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Universities should flag up which websites to trust - haidut http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126912.100-commentary-dont-believe-everything-you-read-online.html ====== johnnybgoode The mistake here is in believing universities are always correct. They don't even come close. Remember Citizendium, Larry Sange...
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Airbrb.com #coworking - ghosh http://www.airbrb.com/ ====== theswan Looks like they've been sitting on this joke for a while. Updated Date: 2014-03-28T14:26:39-0700 Creation Date: 2012-02-20T19:27:58-0800 [http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=air...](http://www.netwo...
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Website that gives users insight to ads targeted to them? - sanoy Does anybody know of any website that gives users insight to what kind of ads are being targeted to them? ====== bowmessage There's [https://www.google.com/ads/preferences/](https://www.google.com/ads/preferences/)
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Beyond Idiot-Savant AI [pdf] - bra-ket https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/0aba/d53ed554ba2854173e3dc3722b8fef7ece4d.pdf ====== sharemywin A system referenced in the article [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/scone/](http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/scone/)
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The Comeback of Fun in Visual Design - flowerlad https://applypixels.com/blog/comeback ====== alxlaz I don't really care about "fun", but I just can't find the words to explain how happy I am that there's a chance we might put all this flat madness behind us. I'm looking forward to: * Not having this conversation wit...
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The pros and cons of self-learning - Yarduza https://sumone.io/the-pros-and-cons-of-self-learning/ ====== oliverobscure Personally, I find it really difficult to make progress without a rigid curriculum. There’s such a wide range of online content that I feel overwhelmed by the choices I have in what I should learn, w...
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Log Management is the New Kid on the Block - KarenS https://www.loggly.com/blog/aws-cloudwatch-log-management/?utm_source=HackerNews&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=Blog-AWS-Cloudwatch ====== andrewvc Cloudwatch desperately needs a new UI. Of all the AWS control panels, cloudwatch should have the best UI, but somehow, ...
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Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.) - mikegreenberg Hello!<p>Every once in a while, I like to offer my time to help other passionate people be a little more successful with their goals. If there's anything I can help you with, just ask here. No strings whatsoever.<p>If you'd like my help: Be ...
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Gravitricity – Fast, long-life energy storage - lelf https://gravitricity.com/ ====== syllable_studio I love Gravitricity. I'm the founder of a similar startup called Terrament. We are also building gravity storage underground, but our patents are extending this idea to use autonomous, modular weights. This enables us...
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Lego Computer - sigkill http://www.totalgeekdom.com/?p=1725 ====== sigkill I like the way he stresses over thermal and the build. Lines are visible where the pieces are joined to each other, however instead of looking bad, it gives it a very deathstar/futuristic feel especially with the glossy black pieces.
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Why Do (Some) Chinese People Pick 'Weird' English Names for Themselves? - hunglee2 https://yiqinfu.github.io/posts/chinese-people-weird-english-names/ ====== mech422 One thing I've never understood, is why when people anglicised names, they didn't go with phonetic spellings?
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Startups That Started As Blogs - morefranco http://www.fastcolabs.com/3015976/why-these-5-successful-startups-started-as-blogs ====== jmduke Surprised to not see Moz on here: while I think they were technically a consultancy at first, their chief export for quite a few years came in the form of incredibly valuable blo...
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First Nation's clay kills antibiotic-resistant bacteria in lab tests - walterbell http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/antibiotic-resistant-bacteria-clay-1.3421198 ====== hobs That article is fairly content free except they did link the paper: [http://mbio.asm.org/content/7/1/e01842-15.full](http://mbio.asm...
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The “No Assholes” rule for software developers - mkm416 http://www.alleyinteractive.com/blog/no-asshole-rule-software-developers/ ====== noir_lord I never criticise code unless I know the circumstances it was written under _and_ I can be constructive about it. I've written some truly horrible code over the years, at ...
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Ask HN: Masters in Data Science Worth It? - el_shambler I&#x27;ve been seeing a lot of different ads recently about different Masters in Data Science programs (MIDS), most notably for UC - Berkeley and SMU.<p>I did find a few older threads in regards to the field itself, and then one from a year ago with a lot of go...
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Fixing E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600 - tujv http://www.neocomputer.org/projects/et/ ====== JoeAltmaier ET was green in the game, I'm guessing, because Howard wrote it (completed it!) before the movie was released. The whole thing was on a punishing deadline, which is why it may seem rough and strange t...
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How ‘Hoverboards’ Epitomize Our Broken Patent System - reverend_gonzo http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-hoverboards-epitomize-our-broken-patent-system-1450674060 ====== venning Article has nothing to do with a "broken" patent system. The author is just relating a few, not-really-connected anecdotes. Inventor patents de...
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Show HN: Js-cookie – An open source cookie API derived from jQuery cookie - fagnerbrack https://github.com/js-cookie/js-cookie/#readme ====== fagnerbrack This library was born when we decided to remove the jquery dependency from jquery-cookie. Since then it was entirely built on community feedback, including every lin...
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240 year old automaton that can still be configured to write new messages - libovness http://www.wimp.com/writerautomaton/ ====== sp332 This was on the homepage just a few minutes ago. [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6678947](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6678947)
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Jeffrey Epstein: ABC stopped report 'amid Palace threats' - tomohawk https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50296742 ====== drak0n1c ABC's excuse of the allegations not meeting their journalistic standards at the time doesn't hold up. The evidence against Epstein in 2016 was very solid compared to other accusation s...
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Ask HN: Idea Sunday - _hoa8 Continuing the series! Go...<p>A small HN experiment. Every Sunday, a thread will be started to share product ideas. Why? Because many people have ideas they will simply not have the time to implement, and many need product ideas to work on. ====== miguelrochefort Why are recipes linear and...
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Finding Family Is Big Business: Ancestry.com Files For $75 Million IPO - jasonlbaptiste http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/03/finding-family-is-big-business-ancestrycom-files-for-75-million-ipo/ ====== quizbiz What could they be raising capital for that needs an IPO? ~~~ madh Maybe this is just an exit for the foun...
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Scott Aaronson on Penrose's argument (why machines can't think) - lkozma http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec10.5.html ====== erikstarck For those not familiar with the Penrose argument, here it is, slightly simplified: \- Consciousness is weird and we can't explain it. \- Quantum mechanics is weird and we ...
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Linux Beats Mac Dramatically In Humble Bundle Total Payments - glazemaster http://www.thepowerbase.com/2013/03/linux-beats-mac-dramatically-in-humble-bundle-total-payments/ ====== armored_mammal Probably people buying from their Android devices being counted under the 'Linux' flag? ~~~ dottrap Sounds reasonable. An...
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The Kindle Finally Gets Typography That Doesn't Suck - Garbage http://www.fastcodesign.com/3046678/the-kindle-finally-gets-typography-that-doesnt-suck ====== ddp Awesome! TL;DR - new layout engine and new font. But Amazon has to reprocess its catalog due to the change (i.e., you'll need to re-download everything). iPa...
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Our world is in danger, not of becoming too dangerous but of becoming too safe? - cwan http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/15/milktoast-nation.html ====== RiderOfGiraffes Content-free "blog" entry about an original: [http://ceae.colorado.edu/mc- edc/pdf/Milksop_Nation_Jack_Gord...](http://ceae.colorado.edu/mc- edc/pd...
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The story of Computer Space, the first mass-produced video game. - technologizer http://technologizer.com/2011/12/11/computer-space-and-the-dawn-of-the-arcade-video-game/ ====== tiles If you enjoy stories about early video games, Pong-story.com, a site focused on the Magnavox Odyssey (the first home video game conso...
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Aol Employees Make Zombie Video About Talent Exodus - FluidDjango http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/30/aol-zombies/ ====== thenextcorner That's it, Techcrunch is officially over. Jumped the shark! ------ jak88 Wait, AOL still has talent there?
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Andreessen Horowitz Raises New $1.5B Fund - kressaty http://a16z.com/2014/03/27/andreessen-horowitz-raises-new-fund/ ====== salimmadjd Some interesting read on A16Z. The keys to Andreessen Horowitz's success (February 15, 2013) [1] Ben Horowitz on quality of good founders to be CEO (Mar 14, 2010) [2] Mark Andreesse...
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Ask YC: How to write a java app for the cell phone ? - iamyoohoo Hi all,<p>I was wondering if anyone had any clue of how to do this. We're trying to create a java (MIDP?) app to be able to show articles from a website on the cellphone.<p>Any idea or references of where to start ?<p>Thanks ====== st3fan Unfortunately...
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The CIA Is Sharing Declassified Maps - bane http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cia-celebrating-its-cartography-divisions-75th-anniversary-declassified-maps-180961419/?utm_source=keywee-facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=keywee&kwp_0=299086&kwp_4=1167645&kwp_1=531375?no-ist ====== rdtsc Related is t...
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Ask HN: Have Neuroscience inspired ML architectures been successful? - hsikka Does anyone have any literature on neuroscience inspired machine learning architectures, specifically more recent ones, 2017 and onward? I believe the push to do formalize computational paradigms in the brain may yield an interesting result....
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Apple approves Spotify's iPhone App - ajg1977 http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-spotify-says-apple-still-testing-iphone-app-spotify-vanishes-from-app-s/ ====== ajg1977 It's a real shame though that the iPhone/iPod Touch doesn't allow better integration with third party music apps so they can play in the backgroun...
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The Most Common Error in Coverage of the Google Memo - Garbage https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/the-most-common-error-in-coverage-of-the-google-memo/536181?single_page=true ====== merricksb Active discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14959601](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1495...
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Germany's Paradox: Family-Friendly Benefits, But Few Kids - thejteam http://www.npr.org/2013/05/07/180610371/germanys-paradox-family-friendly-benefits-but-few-kids ====== xtraclass But no, there are many, many children of every age in Germany. Of course mainly by 'new-Germans' who originally are from Turkey or other...
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Merrill Lynch “Macs are no good. Go to your library and use a PC” - rograndom http://www.rograndom.com/2011/04/merrill-lynch-mac/ ====== th0ma5 This might be a "knows enough to be dangerous" type of situation. An expert in one field seems like an idiot to an expert in a similar, but different, field. For instance I...
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The China Conundrum – are we headed for a supply chain meltdown? - Sequenza https://diginomica.com/2019/01/25/the-china-conundrum-are-we-headed-for-a-supply-chain-meltdown/ ====== rrggrr We are in process moving a product line from China to Canada as result of the 25% tariff. Fact is, the product was migrating to Nort...
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Academic research finds five US telcos vulnerable to SIM swapping attacks - kerng https://www.zdnet.com/article/academic-research-finds-five-us-telcos-vulnerable-to-sim-swapping-attacks/ ====== caleb-allen Below is a link to the original study [https://www.issms2fasecure.com/assets/sim_swaps-01-10-2020.p...](https://...
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Can A.I. Turn Average Fans into Experts? - joshagogo http://unanimous.ai/swarms-beat-espn/?utm_source=26 ====== divebomb I'd much rather listen to the average fan's opinion than Stephen A Smith, so I wouldn't be surprised if normal people were able to make better predictions, too. What I'd like to see is an ESPN wher...
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Google execs got discount on jet fuel, says NASA - z0a http://www.marketwatch.com/story/google-execs-got-discount-on-jet-fuel-says-nasa-2013-12-12 ====== esalman Oh, the horror!
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Loop Recognition Benchmarks in C++, Java, Go, Scala (2011) [pdf] - saltcookie https://days2011.scala-lang.org/sites/days2011/files/ws3-1-Hundt.pdf ====== f2f the go side of that paper should be accompanied by this link, always: [http://blog.golang.org/profiling-go- programs](http://blog.golang.org/profiling-go-prog...
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NASA unveils new spacesuit for next Moon landing - gaisturiz https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50070615 ====== eatbitseveryday > Mr Gohmert explained: "We can take safe haven in this suit, we'll seek > refuge in here, we'll keep the body at 8 psi (pound force per square inch) > for a certain period of time,...
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A Step Toward Protecting Fair Use on YouTube - jacquesm http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2015/11/a-step-toward-protecting-fair-use-on.html?m=1 ====== walterbell From a comment on the article, [http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2015/11/a-step- toward...](http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2015/11/a-step-...
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Reaction Housing’s temporary shelters - Campbellb http://www.reactionhousing.com/ ====== pmorici Seems impractical compared to something like the Ikea flat pack shelter. [http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/26/8287509/ikea-refugee- shelt...](http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/26/8287509/ikea-refugee-shelter- flatpack-photos...
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OpenHAK: Open-Source Health Activity Kit - mettamage https://www.openhak.com/ ====== mettamage I got this from the website linked at [1], but I figured this warrants its own discussion. Are there more open source Fitbit type of hardware? [1] [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20604566](https://news.ycombinator.co...
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Ask HN: easy noprocrast loophole - nearestneighbor There is a frustratingly easy way to circumvent "noprocrast", defeating its purpose. For example, in Firefox, you can use "private browsing" (Shift-Apple-P on a Mac).<p>Would it be a good idea to track IP addresses to make it a bit harder to work around the noprocra...
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Wait, So How Much of the Ocean Is Actually Fished? - samcampbell https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/09/wait-so-how-much-of-the-ocean-is-fished-again/569782/?single_page=true ====== wahern Indeed, in just the past few months, researchers have used that data to [...] identify supply chains whe...
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Goodbye Python, Hello Go - eadmund https://thinkfaster.co/2018/07/goodbye-python-hello-go/ ====== tomohawk One of the biggest benefits of go vs python is that you only manage your dependencies during build. You end up with a single executable that is easy to deploy and mostly immune to the deployment of other things. ...
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Jetbrains IDE MacBook Air 2020 crash likely an Ice Lake CPU bug - api https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JBR-2310#focus=streamItem-27-4151843.0-0 ====== api Look at the thread and note that it also happens inside a virtual machine: [https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JBR-2310#focus=streamIt...](https://youtrack.j...
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Apple: Leopard delayed until October due to iPhone team developer poaching - mattculbreth http://www.tuaw.com/2007/04/12/apple-announces-leopard-delays-due-to-the-iphone/ ====== mattculbreth Well that's a bummer. Was looking forward to it. But they say they'll give away a "feature-complete" beta at the developer's co...
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You Can Now Transfer Your Twitter Verification to Another Account - bhartzer https://twitter.com/fart/status/1263222585778507776 ====== tallies It's a hoax. Twitter reply: [https://twitter.com/TwitterComms/status/1263256788238909441](https://twitter.com/TwitterComms/status/1263256788238909441)
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How are humans going to become extinct? - fromdoon http://www.bbc.com/news/business-22002530 ====== ggreer To summarize: At this point, humanity is its own greatest extinction risk. If we don't destroy ourselves in the next century, we will almost certainly inherit the stars. For a much deeper treatment of this subje...
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Russia's sacred myths - techterrier http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37595972 ====== navait An interesting analogy to this is Stalin and the film _Ivan the Terrible_. Stalin commissioned the film because he admired Tsar Ivan, and thought of himself in his mold. His version of Ivan was a great man who was surroun...
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Calls him an asshole, makes him a billionaire - jakarta http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100929/REVIEWS/100929984 ====== Nemisis7654 I caught an early screening of this movie last week. I quite enjoyed it. I know this movie will probably be catching some heat for being inaccurate, but I fe...
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Don't launch - peter123 http://startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com/2009/03/dont-launch.html ====== cperciva This is one of the great advantages of a public beta -- once you've ironed any problems, you can have your media launch and justify it by saying "we're no longer in beta". ------ gord Excellent article and blog ...
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We Broke into a Bunch of Android Phones with a 3D-Printed Head - crunchiebones https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2018/12/13/we-broke-into-a-bunch-of-android-phones-with-a-3d-printed-head/#73b70be91330 ====== bsenftner FR is one biometric. One biometric can be spoofed, as this article shows. For authenticatio...
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What if IBM has a clue? - bsg75 http://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2013/08/13/what-if-ibm-has-a-clue-get-lucky/ ====== mathattack Compare their stock performance to Microsoft or the S&P over the past 5 years. Looks like a decent clue. They have a great salesforce, and that is one way they make their own luck despite misst...
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Evolution's Third Replicator - ptn http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327191.500-evolutions-third-replicator-genes-memes-and-now-what.html ====== xiaoma Here's her TED talk on the same topic: [http://www.ted.com/talks/susan_blackmore_on_memes_and_temes....](http://www.ted.com/talks/susan_blackmore_on_memes_and...
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Solaris 11 has the security solution Linus wants for Desktop Linux - petsos https://blogs.oracle.com/darren/entry/solaris_11_has_the_security ====== babarock I'm going to go on a small tangent here and ask: Solaris ... _desktop_?? I've been using Linux on the desktop for quite some time now, and couldn't be happier...
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Why Technical Analysis Is 100% Bullshit - Stjerrild https://www.fscomeau.com/why-technical-analysis-is-bullshit/ ====== D3nTe Don't know much about trading, but this guys sure comes off as an asshole. Reading that was painful.
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Sign up for Facebook - sizzle https://signupforfacebook.org/ ====== ld00d Bug report: even though the cursor indicates you aren't allowed, you can still click the button without accepting all of the "I'm OK with this" buttons. ------ headsoup Also, at the end suggest 'what to do if you're not OK with this: _Options...
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Show HN: Tablo, Publish in eBook and paperback to nearly every shop in the world - ashdav https://tablo.io ====== saimiam [https://twitter.com/grandmagifs/status/986890684891185152?s=...](https://twitter.com/grandmagifs/status/986890684891185152?s=20) Thought I'd gif-fy your headline.
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AI-powered photo search, but without paying with my data? - Philipp0205 I like the AI powered photo-search in GoogleDrive and OneDrive. But I don&#x27;t want to pay with my data.<p>So does somebody know an alternative?<p>Ty! ====== kleer001 So, you're paranoid that your private photos are going to be saved and or used...
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Tao: A new language for dynamic document description of real-time 3D animations - vmorgulis https://github.com/c3d/tao-3D ====== secoif Yet another language on HN that doesn't show a single code snippet on the linked page. Link should probably go here [http://www.taodyne.com/tutorial-2.0.html#/language](http://www.ta...
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Ask HN: What programming languauges does the High Frequency Trading Firms use? - moshiasri I have recently read an article about IEX and brad katsuyama on bloomberg website.And have also read the book &#x27;FLASH BOYS&#x27; by michael lewis. after reading about all this i wanted to know what programming languages does...
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10 Big U.S. Businesses That Have Moved Their HQ Abroad to Pay Less Taxes - psogle http://www.focus.com/fyi/finance/10-big-businesses-that-have-moved-abroad/ ====== cwan With taxes set to rise (and given the literally trillions of dollars of cumulative new deficits how can they not?), this is going to happen increasi...
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Monkey research suggests a biological explanation for toy preferences (2012) - crassus http://www.livescience.com/22677-girls-dolls-boys-toy-trucks.html ====== withad I'm calling bullshit on the title (which, in the hopefully likely event it gets changed, is currently "Hormones Explain Why Girls Like Dolls and Boys Li...
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Apple’s Next Laptops Could Be More iPhone Than Mac - boramalper https://www.wsj.com/articles/apples-next-laptops-could-be-more-iphone-than-mac-1528992149 ====== dickbasedregex I've been figuring for a couple years now I'd have to abandon macs once my air dies. Apple seems bound and determined to shun developers and in...
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Credit Karma has acquired instant message bot Penny - klintcho https://www.recode.net/2018/3/14/17112598/credit-karma-penny-acquisition ====== socratesone Damn. Was my favorite finances tracking app. What else do people like? ~~~ AznHisoka Not Mint. It kept asking for my bank passwords every single month.
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ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited text - fishy929 https://ronaldduncan.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/text-file-formats-ascii-delimited-text-not-csv-or-tab-delimited-text/ ====== Pxtl I've done this. Everybody hated it. Most text editors don't display anything useful with these characters (either hiding them ...
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The ‘effective altruists’ - akbarnama http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n18/amia-srinivasan/stop-the-robot-apocalypse ====== msilenus I've read this book together with the two books about Effective Altruism bei Peter Singer (The Life You Can Save and The Most Good You Can Do), and I have to say these books have really changed ...
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Your 2048 - anilshanbhag https://github.com/anilshanbhag/Your2048 ====== why_not My Google Account doesn't seem to want to connect, but we just did a potentially similar thing here: [http://games.usvsth3m.com/2048](http://games.usvsth3m.com/2048) Great minds, etc!
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Fear not Get ready to face Shadow IT - jerianasmith http://www.ishir.com/blog/5495/fear-not-get-ready-face-shadow.htm ====== warrenm "Get ready"? For an article written in 2010...maybe One written in late 2017? Shadow IT has been a major issue since the prevalent rise of easily-accessible cloud services, possibly th...
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The Little Mocker (2014) - mjbellantoni https://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2014/05/14/TheLittleMocker.html ====== mattlutze I appreciate how the conversational presentation of the discussion here makes the topic more accessible. I should probably come across this topic before but I'm glad the author made it so easy t...
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Open source deep learning models that programmers can download and run first try - pplonski86 https://github.com/samdeeplearning/The-Terrible-Deep-Learning-List ====== reader5000 There isnt really any math to deep learning other than the concept of a derivative which is taught in high school calculus. The reason deep ...
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The effects of Portal 2 and Lumosity on cognitive and noncognitive skills - newsreview1 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360131514001869 ====== bitwize Valve playtests the shit out of their games. A lot of _Portal_ 's theming is based on their extensive testing culture and the ways they've developed...
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CloudRail – A Universal API for Stripe, Facebook, Slack, Dropbox, Twilio and More - kwrt http://cloudrail.com/cr-product/ ====== jefflinwood This seems more complicated than just using the original APIs, as none of the sample applications or StackOverflow questions you might find with a quick Google (for instance, cre...
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Tesla Roadster is going to be able to hover over the ground, says Elon Musk - devy https://electrek.co/2019/01/09/tesla-roadster-hover-off-the-ground-elon-musk/ ====== dTal With compressed air? No. I don't care how "not joking" he is, the power density is just not enough to lift a car for more than a few seconds even ...
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High level autonomous dexterity in robotics - roboscan https://deev.blue ====== roboscan These guys [https://deev.blue](https://deev.blue) declare they will produce an autonomous dexterity in a robot. Is it even realistic?
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Amazon's answer to lightweight iPad Air.. - vimarshk http://www.amazon.com/ ====== superbaconman the hardware looks pretty impressive for the price. I'd like to see Linux running on it.
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Ask HN: How does the Activity Monitor in OS X calculate memory usage? - x0054 Ok, I am asking this here because I came up empty on Stack Overflow, Super User, and Google. How the hell does the Activity Monitor in OSX 10.10 calculate memory usage. The numbers from sysctl and vm_stat match each other (I assume vm_stat...
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How to solve hard (technical) problems - kmille https://github.com/kmille/linux-debugging/blob/master/mindset.md ====== pmiller2 This is a pretty decent debugging checklist, but nothing more. I was hoping for something different when I clicked. Maybe this should be retitled "How to solve hard (debugging) problems"? -...
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Ask HN: What kind of standing desk do you use? - nodivbyzero I want to try standing desk to increase my productivity. What kind of standing desk do you use? Any recommendations? ====== neilsharma I use Varidesk. Its a ~35 pound adjustable platform you place on top of a normal desk. There are handles on the side so y...
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Dissection of COVIDSafe (Android): Australian government's contact tracing app - ghuntley https://docs.google.com/document/d/17GuApb1fG3Bn0_DVgDQgrtnd_QO3foBl7NVb8vaWeKc/edit# ====== mcannon I believe the government, PM and various ministers have said the code will be released. My sources also say exactly the same. T...
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Advertisers Blacklist Hard News, Including Trump, Fearing Backlash - forgingahead https://www.wsj.com/articles/advertisers-blacklist-hard-news-including-trump-fearing-backlash-11565879086?mod=rsswn ====== forgingahead This is an important trend, but as usual the news people have slanted it to their own benefit: Advert...
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The World's First Digitally Signed International Agreement - jkaljundi http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/12/behold-the-worlds-first-digitally-signed-international-agreement/282582/ ====== ericcumbee >they've been widely adopted in the business world (and, controversially, by President Obama) The...
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SemanticProxy: Jump-Starting the Semantic Web - babyshake http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/reuters_semanticproxy_jump-start.php ====== jonmc12 Same silly data collection based on NLP and/or meta-data. Reuters is not going to jump start anything until they pair this with a meaningful notion of user intent. ~~~ d...
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Ask HN: Under quoted, late, no contract unpaid project - damaru Hi there, I am learning the hard way how to manage client. I am in the end of a contract, well without any contract, with a client. I quote way under because I wasn&#x27;t clear on the work that needed to be done. I am really late on delevery of the con...
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An Unexpected Toolbox for a Beginner Programmer: Emacs-Prelude-Colemak-SandS - ThisIsSavo https://thisissavo.github.io/programming/music/2017/02/03/an-unexpected-toolbox-for-a-beginner-programmer.html ====== ThisIsSavo Hey, I am a beginner programmer and I wrote a blog post about some things that I use, such as: Emacs...
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Mortal Kombat 3 source code leaked - mrpippy https://archive.org/download/MortalKombat3SourceCodeDump ====== arayh For anyone interested, MK3_source_windows_RC2.tar has the source code for the arcade version of MK3, which contains commented assembly from Ed Boon
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I'm surprised they didn't add "Expert at moonwalking" to the skills list - alexkearns http://www.jobstheword.co.uk/Job/Info/1186/Digital_Designer/Guildford/Allianz ====== wccrawford Sounds like they just lost a jack-of-all-trades by refusing to pay him what he's worth as he improves... And now they're trying to find...
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Jan. 1 has become the birthday for Afghans who don't know when they were born - kumarski http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2022570799_afghanbirthdaysxml.html ====== jdmitch In a lot of the world Jan. 1 is everyone's birthday. Or Dec. 31 (The article cites Somalia, Sudan and Vietnam as other examples, but I have...
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Sold my dipshit company for $5m, where to invest? - to_the_top Hey, I recently sold my dipshit company for $5m cash and I have spent some money buying real estate only about $400k (an office for myself, for 200 and commercial unit (not rented out yet)) and invested another 500k in stocks/bonds (with my inv broker). I...
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Realtime Analytics with MongoDB - jrosoff http://www.slideshare.net/jrosoff/scaling-rails-yottaa ====== rrival I liked this one as well: [http://www.slideshare.net/jrosoff/scalable-event- analytics-w...](http://www.slideshare.net/jrosoff/scalable-event-analytics- with-mongodb-ruby-on-rails) ------ nessence I'm wor...
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How do I prevent Scrum from turning great developers into average developers? - Antecedent https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/158451/how-do-i-prevent-scrum-from-turning-great-developers-into-average-developers ====== temporallobe I am not really seeing the problem here, nor do I agree with the premise that ...
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The Gandhi Nobody Knows (1983) - asciilifeform http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20090226171138/http://history.eserver.org/ghandi-nobody-knows.txt ====== Estragon I stopped reading at this point: > ...when Gandhi's wife lay dying of pneumonia and British doctors > insisted that a shot of penici...
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Why Mark Zuckerberg Needs to Come Clean About his Views on Privacy - mahipal http://social.venturebeat.com/2010/05/13/zuckerberg-privacy/ ====== wdewind "He believes that people should have a single identity: “You have one identity,” he emphasized three times in a single interview with David Kirkpatrick in his book,...
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How Facebook is slowly eating the rest of the Internet - wallzz https://medium.com/@washingtonpost/how-facebook-is-slowly-eating-the-rest-of-the-internet-a545870cf414#.iut61fr09 ====== brudgers A Washington Post post on Medium? Quality seems more stooping down than lifting up.
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Show HN: Heap is a new approach to analytics. Just capture everything - raviparikh https://heapanalytics.com/ ====== DodgyEggplant Poor man's analytics: events, client side, server side, whatever. Set up a separate DB with one big table, many columns for properties. One server call to write an event (a row), one ajax ...
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Collection of classic computer science algorithms written in JavaScript - fogus https://github.com/nzakas/computer-science-in-javascript/ ====== jashkenas A while back, I translated a few of these into CoffeeScript as examples for the repo. They're pretty fun: [https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee- script/tree/master/...
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