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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 ====== 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 ====== 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. ====== 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/ ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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/ ====== kseistrup Seems to be iPhone only… ~~~ 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 ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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/ ====== pan69 This is definitely my favorite HTop screenshot: <http://htop.sourceforge.net/128.png> ~~~ aphyr Is that a NUMA box? ------ 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 ====== 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 ====== flocial These Mac/iOS apps are great but making their site mobile compatible would benefit more people immediately IMHO. ------ 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 ====== 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 ====== quizbiz a wonderful hack.
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Airpods – a Speculative Teardown - KuiN https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/airpods-speculative-teardown-nick-hunn ====== 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 ====== 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/ ====== 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/ ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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/ ====== 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/ ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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/ ====== 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 ====== 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/ ====== 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/ ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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/ ====== anankou good one. That's a graphical alternative to [https://shadowban.eu/](https://shadowban.eu/) ------ 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 ====== 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. ------ 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 ====== throwaway180118 forums.somethingawful.com ------ cerberusss Well, there's 4chan. But seriously, I like reddit, especially the iOSProgramming, the swift and the financialindependence subs. ------ 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 ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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...
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Ubuntu Core for IoT - dorsatum http://www.ubuntu.com/things ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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/ ====== 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...
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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/ ====== pavs Q: What was his most favorite interview and what was his least favorite interview. Q: Is Mixergy profitable, if not what a...
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Ask HN: Why don't cities/states create their own ride-sharing platform? - cheapsteak Don&#x27;t dispatch networks seem a lot like infrastructure? The main barrier doesn&#x27;t seem to be technology, but network effects, and to a lesser extent, government regulation.<p>Why don&#x27;t cities&#x2F;provinces&#x2F;states m...
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State of ICO ratings in 2018 - OlegPyatakov https://pyatakov.com/blog/state-of-ico-ratings-in-2018-part-3/ ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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/ ====== vasira Good article !You wrote in details on VR content. I bookmarked this page. ~~~ 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/ ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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...
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Utter.io API Reference - kordless https://gist.github.com/kordless/9dbac7af840e8ded1fc3 ====== 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 ====== 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...
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A Conflict-Free Replicated JSON Datatype - DanielRibeiro http://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03960 ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== _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 ====== limaoscarjuliet General population easily dismisses food processed and prepared by large corporations. Vomitoxin, feces, infestation, insect damaged kernels. All bad. People want natural unp...
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Duplicacy: cross-platform cloud backup tool based on lock-free deduplication - acrosync https://github.com/gilbertchen/duplicacy-beta ====== 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 ...
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Erlang/OTP 20.0 is released - rdtsc https://github.com/erlang/otp/releases/tag/OTP-20.0 ====== 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...
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The Ursula Herrmann kidnapping mystery - oska https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/sep/24/ursula-herrmann-germany-kidnapping-mystery ====== 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/ ====== 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 ====== 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/ ====== 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/ ====== digital55 Here is the paper: [http://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.0290v2.pdf](http://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.0290v2.pdf)
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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 ====== 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...
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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 ====== agrippanux Age discrimination being rampant in our industry is a fantastic opportunity for an astute hiring m...
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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 ====== higherpurpose The US government's "cybersecurity policy" is completely and utterly inadequate. Their thinking so far has been "well, let's leave aside the _...
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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...
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Incrementally Improving the DOM - todsacerdoti https://blog.functorial.com/posts/2018-04-08-Incrementally-Improving-The-DOM.html ====== 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...
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Google warns of system-controlling Chrome bug - fortran77 https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/08/30/google-warns-of-system-controlling-chrome-bug/ ====== fortran77 How can this happen? And now that we're moving toward a browser monoculture, these attacks are very serious!
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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...
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America’s national vacation problem - m-i-l http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34123906 ====== 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 ...
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The Little Printf - lelf https://ferd.ca/the-little-printf.html ====== 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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Generative Art with CSS - lifthrasiir https://web.archive.org/web/20190416022012/https://generative-art-with-css.commons.host/ ====== lifthrasiir The Wayback Machine because `commons.host` is not universally available.
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AT&T cripples BlackBerry to make iPhone more appealing - jsjenkins168 http://blackberrycool.com/2007/08/16/005386/ ====== danw There must be a way of making the operators irrelevant
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A Painting Robot? - npalacherla http://www.fastcodesign.com/1673084/watch-a-painting-robot-teaches-us-about-the-creative-process#1 ====== 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...
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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 ====== detaro duplicate, please check before submitting: [https://news.ycombinator....
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Digital Ocean promo code for Aug 2014 - rk0567 Need a VPS server for side projects&#x2F;blog&#x2F;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:&#x2F;&#x2F;bit.ly&#x2F;12666Dj ====== zencoder Thanks. My side pro...
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Stripe creates a typechecker for Ruby - noelwelsh https://twitter.com/darkdimius/status/1002049138366730240 ====== 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. ------ ksec I hope their RubyKaigi2...
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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 ====== kstenerud Because those three are not dead. Promotion is required when your competitive advantage is not great enough to beat out the competiti...
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POV-Ray 3.7 is released under the AGPL3 - pwg http://povray.org/download/ ====== NonEUCitizen What license did it use prior to 3.7 ?
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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 ...
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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 &quot;T...
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Ask HN: Why HN has no visible upvote number for comments? - mlejva ====== 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...
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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...
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Short interactive Python puzzle. Did you solve it before the end? - thorax http://www.jorendorff.com/toys/puzzle.html ====== nsrivast I'd like to see a zero-knowledge protocol for a Dutch auction.
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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...
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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...
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