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Neurological Implications of Covid-19 Raise Concerns - doener
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-new-brain/202004/neurological-implications-covid-19-raise-concerns
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_-_T_-_
Doubts have been raised about the validity of this hypothesis -
[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jmv.25828](https:/... | {
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Thomas verdict: willful infringement, $1.92 million penalty - clint
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/06/jammie-thomas-retrial-verdict.ars
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ramidarigaz
$80,000 per song... That is fucked up (pardon my language), but that is fucked
up.
Edit: Isn't the law supposed to protect against ridiculous punis... | {
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Private equity controls the U.S. voting machine industry - petethomas
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-03/private-equity-controls-the-gatekeepers-of-american-democracy?srnd=premium
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darawk
The problem here isn't private equity control of the industry...it's state &
local governments choosing to ac... | {
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Jack Dorsey Only Eats One Meal a Day - awiesenhofer
https://www.gq.com/story/jack-dorsey-only-eats-one-meal-a-day
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claudiawerner
Intermittent fasting is gaining popularity, but it's hard for me to tell which
aspect (if we must choose) provides the benefit: either there is something
inherent in fasting for 24 hou... | {
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Major new bill mandating open access introduced in Congress - michael_nielsen
https://plus.google.com/109377556796183035206/posts/FZFvDhBLTzE
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michael_nielsen
See, in particular, the Call to Action from the Alliance for Taxpayer Access
(ATA):
[http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/action/FASTR_calltoaction.shtm...](htt... | {
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IT Geeks are best in bed - mteinum
http://www.adressa.no/forbruker/sexogsamliv/article1334737.ece
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mteinum
And with google translate:
[http://translate.google.no/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev...](http://translate.google.no/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adressa.no%2F... | {
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Blogs.perl.org hacked - kamaal
http://perlhacks.com/2014/01/blogs-perl-org/
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welder
MySQL dump of accounts including passwords hashed using perl's truncated DES
crypt function:
[https://www.quickleak.org/QtPly6aE](https://www.quickleak.org/QtPly6aE)
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Ask HN: Who are your programming rockstars, and why? - bangonkeyboard
Carmack, Torvalds, Bellard, Wozniak, et al. Who do you personally admire as 10x or otherwise brilliant coders? What do you consider their most notable or emulable accomplishments, habits, or contributions?
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folkhack
An unsung hero of mine is J... | {
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Data Structures in Swift – Part 2 - prtkgpt
https://www.pluralsight.com/guides/swift/data-structures-in-swift-part-2
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abhimt
Data Structure problems in C++
[http://www.techiedelight.com/](http://www.techiedelight.com/)
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State Changes Are Essential to Reliability; Functional Programming Is an Abomination - bct
http://rebelscience.blogspot.com/2007/09/functional-programming-is-worse-than.html
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dougp
This guy for some reason hates our current model of computing. He thinks that
it can never be effectively parrallelized because ou... | {
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Ask HN: How is your family organized? - thekhatribharat
Thinking of the family as a socio-economic unit, it's interesting to understand the roles different members play in a family and the different family organizational patterns in practice across the globe.<p>Keywords: Family Organization Chart, Family Life Str... | {
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Ask HN: Where do developers find designers willing to work for equity? - citizenkeys
Where do developers find designers willing to work for equity instead of pay? I have no funding and my start-up needs a logo and better aesthetics.
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MatthewPhillips
To get yourself off the ground I would recommend hiring some... | {
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Top improvements for PHP developers - JerryH
http://www.jeremyhutchings.com/2010/11/top-10-improvements-for-php-developers.html
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TamDenholm
I like the points about using php for logic instead of mysql, I've been doing
that for years because I prefer to always do the heavy lifting in php which I
know better tha... | {
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E.W. Scripps Buys Podcast Company Stitcher - swilliams
http://www.wsj.com/articles/e-w-scripps-buys-podcast-company-stitcher-1465239600
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Dramatize
Doesn't seem like a big exit?
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Getting A Better View - fallentimes
http://ticketstumbler.com/new-stuff/2009/03/29/getting-a-better-view/
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paulgb
What I really find remarkable was that all 25,000 images were collected by
three guys with day jobs, in one season.
<http://seatdata.com/html/home/faq.htm>
<http://seatdata.com/html/home/adventur... | {
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The Lemon Parser Generator - znpy
http://www.sqlite.org/src/doc/trunk/doc/lemon.html
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haxiomic
Lemon is great. I used it to develop a browser based GLSL parser[0]. I spent
ages working with existing javascript parser generators and kept running into
walls with syntax and performance until I settled on porting Le... | {
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$25 + Homeles Shelter + Hard Work = American Dream - harrisreynolds
http://www.scratchbeginnings.com/
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RiderOfGiraffes
Already posted: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=462786>
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My "app": Free, balanced, multi-purpose NDA form [pdf], with curator's notes - dctoedt
http://www.ontechnologylaw.com/2010/08/precut-nda/
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dctoedt
[FROM OP:] This was a side project; it's the first of what I hope will be a
series of "read, sign, and go" baseline contract forms and curator's notes,
available un... | {
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The Absolute Easiest Way to Debug Node.js – With VS Code - yannikyeo
https://itnext.io/the-absolute-easiest-way-to-debug-node-js-with-vscode-2e02ef5b1bad
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paulirish
The author linked to a post of mine for debugging Node with Chrome DevTools I
agree that it's a little frustrating. But a few months ago, the `ndb` ... | {
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The ‘Global Order’ myth: teary-eyed nostalgia as cover for U.S. hegemony - ahmedsaladin
http://artofpolitics.ml/political-philosophy/the-global-order-myth-teary-eyed-nostalgia-as-cover-for-u-s-hegemony/
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teslabox
This is quite a piece...
> During the Age of Trump, Year One, a single word has emerged to capture ... | {
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HP donates a hefty server to homebrew WebOS Internals Group - amock
http://www.precentral.net/hp-donates-server-homebrew-webos-internals-group
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benologist
Very cool of them, especially with no strings attached.
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PayPal Launches In-App Payment Library For Android - Concours
http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/19/paypal-launches-in-app-payment-library-for-android/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29
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mike-cardwell
Excellent. It's damn annoying having to give Google 30% of every... | {
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Bloom Box: What is it and how does it work? - chanux
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2010/0222/Bloom-Box-What-is-it-and-how-does-it-work
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pbhjpbhj
From the linked article:
> _It’s a collection of fuel cells – skinny batteries – that use oxygen and
> fuel to create electricity with no emissions.
Fuel cells... | {
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Resisting the urge to add more features, just because you can - e1ven
http://inessential.com/?comments=1&postid=3398
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wensing
Adding features is not the mistake; the mistake is adding features 'just
because you can'. Moreover, I can think of some wonderful products that have a
lot of features, but they went thro... | {
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Ask HN: QA site for clothing? - lsiunsuex
Curious if there's a QA site for clothing. A place to ask questions about specific garments I guess.<p>I'm looking for a hoodie I can wear all day but is heavy enough / warm enough that I can keep it on when I pop outside for a quick smoke or shovel snow or etc.... | {
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Canada's top privacy professionals are doing an iAMA tomorrow - cageek
https://privasectech.com/2015/04/canadian-privacy-iama/
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usr12345
I've never heard of them. They must be good.
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PeterWhittaker
Yeah, seems a bit slashvertisy. I expected to see Michael Geist or one or two
former information/privacy comm... | {
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US government sues Edward Snowden over his new memoir 'Permanent Record' - OrgNet
https://news.yahoo.com/im-not-asking-pardon-edward-124317097.html
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OrgNet
oops, dupe of those:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20999537](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20999537)
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2... | {
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President Obama: Prison rape is no joke - theandrewbailey
https://www.yahoo.com/politics/president-obama-prison-rape-is-no-joke-124157225836.html
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Fjolsvith
I did over 10 years in prison, both state and federal, and never was an inmate
raped at any of the facilities I was housed.
Inmates joke about it a lot, ... | {
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CCleaner Compromised to Distribute Malware for Almost a Month - wglb
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ccleaner-compromised-to-distribute-malware-for-almost-a-month/
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ColinWright
The discussion is substantial, and over here:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15274339](https://news.ycombinator.c... | {
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Hacking Evolution:Mitochondrial Gene Transfer by SENS Research Foundation - MMTP
http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/09/04/nar.gkw756
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MMTP
For almost a decade the SENS Research Foundation has helped to fund research
by various groups on the allotopic expression of mitochondrial genes, a way to
both... | {
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Panda3d full featured open source python 3d engine - 1.5.0 released - treeform
http://panda3d.org/
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treeform
I am using this for my game <http://aff2aw.com> there is plant of commercial
games that use it too: <http://play.toontown.com/webHome.php>
<http://apps.pirates.go.com/pirates/v3/welcome> <http://code3d.... | {
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Don't try this at home. How credit card arbitrage funded my first company. - jaf12duke
http://www.humbledmba.com/dont-try-this-at-home-how-credit-card-arbitra
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jessriedel
> For some personal background, I do come from a financially stable family. My
> parents could have covered the $16k to help me follow my dre... | {
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DeepMind’s Latest A.I. Health Breakthrough Has Some Problems - amrrs
https://onezero.medium.com/deepminds-latest-a-i-health-breakthrough-has-some-problems-5cd14e2c77ef
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amrrs
Non-paywall - [https://outline.com/ynWv9S](https://outline.com/ynWv9S)
| {
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WhatsApp for iPad and Mac in the works, suggests reliable leaker - garysahota93
https://9to5mac.com/2019/07/26/whatsapp-for-ipad/
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vikingcaffiene
This would have been good news before FB bought em. As it stands why not just
save time and mail FB the contents of your hard drive directly?
| {
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Should it be a bit harder to submit on HN? - egiva
Just a quick question/concept: should it be a bit harder to post on HN - thus leading to higher quality links/submissions? In general, the quality of content posted is amazing, but what if a description of minimum character length was needed to post? Average number ... | {
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Should Microsoft Fund Startups, Y Combinator-Style? - gthuang
http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2008/08/11/microsoft-entertains-idea-of-funding-startups-probably-wont-take-the-plunge/
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iamdave
Founders fear giving their investors too much control and stake in a company
with investors, until Microsoft jumped in th... | {
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NYTimes releases Article Search API - bdotdub
http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/04/announcing-the-article-search-api/
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markbao
I'm always extremely impressed with NYTimes' Developer Tools
(<http://developer.nytimes.com/>) – especially when they are going through the
(apparent) decline of newspapers.
I'm e... | {
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M 7.1 SoCal Earthquake: What's Next? - mgsouth
http://temblor.net/earthquake-insights/m-7-1-socal-earthquake-triggers-aftershocks-up-to-100-mi-away-whats-next-9055/
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needle0
One thing I noticed is that when the US talks about earthquakes, it often only
notes the seismic magnitude value of the quake and doesn't a... | {
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Climate Change Supercomputer Cited as Top Polluter - 1SockChuck
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/08/28/uk-climate-change-computer-cited-as-polluter/
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dejb
Shame that so many of those hard-working thoughtful journalists who provide
such an essential service to the community by reporting this sor... | {
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Ask HN: Butterfly Labs BTC Mining Rigs, Too Late? - th3doubl3d
If I don't get one until June, will I be able to make my money back? Thoughts?
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th3doubl3d
Right. They're saying they'd like to have them all shipped by June. After
crunching the numbers I can't see how the difficulty level will go up that
hard wit... | {
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Dashdash.com launches spreadsheet with native data, APIs, automation - patife
https://medium.com/dashdash/the-5-superpowers-of-spreadsheet-cells-2b44b1455647
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cnfonseca
can I integrate with a generic API?
~~~
patife
sure.
you can use =GET(url, JSON_headers) for that. More
[https://forum.dashdash.com/t/get-post... | {
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Microsoft Accused Of Stealing Kinect From Columbian Inventor - dkd903
http://digitizor.com/2011/07/15/microsoft-accused-stealing-kinect/
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daeken
This article misses one thing: MS didn't develop this part of the tech,
PrimeSense did. You can see their stuff at <http://www.primesense.com/?p=487>
MS built the so... | {
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What can actually be accomplished with Twitter? - messel
http://messel.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/03/what-can-actually-be-accomplished-with-twitter.html
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access_denied
Driving traffic to your site. The power of social network based traffic is
that you can reach people who wouldn't have searched for your keywor... | {
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Mongo Aggregates and How to explain mongo aggregate queries - rangerranvir
https://ranvir.xyz/blog/mongo-aggregates/
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rangerranvir
Explaining your queries before deploying gives you a lot of advantage and help
you provide better user experience by providing result faster. What process do
you use so that your que... | {
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Using Google Cloud Vision OCR to extract text from photos and scanned documents - danso
https://gist.github.com/dannguyen/a0b69c84ebc00c54c94d
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ImJasonH
While we're talking about the Google Cloud Vision API I'll take the
opportunity to plug the Chrome extension I wrote that adds a right-click menu
item to detect... | {
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Crowd Sourcing / Funding for students - crjHome
http://sendanimac.tumblr.com/
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felipebueno
Why do you need an iMac? Why would I help you to buy one? You can develop for
almost every platform using your Sony Laptop, even for iOS. And why an iMac?
The most expensive Apple computer. Why don't you start with a Mac... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
What if I knew I'd die in 35 days? - sajid
http://founderzen.com/2011/04/19/times-flying
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nadam
1\. I would definitely live differently if my expected remaining life time
would be 35 days than if it would be 35 years. Some preojects are more long-
term in nature.
2\. This list shows that the author is very yo... | {
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Optogenetics Hardware Setup - snake117
http://web.stanford.edu/group/dlab/optogenetics/hardware.html
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batbomb
I saw one of the guys from this lab give a colloquium (namely about the virus
vectors and mice) and it was the single most amazing thing/field I've learned
about in the last 10 years.
~~~
bognition
Opto... | {
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WebSockets is a stream, not a message based protocol - saurabh
http://www.lenholgate.com/blog/2011/07/websockets-is-a-stream-not-a-message-based-protocol.html
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zaphoyd
I think his analysis is flawed. WebSocket is a message based protocol that
does not specify a maximum message size in the RFC. This does not make... | {
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The Tech Worker Shortage Doesn't Really Exist - prostoalex
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-11-24/the-tech-worker-shortage-doesnt-really-exist#r=read
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pm90
I'm increasingly agitated by these commentators on the topic, who have
absolutely no idea what the ground reality is. Frequently, as in this case,
t... | {
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Most commonly used statistical tests and implementation in R - nafizh
http://r-statistics.co/Statistical-Tests-in-R.html
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IndianAstronaut
Shapiro Wilk isn't all that useful with practical data unless your sample
sizes are fairly small. Once you deal with anything above 5000 values, you are
better off with QQ plo... | {
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} |
The trouble with non-profits - wglb
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/measurenonprofit
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daydream
"But it does mean that if you’re involved in nonprofits (or predictions), you
need to be much more careful about making sure you’re doing a good job.
Unfortunately, few nonprofits do that."
Oh really? So he can cite r... | {
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The 2002 mandate for internal communication systems at Amazon - anacleto
https://www.sametab.com/blog/frameworks-for-remote-working
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Twirrim
Yegge's post was very interesting reading, and I took similar learnings away
from it. I was at Amazon at the time, however, and there were things that
certainly weren't tru... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Should YouTube Charge a Fee to Upload Video? - peter123
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/16/should-youtube-charge-a-fee-to-upload-video/
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DanielStraight
Sure, if they want to lose 99.9999999999999999999999% of their uploaders.
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Pretentious tool for working and relaxing (disclaimer: for hipsters only) - tristanac
http://hipstersound.xyz/?cafeteria
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tristanac
with silly name
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Ask YC: Capacity planning question - goodgoblin
How many simultaneous mongrels am I going to need to serve 120K users? 120K mongrels?<p>Assume the mongrels are sitting at the front of a rails app - any idea of a good metric for this? I know they're not all going to be hitting the site simultaneously, but I believe... | {
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The problem with using or advocating Linux - michaelbeam
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=159931
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freehunter
I've had (and discussed) issues like this all the time. Generally, things
work. But every time I try using Linux as a desktop OS, there's some things
that push me back to Windows, because it'... | {
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Ask HN: Does higher pay offer on exiting a job reveal employee's real value? - valand
A scenario: an employee, Orion, is announcing to exit a job in a company, RapidData, due to monetary reason.<p>On announcing the exit, Orion is being offered 180% of current pay if he decides to stay in RapidData. Orion's respon... | {
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Basic Income as Common Dividends: Piloting a Transformative Policy - T-A
https://www.thersa.org/events/2019/05/basic-income-as-common-dividends
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m33k44
I use to be a proponent of UBI, but in recent months have changed my mind
after moving to a shared accommodation(mostly students). In this house there
are 4 stud... | {
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Show HN: Popular shots from Dribbble right into your new tab - _fertapric
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dribbble-new-tab/hmhjbefkpednjogghoibpejdmemkinbn#hn
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andyfleming
I've used Benchwarmer in the past. Does the same thing, but with a few extra
features. [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail... | {
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Venezuela and Russia Teamed Up to Push Pro-Catalan Fake News - robin_reala
https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-is-venezuela-waging-cyber-war-in-europe
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pulisse
Money quote: _analysis of more than 5 million messages about Catalonia posted
on social networks between Sept. 29 and Oct. 5 shows that only 3 percent come... | {
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} |
I've managed to get a job interview in Oslo - norway_newb
and would be grateful to know if there is anything worth doing/seeing/meeting in Oslo before going home?
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lagadu
If the weather is clear (unlikely, I know) going up Holmenkollen is gorgeous.
Visiting Vigeland park is a must too.
Good luck wit... | {
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Python 2.6 and 3.0 release schedule - inklesspen
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-March/077723.html
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inklesspen
They plan for 2.6 and 3.0 to be released in September. Great news!
| {
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Why the Future of Tesla May Depend on Knowing What Happened to Billy Durant - TheAuditor
https://steveblank.com/2018/04/23/why-the-future-of-tesla-may-depend-on-knowing-what-happened-to-billy-durant/
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amarant
it's often said that if a headline is posited as a question, the answer to
that question is "no".
if th... | {
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Quantifying the evolution of individual scientific impact - yarapavan
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6312/aaf5239
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achow
The linked article seems to be misleading on the true purpose of the research.
The source:
[http://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6312/aaf5239](http://science.sciencemag.org/co... | {
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Ask HN: What tech problems would you glady pay $25 a month for a SAAS solution? - seanpackham
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seanpackham
I asked this question wanting to know what day to day issues people struggle
with, what tasks they repeat a dozen times a day, what 20 process step can be
reduced to 3 or even better completely automated... | {
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Exoplanet discovery count by year - cryptoz
http://exoplanet.eu/diagrams/?t=h&f=&x=discovered&xmin=&xmax=&y=raw&ymin=&ymax=
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Jun8
When I saw this on HN, I rewatched the _Cosmos_ episode ("The Backbone of the
Night", aired on Nov 1980) where Carl Sagan is lecturing sixth graders in a
Brooklyn school (the one he... | {
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Ask HN: Copy & Undercut. Should I do this? - dadads
Call me pessimistic.<p>Every viable web startup idea that I can think of has already been done by other startups who have been there many years before. Many of these startups' products look very polished and usable, that I can't begin to think of how to make a substa... | {
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Startup Stock Option Changes - beninato
https://medium.com/@beninato/startup-stock-option-changes-5df706da0317
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diego
Backloaded vesting seems like a terrible idea. It puts the employee in a
really vulnerable position. As a company grows, the absolute value that a
given person generates should decrease relative ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Ask HN: Why does HN not allow you to modify your comments after 1 hour? - wyw
I don't know of any other sites that do this. Just wondering what the rationale is.
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pg
You need to be able to modify comments for some amount of time to correct
typos, but if you can modify them for too long you can rewrite history.... | {
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The Smart Gun Doesn’t Exist Due to Shooter Backlash - jseliger
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-04-15/the-smart-gun-doesn-t-exist-because-of-new-jersey-and-the-nra
======
sarcasmatwork
Wrong! Authors reasons fail many times based on their opinions, or bad poll
that does not speak for the majority.
>This i... | {
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} |
How to Calculate the Weekday from a Date - agiri
https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/how-to-perform-calendar-calculations-5617f35d3070
======
WheelsAtLarge
I've got a way easier method. Ask Google or Alexa.
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laronian
Doesn't work for my birthday 06/10/82..
| {
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Failure of Neal Stephenson Kickstarter - lispython
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/09/clang-kickstarter/
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unoti
The Clang kickstarter announcement underscores the importance of good public-
facing communications, which is sorely lacking here. I'm not too astonished
that the devs _feel_ the way the announcem... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A computer science fiction novel, Blue Screen - kylebenzle
https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Screen-Peter-Gustafson-Defragmented-ebook/dp/B084GHLYSX/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=Blue+Screen%3A+How+Peter+Gustafson+Defragmented+the+World&qid=1593744896&s=digital-text&sr=1-2
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kylebenzle
Peter Gustafson wants to save the ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Rewards for Opinions Privacy Policy - hispanic
https://www.rewardsforopinions.com/privacy.html
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hispanic
"Six months following your inactivity with the panel Sites and/or uninstalling
the Application/Services, RN may transfer your PII to a third party data
broker and/or data management platform for purposes of r... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Thomas Piketty: Clamping down with law and order will not be enough - e15ctr0n
http://piketty.blog.lemonde.fr/2015/11/24/clamping-down-with-law-and-order-will-not-be-enough/
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mikeash
There is a lot of _extremely_ opinionated and pointed discussion going on in
these comments.
How many of you read the article?
H... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Sass for Designers - joshuacc
http://sonspring.com/journal/sass-for-designers
======
tptacek
For whatever this is worth: you really don't need to have your third-party
designers using Sass to ship a Sass product. You have other options:
(a) You can convert the designer's CSS to Sass (designer CSS is going to be
subop... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Bash Pitfalls - monort
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls
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monort
If your bash script is not trivial, and target machines have python, it's
probably better to use sh:
[https://amoffat.github.io/sh/](https://amoffat.github.io/sh/)
~~~
iberieve
First time I've seen this and it looks amazing. Poorly named ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Quick hack to put iOS5 Newsstand Icon in a folder - wesbos
http://wesbos.com/hide-newsstand-icon-iphone/
======
jasonrodriguez
Try running it once it is inside the folder. Fine with me because I don't use
it (yet), but others may not like the outcome.
| {
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} |
This is the proof that the 1% have been running the show for 800 years - known
http://qz.com/301150/this-is-the-proof-that-the-1-have-been-running-the-show-for-800-years/
======
userbmf
It amazes me how Canadians and Americans love the royal family, yet the whole
point of North America was you had access to land and... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
SageDB: a learned database system - ketralnis
https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/01/16/sagedb-a-learned-database-system/
======
pjscott
Whenever learned database indexes come up, people get worried about worst-case
performance compared to the predictability of B-trees. So, to preemptively
clarify: the B-tree alternatives u... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Get-shit-done - Easy way to stop distractions - leftnode
https://github.com/leftnode/get-shit-done
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adnam
I once wrote a similar script which was configurable and it installed as a
service. It would periodically scan /etc/hosts to check I wasn't cheating.
$ sudo /etc/inid.d/procrastination-ctl s... | {
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} |
Show HN: Taiwan Financial Institute SSL Status - imrehg
https://gergely.imreh.net/twbankssl/
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humanarity
There are truly a lot of banks in Taiwan.
~~~
imrehg
The funny thing is that (as far as I know) there can never be any more than
this. Taiwan stopped giving out banking licenses, so you can only open up a
... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
New haskell-lang.org - Rabble_Of_One
https://haskell-lang.org/announcements
======
cm3
FWIW, I've tried to use stack twice and came back to cabal-install. There's
also that I enable split-objects in ~/.cabal/config (not available in Stack)
and often use GHC on platforms where there's no Stack-provided GHC available.
T... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Anonymous strikes back: takes down DoJ, Universal, RIAA and MPAA sites - 11031a
http://www.geek.com/articles/news/anonymous-strikes-back-by-taking-down-doj-universal-records-20120119/
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abrahamsen
This ... doesn't help. Especially right now.
If I worked PR for SOPA/PIPA, I'd try to associate the anti-SOPA/PIPA... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How Much Do Average Apps Make On Each Platform? - YeahKIA
http://www.forbes.com/sites/tristanlouis/2013/08/10/how-much-do-average-apps-make/?partner=yahootix
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Zaheer
I have a very popular app for iOS and Android. Both have the same
functionality. These figures (5x more revenue on iOS) is pretty consistent
with... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Schools Beat Earlier Plagues With Outdoor Classes - sylvainkalache
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/nyregion/coronavirus-nyc-schools-reopening-outdoors.html
======
abalashov
That's a troubling thought down here in eastern Georgia, where it has been in
the high 90F (35-37C) range for the past few weeks, with heat ind... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Edward Snowden looms over Pulitzer Prizes - 001sky
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/03/edward-snowden-pulitzer-prize-washington-post-guardian-nsa-104608.html
======
higherpurpose
Reminder to self: never update a Politico story ever again. It seems they are
a little too eager to tell us with each of their Snowden s... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Endyloop – Work for companies that offer amazing perks and culture - dhay06
http://Endyloop.com
======
dhay06
I just launched Endyloop on Producthunt today at
[https://www.producthunt.com/posts/endyloop](https://www.producthunt.com/posts/endyloop).
I wrote a blog on
[https://dhialouhichi.com/endyloop](https://dhialou... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Some thoughts on organizational complexity - LiveTheDream
http://daltoncaldwell.com/thoughts-on-organizational-complexity
======
zaidf
_Organizational complexity can show up in odd ways in a shipping product. For
instance, why does a single product, the Microsoft Surface, give consumers the
option between two very dif... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Checking multiple airports can save a fortune: Here is why - nlanges
https://medium.com/@tripdelta/why-it-makes-sense-to-check-more-than-one-airport-for-your-next-flight-a72355a38f22
======
dribel
nice write!!! But isn't that clear? I mean, that's why it always takes me ages
to book a flight....But good to know why. I... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Has humanity reached ‘peak intelligence’? - SQL2219
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190709-has-humanity-reached-peak-intelligence
======
aaron695
There are a billion people who's childrens IQ are being permanently reduced
from lack of infant nutrients.
You have many billions of people alive who have had this hap... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
What I Learned Selling a Software Business - earlyresort
https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/selling_software_business
======
aresant
FEI still has the original listing on their site:
Yearly revenue - $31,000
Yearly net profit - $19,000
Asking price - $57,000 SOLD
It's fascinating what a small amoun... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Why Google bought Songza: The music industry's third revolution - stevep2007
http://www.networkworld.com/article/2449657/opensource-subnet/why-google-bought-songza-the-music-industrys-revolution-spotify-streaming.html#more
======
stevep2007
Thomas Edison revolutionized music when he invented recording. Steve Jobs re... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: e-mail-based Twitter monitoring? - charliepark
I'm guessing someone's done it already, but if not, I might build it. Essentially, I'm looking for a way to receive an e-mail alert whenever a specific term comes up on Twitter. I know one way to do this is to set an RSS feed off of search.twitter.com, but that ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Even in Test Form, Windows 7 Leaves Vista in the Dust - rogercosseboom
http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20090121/even-in-test-form-windows-7-leaves-vista-in-the-dust/
======
unalone
I really hope Windows 7 turns out to be a decent operating system. I'm a Mac
guy, but I feel that that's out of default right now: there's n... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Founders: It’s not 1990. Stop treating your employees like it is - shalinmangar
https://medium.com/@tikhon/founders-it-s-not-1990-stop-treating-your-employees-like-it-is-523f48fe90cb#.hdegartfi
======
0x49
"Founders can start a company for $7 on Digital Ocean with almost no risk.
Founders complain constantly they can’... | {
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} |
Pirate Coelho (2008) - wanderer42
http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2008/02/03/pirate-coelho/
======
coldtea
> _Regular readers of my blog probably remember my endless discussions about
> copyright. Every time that I see a song in my profile “deleted by the
> author” I ask to myself: don’t they understand that if I hear a so... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
‘Shut the Site Down,’ Says 8chan’s Creator - empath75
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/04/technology/8chan-shooting-manifesto.html
======
zaroth
So literally everyone so much as reading 8chan/pol is on a watchlist, right?
And what about the people posting they are about to “go kill as many brown
people as they can find... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Disguised user location data collection on Huawei phone? - seapunk
https://threader.app/thread/1051204370543648770
======
mabbo
I know I sound like a broken record on Huawei posts (too many friends' parents
lost their jobs over it) but it's worth pointing out that Huawei has an
(alleged) record relating to stealing in... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
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