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Bill Gates: Allowing piracy in China was a great decision - byrneseyeview http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/07/23/100134488/index.htm ====== twism does apple do this? if not, they should consider doing the same thing
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Using Pseudo-URIs with Microservices - pcalcado http://philcalcado.com/2017/03/22/pattern_using_seudo-uris_with_microservices.html ====== jamiethompson What's wrong with using UUIDs for microservice architectures? ~~~ kuschku As mentioned in the article, they make it hard to identify the type of resource. ~~~ AdieuT...
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Show HN: Grid.js – Advanced table library that works everywhere - afshinmeh https://gridjs.io/?hn ====== afshinmeh Hello folks :wave: I’m Afshin, the creator of Grid.js. Grid.js is an open-source table library written in TypeScript and published under MIT license. My goal is to develop a framework agnostic table li...
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Intel anounces OpenVINO, a deep learning framework - RealityVoid https://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2018/05/22/intel-openvino-funny-name-great-strategy/#5ba8a8cc6301 ====== mindcrime A quick perusal of the OpenVINO site ([https://software.intel.com/en- us/openvino-toolkit](https://software.intel.com/en-us/openv...
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The robots are coming for your job, too - Kaibeezy https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/08/24/politics/economy-us-workforce-automation/index.html ====== webdva High level programming languages automated assembly language programming, by the way. Generally speaking. For instance, with the use of a high level programming language...
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Parsing a DICOM file for fun and profit - malloc47 http://www.alsonkemp.com/turbinado/parsing-a-dicom-file-for-fun-and-profit/ ====== car54whereareu And the profit? Very cool though.
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A Flurry of Copycats on PubMed - beefman http://blog.thegrandlocus.com/2014/10/a-flurry-of-copycats-on-pubmed ====== jldugger A friend of mine reached out to me via LinkedIn several months ago, stating he could probably use Tableau and some public datasets to DDoS the medical peer review system and earn tenure at th...
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Blockchain Believers Believe They Can Change the World , After Industry Implodes - Erlangolem https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/16/17130532/blockchain-bitcoin-cryptocurrency-scams-fraud-sec-sxsw-2018 ====== bitxbitxbitcoin >>Is it actually worth $850 million, she asked. “I don’t know,” he responded. “I didn’t do due di...
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SoftBank to invest over $1B in German payment company Wirecard - PaulMartin123 https://world-news-monitor.com/top-news/2019/04/24/softbank-to-invest-over-1-bln-usd-in-german-payment-company-wirecard/ ====== pavlov Ah, Wirecard, the company that's trying to get two Financial Times journalists prosecuted for exposing th...
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Python 8 will be the next major Python version - echion https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2016-March/143603.html ====== PeCaN Later in that thread: > Does it combine the base of Python 2 with the power of Python 3? ------ mjevans April 1st; training everyone to take everything with a grain of salt... some...
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Ask HN: What are the greatest modern space-opera style sci-fi books? - andrewstuart I&#x27;m interested in stuff written in the past twenty years where the setting is in space or other worlds.<p>My favorite is probably Excession, which also has an outstandingly good audio book. https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2...
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3 Tenets for Implementing a REST API - anm8tr http://www.notmessenger.com/rest/3-tenets-for-implementing-a-rest-api/ ====== timrobinson > _But just like I don’t use custom HTTP headers because of concern that > proxies may strip them off_ Is this an actual problem? HTTP headers are normally significant in REST APIs...
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Interview with Alan Kay - gits1225 http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/interview-with-alan-kay/240003442# ====== bcantrill Alan Kay is a brilliant guy, but I really wish he could open his mouth without shooting it off. In particular -- to speak to my own domain -- he bleats about "feature creep" in an opera...
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Hit testing for arbitrary paths on the iPhone - baroova http://www.dragozov.com/2009/10/hit-testing-for-arbitrary-paths-on.html ====== ajg1977 This approach seems really dumb to me. 1) Testing rectangles against paths is an easy thing to solve on the CPU. 2) On the first iPhone models if you're doing anything grap...
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NNSA/U.S Air Force complete test of non-nuclear B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb - shaaaaawn http://nnsa.energy.gov/mediaroom/pressreleases/b61-b61-12-lep-life-extension-program-snl-lanl-sandia-national-laboratory ====== acjohnson55 I ran into this article as well, but don't understand. What does this mean exactly?
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Where even Walmart won't go: how Dollar General took over rural America - devy https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/aug/13/dollar-general-walmart-buhler-haven-kansas ====== sj4nz Just walked through a Dollar General store today while waiting for lunch. They make Big Lots stores feel like Nordstrom. If you are st...
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Asset tracking API with BLE mesh - jimiasty http://blog.estimote.com/post/165720366660/estimote-introducing-low-power-asset-tracking-api ====== jimiasty Hi HN, This is Jakub, founder of Estimote. We just launched a new Asset Tracking API. Bluetooth beacons attached to walls can now scan and locate smaller beacons att...
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Ask HN: Attributes of a successful Open Source project? - Sean-Der I have a small Open Source project https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Sean-Der&#x2F;fail2web and would love to see it succeed. For me that means the code is clean, users are not frustrated and contributors can easily improve it.<p>What are some things t...
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MongoDB removed from RHEL 8 beta due to license - vbezhenar https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8-beta/html/8.0_beta_release_notes/new-features#web_servers_databases_dynamic_languages_2 ====== giancarlostoro It seems[0] the new MongoDB license is basically non-free and it would make ...
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Crowdfunding Pack - andreyvit http://crowdfundingpack.org/# ====== joshdotsmith Pretty nice collection of discounts. How did you manage to coordinate all these? ~~~ teelaunch networking over time ------ rjvir I wonder how they select the winners. ~~~ teelaunch randomly ~~~ rjvir How randomly? Is there a lottery ...
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The Problem With Posterous - OoTheNigerian http://oonwoye.com/2011/01/31/the-problem-with-posterous/ ====== joelg87 I think you make a great point here. The thing I find interesting is that looking back it feels to me as though they did indeed get their first traction by carving a niche and being the best at _one thi...
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Condoleeza Rice joins Dropbox board - malditojavi http://www.cnet.com/news/dropbox-grows-leadership-team-with-condoleezza-rice/ ====== bilalhusain She's been on company boards before. Is this (politicians on board) common in US? ~~~ cleverjake Its quite common for politicians to be business people as wel. I wouldn'...
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D.E.A. Says Hondurans Opened Fire During a Drug Raid. Video Suggests Otherwise - JumpCrisscross https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/23/world/americas/drug-enforcement-agency-dea-honduras.html ====== nkingsy Strange that they got a quote from the lady that operated the victim boat, but couldn't get her to explain why they ...
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Ask HN: Is dropbox still down for you? - nodesocket I still cannot connect to Dropbox with clients, and logging into Dropbox.com results in a 500 error. Anybody else seeing this? ====== nodesocket It appears the Germans are pissed as well: [https://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=110230](https://forums.dropbox.com/t...
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Startup founders throughout the Midwest are doing something new: staying - prostoalex https://story.californiasunday.com/indianapolis-tech ====== wpietri To me this is heartening in a variety of ways. One is that we're finally making good on the promise of the Internet. The hype was that it made location irrelevant. ...
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Fluid Dynamics in Javascript with Canvas - ck2 http://tholman.com/series/flash-forward/ports/multiphase-flow/02/ ====== bradleyland Can someone share some insight on why Flash is so much more performant at these types of operations? I recall not too long ago when the Javascript + Canvas demos of this type weren't ev...
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Funny SQL Server bug, that MS calls a “feature” - jitbit http://www.jitbit.com/alexblog/239-sql-server-bug-ms-calls-a-feature/ ====== geophile Why is this a bug? There are no guarantees (beyond not going backward). You can't count on dense ids anyway. What if you have concurrent transactions that get ids and some of...
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Lifespan depends on month of birth (2000) - Petiver http://www.pnas.org/content/98/5/2934.full ====== reasonattlm Leonid Gavrilov and Natalia Gavrilova are a good resource for this sort of demography and epidemiology of aging. [1] In particular they have a lot of material on season of birth effects. [2] Tangentially ...
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Wall Street Thinks Facebook Will Grow 29 Times Faster Than Apple - npguy http://statspotting.com/2013/01/wall-street-thinks-facebook-will-grow-29-times-faster-than-apple/ ====== jfb What we have here is the "rational markets" analogy falling over. The sum of a bignum of irrational decisions does not, _pace_ Friedman...
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Medieval Wellness Tips - pepys https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/medieval-wellness-tips ====== DanAndersen We should keep in mind that these tips are specifically chosen because of their unusual and laughable nature, and so should refrain from attempting to generalize about the nature of medieval medicine fr...
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Lean on Me to offer anonymous venue for student support - darksigma http://tech.mit.edu/V136/N2/leanonme.html ====== darksigma We've spent the last several months building this service for MIT. Check us out at [http://lean0n.me](http://lean0n.me) We think all universities could use a peer support network like this, a...
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GUI Architectures (2006) - ignoramous http://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/uiArchs.html ====== BerislavLopac I've lately been building a lot of Javascript-based GUIs, and the persistent thought in my mind has been how all those frameworks must be reinventing the wheel that was doubtless invented years ago for desktop GUI ...
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SHA-1 collider: Make your own colliding PDFs - ascorbic https://alf.nu/SHA1 ====== xiphias I think the coolest proof was that the Bitcoin SHA1 collision bounty was claimed: [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=293382.0](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=293382.0) The OP_2DUP OP_EQUAL OP_NOT OP_VERIFY OP_SH...
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The first real successful attempt to reimagine the daily newspaper for tablets? - thierryd http://talkingnewmedia.blogspot.ca/2013/04/quebecs-daily-newspaper-la-presse.html ====== k__ Tablets + GIF-revival = harry potter newspapers!
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Rap Stats: Breaking Down The Words in Rap Lyrics Over Time - jsomers http://news.rapgenius.com/Sameoldshawn-rap-stats-breaking-down-the-words-in-rap-lyrics-over-time-lyrics ====== madsushi I have always been a big fan of rap vocabulary, and I've already lost an hour poring over different results. What would be amazing...
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Did China steal Japan's high-speed train? - w1ntermute http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/04/15/china-japan/ ====== DigitalSea The quote by Li Daokui in the article: "Don't worry too much about Chinese companies imitating you, they are creating value for you down the road" is probably the best way of putting this. The...
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Ask HN: Why can't we stop hurricanes? - aashaykumar92 I googled this and see theories as to how to stop hurricanes -- decrease water temperature under eye of storm, send supersonic jets in to revolve and cause hot air to rise, lasers, etc. -- anyone have a simple reason why these haven&#x27;t been tried or are absolut...
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Opening up some details of OpenSolaris under Oracle - bensummers http://ptribble.blogspot.com/2010/02/opening-up-some-details-of-opensolaris.html ====== ax0n I know I'm probably one of like 5 HNers who gives a shit about OpenSolaris, but it looked pretty dicey there for a bit, and I'm glad Peter Tribble posted this ...
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Ask HN: Were you saved by a teacher? - mathgladiator In thinking about a recent comment I made ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2059752 ), i was wondering how many of us have been given second chances by teachers.<p>It seems to me, being entrepreneurial or a hacker requires dealing with a massive amount of dail...
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C-source to deal with OS X Finder aliases - McUsr https://github.com/McUsr/isalis I hope those it concerns enjoy it. That is, those that wants their shell tools to work or play along with Finder Aliases.<p>The source is provided in the form of a shell-tool that lists aliases and broken aliases.<p>Enjoy! ====== McUsr...
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Cisco copied Slack called it Spark - talsnet http://venturebeat.com/2016/09/06/cisco-doesnt-want-spark-to-be-like-slack-heres-why/ ====== jflowers45 I like this article but I think your version of the headline on HN "Cisco copied Slack called it Spark" is too clickbaity and VB's original "Cisco doesn’t want Spark to b...
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Justin.TV pwns king content - pg http://lucidmedia.cirne.com/index.php/2007/04/01/justintv-p0wns-eisner/ ====== RyanGWU82 Wow, a huge above-the-fold piece on the Chronicle front page, in their second week of operations, that's _amazing_ placement. Does anyone know if Justin has professional PR assistance, or if they'...
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Wireless charging startup uBeam accused of being the next Theranos - jacquesm http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/11/charged/ ====== dang The story reported here (blog by ex-exec) had two major discussions at the time: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11672270](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11672270) [https://...
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Ask HN: How do you recognize a good bug fix from a bad one? - julienreszka ====== croo Minimal amount of code change required to fix the problem is generally a good sign. A simple fix is always better than a convoluted one. A fix that deletes code instead of adding more sounds fantastic. If the fix contains the test...
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Loop Unrolling - bpatelcse https://www.cs.umd.edu/class/fall2001/cmsc411/proj01/proja/loop.html ====== barrkel I had an amusing time optimizing a byte-scanning loop in Java a few months back. The initial loop was a lot slower than a naive byte-by-byte, non-unrolled version in C. I implemented an approximate version...
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GPS III - bookofjoe https://www.cbsnews.com/news/global-positioning-system-preparing-the-next-generation-of-gps/ ====== toomuchtodo Some details on new features: Laser reflectors for improved ranging and ephemeris calculation (NASA request): [https://www.gpsworld.com/expert-advice-laser-reflectors- to-r...](https://w...
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How 3-D Printing Is Revolutionizing the Display of Big Data - ca98am79 http://www.technologyreview.com/view/531596/how-3-d-printing-is-revolutionizing-the-display-of-big-data/ ====== Wogef I used to volunteer teaching English to Chinese kids from migrant families (displaced within China). One of the ways I illustrated...
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Ignoring the Wiggles - loyalelectron http://themacro.com/articles/2016/02/ignoring-the-wiggles/ ====== trjordan I'm sitting at SaaStr Annual, a conference with predominantly SaaS founders, sales & marketing types, and VCs. There's a lot of talk about the recent motion, especially among VCs. One of the things I'm stru...
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Microsoft's forthcoming Minecraft Education Edition is written in C++ - ingve http://www.zdnet.com/article/minecrafts-new-education-edition-written-in-c-will-outrun-the-java-version/ ====== sheepdestroyer Micro optimized by John Carmack himself who volunteered (he was like a free consultant for while) for the task bec...
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Show HN: Jiggy – an AI powered app that makes people in your photos dance - talhof8 https://apps.apple.com/app/jiggy-magical-dance-gif-maker/id1482608709 ====== talhof8 Made by some friends. Also available on the Play Store ([https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.botika.jig...](https://play.google.com/sto...
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People don’t want to see workers replaced by a robot–themselves excepted - lordnacho https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/08/people-dont-want-to-see-workers-replaced-by-a-robot-themselves-excepted/ ====== close04 The title is a bit misleading. It's not that people _want_ to see their own job replaced by a robot. Rathe...
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ESNC2041217 Critical Security Vulnerability in PwC ACE Software for SAP Security - based2 https://www.esnc.de/security-advisories/vulnerability-in-pwc-ace-for-sap-security/index.html ====== based2 [https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/5i6jag/pwc_sends_...](https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/5i6jag/pwc_se...
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On creating a user driven social media 'safe space' - TheMightyLlama https://gist.github.com/TheMightyLlama/bb77a05d3dde4da2511426e34279e7d6 ====== TheMightyLlama OP here, and first timer. This post was off the back of some thinking I've been doing about the arbitrary nature of community guidelines enforcement we've s...
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Google faces $15 million lawsuit for releasing blogger information in model row - kqr2 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/6081473/Google-faces-15-million-lawsuit-for-releasing-blogger-information-in-model-row.html ====== run4yourlives Can a company actually be sued for following a court order? Is US culture ...
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If Facebook is Worth $50B, Apple is Worth $1.4T - macco http://blog.vuru.co/post/2632452622/if-facebook-is-worth-50b-apple-is-worth-1-4t ====== andreaja Is it just me or are people blowing that "$50b" valuation of facebook out of proportion? And applying P/E * Profit to other companies doesn't really seem like an inte...
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Dead Cells review: the best Castlevania game in years - Tomte https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/6/17655322/dead-cells-review-nintendo-switch-ps4-xbox-castlevania ====== Driky I hadn't played such a good metroidvania since the Castlevania on Gameboy advanced (I haven't played on DS so I might have missed a few good EP). ...
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Superb PBS Frontline program: life on the digital frontier - anigbrowl http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/ ====== anigbrowl Excuse me self-commenting, but frankly I'm surprised and disappointed nobody else posted this - I just happened to catch the program by accident. Well worth the 90 minutes or...
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SecureDrop Documentation - saycheese https://docs.securedrop.org/en/stable/ ====== saycheese Documentation contains a lot of operational security recommendations even down to hardware recommendations. PDF of the docs maybe found in the menu; here's a link too: [https://media.readthedocs.org/pdf/securedrop/stable/secu...
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The Go Team declines the ‘try’ proposal - ngaut https://github.com/golang/go/issues/32437 ====== grepgeek It was discussed here: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20454966](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20454966)
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Jason Cohen: How to work out whether advice is helpful to you. - marklittlewood http://blip.tv/file/4933967 ====== marklittlewood Jason Cohen's talk at Business of Software <http://businessofsoftware.org/> How to filter advice from others. Brilliant advice, but don't take it as the absolute truth. ------ Detrus Th...
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Show HN: Work 10-25h per week, 100% remote on Turtle (React / RN focused now) - vlokshin https://turtle.ai/freelancers ====== itronitron I recommend changing the color on the (x) icons in the pricing table as they look to similar to the checkmark icons. ~~~ vlokshin thanks for your feedback!
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WinUAE 3.5.0 (15.06.2017) released - doener http://www.winuae.net/2017/06/15/winuae-3-5-0/ ====== orionblastar I wonder why nobody makes a Raspberry PI based Amiga computer using UAE to run Amiga software? ~~~ doener There is something similar, but ARM-based: [http://www.armigaproject.com/](http://www.armigaproject.c...
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Introducing Ramda: A practical functional library for JavaScript developers - buzzdecafe http://buzzdecafe.github.io/code/2014/05/16/introducing-ramda/ ====== CrossEye As the co-author of Ramda, I'm excited to finally see this thing getting out there. Next up, algebraic data types?
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Ask HN: Any useful tips for writing in Emacs? - fjk I&#x27;m using org-mode to write outline an essay in Emacs and I was wondering if anyone has nifty tips for writing long-form essays and prose in Emacs ====== phren0logy I bound fly spell to ctrl-; to bring up a list of the misspellings and cycle from the first thr...
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Less Talk More Rock - robin_reala http://www.boingboing.net/features/morerock.html ====== pogigroo Also check out the super-brothers video: <http://vimeo.com/3807518>
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Uncommon Sense by Derek Sivers. - iworkforthem http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUJir-MTmJY&list=PLBAAC8C0430D64F4D ====== ColinWright Dup: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2859871>
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How often do you 'release" your web service to production? - mmohan We just launched our service and have got a lot of feedback from customers, which we are fixing daily.<p>I would like some feedback on the pros / cons of releasing bugs / new features as they happen VS. a preset schedule VS. release dates (V2.0 in A...
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How the Edward Snowden story is overwhelming the NSA story - Libertatea http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/07/03/how-ed-snowden-became-a-bigger-story-than-nsa-spying-in-two-charts/?tid=rssfeed ====== Semiapies It's the intent.
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Playframework: Async, Reactive, Threads, Futures, ExecutionContexts - sadache http://sadache.tumblr.com/post/42351000773/async-reactive-nonblocking-threads-futures-executioncont ====== Irishsteve The more and more issues highlighted with the playframework the better. I find it a great piece of kit to play around wit...
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VMware acquires Socialcast - dwynings http://knowledgeissocial.com/vmware-acquires-socialcast/ ====== jfruh Is it just me or does this post read like an Oscar acceptance speech? I mean, I get that he put in a lot of work and a lot of people helped but -- I just found it kind of off-putting. Like he won an award or som...
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Meet Microsoft's Sharks Cove: A Raspberry Pi-style mini-PC running Windows 8.1 - johannh http://www.pcworld.com/article/2459200/meet-microsofts-sharks-cove-a-raspberry-pi-style-mini-pc-running-windows-8-1.html ====== lovelearning Why such a strange name for a development board? Does "Shark's cove" have any cultural ...
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Ignore the competition - vd http://www.nivi.com/blog/article/competition If you want to be #1, ignore the competition. ====== pg He's wrong. You have to pay attention to competitors because (a) so many people will ask why you're better, (b) you may be able to get new ideas from them, and (c) even a lame competitor ca...
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HTC launches $100M tech venture fund - thankuz http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2011/04/05/htc-launches-100m-tech-venture-fund.html ====== donnyg107 I had expected for this to be the HTC in Taiwan, but this is also a good development. Now that many tech firms feel more loyal to industries due to the ease of c...
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Approaches to providing affordable housing for non-profit workers - panic http://brewster.kahle.org/2020/06/28/results-of-7-approaches-to-affordable-housing-for-non-profit-workers/ ====== rayiner We are having some important conversations about equality these days, so I think it’s worth bringing up this point. The not...
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Magicians fought over an ultra-secret tracker dedicated to stealing magic tricks - juanito http://www.businessinsider.de/inside-art-of-misdirection-ultra-exclusive-private-torrent-tracker-magical-pirates-invites-2016-11 ====== simonw If I want to know how a classic trick is done I'll look at the Wikipedia page. It oft...
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Ask HN: What realistically changes for a developer when taking a corporate job? - ultrasandwich After years of working freelance and with smaller agencies, I have just been offered a really well paying front-end developer job at a huge multinational tech corporation. Since I&#x27;ve never made this leap, I&#x27;m of...
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Show HN: Roast My Startup - eljbutler Hey all.<p>I am posting here because i am about to launch &quot;officially&quot; my new marketplace startup Eirify a creative marketplace and i am looking for opinions, constructive feedback, and any comments, especially with in experience in this field. I am hoping to learn lots ...
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NLP's ImageNet Moment: From Shallow to Deep Pre-Training - stablemap https://thegradient.pub/nlp-imagenet/ ====== narrator I was at a deep learning conference recently. The topic of how AI can improve healthcare came up. One panelist said that a startup they were working with wants to help doctors use AI to use NLP to...
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Bad Character: If Chinese Were Phonetic - bemmu http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/16/if-chinese-were-phonetic ====== sparky_z Is it just me, or does this essay seem to be missing an introduction, like someone accidentally deleted the first few paragraphs? I initially assumed I had been linked to "page 2" and w...
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The Busy Beaver Game - mathgenius https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2016/05/21/the-busy-beaver-game/ ====== pohl _Edit: whoa, they really buried the lede: the upper bound for the knowable values may be as low as BB(1919) as of May 15!_ I'm confused by the winning TM given for BB(2). It has 3 non-halt states, but N...
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Ljsyscall: Unix system calls for LuaJIT - lelf https://github.com/justincormack/ljsyscall ====== justincormack This is my project... not sure why it suddenly appeared on HN today, but happy to answer any questions. There is a short talk from Fosdem [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZty3v4xVnQ](https://www.youtube.c...
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Vim After 11 Years - statico http://statico.github.com/vim.html ====== h2s Lots of people seem to declare ; or , to be useless keys and remap them. They're two of my most used movement keys in certain circumstances. I used to have , remapped to <leader> but switched back when I realised what I was missing out on. I'd...
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Backtracking, Interleaving, and Terminating Monad Transformers (2005) [pdf] - setra http://okmij.org/ftp/papers/LogicT.pdf ====== danidiaz These notes explain the logic monad by solving solve n-queens with it: [https://github.com/sshastry/queenslogic](https://github.com/sshastry/queenslogic) Despite its name, it's mor...
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Up Vote if you want long urls to be chopped - lupin_sansei http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28841 ====== ralph I want any particularly long word to be forcefully split instead of making the page wider than the window. I'd have thought 200B is the "right" way to do this. ------ davidw What I'd really like is markdo...
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Machine Learning Fairy Dust - stdbrouw http://stdout.be/2011/07/18/machine-learning-fairy-dust/ ====== law What makes me really nervous is that we're nearing the point when Google's Prediction API and its knock-offs will increasingly pervade web sites much in the way that AJAX and other technologies have. While over...
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Pmarca: OK, you're right, it IS a bubble - alex_c http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/10/ok-youre-right-.html ====== jsrfded Bite your tongue. Folks with far less to show are regularly promoted to sainthood here. Marc climbed up from grad student to monster IPO, rode out huge corporate stuff at Netscape/AOL, left and started...
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The Day The Barges Opened - danhon https://medium.com/p/44df20177747 ====== codezero This is a fun piece of pop-culture fiction. I like this use of Medium better than the typical self-aggrandizing fare.
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Ask HN: Should I Remove an Online Pseudonym? - valkorhe I&#x27;ve gone by a pseudonym online for around 8 years, but now that I&#x27;m older (over 18) I&#x27;ve considered replacing it with my actual name so online work I do can be easily attributed to me. This includes social media, GitHub, forums, and normal convers...
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Peter Thiel, Funds He Controls Sell Off All of Their Facebook Shares - NickSharp http://allfacebook.com/sec-082914_b134275 ====== biomimic Good.
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Show HN: Mellow, a robotic sous-chef for home cooks - zemvpferreira http://cookmellow.com/meet-mellow/ ====== zemvpferreira Screwed up the URL, here goes: [http://cookmellow.com/meet- mellow](http://cookmellow.com/meet-mellow)
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Meet Alfie, Sears' voice-controlled shopping assistant - jawns http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-sears-alfie-virtual-assistant-0618-biz-20160617-story.html ====== jawns When I first heard about this, I almost laughed. Sears -- the boring department store -- is trying to compete with the likes of Amazon Echo an...
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Silicon Valley is coming back strong and here's why - rantfoil http://alex.posterous.com/silicon-valley-coming-back-strong-and-heres-w ====== TomOfTTB The irony is a lot of the points he makes are reasons to stay out of Silicon Valley. For example, he cites the "death" of VC money and how it's cheaper than ever to s...
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CakePHP 1.2 Released - edb http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/the-gift-of-1-2-final ====== edb I don't know why this framework doesn't get more attention. Good on them for finally releasing the 1.2 version.
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Show HN: Roq – C++ HFT on Crypto Exchanges with μs Latency - thraneh https://roq-trading.com/docs/blogs/showhn/index.html ====== thraneh It's a framework supporting the whole life-cycle: * Data capture (binary format, streaming, consistent) * Exploratory research (InfluxDB into Jupyter) * Back-testing (incl. order ...
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TripAdvisor Redesign - jjar https://www.tripadvisor.com/ ====== chrisma0 Is there a special designer school you go to, to learn how to draw those colorful, generic human figures (behind the search)? Reminds me a bit of the "Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell" style. Seems like I see this pop up as a design trend everywhere re...
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The Modern Triumph of the Periodic Table of Elements - Hooke https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-08-28/the-modern-triumph-of-the-periodic-table-of-elements ====== sdrothrock I was disappointed by this article because it has almost nothing to do with the "Periodic Table of Elements," just the elements themselv...
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Ask HN: When is risk worth it? - beswift Alright, so I'm in no way a talented coder or even very technically savvy (much more of an admiring "coder wannabe" actually) but ever since I first stumbled on a PG essay on philosophy (in the midst of a typical googling/reading binge) a year or so ago I've become a daily tr...
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Science Reveals the Traits Every Leader Must Cultivate - successvalley https://www.successvalley.tech/traits-leader-cultivate/ ====== distant_hat Above every such article one must have big flashing letters saying 'Survivorship bias'.
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Graphic Designers are Ruining the Web - jaems33 http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/feb/19/john-naughton-webpage-obesity ====== halefx I've worked with so many graphic designers claiming to be web designers who didn't know the first thing about good web design. IMHO, you can't call yourself a web designer unle...
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Sugar industry withheld possible evidence of cancer link 50 years ago - mtberatwork https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/sugar-industry-withheld-possible-evidence-of-cancer-link-50-years-ago-researchers-say ====== qwerty456127 The whole phenomenon of sugar and fructose being added to virtually everything is beyond com...
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