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Pelagic Thoroughbreds - quickfox
https://www.newcriterion.com/issues/2019/2/pelagic-thoroughbreds
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hprotagonist
“pelagic”, for those wondering, means “relating to the open seas”.
i’m mostly familiar with the term from “pelagic zone”, which is the upper
stratum of the water column where most fish live.
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C... | {
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Ask HN: Why is “My Bathroom Mirror is Smarter Than Yours” being posted so much? - davelnewton
This has been posted so many times-possibly dozens. Why? How?<p>Is someone trying to game this Medium story for some reason? If so, why does HN keep allowing it to appear over and over?<p>(14 times at last count, with tweaky ... | {
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Show HN: Get anonymous feedback from your colleagues - ali_ibrahim
Hi everyone,<p>We have developed a platform to help tech professionals solicit anonymous feedback from colleagues and discover tech content relevant to their skills. Check us out at www.pleasantfish.com<p>We'll be super happy if you find it useful... | {
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A Taxonomy of Internet Chum (2015) - firloop
https://www.theawl.com/2015/06/a-complete-taxonomy-of-internet-chum/
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Bartweiss
> _Clicking on a chumlink — even one on the site of a relatively high-class
> chummer, like nymag.com — is a guaranteed way to find more, weirder, grosser
> chum. The boxes are daisy-chain... | {
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On Hiring and FizzBuzz - scrabble
http://topherlandry.wordpress.com/2014/08/31/on-hiring-and-fizzbuzz/
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thebear
I honestly don't know if it's the mathematician in me, or if I'm just a cranky
person, or if I actually have a valid point, but if I were given the FizzBuzz
task the way it is worded here, I would re... | {
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Gender bias in open source: Pull request acceptance by gender [Preprint] - jasonhoyt
https://peerj.com/preprints/1733/
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kriro
I like how this paper is constructed. They form a bunch of hypotheses and test
them and aren't afraid to be wrong. Rather refreshing since the typical papers
I read are more of the "here'... | {
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Tablet dollars: Android passed Apple for first time in Q3 - arunitc
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/11/15/apple-ipad-huberty-idc/
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codelust
Notable point being this part:
"Working from the tracking numbers IDC released two weeks ago".
Extrapolation, like this, has very limited use and is vaguely indicative at... | {
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How Secure your iOS Apps are? - subhransu
http://www.slideshare.net/arya.subhransu/hacking-and-securing-ios-apps-part-1
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subhransu
I will be talking more on the security part in our next iOS developer meet-up
in Singapore.
If you are in Singapore on 13th, September drop by and say hello to us.
<https://www.fa... | {
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} |
How to avoid picking the wrong technology just because it's cool - scarhill
https://blog.bradfieldcs.com/you-are-not-google-84912cf44afb
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AznHisoka
I used to work at Standard and Poors. They do media monitoring for lots of
financial companies.
When I joined, I thought they using state of the art tools to monito... | {
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} |
“Don’t Move to Vancouver”: Why I Changed My Mind After 6 Months - notastartup
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:cWVAfdoXLvgJ:www.anabellebf.com/dont-move-to-vancouver-why-i-changed-my-mind-after-6-months/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk
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notastartup
I lived here for 19 years and she hits every point per... | {
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} |
LoRaWAN Energy Performance and Ambient Energy Harvesting - c0n5pir4cy
https://www.stream-technologies.com/whitepapers/lorawan-energy-performance-and-ambient-energy-harvesting/
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c0n5pir4cy
Full disclosure: I work for the company that is hosting the whitepaper.
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1001101
This is great stuff, thanks for sharing!... | {
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The Case for Getting Rid of Borders - mhb
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/10/get-rid-borders-completely/409501/?single_page=true
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venomsnake
Only if the people that come in are willing to assimilate into the culture
that is the host. There are good reasons to keep some worldviews out of one's
bo... | {
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} |
Early employees take the most risk today - gyre007
https://medium.com/@tikhon/founders-it-s-not-1990-stop-treating-your-employees-like-it-is-523f48fe90cb#.c6u481pwn
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jalopy
Great, great article.
I'd like to add: This, I think, is one of the big reasons why startups prefer
hiring young people (ie, recent grads) ... | {
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Developer and Social Activism - rahulrrixe
https://medium.com/p/4b31cbd4ce3c
How small contribution using technology can makes big difference
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rahulrrixe
How small contribution using technology can makes big difference? and we
developer have major role to play in the society.
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Ask HN: What is a good tech business model to start during a recession? - numakerg
In the WeWTF article that's currently on the front page, Scott Galloway mentions that the firms he started during recessions were more successful for these reasons:<p>1. an easier time finding talent<p>2. easier to control costs<p>... | {
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Google ML/AI Comic - jacquesm
https://cloud.google.com/products/ai/ml-comic-1/
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siliconc0w
Annnnd Martha still doesn't have a ml-solvable business problem identified
with a large enough curated dataset to actually create a useful model.
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baron_harkonnen
That's not a problem at all! In the fortune 500 there a... | {
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Hotels Hammered by Coronavirus Offer 14-Day Quarantine Packages - djsumdog
https://www.wsj.com/articles/hit-by-coronavirus-slowdown-hotels-try-catering-to-the-quarantined-11584624502
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jobigoud
What about the staff? Are they still doing room service? What about when the
guest leave, to the hospital or after the 1... | {
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} |
The $2 million penalty clause - chaostheory
http://weblog.infoworld.com/gripeline/archives/2008/12/tom_offers_us_t.html?source=rss
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jamess
Ha! A wonderful example of why we have laws regarding unfair contract terms. I
can't believe they found a lawyer either ignorant or optimistic enough to put
this in. The reme... | {
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Functional Geometry - b-man
http://www.frank-buss.de/lisp/functional.html
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jcl
Neat. It might be interesting to try this with DrScheme, since it can display
images inline in the repl.
<http://docs.plt-scheme.org/quick/>
<http://docs.plt-scheme.org/teachpack/image.html>
~~~
b-man
In the same spirit I would r... | {
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U.S. officials believe Iran is behind recent cyberattacks - evo_9
http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/15/u-s-officials-believe-iran-is-behind-recent-cyberattacks/?hpt=hp_t1
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MaysonL
Talk about burying the lede.
Here's the last sentence: _"The unit was developed in response to American and
Israeli cyberattacks... | {
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} |
Star Simpson speaks out about how MIT treated her in LED case at Logan - kramarao
https://medium.com/@starsandrobots/understandably-cause-for-alarm-1f0929be0615
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tehwebguy
> So, I went directly to the best place I could think of: the very first place
> I walked to after I was let free, was the Office of the Pres... | {
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Racket on the Playstation 3? It's Not What you Think [video] - vmmenon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSmqbnhHp1c
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thefreeman
It should be noted that the speaker is one of the lead developers at Naughty
Dog, likely one of the greatest game studios of all time. Definitely recommend
a watch.
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kevingadd
Th... | {
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Making floating point math highly efficient for AI hardware - probdist
https://code.fb.com/ai-research/floating-point-math/
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grandmczeb
Here's the bottom line for anyone who doesn't want to read the whole article.
> Using a commercially available 28-nanometer ASIC process technology, we have
> profiled (8, 1, 5... | {
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There should be a day every year for donating money to free apps - jcslzr
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seekingcharlie
Really?
I mean, of all the things that one could donate money to...
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aurora72
A similar thing might be done for e-books, too. Because e-books are sooner or
later falling into torrent networks becoming available f... | {
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Release day economics - tbassetto
http://uniformmotion.tumblr.com/post/9659997039/release-day-economics
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gravitronic
I always like music industry posts showing up on HN as it's my view that the
startup industry is in some ways like the music industry of years past.
Competition is fierce. Most start out workin... | {
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The Service Mesh: What Engineers Need to Know - scott_s
https://servicemesh.io/
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ajessup
One reason for the explosive interest in service mesh over the last 24 months
that this article glosses over is that it's deeply threatening to a range of
existing industries, that are now responding.
Most immediately to AP... | {
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} |
PyPy 1.9 Released - makeramen
http://morepypy.blogspot.it/2012/06/pypy-19-yard-wolf.html
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mark_l_watson
That is impressive performance, and steady progress. I have a renewed interest
in Python since all the work for a new customer is in Python. I usually use
Ruby, Clojure, Common Lisp, and Java - but, I am findi... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Why a FILE-BASED dependency manager rocks for C/C++ - MordodeMaru
http://blog.biicode.com/file-based-cpp-dependency-manager/
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thewolas
Because it was about f __*n time! Almost all new languages ship out with one
as default. And C /C++ is the most used language in the world (or almost)
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cza
Read here and... | {
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Ask HN: Should I go into management despite of loving to code? - NumberCruncher
Hi there! The last 3 years I used to work for a big telco as a senior data scientist and I was rehired by the VP of IT at one of my former employers. He did this because he used to work for the same big telco in the same department like I ... | {
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Ask HN: When do you containerize new projects? - jamesmaniscalco
When you spin up a new project, how far do you go into containerization and similar abstraction before you actually start writing code?<p>I am planning on starting a new Django app after a few years out of "the game". The last sites I worked on... | {
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The real reason why developers are awkward - swombat
http://trogger.com/discussions/the-real-reason-why-developers-are-awkward
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pmjordan
Maybe this is true for some people. I can't really find myself in this
article, though. I'm pretty sure I remember finding certain everyday social
situations difficult when I... | {
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} |
Apple Store Update - aeolus42
http://store.apple.com/
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therealarmen
Assuming that the online store makes up 10% of total sales, Apple is losing
approximately $35,000 per second that their website is down.
| {
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What's the best way to meet a technical co-founder? - ronnwer
Hi what's the best way to find a technical co-founder?
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zv
Here <http://programmermeetdesigner.com/> Some forums (Joel, etc).
On a side note: I'm interested in serious projects. Mail me paavels@gmail.com
~~~
ronnwer
where r u from?
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sidmitr... | {
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GDPR: Privacy and data protection in mobile applications - _o_
https://www.enisa.europa.eu/publications/privacy-and-data-protection-in-mobile-applications
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_o_
"Moreover, the document focuses on the concept of privacy by design and tries
to make it more clear, especially for mobile app developers. Approaches to
... | {
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} |
A platform full of opportunities for students - siddhartharora
https://gradbee.com
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mrfregg
"Connect with India's best students". Well that's a pity.
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siddhartharora
the website is in development, we have implemented mobile verification across
the globe.
~~~
mrfregg
So it's not limited to Indian students as... | {
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} |
Airbnb and San Francisco - betadreamer
http://blog.samaltman.com/airbnb-and-san-francisco
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callmeed
_" Unfortunately, a lot of other people have problems paying their rent or
mortgage. 75% of Airbnb hosts in San Francisco say that their income from
Airbnb helps them stay in their homes, and 60% of the Airbnb inc... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How money corrupts Congress. Lessig speaks at Google - zlotty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ik1AK56FtVc
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sp332
If you can't watch videos, or if you like being able to skim, Lessig makes his
case in text: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3353324>
~~~
zlotty
thx for the link
-----... | {
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} |
Cinderella - CLI app to manage open source dev on OSX - tzm
http://www.atmos.org/cinderella/
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teilo
Needs virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper. These days, almost no one develops in
Python without them.
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hackermom
What extra does the user get from an additional installation of Python and
Ruby as contained i... | {
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} |
Samsung Develops Battery Material with 5x Faster Charging Speed - nielsbjerg
https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-develops-battery-material-with-5x-faster-charging-speed
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philipkglass
This looks closer to an industrial product than many new battery technology
announcements. The cathode chemistry isn't exotic.... | {
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} |
Ceylon 1.2.0 is now available - egorst
http://ceylon-lang.org/blog/2015/10/29/ceylon-1-2-0/
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gavinking
Yay!
Folks, please feel welcome to Ask Me Anything.
~~~
marvelous
Yay!
The language module is a 1.5MB JavaScript beast and people routinely complain
about 150KB frameworks on HN. Are there plans to have a wh... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Official: Anonymous May Be Able to Disable Power Grids by Next Year - maudlinmau5
http://mashable.com/2012/02/21/anonymous-threat/
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duncan_bayne
Here comes the FUD in advance of a Govt. crackdown on hacktivism. Cute.
| {
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Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People - dmmalam
http://academic.udayton.edu/tobyrush/theorypages/
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jtheory
Teaching music theory is _damned hard_.
You very quickly find yourself making statements like this (taken from the
second PDF in this series): "A tuplet is any non-standard division of a note.
These... | {
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} |
Can we please stop saying ORDER BY RAND/RANDOM is slow? - compay
http://njclarke.com/posts/can-we-please-stop-saying-order-by-random-is-slow.html
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andfarm
Sadly, while just selecting an id is faster than selecting the whole row, it's
still a very slow operation overall. Here's the results on an 8-million-row
p... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How to start solving binary challenges in a CTF - raven_stark
I'm quite used to web challenges in a CTF. Also I'm familiar with assembly programming, gdb, but find it difficult to solve binary challenges. What all tools should I start using?
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kiloreux
Since you already know how to use GDB and y... | {
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} |
GNU C Library 2.30 - jrepinc
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-announce/2019/msg00001.html
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pascal_cuoq
> * Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
> pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size larger
> than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefin... | {
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Ask HN: What does it really mean when companies want you to have AWS experience? - martin-ting
I see a lot of job listings that mention "AWS experience" as part of what they'd like to see in someone's skill set. Does this mean that they'd like to see familiarity with using AWS services such as... | {
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} |
Magic in Panama, 1681 (2011) - benbreen
https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2011/04/for-they-are-very-expert-and-skillful.html
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lowdose
Talking about magic I came across this one last week. Robert Houdin hired by
Napoleon III to perform a magic trick in Africa to convince the local tribes
France magic was stronger t... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Crafty Killer Whales Are Harassing Alaskan Fishing Boats - Mz
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/crafty-killer-whales-are-harassing-alaskan-fishing-boats-180963788/?no-ist
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AnimalMuppet
I wonder if this isn't "harassment", exactly. It sounds like they've learned
that they can collect a whole lot of fish fo... | {
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} |
Zed Shaw is teaching two four-week Python classes (online) - thesethings
http://codelesson.com/python
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netmau5
I'd -love- to take a Python course from Zed but this site makes me uneasy
about following through. Not enough information and the site simply doesn't
look professional enough to be sending in payments... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Self-Appointed Twitter Scolds - telemachos
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/29/fashion/29twitter.html
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TwitterFail
Some people have asked me why I created the www.Twitter-Fail.com blog. It's
not, as John Metcalfe said, to "mock tweets I consider stupid." Instead, it is
my way of sharing what I find on Twitte... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Aztec app brings historic Mexico codex into the digital age - Thevet
http://phys.org/news/2015-01-aztec-app-historic-mexico-codex.html
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Trombone12
Wow, nice way for the Brits to avoiding the "we-should-give-this-back-it-was-
essentially-stolen" issue that infects basically all old anthropological
collections in ... | {
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} |
What Killed Michael Porter's Monitor Group? The Force That Really Matters (2012) - tortilla
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2012/11/20/what-killed-michael-porters-monitor-group-the-one-force-that-really-matters
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dworin
This is a rant against Michael Porter, his theories, and the practice of
business str... | {
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} |
Show HN: A standards-compliant 3d compass implementation for *the web* - richtr
https://github.com/richtr/Marine-Compass
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altsa
I'm trying to load the demo on my Macbook Pro with Chrome, but its not working
for some reason. Is this broken for anyone else?
~~~
richtr
Works for me on my Macbook Pro with Chrome ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Give me recommendations to improve jsonip.com - geuis
Hey folks. I wrote http://jsonip.com a while back and lots of folks seem to find it useful. So I'd like to ask for your tips on how it might be made better to be more useful for you.<p>As a quick primer, jsonip.com returns your ip as either a json object,... | {
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} |
Former NSA contractor designs 'surveillance-proof' font - antimora
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/09/30/tech/web/nsa-contractor-surveillance-proof-font/index.html?hpt=hp_c3
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Nanzikambe
As these are fonts and don't implement any randomness like a captcha would, it
will be trivially easy to just implement recognition... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Facebook won't release Russia-linked ads despite call to do by US investigators - SirLJ
http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-wont-release-russia-linked-ads-publicly-2017-10
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subie
I believe the issue here is "publicly" releasing the ads. FB just had a
trending story yesterday about turning the ads over to inv... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Data is the new oil - edward
http://nation.lk/online/2015/09/19/data-is-the-new-oil/
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Chefkoochooloo
If people and businesses become enabled to streamline and tap into the
possibilities of data query and analysis it could prove to be more monetary
compensation than oil. The filtering and restructuring of data ma... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Some NASA contractors appear to be trying to kill the Lunar Gateway - rbanffy
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/09/some-nasa-contractors-appear-to-be-trying-to-kill-the-lunar-gateway/
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superkuh
Good. The lunar gateway has absolutely no purpose now that that asteroid
retrieval mission (ARM) funding picks by NA... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
FOXIT READER Now AVAILABLE ON MAC AND LINUX - byaruhaf
https://www.foxitsoftware.com/company/press.php?id=408
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detaro
No reason to scream... (please don't use all-caps headlines)
| {
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} |
Show HN: New Music Release Tracker - hmhrex
http://therthm.com/releases
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hmhrex
I was getting frustrated with AllMusic, Metacritic and Spotify excluding new
music releases, or giving wrong dates for new music. So I built something for
my friend and I to use for finding new releases.
It uses MusicBrainz for the ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
More notes on OS X Mavericks (+ Yosemite) on QEMU with KVM - kvmosx
http://blog.definedcode.com/qemu-osx-update
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st3fan
I installed Mavericks straight to an LVM volume withou the need for any magic.
| {
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} |
Find the hidden cameras in your BnB and elsewhere - ZguideZ
https://medium.com/fast-company/how-to-find-hidden-cameras-in-your-airbnb-and-anywhere-else-d1de793f7ddc
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matt-attack
Anyone have a recommendation for an RF scanner? Always hesitant to click on
the amazon referral links in an article like this. Also an ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Tail -f Your Cloudflare Logs - chasers
https://logflare.app
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chasers
Use a Cloudflare worker to POST logs to Logflare and they'll be streamed to
your browser. We also have rules you define with regex so you can route log
entries to different sources. Good for saving important events like signups,
bots, ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What to consider when buying a business - warent
I'm currently looking at buying a business via FE International which I believe will synergize very well when combined with my current side business (of which I amm the sole owner/employee) and potentially multiply the value of each other. The deal wou... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Introducing Vector: Netflix's On-Host Performance Monitoring Tool - r4um
http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/04/introducing-vector-netflixs-on-host.html
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philsnow
I got down to
you should be able to install PCP from binary packages made available by the PCP development team on:
ftp.... | {
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} |
Dynamically Typed Languages (2009) - dkarapetyan
http://tratt.net/laurie/research/pubs/html/tratt__dynamically_typed_languages/
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orting
I dont like this paper. It makes statements based on references to opinion
style articles. F.ex
"in practice, run-time type errors in deployed programs are exceedingly rare
[TW... | {
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} |
Great April Fool's Day Hoaxes - tokenadult
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/
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icey
Ugh. I am really not looking forward to tomorrow.
~~~
tokenadult
You have my sympathies. I figured the submitted article would be the best
combination of humorous relief from much less funny April Fools jokes and a
... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How iPhone apps are like McDonalds hamburgers. - technologizer
http://technologizer.com/2010/10/18/after-a-while-you-stop-counting/
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devmonk
"When do Apple and Apple watchers stop caring so much about how exactly how
many iPhone apps there are?"
By your example, somewhere beyond "billions and billions".
The ... | {
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} |
FreeBSD Kernel Internals Evening Course Taught by a Core Commiter - jedberg
http://www.mckusick.com/courses/introeveclass.html
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nickynix
This seems like a great opportunity to learn more about FreeBSD, but for an
individual, the price is steep. I even looked at the videos for purchase and
they surprisingly cos... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Yumbunny (launched at HN): Crowd-Sourced Matchmaking With Hilarious Results - terpua
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/10/yumbunny-crowd-sourced-matchmaking-with-hilarious-results/
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thorax
Thanks for posting this. Was travelling and was gratefully surprised when they
covered us. Thanks guys for all your great... | {
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Tesla: the roadmap to domination - andrewtbham
https://medium.com/@andrewt3000/the-2-reasons-tesla-will-be-number-1-bab788ef215e#.yy1id7i5h
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11thEarlOfMar
“we may be witnessing an interplay of technology, industrial strategy, and
capital not unlike Cornelius Vanderbilt and the railroads, or Thomas Edison
and ele... | {
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} |
Light Trade Centre - c4ddownload
http://lighttradecentre.com/
======
c4ddownload
Light Trade Centre
| {
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Show HN: Ahoy – Twitter for Your Neighbourhood - serious-sam
https://itsahoy.com/
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verdverm
Add a geo input, not giving location access to any apps these days. Far too
much abuse by the general app market to let anything have access at this point
~~~
vasanthv
That would defeat the purpose of the whole hyperloca... | {
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} |
UI For Drunks - edent
http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2014/01/ui-for-drunks/
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acconrad
In essence, simple wins. If you can appeal to the lowest common denominator in
your demographics, people who are are the biggest disadvantage with technology
(e.g. drunks, the elderly), then you are clear enough for your primary targe... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Keypirinha, a new semantic launcher for keyboard ninjas - polyvertex
http://keypirinha.com
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Nadya
What advantages does this have over the well-known Launchy [0] which
accomplishes the same tasks but multi-platform? You may want to touch upon any
improvements if you want to win anyone (namely: me) over.
... | {
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} |
What Is the World to Do About Gene-Editing? - amanuensis
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/03/21/what-is-the-world-to-do-about-gene-editing/
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technotony
The main thing* holding back this is that we don't understand the human genome
enough to make really useful edits. It's very rare that there's a change that
wo... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Clojure’s Approach to Identity and State (2008) - tosh
https://clojure.org/about/state
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stuhood
Immutability is very helpful, and the connection between values and identity
is illuminating.
But there have been very important developments in programming languages since
this post/page was written: notably, the in... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
OpenBSD 5.6 - fcambus
http://www.openbsd.org/56.html?hn
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brynet
Related to OpenBSD, and BSD in general. Peter N. M. Hansteen is auctioning off
the first signed copy The Book of PF, 3rd edition. He will be supporting the
OpenBSD Foundation by donating the amount raised.
[http://bsdly.blogspot.ca/2014/10/the-bo... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
SWF Machine: generating SWF binary from Erlang - mrinalwadhwa
http://weblog.mrinalwadhwa.com/2010/03/17/swfmachine/
======
pan69
swfmill.org in Erlang.
| {
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} |
A first step towards freeing London’s data - robin_reala
http://data.london.gov.uk/
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mjs
Hey, that's some quality XML they're pumping out there. From their population
data:
<ROWSET>
<ROW>
<Area_Code>00AA</Area_Code>
<Area_Name>City of London</Area_Name>
<P... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What technical skill should I learn to prepare for the next 10 Years? - alexjray
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chatmasta
It's a safe bet that if something was relevant twenty years ago, and still is
today, then it will also be relevant in ten years from now. Examples: OS
fundamentals, networking fundamentals, low level languages, emb... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Tell HN: The Grocery Store is Watching You (and it's brilliant) - lionhearted
I just saw this quote in an article here and wanted to highlight it. If I had a blog, I'd have written it up there but I thought it was too interesting not to comment.<p>> It's one thing if I trade my personal sales habits to a grocery... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
I wrote an LLVM-powered trace-based JIT for Brainfuck - Halienja
http://github.com/resistor/BrainFTracing
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resistor
Hey folks, I'm the actual author of this.
I actually work on LLVM-proper during my day job. This was just a fun exercise
to demonstrate that it was possible. I also have plans to write a tutorial
... | {
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} |
American truck drivers could lose their jobs to robots - dankohn1
http://www.vox.com/2016/8/3/12342764/autonomous-trucks-employment?utm_campaign=drvox&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
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tuna-piano
The other question you need to ask in order to understand this future
scenerio:. Shipping cost... | {
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} |
Does Amazon serve broken JS to anyone else? - pdknsk
Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL<p>http://z-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/browser-scripts/site-wide-js-1.2.6-beacon/site-wide-10533302446._V1_.js:1998<p>It has been like this for a few days now. I wonder why Amazon didn't and doesn't notice it. T... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Software Allows Hackers to Activate MacBook Webcams Without Green Warning Light - patrickg
http://www.macrumors.com/2013/12/18/software-allows-hackers-to-activate-macbook-webcams-without-green-warning-light/
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patrickg
I wonder: is this still up to date? Has Apple fixed this?
| {
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How many photos/videos a day do mobile users capture? - fezz
Or also capture and share on instagram/facebook/snap?
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coralreef
You can probably google it to find some stats, but its got to be several
billions if you're including anything uploaded to fb, instagram and snapchat.
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jrowley
You may al... | {
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} |
Serious OS X and iOS flaws let hackers steal keychain, 1Password contents - dakull
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/06/serious-os-x-and-ios-flaws-let-hackers-steal-keychain-1password-contents/
======
OrwellianChild
Bad week for password managers...
Here is Agile Bits' response by Jeff Goldberg:
[https://blog.ag... | {
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} |
A Cheap, Thin Film Gives Portable Night Vision to Cell Phones and Eyeglasses - elblanco
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-04/tapping-oled-tech-cheap-thin-film-gives-night-vision-cell-phones-eyeglasses
======
ilkhd2
'sucks a lot electricity, thousand of volts'... And that magazine called __*
Science??? El... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Bad News: Google Is Doing The Corporate Future-Vision Video Thing - Robelius
http://techland.time.com/2012/04/04/bad-news-google-is-doing-the-corporate-future-vision-video-thing/
======
cromwellian
Except like the Google Car and unlike the Microsoft future video with
transparency, flexible, credit card computer displa... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Alternatives to Bootstrap for non-front end devs? - sfkid222
I’m looking for alternatives to Bootstrap that are as easy to use. Any suggestions?
======
provlem
There are many:
1\. [https://materializecss.com](https://materializecss.com)
2\. [https://getuikit.com/](https://getuikit.com/)
3\. [https://semanti... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Microsoft recommends switching to iPhone, Android as it kills off Windows phones - Varcht
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/18/microsoft-ending-windows-10-mobile-says-switch-to-iphone-or-android.html
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ThrowawayR2
Unfortunate news; though most won't miss it, I will. It was the last
smartphone option that avoided both ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
AT&T Customer Service Rep Tells Us How She Really Feels: "This is Bullsh*t" - gatsby
http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/13/att-rep-verizon-iphone/
======
varjag
So, TC journalists putting some petty out-of-context bickering with someone
into the publication. How media 2.0.
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What privacy-conserving measures should be taken post-snooper's charter? - libeclipse
Since the Investigatory Powers Bill has been passed into law in the UK (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12978300), what steps should one take to preserve privacy and security?
======
alistproducer2
Develop... | {
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All-In-One Messenger 2.0 released - Gmail, Instagram, FB, Whatsapp ... - ladino
https://allinone.im
======
ladino
operates like Franz ([https://meetfranz.com](https://meetfranz.com)), but much
more simple and minimalistic with less CPU usage.
Beside all the common messenger it supports new messenger like Instagram,
T... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Toilet paper orientation - ZeljkoS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_paper_orientation
======
The_rationalist
This made me laugh :) but I Wonder if humanity can find an even more useless
debate.
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DarkWiiPlayer
What can I say... Over is the right way and under is heresy.
~~~
eesmith
> The question "Do you pr... | {
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Rethinking Recurrent Neural Networks - jostmey
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X9f-wst8QhrCCFTWiJIz6vq1qAOlpyYAUo_kaFf0J8M/edit?usp=sharing
======
eternalban
[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.01253.pdf](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.01253.pdf)
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Microsoft Tafiti Is Beautiful, But Will Anyone Use it? - transburgh
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/21/microsoft-tafity-is-beautiful-no-one-will-use-it/
======
nickb
Looks like a gimmick made to show off Silverlight. People judge search engines
based on speed and usability. This has neither. But it is pretty! :)
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Partially evaluating a bytecode interpreter using C++ templates - mrry
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~srk31/blog/2015/09/16/#c++-partial-evaluating-interpreter
======
cyrusand
I'm just throwing this here:
[http://blog.mattbierner.com/stupid-template-tricks-
template-...](http://blog.mattbierner.com/stupid-template-tricks-t... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Nearby Photos on Your Phone - sjs382
http://blog.flickr.net/en/2009/06/18/nearby-on-your-phone/
======
hopeless
Any ideas how they grab the location through a simple webpage?
~~~
hopeless
Nevermind, this is how you can do it with iPhone 3:
[http://blog.bemoko.com/2009/06/17/iphone-30-geolocation-
java...](http://bl... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
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