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Academia.edu launches, a Geni For Researchers - immad
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/16/academiaedu-a-geni-for-researchers/
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river_styx
How did these guys get a .edu domain? I thought only accredited colleges were
allowed register those.
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aston
They've had it for quite a while.
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arjunb
yeah, i think... | {
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Facebook and Google were conned out of $100M in phishing scheme - mattmanser
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/28/facebook-google-conned-100m-phishing-scheme
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beastcoast
I used to do Accounts Payable for a large tech company. Any invoice >$5,000
had to be matched to a PO. POs had to be approved by ... | {
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Heroku Fucking Console - eik3_de
https://github.com/tpope/heroku-fucking-console
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sneak
Nothing in computing is worse than software that knows exactly what you want
it to do, then gives some shitdick excuse as to why it's not going to do it in
an effort to get you to jump through meaningless hoops.
~~~
jlarocco... | {
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Slack just introduced a WYSIWYG editor that you can't opt out of - waynenilsen
Please bother them on Twitter so they implement an opt out.<p>Their handle is @SlackHQ
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ksherlock
You can opt out here: [https://cancel.fm/ripcord/](https://cancel.fm/ripcord/)
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waynenilsen
Wow this is awesome thank you!
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Visualizing the Coverage of Deaths in The New York Times vs. Actual Death Data - nemild
https://www.nemil.com/s/part3-horror-films.html
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bogle
But as my mum says when I try to point out she's worrying about the wrong
things, "I don't care what the statistics say, I read about it in the paper
and I believe it's w... | {
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Defining Environment Language for Video Games - okket
https://80.lv/articles/defining-environment-language-for-video-games/
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munificent
Great article. I want to call out one point:
> The more life-like a space appears to be, the more we begin to expect it
> to allow for the affordances... | {
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Raspberry Pi 3 startup accessories that work - ashitlerferad
https://haydenjames.io/my-ultimate-raspberry-pi-2-starter-kit/
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gabrielrondon
Do you plan to deliver worldwide?
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Starting a company? Forget about the logo. - MrAlmostWrong
http://www.drawar.com/posts/The-Logoless-Brand
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thaumaturgy
I disagree a lot with this (and with the summary of his previous post); my
opinion is coming both from my own experience as well as from some of Guy
Kawasaki's advice.
First, the author trott... | {
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} |
The Most Linked-To Wikipedia Articles on Stack Overflow - dfkoz
http://dfkoz.tumblr.com/post/83927509717/the-most-linked-to-wikipedia-articles-on-stack-overflow
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bajsejohannes
That makes for a pretty good list of "concepts you should probably know", even
though (or especially because) it's not very overlapping... | {
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The Science of Success [2009] - kqr2
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2009/12/the-science-of-success/7761/
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snitko
_Could it be, they wondered, that the children who suffer most from bad
environments also profit the most from good ones?_
While reading this article, I was wondering could it also be a ... | {
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Ask HN: Review My Resume - codeTheWorld
http://imgur.com/1oapkA0
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amenghra
I would add a sentence or two at the very top about what you are looking for.
Maybe try to answer were you see yourself now and in 5 years?
If you have specific numbers on your projects it can help put things into
perspective (how many... | {
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The Growing World of Moneymaking Fantasy Sports - adventured
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2015-01-15/the-growing-world-of-moneymaking-fantasy-sports
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daemonk
It's like a more socially acceptable dungeons and dragons.
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Redshift: What Ruby and a nice API can do in the browser - bdfh42
http://ajaxian.com/archives/redshift-what-ruby-and-a-nice-api-can-do-in-the-browser
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jimbokun
The resolution of the screen cast was not high enough for me to read the text
he was typing.
As for usefulness, "my favorite language -> Javascript" c... | {
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} |
NACHA Same-Day ACH Gets Federal Reserve Support - rlalwani
http://www.pymnts.com/news/2015/federal-reserve-backs-nachas-same-day-ach/
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rlalwani
Starting Sep 2016. This should help create some interesting payment startups.
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The Axis of Eval: Browsers will let PLs break free from plain text - joeyespo
http://axisofeval.blogspot.com/2011/02/browsers-will-let-pls-break-free-from.html
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finnw
Even if you program using data-flow graphs with pretty icons, they still have
to be stored in files don't they? Probably XML or JSON (which are th... | {
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} |
Partial Application and Lambda Parameter Syntax for JavaScript - skellertor
https://medium.com/@citycide/partial-application-lambda-parameters-for-js-aa16f4d94df4
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wwwigham
If you really like the idea of syntactic partial application in your
JavaScript, you should check out the stage 1 tc39 proposal for exactly ... | {
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} |
Infrastructure Automation with Chef - zemanel
http://www.slideshare.net/jweiss/infrastructure-automation-withchef
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lusis
FYI, this is one of the better decks I've seen on puppet/chef/devops. Very
well done.
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Ask HN: What could disrupt email? - parvatzar
As the defacto standard for business and corporate communication?
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chuhnk
You're thinking about it the wrong way. First ask yourself what's wrong with
email and why does it need to be disrupted? What problem are we actually
trying to solve by replacing email.
Email ... | {
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Enjoy Friends, C0llude: A Free, Private, Open-Source Collaboration Tool - neflabs
https://neflabs.com/blog/announcing-collude/
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pushpeshkarki
Link not working
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Clarify Your Story: Internet Businesses - RiderOfGiraffes
http://www.sramanamitra.com/articles/clarify-your-story-internet-businesses/
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RiderOfGiraffes
From: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1134810>
Related: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1127461>
Links to: <http://mylifeandart.typepad.com/1m1m/>
... | {
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IoT starter kit unveiled by ARM and IBM - funkylexoo
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31584546
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eveningcoffee
> One example the firms gave for how this might be used in
> real-life involved using the kit to send information about
> local conditions to a remote data centre, which in turn
> would send back ... | {
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Code42 shuttering consumer offering, CrashPlan for Home - settsu
https://www.code42.com/news-releases/code42-focus-business/
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kwonstant
Some of the things hidden in the transition here that I noticed when exploring
converting to a small business account:
> Any computer-to-computer backups will be permanently de... | {
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Apple's AirPods and Live Listen are a revolution for the hearing impaired - okket
https://qz.com/1323215/apples-airpods-and-live-listen-are-a-revolution-for-the-hearing-impaired/
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rgbrenner
Kudos apple for this. Even though most of these (including this one) dont
benefit me, this is always good to see. So many o... | {
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Coding Machines (2009) - vermilingua
https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding-machines/
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faitswulff
Don't want to ruin it, but I didn't expect this to be a narrative. Chilling
and extremely hacker-oriented!
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tjchear
Oh boy I thought the same. I had a sinking feeling until I realized it's a
story.
--... | {
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Running a/UX on a Macintosh SE/30 - kristianp
http://www.datormuseum.se/macintosh-se-30
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jiveturkey
Title has a typo: 'a' should be capitalized 'A'.
Ah, this is near and dear to me. My first Unix was A/UX on an SE/30\. My
second Unix was A/UX on a Quadra 950. From which I naturally ran a warez site
and irc bot.... | {
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Clink: Bash-style command line editing for cmd.exe - luu
http://mridgers.github.io/clink/
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ethomson
I spent a long time bemoaning the sad state of shells on Windows. cmd.exe is
pried out of amber for each release of Windows, so intent on remaining
compatible with DOS and NTs gone by that it can't fix its broke... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Can You Spot The Partisan Legislation? - araneae
http://www.politicalmathblog.com/?p=424
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MaysonL
It was only partican legislation because the Republicans refused to make it
bipartisan, instead as a matter of strategy decided to kill it, and failed.
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tallanvor
Can you spot the partisan blogger?
Serious... | {
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The SSD Endurance Experiment: Two petabytes - geoffgasior
http://techreport.com/review/27436/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-two-freaking-petabytes
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gerbal
So, we know these SSDs will survive an ungodly amount of read-writes. Is there
a way to test how they will survive as archival media?
Presumably the major ca... | {
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} |
Show HN: I made a site that calculates the market price of items on ebay - locksley
http://www.getmarketprice.com/
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locksley
This was my weekend project. I made it after being frustrated at not knowing
what a fair price for an iphone 5 would be on eBay. I posted this a month ago
but wasn't ready for HN traffic. ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Why many app developers in Asia are prioritizing Android over iOS - fpgeek
http://thenextweb.com/asia/2013/09/06/why-a-growing-number-of-app-developers-in-asia-are-prioritizing-android-over-ios/
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ZeroGravitas
It's strange that a developer would think that the audience that will buy a
lower-priced Apple device... | {
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} |
JavaScript objects philosophy - andrzejkrzywda
http://blog.arkency.com/2012/10/javascript-objects-philosophy/
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snatcher
Thanks for demystifying prototypes. For me it's hard to think that you can
have an object without defining its class. However it seems the right
approach. We're speaking about Object orientat... | {
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} |
Open Source .NET three years later - matthewwarren
http://www.mattwarren.org/2017/12/19/Open-Source-.Net-3-years-later
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jeswin
What's holding .Net back is a lack of the vision thing. That's a shame, since
in many ways it is a better designed framework, with a superior flagship
language (C#) compared to the Java ... | {
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} |
$1000 to spend - kirandarisi
How will you spend $1000 for marketing b2b product? We have already tried Google ad words. Other suggestions are welcome.
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tstegart
10 $100 lunches with people who can connect you with people who will buy your
product, or lunches with your engineers about who would buy the product... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What does it mean to be a data driven company? - mr_t
What would you do different if you are "data driven"? Is it just another buzzword, or are there actual differences in the way you operate your company?
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paktek123
It means that all projects and discussions are based on metrics collected by
t... | {
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Parents in poorer countries devote more time to their kids' homework - known
https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2018/04/daily-chart-11
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lumberjack
The reason for this is pretty simple: you get free public education in these
poor countries, but only if you pass the entrance examinations.
For a lot of ... | {
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} |
Twitter says bug may have exposed some direct messages to third-party developers - uptown
https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/21/twitter-bug-sent-user-direct-messages-to-developers-for-over-a-year/
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rnotaro
From:
[https://blog.twitter.com/developer/en_us/topics/tools/2018/d...](https://blog.twitter.com/developer/en_u... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Amazon recalls eclipse glasses - alister
http://www.kgw.com/news/eclipse/amazon-recalling-some-solar-eclipse-glasses-week-before-event/463899601
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typpo
I ordered the top-rated eclipse glasses on Amazon a few months ago and they
were counterfeit.
If you put them on during daytime you can see indirect sunlight an... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Why Engineers Make The Best Boyfriends/Husbands - mooreds
http://dangerouslee.biz/2012/08/15/why-engineers-make-the-best-boyfriendshusbands/
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misframer
...she made far too many generalizations.
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joshAg
who the hell wears a nice, light-colored suit like to an active construction
site?
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Wendy Carlos – Electronic Music Pioneer - old_sound
https://medium.com/a-computer-of-ones-own/wendy-carlos-electronic-music-pioneer-9a795282bb8d
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throwaway8879
Big fan of Carlos, especially her work with non-standard tuning. I was very
happy to find some of her tunings on Spectrasonics' Omnisphere. Non-equal
tem... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Deepjazz: AI-generated 'jazz' - mattdennewitz
https://github.com/jisungk/deepjazz
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rryan
This is really neat! But I think it's a stretch to call it AI-generated jazz
music.
As I understand it, the author has trained an LSTM on a single MIDI file --
"And Then I Knew" by Pat Metheny. The network is then asked to ... | {
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Commentit: comments on GitHub pages - guilro
http://blog.guilro.com/2015/10/01/commentit.io.html
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patrickdavey
Is there an easy way to migrate content into it (e.g. my wordpress site that
I've thought about migrating to jeykll many times but I want to retain control
of the comments). Also, is there a way to get ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
More than 1,000 Nokia employees walk out in protest at Symbian phase-out - adambyrtek
http://www.hs.fi/english/article/More+than+1000+Nokia+employees+walk+out+in+Tampere+in+protest+at+Symbian+phase-out/1135263743059
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RiderOfGiraffes
Also here: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2206437>
... with many, _many_ ... | {
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Deepdreaming without the Slugdogs - geb
http://blog.thehackerati.com/post/128746247346/deepdreaming-without-the-slugdogs
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ericjang
I find it interesting that these hallucinations do not maintain a consistent
3D perspective: the images look really flat and any noticeable three-
dimensionality is localized to a sm... | {
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} |
Founder of Liberty Reserve Pleads Guilty to Laundering More Than $250M - us0r
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/founder-liberty-reserve-pleads-guilty-laundering-more-250-million-through-his-digital
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patio11
Liberty Reserve's main line of business was operating a shared ledger trusted
by multiple companies which woul... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What Advice would you give your 100 year old self? - vladmk
Imagine you somehow make it to your 100th birthday. What advice would you give? Perhaps we can all learn from this :-)
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informatimago
Don't listen to the young idiot. Rather, invent a time machine to send him
back a good advice or two.
| {
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Please respect my decision not to dance - luu
https://medium.com/@henryreich/please-respect-my-decision-not-to-dance-e19d1b6ae482
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galapago
I can't upvote more this.
| {
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If Chinese Were Phonetic - jonbaer
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/16/if-chinese-were-phonetic
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rabboRubble
The author failed to fully investigate input methods. The iPhone has
handwriting input instead of a keyboard. The iPhone character matches what is
handwritten and provides a pick list of potentia... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
[video] Can These Revolutionary Body Hacks Beat Aging in Our Lifetimes? - highandflighty
http://longevityfacts.com/video-revolutionary-technologies-beat-aging-lifetimes/
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highandflighty
Hi - I'm new here. Question: What does the * in front of the post mean? Thanks
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grzm
It indicates submissions you've submit... | {
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} |
Russia plans its own 'Chernobyl' show after HBO's hit - okket
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/06/07/unhappy-with-hbos-chernobyl-russia-is-planning-its-own-series-blaming-cia/
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Chazprime
From the linked _Variety_ article regarding the show:
_Few details have been revealed so far, except for a short s... | {
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} |
Apple macOS 10.15 vs. Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 19.10 Performance Benchmark - truth_seeker
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=macos1015-win10-ubuntu&num=1
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user9837
I'll just leave this here
> Where macOS tended to perform the best was with the Firefox web browser
> benchmarks
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Chute (YC W12) Secures $7 Million Series A Funding - awwstn
http://blog.getchute.com/2013/05/07/chute-secures-7-million-series-a-funding/
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ctide
Also, we're hiring!
Looking for a frontend lead and a senior rails developer. My email is in my
profile, ping me if you'd like to hear more!
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briholt
I checke... | {
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Ways to Cultivate Gratitude at Work - gkst
http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/five_ways_to_cultivate_gratitude_at_work
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buckbova
> people are less likely to feel or express gratitude at work than anyplace
> else. And they’re not thankful for their current jobs, ranking them dead
> last in a list of thi... | {
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} |
Using Google Cloud Pub/Sub to Connect Applications and Data Streams - jganetsk
http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/03/using-Google-Cloud-pubsub-to-Connect-applications-and-data-streams.html
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ecesena
I had the chance to test it out during the Oscars [1], receiving about 1.2M
tweets via Twitter Streaming ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Microsoft deploys first major server application on Ubuntu - tanglesome
http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-deploys-first-major-server-application-on-ubuntu-linux/
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mtgx
Aren't Skype's nodes Linux boxes, too?
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hga
Yes, initially around 10,000 of them running a grsecurity kernel when they
switched over fro... | {
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} |
Show HN: Looking for feedback on a Webpack/etc plugin - Klonoar
I say "/etc", because it kind of covers a bunch of different topics.<p>https://github.com/ryanmcgrath/react-iconpack<p>react-iconpack is essentially a suite of plugins:<p><pre><code> - A Babel plugin to track <Icon... | {
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Amazon ECHO - syshackbot
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00X4WHP5E/ref=s9_pop_gw_g451_i2?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=desktop-7&pf_rd_r=1NA8YZ60W55V0MXKEWM7&pf_rd_t=36701&pf_rd_p=2090151022&tag=facebookoffer15-20&pf_rd_i=desktop
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heavymark
Confused, why is this trending. What's the new news about the Echo?
~... | {
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} |
Send message beyond time and space - kayxxxxxxx
https://spacetimepost.uc.r.appspot.com/
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kayxxxxxxx
SpaceTimePost makes it possible to send message to someone without knowing
name nor email address. The only thing you should know to send message is the
place and time.
This is a beta version and we'd like to hav... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Unreal Engine 4.19 Released - ksec
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/unreal-engine-4-19-released
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frenchie14
I've tried to learn UE4 multiple times before and I can never get into it.
I've been using Unity for several years and the workflow was much more
intuitive to me when I first picked it up. Visual sc... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Tuning machine learning models - Zephyr314
http://blog.sigopt.com/post/111903668663/tuning-maching-learning-models
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mjw
Nice post, couple of bits of feedback:
When you talk about "fit" it sounds like you mean fit to the training data,
which would obviously be a bad thing to optimise hyperparameters for. From ... | {
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} |
Late Bloomers: Why Do We Equate Genius with Precocity? (2008) - kawera
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/10/20/late-bloomers-malcolm-gladwell
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iliketosleep
I believe this really depends on the field you're looking at. In pursuits
where extraordinary levels of raw ability is absolutely paramount, precocity
... | {
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} |
Simulating RISC-V Clusters with FPGAs on AWS - fabuzaid
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/bringing-datacenter-scale-hardware-software-co-design-to-the-cloud-with-firesim-and-amazon-ec2-f1-instances/
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meta-tron
I think it proves AWS will be an alternative and potentially great choice for
fabless chip company/s... | {
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} |
Ohm: we've decided to cancel the campaign - ycnews
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ohm-a-car-battery-that-never-needs-to-be-jumped#/updates
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sterlingross
Thank you for being honest about the challenges you have faced with this
hardware goal. I'm a little disappointed I won't be getting my Ohm battery,
but i... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A deep-sea fisherman in Russia has been posting his finds on Twitter - Jerry2
http://www.businessinsider.com/a-deep-sea-fisherman-in-russia-has-been-posting-his-finds-on-twitter-2016-12
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adrianN
Trawling the deep ocean ought to be banned. These ecosystems regenerate
extremely slowly because they're so poor in nu... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Elusive Byzantine Empire - diodorus
https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/elusive-byzantine-empire
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geowwy
> To begin at the beginning is tricky. Did the empire begin when the emperor
> Constantine moved his capital from Rome to Constantinople in 324? When the
> city was consecra... | {
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} |
Edward Snowden promotes global treaty to curtail surveillance - jsnathan
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/edward-snowden-promotes-global-treaty-to-curtail-surveillance-1.3243469
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jsnathan
I wonder what the chances are for something like this taking off. On the one
hand it is popular for politicians around the g... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What are other "Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas"? - IgorCarron
In his recent essay, (http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.... ), PG discusses several frighteningly ambitious startup ideas. The question revolves around other ideas that PG did not discuss, Here are the one he discussed:
1. A New Search Engine
... | {
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Identify the niche influencers for your market using Google data studio - annadante
https://www.agrigoryan.me/post/identify-niche-influencers-with-google-data-studio
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erikbrodch
very interesting, thanks! Been trying to connect the Twitter connector but for
some reason, I get: "Sign in with Google temporarily dis... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
CareCloud Raises $20 Million in Series B - mikecuesta
http://www.forbes.com/sites/zinamoukheiber/2013/06/18/carecloud-raises-20-million-in-crowded-market-for-electronic-health-records/
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will_brown
Very happy to see a Miami start-up tackling such an important space.
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tmandarano
Congratulations to Albert ... | {
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} |
A16z AI podcast touches on cultural challenge in tech - bodecker
http://a16z.com/2016/06/29/feifei-li-a16z-professor-in-residence/
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bodecker
Fei Fei Li has some great quotes near the end (starting around 31:10):
"I find it very hard to convince women and underrepresented minorities to work
in AI."
“We are not ... | {
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The Uneasy Coexistence of Yandex and the Kremlin - oedmarap
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/19/1006438/yandex-putin-arkady-volozh-kremlin/
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haspoken
[http://archive.is/xPgjc](http://archive.is/xPgjc)
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More women needed in technology - soitgoes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19884720
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peteretep
This article appears deeply confused, and doesn't seem to bear much
relationship to its title.
By "more women needed in technology", what it appears to actually be
advocating is "more women needed in designing pr... | {
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} |
JQuery UK Conference site, uses no jQuery - johnwards
http://events.jquery.org/2013/uk/index.html
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tzaman
Apparently jQuery is not the right tool for the job on this site, so kudos to
developer(s) who didn't include it just for the sake of it.
~~~
johnwards
With the reliance on CSS for the animation and targe... | {
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Redecentralize: Taking back the net - mortenjorck
http://redecentralize.org
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dang
A dupe of
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6543846](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6543846).
When an item has had significant attention, HN generally doesn't allow reposts
for about a year.
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Ask HN: Not enjoying working at my 1st large company, are there any good ones? - MrHeartBroken
I was working at a startup before that had to fold. Luckily in the Bay Area you have many companies that need engineers. I had multiple offers from big corporations. I took up one of them. The code here sucks. There are so... | {
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The major carriers have finally agreed to replace SMS with a new RCS standard - scarface74
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/24/20931202/us-carriers-rcs-cross-carrier-messaging-initiative-ccmi-att-tmobile-sprint-verizon
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mikece
Lack of end to end encryption is a deal-breaker for a lot. And contrary to
what law en... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How much BTC could AWS mine if Amazon put all resources into mining? - geetfun
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noloblo
Probably enough to do a 51% attack on the bitcoin network and convert all
bitcoins to amazon coins
~~~
Frogolocalypse
Do you have any figures to back that up? My assumption would be that all of
amazon would be a drop ... | {
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Ztail Launches Innovative eBay Guarantee - corgan1003
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/08/ztail-launches-innovative-ebay-guarantee-for-worry-free-shopping/
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ShabbyDoo
Just after reading the latest Steve Yegge rant ([http://steve-
yegge.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-ever-legali...](http://steve-
yegge.blogspot... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Americans Are Not Prepared for the Coming Mother of All Stock Market Crashes - spking
https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2019/05/30/40347971/americans-are-not-prepared-for-the-coming-mother-of-all-stock-market-crashes
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FreedomToCreate
You cannot predict the market. Here is a Forbes article citing the same issue
in... | {
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} |
Jamboard is now available - happy-go-lucky
https://blog.google/products/g-suite/lets-jam-jamboard-now-available/
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casca
The Jamboard is a collaborative whiteboard that costs $5k for a 4k 55" screen
plus $600/year ($300/year for early adopters). It's similar to Microsoft's
Surface Hub[1], Cisco's Spark Board[2] a... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Yahoo Homepage redesign going live - janezhu
http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-project-homerun-homepage-test-2012-10
Yahoo is in the process of rolling it out its new homepage. The revamped design is already up for many users, however it seems like only the landing page has been updated so far.
======
janezhu
The ... | {
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Bret Victor: A Personal Note about "Media for Thinking the Unthinkable" - dirtyaura
http://worrydream.com/#!/MediaForThinkingTheUnthinkable/note.html
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ColinWright
Significant discussion: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5781072>
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Introducing Ixoth, Siri's little helper. Webhooks for Siri - qrush
http://ixoth.com
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Timothee
Good idea. Though I don't have Siri so I have no use for it at the time…
It feels that it should work like <http://ifttt.com> with recipes and pre-
defined actions rather than having to code and host each webhook man... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A comparison of books for learning assembly language - iamtechaddict
http://allthatiswrong.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/a-comparison-of-books-for-learning-assembly-language/
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chris_wot
The HLA version of Randall Hyde's book is OK, but you can still get the
original version of his books in PDF that don't use HLA at a... | {
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} |
The Printed Word in Peril - diodorus
https://harpers.org/archive/2018/10/the-printed-word-in-peril/
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coffeefirst
There's two major oversights in all the arguments like this:
1\. Books are more analogous to vinyl than they are to CD's. People think
they're cool, they like having bookshelves. In the age of screen... | {
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} |
The Powder Toy - severine
https://powdertoy.co.uk/
======
bigyikes
When I was younger, my friends & I would carry this game around on our pocket
USB drives so that we could quickly launch it up on our school's computers any
chance we got. Good times. It's a surprisingly intricate game, but I mostly
just like to blow s... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Cross-Browser Development Tips (or how to make CSS work in IE8) - angelirizarry
https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com/blog/cross-browser-development-tips-css
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feverishaaron
Looking at their usage "graph" (if the relative visuals indicate actual
percentages), it appears that IE overall is a very small percentage of t... | {
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} |
The Case for React.js and ClojureScript - mpereira
http://murilopereira.com/the-case-for-reactjs-and-clojurescript
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chao-
Almost everything I've seen about React makes me happy. However there are some
parts for which I do not understand everyone else's excitement. This
presentation contains a great example on sl... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Setting up an HA Kubernetes cluster with private networking in AWS - kris-nova
https://www.nivenly.com/k8s-aws-private-networking/
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jondubois
I wrote a similar article a while ago; except using Rancher - Which adds extra
features for infrastructure management. [https://blog.baasil.io/how-to-
install-kubernetes-o... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Need to hire Pro iPad developer ASAP - jessica_moyer
Need some help. Have a programmer who has bailed and left me empty handed after months of delays. Really need to get my client at least a "beta" version on a development iPad this week to win back their confidence.<p>What we need is very simple for "version A". Ba... | {
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} |
List of English terms of venery, by animal - mrzool
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_terms_of_venery,_by_animal
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db48x
And a tragedy of telepaths.
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Show HN: Heatmap of the Most Instagrammed Cities in the World - kendrick__
https://kndrck.co/posts/visualizing_the_worlds_most_instagrammed_cities/
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habnds
looks cool but dangerously close to
[https://xkcd.com/1138/](https://xkcd.com/1138/)
| {
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} |
Interstellar communication using microbial data storage - novalis78
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/3265/1
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novalis78
A must read article by Mars Society founder Dr. Robert Zubrin. Quite
intriguing proposition.
| {
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} |
Ask HN: How to get PHP lamp or mamp on Ubuntu 19.10? - futurechange
I recently changed my pc from windows to Ubuntu 19.10 I Love linux so much faster and simple than windows<p>but I want to learn php on this machine what's the best way to get MySQL php lamp or apache and all that good stuff for PHP development on... | {
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Apple’s New iPad Pro Ads Were Shot and Made Entirely on the iPad Pro [video] - plg
https://petapixel.com/2019/01/29/apples-new-ipad-pro-ads-were-shot-and-made-entirely-on-the-ipad-pro/
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fermienrico
Everytime I see one of these "Shot on ____ ", I think about the following:
People used heavy film cameras, awful l... | {
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} |
"64 bit" Snow Leopard defaults to 32 bit kernel - swernli
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/08/latest-snow-leopard-build-limits-most-macs-to-32-bit-mode.ars
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brk
This article is almost 2 weeks old and appears to be related to pre-release
versions of Snow Leopard.
The headline of your submission also appe... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Whatsapp hits one billion users - aritraghosh007
https://blog.whatsapp.com/616/One-billion
======
xufi
I wonder when WhatsApp will be finally morphed with FB Messenger. I figured it
would be about now or soon since it's been growing expoentially
------
jlg23
accounts != users
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Ubuntu lockscreen bypass by removing hdd, devs say fix unlikely - codedokode
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1777415
======
codedokode
Article with detailed description, machine translated from Russian:
[https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev...](https://translate.google.com/... | {
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} |
Why Draw Something Is A Hit - hamey
http://www.bonobolabs.com/the-7-sneaky-reasons-why-draw-something-is-a-hit/
======
msluyter
I've enjoyed the game, but it seems to have a short shelf life. I started
playing with about half a dozen co-workers last week, and now almost all of
them have quit playing. This may in par... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Google is paying Apple billions per year to remain on the iPhone - pestkranker
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/14/google-paying-apple-3-billion-to-remain-default-search--bernstein.html
======
miket
So, in other words, $25B worth of attention is transferred from iOS users to
Google[1], which Google pays Apple $3B for this... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Duplicacy: Lock-free deduplication cloud backup tool, with “fair source” license - acrosync
https://github.com/gilbertchen/duplicacy
======
kefka
Reported to Github, as Commercial software masquerading as various open free
license projects (MIT, GPL, BSD, etc.).
Also, intentional namespace pollution with existing bac... | {
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} |
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