
https://qz.com/778380/the-future-is-software-engineers-who-cant-code/
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geofft
(2016)
And it's a little surprising that the state of the world hasn't seemed to move
since then - I'd still point to Excel.
~~~
JJMcJ
Excel, w... | {
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How preparations for tomorrow’s satellite wars could ruin life as we know it today - robg
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200809/space-war
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ckinnan
"This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms
industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic,
political... | {
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Mozy goes Mac--First really useful Mac Backup solution - mattculbreth
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/25/mozy-goes-mac-first-really-useful-mac-hard-drive-backup-solution/
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mattculbreth
I've been looking for a good backup solution, so this is cool. I'd looked at
Carbonite before but it had a Windows version onl... | {
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Sony needed to have basic digital protection. It failed - nsns
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/21/sony-hacking-north-korea-cyber-security
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tracker1
Isn't Sony part of the group that insists that Google should _know_ what is
legal content from what isn't and that DRM is essential and cannot be... | {
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An example of exploiting two fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox on Windows - DyslexicAtheist
https://github.com/0vercl0k/CVE-2019-11708
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geofft
Note this is not a 0-day, this is a fully-worked-out example of exploiting two
vulnerabilities fixed in May and June of this year. Worth reading for
knowledge, but as an e... | {
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Show HN: 3D Face Reconstruction from image - mrburton
https://github.com/AaronJackson/vrn
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billconan
I have a question,
your method is volume based, right? so the recovered 3d face mesh is generated
by marching cubes on the 3d volume? So the topology of the 3d mesh isn't
necessarily aligned to the face features... | {
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Today Show hosts think gamers over 30 are "weird" - seagaia
http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2011/07/today_show_gamers_over_30_are_.php
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Alex3917
I think there is good reason to be skeptical of hardcore gamers who are above
a certain age. These games all use the same basic tricks to trigger to
pleasure mechanisms o... | {
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Be a Man and Stand Up for Gender Equality - Tzunamitom
http://thomasbell.co.uk/2013/12/09/be-a-man-and-stand-up-for-gender-equality/
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sliverstorm
_How any company can expect to build a sustainable long-term business when not
one of their 14 Partners /Advisors is female is beyond me._
This piece seems... I don't... | {
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What Oil at $100 a Barrel Would Mean - jonbaer
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-29/what-oil-at-100-a-barrel-would-mean-for-the-world-economy
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gshdg
This could be the sort of thing that’s intensely painful in the short term but
pushes us to adopt strategies that are better choices for the long term... | {
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Google will shut down Google+ four months early after second data leak - bhauer
https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/10/18134541/google-plus-privacy-api-data-leak-developers
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jdp23
Yikes. A release in November introduced an API bug that was active for about 6
days, impacting 52.5 million users.
* With respect to th... | {
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Can you explain your research using only the ten hundred most common words? - jmnicholson
http://authorea.com/upgoerfive
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schoen
I will explain one part of my work here. (This is just my story about what our
trusted group does, and the other people who work on it might not agree with
how I said everything.)
We ... | {
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Heroic IT folks in NYC hauling fuel to keep servers alive shut down by unions - tjic
https://twitter.com/spolsky/status/264005839415803904
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lmm
Good for the unions. Expecting workers to haul diesel up a slippery stairwell
is dangerous and exploitative; even if they're supposedly volunteers it's very
easy for bos... | {
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Uncovering the security issues of shared scooter services - Edward9
https://www.imperva.com/blog/i-know-where-you-rode-last-summer-uncovering-the-security-issues-of-shared-scooter-services/
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thereyougo
Besides security issues, scooter services have another big issue. They don't
care about their customers.
I dro... | {
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} |
Show HN: Sagify - Train and deploy ML/DL models on AWS SageMaker made simple - pm3310
https://github.com/Kenza-AI/sagify
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pm3310
Hi HN! I' m Pavlos, an ML engineer at HomeAway, building things on the side
and just launched a new open source project. Sagify is a command-line utility
to train and deploy Machine Le... | {
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GPU Programming in Rust - dagw
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~eholk/papers/hips2013.pdf
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dagw
Github repo:
[https://github.com/eholk/RustGPU](https://github.com/eholk/RustGPU)
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Coronavirus mutations affect deadliness of strains - walterbell
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3080771/coronavirus-mutations-affect-deadliness-strains-chinese-study
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tomohawk
> The most aggressive strains of Sars-CoV-2 could generate 270 times as much
> viral load as the least potent type
> New... | {
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Would you pay for a Super Bowl commercial out of your own pocket? Steve Jobs did - a4agarwal
http://sachin.posterous.com/art-and-copy
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mcos
It says in the video that he paid for half of it, and Woz paid for the other
half.
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Otherworldly worms with three sexes discovered in Mono Lake - laurex
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/09/190926141715.htm
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bediger4000
The sciencedaily.com article is ultra weird, in that it has a scandalous,
clickbaity title, but it doesn't say what those 3 sexes are or what they do.
The actual paper ... | {
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One-Atom-Thin Silicon Transistors Hold Promise for Super-Fast Computing - shill
http://www.utexas.edu/news/2015/02/03/silicon-silicene-transistors/
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jwise0
The Ars Technica article is a little less rosy, and goes into a little more
detail in the challenges in silicene FETs:
[http://arstechnica.com/science/2015... | {
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Ask HN: Do you have loads of browser tabs open at once? - Ramario
Hi, I am considering building a browser extension/website that saves your browser tabs for you. I have a problem of having lots of browser tabs and not wanting to close any of them when I want to shut down my mac. Are you having this problem too? Woul... | {
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Instagram's UX Problems - jakeculp
http://jakeculp.me/blog/2012/12/8/instagrams-ux-problems
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idan
While these are certainly improvements that Instagram could make to improve
their app, this article is more attitude than helpful critique. Absent the
cruft, there is little substance here.
Unworthy of HN, IMO.
... | {
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NetBSD Kernel Drivers Compiled to Javascript and Run in Browser - self
http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/kernel_drivers_compiled_to_javascript
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jfaucett
this is extemely cool :) I didn't know about emscripten, I just found many
nice projects on that link so here it is again:
<https://github.com/kripken/emscript... | {
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Ask HN: Incoming mail service for domains? - nolite
Does anyone know of any services out there where you can add a DNS mail record for your domain, and the service will configure an incoming email system for you? Pretty much like what Google Apps does, but non-Google (I'd like something with better customer serv... | {
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Attack Directories, Not Caches: Side-Channel Attacks in a Non-Inclusive World [pdf] - mettamage
http://iacoma.cs.uiuc.edu/iacoma-papers/ssp19.pdf
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mettamage
The part on how they reverse engineered the cache directory is especially
interesting.
Consider this, they build an eviction algorithm [1] that just worked... | {
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Bubblewrap: Unprivileged sandboxing tool - groks
https://github.com/projectatomic/bubblewrap
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cyphar
For those interested in OCI-compatible runtimes, I'm currently implementing
rootless containers for runC[1]. This would allow you to get the same sort of
unprivileged sandboxing but with a popular container runti... | {
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Tech Friends, Let's Get Rid of Workplace Bullies - VuongN
http://www.vuongnguyen.com/tech-friends-lets-get-rid-of-workplace-bullies/
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kwillets
There seems to be a real push towards homogeneity in teams, and I've seen it
lead to bullying of people with different skills.
At one point I was working with a guy who ... | {
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Ask HN: What's up with the state of pathetic business-class broadband in the US? - whalesalad
I work at a web agency in LA. We build lots of apps and hack on Django all the time. We just moved offices into a real sweet spot. Everything about this place is rad, but right now we're using horrible 4G wimax internet bec... | {
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Travel + Hackernews = Art Sumo - volandovengo
After 4 years working for the man and reading hackernews religiously, I decided to quit my cushy day job and create Art Sumo while working from the road. I am happy to announce that I am launching ArtSumo.com today.<p>I would be glad to answer any questions from fellow ... | {
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Oh My God! Apple Killed ThinkSecret! Those Bastards! - terpua
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/20/oh-my-god-apple-killed-thinksecret-those-bastards/
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pg
Though I'm an Apple fan, it bothers me the way they seem to skate just along
the border of evil. Can you imagine Google shutting down a Google rumors site?
Th... | {
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Show HN: Generate a painting based on artist and style - aliabd
https://360.gradiohub.com/
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aliabd
I created this interface using the Gradio[1] library and Peter Bailey's
fork[2] of NVIDIA's StyleGAN2[3]. Try the examples in the bottom.
[1]: [https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio](https://github.com/gradio-
app/... | {
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Ask HN: Is it weird to ask users to pay via CC through a desktop app? - superic
I'm working on something that would take payments (via credit card) from within a desktop application. Is that weird? The purchase is for something physical that would be received via real mail (which the application helped make).<p>It's... | {
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Sparsity Programming: Automated Sparsity-Aware Differentiable Programming - ChrisRackauckas
https://openreview.net/pdf?id=rJlPdcY38B
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nabla9
[https://openreview.net/forum?id=rJlPdcY38B](https://openreview.net/forum?id=rJlPdcY38B)
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WE USED TO SLEEP TWICE EACH NIGHT – 6/30/15 - delanceyplace
http://delanceyplace.com/view-archives.php?p=2828
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dalke
While it's dated "6/30/15", it's an "encore selection -- from Dreamland:
Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep", published in 2012.
The topic has hit the pages of HN before. From a bit ove... | {
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Energy Ball: Wind turbine for home use - gasull
http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/09/03/energy-ball-by-home-energy/
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Protophore
It would be nice to have the option to buy a small wind turbine for your
house. I wonder if this would help drive residential solar prices down.
Another interesting wind power solution: <h... | {
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Show HN: html-vault – create self-contained HTML for password protected content - dividuum
https://github.com/dividuum/html-vault
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aurorabbit
On the topic of toy web crypto projects, here's mine:
[https://emojicrypt.com/](https://emojicrypt.com/)
It offers scrypt + aes-gcm, encoded into 256 emoji; all the crypt... | {
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Samsung Galaxy Note9 Teardown - bdcravens
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Samsung+Galaxy+Note9+Teardown/112412
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towndrunk
Off topic. I do like the design of ifixit's website. It's nice and clean.
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Why Microsoft Wanted LinkedIn - t23
http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/why-microsoft-wanted-linkedin
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zihotki
tl;dr - For rich and detailed user and companies data, and user base.
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Platformer Enemy Design - DDR0
http://www.frogatto.com/?p=1253
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GotAnyMegadeth
Wow, this came at exactly the right time, I am planning to start designing
enemies for my current game this week. Quite insightful.
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Show HN: Fast domain auction checking tool - webstartupper
http://www.domainsafrica.com/
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webstartupper
Hey guys,
I built this as a test app to consume the DomCop API. I managed to make it
fast enough and with a (hopefully) useful interface for searching for domains
that are on auction across various sites or... | {
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If correlation doesn’t imply causality, then what does? (2012) - eliangcs
http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/if-correlation-doesnt-imply-causation-then-what-does/
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dang
Url changed from [https://speakerdeck.com/eliang/if-correlation-doesnt-
imply-c...](https://speakerdeck.com/eliang/if-correlation-doesnt-imply-
c... | {
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Ask HN: Our prototype: People real-time news. Would you use it? - mprovo1
Our application would allow you to follow someone, say Barack Obama, and get all that is being said about him on the net, in real-time (mixing twitter & traditional news outlets). We have NLP algorithms that figure out the 2-3 most importa... | {
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Time to move to C11 atomics? (2016) - based2
https://lwn.net/Articles/691128/
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RossBencina
I think the ISO C and C++ definition of memory_order_consume will need to be
fixed first. Perhaps recent progress has been made, but see for example "C++
P0371R1: Temporarily discourage memory_order_consume" and references... | {
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Apple's responsibility as a superpower - ph0rque
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2638-apples-responsibility-as-a-superpower
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cletus
I don't like this post for several reasons.
1\. The author worries about Apple crowning a successor. What they're
advocating is HTML5, which is essentially an open standard, where F... | {
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Let's talk about sex ... with robots - fjabre
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/sep/16/sex-robots-david-levy-loebner
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roc
I honestly don't see sex robots taking off until after general purpose robots
roll out.
Having a glorified sex doll that does nothing but help one get off is a rather
steep investm... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
PHP, Python and Google Go Fail to Detect Revoked TLS Certificates - kwesidev
https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/04/01/0121226/php-python-and-google-go-fail-to-detect-revoked-tls-certificates
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kafkaesq
Of interest, for sure, but that should be " _default libraries_ used by X, Y,
Z" fail to detect revoked certific... | {
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MarketCo - entromivanova
https://marketco.me
======
entromivanova
A new marketing tool that connects brands for more successful collaborations
and partnerships.
The platform will match you with other like-minded companies to accomplish
much more than you might be able to do on your own
Join the new partner networkin... | {
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Where are we in the Python 3 transition? - joeyespo
http://www.snarky.ca/the-stages-of-the-python-3-transition
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jacquesm
The python 2.x to 3.x change will be studied for many years. How to completely
rob an ecosystem of its momentum in one fell swoop. I still don't understand
why 3 couldn't have had a mode switc... | {
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Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part II: Line Numbering - Anon84
http://www.catonmat.net/blog/perl-one-liners-explained-part-two/
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ccc123ccc
For command line, I prefer awk and sed. Yes, I know they don't have the power
of Perl or Python for big projects, but this is an excellent example of using
a shotgun to k... | {
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Certifications in email sig - good or bad? - washingtondc
http://www.convertyourcds.com/blogs/district-media-works/1630752-on-putting-your-certifications-in-your-signature
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kls
I am a firm believer in not putting any certs, books you wrote, or conferences
you have spoke at in your sig. IT can be read in two wa... | {
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Is the Tipping Point Toast? (Duncan Watts thinks Malcolm Gladwell is wrong about tipping points) - toffer
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/122/is-the-tipping-point-toast.html
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ekanes
The article isn't bad, but his counter-experiments aren't very persuasive. I
would still argue that influencers are more influe... | {
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Show HN: PumpkinDB, an event sourcing database engine - yrashk
http://pumpkindb.org
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yrashk
It's a lower-level "database engine" that allows you to build different types
of higher level databases based on a very simple foundation:
1) BTree-based K/V engine (which gives you an ability to iterate over
lexicograph... | {
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The secret of IKEA's success - cwan
http://www.economist.com/node/18229400?story_id=18229400&fsrc=rss
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ffumarola
I can't remember how many case studies I've read about Ikea through my Supply
Chain Management program, but it's a lot.
After taking those courses, it's such a wonder walking through the store. Th... | {
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} |
Initial Coin Offering - jhabdas
https://hackcabin.com/deal/initial-coin-offering/
======
sharemywin
Let me start off by saying I'm in the process of putting a mining rig
together. So, I'm long term bullish on Cryto.
But, there's nothing to say that prices won't go up or down or sideways.
It's good to take calculated... | {
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} |
Introducing CoVim – Collaborative Editing for Vim - jamesbritt
http://fredkschott.com/post/50510962864/introducing-covim-collaborative-editing-for-vim
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MetaCosm
This is really damn cool. It just comes too late for me. I have adapted to
shared tmux sessions -- that allow me to work with _shiver_ the dirty emacs
u... | {
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Clinton’s encryption remark makes Silicon Valley nervous - BillShakespeare
http://www.digitaltrends.com/web/clinton-encryption-comments-silicon-valley/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialm&utm_campaign=dlvr.it
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MrZongle2
"Privacy for me but not for thee," says the former Secretary of State who used
a private ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What are you favorite tiny tools? - seanlinehan
Everybody I know has a set of little software tools that they use that make their work either slightly easier or slightly more pleasant.<p>What are the tiny tools that you use for your work?<p>Some of mine:<p>Skitch -- Little Mac app that makes it easy to take sc... | {
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On failing: Crowdfunding an iPhone app - blacktar
http://stopmebeforeiblogagain.com/on-failing-crowd-funding-an-iphone-app/
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gacba
_Talking to people, the single most frequent first response is “I don’t get
it”. Then we take the time to explain it and then they are like “Oh, I see.
That’s cool”._
You said you... | {
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Ask HN: How do you manage per-service emails with aliases? - lnalx
With recent leak of Dropbox, I wake up upon the reality to have per-service emails along with aliases. My current email provider allow me only 3 aliases.<p>How do you manage your aliases? Which email provider providing a lot of aliases do you recommend... | {
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Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and Serpico - ehwizard
http://calacanis.com/2010/06/04/steve-jobs-mark-zuckerberg-and-serpico/
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sajid
What's with all these random people posting open letters to Mark Zuckerberg?
Delusions of grandeur seem to be running rampant...
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Putting Apple’s iMac Pro Through the Paces - jseliger
https://digitalfilms.wordpress.com/2018/01/06/putting-apples-imac-pro-through-the-paces/
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sudhirj
It's interesting that development of the iMac Pro was already underway when
Apple and pro users (mostly developers) had that big showdown after the touch
bar cam... | {
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Stackable Permanent Life Improvements - bro-kaizen
http://bro-kaizen.github.io/blog/2014/11/19/stackable-permanent-life-improvements/
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mpbm
That's a good start, but the framework needs development.
For example, it doesn't explicitly account for the fact that SPLIs require
exertion, and exertion requires recuper... | {
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A Java Fork/Join Framework - dedalus
http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/papers/fj.pdf
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ExpiredLink
Doug Lea from 2000?
[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.42.1...](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.42.1918)
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Avro: A Format for Big Data - jhammerb
http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2009/11/02/avro-a-format-for-big-data/
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jhammerb
Digg will be hosting an Avro hackathon on Thursday, November 19. Sign up if
you'd like to hack! <http://avrohackathon.eventbrite.com/>
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jbr
Can someone with more experience with these for... | {
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Show HN: React Pattern Book – A low maintenance pattern library/style guide - holloway
https://springload.github.io/pattern-book/#
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noway421
So is this a package which builds a page showing a design system based on your
existing CSS? Interesting, I think the landing page could explain this better.
The demo link ... | {
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#Lighten Up – the colour of skin, in cartoons - hunglee2
https://thenib.com/lighten-up-4f7f96ca8a7e
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Nadya
Maybe this is common, part of a larger picture, but the story is presented as
a more isolated incident and I will treat it as such. There was no racism in
her words to "lighten the skin tone" \- only a mi... | {
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} |
Tell HN: Touch typing on a touch screen - piano? - JBiserkov
Yesterday a friend showed me his iPad. He said something like "You can't touch type, of course." That seemed wrong at the moment, but I didn't want to argue.<p>This morning I awoke with a thought: Assuming the device can't provide tactile feedback, what ab... | {
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Going hungry affects children for their whole lives - pseudolus
https://mosaicscience.com/story/food-poverty-nutrition-health-austerity-child-development-diet-benefits/
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urbanslug
> Hunger during childhood can have a ripple effect that we are only just
> beginning to understand.
I come from Africa and I attend ... | {
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Venezuela’s Supreme Court Consolidates President Nicolás Maduro’s Power - protomyth
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/world/americas/venezuela-nicolas-maduro.html
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andrenth
With the Supreme Court in the pocket of the dictatorship, there's very little
hope for Venezuela.
The totalitarian ascent to power was appl... | {
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} |
Deaths by horsekick in the Prussian army – and other ‘Never Events’ - DanBC
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/anae.13261
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DanBC
I suck at editing titles to fit the 80 character limit. This title was _Deaths
by horsekick in the Prussian army – and other ‘Never Events’ in large
organisations_ which ... | {
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} |
How To Choose A Good Mobile Ad Network - connochristou
http://www.avocarrot.com/blog/choose-good-mobile-ad-network/
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markovbling
The article speaks to the characteristics of good mobile networks but does not
mention any actual networks - do you have any suggestions on say the top 3
mobile ad networks in the US... | {
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} |
Should Disney World Have the Right to Build a Nuclear Power Plant? - cienega
https://www.citylab.com/environment/2019/05/disney-build-nuclear-reactor-orlando-florida-legal-history/587950/
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munk-a
I really wish nuclear power would stop getting all this unnecessary hate -
apparently in the grand canyon there was a... | {
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} |
PLA Unit 61398 - wslh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLA_Unit_61398
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bediger4000
Does anyone know where to buy Unit 61398 swag? You know: sticers, tee shirts,
refrigerator magnets, tchotchkes like that.
| {
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} |
Mr. Rogers vs. the Superheroes - axiomdata316
https://longreads.com/2018/09/19/mr-rogers-vs-the-superheroes/
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caro_douglos
I've always been fascinated by how some children's book authors are able to
bring up story lines which tap into feelings that arise at various ages (i.e
death, divorce, etc). I watched Mr Ro... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Richard Stallman Described Epstein Victims as 'Entirely Willing' - bandrami
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9ke3ke/famed-computer-scientist-richard-stallman-described-epstein-victims-as-entirely-willing
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nabla9
RMS has called himself "borderline autistic". I don't disagree. His socially
clueless black and whi... | {
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} |
Interference: Open-source distributed database with complex event processing - interference
http://github.biz/interference-project/interference
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} |
Ask HN: What should I be expecting to pay a designer? - kmack
Hey guys, I am just in the infant stages of a new start up and was hoping someone could give me some reference to work from in terms of hiring a designer. Currently, I am looking for someone to help come up with a logo and help with branding. Does anyone ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Jobs/careers that make the world better? - throwaway180909
Hi HN - apologies for the throwaway posting.<p>After over a decade working in various software engineering and management roles I'm looking for a change - and in particular, I'm looking for something where I can step back at the end of each d... | {
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} |
Benchmarking Hubspot's S-1: How Key SaaS Metrics Stack Up - kareemm
http://tomtunguz.com/hubspot-ipo/
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JonLim
Invested in growth, low but potentially growing average revenue per customer,
and decreasing sales efficiency.
I'm really not sure what to make of it, or if I've even pulled out the
important points. ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Deeper Than Deep: David Reich’s genetics lab unveils our prehistoric past - benbreen
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/deeper-deep
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sjeohp
_... the Zuckerberg couture of Harvard geniuses..._
_... from an extraordinarily gifted family of geniuses..._
The writer is some kind of sycophant.
------
skos... | {
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} |
Designing the Packaging-Free Future - kintamanimatt
http://www.wired.com/design/2013/02/packages-without-packaging/
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jckt
Was just thinking about this today, what a coincidence.
I think the real question is how to deliver store-bought items more
effectively to your home. For example, instead of teabags there'... | {
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} |
This 17-Year-Old Coder Is Saving Twitter From TV Spoilers - danso
http://www.motherjones.com/media/2013/05/meet-17-year-old-saving-you-game-thrones-twitter-spoilers
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danso
That she's young and female is interesting...but I really love how her idea
was thought up the night before and swiftly implemented...what ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Semantic Editing and Representation of Photos - techscouter
http://blog.techscouter.net/seed-semantic-editing-encoding-and-decoding
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techscouter
Summary\ TL;DR: Editing and representing photos (and other media types) at a
semantic level, not at the pixel level, has a lot of potential. For example:
search, func... | {
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} |
Going to Mars is (relatively) easy; coming back is where it gets tricky - tambourine_man
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/09/going-to-mars-is-relatively-easy-coming-back-is-where-it-gets-tricky/
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rbanffy
I still think that making the bulk of the vehicle land and then take off is a
bit odd. Sending the fuel/ox... | {
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} |
State of the Site: Metafilter financial update and future directions - colinprince
https://metatalk.metafilter.com/24814/State-of-the-Site-Metafilter-financial-update-and-future-directions
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cimmanom
Metafilter might be the internet community with the single highest quality of
discourse on the internet. Yes, easi... | {
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} |
At Odds: Hackers at Harvard - evangastman
http://evangastman.tumblr.com/
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hmpc
>I don’t buy that as an excuse for why there aren’t any intensive courses on
Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Objective-C, HTML/CSS and JavaScript.
For the same reason why there aren't any intensive courses on Windows, ASP, or
GNOME. Becaus... | {
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} |
Show HN: Emoji to Image - xudhinao
https://emoji.aranja.com
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billpg
What license (if any) are these images under?
~~~
xudhinao
The best resource for this I've found is here:
[https://blog.emojipedia.org/who-owns-emoji/](https://blog.emojipedia.org/who-
owns-emoji/)
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Interface magazine takes a look at 37signals' "paradoxical" approach to business - jmonegro
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2125-interface-magazine-takes-a-look-at-37signals-paradoxical-approach-to-business
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gbookman
I definitely agree that having "alone time" from your co-workers helps foster
creativity because ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: The Life Insurance "Income Replacement" Simulator - jawns
http://lifeinsurance.pressbin.com/index.html?refer=hn
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dmix
What did you use to build it?
~~~
jawns
Highcharts for the chart. Javascript for almost all the calculations.
| {
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} |
A Software Entrepreneur On The Madness Of Software Patents and Trolls - azakai
http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2012/08/a-software-entrepreneur-on-the-madness-of-software-patents-and-trolls.html
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noonespecial
_One lawyer I consulted told me not to read the patents- they were irrelevant.
And the troll agrees. He s... | {
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} |
Whither open source? - fcambus
http://ptribble.blogspot.com/2015/08/whither-open-source.html
======
realharo
I find that dependency managers used by those "new" languages make setting up
a project for local development a lot easier than the alternative of manually
hunting down and compiling a bunch of 3rd party libr... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
H5P: Free online HTML5 content creation - geocrasher
https://h5p.org
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geocrasher
Not mine. Just a neat tool that I ran across and thought I'd share.
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Cheddar empire: Rise of a cheese superpower - vo2maxer
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/cheddar-cheese-history/index.html
======
PaulDavisThe1st
Side note: one of the saddest-but-also-good aspects of the rise of artisanal
cheese making in the US is how most US producers seem to be pricing their
product at or above t... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Shippos USPS Time in Transit Data - bmahmood
https://goshippo.com/usps-data-2020/
======
chrisBob
One thing this doesn't account for is fraudulent delivery reports. In my area
a large percentage of my USPS deliveries are reported as delivered around 6pm
on the scheduled delivery day, but I can't find the package anywh... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
IOTA: A Cryptoplatform for the Internet of Things - Osiris30
https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/tangle-cryptocurrency-for-the-internet-of-things/
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Rhapso
The "Tangle Approach" seems to do some awesome things:
\- Seems to have similar robustness to bitcoin in terms of double-spend/attack
defense.
\- Handle high la... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Isn't the 2010s tech bubble worse because it's slower? - untilHellbanned
The 2010s seem different from the later 1990s in that the late 1990s bubble popped very fast whereas the 2010s version seems to be a slow trickle of bad news. I'd argue the 2010s tech bubble is significantly worse because people are ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Cloud Sharing of your Servers - SteveWise
http://CloudSlice.io
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SteveWise
Hi, this is a variation of a previous product (still existing) that we built.
It's a low cost, smart way to share server images that you store on our cloud.
You can share servers with anyone, pretty much by emailing them a hyperli... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
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