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Super Mario Bros on an 8x8 LED matrix - ph0rque http://vimeo.com/9928343 ====== zuck123 Gotta love embedded systems. On a side note, don't bring it to Boston <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Boston_bomb_scare> ------ MikeCapone The music pushed this from "really cool" to "awesome" for me. ------ 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/ ====== 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 ====== sosospz Nice one ~~~ mmathias Thanks! ------ mahede very nice....... ~~~ mmathias Thank you! :)
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Show HN: Recursive DNS Server Fingerprint - pjf https://recdnsfp.github.io/ ====== 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/ ====== 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 ====== 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&#x27;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/ ====== 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/ ====== 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/ ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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/ ====== 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. ====== 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 ====== 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/ ====== 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 ====== 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...
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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&#x2F;magazi...
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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 ====== 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...
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Signs your team might be too large - iand http://blog.jayfields.com/2012/06/signs-that-your-project-team-might-be.html ====== 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 ====== 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 ...
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40 Years of Zen - joubert https://www.40yearsofzen.com/about ====== VieEnCode "And now I'm offering the same gift to you." At $15k, how does this constitute a "gift"? ------ 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 ====== 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. ====== 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 ====== 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 &quot;On Intelligence&quot; and enjoyed it a lot but it&#x27;s a bit old and don&#x27;t know if the ideas proposed in the book have been confirmed or dismissed. Any recommendation of a more recent book? I&#x27;m not afraid of more technical o...
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Police Claim Encryption Use Is Illegal - slashdotaccount http://cryptome.org/2013/09/police-crypto-illegal.htm?update ====== 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 ====== 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/ ====== 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...
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An experiment-driven guide to Perl - sea6ear http://matt.might.net/articles/perl-by-example/ ====== 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...
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The new Disqus 2012: Elevating the Discussion - dctrwatson http://blog.disqus.com/post/25017922977/the-new-disqus-2012 ====== 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...
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How People End Up with Boring Jobs - Abrahola http://www.thecashflow.info/2018/05/how-people-end-up-with-boring-jobs.html ====== cimmanom They're jobs that need doing. Someone's going to end up with them. ~~~ 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 ====== 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 ...
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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 ====== 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...
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One Hero - Parallax scrolling comic - joeblau http://onehero.ca/ ====== 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/ ====== 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 ...
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Making a 1970's camera digital - deweerdt http://frankencamera.wordpress.com/ ====== 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...
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Piracy is a Market Correction. - asciilifeform http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/ar53y/talking_to_pirates_the_people_who_steal_software/c0izjj4 ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== techdragon And is anyone familiar with even a basic understanding of human attention psychology surprised? I think ...
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Random RGB values that average to N; or, Pointlessness and Probability - kpgiskpg https://kevingal.com/blog/rgb-average.html ====== 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...
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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 ====== 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 ...
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Organized Resources for Deep Learning in Natural Language Processing - ghosthamlet https://github.com/astorfi/Deep-Learning-NLP ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== secondcoming It seems this rally has now come to a crashing halt! The stock market is absurd right now. Apparently a lot of firs...
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Julia IDE work in Atom - tokai http://julialang.org/blog/2016/01/atom-work/ ====== 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? ------ 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 ====== 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...
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What is Music? Towards a Working Definition of “Music” - pjdorrell https://whatismusic.info/blog/TowardsAWorkingDefinitionOfMusic.html ====== 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...
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Responding to a Potential Job Offer in an Interview - simplegeek https://medium.com/@wyounas/responding-to-a-potential-job-offer-in-an-interview-70ba258ec4e5 ====== 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...
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Ask HN: Which plants can be planted indoors and easily maintained? - gymshoes ====== 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...
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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...
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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/ ====== 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 ====== mikeyouse I'm not in love with the app or the picture management on the website but ...
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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 ====== 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 ====== 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/ ====== 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...
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Bootstrap 3 Grid Introduction - shaunxcode http://www.helloerik.com/bootstrap-3-grid-introduction ====== 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...
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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/ ====== 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...
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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"? ====== iKnow...
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Microsoft Joins the Blender Development Fund - antoineMoPa https://www.blender.org/press/microsoft-joins-the-blender-development-fund/ ====== 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 ====== 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/ ====== zyb09 Are we going to upvote everything that has Apple in the title now? ------ 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 ====== pcof We could call her Bacteria Zero and build a whole religion around her life and times... ~~~ 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 ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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/ ====== _delirium Previous discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8816055](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8816055) ------ 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 ====== 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...
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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/ ====== 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/ ====== 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...
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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 ====== hooande What bothers me is the triviality of the examples in the article: _Next year’s version of the Excel spreadsheet program, ...
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Quiz: What Type Of Entrepreneur Are You? - motoko http://idiotstartup.com/what-entrepreneur-are-you-test ====== 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 ====== sp332 "As a Google ML ethics guy, I need a drink." [https://twitter.com/Theophite/status/1060991160494120961](https://twitter.com/Theophite/status/106099116049412096...
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Paypal down? - juanherrera ====== 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...
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Why Save MySQL Now? - jp_sc http://holdenweb.blogspot.com/2010/01/wht-save-mysql-now.html ====== 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...
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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...
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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) ------ pcr910303 While I fully appreciate & support the structured shell approach (I be...
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Transcribing Piano Rolls, the Pythonic Way - gcardone_ http://zulko.github.io/blog/2014/02/12/transcribing-piano-rolls/ ====== 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/ ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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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