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Ask HN: How to archive online articles - jdowner
Often, after reading an article online, I want to be able to archive the contents of the article for future reference or to add notes. Obviously I could just save the webpage, but I was wondering if anyone knows of a service or application that can extract the contents ... | {
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Why my first startup in the valley “flopped” - pat2man
http://pozo.me/post/28603867718/startup-flop
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ChuckMcM
I've seen a lot of startups come and go and there is a huge difference between
'coming up with a problem to solve' and 'finding a problem to solve.'
They sound the same but they aren't. In the first cas... | {
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The quest for the perfect Linux distribution: an ongoing journey - pietrofmaggi
http://rainbowtux.blogspot.it/2012/08/Quest-for-perfect-Linux-distribution.html
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neverm0re
I read articles like these hoping they'd contain more interesting
distributions that would challenge the status quo. Projects like GoboLinux... | {
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Show HN: Create a portfolio of the mobile apps you've built - satjot
http://tapfame.com
Tapfame is the easiest way to create a portfolio of all the mobile apps you've worked on. Once you create a portfolio you will start receiving freelance gigs that businesses and companies post.
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ken
I'm seeing a pattern her... | {
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Oracle Webinar: Lowering TCO by moving from MySQL to Oracle - mattmcknight
I received an email invite to this webinar a couple of weeks ago. It takes on a whole new dimension with the Sun acquisition...and it's IE only.<p>4/28 Lower Total Cost of Ownership with Oracle: Comparing Oracle to MySQL<p>As the global econo... | {
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App gold rush is over - tschellenbach
http://www.plattysoft.com/2013/05/09/app-gold-rush-the-gold-is-almost-over/
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tschellenbach
i think the app store as a distribution mechanism just doesn't scale to the
current number of apps. on the web we've seen the same with yahoo, dmoz etc.
there is still a lot of poten... | {
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Ask HN: Suggest me some good books on work ethics - aryamaan
I have found that well-written books help me a lot getting back on track and also getting better at some values.<p>These days I feel in need of some inspirations, anecdotes, and experiences about work ethics and productivity. If it's by someone in the t... | {
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Help the EU make free software more reliable and secure - M2Ys4U
https://juliareda.eu/2016/06/eu-free-software-security-audits/
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benaston
The EU is a supra-national political union with the aim of turning nation
states into regions and centralising power and wealth in an
unelected/indirectly elected elite.
You ... | {
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An evolved circuit, intrinsic in silicon, entwined with physics (1996) - timdierks
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.50.9691&rep=rep1&type=pdf
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timdierks
Moral: evolved complexity ≠ designed complexity.
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Startup Quote: Henry Ford, Founder, Ford - raychancc
http://startupquote.com/post/11315452477
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raychancc
Don’t find fault, find a remedy. Anybody can complain.
\- Henry Ford
<http://startupquote.com/post/11315452477>
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Eric Schmidt is stepping down as Alphabet’s executive chairman - dcgudeman
https://abc.xyz/investor/news/releases/2017/1221.html
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Overtonwindow
Previous Discussion:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15983211](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15983211)
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Show HN: My first open source project (micro check library) - arasatasaygin
http://arasatasaygin.github.io/is.js/
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callum_hart
Really like the look of this!
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arasatasaygin
Thanks, appreciate it.
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zekiunal
Cool, congratulations!
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arasatasaygin
:)
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bbcbasic
is.verynice()
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arasatasaygin
Th... | {
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Why You Should Never Center Align Paragraph Text - bankerofpawns
http://uxmovement.com/content/why-you-should-never-center-align-paragraph-text
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teye
Another painfully obvious, no-data article from uxmovement.com.
A minute of Googling gave me a more researched article with more comprehensive
suggestions. See ... | {
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Illinois Man Charged with Desecrating US Flag After Posting Photos on Facebook - jackgavigan
http://www.forbes.com/sites/fernandoalfonso/2016/07/04/illinois-man-charged-with-desecrating-american-flag-after-posting-photos-on-facebook/
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waterphone
> _Champaign County State 's Attorney Julia Rietz said today that t... | {
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Ungit – Git UI that makes you understand git - rplnt
https://github.com/FredrikNoren/ungit
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rplnt
Quick video introduction:
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkBVAi3oKvo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkBVAi3oKvo)
Some discussion with the author present on reddit:
[http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1k... | {
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D-Wave confirmed as the first real quantum computer by new research - paulgb
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/184242-d-wave-confirmed-as-the-first-real-quantum-computer-by-new-research
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valarauca1
I really had to do some digging for the source. But it appears to be 'old
news' i.e. 2 weeks old. The publicat... | {
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Show HN: Is the stock market going to crash? - truffle_pig
https://isthestockmarketgoingtocrash.com/
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pdog
If you're looking for The Single Greatest Predictor of Future Stock Market
Returns[1], here it is: [http://www.philosophicaleconomics.com/2013/12/the-
single-gre...](http://www.philosophicaleconomics.com/20... | {
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Daimlers MyTaxi to merge with Hailo - madbiz
http://www.reuters.com/artic
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madbiz
Cant edit the link: [http://www.reuters.com/article/us-daimler-mytaxi-hailo-
idUSK...](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-daimler-mytaxi-hailo-
idUSKCN1060FK?utm_source=applenews)
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shaqbert
With heavy regulation in Germany pr... | {
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How long is a 'long term investment'? (a brief analysis of S&P500 since 1950) - tomsaffell
http://saffell.wordpress.com/2008/10/25/snp500/
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mattmaroon
He's missing dividends. The average S&P 500 dividend yield is 1.37% according
to something I just found on Motley Fool. If that's accurate, that's pretty
substa... | {
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Ask HN: Side project you're working on? - startupflix
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jwbensley
I've been working on some software called Etherate that let's you test (or
"rate") an Ethernet connection:
[https://github.com/jwbensley/Etherate](https://github.com/jwbensley/Etherate)
I use it for testing that devices parse frame headers correctl... | {
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Show HN: Keep unwanted photos off any site with javascript one-liner - chrisconley
http://houdiniapi.com/2011/05/introducing-safecontent-keep-unwanted-photos-off-any-site/
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chrisconley
Hey all, Chris from Houdini here. This is a new idea we're currently working
on - any feedback is greatly appreciated!
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Pattern-defeating quicksort - pettou
https://github.com/orlp/pdqsort
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atilimcetin
Rust's stable sort is based on timsort ([https://doc.rust-
lang.org/std/vec/struct.Vec.html#method.sor...](https://doc.rust-
lang.org/std/vec/struct.Vec.html#method.sort)) and unstable sort is based on
pattern-defeating quicksort (... | {
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I need to know what is the future of mobile app development? - umairmehdi
I am planning to switch from php side to mobile app development side. I need to know what is the scope of android and ios app development.
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zer00eyz
Its pretty huge right now. The realities are the space is evolving, I suspect
that in 5 ... | {
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How to Decide if a New Hire Will Be a Team Player in the Interview - erinbryce
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130718210257-15454-the-best-interview-question-of-all-time-to-assess-team-skills
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mtkd
Why do they have to be?
Just because a person isn't 100% 'team player' material doesn't mean they are... | {
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Musicslu's "name your own price" music distribution system - dimarco
http://musicslu.com/we-are-artists
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dimarco
The basics of Musicslu:
How does a community purchase work?
1\. The artists of We Are Artists lists a total amount they would like to sell
their release for, in this case $1,500.
2\. You name your ... | {
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When we forget why we bothered to try - as
http://www.jorydesjardins.com/pause/2006/05/the_retired_sai.html
"You just can't imagine how frustrating it is," he said, looking up at the ceiling, as if trying to make sense of the ceiling tiles. "I keep looking, but there's just no answer!"<p>This would be my worst case s... | {
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Paypal making a change? An automated e-mail I just received from them. - massarog
Rewarding your PayPal performance<p>Dear <i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i>* <i></i><i></i><i></i>*,<p>PayPal appreciates your business and continues to design its products and services with you in mind. Our goal is to make sending and recei... | {
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Uber is the new Google - viscanti
http://www.fastcompany.com/3029457/technovore/uber-is-the-new-google
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kb120
When should Google acquire Uber? It seems inevitable (Uber + Google's self-
driving cars) but the longer Google waits the higher Ubers valuation will be.
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Can a single car break a traffic jam? - chiachun
http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20160428-how-ai-will-solve-traffic-part-one
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logn
I often try the technique of leaving lots of space and going at a slower,
steady pace. One problem is that everyone re-routes around you, and you induce
road rage and traffic weaving.... | {
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Pot Plants Draining Drought-Ridden California - prostoalex
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/national-international/266119311.html?_osource=SocialFlowFB_BAYBrand
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dobbsbob
Nobody uses that much water to grow indoor weed. Plenty of grow guides around,
if I remember correctly water every 3-5 days depending on if co... | {
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World's First Slaughter-free Steak - brandonhall
https://nationalpost.com/life/food/israeli-start-up-aleph-farms-raises-the-steaks-with-the-worlds-first-lab-grown-sirloin
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qnsi
The price is very low. Is there anyone knowledgeable with industry to maybe
shed some light on this issue? I thought we were years from ... | {
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} |
Are porn site video players really better than youtube? From Reddit. - uast23
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/rbn7u/why_do_porn_sites_have_video_players_that_are_so/
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uast23
This amuses me. In my experience I haven't seen any porn site player being
faster or better than youtube; or may be I have too... | {
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A short tale of a read overflow - ingve
http://antirez.com/news/117
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wyldfire
> You can never detect a read overflow otherwise: it will just access data
> outside your structure, but inside mapped memory, so the bug would be
> totally harmless and silent, with the exception of doing the same operations
> at the ... | {
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Evolve your hierarchy - wallflower
http://cowboyprogramming.com/2007/01/05/evolve-your-heirachy/
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kiba
This is posted in 2007 but it is still useful, at least a possible solution.
As of right now, I am still doing game entities like he is describing except
it is divided up into three parts which are events, m... | {
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} |
Gallium oxide to boost field-effect transistor performance? - rbanffy
http://www.newelectronics.co.uk/electronics-news/gallium-oxide-to-boost-fet-performance/168259/
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romdev
Neat thing about gallium - it has a room temperature melting point. Learned
this from a book I recommend: [https://www.audible.com/pd/Bios-... | {
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Show HN: CloudDeck | A music discovery and listening tool for SoundCloud - kowdermeister
http://clouddeck.net
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Borealis
You couldn't build something like this in HTML5? A lot of people will not
install Adobe Air (or Microsoft Silverlight, etc.) plus a desktop application
just to be able to search a crappy musi... | {
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Snowden may be granted entry to Russia Wednesday - ra
http://rt.com/news/snowden-russia-asylum-request-503/
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peterkelly
> "He plans to get a job"
Getting a letter of reference from his previous employer may turn out to be a
bit tricky...
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dmxt
In Russia Federation, most employers don't require a letter of... | {
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Ask HN: Review my Idiocy prevention without site-wide https - notphilatall
I've been reading a lot of hype about idiocy and how long it will take people to implement site-wide https. Unless I'm missing something, it's already possible to avoid hijacking on the internet by combining a few existing approaches, and enf... | {
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A Field Guide to Yelp's Unhappy, Unhelpful Eaters - pkarbe
http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/2011/03/a-field-guide-to-yelps-unhappy-unhelpful-eaters/72248/
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mattlanger
As Merlin Mann so brilliantly put it, "Yelp.com: Explore Where Local
Illiterates Have Recently Stopped Eating.™"
<http://twitter.com/#!/... | {
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Wat by Gary Bernhardt - coreyp_1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20BySC_6HyY
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Zekio
Been a long time since I last watched that, still makes me laugh every time I
watch it haha :)
| {
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Merkel admitted in 2011 Greek debt unsustainable - thibaut_barrere
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/merkel-admitted-in-2011-greek-debt-unsustainable-1.2270858
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DrScump
I think "admitted" is an unfair characterization. Experts and leaders from all
over the world were telling the Greek government that... | {
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Day 1 for a $1 app on the Mac App Store - pavlov
http://lacquer.fi/pauli/blog/2011/01/day-1-for-a-1-app-on-the-mac-app-store/
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pavlov
Yesterday I promised [1] to tell HN about the sales of my app on the Mac App
Store. This blog post exclusively opens the business secret kimono to reveal
the riches I shall make... | {
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Senator Schumer's waffling response to SOPA - foolinator
http://i.imgur.com/hD9T5.png
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foolinator
TLDR - He hears us, but he's doing nothing.
This motivates me to go to the tech meetup on Wednesday.
www.meetup.com/ny-tech/events/47879702/
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nextparadigms
Schumer is a PIPA sponsor:
[http://www.reddit.com/... | {
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Ask HN: Where to buy Computers, Monitors & Peripherals in bulk at a discount? - jtesp
Any advice on where to buy discounted equipment in bulk? Looking for some cheapo Atom or the like computers, 19" LCD/LED monitors, and basic peripherals. They can be no-name brands.<p>Is there a minimum amount before such items g... | {
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Team email from Shopify CEO re Diablo 3 - edwardog
Team,<p>Diablo 3 comes out tomorrow. Since 90% of you won't be able to concentrate anyways let's just meet tomorrow after lunch in the Lounge for an impromptu Lan party.<p>Need a refresher on why you need to play Diablo 3 ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geuAc8F7Gt0... | {
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How Being a Doctor Made Me a Better Founder - jakek
http://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/how-being-a-doctor-made-me-a-better-founder.html
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dmfdmf
It has been my experience that doctors make horrible businessmen. I think it
is the medical school training that encourages over confidence in their
abilities, even o... | {
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} |
Calculating 316 Million Movie Correlations in 2 Minutes (Down From 2.5 Hours) - physcab
http://dmnewbie.blogspot.com/2009/06/calculating-316-million-movie.html
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physcab
Hi HN, I submitted this article because it has sat in my bookmarks for a while
and I've referenced it quite a number of times over the past fe... | {
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Your Architecture Sucks and I Don't Care - rco8786
http://friendlydingo.com/blog/2011/your-architecture-sucks-and-i-dont-care
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CodeMage
Same old warning against becoming an "architecture astronaut". Look, I
understand you got burned and you want to share. However, I'm getting a teeny
little bit tired of people w... | {
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Show HN: RoughJS – Create hand-drawn graphics now supports both SVG and Canvas - shihn
https://github.com/pshihn/rough
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shihn
Hi, I launched Rough.js a month ago
([https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16571827](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16571827))
and was overwhelmed by all the love.
Now Rough.js ren... | {
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Blockstream Commits to Patent Nonaggression - wslh
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/07/blockstream-commits-patent-nonaggression
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wslh
More opinions in this thread:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5clbgz/sergioalso_bloc...](https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5clbgz/sergioalso_blockstream_hid_the_fact_... | {
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What Facebook needs? A killer search engine - paraschopra
http://paraschopra.com/blog/personal/what-facebook-needs-a-killer-search-engine.htm
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indigoviolet
You know what would be cool? If the author went to www.facebook.com, found the
rather prominent input box on top called 'Search', and tried putting somethi... | {
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Did James Damore really deserve to be fired for what he wrote? - saltvedt
http://www.nydailynews.com/amp/opinion/google-wrong-article-1.3399750
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richmarr
It's a valid question, but Singer gets the answer wrong.
This is politics, not science.
1) Biology is a red herring. There's a huge chasm between any suppose... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Site with tools people use? - aviraldg
So I vaguely remember this website which used to publish articles describing the tools (software, hardware, etc.) used by famous designers, developers, musicians and so on. I think I remember reading an entry on Linus on that website. Does anyone remember what it was?<p... | {
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Cask: a Scala HTTP micro-framework - based2
https://github.com/lihaoyi/cask
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based2
[http://www.lihaoyi.com/cask/page/about-
cask.html](http://www.lihaoyi.com/cask/page/about-cask.html)
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The Blockchain Is a Reminder of the Internet’s Failure - skilled
https://medium.com/s/love-hate/the-blockchain-is-a-reminder-of-the-internets-failure-b16c58d70413
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hndamien
Come together, like as in a consensus?
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“There is no justifiable reason to be working 100+ hours a week." - minimaxir
https://facebook.com/groups/759985267390294?view=permalink&id=1424100054312142
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seldo
Reminds me of this great presentation:
[http://lunar.lostgarden.com/Rules%20of%20Productivity.pdf](http://lunar.lostgarden.com/Rules%20of%20Productiv... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Rock climber Alex Honnold doesn’t experience fear like the rest of us - beefield
http://nautil.us/issue/39/sport/the-strange-brain-of-the-worlds-greatest-solo-climber
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forgotpwtomain
For such along article (and I did enjoy some of it) they spent almost no time
on describing the study methodology.
> Nowhere in t... | {
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Drinking age of 21 doesn't work - edw519
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/16/mccardell.lower.drinking.age/index.html
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ScottWhigham
Not hacker news certainly?
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A little idea to resolve special m:n relations a bit different with MySQL - seonap
http://www.xarg.org/2010/09/resolve-many-to-many-relations-a-bit-different-with-mysql/
An approach to resolve many-to-many relations without an additional table.
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michael_dorfman
So, you break First Normal Form, require some text... | {
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} |
Show HN: Motigram, an SMS based to-do app backed by real humans not a.i. - titusblair
https://motigram.com
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ismail
I went through the entire page trying to figure out what the humans offer and
value I get. My best guess it is motivation and accountability?
Did not look at the video. Maybe this has a specific ta... | {
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} |
Sex, Steroids, and Arnold: The Story of the Gym That Shaped America - jseliger
https://deadspin.com/sex-steroids-and-arnold-the-gym-that-shaped-america-1828228786
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B1FF_PSUVM
This slid off the front page pretty damn quick - the culture so deftly
portrayed is probably almost as alien here as anything short of mar... | {
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} |
Amazon S3 Simple Backup Script - s3backup - leftnode
http://artisansystem.com/blog/entry/37
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callmeed
I've been using s3sync.rb combined with a cron job and shell script. Working
great for me.
Good to see a PHP-based alternative I suppose.
~~~
leftnode
Thanks! I don't know Ruby/have never played around with ... | {
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A New Way for the Wealthy to Shop for Citizenships - lebek
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-new-way-for-the-wealthy-to-shop-for-citizenships?mbid=rss
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liamcardenas
> The U.S. ranks twenty-eighth on the Q.N.I., behind nearly every E.U.
> country. Kalin told me that the U.S.’s rank is partly due to its re... | {
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Some Technical Clarifications About Do Not Track - tshtf
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/harlanyu/some-technical-clarifications-about-do-not-track
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jdp23
Important clarifications, in particular highlighting that it's _not_ a do-not-
track list.
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Alienware Evaluating Customers' Interest in Linux - vimes656
http://www.osnews.com/story/24310/Alienware_Evaluating_Customers_Interest_in_Linux
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goombastic
Would have been easier for them to allow people to say no to Windows when they
buy the laptop, rather than do polls and other stuff.
I would be interested i... | {
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} |
40% off Pragmatic Programmers books and screencasts. - steve19
http://media.pragprog.com/newsletters/2009-11-18.html
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simonista
Anyone have recommendations? The only thing I've ever bought from PragProg is
Agile Web Development with Rails, which I can recommend.
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justinweiss
Most of their language books ar... | {
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} |
The Medieval Mindset (2017) - marchenko
https://coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com/2017/09/thinking-medieval-seeking-endarkenment.html
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hprotagonist
Much of the mindset(s) of the 14th century make a LOT more sense when you
realize two things.
1\. 19 year olds were routinely making critical military decisions. Remembe... | {
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} |
Facebook Brain Computer Interface Program Update - atlasunshrugged
https://tech.fb.com/imagining-a-new-interface-hands-free-communication-without-saying-a-word/
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atlasunshrugged
Nature Article that has the bulk of the information
[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10994-4](https://www.nature.com/article... | {
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} |
How to get Google Chrome old versions between 46 to 49? - iamtrying
I need to play MP4 files which was working fine between Version 46 to 49. But since 50 there is many major bugs which i cant live with.<p>I can go back to Chromium but then MP4 files does not work on it, how can i therefore get Google Chrome version 4... | {
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Why People in Cities Walk Fast (2012) - vinnyglennon
https://www.citylab.com/life/2012/03/why-people-cities-walk-fast/1550/
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xyzzy123
I think it would be interesting to see not just the average but also the
_distribution_ of walking speeds. I posit the effect might just be “number of
people walking to/from work ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Can the Hacker News maintainers darken the user submission body text? - zappo2938
The text of the body of user submitted stories is very light and difficult to read. Is it possible to darken it a couple shades for legibility?
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gus_massa
It's on purpose to discourage that type of submissions. The links in... | {
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Ask HN: Does taking a severance package make you less marketable? - DrWumbo
Is it a bad idea to take a severance package from a job that I was already planning on leaving?
I work as a developer at a Fortune 50 company that is currently doing "restructuring" and is offering severance packages to anyone who wa... | {
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} |
Tmate - Instant terminal sharing - dkthehuman
http://tmate.io/
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kareemk
I've tried this out and it is dramatically better then other alternatives,
full screen-sharing suffers from latency issues (screenhero, logmein, etc...)
and sharing an ssh session is a pain to get setup (e.g. wemux). I highly
recommend it.
... | {
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} |
One Paradigm to Rule Them All - adosburg
https://medium.com/@dosburg/one-paradigm-to-rule-them-all-546440de57e
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0_gravitas
I saw your other post on this as well and I'm left with the same question.
These are some significant claims, but not much has been mentioned in these
sales pitches as to how exactly this is... | {
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} |
The Great Buenos Aires Bank Heist - acdanger
https://www.gq.com/story/the-great-buenos-aires-bank-heist
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t_mann
Quite endearing Sunday afternoon read. The complete absence of violence makes
it easy to sympathise. It seems they hold no grudges amongst each other too,
which is remarkable given the sums involved.
... | {
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} |
Why can't programmers design software? - pcr910303
https://qnoid.com/2011/02/23/Why-cant-programmers-design-software.html#main
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jiriknesl
Is it just me? I don't like this design.
What's the point of wrapping an algorithm in strategy, when there is no reuse,
nor any need to exchange algorithm?
And more. Why Fiz... | {
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} |
This Map Shows the Average Commute Time in Every U.S. County - ourmandave
http://lifehacker.com/this-map-shows-the-average-commute-time-in-every-u-s-c-1796559696
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tbirrell
As someone who lives in one of those counties... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA no. Not even
close buddy. Try 1.5x and you might be right.
| {
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Why do programmers prefer Python over Ruby? - daviddavis
I'm a Ruby programmer. Recently there was a poll about everyone's favorite programming language and Python came out ahead over Ruby. To me, Python seems to lack some of the niceties that Ruby has like blocks and it also seems to have some superfluous stuff like ... | {
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} |
Facebook's Gateway Drug - applecore
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/03/opinion/sunday/evgeny-morozov-facebooks-gateway-drug.html
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ef4
> In a short essay outlining the vision behind Internet.org, Mr. Zuckerberg
> says one of its goals is to offer credit and identity infrastructure “that
> is still nascent in many ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Microsoft Research Details Room2Room Project – Life-Size Telepresence - vyrotek
http://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-research-details-room2room-project-enabes-life-size-telepresence/
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vyrotek
Source paper:
[http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/262648/Room2Room_CSCW2016...](http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/262648/Roo... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Review my app coded in the past two days: BookBox - lkozma
http://www.lkozma.net/bookbox<p>embedded for ex. on my main page: http://www.lkozma.net<p>I made this small widget during this weekend to learn a bit of javascript. I'd be glad to get feedback on how understandable, usable, etc. it is or feature ideas, sugge... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
College President Gives $90,000 of His Salary to Lowest-Paid Employees on Campus - praneshp
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/04/president-gives-up-salary-psu_n_5647997.html?ncid=dynaldusaolp00000255
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radmuzom
Great gesture, however not a solution to the systemic problem. It is only when
the government man... | {
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} |
Ingredients for creating disruptive research teams - barry-cotter
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/dCjz5mgQdiv57wWGz/ingredients-for-creating-disruptive-research-teams
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jandrewrogers
In my experience, attempts to build these organizations are unsuccessful
primarily because they fail to understand the fu... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Cloudflare's distributed database is out of beta - zackbloom
https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-kv-is-ga/?hn
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Phillipharryt
It's interesting that they bring up the CAP theorem, because they've chosen to
go for the two prongs of it that generally not preferred. Data consistency in
my opinion is of utmost importa... | {
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} |
Hacking an Android TV in less than 2 minutes - vmulas
https://medium.com/@drakkars/hacking-an-android-tv-in-2-minutes-7b6f29518ff3
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vmulas
LinkedIn article: [https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hacking-android-tv-less-
than-...](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hacking-android-tv-less-
than-2-minutes-valerio-mulas/)
Y... | {
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} |
Grand Image Compression Challenge at ICIP 2016 - 112233
http://jpeg.org/items/20151126_icip_challenge.html
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vanderZwan
Eh... isn't the Joint Photographic Experts Group the one that patents
everything?
~~~
defenestration
I'm wondering, what incentive do researchers have to share their new
compression algorithms ... | {
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} |
Marijuana Investors Lost $23.3B in Penny Stocks Last Year - wclax04
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/marijuana-investors-lost-billions-in-penny-stocks-last-year
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lbradstreet
I'm skeptical of the total loss quoted. If a stock drops from 2B to 0.3B
market cap, it doesn't necessarily mean that investors lost 1.7B i... | {
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} |
Building Fizzbuzz in Fractran from the Bottom Up - braythwayt
https://malisper.me/building-fizzbuzz-fractran-bottom/
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braythwayt
Previous discussions around John Conway's FRACTRAN esoteric programming
language:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23142232](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23142232)
and:
... | {
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} |
Differences between the word2vec paper and its implementation - bollu
https://github.com/bollu/bollu.github.io#everything-you-know-about-word2vec-is-wrong
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DannyBee
Speaking as someone who has read about 40 years of papers in compiler
optimization, it's very interesting.
In the early days, there were fairly exa... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
What if we were all Uber drivers? - mk44
I just had an idea. What if there existed %50 of the cars that exist in US today, but they were freely available for everyone. What's the catch? You have to pick up people on the way to where you are going. There will be a cloud system that similar to Uber, where people ... | {
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} |
Opt-IN, No Ads, and No Tracking Solve a Lot of Problems in Society - kgwxd
https://puri.sm/posts/opt-in-no-ads-and-no-tracking-solve-a-lot-of-problems-in-society/
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filoeleven
Pure clickbait title.
“Stuff in my timeline that I don’t want to see” is an annoyance, not a
societal problem. Privacy is a significant p... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Theoretical Computer Science Cheat Sheet [pdf] - kdrakon
http://www.tug.org/texshowcase/cheat.pdf
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hugelgupf
This seems more like a cheat sheet of applied mathematics with CS flavoring
than a theoretical CS cheat sheet...
~~~
j2kun
Seriously. Five pages of calculus? Come on. A real cheat sheet might have:
* Op... | {
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} |
Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos - dmarby
https://picsum.photos/
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O1111OOO
Just wanted to comment on the clarity and effectiveness of the home page. Love
it! So many user-friendly checkboxes are ticked off. Nice look, great
description, plenty of examples, advanced usage section that's very eas... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Google introduces fact checking feature whether news is actually true - hitr
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/google-fact-checking-presidential-election-candidates-news-hoax-fake-real-a7361231.html
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LordWinstanley
Who decides whether something is 'fact'? Google?
The reason we don't ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Starting indie game dev. need advice - rythmshifter
So I've decided to start in the game development field. I am a programmer, and I have 2 friends with skills I need, graphics and audio. I love both of them dearly, but they have their flaws. I am concerned about several of these flaws and how they ... | {
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} |
A breakdown of a GIF decoder (2012) - userbinator
http://commandlinefanatic.com/cgi-bin/showarticle.cgi?article=art011
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nineteen999
The first "serious" C program I wrote was a GIF87a decoder on Linux, using
SVGAlib, back in 1998 or 1999. The reference implementation I had was written
by somebody else, in QBASIC ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Russian hackers allegedly behind cyberattacks to steal Covid-19 vaccine - wheretheheartis
https://www.cnet.com/news/russian-hackers-allegedly-behind-cyberattacks-to-steal-covid-19-vaccine/
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moksly
This is obviously wrong, but shouldn’t something as important as a vaccine for
the worst pandemic in a century kind ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Freedom of Speech: A Right for Everybody, or Only for Like-Minded People? - Reedx
https://heterodoxacademy.org/social-science-freedom-of-speech/
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DanielBMarkham
From a meta standpoint, it's interesting to me that the most vociferous
deniers of free speech throughout history have made some version of the case
"Bu... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
What I Learned Building Twitter Bootstrap - dcope
https://medium.com/what-i-learned-building/b95033c270af
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NathanKP
Interesting... For some reason I had always assumed that Bootstrap was
associated more closely with Twitter because it had the word "twitter" in the
name.
Now I understand why some business are ... | {
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} |
Tails is a operating system that protects your privacy and avoids censorship - Sami_Lehtinen
https://tails.boum.org/?new
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dang
Lots of previous discussions, so the project home page is probably too generic
to make a good HN submission.
[https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...](https://hn... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
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