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Apple losing its supply chain mojo is a major threat - adventured
https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2017-10-23/apple-losing-its-supply-chain-mojo-is-a-major-threat
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dep_b
If there's anything I'm worried about it's not the supply chain, that's Tim
Cook's speciality. We had similar stories about jet black ... | {
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Apple Maps up to five times more data efficient than Google Maps - iPhone1
http://www.loopinsight.com/2012/10/01/apple-maps-up-to-five-times-more-data-efficient-than-google-maps/
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mtgx
The title is a little misleading. It may be more efficient compared to the 5
years old Google Maps app on iOS, but Google Maps f... | {
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Ask HN: What happened to Kite? - rhys91
Aside from securities concerns from a few, Kite seemed like a really promising tool that I'd love to include into my workflow. Their blog and Twitter both seem abandoned. Is something still coming?
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mmutuyu
Also would like to know more. I've been waiting for months to... | {
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The mathematics of Magic: the Gathering (1999) - YeGoblynQueenne
http://www.kibble.net/magic/
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stephengillie
Some time ago, I tried to recreate a few basic Powershell commands as MTG
cards.[0] Try/Catch [1] is one of my favorites - it's designed to "pre-
counter" counterspells.
[0] [https://imgur.com/a/4sa6v](h... | {
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Why Entrepreneurship Programs for Engineers Fail - betocmn
https://hbr.org/2018/05/why-entrepreneurship-programs-for-engineers-fail
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taneq
> Entrepreneurs are known for their creativity and risk tolerance; engineers,
> mathematicians, and health care workers typically aren’t.
Lost me in the first line:
1) The ... | {
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Show HN: cashay.me – translating time at work to cost of items - jsomau
http://www.cashay.me/
Just a toy I put together while learning AngularJS.
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jsomau
This is a toy I put together while learning AngularJS.
The idea: People struggle to associate the time spent behind their desk with
the money that gets depos... | {
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} |
Profits = Freedom - whyleym
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2223-profits-freedom
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pchristensen
This is typical of what drives me crazy about 37signals. They say several
things that are true but then claim that there's a causal relationship between
them.
Take this post.
Premise: Profits = Freedom.
Results:
C... | {
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GitLab 8.11.2 released - dwaxe
https://about.gitlab.com/2016/08/25/gitlab-8-dot-11-dot-2-released/
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owaislone
The progress GitLab is making is great but lately it feels like HN frontpage
is a GitLab release announcement page. It would make much more sense to see
announcement on HN about some very useful or groun... | {
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Ask HN: How bad is it to use a self-signed SSL certificate? - mark_l_watson
I have a few "information only" (i.e., no customer data stored, no user logins) for almost 20 years that I just added HTTPS support for.<p>I did this after reading the EFF's "Join us on June 5th to Reset the Net" artic... | {
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OCaml 4.06.0 Released - aw1621107
https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list/2017-11/msg00005.html
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aw1621107
Saw this on /r/programming and was intrigued by comments from
/u/subtly_homoerotic discussing multi-processing vs multi-threading on *nix.
That's well outside my realm of expertise, so I'm curious what y... | {
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Findima: The first Iranian “crowdfunded” gadget - mohisanisel
By lifting the sanctions against Iran, this question came to the minds of the technology lovers that what is going on the Iranian technology market? Which kind of facilities exists that could provide a good groundwork for cooperation/investment?
Hearin... | {
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Js-joda – Immutable date and time library for JavaScript - joekrie
https://github.com/js-joda/js-joda
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niftich
This is inspired by both Threeten [1] and Joda-Time [2], which are well-
engineered Java libraries for date/time concepts.
I have often wished for that API to be available in other environments, so
thi... | {
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Most used words in programming languages - Walkman
https://anvaka.github.io/common-words/#?lang=py
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Noughmad
In most languages, the top words are self/this and function/def. On the other
hand, in Go, the most common word is "err", and "if err != nil" are three of
the top four words. I really wonder how big part ... | {
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People try to do right by each other, no matter the motivation, study finds - pseudolus
https://phys.org/news/2020-06-people.html
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leto_ii
> "From an evolutionary perspective, it's kind of perplexing that it even
> exists, because you're decreasing your own fitness on behalf of others,"
> Melamed said. "And yet,... | {
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The Untold Story of the Teen Hackers Who Transformed the Early Internet - ohjeez
http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-untold-story-of-the-teen-hackers-who-transformed-th-1770977586
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fallingfrog
I found this quote pretty poignant: "When I went to Santa Monica to meet Bill,
I was pretty sure I’d hear a story about h... | {
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Ask HN: Which games do you prefer? - King_mansur
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Espionage724
MMORPGs (Guild Wars 2, OSRS), ARPGs (Diablo III, Path of Exile), and music
games (DDR, SDVX, pop'n, etc)
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Plan to replicate 50 high-impact cancer papers shrinks to just 18 - nonbel
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/07/plan-replicate-50-high-impact-cancer-papers-shrinks-just-18
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sytelus
Every academic cries about this but no one wants to accept an _obvious_
solution: Add reprodicibility criteria for peer review. Ri... | {
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The Workers Who Bring You Black Friday - sir_kitty
http://www.thenation.com/article/177377/holiday-crush?page=full
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rayiner
> After waiting twenty minutes, we are ushered into a room upstairs. A woman
> from the agency hands each of us a time sheet. For the sign-in, she tells us
> to write 8:30. “I know you were... | {
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The Best-Paying Internships in America - dpflan
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-02/these-are-the-best-paying-internships-in-america
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tikhonj
The data here is only for large companies. I happen to know what a couple of
medium-sized quantitative trading firms (Jane Street and DE Shaw) pay interns,
... | {
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Show HN: ShareQuick – Send stuff from your desktop browser to mobile apps - karanrajpal
http://share-quick.com/?ref=shn
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dmlittle
This is pretty much the same as DeskConnect for Android but as a Chrome
Extension [http://deskconnect.com/](http://deskconnect.com/)
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karanrajpal
It does offer some of the same fe... | {
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Haskell Problems for a New Decade - psibi
http://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/decade.html
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siraben
Most undergraduates take a compiler course in which they implement
C, Java or Scheme. I have yet to see a course at any university,
however, in which Haskell is used as the project language. [...] ... | {
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Show HN: Sales List – A curated list of tools and resources for salespeople - vincenzor
https://saleslist.co/
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kelkes
Saleslist without stuff made by Steli Efti is no saleslist :)
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vincenzor
Hi all,
A little side project. I would love to get your feedback on this.
Thx!
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Peter Thiel Met with the Racist Fringe as He Went All in on Trump - minimaxir
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosiegray/peter-thiel-donald-trump-white-nationalist-support
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abvdasker
At a certain point you have to call a spade a spade and acknowledge that Thiel
is apparently a cryptofascist. I wonder if this... | {
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Ask HN: How to handle angel investor interest? - 100-xyz
Our product has entered the launch stage and we are doing a kickstarter. I had asked a bunch of people for feedback before going live.<p>One of them has expressed interest in being an angel investor. I had never given any thought to this.<p>How do I handle th... | {
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Announcing Fedora 21 - dysoco
http://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-21/
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iamtew
Looks like the blog is having some issues coping with the traffic, according
to Matthew Miller (from reddit):
> The blog where we are hosting the annoucement doesn't have enough juice.
> Working on it, but in the meantime, i... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
It's 2059, and the Rich Kids Are Still Winning – Ted Chiang - bookofjoe
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/27/opinion/ted-chiang-future-genetic-engineering.html
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neilv
> _In a society increasingly obsessed with credentials, being genetically
> engineered is like having an Ivy-League M.B.A.: It is a marker of status... | {
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Looking at Python for commercial apps but there are problems with packaging - darreld
I'm researching using Python for commercial desktop applications but deployment
seems problematic. I'm trying to decide if I'm looking at the wrong technology?<p>I love the language and I can see how productive I woul... | {
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Larry Page's question in USENET about a "web robot" he was making (1996) - cryptoz
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.lang.java/aSPAJO05LIU/ushhUIQQ-ogJ
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dhaneshnm
A relic indeed :)
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EU warn pesticides are far more dangerous than was thought - vixen99
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/02/organic-foods-backed-landmark-report-warning-pesticides-far/
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dazc
Article can be read here: [https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-daily-
telegraph/20170603/...](https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-daily-... | {
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson Is a Black Hole, Sucking the Fun Out of the Universe - et1337
http://www.wired.com/2016/04/neil-degrasse-tyson-black-hole-sucking-fun-universe/
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brudgers
Original blog post before Wired picked it up and added tweets to make it real
journalism:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11330297](h... | {
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If iPhone 5 Looks Like This, Apple Maybe Screwed - frankphilips
http://www.businessinsider.com/if-the-iphone-5-really-looks-like-this-apple-may-be-screwed-2012-7
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shadesandcolour
Please, the day that Apple loses market share because the phone looks the same
as the old phone is the day pigs fly. The phone will ... | {
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} |
A tale of two decompilers - rockybernstein
The last 3 years or so I've been working on a decompiler, and it is like a compiler in complexity, engineering, and testing. But different.<p>In https://github.com/rocky/python-uncompyle6/wiki/pycdc-compared-with-uncompyle6 I compare two Pyt... | {
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Turning the Ship - karjaluoto
http://www.erickarjaluoto.com/blog/turning-the-ship/
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karjaluoto
If you run a services-based design shop—and want to instead make products—the
transition is something to consider carefully. Here’s a recollection about how
I once bungled it completely, and how you can avoid those mis... | {
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The Time Needed to Write “Effective Modern C++” - ingve
http://scottmeyers.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-time-needed-to-write-effective.html
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mpu
Is this guy actually writing C++ programs in the wild? He often presents
himself as an apostle in the C++ church, but, I am always surprised that he
does not seem to apply ... | {
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} |
CurrentC: The Big Retailers’ Clunky Attempt to Kill Apple Pay and Credit Card Fees - ryan_j_naughton
http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/25/currentc/
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zaroth
This is so bad it makes me angry, so I'm sorry for ranting, but, seriously
WTF? Did Walmart just think, 'Blast those Visa and Mastercard scum with their
excessiv... | {
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} |
Minimal explanation of the CAP theorem - Dave_Rosenthal
http://blog.foundationdb.com/minimal-explanation-of-the-cap-theorem
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jayvanguard
This is a very good explanation actually.
> Pro tip: If an article includes a diagram with a triangle, stop reading
Exactly. I've seen many explanations that try to turn it... | {
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Lightspeed Summer Fellowship - kparikh
http://lsvp.com/summer-fellowships/
Earn up to $45,000 this summer to build your startup at Lightspeed!<p>Are you an aspiring entrepreneur looking for more than an internship this summer? How about getting quality time with some of the investors behind companies like Nest, Snapc... | {
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Today we were the victim of a malicious social engineering attack. - mappu
http://blog.whmcs.com/
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mappu
Summary: Malicious user managed to answer all the security questions of
WHMCS's webhost in order to reset the password and gain access to the server.
Apparently credit card details are at risk.
An email wa... | {
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} |
Amazon announces new Kindle Paperwhite - adamkochanowicz
http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/17/kindle-announces-new-119-paperwhite-e-reader-with-a-font-thats-easy-on-the-eyes/#.ueknbe:0t2k
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tomcam
I wish so dearly they would allow ragged right text.
| {
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Why I’m betting my retirement on Facebook stock today - daryn
http://www.geekwire.com/2012/betting-retirement-facebook-stock-today/
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tworats
I hope he's not actually putting his retirement money on the line here.
It's not about the quality of the ads, which he argues will get better with
more data. It's about... | {
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Neom, megacity with its own moon, dinosaurs, and robots, reaches next phase - jelliclesfarm
https://bigthink.com/technology-innovation/neom-megacity-with-own-moon-dinosaurs-robots.html
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Colegno
404 in the page
~~~
jelliclesfarm
[https://bigthink-
com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/bigthink.com/tec...](https://bigthink-... | {
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Registration conversion rate - burgalon
Hey everybody,
I've been working for some time now on my private project called 9folds, and have been trying to understand conversion rates for users, and why users seem to drop out mainly on the registration/login phase, and how can I improve on that.<p>Currently I'm using Go... | {
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KiTTY – A fork of PuTTY 0.67 with many additional features - xenophonf
http://www.9bis.net/kitty/
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Mahn
Fun fact: The ssh-agent equivalent for Windows that ships with PuTTY (pageant)
has a limited amount of memory reserved to store the actual keys (8kb) which
causes it to stop responding when more than 25 keys o... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Malaysia Wins Young Singaporean Science Whiz - tokenadult
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703837004575012950290932696.html
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houseabsolute
What an embarrassment that they spend so much effort on fighting over a
foreigner instead of ceasing the religious oppression of their own people and
spending ... | {
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} |
The Life Of A Helicopter Lineman - diaphanous
http://www.graybaresp.com/helicopter-lineman/
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RickJWagner
Wow, that's a seriously dangerous combination. Top shelf cool factor, though.
| {
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Ask HN: What tools are you using for your site's documentation - iantimothy
I'm fascinated by the beautiful documentation from companies like Stripe (https://stripe.com/docs), Parse (https://www.parse.com/docs) and Filepicker (https://developers.filepicker.io/docs/web/). Beautiful in clarity and presentation. What... | {
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Lost and Found: Digging into the Abandoned Cart Email - mevlow
https://medium.com/reallygoodemails/digging-into-abandoned-cart-emails-136b193cff8#.ifyvhvbn6
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squaredeye
So stoked to get this out there! What would you change about this article if
you could?
| {
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The Startup Employee's Real Guide to Stock Options - grdeken
https://www.stevenmoseley.com/blog/the-startup-employees-guide-to-stock-options
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grdeken
Thought this was a great piece on options worth reading in a time where many
are getting laid off and/or options are under water.
| {
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Ask HN: review my startup touchqode - source code editor for android - mks
link: http://www.touchqode.com<p>Touchqode is source code editor for use on your mobile phone. Its main idea is to let you think about and work on your code even if you are away from computer. It features syntax highlighting, code suggestions... | {
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I regularly hire women for 65% to 75% of what males make - amirmc
http://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/hvv2m/i_work_for_a_large_multinational_tech_company_i/
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patio11
Having been a male engineer for a couple of years now, it is very disquieting
to learn that there is any population of people anywhere... | {
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} |
Debt Collectors Cashing In on Student Loan Roundup - jseliger
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/business/once-a-student-now-dogged-by-collection-agencies.html?hpw&pagewanted=all
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DanielBMarkham
_“It’s the closest thing to debtor prison that there is on this earth,” he
said._
One of the sadder parts of a credit ... | {
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} |
Critics call foul as Google takes aim at JavaScript with Dart - shawndumas
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/09/critics-call-foul-as-google-takes-aim-at-javascript-with-dart.ars
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billswift
Two problems with this article. First, the primary critic they quote, and the
only individual named, is the creat... | {
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Hosting a GPT-2 autoresponder bot - luu
https://nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/190086745889/in-case-anyone-was-wondering-maybe-no-one-was
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IfOnlyYouKnew
I seem to remember a pretty large pop up like “do not abuse and don’t run
bitcoin mining in collab” from the initial setup process?
In any case, Collab is a gr... | {
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} |
Clock with simulated Game of Life around numbers - daniel-cussen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYNxNkEAIPw
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pook
The background Game of Life is too faint.
I would have liked to see it set up so at the head of each minute/15
minute/hour, the numbers themselves briefly enter the CA.
Or, perhaps for ubergeekishn... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Apple to cease Mac Pro shipments to Europe - bane
http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/apple-to-cease-mac-pro-shipments-to-europe-2013021/
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adamt
I think this is about apple to cease shipping the _current_ Mac Pro to Europe.
If Apple had a new version of the Mac Pro around the corner, then they
probably wouldn'... | {
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} |
Why is Tim Cook sacrificing the Mac at the altar of the iPad? - housedonuts
http://bgr.com/2015/11/12/ipad-pro-vs-macbook/
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thinkingkong
I would argue that this has less to do with "people that require laptops" vs
"people that require laptops _for work_ ".
The iPad pro seems to be a direct competitor or option ... | {
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} |
NASA's Curiosity rover spots unexplained light in Mars - karthiekc
http://thespacereporter.com/2014/04/curiosity-reaches-next-destination-spots-unexplained-mars-light/
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tempodox
I feel link-baited.
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Why GCP: Compute - coxy
http://www.chriscox.org.uk/why_gcp_compute/
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jbarciauskas
I don't understand this statement:
>Due to the way GCE instances are deployed (in containers) they do not suffer
from noisy neighbour syndrome
I understand the second half of the statement might be true, but it doesn't
follow fro... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: chinstagram.com - china
http://chinstagram.com/
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ttran4
Nice simple idea! I like it
| {
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Graphene Gives You Infrared Vision in a Contact Lens (2014) - Jan_jw
http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/optoelectronics/graphene-gives-you-infrared-vision-in-a-contact-lens
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cordite
Should have 2014 in the title.
They demonstrated a technology the size of a contact lense, but did not make a
funct... | {
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} |
The Big Four: Culture, Innovation and Sentiment - codepower
http://tastethecloud.com/content/big-four-culture-innovation-and-sentiment
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mrphoebs
brilliant analysis
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Ubuntu To Ditch X Server For Wayland - dkd903
http://digitizor.com/2010/11/05/ubuntu-to-ditch-x-for-wayland/
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paol
This is a huge shift if it happens. X has been synonymous with GUIs on unix
for more than 20 years, and has accumulated all the attendant baggage (both
good and bad).
There are also some big conseq... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
All The Top Investors Are Scrambling To Invest In A Startup Called Chromatik - earbitscom
http://www.businessinsider.com/chromatik-ipad-music-app-investors-2012-12
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mgalica
"Startup"? This looks more like a "business". Cheers to them for staying low-
pro & avoiding the hypebeast for all this time.
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anig... | {
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Mathematicians who died under unfortunate or unfitting circumstances - GuiA
http://www.kellenmyers.org/deaths.html
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stiff
Two whole schools of mathematics died in "unfortunate and unfitting
circumstances", namely the Lwów school and the Warsaw school:
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_Lviv_professors](h... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What's your favorite GitHub project mascot? - alixander
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timetraveller
How about we start with yours.
~~~
alixander
[https://github.com/libuv/libuv](https://github.com/libuv/libuv)
Maybe not my all-time favorite but a recent one that I liked!
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cpg1111
Octocat
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Do Software Engineers inflate the reported hours they claim to work? - pjtham
Every now and then I hear a Software Engineer (often from the Bay Area) report how they work or are expected to work "60 to 90 hours a week", for example this guy: https://youtu.be/dvdL-21o3GM?t=224<p>60h/w is 1... | {
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Tell HN: CTO of Twitpic, in SF 11/9 to 11/18, want to meet up? - stevencorona
Hey HN. I'm going to be in San Francisco all next week. It's my second time, I'm usually on the East Coast in Charleston, SC. I don't know anyone in SF, though, and I know there's a ton of cool people out there.<p>Want to meet up and grab ... | {
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Police thwarted by criminals using BlackBerry Phantom encrypted phones - angry_octet
http://www.theage.com.au/nsw/are-encrypted-phones-allowing-criminals-to-get-away-with-murder-20150523-gh82gv.html
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jkestner
"Phantom" is a service not provided by BlackBerry itself. But this title made
me think that there will... | {
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} |
Google: The Beginning - mjfern
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304911104576444363668512764.html?mod=rss_Technology
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markerdmann
If you like this article, you would probably enjoy Stephen Levy's book In The
Plex:
[http://www.amazon.com/Plex-Google-Thinks-Works-
Shapes/dp/141...](http://www.amazon.c... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Fork the Quote – Create, Share and Fork Quotes. Flutter and Serverless - ForkTheQuote
https://forkthequote.com
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pzubkiewicz
Do you have a case study about how you implemented this application?
| {
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Every C99.php shell is backdoored - chewxy
http://thehackerblog.com/every-c99-php-shell-is-backdoored-aka-free-shells/
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kijin
The whole thing _is_ a backdoor. Backdoor in a backdoor? Surprise! Of course
it's backdoors all the way down ;)
But of course, script kiddies aren't particularly good at securing the ser... | {
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Ask HN: Master 1 language or learn several languages intermediary? - mistick
I'm a senior graduate student studying in India with BS in CS. We've been taught several languages throughout the 4 semesters particularly C & C++ in the junior year. But I always felt that the courses of the languages went by i... | {
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Ideal HTTP Performance - josephscott
https://www.mnot.net/blog/2016/04/22/ideal-http
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creshal
HTTP performance is one thing.
Making a blog use so much JS that browsers need 5+ seconds to load the site
another. Rendering text to images in client-side JS, WTF do you need to smoke
to think that's a good idea?!
~~... | {
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Your Body Text Is Too Small - adamcarson
https://medium.com/@xtianmiller/your-body-text-is-too-small-5e02d36dc902
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enkiv2
Default body text sizes on most sites are too big, resulting in systems that
make 500 words look like an acceptable size for an article. The only time
large body text makes sense is in an adv... | {
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Ask HN: If Bitcoins are traceable, can't we trace and find Bitcoin thieves? - panabee
Assuming thieves want to profit from their stolen Bitcoins, doesn't the Bitcoin traceability property mean it's possible to track the Bitcoins stolen from Mt. Gox, for instance, and any related transactions?
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dfc
Ye... | {
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Wadler's Law - kols
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Wadlers_Law
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ori_b
Wadler's law, generalized: <http://communitymgt.wikia.com/wiki/Bikeshedding>
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larsberg
This law seems to depend on the mailing list and the age/status of the
language. I wonder how it went during the "Successor ML" conversations a w... | {
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MessageBird raises $60M Series A - joeyvanommen
https://blog.messagebird.com/messagebird-raises-60m-series-a-funding-9c703f95c67e
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sillysaurus3
I see a lot of "Congrats" type sentiments in this thread. Maybe I should just
say congrats too, but I can't help but wonder: Isn't it a terrible idea to
raise $60M as a ... | {
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US ICE Contract with GitHub Sparks Developer Protests - throw0101a
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/01/ice-contract-github-sparks-developer-protests/604339/
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JanSt
Who is going to choose who the good / bad people / companies / institutions
are? Activists?
You cannot (even in good faith) deny ... | {
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House panel approves broadened ISP snooping bill - ryduh
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20084939-281/house-panel-approves-broadened-isp-snooping-bill/?tag=mantle_skin;content
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elb0w
Well I guess we need to write a screensaver that crawls the web. Maybe when
ISP's have to spend $ on all this storage it will ... | {
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At full speed with Python: a book for self-learners - jventura
https://github.com/joaoventura/full-speed-python
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chrsstrm
I've used Python sparingly in the past for tooling and helper apps and am now
picking it up in a more serious way as I'm working on a Flask API app. I've
been reading lots of instructional ma... | {
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} |
I'm tired of trying to meet new people. So I've built another social network - talhof8
http://blog.interestin.co/post/im-tired-of-trying-to-meet-new-like-minded-people-online-so-ive-built-another-social-network#.UXFm8aJT7GA
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jblok
Everyone, please stop. Seriously, stop. How many more of these things do we
need... | {
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Tech Industry Needs Female Quotas Now - waitwhat
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/sue-black/tech-industry-needs-femal_b_953817.html
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petercooper
As does the childcare industry. 2% of people in the childcare industry (in the
UK) are men. I suspect this sort of experience early in many children's lives
causes mor... | {
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} |
Ask HN: First time in 4 years I lost interest working for startup. What do I do? - denverdevguy
I have worked at the same startup for 4 years now. During a meeting last week I realized: I don't care about our product or it's mission anymore. I would rather be watching TV with my girlfriend or literally doing... | {
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Brouwer–Hilbert controversy - drnewman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brouwer%E2%80%93Hilbert_controversy
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ocfnash
For a long time, I used to dismiss intuitionism but more recently I've come to
find it an attractive standpoint.
For one thing, you really only gain by trying to be constructive. If, in some
logical... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Most used programming languages in California? - aogl
When looking through Software Engineering jobs in California, the greater majority of roles tend to lean towards Java and Javascript.<p>Is this a true reflection? As all the programming indexes tend to talk about Python being the most used throughout.<p>Or ... | {
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} |
In pursuit of tortoise smugglers - kawera
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/02/in-pursuit-of-the-tortoise-smugglers-madagascar-trafficking-endangered-species
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RcouF1uZ4gsC
That article smacked so much of colonialism and foreign interference. Foreign
donors create an organization that goes around giving o... | {
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} |
Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and eBay exit Facebook’s Libra project - gkolli
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/11/20910330/mastercard-stripe-ebay-facebook-libra-association-withdrawal-cryptocurrency
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lucasverra
David Marcus update [1] :
Special thanks to @Visa and @Mastercard for sticking it out until the 11th
hour... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Who were Steve Jobs' mentors? - stellar678
Most of the stories seem to suggest his brilliance or effectiveness came entirely from within, but I'm interested to know who guided Steve when he had questions.
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huxley
The closest he had to a business mentor was probably Mike Markkula who was
Apple's angel i... | {
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Unwebbable - Not all documents can be a web page - whalesalad
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/unwebbable/
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shizcakes
"Nobody seriously intends screenplays on the web to have the same function
they do in real life: getting read, getting optioned or bought, and getting
shot. All of that happens on paper, not ... | {
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} |
Best ways to learn a foreign language - domedefelice
http://domenicodefelice.blogspot.it/2013/06/best-ways-to-learn-foreign-language.html
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patio11
Professional translators often do "shadowing", which is listening to source
material from the language you're weaker at and attempting to just transcribe
it in real t... | {
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} |
Meet the Woman Who Rocked Particle Physics Three Times - 0xbxd
https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-woman-who-rocked-particle-physicsthree-times
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merricksb
Active discussion of same article in Quanta Magazine, where it was originally
published:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17580449](https://news.ycombi... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Best Free Programming Books - ingve
http://www.toptal.com/software/toptal-s-list-of-top-free-programming-books/
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na85
No mention of Peter Seibel's Practical Common Lisp?
Learning Lisp has really improved my productivity when it comes to prototyping
and one-off projects. It also translates to using smaller lis... | {
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} |
Obamacare, Failing Ahead of Schedule - 001sky
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/20/opinion/sunday/douthat-obamacare-failing-ahead-of-schedule.html
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hga
" _The disaster can presumably be fixed. As Cohn pointed out on Friday, many
of the state-level exchanges are working better than the federal one, and
somewhere t... | {
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} |
Anybots Telepresence Robots Go into Mass Production - jlhamilton
http://singularityhub.com/2010/01/25/anybots-telepresence-robots-go-into-mass-production/
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jacquesm
Hehe, couple this with the amazon mechanical turk and you can have _real_ I
(instead of AI) controlling telepresence robots to do work.
Rent-a-br... | {
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} |
New component vue js for vuesax Update image - luisdanielfly
https://github.com/lusaxweb/vuesax
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eberkund
Why do I need all this overhead for something as simple as a button or other
native form input elements?
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What is the Apple Star N84? ARM hybrid, touchscreen MacBook, just a new iPhone? - rbanffy
https://www.pocket-lint.com/laptops/news/apple/144651-what-is-the-apple-star-n84-arm-hybrid-touchscreen-macbook-or-just-a-new-iphone
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Mononokay
"We've done tons of user testing on this, and it turns out it doesn't work.
Tou... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Do you know of any startups working on wildlife/habitat conservation? - rblion
Trying to find out anything and everything about startups that have or still work on wildlife/habitat conservation. Please share any that you know of.<p>Thank you for your time :)
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stevenrace
While I'm not aware of any ... | {
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Pornography and the Butterfly Effect - DmenshunlAnlsis
https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/27/pornography-and-the-butterfly-effect/
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pjc50
Two threads here: one is that copyright in porn has largely broken down,
resulting in a single giant company making a lot of money from recordings
without paying the performers.
... | {
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} |
Selling stuff on Twitter - eberfreitas
http://tuy.im/
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WesleyJohnson
I hadn't really thought about using Twitter to sell anything, but now the the
idea is in front of me I like it. I think you could take the intergration with
Twitter fruther, but I'm not sure I have the best ideas on how to do that.
My only i... | {
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} |
Carl Sagan's 1994 “Lost” Lecture: The Age of Exploration - gj0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_-jtyhAVTc
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Tepix
Nice find, thanks!
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gj0
:)
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