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Super Mario Bros on an 8x8 LED matrix - ph0rque
http://vimeo.com/9928343
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zuck123
Gotta love embedded systems. On a side note, don't bring it to Boston
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Boston_bomb_scare>
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MikeCapone
The music pushed this from "really cool" to "awesome" for me.
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zackattack
CMU HCI... | {
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Show HN: Royalty-Free Video Game Music Library - LuckyLionSt
http://luckylionstudios.com/royalty-free-video-game-music-library/
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rjsamson
Another title change?? This one, again, seems totally inappropriate -
shouldn't "Show HN" posts be exempt from mods changing the title since one
would imagine that the creat... | {
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Show HN: ProAnd.Contra, Fast and easy online Pro/Contra opinion polls - mmathias
http://proand.co
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sosospz
Nice one
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mmathias
Thanks!
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mahede
very nice.......
~~~
mmathias
Thank you! :)
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Show HN: Recursive DNS Server Fingerprint - pjf
https://recdnsfp.github.io/
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gtirloni
It's nice to see a country as large as Brazil having 24% of its domains with
DNSSEC records (973k out of 3.9m domains). I expected it to be close to zero.
This is very interesting work. I wish there was an easy way to see DNSS... | {
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} |
Electrical jolts to brain restored memory of elderly to that of 20-year-old - evo_9
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/04/brain-jolts-revive-memory-in-elderly-turning-clock-back-four-decades/
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ASalazarMX
> In a subsequent experiment, the researchers tried to reverse the finding:
> they used brain stimulation d... | {
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Splitting founder equity is about checking your ego at the door - abinoda
http://abinoda.com/startup-equity.html
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vlokshin
"It follows that the founders' relationship is the next most important
determinant of success." -- Words to live by for early stage start-ups.
| {
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What are your recommendations for Git visualisation? - carmat
I like to think I'm well versed enough in how to use git, at least on a day-to-day basis. Having had plenty of experience with GitHub repos, both private and public, I now find myself in a situation whereby I should assume GitHub is not an option, and ... | {
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When do you become a developer? - stephsmithio
https://blog.stephsmith.io/when-do-you-become-a-developer/
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stephsmithio
Hey HN. After teaching myself to code over the last year and launching
multiple products, I thought I would at some point “feel” more like a
developer.
For whatever reason that feeling hasn’t ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Why don’t we donate directly to researchers? - lettergram
Donating to research typically has a ton of overhead... such that only a percentage of what we donate goes to the scientists.<p>Why? Surely we can donate directly to researchers?<p>Anyone know why?<p>Had this idea to build a website to let you do this, ... | {
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Why I Don’t Do Sales On The App Store - bjonathan
http://carpeaqua.com/2011/03/23/why-i-dont-do-sales-on-the-app-store/
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bob_kelso
Isn't it a bit contradictory:
"All I get out of a blind code giveaway on a social media site is a lost
sale."
and:
"In most cases, people claim codes because they like the idea ... | {
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Ask HN: Do you search for awesome stuffs? - jdeng
http://awesome.samemoment.com/
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jdeng
There is a ton of curated list of awesome stuffs, as you can explore on
[http://awesome.re](http://awesome.re). But I found it inconvenient to search
by topics, or preview projects while browsing. Do you feel the same? Is the... | {
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} |
Nanowire ‘inks’ enable paper-based printable electronics - manojr
http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/8831.html
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achow
> “There is really nothing else I can think of besides these silver nanowires
> that you can just print and it’s simply conductive, without any post-
> processing,”
Maybe I'm missing something ... | {
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Coronavirus policy: Are Swedes naive or the only adults in the room? - situationista
https://www.thelocal.se/20200416/coronavirus-opinion-are-swedes-naive-or-the-only-adults-in-the-room
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jjgreen
Oh to be in Sweden, they'll come out of the other end of this without the
multi-generational crippling debt that the r... | {
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} |
Bits of History, Words of Advice (On Smalltalk) - AriaMinaei
https://gbracha.blogspot.com/2020/05/bits-of-history-words-of-advice.html
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jecel
The title of the blog post is from the "green book" that describes the efforts
of the companies Xerox first licensed Smalltalk to:
[http://sdmeta.gforge.inria.fr/FreeBook... | {
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The future of front-end development is design - prostoalex
https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/29/the-future-of-front-end-development-is-design/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&utm_content=FaceBook&sr_share=facebook
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seattle_spring
They said this back wh... | {
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Cata-list: Useful lists of some of the best info, media, tools, and quotes - mwtheta
https://cata-list.github.io
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mwtheta
Creator here. I've been lurking on Hacker News for a while and often add
useful and interesting articles and tools which I find here to my lists. I
hope and imagine that any who resonate with... | {
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From a Mailchimp email and Wufoo form to $25k in 3 months - gozmike
https://medium.com/who-what-why/c744d79a6e76
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johnrob
A classic pivot: "This gold mining thing isn't working out, perhaps we should
just sell goods to the other miners".
~~~
sgdesign
As someone who's working on the exact same concept for anothe... | {
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The Future of WhatsApp. - kauphy
https://medium.com/@eggonomy/the-future-of-whatsapp-c18769305567
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btipling
Sure, but WhatsApp runs on phones that have a plan with a phone company. It'll
just be that the cost is offset by cell phone providers shifting their voice
and text revenue to data more than they already... | {
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} |
This Was Once the Most Preposterous Vehicle Known to Man - ajaviaad
https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a31709299/helica-propeller-car/
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h2odragon
"Murder machine" ... Imagine the joy this thing would be on a gravel road.
| {
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Ask HN: I would like to work in London, would you help me with my CV/résumé? - ceoloide
Thanks to everyone that is reading this post and everyone that wants to help me! You have my gratitude :-)<p>tl;dr - My CV/résumé probably sucks for the lack of real working experience as a programmer. What would you change? What... | {
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Does any ruby/rails IDE have breakpoints? - twism
Breakpoints are HUGE for me, the ability to stop your program in mid stride and view, traverse, and manipulate data and variables ala keanu reeves in the matrix.
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luccastera
From the Netbeans page at <http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/60/>
"Ruby Deb... | {
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Perl 6 compiler, Release #107 (2017.01) - raiph
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.compiler/2017/01/msg14763.html
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whatnotests
I still hold hope to build something fun and interesting in Perl6 sometime in
the next couple years.
Hyper-operators, advanced type declarations and all the goodness that makes
P... | {
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} |
Mark Cuban on startup investing (and Gmail management) - pakafka
http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090115/mark-cubans-startup-investing-tips-buy-now-bonus-advice-how-to-manage-5000-emails-a-day/
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vaksel
What other big name entrepreneurs are that accessible?
| {
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Early access to GT Machine Learning course on Udacity - pushkar
I helped Dr. Charles Isbell (Georgia Tech) and Dr. Michael Littman (Brown) build this course as a part of the Georgia Tech online MS program. Charles and Michael have different views on how they think about various Machine Learning topics. This course wi... | {
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Network Connectivity Problems in AWS US-West Region - dan_manges
http://status.aws.amazon.com
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logicalmike
I hope this doesn't get worse, because I'm seeing quite a few connection
failures between various instances set up in this region.
~~~
stock_toaster
A few of our ($dayjob) RDS instances are currently MIA... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: StoryGrill – Your personalized newspaper - storygrill
Hi everyone,
we are a startup with a new concept for delivering the best news to you. The site is called StoryGrill, and it keeps you updated with the most recent news from your favorite newspapers.<p>You need to choose your favorite newspapers/magazi... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Sears stock plummets nearly 15% as it struggles to stay in business - nodesocket
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/21/sears-flags-going-concern-doubts.html
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nodesocket
This is something very personal to me, as one of my first jobs was selling
computers in the electronics department at a local Sears in my town's shoppi... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Signs your team might be too large - iand
http://blog.jayfields.com/2012/06/signs-that-your-project-team-might-be.html
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vampirechicken
Perfectly valid, but incompatible ideas are how you reach your global maxima.
You implement both of them and the one that has the implementation that makes
the code better is t... | {
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} |
Selecting the Next Librarian of Congress - dang
https://medium.com/message/the-next-librarian-of-congress-e85d514fc800
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vermontdevil
This job is actually important.
The LoC administers the Copyright Office which includes DMCA and the Copyright
Royalty Board.
Hopefully the next Librarian would be well versed ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
40 Years of Zen - joubert
https://www.40yearsofzen.com/about
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VieEnCode
"And now I'm offering the same gift to you."
At $15k, how does this constitute a "gift"?
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vixen99
And coffee's included!
| {
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Why We Haven't Seen Any Lawsuits Filed Over Domain Seizures? - vabole
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110521/15125114374/why-we-havent-seen-any-lawsuits-filed-against-government-over-domain-seizures-justice-department-stalling.shtml
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bigwally
Much easier to start again and register with a non US based domai... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How do sites like Foursquare/Gowalla obtain db of geolocation/business? - koudo
I am curious as I am just starting to learn about geocode, geolocation etc.
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rwhitman
I'm pretty sure both of them were seeded by crowdsourcing..
One good trick is to tap into the Google AJAX API, there is also SimpleGeo,
... | {
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Marka.js - electic
https://github.com/fians/marka
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poseid
the demo looks fun: [http://fian.my.id/marka](http://fian.my.id/marka)
Wondering, what type of apps would you need this? Could this be used together
with SnapSVG?
| {
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Ask HN: Good introductory books in Neuroscience? - samuel
I have just read "On Intelligence" and enjoyed it a lot but it's a bit old and don't know if the ideas proposed in the book have been confirmed or dismissed. Any recommendation of a more recent book? I'm not afraid of more technical o... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Police Claim Encryption Use Is Illegal - slashdotaccount
http://cryptome.org/2013/09/police-crypto-illegal.htm?update
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slashdotaccount
Discussion of the previous events:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6488407](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6488407)
| {
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GVIM+IPython with Conque plug-in - ez77
http://pycloud.blogspot.com/2010/04/gvimipython-with-conque-plug-in.html
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urlwolf
ncurses supported... will this work with bpython? A pity I moved away from vim
recently.
~~~
sophacles
Doubly cool would be if there was a bpython extension that allowed for "send
code bac... | {
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} |
The Art Of Manipulation - Garbage
http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/01/the-art-of-manipulation/
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hxa7241
This seems broadly to pass the Kant test on morality, so it could be said to
be well-grounded.
Something is immoral if it is contradictory when generalised -- that was the
gist of Kant's view. And real manipulat... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
An experiment-driven guide to Perl - sea6ear
http://matt.might.net/articles/perl-by-example/
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Mithaldu
Full disclosure: I'm the guy who made [http://perl-tutorial.org](http://perl-
tutorial.org) a few years ago because the top google result for "perl
tutorial" was a perl 4 tutorial. I have looked at many tutoria... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The new Disqus 2012: Elevating the Discussion - dctrwatson
http://blog.disqus.com/post/25017922977/the-new-disqus-2012
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mechanical_fish
I block third-party cookies, and as a result I never see a Disqus comment.
I've found that if I don't allow Disqus to set a cookie their JavaScript
widget just spins ineffective... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How People End Up with Boring Jobs - Abrahola
http://www.thecashflow.info/2018/05/how-people-end-up-with-boring-jobs.html
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cimmanom
They're jobs that need doing. Someone's going to end up with them.
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Abrahola
Yes, that's true, but you shouldn't be one of those people that will end up
with them of you don't w... | {
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Some examples of the serendipity effect on innovation - rgrieselhuber
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serendipity
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ojbyrne
In one of the high schools I went to, there were 3 classes they wouldn't
devote a full term to, so we rotated through them - art, shop and home
education. They called it serendipity, which I ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
I lost my job for speaking up about women’s rights - cygaril
https://medium.com/@MForstater/i-lost-my-job-for-speaking-up-about-womens-rights-2af2186ae84
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lsaferite
I find this reminds me of:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_..](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_..).
Every group eventu... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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One Hero - Parallax scrolling comic - joeblau
http://onehero.ca/
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joeblau
The sound in this comic EPIC!
| {
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} |
TechCrunch Teardown: Etsy, It's Crafty - replicatorblog
http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/11/tc-teardown-etsy/
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gfodor
Check out our tech blog:
<http://codeascraft.etsy.com>
We post fairly often in detail about the technical challenges we've had to
overcome while growing the marketplace.
~~~
bmelton
In reading ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Making a 1970's camera digital - deweerdt
http://frankencamera.wordpress.com/
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jzwinck
The very first digital SLRs were made the same way: by replacing the film
transport of a traditional camera with a digital back. Kodak did this with
many camera models from Nikon and later Canon, all of them branded Kodak DC... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Piracy is a Market Correction. - asciilifeform
http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/ar53y/talking_to_pirates_the_people_who_steal_software/c0izjj4
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solutionyogi
Pardon me, but this is _total bullshit_.
Piracy is not market correction. There is no reason a particular product has
to be priced relative to... | {
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} |
Hack The Galaxy: Hunting Bugs in the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge - aldo_23
http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/11/hack-galaxy-hunting-bugs-in-samsung.html
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listic
Which phones allow running the latest AOSP today?
~~~
izacus
Nexus devices from 5 and newer.
~~~
droopybuns
I think there is lag between the "Late... | {
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} |
Ford to skip past level-3 autonomy because its engineers kept falling asleep - Futurebot
http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self-driving/ford-robocar-to-ford-engineers-wake-up
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techdragon
And is anyone familiar with even a basic understanding of human attention
psychology surprised? I think ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Random RGB values that average to N; or, Pointlessness and Probability - kpgiskpg
https://kevingal.com/blog/rgb-average.html
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7373737373
For a little project of mine [0], I want to generate a _set_ of uniformly
distributed RGB values that then average to another RGB value which is known
in advance. Would this be... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
LilyPond ... music notation for everyone - afics
http://lilypond.org/
======
nodata
Nice! Got any screenshots? Examples?
| {
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} |
How to do a startup in your spare time - vanwilder77
http://blog.bellebethcooper.com/how-to-do-a-startup-in-your-spare-time
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SandB0x
I have a list of concerns and questions as I am doing something similar. Would
be interested to see what you make of it:
What does your boss/supervisor think of your startup? How ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Organized Resources for Deep Learning in Natural Language Processing - ghosthamlet
https://github.com/astorfi/Deep-Learning-NLP
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minimaxir
Mostly a dupe (with a slightly narrower focus) of
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17750791](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17750791)
I'm surprised this submissio... | {
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} |
Having Trouble With Your iPhone 4? Solution... - dell9000
http://gizmodo.com/5573179/the-semi+solutions-for-iphone-4-reception-problems-so-far?skyline=true&s=i
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watmough
Luckily, there's an easy solution for all these anti-iPhone articles from
gizmodo:
127.0.0.1 gizmodo.com # screw you gizmodo
| {
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Pessimistic pros missed the big rally, and so did many Americans - hhs
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-11/u-s-stock-market-wall-street-pros-missed-out-on-the-big-rally
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secondcoming
It seems this rally has now come to a crashing halt! The stock market is
absurd right now. Apparently a lot of firs... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Julia IDE work in Atom - tokai
http://julialang.org/blog/2016/01/atom-work/
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niutech
Dupe of:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10860633](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10860633)
| {
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Show HN: Clippi.io lets you collect your visual inspiration from any video - liaai0630
https://clippi.io/
======
real-hacker
Great tool. How does it work? I mean how does the script know the exact
position the video player is currently playing?
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Primer16
Wow this is very clean and well designed!
Does it work f... | {
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} |
Stories from "The Launch Pad" - frankdenbow
http://blog.startupthreadsmonthly.com/post/33903868385/interesting-stories-from-yc-book-launchpad
======
zacharycohn
I've given the same advice as PG in regards to massive, macroeconomic stats
before during Startup Weekend events.
"The food industry is 10 trillion dollars... | {
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} |
Haskell Sucks [pdf] - yokohummer7
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/40457956/haskell_sucks.pdf
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talideon
Monads become a lot more straightforward when you realise that they're just a
way of making the semicolon programmable.
No need for any nonsense metaphors: the bind operation in monads is just a
programmab... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
What is Music? Towards a Working Definition of “Music” - pjdorrell
https://whatismusic.info/blog/TowardsAWorkingDefinitionOfMusic.html
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peapicker
My working definition is "Music is organized sound".
This is neither subjective nor egocentric.
While this includes many things that some would not consider music, i... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Responding to a Potential Job Offer in an Interview - simplegeek
https://medium.com/@wyounas/responding-to-a-potential-job-offer-in-an-interview-70ba258ec4e5
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rzzzwilson
I would have to agree. A hypothetical question like that, not an _offer_ note,
deserves one of two answers, either "I would consider it and get... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Which plants can be planted indoors and easily maintained? - gymshoes
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iamben
I'm a big fan of cacti. I've not managed to kill one (yet). Also anecdotally I
found I was killing plants because I overwatered them. Turns out they don't
need love as often as I (and I think a lot of people) thought. Apparently... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Could There Be A Better Advertisement For The iPad? - rblion
http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/24/the-best-advertisement-apple-could-have-for-the-ipad/
======
something
in the video- the voice announcing the color of the piano keys should be
pitched to match the notes on the keyboard. they're missing a huge music
educat... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A new course to teach people about fairness in machine learning - bookofjoe
https://www.blog.google/technology/ai/new-course-teach-people-about-fairness-machine-learning/
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ilamont
Is this all Google is doing about AI ethics, a self-study course?
| {
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} |
Cloud Drive: Unlimited photo storage $12/year. Unlimited Everything $60/year - sashazykov
http://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/unlimited/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=ur2&tag=wikiroom-20&linkId=KPETO6BE5ZKGJDLX
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mikeyouse
I'm not in love with the app or the picture management on the website but
... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A curious result hints at the possibility dementia is caused by fungal infection - edward
http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21676754-curious-result-hints-possibility-dementia-caused-fungal?fsrc=scn/fb/te/pe/ed/fungusthebogeyman
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cpncrunch
Already discussed a week ago:
[https://news.ycombinato... | {
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} |
Show HN: Answers as a Service as a Service - magicseth
http://askmagicseth.com
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mgberlin
I got a 404 when I put in my credit card info :(
~~~
magicseth
You can ask me here... I'll answer on the site :-)
~~~
mgberlin
How many horse owners in America have iPhones?
~~~
magicseth
400K
~~~
arthurcolle
Please show... | {
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} |
The Negative Influence of Games: An Autobiographical Essay - nvr219
http://nightmaremode.net/2012/12/the-negative-influence-of-games-an-autobiographical-essay-24380/
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nvr219
Note: I didn't write the article in the OP and I think the author has things
backwards.
~~~
dizzy
I have noted this and will respond app... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Bootstrap 3 Grid Introduction - shaunxcode
http://www.helloerik.com/bootstrap-3-grid-introduction
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ollysb
This just feels wrong, it's the unsemantic approach of bootstrap 2 but going
even further in the wrong direction. Semantic classes with media queries
easily allow for any variations in layout. Multiple gri... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
It’s not just the iPhone 5S — the 5C sensors aren’t accurate either - 0cool
http://venturebeat.com/2013/10/07/apple-its-not-just-the-iphone-5s-the-5c-sensors-arent-accurate-either/
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Hopka
I'm sceptical. You can actually use the upper button on the left side of the
app pictured in the article [1] to calibrate t... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Bartering for technical services? - goodweeds
Is there a good community or app for bartering technical services? Like "I'll trade 10 hours of consulting for a new mountain bike" or "I'll trade a week of pairing up to help implement chef if you'll spend a week helping me build a small Rails app"?
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iKnow... | {
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Microsoft Joins the Blender Development Fund - antoineMoPa
https://www.blender.org/press/microsoft-joins-the-blender-development-fund/
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Impossible
There is a lot of implied ill-will on HN, I'm guessing the phrase "embrace
extend extinguish" in Microsoft related threads gets upvoted? From the post I
see that many... | {
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} |
Study finds young children don't plan ahead, but they do remember advice for later - cos
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324131554.htm
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nostrademons
I suspect many adults don't plan ahead either, but rather remember advice for
later, once they've personally run up against the problem the advice s... | {
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} |
Former Apple engineers are busy working on, well, who knows what. - peter123
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/agnilux-is-start-up-for-wont-say-a-peep/
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zyb09
Are we going to upvote everything that has Apple in the title now?
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s3graham
It isn't "web design" anyway. (<http://agnilux.com/>)
~~~
pe... | {
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All Present-day Life Arose From A Single Ancestor - pg
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/59133/title/All_present-day_life_arose_from_a_single_origin
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pcof
We could call her Bacteria Zero and build a whole religion around her life and
times...
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ZenzerNet
Deus Ex Bacteria. Shirley, this ancestor could... | {
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} |
Supernovas and the history of life on Earth - dnetesn
http://nautil.us/issue/22/slow/the-secret-history-of-the-supernova-at-the-bottom-of-the-sea
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JumpCrisscross
That was no fun. I've come to expect better from Nautilus.
The hypothesis, that past supernovae may have affected life on Earth, is as
interesting as ... | {
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} |
Angular is unable to build large applications - gregorymichael
https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/issues/5618
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abhisuri97
Does anyone know if this issue appears with React?
| {
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} |
Alaska’s thawing soils are now pouring carbon dioxide into the air - Mz
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/05/08/alaskas-tundra-is-filling-the-atmosphere-with-carbon-dioxide-worsening-climate-change/?utm_term=.da7f3e23dc07
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taberiand
I wouldn't be surprised if such feedback loops have... | {
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} |
Big Prometheus: Thanos, Cortex, M3DB and VictoriaMetrics at Scale - davidmr
https://monitoring2.substack.com/p/big-prometheus
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cfors
Before anybody thinks that they need something like this at work, I have seen
single node HA Prometheus set ups work at one of the largest CDN's in the
country for metrics.
Reddit... | {
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} |
Fin - ch
http://dtrace.org/blogs/wesolows/
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_delirium
Previous discussion:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8816055](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8816055)
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camperman
The Sun is strong with this one.
"GNU/Linux has been written by people with no sense of smell, no concept of
architecture, a... | {
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} |
FutureMe – write a letter to your future self - 1_player
https://www.futureme.org
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1_player
Disclaimer: not affiliated in any way. Just a happy user.
Many know this site. I posted it as a reminder that, if you're feeling down,
depressed, or happy, excited about the future, you'll want to remember one
day. You'r... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Is the NSA Using Backblaze Storage Pods for PRISM Surveillance Data? - nantes
http://blog.backblaze.com/2013/06/09/is-the-nsa-using-backblaze-storage-pods-for-prism-surveillance-data-heres-what-we-know/
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liotier
Backblaze knows how to milk an entirely unrelated event for attracting
attention on themselves !
---... | {
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} |
Linux Has a Marketing Problem - mikenew
https://hackaday.com/2019/10/31/linuxs-marketing-problem/
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simonblack
Linux doesn't need marketing. It's perfectly usable without it. Those who want
Linux will use Linux. Those who don't know enough about Linux will be excluded
by their own choice.
Sure, that may be an el... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Analyzing Big Data Is Returning an Edge to Microsoft - sew
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/30/technology/microsoft-renews-relevance-with-machine-learning-technology.html?hpw&_r=0
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hooande
What bothers me is the triviality of the examples in the article:
_Next year’s version of the Excel spreadsheet program, ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Quiz: What Type Of Entrepreneur Are You? - motoko
http://idiotstartup.com/what-entrepreneur-are-you-test
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jwecker
The Geek. Figures.
| {
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} |
A critique of Gmail's “smart replies” - userbinator
https://medium.com/@okh/please-resist-googles-attempts-to-make-you-more-robotlike-2f5babd786aa
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sp332
"As a Google ML ethics guy, I need a drink."
[https://twitter.com/Theophite/status/1060991160494120961](https://twitter.com/Theophite/status/106099116049412096... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Paypal down? - juanherrera
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grexi
[http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/paypal.com.html](http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/paypal.com.html)
| {
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OSCAR 1 - shpx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSCAR_1
======
tlrobinson
If you think to you might enjoy messing around with satellites, ham radio is
pretty easy to get into these days. This is especially true for VHF/UHF, which
is what amateur satellites use, and only requires the Technician license.
For equipment you... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Why Save MySQL Now? - jp_sc
http://holdenweb.blogspot.com/2010/01/wht-save-mysql-now.html
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euroclydon
A commenter says that no fork will be able to offer a dual license, and that a
fork is only for the GPL portion of the license. Even so, what's the big deal
there? Any sizable company can offer to sell a support... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Joy of Handles or Anonymity and Privacy on the Network (1992) - tux
http://readtext.org/computers/joy-of-handles/
======
greenyoda
This article was written in 1992, but it's still extremely relevant today. In
1992 online communication was in the form of Usenet and BBSes (plus
proprietary services like AOL), the web wa... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Nushell – a modern shell written in Rust - bryanrasmussen
https://github.com/nushell/nushell
======
obituary_latte
Previous discussion:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20783006](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20783006)
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pcr910303
While I fully appreciate & support the structured shell approach (I be... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Transcribing Piano Rolls, the Pythonic Way - gcardone_
http://zulko.github.io/blog/2014/02/12/transcribing-piano-rolls/
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eliteraspberrie
The faster way of doing this:
def fourier_transform(signal, period, tt):
""" See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_transform
How c... | {
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} |
Always Connected PCs enable a new culture of work - benaadams
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2017/12/05/always-connected-pcs-enable-a-new-culture-of-work/
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benaadams
built in 4G LTE2/Gigabit LTE and week long battery life
| {
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} |
Show HN: HaxlSharp – Concurrent data fetching and request deduplication in C# - ppcsf
https://github.com/joashc/HaxlSharp
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zzzcpan
> Writing asynchronous code is error-prone; Asynchronous code obscures the
> meaning of what we're trying to achieve; Programmers are bad at reasoning
> about asynchronous code
This... | {
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} |
EEVBlog analyses the Banksy shredder prank [video] - okket
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdKdQWhlNTY
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coolspot
Those blades that have no way to be shredding mechanism made me wonder too.
| {
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Bathroom hand dryers may leave your hands dirtier than before - kimsk112
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/bathroom-hand-dryers-may-leave-your-hands-dirtier-than-before-gross-new-study-says/ar-AAvPtOr?OCID=ansmsnnews11&ffid=gz
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MajorSauce
At this point we should soon see recommendations to insert our hand... | {
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} |
I fixed a bug in one of the U.S.'s systems for detecting nuclear explosions - edward
https://twitter.com/vaurorapub/status/1265335071130566656
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seesawtron
cool. This serves as a reminder why both human intelligence and machine
automation to control weapons of mass destruction from launching and killing
us all ar... | {
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} |
Google indexer is two-pass, first run is without js - josephscott
https://twitter.com/Paul_Kinlan/status/1039852756113080320
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jazoom
A comment from JohnMu is even more informative:
_Yeah, there 's no fixed timeframe -- the rendering can happen fairly quickly
in some cases, but usually it's on the order of days... | {
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} |
Why algorithms are called algorithms - jonbaer
https://www.bbc.com/ideas/videos/why-algorithms-are-called-algorithms/p07gdlwf
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derrick_jensen
is it because of Al Gore
| {
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} |
My idea on connecting job seekers to companies - fivesquare
http://vamshisuram.blogspot.in/2014/05/connecting-job-seekers-with-companies.html
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jsphdnl
you rock
| {
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} |
Ask HN: How high ($'s) should you go when showing pricing on your website? - jusben1369
We're all familiar with sites that have 3 or 4 plans for different categories of usage. Then there's the "Need Enterprise pricing? Contact us" or something similar. When, why and how to you make the determination to have pricing ... | {
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