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A site that generates regexs based off examples given - maraschino
http://regex.inginf.units.it/index.html
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ftarlao
This Regex Generator site works as follows, you provide text examples by
highlighting the strings to extract; the strings to not extract are the
surrounding text. The Regex Generator finds out a re... | {
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What would you do if you get a basic income of $2500 every month for 1 year - user-on1
How you would plan each hour of that one year and each dollar?
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DamnYuppie
I would keep working and just save most of the money. 15% would go for new
toys and gear.
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wsc981
I would work full-time on my own projects / id... | {
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When You Startup with UX - callmeed
http://uxmagazine.com/strategy/when-you-startup-with-ux
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uzish
Great post. In our strategy, UX is the most important ingredient for success.
We live by the broader term of UX. In sjobs words: "Design is not just what it
looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
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What Are Active-Shooter Drills Doing to Kids? - dsr12
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/02/effects-of-active-shooter/554150/?single_page=true
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aethertap
Slightly off-topic, but I have a friend who does training for active shooter
response (he goes around to schools and large businesses and teaches ... | {
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Fnordserver – A bunch of geeks with a faible for simple, no-bullshit VPS hosting - silsha
http://server.fnord.pro
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tobyhede
What is a 'faible'?
~~~
silsha
Faible n (genitive Faibles, plural Faibles)
soft spot, weakness (for something or someone)
[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Faible](https://en.wiktionary.... | {
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Discussion: The Developer Crunch in South Africa - tylerreed
http://www.bandwidthblog.com/2012/01/23/the-developer-crunch-in-south-africa/
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tosseraccount
Capital always complains about labor supply. Not big news, really. Raise wages
and supply of labor will increase. Economists noted long ago that people
respo... | {
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Breakthrough Starshot successfully launch world's smallest spacecraft - based2
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jul/28/breakthrough-starshot-successfully-launch-worlds-smallest-spacecraft
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Boothroid
I hope I live long enough to see the results of this. Proxima Centauri indeed!
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Why don't iPad-type tablet screen edges have a ratio of 1 : 0.70710678118?? - hackaflocka
If they did, then dividing the screen in half would yield 2 rectangles with exactly the same proportions as the larger rectangle (i.e. the entire screen).<p>It would make it so much easier to put apps side by side, etc.<p>Any t... | {
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Show HN: I Was Unlucky – DuckDuckGo to Google Fallback Firefox Extension - lkiss
I think a lot of people from our community has the same experience as me. I tried using DuckDuckGo as my primary search platform a few times due to privacy concerns, but I always went back to Google because I wasn't satisfied with th... | {
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The vgo proposal is accepted. Now what? - stablemap
https://research.swtch.com/vgo-accepted
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eberkund
I wish they had just copied Rust/Cargo. I remember reading a comment on GitHub
somewhere from one of the Go maintainers who responded to someone expressing a
similar sentiment and his reply was basically that Go... | {
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The cause of the Zune leap year bug has been isolated to a Freescale date routine - divia
http://www.zuneboards.com/forums/zune-news/38143-cause-zune-30-leapyear-problem-isolated.html
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aston
The thing that _kills_ me about this bug is that it's such an easy bug to find
in a code-review. Some person totally unf... | {
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Google to developers: We're sick of ugly design - RougeFemme
http://www.cnet.com/news/google-to-developers-were-sick-of-ugly-design/
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JeremyMorgan
If there's one thing that will push people to design better, it's the promise
of better Google results.
I know Google isn't exactly saying that here, but take page... | {
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The Umano team has joined Dropbox - xm
https://umano.me/resources/thankyou
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koyao
Bummer that they'll be shutting down a pretty useful service...
"Umano will continue running for the next 30 days until June 12, 2015. All
annual Premium subscribers have those 30 days to request a refund for the
remainder of th... | {
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How the failed deal with Waymo left Ford in the lurch - Fricken
http://www.autonews.com/article/20170529/OEM/170529795/google-ford-deal-mark-fields
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csours
Disclaimer: I work for a Ford competitor, but have no first-hand knowledge of
this deal.
I'm thinking about the concept of 'frenemies' and jumping to some u... | {
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} |
Google's bottleneck is the internet - peterstuifzand
http://peterstuifzand.nl/2010/11/03/google-s-problem.html
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cavilling_elite
I don't know if this is what you were eluding to but maybe this is why
mod_pagespeed was just released.
Making the "internet" faster would make google faster.
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Tech fail: Gruesome video still on social media hours after attack - rwx------
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/15/tech/new-zealand-shooting-video-facebook-youtube/index.html
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sschueller
Please change the title to what the article has.
Why should they censor? We the people need to see these things to understand
... | {
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If the world's population lived like American's do - morpheous
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33133712
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dang
Please don't rewrite titles.
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Ask HN: Why post titles are created as a question? - soheil
I'm aware I just did the same thing, but this is an example of what I'm about to explain. I would like to argue the reason articles have titles usually in the form of a question is mainly because of the laziness of the author. I want HN's feedb... | {
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Fastest Wi-Fi ever is almost ready for real-world use - Libertatea
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/01/fastest-wi-fi-ever-is-almost-ready-for-real-world-use/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29
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hayksaakian
"...with the... | {
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Apple Extends Deadline for Sandboxing of Mac App Store Apps to June 1 - natesm
http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/21/apple-extends-deadline-for-sandboxing-of-mac-app-store-apps-to-june-1/
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kennywinker
Ah, this lends credo to my strategy of ignoring Sandboxing in the hopes that
it goes away.
10.7.3 introduced a ... | {
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‘Tesla killer’ Mercedes EQC flops with 55 units sold in Germany - jgotti92
https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-killer-mercedes-benz-eqc-flops-germany/
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turtlebits
What I don't get about the luxury companies making electric is that their
range is crap. Range matters for an electric vehicle, and I would expect a
luxur... | {
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VMware vs. bhyve Performance Comparison – b3n.org - rodrigo975
https://b3n.org/vmware-vs-bhyve-performance-comparison/
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gigatexal
For whatever reason the images aren’t loading.
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Oracle Acquires Eloqua for $810M - kitcar
http://www.eloqua.com/oracle/
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lanstein
Odd... I'm contributing code to Oracle.
<http://code.google.com/p/eloqua-php-sdk/>
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The Coming Tech Backlash - RachelF
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/coming-tech-backlash-ross-mayfield
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finid
_Fifty percent of the jobs will be gone in ~20 years._
How many new jobs will be created?
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Lenticrypt: A Provably Plausibly Deniable Cryptosystem - volker48
http://www.sultanik.com/blog/lenticrypt
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ikeboy
_In fact, Lenticrypt has the theoretical property that, under reasonable
assumptions, there is always a near 100% probability that there exists an key
in the public domain that will decrypt a given... | {
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Demand Media wants to produce 1 million pieces of content a month - js3309
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_demandmedia/all/1
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russell
What boggles my mind is that people will work for $20/video, $15/article, or 8
cents to proof a headline. OTOH the video guy has shot 40,000 videos. I would
like to thi... | {
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An airport-inspired puzzle from Terence Tao - nsrivast
http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/an-airport-inspired-puzzle/
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AlexeyMK
1\. its better to rest on the walkway - not seeing any disagreement about this
one.
2\. its better to run off the walkway. Why? Walking normally is more expensive
(in terms of ... | {
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Why Yelp Works - edw519
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/12/why-yelp-works/
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anonym
"It didn’t try to pay for reviews, as some sites have."
It certainly did, as someone points out in the comments at the Times.
Craigslist was littered with ads for Yelp reviewers a few years ago when I was
last looking for... | {
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} |
Death rates from energy production per TWh - peter_retief
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-production-per-twh
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craigc
What would be interesting would be to have a poll of which forms of energy
people _think_ lead to the most deaths and put it next to this. I have a
feeling nuclear would... | {
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How can a disease with 1% mortality shut down the United States? - enraged_camel
https://www.quora.com/How-can-a-disease-with-1-mortality-shut-down-the-United-States/answer/Franklin-Veaux?share=1
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ggm
A well written overview. I think what is sometimes not read well by 'why don't
we..' type comments is that the n... | {
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Show HN: Identity proof in six handshakes – proving the solution - takeshi_w
https://medium.com/six-degrees-of-separation/identity-proof-in-six-handshakes-proving-the-solution-d5584fde03e7
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takeshi_w
Hey, Hacker News! I'm developing a new blockchain project. It is an identity
proof system based on the idea of si... | {
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Ask HN: It's 2019. Why start a new project in anything other than Rust? - 80211
The only reasons I can think of is petty fanboy reasons. Rust solves most problems and will make the world a lot safer. There's no reason to start new projects in Go, C++. C#, etc, is there?
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Chazprime
It's a little unclear... i... | {
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Be careful what you put in an email - kunle
https://om.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/be-careful-what-you-put-in-an-email/
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code_duck
This seems to be more about Groovesharks' business model than emails.
They appear to be respectable businesses, and have mounted a successful
propaganda campaign regarding paying the... | {
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At least now we know why Color really got that funding - ChrisArchitect
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/03/25/color-digging
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flyt
Don't worry, if Apple acquires them (like they did their last company, Lala)
then Gruber will suddenly realize how revolutionary the idea is.
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raganwald
Do you have a refuta... | {
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Webflow vs Macaw thread in Linkedin Groups - dougcorrea
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Has-anyone-used-Macaw-beta-770857.S.5825726094937980931
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dougcorrea
Anybody here tried one of them?
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Microsoft's Edge browser is in serious trouble - mabynogy
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3242165/microsoft-windows/microsofts-edge-browser-is-in-serious-trouble.html
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prepend
I tried to like Edge. I gave it a try because work pushes it. But it is so
bizarre. I’m not sure who their customer is. There’s no ... | {
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Burning Man Comes Out Against Instagram Influencers and Coachella-Ification - skilled
https://www.wmagazine.com/story/burning-man-instagram-influencers-sponcon-marian-goodell-letter
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justboxing
dupe:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19144069](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19144069)
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Nintendo launches 5000 WiFi hotspots for your 3DS - mjurek
http://www.tekgoblin.com/2011/08/10/nintendo-launches-5000-wifi-hotspots-for-your-3ds/
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seagaia
Are sales higher in the UK or something? If not, I'm not sure why they would
only launch them in the UK.
| {
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Show HN: Text your mom you're home with a physical button - imkevinxu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIAXx83ogyw
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TheAppGuy
This may look like a novelty product, but a Swedish entrepreneur has raised a
lot of money for a similiar idea (although not as focussed as texting your
mum). [http://www.theappguy.co/th... | {
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LikeALittle's Ridiculous Hacker House - thankuz
http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/04/tc-cribs-likealittle-lal/
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jmtame
It all looks pretty easy when you see a TC write-up on them and VC business
cards sprawled out on the floor, but some interesting back-story from Evan on
how LAL got started (from the _Startups Op... | {
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Cyber Security Awareness Week - dguido
http://isis.poly.edu/csaw
If you're in high-school or college, this is a great opportunity to test your infosec skills against your peers, and hopefully earn a little prize money in the process.<p>"ISIS Lab is organizing NYU-Poly's 5th annual Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW)... | {
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Show HN: Pytorch Text Recognition Tool - s3nh_
https://github.com/s3nh/pytorch-text-recognition
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abeppu
In the example on the readme, why does it reverse the order of "casteli" (3)
and "castle" (4)? It's a bit surprising that it understand the rest of the
ordering (including the "and" in the center), but flips t... | {
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The BBC's hi-tech failure: Don't Mention It - chrbutler
http://www.economist.com/blogs/blighty/2013/06/bbcs-hi-tech-failure
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handelaar
Was wondering if anybody here would notice that the "CMS" being described here
was a project to handle every single second of radio and TV footage from
ingestion through recoding... | {
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} |
Show HN: Haste – Search the Web Faster (Mac App) - ononoma
https://www.plastic-software.com/haste/
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nyantaro
Hi, I'm a developer of Haste. There are two predefined Custom Searches to
search within Hacker News on our Custom Search examples page:
[https://www.plastic-software.com/haste/searches.html](https://www.... | {
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Lemmy: Federated Alternative to Reddit in Rust - adamnemecek
https://github.com/dessalines/lemmy
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5trokerac3
One suggestion: if you want the federated crowd to jump on board, then choose
another font provider than Google, which uses their font links for tracking.
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goodells
Thanks for pointing this out. I gue... | {
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Intercooler.js v0.4.0 released – Declarative AJAX - carsongross
http://localhost:4000/release/CHANGES-0.4.0.html
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Pfiffer
> [http://localhost:4000/](http://localhost:4000/)
Might want to fix that.
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carsongross
Ha! Resubmitted...
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Show HN: RedCall – call multiple people at once - RizkSaade
http://www.redcallapp.com/
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RizkSaade
__* Winner of the London Entrepreneurship Forum 2015 First Prize! __*
redCall allows you to share moments by making a phone call to many people at
once. You will hear from your friends, community and celebrities li... | {
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Anthony Thyssen's Homepage (1994) - adnanh
https://antofthy.gitlab.io/
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AnonyMouse2020
What a blast from the past! Anthony was the head sysadmin during my undergrad
(circa. the last update of this page) and this page was pretty famous. I was
part of a research group and built a bit of a rapport with Anthony sinc... | {
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How time is a made-up mental construct - jonnytran
http://plpatterns.com/post/1619025894/do-you-remember-the-time
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julius_geezer
Gosh, what a concept. Wonder if anybody's pondered this before...
| {
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SQLite3 bindings for React Native - almost
https://github.com/almost/react-native-sqlite
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j_m_b
Is there a database server which can sync with raw SQLite database files with
some kind of smart load balancing?
| {
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MicroReact - ash
https://github.com/witheve/Eve/tree/master/design#microreactts
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ash
MircoReact source code, just 343 lines of code:
[https://github.com/witheve/Eve/blob/master/ui/src/microReact...](https://github.com/witheve/Eve/blob/master/ui/src/microReact.ts)
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The homeless man who became a multi-millionaire investor - wslh
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38144980
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Neliquat
Homeless, but already with a job in finance/trading. Not quite what people
think of as homeless. Still a good story, but a bit forced.
| {
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Mathematics teacher accused of inciting mass riots once again detained - mondoshawan
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2017/04/10/mathematics-teacher-accused-of-inciting-mass-riots-now-also-accused-of-supporting-terrorism-and-once-again-detained
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mondoshawan
Actual title is: Mathematics teacher accused of inciting m... | {
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Samsung: Exynos 4 processors are vulnerable to serious attack - sixdimensional
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/smartphones/samsung-exynos-4-processors-are-vulnerable-to-serious-attack/6134?tag=nl.e019&s_cid=e019
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georgemcbay
This was already discussed on HN in various threads, eg:
<http://news.ycombinator.co... | {
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How to Learn Perl - AbyCodes
http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2011/09/how-to-learn-perl.html
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gatlin
I use Perl almost exclusively. CPAN is my one word argument. Aside from that,
though, Perl can become whatever you make it. Want Ruby-like method calls on
literals? Use autobox. Want list comprehensions? Map/g... | {
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Net.wars (1997) - dedalus
https://nyupress.org/netwars/contents/contents.html
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tjr225
The thing that strikes me the most about the writings here is that even at
their most snarky they are not cruel or unkind...
I'm not totally free of guilt in this respect but I wish we could find some
way to not default to "vi... | {
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The joke may be on Zuckerberg - eplanit
http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/17/opinion/rushkoff-facebook-app/
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cbhl
"Unlike computer chips, human beings can only process one thing at a time."
Many computer chips can also only process one thing at a time; they just do so
fast enough that it is nearly imperceptible to the... | {
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} |
Graceful exit for employees of failed startup - vaibhav228
I am working on simple app to create employee profile board of shutting down startups, so their founders can share that board with network, VC to help employee get job at other startups.<p>Recruiters from other companies can also find people with immediate nee... | {
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Second Life affair leads to real life divorce - razorburn
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/nov/13/second-life-divorce
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ksvs
"He set himself up in a winter chalet with a Cobra helicopter gunship parked
next to it."
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ram1024
i'm so confused after reading that.
i don't even take my real life as s... | {
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Ask HN: Tips for Speed Networking? - proexploit
I'm going to be attending my first "speed networking" event tomorrow. I've done some research on tips but most of it seems generic and not a lot of help. Does anyone who's attended this or any networking event in the past have tips on what specifically local business o... | {
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Let's All Shed Tears For The Crappy Startups That Can't Raise Any More Money - neya
http://readwrite.com/2012/12/03/lets-all-shed-tears-for-the-crappy-startups-that-cant-raise-any-more-money
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potatolicious
Seems like a touch _too much_ schadenfreude.
I've seen some genuinely awful ideas in startupland, but one ... | {
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} |
8chan: Ex-users of far-right site flock to new homes across internet - frereubu
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/08/8chan-shutdown-users-social-media
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salawat
It is rather disingenuous to label 8chan as a "Far-right" website.
It's a glorified bulletin board; and is in that sense an ideologically neu... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Venice Organizes Online Vote to Become Independent From Italy - agopaul
http://mashable.com/2014/03/17/venice-independence-referendum/
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eibrahim
That's crazy talk!!!
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Show HN: Version Control for Microsoft Word - ben-morris
https://www.simuldocs.com/blog/ben-morris/version-control-for-microsoft-word
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runako
Congratulations on your launch!
Other folks have provided a bunch of commentary on the validity of your idea,
so I won't address that.
BUT: if this is a good idea, your ... | {
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} |
Prisons Are Banning Books That Teach Prisoners How to Code - arkadiyt
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xwnkj3/prisons-are-banning-books-that-teach-prisoners-how-to-code
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dang
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20240090](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20240090)
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kennywinker
It’s almost like ther... | {
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Ask HN: Independent Web Developer, Seeking to Establish Working Relationships - sev
To give you guys a little background about me:<p>I'm an independent web developer, and I have a few clients, 2 of which are big and take up most of my time.<p>My work load ranges from simple landing page design projects, with basic A... | {
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Is this the End of the Sales Person? - s4s
http://sales4startups.org/atlassians-cameron-deatsch-onno-sales-people-strategies/
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bcx
Thanks a ton for doing this interview :-) This has been on my todo list for a
long time.
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Amazon hired private detectives to spy on injured worker - Jerry2
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/12/22/amaz-d22.html
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tcarn
Former Workers Comp claim examiner here.
Every Workers' compensation insurance company hires private investigators to
make sure the person is really injured and not working another ... | {
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} |
EveryoneAPI – Convert Phone Numbers Into Business Intelligence - OpenCNAM
https://www.everyoneapi.com
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timbowhite
Very interesting service. I'm surprised this hasn't been asked yet since it's
not on the site - but where do you get your data?
Also, this sentence in your TOU made me giggle a little:
> 3\. Addi... | {
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The Future of RSS Isn't Another NetNewsWire - carpeaqua
http://carpeaqua.com/2013/03/18/the-future-of-rss-isnt-another-netnewswire/
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dorseymike
Ah, Prismatic is a new one for me :)
A quick glance shows that they have the most engaging team page I've ever seen
- <http://getprismatic.com/people>
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Ask HN: How did you become a hardcore back-end developer? - andywood
In the course of reading lots of tech news, and occasionally hanging out with other hackers, I've come under the impression that there is some kind of intense, difficult black art to building large services that scale to 10^N number of users, for any... | {
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Guido blames social media for his decision to abandon the supervision of Python - revyuh
https://www.revyuh.com/2019/05/guido-blames-social-media-in-part-for-his-decision-to-abandon-the-supervision-of-python/
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cletus
Serious question: did anything good come out of paying attention to Twitter?
Like, ever? I'm sur... | {
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On Geeks and Gays - bootload
http://newstilt.com/notthatkindofdoctor/news/on-geeks-and-gays
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caryme
As a gay geek, I found myself drawn to Turing's story - a tragic story of
(probably) unrequited love as a schoolboy, a heroic story of a great thinker
and war hero, and a heart-wrenching story of humiliating reje... | {
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} |
What our home pages are really saying (a dialog) - tortilla
http://bokardo.com/archives/what-our-home-pages-are-really-saying/
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dasht
I like that post because it highlights a complaint I've quietly had when I
look at a lot of sites (both start-ups and established).
Here's a wish-list (vis a vis commercial web s... | {
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QDirStat – Treemap Visualization of Directory Statistics - vinchuco
https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat
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vilya
Gosh there are a lot of these programs, aren't there?
For some reason I find it really hard to read these tree map visualisations. I
know the theory and all that, but for me they just aren't an int... | {
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} |
A book about how to write an interpreter from scratch - mehmetcoskun
Hello,<p>My name is Mehmet. I am the author of "Practical Interpreter Construction".<p>I am not writing for promoting my book.<p>It is a more story and a contra attitude than just announcing yet another book about compilers and interprete... | {
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PlayCanvas goes open source - hartcw
http://blog.playcanvas.com/playcanvas-goes-open-source/
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junkilo
I analyzed their JS math library (2013) and was pleasantly surprised
(optimized, lean object design).
Love what PlayCanvas is doing. They seem committed to the community and their
people.
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pron
Seems lik... | {
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I’ve used an app that detects % male vs. female voices speaking in meetings - DoreenMichele
https://twitter.com/choo_ek/status/1099737652167729152
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belorn
I would be happy to be wrong, but I will predict that in the average meeting
of ten people with equal distribution, about 2/3 of the meeting will be from a
si... | {
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} |
Show HN: My book on JavaScript Application Design (updated) - bevacqua
http://www.manning.com/bevacqua
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magentaplacenta
This actually looks pretty interesting (from the table of contents). Since I'm
the first commenter, how about throwing me a bone with a free ebook copy?
| {
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If I was CEO of Posterous - Tawheed
http://www.tawheedkader.com/2010/06/if-i-was-ceo-of-posterous/
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idoh
And that is why TK isn't the CEO. The whole campaign is really smart and well
executed.
On the PR front it is generating huge buzz. On the business side it makes
perfect sense - expand the market from peop... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Plurk relaunches with Twitter/Facebook like service - pkrumins
http://blog.plurk.com/2009/04/01/plurk-to-relaunch-as-bitter/
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froo
I understand this is posted on April 1st, so that it could be classified as a
prank - but shouldn't it at least be funny?
This just sounds like a vilifying rant posted convenientl... | {
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} |
Shared Emotional States in Ravens - pseudolus
https://www.pnas.org/content/116/23/11547
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shishy
Anyone have access to the full paper?
~~~
triangulum
Also have a look at Sci-Hub.
| {
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Soon, California kids will have the right to delete things they said online - bitops
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/09/soon-california-kids-will-have-the-right-to-delete-things-they-said-online/
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sehugg
Bill text (I think):
[http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/13-14/bill/sen/sb_0551-0600/sb_568...](http://leginfo... | {
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I'm a linux noob, that thought he knew something, got destroyed in an interview. - bsdpunk
http://bsdpunk.blogspot.com/2011/03/linux-job-interview-from-hell.html
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X-Istence
Honestly, from the sound of it you just hadn't been paying attention over the
years as you were learning all of the commands, it seems lik... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Motocoin whitepaper – a cryptocurrency based on proof-of-play in a 2D game [pdf] - networked
https://motocoin-dev.github.io/motocoin-site/Motocoin.pdf
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tinco
edit: I'm sorry I'm a bit tired, this post is needlessly critical. The idea of
the paper is fun, and can serve as a source of inspiration for good thought,... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The App That Reminds You You're Going to Die - asethos
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/01/when-death-pings/546587/?single_page=true
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bitadder
I for one hope that Silicon Valley's immortality efforts succeed.
Notifications induce enough anxiety as they are--I don't need more reminders
that, as ... | {
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} |
Use Vagrant to launch AWS boxes - tswicegood
http://www.hashicorp.com/blog/preview-vagrant-aws.html
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malandrew
Very cool. Out of curiosity, are there any plans to make it easy to
provision/create AWS boxes securely via chroot via Eric Hammond's approaches
at Alestic? Currently it is a very tedious process to m... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Deep cyberattacks cause millions in losses for US banks - thinkalone
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/082313-deep-cyberattacks-cause-millions-in-273121.html
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glasz
i feel sooo bad for those banks. they really do suffer. but hey, don't fix the
bug. sue the attackers!
| {
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Comprehensive and biased comparison of OpenBSD and FreeBSD [pdf] - oherrala
https://www.bsdfrog.org/pub/events/my_bsd_sucks_less_than_yours-AsiaBSDCon2017-paper.pdf
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jcranmer
One of the nice things about this is the last section (if you can bear to read
that long). Both people comment on the strengths of the opp... | {
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} |
Walmart Has Made a Genius Move to Beat Amazon - kkcorps
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephenmcbride1/2020/01/08/walmart-has-made-a-genius-move-to-beat-amazon/
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mswehli
I mean, they talk about Walmart like it's the underdog, but its revenue is
twice as large as Amazon's (despite its market cap being much lower). ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Instagram API rate limits - nickfanilov
I use some self developed script to get info about my posts and followers. Recently i discovered that Instagram changed rate limits for my app. I see following info in headers:<p>x-ratelimit-limit: 200<p>I learned Instagram blog and page with changes but found no mention... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Google's Dataproc Managed Spark and Hadoop Service Now GA - gw5815
http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2016/02/Google-Cloud-Dataproc-managed-Spark-and-Hadoop-service-now-GA.html
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ceocoder
I've been using Dataproc in production for past 3-4 months now. It is quite
literally the quickest way I've found of buil... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
With Friend Wekan - xet7
https://medium.com/friendupcloud/with-friend-wekan-707af8d04d9f
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plassa3
looking forward to seeing this integrated with FriendUP APIs
| {
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} |
Government Tracking How People Move Around in Coronavirus Pandemic - t23
https://www.wsj.com/articles/government-tracking-how-people-move-around-in-coronavirus-pandemic-11585393202
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elbelcho
Snowden warned against this recently. The government might not give up these
new powers after we're done with the virus.
| {
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The Writings of Leslie Lamport - Anon84
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/pubs.html
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jdf
Lamport's description of his failures in introducing the Paxos algorithm is a
highly amusing story:
[http://research.microsoft.com/en-
us/um/people/lamport/pubs/p...](http://research.microsoft.com/e... | {
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} |
Get Venture: Who You Should Submit You Executive Summary To - dawie
http://getventure.typepad.com/markpeterdavis/2007/07/who-you-should-.html
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donna
thanks, good tips.
| {
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Ask HN: 3 Artisan cheeses for 30 flat fee - collegeportalme
If i told you, for a 30 dollar flat fee we will deliver 3 artisan cheeses you will never find in your supermarket to your door, how would you feel?<p>What if i throw in hand-baked crackers?
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anigbrowl
I would feel like walking the two blocks to my loc... | {
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} |
5 Things an Apple TV Must Do - bretthellman
http://mashable.com/2012/12/12/5-things-apple-tv-needs/
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headShrinker
No I don't want a second screen seamlessly attached to my TV. No Apple does
not have to play nice with providers. Apple is a behemoth and a bully. They
likely make more money on content than any ot... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Kanban can not save you from the engineering death spiral - bdehaaff
http://blog.aha.io/index.php/the-engineering-death-spiral
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lmm
Huh? I'm pretty sure Kanban helps with all of these.
Why are we building this feature? With a strict limit on work in progress,
someone must have explicitly decided that it was mor... | {
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} |
Biomedical research highlights from 2016 - sciadvance
https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2017/01/04/happy-new-year-looking-back-at-2016-research-highlights/
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BabyByBlue
Clearly not everything was so bad in 2016! Important breakthroughs that could
help to build a better world.
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BabyByBlue
Not everything was so ... | {
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} |
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