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Fast Iterations: How Napoleon Managed the French Army - mikey_p http://managingmetrics.com/how-napoleon-managed-the-french-army ====== nl This article sounds really good at a high level, but it misses an important point. Prior to the invention of the radio, lower level commanders _always_ had to use their initiativ...
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The Future of Content Management - techdog http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2009/08/future-of-content-management.html ====== 9oliYQjP Actually, I beg to differ with the author. The problem I've come across with a lot of CMSes is that they have tried to make content so abstract as to make it cumbersome to do anything w...
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If Half of All Species Go Extinct, Will One of Them Be Us? - hawleyal http://nautil.us/blog/if-half-of-all-species-go-extinct-will-one-of-them-be-us ====== archgoon "We know how to not cut down trees; we know how to not hunt animals to extinction; we know how to reduce our carbon emissions. The question isn’t one of...
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Show HN: Dopamine API – Turn any app into a habit - tdaltonc http://usedopamine.com/ ====== tkomada The Dopamine API finally gives developers a tool to reliably and scalably increase retention and engagement through behavioral reinforcement techniques. It takes the guesswork out of so much of UX design that dictates a...
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Hallelujah! CloudPull successfully scrapes "tag" data from Google Reader - tvchurch http://www.goldenhillsoftware.com/ ====== tvchurch I've been looking everywhere for a way to save all of my tags from Google Reader. I can verify that CloudPull preserves all tagged data and the links to the websites that have been t...
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Go's power is in emergent behavior - bslatkin http://www.onebigfluke.com/2014/04/gos-power-is-in-emergent-behavior.html ====== eridius The first example is not emergent behavior. And it has nothing at all to do with the implicit nature of interfaces. It is in fact a pretty straightforward consequence of the fact that ...
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Ask HN: How many daily visits to HN? - tmaly Are there some stats on how many daily users visit Hackernews? ====== mod This is a starting point, without exact figures: [http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ycombinator.com](http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ycombinator.com) ~~~ 0942v8653 I like how it drops down at the beginning...
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Microsoft acquires Metaswitch in telecom push - codegeek https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/14/microsoft-acquires-metaswitch-in-telecom-push.html ====== donclark My first thought is, didnt they get out of the cellphone biz? Next, isnt SpaceX going to have the ability to provide similar service? Is there room to compete? I...
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A Simple MVC Setup in Node.js - travisglines http://www.travisglines.com/web-coding/a-simple-mvc-setup-in-node-js ====== Detrus Article is pretty weak on the details. This guy <http://nodetuts.com/> has video tuts on using Express, Jade and Mongoose to make a simple web service. ~~~ travisglines I wanted to gauge ...
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My startup's first press article - mattculbreth http://www.techjournalsouth.com/news/article.html?item_id=4399 ====== ALee Congrats Matt. We received a huge amount of press when Fantasy Congress was first created. You probably already know this, but my advice from the media cycle world is that you should not get dis...
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Ask HN: Twitter/tumblr/etc “in a box” platform? - DanBlake Hey HN- I am looking at building a service semi similar to a twitter&#x2F;instagram&#x2F;tumblr which basically involves people following other people to see their content and vice versa. For the sake of argument, imagine I wanted to build a twitter clone th...
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The Rise of 'Facadism' in London - choult https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-50396337 ====== ColinWright Discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21533746](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21533746)
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Could this be Facebook's new video ad format? (Concept Video) - DerekMerdinyan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5PMsaY0Tlo This ad format displays in the news feed like a photo and plays like a video when the device is rotated. ====== camsmoren Good stuff. I wonder if people would be willing to flip it, but much bette...
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Birchbox Cuts About 12% of Staff - MattRogish http://www.wsj.com/articles/birchbox-cuts-about-12-of-staff-1467136592 ====== brogrammernot I've been a subscriber since nearly the beginning but I'm not renewing. The service itself has become incredibly subpar and they've screwed up quite a few times. Add in the fact tha...
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Yunduan, Application Virtualization Store for Windows - liuliu http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&u=http://www.yunduan.cn/index.php%3Foption%3Dcom_swbox%26task%3Dtechn&sl=auto&tl=en ====== liuliu For those who confused by auto-translate: Yunduan(Softcloud) is a virtualization layer for applications...
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Could this mean a CDMA iPhone? - pedalpete http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2009/05/20/new-zealand-telco-seems-to-further-verify-new-iphone-on-twitter/ ====== pedalpete A quick look at the network provider on wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecom_New_Zealand> Points to this being a CDMA provider, meaning this ...
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End-to-End Analog Chips for AI Computation - beefman https://www.eetimes.com/research-breakthrough-promises-end-to-end-analog-chips-for-ai-computation/ ====== beefman Paper: [https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01981](https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01981)
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A military exercise staged 35 years ago almost triggered World War Three - pseudolus http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20181108-the-wargame-that-could-have-ended-the-world ====== michaelt But because their masters in Moscow wanted to hear there was potential for a first-strike, to please their bosses, ...
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Gay on Facebook: Nowhere to Hide - edw519 http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/02/the-digital-closet.html ====== michael_dorfman I think the article is missing the point. It's not that you can't have a secret and be on Facebook-- it's that you can't have anybody who knows your secret be on Facebook. Put another way: ev...
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The Coding Interview - rs http://blog.palantirtech.com/2011/10/03/the-coding-interview/ ====== mapleoin The best job application process I've been through was when the employer asked for a small program to be submitted with the CV. The program had to use their infrastructure and existing products, which gave me a quic...
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I'm working on developing a Product, uncertain of success. Am I wasting time? - bjoe_lewis I'm developing a product which puts an Interactive Restuarant Menu on a Tablet Screen, expecting it to be bought by hotel firms. Almost complete, I'm starting to feel as if I'm wasting time on building something unsure of its ...
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We're Halfway to Encrypting the Entire Web - Garbage https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/02/were-halfway-encrypting-entire-web ====== squarefoot While it's surely good that so many people started getting the importance of security, I find this news a bit depressing and miss so much the pre 2K web when we didn't protect...
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Which words originated in your birth year? - Ashuu http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/12/oed-birthday-words/ ====== ryanbrunner I was shocked to see "text messaging" and "smartphone" as words introduced in the 80's. I would have thought those were 90's words at least (for "smartphone" i would have guessed the 00'...
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Ethereum: Chain of Liars and Thieves - kushti https://medium.com/@WhalePanda/ethereum-chain-of-liars-thieves-b04aaa0762cb#.p8ar3h8n5 ====== splintercell I understand that author is trying to make a point about something, but the vitriol which pours out from every sentence of that article is very off putting. I have s...
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Show HN: Style Transfer - gsurma https://github.com/gsurma/style_transfer ====== graylien really cool! What do you plan to do with it?
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Ask HN: Best platform for developer portfolio site? - deniz I've got a growing list of mobile apps that I'm working on (Android/iOS) and I'm looking for a good way to present them. At the moment I've got a Posterous blog with "Posterous pages" for each project, but this is kind of backwards as the work is hidden beh...
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Top Basic Income Articles of 2017 - mooreds http://www.scottsantens.com/top-10-basic-income-articles-of-2017 ====== econ_tho it will be OK in beginning and then inflation will be ridiculous
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Sim-To-Real: Learning Agile Locomotion for Quadruped Robots - dsr12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf_UXK0OTIk ====== Faur Do you have a paper link?
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Service I want: "Report websites that suck" - gustaf Hey,<p>I was just going to pay my monthly bill on PG&#38;E. For some reason the "Pay" button doesn't work in Firefox 3. Of all the functions on that websites the "Pay-button" is likely to be the most important one. Sad they had to fuck that up.<p>So, here is my id...
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Ask HN: What should I do with HamsterDance.app? - hamsterdance Hi!<p>I am the new proud owner of hamsterdance.app Ideas for what I should do with it? ====== chewzerita May I ask why? ~~~ hamsterdance Just for fun
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Art and Code Example by Joe Hewitt - AbeEstrada https://medium.com/@joehewitt/art-code-example-type-design-c55a413ac2fe ====== AbeEstrada Art and Code, Part 1 - [https://medium.com/@joehewitt/art-and-code- part-1-2f785dd007...](https://medium.com/@joehewitt/art-and-code- part-1-2f785dd007fd) Art and Code, Part 2 - ...
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Ask HN: How VC funding works? - pewpew Hey HN, i am totally clueless about vc money and funding, maybe you can enlighten me.<p>For example, TC reported that Kicksend got $1.8m funding. They are a some sort of a file sharing service. Even if they charge 10$/month, they would need 15,000 paying costumers that will subs...
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Ask HN: What it takes to win an Oscar? - shabirgilkar ====== medymed Step 1 is having a remote connection to film making. It appears very different than optimizing LLVM or modifying the TF code base. After step 1, there's probably a step 2.
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Ten Commandments of Startup Success with Reid Hoffman - ignoramous https://tim.blog/2017/06/26/10-commandments-startup-success/ ====== techslave 7a. If you take VC money and require network effect, be prepared to turn into that which you loathe. leave your principles at the door.
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Here’s Woz, Waiting in Line for His New iPad - shawndumas http://gizmodo.com/5893839/heres-woz-waiting-in-line-for-his-new-ipad ====== NameNickHN People are still waiting in lines to buy Apple products? After all those years? I could understand it (if I really, really tried) when the first iPhone came out. But for the...
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Ask HN: Best marketing/branding books? - foundertrouble Hi -- my partner and I have a recently funded startup and one of the "money guys" is very bottom line focused, challenging nearly every expense. We are trying to build the case that its worth it in the long run to have nice marketing materials, to have good de...
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Operating systems are huge pile of technical debt - luca89 http://luca3m.me/2016/09/01/operating-systems.html ====== ankurdhama What about saying your tool didn't handle all the edge cases? The only reason a kernel is technical debt is coz of all the variety of apps people want to run on top of it. ------ chmaynard c...
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Ask HN: Worthwhile ad networks? - foxpc Hey HN!<p>Our website was recently blocked from an ad network for because &quot;all&quot; of our clicks were fraudulent. While we do know that we did not do anything of such sort, we doubt that any resolution will be found to this problem. We just hope to land on a more decent...
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Ask HN: Any Reviews on Design Pickle? - poojaa_vermaa Has anyone ever tried one of those unlimited graphic design services like Design Pickle or Kappa99? ====== rman666 I haven’t but I’ve wondered about them, too. Thanks for posting!
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Thanks goes out to the YC community for all the help... - twism http://www.theother9to5.com/ ====== ph0rque please, please, PLEASE write you as you, not u. That's a definite turn-off for me. ~~~ twism Sorry, changed copy in a rush. ------ mhidalgo You definitely should include some geo-location, google maps.... Woul...
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Google's IPv6 Statistics - bensummers http://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics/ ====== lenni That is depressing, isn't it? On the other hand, I'm still wondering why Google hasn't switched away from the Flash-based graphing tool seen Analytics and Finance. ~~~ pedrokost Has anyone had any issues with it? I thin...
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Changing branch alignment causes swings in performance - luu http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.llvm.devel/86742 ====== rayiner A fuller description of the post-decode uop cache (with pictures!) is here: [http://www.realworldtech.com/haswell- cpu/2](http://www.realworldtech.com/haswell-cpu/2). Note that th...
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Why I gave up on static types - mathgladiator http://blog.mathgladiator.com/2010/12/why-i-gave-up-on-static-types.html ====== dstein Context? The website contains no information about who this person is or what type of project he is working on.
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Ask HN: Who is using Google Checkout for their product? - techiferous I've heard someone suggest using Google Checkout for a SaaS product. I've never heard of this before. Is anyone using Google Checkout for SaaS? ====== sorenbs What i have heard from people is that using Google Checkout as the only option is sig...
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SoundCloud Preparing to Block All DJ Mixes - yuddidit http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2016/05/16/soundcloud-preparing-massive-restrictions-dj-uploads/ ====== api "Let's block one of our major use cases..." ------ herbst Goodby Soundcloud.
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The “C” in VC Doesn’t Stand for Corporation – But Maybe it Should - robbiea http://technori.com/2012/10/2647-the-c-in-vc-doesnt-stand-for-corporation-but-maybe-it-should/ ====== davestheraves It's a much easier decision in the UK. You incorporate.
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Entity Component Systems and Data Oriented Design [pdf] - magoghm http://aras-p.info/texts/files/2018Academy%20-%20ECS-DoD.pdf ====== twtw A response to the OOP part of this: [https://www.gamedev.net/blogs/entry/2265481-oop-is-dead- long...](https://www.gamedev.net/blogs/entry/2265481-oop-is-dead-long-live- oop/) I h...
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Finding the Point of Human Leverage - hunglee2 https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2019/4/8/mechanical-turks ====== tshoaib Can't seem to understand the phrase “mechanical Turk“. Especially the use of the word Turk. Can anyone explain?
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A Plan for Résumé Spam - raganwald http://raganwald.posterous.com/a-plan-for-resume-spam ====== tptacek I wouldn't be OK with you sharing with other people the fact that I interviewed with you, especially if it was on a formalized routinized basis and most especially if it was to drive some service that computed my va...
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How Secure is Bitcoin? - aosmith http://alexsmith.io/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/btc-sun.jpg ====== Aqueous We already know that the encryption behind BitCoin is sound. But every time encryption has been challenged in recent days it's been because of a bug in the implementation of that encryption. It is never due to ...
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Samsung next-generation smartwatch will support a wider flexible display - anigbrowl http://www.patentlymobile.com/2015/04/samsung-slowly-advances-their-next-gen-smartwatch-that-will-support-a-much-wider-flexible-display.html ====== anigbrowl Another source suggested product launches as soon as 2016.
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Coroutines are brittle and buggy - willvarfar http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/31725920676/explicitly-async-apis-vs-coroutines ====== klodolph Coroutines are not the same thing as green threads, which the author seems to half acknowledge but then really screws up the terminology for the rest of the article...
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Blackberry Curve outsells iPhone in Q1 - stcredzero http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-10232697-62.html ====== mattyb As someone who owns a Curve (and whose girlfriend has an iPhone 3G), I must say that I'm very happy with my choice. I definitely prefer the physical keyboard, one inbox for SMS/email, a bright flash f...
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Ask HN: Requesting a Few Hackers to Volunteer - nh I think I found a quick and easy solution to distribute food to needy individuals during this covid pandemic.<p>I need a few hackers to volunteer their time to help me code and throw something up online.<p>I will provide funding for servers.<p>Skills desired: Geocodin...
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Rep. Johnson worries loading too many people onto Guam could capsize the island - wooter http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/03/hank-johnson-guam-.html ... really? ====== anamax Johnson's response is “I wasn’t suggesting that the island of Guam would literally tip over I was using a metaphor to say that ...
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How Chainlink is the missing piece to the GOD protocol - lww515 https://blog.goodaudience.com/chainlink-the-missing-piece-to-the-god-protocol-fd455dde92ab ====== lww515 Really excited about this project. Nothing else solves the centralized Oracle problem quite like ChainLink has. I think this will be the project that ...
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How we built a Smart Office system based on Raspberry Pi - dragonbonheur http://monterail.com/blog/2016/how-we-built-a-truly-smart-office-system-based-on-raspberry-pi/ ====== detaro Good to see in a DIY-solution: > _The light control set up is fail-safe. If something with the RPi goes > terribly wrong, we could still...
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Inncubator (Hacker Home) Invitation Open - ddimon http://www.inncubator.net ====== ddimon Hey we are in Palo Alto, and have hosted and currently live with many Y combinator startups and engineers. We all live together in this awesome community near Stanford and University Ave. We want to invite more like minded people...
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Banksy's Fake Store Is an Attempt to Abuse Trademark Law to Avoid Copyright Law - kreinba https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191007/17291443141/banksys-fake-store-is-attempt-to-abuse-trademark-law-to-avoid-copyright-law.shtml ====== gkoberger I had two problems. First, I really didn't like the tone of the card compa...
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Ask HN: What's the best AMI for a 10k visits/day Wordpress Blog - diegogomes I'm using my own AMI, and having lot of trouble. I'm on a small, ubuntu instance, and the blog crashes almost everyday. ====== sadfasdfads Maybe: <http://bitnami.org/stack/wordpress#cloudImage> I'd lean toward 32-bit Ubuntu if you want to a...
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A database to prevent the resale of stolen cameras, lenses & video equipment. - telepoiss http://www.lenstag.com ====== gcb0 and what happens after the owner uses the thing for 5 years and completely forget to update the site when he sells.. or forgot his login? now he just have a $3k lens that is permanently marke...
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Ask HN: Sugesst me some pet projects - aryamaan I am learning a new language (Go) for my work and I liked in the first week I was given to make a chat server to get familiar with it. I enjoyed working on that.<p>I am looking for similar projects which are not too easy but not too challenging either (like making a text...
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Ask HN: People working in Canada, how do you like it? - couldi How do you find the quality of life?<p>Healthcare costs and quality, raising children etc are of special importance.<p>Any special things to keep in mind?<p>Personal experiences welcome, thank you. ====== Slaul You are going to get different answers depend...
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Pirates of Silicon Valley (Full movie) - sharpshoot http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7941901498664355924&q=pirates+of+silicon+valley&hl=en ====== brezina Adam and I watched 30 minute segments of this movie over dinners during our summer in Cambridge. Over the 3 months we probably watched the whole movie 6 times...
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We hire Data Scientists so you don’t have to - weirdedhimself http://www.sumologic.com/blog/company/we-hire-data-scientists-so-our-customers-dont-have-to ====== andyjsong Wait, so Sumo Logic is assuming companies will pay them to analyze their data? Isn't data the secret sauce of any company? Why would companies lif...
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I Hate My Role Models: 1 Min Read - jrometty https://medium.com/@JumpComet/i-hate-my-role-models-ba04be71d9ef ====== valarauca1 You look at role models as competitors. Which ultimately while they may one day become. The purpose of a role model is not to compete with you but to give you a different lens which you may...
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Show HN: gifyourself.in - A site for putting your face on GIFs - fjania http://gifyourself.in ====== fjania Some technical points of interest, perhaps. The gif explosion / creation is done server-side using python Wand, Pillow and the excellent images2gif script. Exploding the gif into frames was a giant pain in th...
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Canal Defence Light - vinnyglennon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_Defence_Light ====== arethuza The UK was very fond of making specialised of tanks in WW2 - notably "Hobart's Funnies": [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobart's_Funnies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobart's_Funnies) The Soviets also used searchli...
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Gravity waves from Big Bang detected - tjaerv http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gravity-waves-cmb-b-mode-polarization/ ====== Tarrosion As an outsider (PhD student in a quantitative field, no relation to physics), the experimental physics community really strikes me as a class act. High standards for statistic...
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4,400 year old Egyptian tomb discovered in the Saqqara pyramid complex - open-source-ux https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-46580264 ====== Hoasi Letting a horde of journalists rush to photograph the tomb at once seems like a terrible idea. That goes against the most basic precaution you could take to protect...
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Saying Goodbye to a Sister - felipebueno http://brianbailey.me/saying-goodbye-to-a-sister/ ====== sgpl Losing someone close is really hard. I am not good at eulogies, but I lost my grandfather to cancer earlier this year and for some reason I wasn't able to function at all for the coming few weeks. I grew up in a join...
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Ask HN: Where are all the Apple Watch apps? - personlurking I&#x27;ve done several searches and can&#x27;t seem to locate a list of available apps.<p>After buying the Series 5, as a first-time AW user who also doesn&#x27;t use activity&#x2F;health apps, I&#x27;ve become very interested to find all the apps I can choos...
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Ask HN: How do I get a job at a SV startup as an international? - applepi I am CS student approaching graduation and I would love to work in Silicon Valley and get inspired by the environment and the energy there is around. So I wanted to ask you how to best achieve this goal of mine. I will be getting my MSc in CS ...
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TSA compton backscattering exposes body to non-negligible radiation (2010) - hovden http://www.public.asu.edu/~atppr/bodyscan.html ====== bonzini This article is from 2010. These days the TSA is using millimeter wave scanners (with frequencies around 30 GHz). ~~~ djsumdog Yea I was thinking that. The back-scatter xra...
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23andMe Is Monetizing Your DNA the Way Facebook Monetizes 'Likes' - chmars http://climateerinvest.blogspot.com/2016/07/23andme-is-monetizing-your-dna-way.html ====== aub3bhat So on one side journalists lament lack of new drug development & just the shoddy state of healthcare tech, while as soon as any new data that ca...
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The SK8 Multimedia Authoring Environment - ingve http://sk8.dreamhosters.com/sk8site/sk8.html ====== brudgers Wikipedia: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SK8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SK8) ------ ingve Someone archived the code on GitHub: [https://github.com/waywardmonkeys/apple_sk8/](https://github.com/waywardmo...
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The most amazing natural arrow in neg space – photo is Not edited - andrewfromx https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/t31.0-8/12418910_10103716194877567_4797997363792666329_o.jpg ====== andrewfromx you see the arrow right side center? It's like the fedex logo. it's amazing and occurred in real life, no ima...
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How the 1918 Flu Spread Across America (2017) - vezycash https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/journal-plague-year-180965222/ ====== js2 While doing ancestry research years ago, I learned I had a great uncle who immigrated to America from Romania aboard the RMS Carpathia in 1904. (Eight years later in 1912, this woul...
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Ask pg: What's up with the randomly [dead] comments? - pygy_ Every day I see articulate, polite and relevant posts being flagged dead for no apparent reason. One of these posts was by jashkenas in a thread about CoffeeScript (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2503653) I've added other examples below.<p>Is this a mis...
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The Happy City and Our $20 Trillion Opportunity - hcho3 http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2017/02/10/the-happy-city/ ====== ccvannorman The problem with complicated "call to action" pieces like this is that they make great points but amount to nothing. To make a real change is going to come from big business leaders who ...
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Essential Coding Theory [pdf] - noch https://cse.buffalo.edu/faculty/atri/courses/coding-theory/book/web-coding-book.pdf ====== ivan_ah Error correcting codes are one of the coolest things you can do with math. In general learning math is important for the _knowledge buzz_ moments and the general "tooling for thought"...
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China dominates generation 3+ nuclear reactors - mariushn https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/08/china-dominates-generation-3-nuclear-reactors.html ====== mariushn Here's hoping that USA will start investing more in nuclear, not because it's cleaner than coal, but at least for fears of having China take the lead. Best...
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US and UK Zipcode Boundaries API Is Online - boundaries https://market.mashape.com/vanitysoft/boundaries-io ====== DrScump Does the data reflect true geographic boundaries or just USPS boundary definitions? USPS addresses are based on delivery convenience and may not accurately reflect underlying political boundaries...
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The Most Widely Read Magazine in the World (2010) - Tomte http://archives.jrn.columbia.edu/2010/nyrm.org/2010/05/13/the-most-widely-read-magazine-in-the-world/index.html ====== JoelMcCracken One of the members of the faith here, if anyone has any questions. ~~~ Tomte How important is the magazine to members? Is it s...
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London riots / UK riots: verified areas - otherwise http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msid=207192798388318292131.0004aa01af6748773e8f7&msa=0&ll=51.558503,-0.055275&spn=0.114195,0.298691 ====== Fargren I'm almost embarrassed to ask, but why is this happening? I read that this started saturday as a protest against a po...
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Launch HN: PostEra (YC W20) Medicinal Chemistry-as-a-Service and Covid Moonshot - morraa Hey everyone! We’re Alpha, Matt and Aaron, co-founders of PostEra (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;postera.ai&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;postera.ai&#x2F;</a>). The title above is quite a mouthful (we used all 80 characters...
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36 Hours is Not a Proper Response Time - Shenglong http://shenglong.posterous.com/36-hours-is-not-a-proper-response-time ====== MaskedStranger While I generally agree with this sentiment: "if it's important, I'll probably call you before I text you, and text you before I email you." The combination of the 2-2-2 rul...
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Experiments in NES JIT Compilation - david_parrott https://bheisler.github.io/post/experiments-in-nes-jit-compilation/ ====== gravypod For anyone who hasn't written a JIT I'd recommend writing a Brainfuck runtime one day. It's a tractable and strait forward project that will teach you how to do all of this. Start with...
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A job ad: "Senior Lisp Developer" - parenthesis http://seeker.dice.com/jobsearch/servlet/JobSearch?op=101&dockey=xml/c/5/c5a3833d4768e81f7e276c9f574d52c1@endecaindex&c=1&source=20 ====== tlrobinson Are Lisp jobs so rare that they're Hacker News worthy? ------ jsmcgd It's as if a previously thought extinct animal ha...
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Snapchat CEO's Warning About a Tech Crash and a Brutal Fall for Facebook - radmuzom http://www.businessinsider.com/Leaked-2013-Email-Shows-Snapchat-CEOs-Warning-About-A-Tech-Crash-And-A-Brutal-Fall-For-Facebook/articleshow/45554862.cms ====== DodgyEggplant [http://www.businessinsider.com/snapchat-ceo-on-tech- bubble...
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The future of PCs and Macs looks expensive - gyre007 http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/28/13452084/microsoft-apple-new-pc-surface-macbook-prices-expensive-exclusive ====== emp_zealoth Or, you know, don't extrapolate riddiculous bullshit over entire market? Surface Studio is pretty much a niche, specialist tool (or at l...
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Schrödinger’s Tcl – Values that differ if you look at them - networked https://github.com/aidanhs/schrotcl ====== nickodell This is an impressively bad idea. Good work. ~~~ myrandomcomment +1, up thumb or whatever the current thing is. Having spent my life in networking tech, Tcl...please die. ~~~ ptero I am primar...
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Chess Stockfish 12 released: 130 elo increase over 11 - galkk https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/releases ====== galkk Adding neural network evaluation allowed crazy elo increase
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Show HN: Trambar, a social space around your GitLab project - chung-leong https://trambar.io/ ====== chung-leong The project website of Trambar is rather oddball. I couldn’t come up with something more conventional. You see, it’s hard to write promotional materials for a tool that doesn’t solve any particular pressing...
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Major new bill mandating open access introduced in Congress - michael_nielsen https://plus.google.com/109377556796183035206/posts/FZFvDhBLTzE ====== 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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Colonel Edward A. Deeds–An able man who made things work - erdifr http://www.daytoninnovationlegacy.org/deeds.html ====== erdifr After reading this I was left wondering if there are still people like this today? I do not deny that we do have inventors, innovators, engineers, leaders and other professionals today, but ...
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When source code reveals an emotional life. - jldailey I really liked a recent post about the ASETNIOP keyboard layout. TLDR; it's a chording key layout with an iPad app and a javascript demo.<p>http://asetniop.com/Tutorial1.html<p>The basic method for building a good chording keyboard is to identify frequently use...
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The next Big One at Cascadia will spell the worst natural disaster in America - Earth_Change http://strangesounds.org/2016/07/the-really-big-one-cascadia-worst-disaster-history-continent-video.html ====== ThrowawayR2 Warning: this is a (unauthorized?) copy of a New Yorker article. The original is at [https://www.newyo...
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Italy to China in driverless vehicles - mattsouth http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_ITALY_DRIVERLESS_ODYSSEY ====== GiraffeNecktie A link that works: [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100720/ap_on_hi_te/eu_italy_dri...](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100720/ap_on_hi_te/eu_italy_driverless_odyssey) ~~~ mattsouth ...
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Show HN: AgileCDN - jamescun http://agilecdn.org/ ====== pikewood Your description for Font Awesome references jQuery instead.
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