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Spider Builds Decoy Imitations to Deflect Predators - ComputerGuru
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8135000/8135844.stm
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randomwalker
Original paper: <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.05.017>
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Temperatures and Prime Numbers - elec3647
http://wareagleengineer.blogspot.com/2014/03/temperatures-and-prime-numbers.html
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mooism2
Or if you thought for a minute before rushing to write code, you would reflect
that any temperature that is a prime number in both Celsius and Fahrenheit
must be an integer in bot... | {
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Ask HN: Do you meditate and why? - khetarpal
Meditation has several benefits including ability to focus, resist distractions, and manage stress. However, I don't see too many people talking about it in this community.
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crazydiamond
1\. Yes, I meditate. As of now I don't do sitting eyes-closed meditations
regul... | {
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Ask HN: Is this idea worth pursuing ? - wturner
I have an idea for a school. It would be a two year college level (B.A.S.) audio development and programming degree that would basically be 6 months of conventional audio industry training (recording,mixing,DAW,microphone theory,etc) and then 18 months of teaching prog... | {
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SoftBank Will Invest $2.25B in Cruise - sethbannon
http://fortune.com/2018/05/31/softbank-invest-billion-gm-self-driving-car-unit-cruise/
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sethbannon
Cruise strikes me as the ideal acquisition, and a formula others should copy.
Kyle Vogt and the rest of the Cruise founding team got personal liquidity; a
huge inf... | {
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} |
Scott Wiener proposes 3 new housing bills for CA - sid-kap
https://medium.com/@Scott_Wiener/california-needs-a-housing-first-agenda-my-2018-housing-package-1b6fe95e41da
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foolfoolz
SB 827 creates density and height zoning minimums near transit.
Under SB 827, parcels within a half-mile of high-conne... | {
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Diagrams: A brand new diagram editor for Mac - lukaskubanek
https://diagrams.app
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soapboxrocket
So as a long time OmniGraffle user this looks really nice, clean and simple.
I've fallen out of love with OmniGraffle because I spend more time fighting it
then I do working with it.
This also looks great because it'... | {
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Plane – a social icebreaker to connect people in new places - listentojohan
http://tryplane.com/
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kseistrup
Seems to be iPhone only…
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listentojohan
Yes. I'd imagine that they'll work on that in the future as they are just now
launching it to a broader audience.
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Typographic Programming Language - nickmain
http://joshondesign.com/2014/08/22/typopl
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seanmcdirmid
I've been doing some of this in my latest prototype; check out
[http://research.microsoft.com/en-
us/people/smcdirm/managedti...](http://research.microsoft.com/en-
us/people/smcdirm/managedtime.aspx) (look at the ... | {
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An idea to get significantly more web surfers -- including savvy ones -- to read ads. - amichail
The idea is to adapt http://www.readmytweets.com to work with ads instead of tweets.<p>Note that if your product/service isn't very good, then maybe you will get tired of reading other people's ads without much benefit. ... | {
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Detecting debuggers by abusing a bad assumption within Windows - j_s
http://www.triplefault.io/2017/08/detecting-debuggers-by-abusing-bad.html
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SteveJS
This is really cool. You can also detect a debugger on windows by using one of
the apis provided, such as IsDebuggerAttached, or is debuggerpresent.
[https://msd... | {
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Show HN: Flashfed.com – a flash sale aggregator powered by machine learning - Toast_
https://flashfed.com/?ref=hn
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Toast_
Hi, I was hoping to get some feedback for my MVP.
I'm currently using a least-squares linear regression model trained with
n-gram (unigrams) feature hashing, based on various social media me... | {
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WikiLeaks: “Hillary Emails: Google Tried to Boost Assad Defections” - paganel
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/711135400983699456
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gpm
Lots of people here are talking about skewing search results, but it doesn't
seem like we have any evidence Google did that. All the email says they did
was create a tool to ... | {
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The Virtual DOM Is Slow. Meet the Memoized DOM (2018) - aabbcc1241
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-virtual-dom-is-slow-meet-the-memoized-dom-bb19f546cc52
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aabbcc1241
So far, seen quite a handful of 'no-virtual-dom' declarative framework:
surplus, solid.js, redom, imba
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Htop - better top - juvenn
http://htop.sourceforge.net/
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pan69
This is definitely my favorite HTop screenshot:
<http://htop.sourceforge.net/128.png>
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aphyr
Is that a NUMA box?
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th
I always have a screen session open with htop in one terminal. I take it for
granted so much the lack of htop bothers me... | {
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Confirmed: CMU Attacked Tor, Was Subpoenaed by Feds - danso
https://motherboard.vice.com/read/carnegie-mellon-university-attacked-tor-was-subpoenaed-by-feds
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pfg
To me the most bizarre part of this story is the argument that this didn't
constitute an unlawful search because there is no reasonable expectation of
... | {
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Announcing GitHub Issues for iPhone - holman
https://github.com/blog/904-announcing-github-issues-for-iphone
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flocial
These Mac/iOS apps are great but making their site mobile compatible would
benefit more people immediately IMHO.
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cmelbye
Yikes, that completely custom, non-standard UI is pretty jarring f... | {
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"Joel Spolksy is wrong about my work" - Kent Beck - bjclark
http://www.threeriversinstitute.org/blog/?p=29
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raganwald
A note to all the people arguing about whether TDD is a good idea or not: You
are arguing about the colour of the bikeshed.
The problem with Joel and Jeff's podcast isn't that they disagree with... | {
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CSS text-shadow Fun: Realtime Lighting Demo - apu
http://www.zachstronaut.com/posts/2009/06/22/css-text-shadow-lighting-demo.html
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quizbiz
a wonderful hack.
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Airpods – a Speculative Teardown - KuiN
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/airpods-speculative-teardown-nick-hunn
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adysan
This is an amazing post. Cant wait to see a followup when these things start
shipping.
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Show HN: Vocab Watch – A simple vocabulary builder to improve your vocabulary - manibatra
https://itunes.apple.com/app/vocab-watch/id1393813585?mt=8
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manibatra
I love reading and would come across words that I did not know the meaning of.
Hence, I built this simple app for iPhone and Apple Watch to help me impro... | {
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Raw SQL in a Rails project - yeasayer
http://gmile.me/raw-sql-in-a-rails-project/
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jjgreen
If you're thinking of doing this, have a look at
[https://github.com/sufleR/sql_query](https://github.com/sufleR/sql_query)
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Blameless post-mortems and a just culture (2012) - chipperyman573
https://codeascraft.com/2012/05/22/blameless-postmortems/
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leggomylibro
I once worked somewhere that did blameless technical postmortems very well.
Whenever something broke, we kept asking questions until we had uncovered what
went wrong, and we c... | {
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Google Suspends Launch Google+ Account - But Not Other Media - AndrewWarner
http://launch.is/blog/google-suspends-launch-google-account-but-not-profiles-of-ot.html
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lukesandberg
Um... so they violated the terms of service and got their account suspended...
boo hoo. The fact that other media plus pages haven't be... | {
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Do Elite Colleges Discriminate Against Asians? - guimarin
http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/48794283011/do-elite-colleges-discriminate-against-asians
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martythemaniak
Well... They probably do, I'd be surprised if they didn't.
But let's not pretend that Ivy League school operate on anything resembling
merit. The ... | {
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An appeal to all package managers - Seldaek
http://nelm.io/blog/2012/05/an-appeal-to-all-package-managers/
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wilmoore
This is a great idea. A protocol/standard to handle front-end asset packaging.
There will likely be suggestions to use existing tool X or Y; however, a non-
language specific standard (as this a... | {
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JPEG 101: A Crash Course Guide on JPEG - kingsidharth
http://sixrevisions.com/graphics-design/jpeg-101-a-crash-course-guide-on-jpeg/
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Yaggo
> modern operating systems recognize both .jpg and .jpeg
Modern operating systems have much more advanced methods to regocnize
filetypes.
From web developer's perspective,... | {
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The Marshmallow Test: What Does It Really Measure? - katiey
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/06/marshmallow-test/561779/?single_page=true
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abainbridge
> The researchers also, when analyzing their test’s results, controlled for
> certain factors—such as the income of a child’s household
Is that a ... | {
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Ask HN: Page Layout Tools in 2020 - jason_slack
I’m crazily enough planning to start a print publication.<p>I used to use Quark XPress.<p>InDesign is expensive.<p>Frame maker RIP<p>What options are available. Mac OS preferred. Open source project I could patch bugs for OK too. Any suggestion welcome. TeX?
======
jonpa... | {
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Show HN: Drag and drop so simple it hurts - bevacqua
https://github.com/bevacqua/dragula
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avalaunch
This looks cool and works great on desktop.
Unfortunately on mobile (iPhone 6 Plus, 8.3, Safari browser) it's very buggy.
In the third example, moving an item anywhere (including in the container,
even right b... | {
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} |
Inside AT&T’s 83 GB/hour mobile cell tower - bitmover
http://9to5mac.com/2013/05/19/inside-atts-83gbhour-mobile-cell-tower-or-why-your-iphone-no-longer-drops-out-at-huge-events/
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Game_Ender
To convert to more normal units, that is about 189 Mbits/second. Which sounds
a little less impressive considering the pe... | {
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National Security Implications of Virtual Currency [pdf] - mrb
http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR1200/RR1231/RAND_RR1231.pdf
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adrtessier
From p.65:
> Overall, resilient public cyber key terrain could prove a double-edged
> sword: enabling DoD to project power, both in terms of informa... | {
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OpenCL Rocks: Why You Care - eries
http://chadaustin.me/2009/08/opencl-rocks-why-you-care/
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chasingsparks
I'd love to play with OpenCL on my i7. Since no Intel implementation exists,
I'll stick to CUDA on my Tesla. I am not sure learning OpenCL is a worthwhile
investment yet. I am skeptical about the ability o... | {
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} |
Firefox Changing Behavior of Ctrl+Tab in Latest Nightlies - superchink
http://jboriss.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/control-tab-a-new-feature-for-firefox/
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superchink
I was never a fan of "alternative" tab behavior in Visual Studio, and I'm not
sure I like it in Firefox either. The saving grace is that the other ke... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How to grow after 6 years of work? - mtayseer
I started my professional career more than 6 years ago. I started at a small company (less than
10 people). We were mainly a mobile development shop. I was known as 'polyglot guy' and 'Moving
MSDN' working with the various technologies (C++, C#, Python, Java) on... | {
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Airliner Repair, 24/7 (2008) - wallflower
https://www.airspacemag.com/flight-today/airliner-repair-247-9974457/?all
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jacquesm
I wrote about another company in the aerospace industry that serves a niche,
the people that deal with crashes:
[https://jacquesmattheij.com/a-company-you-have-never-
heard-o...](https:/... | {
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} |
A startup is filling SF's empty luxury rentals - derwiki
http://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/Startup-is-quietly-packing-SF-s-empty-luxury-11039436.php
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thedarkginger
Maybe I am reading into this but I feel like the author makes this sound
nefarious and really uncommon.
When I was moving to the South Bay an... | {
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Are ur contacts banned on Twitter? - anankou
https://whosban.org/
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anankou
good one. That's a graphical alternative to
[https://shadowban.eu/](https://shadowban.eu/)
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Normille
Unlikely anyone will have Twitter contacts in Ur. Given it was abandoned
c.500BC.
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The irrationality of free - rantfoil
http://www.wiredjournal.com/?p=150
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marcell
He should have done a 3rd experiment where the kids could choose between 3
hershey's + small snickers and 2 hershey's + large snickers.
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jsdalton
This was interesting.
In the microcosm of this experiment, the choice of the... | {
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Ask HN: Forum(s) that you visit daily? - startupflix
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throwaway180118
forums.somethingawful.com
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cerberusss
Well, there's 4chan. But seriously, I like reddit, especially the
iOSProgramming, the swift and the financialindependence subs.
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CM30
Hacker News, Reddit, Wario Forums, Gaming Latest, The Admi... | {
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List of useful unix tools - nonotmeplease
http://typed.pw/a/453
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mveety
It's awesome to see some plan 9 tools in there! I live on plan 9, and find
unix annoying because of the differences in the "standard" tools.
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Android App Tutorials - alincatalin
http://androidseassions.blogspot.com/2011/06/what-is-android-seassions.html
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st3fan
This would be more interesting if you had content on there.
Why not submit this link again when you have actually written some tutorials.
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Apple Introduces What It Calls an Easier to Use Portable Music Player (2001) - Firebrand
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/24/business/technology-apple-introduces-what-it-calls-an-easier-to-use-portable-music-player.html
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pkulak
I think there's a law now that you have to post this as well:
[http://slashdot.org/s... | {
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Open Source VLC media player 2.0.0 is out - jbk
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/2.0.0.html
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jerrell
Wow. I cannot believe the pettiness of comments here. VLC is a fantastic media
player, and I'm quite appalled to see the conversation here dominated by such
little gripes. VLC plays media more reliably than a... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ubuntu Core for IoT - dorsatum
http://www.ubuntu.com/things
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thatcat
Anyone know what the point of this is? I installed it but it uses the snappy
repo, not apt, which has a pretty limited number of packages available.
Docker is one of them so maybe that's the point of this - a boot to docker
type platform for... | {
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} |
Bob Lutz: Kiss the good times goodbye: The auto industry's change curve - jseliger
http://www.autonews.com/article/20171105/INDUSTRY_REDESIGNED/171109944/bob-lutz%3A-kiss-the-good-times-goodbye
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igetspam
From my cold, dead hands...
My wife and I were discussing American culture today and some of the reasons
we'... | {
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} |
React-like RxJS-based framework (weird) - asimpledog
https://dev.to/kosich/recks-rxjs-based-framework-23h5
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asimpledog
import { timer } from 'rxjs';
function App() {
const ticks$ = timer(0, 1000);
return <div>
<h1>{ ticks$ }</h1>
<p>seconds passed</p>
... | {
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} |
The Big Vitamin D Mistake - pacaro
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/28768407/
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King-Aaron
Anecdotally, I had this discussion with a cardiovascular interventionist
specialist about seven or eight years ago when I was managing a team of cardio
theatre orderlies in a private hospital. He made the comment, "mar... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
I'm going to interview Andrew Warner of Mixergy, what should I ask? - giangbiscan
http://asable.com/2010/05/interviewing-andrewwarner-live-fri-june-4th-12pm-pst-httpmixergy-comlive/
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pavs
Q: What was his most favorite interview and what was his least favorite
interview.
Q: Is Mixergy profitable, if not what a... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Why don't cities/states create their own ride-sharing platform? - cheapsteak
Don't dispatch networks seem a lot like infrastructure? The main barrier doesn't seem to be technology, but network effects, and to a lesser extent, government regulation.<p>Why don't cities/provinces/states m... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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State of ICO ratings in 2018 - OlegPyatakov
https://pyatakov.com/blog/state-of-ico-ratings-in-2018-part-3/
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OlegPyatakov
This is the final part of examination of various popular ICO rating services
in which I dig into how the same ICOs are being rated.
| {
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Scientists See Promise in Deep-Learning Programs - mtgx
http://nytimes.com/2012/11/24/science/scientists-see-advances-in-deep-learning-a-part-of-artificial-intelligence.html
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bravura
Since I see some misunderstanding about deep learning, let me explain the
fundamental idea: It's about reusing intermediate work.
... | {
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} |
AmazonBasics products are going up in flames, but are still on the market - jc713
https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/10/21431085/amazon-basics-amazonbasics-dangerous-flammable-products
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greenyoda
Previous discussion of original source (CNN):
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24431959](https://news.ycombinator.c... | {
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Can't fix it, can't sell it: HP gives PC business to investors - stevep2007
http://www.networkworld.com/article/2692098/opensource-subnet/cant-fix-it-cant-sell-it-hp-gives-pc-business-to-investors.html
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stevep2007
HP has thrown in its printer business to give its PC spin out some cover while
it restructures.
... | {
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} |
After 7.5 years, Firefox finally adds line numbers to view-source: - ecaron
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=246620
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jrockway
Well, nobody sent them a patch until two months ago, nobody added tests until
a month ago, and nobody fixed the broken tests until yesterday. So the title
should be more lik... | {
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} |
VR Content for iOS and Android Apps - jennytodavchych
https://thinkmobiles.com/blog/how-to-create-content-vr-apps/
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vasira
Good article !You wrote in details on VR content. I bookmarked this page.
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jennytodavchych
Thank you.
~~~
vasira
Welcome friend ! Keep doing good job !
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This is what a 5MB hard drives looked like in 1956 (note: required a forklift) - sathishmanohar
http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2011/12/26/this-is-what-a-5mb-hard-drive-looked-like-is-1956-required-a-forklift/
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getsat
Mirror (since their server is exploding): <http://i.imgur.com/T2PnM.png>
"In September 195... | {
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} |
Sequential Consistency in Practice - ldelossa
https://www.ldelossa.is/blog/sequential-consistency-in-practice
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grogers
> Proc-3 Observes: W(x),W(z),W(y), R() => y
> Proc-4 Observes: W(y),W(x),W(z), R() => z
Sequential consistency implies a total order on writes, not just that
processes see the writes in an ord... | {
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} |
Show HN: Formulita – a simple Formula 1 app - davidor
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.formulita
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davidor
My objective was to develop an application that allowed me to check only the
most relevant information of the Formula 1 championship in a simple and fast
way.
This is my first Android app... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Utter.io API Reference - kordless
https://gist.github.com/kordless/9dbac7af840e8ded1fc3
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kordless
Wrote this for a friend who was wanting to give away some instance time.
Figured I'd share it up here!
| {
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} |
Show HN: Slideshow background image search - ibsufupu
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/backgroundimage-search/olemhlpdoebkeehhjgifmemjdafeikld?hl=en
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ibsufupu
Not sure how to let people know about this besides Show HN. I made a
background image search extension to find images from the slide shows that... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A Conflict-Free Replicated JSON Datatype - DanielRibeiro
http://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03960
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espadrine
> _Our principle of not losing input due to concurrent modifications appears
> reasonable, but as illustrated in Figure 4, it leads to merged document
> states that may be surprising to application programmers who... | {
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} |
The most notable luminaries of our time are wrong to fear AI - inputcoffee
https://inputcoffee.com/the-most-notable-luminaries-of-our-time-are-wrong-to-fear-ai-f95dfe7611e#.iw97jugaj
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dmreedy
This is a retread of the traditional I'm-actually-a-dualist argument, and a
pretty naive version of it at that. The brunt... | {
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} |
Mapping 35 Million Credit Cards On Top of Census Data With R - mdagostino
https://www.braintreepayments.com/braintrust/vaulted-credit-card-maps-with-R
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showerst
I really appreciate that they included some sample R code. So many of these
cool visualization posts skip the code!
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} |
United Nations to start using surveillance drones in the DRC - _djo_
http://mg.co.za/article/2013-12-03-un-to-start-using-surveillance-drones-in-drc
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_djo_
First pictures:
[https://twitter.com/t_mcconnell/status/407504857587650560](https://twitter.com/t_mcconnell/status/407504857587650560)
and
[https://twit... | {
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Oreos, Vomitoxin, and the Price of Wheat - tptacek
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-04-02/my-dog-is-gluten-free
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limaoscarjuliet
General population easily dismisses food processed and prepared by large
corporations. Vomitoxin, feces, infestation, insect damaged kernels. All bad.
People want natural unp... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Duplicacy: cross-platform cloud backup tool based on lock-free deduplication - acrosync
https://github.com/gilbertchen/duplicacy-beta
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de_dave
During beta testing only binaries are available.
Why?! Surely this is the optimum time to provide source code, given the amount
of trust one has to place in ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Erlang/OTP 20.0 is released - rdtsc
https://github.com/erlang/otp/releases/tag/OTP-20.0
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rdtsc
This I like from it:
* Dirty schedulers: This allows easy integration of blocking C-based libraries. So for example can wrap something like RocksDb and make it available to the rest of the VM easier. Or libcurl and ot... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Ursula Herrmann kidnapping mystery - oska
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/sep/24/ursula-herrmann-germany-kidnapping-mystery
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Wowfunhappy
Recognizing that I don't have much knowledge about this case—I only know what
I read in the linked article—it certainly doesn't seem as though that man
should have be... | {
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Show HN: Bookmark full text search web app - linklet
https://linklet.io/
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walterbell
A few questions .. email increases metadata exposure, is it mandatory?
Does this archive the original page to protect against linkrot?
Why would someone use this instead of Pinboard, which searches the unmodified
page?
~~~
... | {
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} |
Online hackathon weekends - jareddickk
https://www.pitcherly.con
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gus_massa
Wrong URL. Try submitting again.
| {
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} |
100-Year-Old Fruitcake Found in Antarctica Is ‘Almost’ Edible - elmar
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/08/antarctica-fruitcake-scott-terra-nova/
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eip
> 'Almost' Edible
So the same as new fruit cake then?
| {
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} |
Terence Tao Proposes Fluid New Path in Navier-Stokes Problem - digital55
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140224-a-fluid-new-path-in-grand-math-challenge/
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digital55
Here is the paper:
[http://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.0290v2.pdf](http://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.0290v2.pdf)
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Apple Eyes 2022 Release for AR Headset, 2023 for Glasses - apress
https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/11/20959066/apple-augmented-reality-ar-headset-glasses-rumors-reported-release-date
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simonh
If it's 3 to 4 years away from being real, would they really hold a
presentation in the theatre? Not exactly an ideal sett... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Facebook Tools Are Used to Screen Out Older Job Seekers, Lawsuit Claims - uptown
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-29/facebook-tools-are-used-to-screen-out-older-job-seekers-lawsuit-claims
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agrippanux
Age discrimination being rampant in our industry is a fantastic opportunity
for an astute hiring m... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
UCLA Health System reports patient data breach; 4.5M may be affected - srikar
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ucla-medical-data-20150717-story.html
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higherpurpose
The US government's "cybersecurity policy" is completely and utterly
inadequate. Their thinking so far has been "well, let's leave aside the
_... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Facebook Java SDK - paradox95
For fun and to get more familiar with Java I have been writing what I will only call a Java SDK for the Facebook API. It is coming along quite nicely considering I have to basically recreate all the Facebook objects in Java. As long as you can pass your access token to the scrip... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Incrementally Improving the DOM - todsacerdoti
https://blog.functorial.com/posts/2018-04-08-Incrementally-Improving-The-DOM.html
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darkhorse13
I mostly agree with the author, but this is almost heresy these days. I tried
to start a conversation recently about incremental DOM frameworks in a JS
group, and immediat... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Google warns of system-controlling Chrome bug - fortran77
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/08/30/google-warns-of-system-controlling-chrome-bug/
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fortran77
How can this happen? And now that we're moving toward a browser monoculture,
these attacks are very serious!
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Lisp as a Vehicle for Rapid Prototyping (1997) - deepaksurti
http://www.nhplace.com/kent/PS/Hindsight.html
======
wry_discontent
I've starting building my personal backends in Clojure and I am amazed at how
easy and fast it is to get things going. The difference is even more
remarkable for frontend code. I get my prog... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
America’s national vacation problem - m-i-l
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34123906
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michaelt
It's impressive how big cultural the gap is between people not taking their
full vacation entitlement and people not taking their full salary.
I've had people try to hand back vacation days - but I've never ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Little Printf - lelf
https://ferd.ca/the-little-printf.html
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mcguire
" _It is; and because you 're the most familiar person with these fires, you
get to only work on them more and more, until your employer hires someone else
to cover your old job, the one you loved. If you care hard enough about your
work to... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Texting Base Launches New Personalized Marketing Automation Platform - beansedb
So this is my big announcement…many of you are right. As of right now, Texting Base is officially launched! For those who don’t like to read, that’s it! Click on the link and see why it took so damn long and let me know what you think... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Do you ever feel powerless in sight of a problem? - andischo
If yes, how do you deal with it?<p>I just spent the whole day trying to get a set up running (Ubuntu + CUDA) and nothing worked. I blindly followed one instruction after the other without understanding anything, which is thoroughly unsatisfying, but ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Inside the Mind of a Billion-Dollar Acquirer - robot
http://www.inc.com/articles/201109/inside-the-mind-of-a-billion-dollar-acquirer.html?nav=featured
======
joshfraser
I talked to one of my friends in M&A @ one of the top tech companies the other
day. I was surprised to hear that their target is a 55% success rate ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Generative Art with CSS - lifthrasiir
https://web.archive.org/web/20190416022012/https://generative-art-with-css.commons.host/
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lifthrasiir
The Wayback Machine because `commons.host` is not universally available.
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
AT&T cripples BlackBerry to make iPhone more appealing - jsjenkins168
http://blackberrycool.com/2007/08/16/005386/
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danw
There must be a way of making the operators irrelevant
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A Painting Robot? - npalacherla
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1673084/watch-a-painting-robot-teaches-us-about-the-creative-process#1
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zjgreen
So it could only recreate from past paintings, and then they give it a
personality 'algorithm'? Not sure I get what's so special about this...
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Tinder must stop charging its older California users more for “Plus” features - hvo
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/tinder-must-stop-charging-its-older-california-users-more-for-plus-features/?comments=1&start=40
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detaro
duplicate, please check before submitting:
[https://news.ycombinator.... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Digital Ocean promo code for Aug 2014 - rk0567
Need a VPS server for side projects/blog/app ? Here is a promo code for $10 credit : SHIPITFAST10 (Worth two months of SSD hosting for free).<p>You can use my referral link if you wish : http://bit.ly/12666Dj
======
zencoder
Thanks. My side pro... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Stripe creates a typechecker for Ruby - noelwelsh
https://twitter.com/darkdimius/status/1002049138366730240
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noelwelsh
I guess this means types have "crossed the chasm". There isn't a mainstream
language / platform that doesn't have some form of relatively modern type
system.
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ksec
I hope their RubyKaigi2... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Why Do B-Schools Still Teach The Famed 4P's Of Marketing, When Three Are Dead? - brd
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665331/forget-about-the-4-ps-only-one-matters-product
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kstenerud
Because those three are not dead.
Promotion is required when your competitive advantage is not great enough to
beat out the competiti... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
POV-Ray 3.7 is released under the AGPL3 - pwg
http://povray.org/download/
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NonEUCitizen
What license did it use prior to 3.7 ?
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Waze Hijacked L.A. in the Name of Convenience - overwhelm
https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/waze-los-angeles-neighborhoods/
======
nostromo
> No street, certainly not your residential 25-mph variety, is safe from being
> Wazed into a makeshift freeway or thoroughfare. ... These thousands of
> homeowners and renters ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Help in handling dangerous users who report fake data? - cryptoz
We have a feature in PressureNet that lets users self-report the weather conditions. This will send a notification to all the nearby users telling them what that weather is like. This is pretty neat when you get a notification that says "T... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Why HN has no visible upvote number for comments? - mlejva
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CarolineW
You can track down the discussions from 6 years ago:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2435710](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2435710)
Some significant discussion was here:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2434333](ht... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Jury finds protester not guilty in chalk-vandalism case - scottshea
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-chalk-verdict-20130701,0,1617754.story
======
jessaustin
_That the Bank of America contacted the city attorney 's office to reportedly
urge prosecution has become part of the dispute._
Make that, they calle... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Short interactive Python puzzle. Did you solve it before the end? - thorax
http://www.jorendorff.com/toys/puzzle.html
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nsrivast
I'd like to see a zero-knowledge protocol for a Dutch auction.
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Apple's Revamped Mac Pro to Launch in 2019 - Tunecrew
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/04/05/apples-revamped-mac-pro-to-launch-in-2019/
======
Tunecrew
I call shenanigans on Apple's BS process.
The trash can Mac Pro was an absolute disaster which was obviously designed in
a completely isolated silo with zero input from... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
ReMail (YC W09) Acquired by Google - Sam_Odio
http://www.remail.com/blog/posts/157001
======
axod
I'm not sure shutting down a product and hiring the founder(s) should be
classed as an 'acquisition'.
It's just a recruitment with a golden hello really.
These seem to be getting more and more common lately.
~~~
ccarpe... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
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