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Singapore telcos pick Nokia, Ericsson over Huawei to build main 5G networks - 80mph
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-singapore-telecoms-5g/singapore-telcos-pick-nokia-ericsson-over-huawei-to-build-main-5g-networks-idUSKBN23V1PG
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mytailorisrich
Singapore tends to have good relations with China. I'm sure everyon... | {
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Show HN: Beautiful Web Type (new version) – detailed guide to open-source type - ubuwaits
https://beautifulwebtype.com
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ehmorris
These are the kind of specimen pages that Google should be showing on Google
Fonts. Love that it breaks down ligatures, ordinals, and special characters
like arrows.
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ARM Processor – Sowing the Seeds of Success [video] - tambourine_man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jOJl8gRPyQ
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vegabook
I love arm and own a cubietruck and a Pi. But my initial hopes of clustering
up tons of arms together have been dashed by a very hard dose of reality: the
bog-standard core i7 in my Dell M38... | {
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} |
Metrics and Hiring - lukas
http://joyfulgrit.com/2013/10/29/metrics-and-hiring/
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matt
Great post. Would also be interested in seeing a breakdown of school strength
across the referrals. And did you count Stanford as Ivy League? :)
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lukas
Yeah, because I went there :). It was super subjective, but I'm sure ... | {
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Show HN: Caddy, a cross-platform HTTP/2 web server - mholt
https://caddyserver.com
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mholt
Hi HN. This was my hobby project over the last 4 months and it kept me sane
through my hardest semester. Feedback and contributions are totally welcome. I
know Caddy has a long way to go, but it's already replaced nginx and... | {
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} |
What Poison? Bacterium Uses Arsenic To Build DNA and Other Molecules - pama
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/330/6009/1302.full
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RiderOfGiraffes
Requires a sign-in - does it add anything not already included here:
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1962894> \- go.com
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=196... | {
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The “No Poo” Method - mparramon
http://www.developingandstuff.com/2015/02/no-poo.html?h=n
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_almosnow
You didn't have messy hair to start with. Try going "no poo" with long or
curly hair, see you then.
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jezfromfuture
great post not worthless at all.
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mparramon
Sarcastic?
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Red Hat set to surpass Sun in market capitalization - peter123
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10146879-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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peter123
Sun failed miserably in embracing Linux and cloud computing (as a service).
They hung on to their old business that was getting commoditized rapidly, pl... | {
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} |
German police raid homes over Facebook hate speech - vezycash
http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/13/12170590/facebook-hate-speech-germany-police-raid
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ythl
Europe is so progressive. Protecting the "social climate" of the people
through censorship and raids.
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arkitaip
What part of illegal did you not understand?
... | {
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Ask HN: Cool tech short stories? - fratlas
I'm talking "The Last Question" level good
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cyberhippie1024
The Guy Who Worked For Money By Benjamin Rosenbaum
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Dinner for One: New Year's Eve Sketch Beloved in Germany Finally Screened in UK - Tomte
https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/dinner-for-one-music-hall-sketch-beloved-by-millions-of-germans-finally-gets-uk-premiere/
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em-bee
discussion here:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18794397](https://news.ycombinato... | {
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How Minimalism Brought Me Freedom and Joy - SwellJoe
http://boingboing.net/2016/04/15/how-minimalism-brought-me-free.html
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drivingmenuts
At the moment, dealing with my inheritance from my mother, I am somewhat
jealous of the author. There's a part of me that wishes I could just say "Take
what you want" and walk ... | {
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} |
Analysis of Quirky: Do Consumers Know What They Want? - milesgrimshaw
http://milesgrimshaw.com/analysis-quirky/
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startupfounder
The most important footnote:
"Quirky also sells products through retailers, which I am confident are not
included in this data."
From the May 2013 Forbes article[0]:
'Sales this ye... | {
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} |
Methane rises to highest level on record - elorant
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/14/livestock-farming-and-fossil-fuels-could-drive-4c-global-heat-rise
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perfunctory
This is not really a news anymore, is it. Methane levels are setting new
records, co2 levels are settings new records, total GHG e... | {
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} |
As a full time hacker how do you manage your health - noloblo
As a full time hacker nomad how do you manage your health, back, wrist and other pains that lead to burnout?
What diet do you follow?<p>Do you use acupuncture? Therapy, any tips appreciated to manage burnout
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apolymath
I use a device ([http://zap.in... | {
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} |
Optional Chaining and Nullish Coalescing Operators in JavaScript - ksharifbd
https://www.ksharifbd.com/blog/optional-chaining-and-nullish-coalescing-operators-what-why-and-how/
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ksharifbd
Optional Chaining and Nullish Coalescing operators are two of my favorites
from the ECMAScript 2020 specification.
It's a no... | {
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} |
How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life - veeti
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/how-one-stupid-tweet-ruined-justine-saccos-life.html?_r=0
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chris_wot
When I was on Wikipedia as an admin, someone modified their signature to point
to a user who didn't exist. I was pretty pissed off about this, ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What service/SW that no longer exists have you been unable to replace? - Futurebot
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elcano
All software acquired by Oracle. Well, not really all....but you know that
many Oracle acquisitions are motivated or if the need to remove a competitor
and keep their customers. The disappearance of Brio Intelligenc... | {
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} |
React v15.6.0 Released - petercooper
https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2017/06/13/react-v15.6.0.html
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linkmotif
What is remarkable is the onChange input event after all these releases is
still being improved. This is a testament to how difficult it is to normalize
browser differences and not some failing on ... | {
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} |
People Who Do Not Exist Invade Facebook - ericzawo
https://analysis.leadstories.com/3471185-fake-faces-people-Who-Do-Not-Exist-Invade-Facebook-To-Influence-2020-Elections.html
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didericis
The worst thing about widespread fake information is the ease with which you
can convince yourself that everything you don't l... | {
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} |
“8th” – a gentle introduction to a modern Forth - amock
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5479
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bandrami
If it has automatic memory management I can't really call it "forth" in any
real sense; the dictionary-as-heap model (and the compiler threading that
allows) is what makes forth forth, not the particulars o... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Roland McGrath bows out as glibc maintainer - signa11
https://lwn.net/Articles/727383/
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jlg23
Thank you & I hope I'll be able to show such a positive attitude after 30
years on a FOSS-project. I'll print out and pin the resignation later above my
desk as a brutal reminder what I failed to do so far: friendly exi... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Managing Async Dependencies with JavaScript (2017) - jhabdas
https://habd.as/post/managing-async-dependencies-javascript/
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jdauriemma
Nice site design
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jhabdas
Thank you. It's After Dark. [https://after-dark.habd.as](https://after-
dark.habd.as)
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Ask HN: Survivor Bias. Why don't we focus more on startups that fail? - econner
I think this comes from a book somewhere or other but it was paraphrased to me:<p>During WWII planes that made it back from combat missions were analyzed to be reinforced. They found that these planes were shot in the wings and tail so th... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What do I need to learn to manage a VPS? - Jonas_Ty
I'm on a shared hosting with 20 websites and respective emails.<p>I'd like to be able to go the VPS route and manage it without a control panel.<p>I know you need to access it through Putty, but I don't know what commands I need to move all my ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Core Animation Support Coming to Mac Chrome - boundlessdreamz
http://www.manu-j.com/blog/core-animation-support-coming-to-mac-chrome/483/
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ZeroGravitas
Maybe this is like admitting I logged into ReadWriteWeb instead of Facebook,
but I was genuinely confused by this post because I assumed at first that it
was wri... | {
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} |
2010 Nobel Prize for Peace Awarded to Liu Xiaobo - razin
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2010/
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alexdong
> Of course, equating the Nobel committee with the Norwegian government is as
> wrong as equating a newspaper editor printing Islamic cartoons with it, then
> torching down an embassy.
... | {
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} |
Deconstructing Functional Programming [video] - newgame
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/functional-pros-cons?utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=QCon_EarlyAccessVideos&utm_campaign=QConSanFrancisco2013
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Peaker
Gilad Bracha sounds like he hasn't used a typed language long enough to stop
struggling with basic type erro... | {
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} |
10 page anti-diversity screed circulating internally at Google - cszerzo
http://gizmodo.com/exclusive-heres-the-full-10-page-anti-diversity-screed-1797564320
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npxcomplete
My interpretation is that the author is cheifly concerned with two points:
that biology impacts performance, and that dissenting views in Goog... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Kotlin in enterprise - PleaseHelpMe
https://medium.com/@remy.chantenay/kotlin-in-enterprise-71adbdb3cf8f
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ShardPhoenix
>You also would probably mention that the code would be less likely to be
buggy and crash due to the null safety principle. Not really. Although it
makes it easier to deal with null values, Kotl... | {
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} |
The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes - davidgerard
https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2020/06/06/the-brave-web-browser-is-hijacking-links-and-inserting-affiliate-codes/
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this_user
I'm surprised people are surprised by this. Brave have said from the beginning
that this is how ... | {
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} |
Why I don't use the GPL - georgecmu
http://www.kaybee.org/~kirk/GPL.html
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iuguy
While I respect the author's choice, I have to disagree over the point about
people contributing to the codebase.
I've spent the past two years reverse engineering products _built on Linux_
with no source code or build chain availab... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: DocuShow to search and read PDFs on mobile - ldenoue
http://docushow.com
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ldenoue
Working on extracting images, tables and math formulas now...
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} |
DARPA Network Challenge - jballanc
http://networkchallenge.darpa.mil/
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ivankirigin
They has as well have called this "facebook vs. twitter".
For the former, start a group, and build awareness. Direct the money to a
cause. Use the iphone app to post and get updates.
For twitter, post to and follow a hashtag. ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Angular 8.0 Is Out - MordodeMaru
https://blog.ninja-squad.com/2019/05/29/what-is-new-angular-8.0/
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Yuioup
Crickets
| {
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} |
Europe has good reasons to fear Google - r0m4n0
http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/28/7301681/europe-is-right-to-fear-google
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duckingtest
How could EU enforce the break? Google doesn't need branches in EU to exist.
It could do all business with EU customers via Switzerland. Sure, no more
Google jobs in EU, but th... | {
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} |
The Pyramid-Like Shape of Linux Authorship - hjs2
https://medium.com/@aserg.ufmg/who-are-the-authors-of-the-linux-kernel-f4a0b286512e
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I_am_neo
fork, or stop whining
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gus_massa
For me it looks like an analysis, I don't see any whining.
| {
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Why Did Amazon Make a Phone? A Conversation With Jeff Bezos - 127001brewer
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/19/why-did-amazon-make-a-phone-a-conversation-with-jeff-bezos/
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napoleoncomplex
My expectation and the expectation of my social circle was that Amazon is
going to come out with some crazy pricing, sub... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Are job postings acceptable? - clintavo
I always thought that posting job openings would not be acceptable on HN.<p>However there was one recently posted at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=476495 and nobody commented that the post was unacceptable.<p>I ask because I do from time to time have contract wo... | {
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} |
ArchLinux, Not Just For The Elite - Nic0
http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2011/11/06/archlinux-notforthe-elite/
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sunkencity
I like arch, except for the stupid command line arguments to pacman. I wish
they had just kept it more standard. There's nothing wrong with naming
"install" install and "search" sea... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Puppet vs. Ansible - emersonrsantos
https://www.devopsgroup.com/2018/01/10/puppet-vs-ansible/
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sarcasmatwork
Puppet has an agent, Ansible does not. Ansible is far better imho. I dont
want/need another 'agent' to have to install/manage etc.
| {
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} |
Postgres Notify for cache busting and more - spindritf
http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/postgres_external_triggers.html
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pilif
A couple of notes: First, be mindful that postgres connections are comparably
expensive memory-wise and a connection where you use LISTEN on can't be used
for anything else. This... | {
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} |
The most powerful motivator for an early employee at a startup - rpsubhub
http://www.quora.com/What-motivates-an-early-employee-to-work-in-a-startup/answer/Edmond-Lau
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spitfire
"At Quora, I (and many others) typically work 60 or more hours per week; other
startups I've talked to often expect similar (and somet... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Cyborg artist has an implanted "antenna" that allows him to hear colors - mathewi
http://gigaom.com/2014/05/30/what-does-the-color-orange-sound-like-cyborg-artist-neil-harbisson-knows-thanks-to-his-antenna-implant/
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adamboulanger
I'm not sure why the implant is relevant. His hearing is intact. It's not
going t... | {
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} |
Swift Intermediate Language Ownership Model Proposal - pjmlp
https://forums.swift.org/t/sil-ownership-model-proposal-refreshed/16872
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jernfrost
I am only vaguely familiar with Rust ownership model and last I programmed
Swift was version 3.x.
Does anyone have any thoughts on where Swift is going with ownership m... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
JEP 357: Migrate from Mercurial to Git - based2
https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/357
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based2
[https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/cdkzk0/jep_357...](https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/cdkzk0/jep_357_migrate_the_jdk_from_mercurial_to_git/)
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} |
Physics: Places To Be, Places To Avoid - jonbaer
http://www.science20.com/hammock_physicist/physics_places_be_places_avoid-118214
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vixen99
"I don't want to turn this blog post in a name-and-shame list of physics
departments". Why not? What is more important, keeping quiet about negative
performance or ensuring t... | {
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} |
For Linux, Supercomputers R Us - rbanffy
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2960701/linux/for-linux-supercomputers-r-us.html
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melling
Hasn't Linux dominated supercomputers for at least a decade? The only place
they don't have significant market share is on the desktop. Now we need
Chromebooks to take off or ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
North Korea Government website costs only $15 - sonic0002
http://pixelstech.net/article/index.php?id=1334900614
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kaolinite
Good for them! I'd much rather that than the budgets that the UK (and other)
governments blow on websites which often aren't too complex at all.
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jonursenbach
Should link to the sou... | {
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} |
Why Google Should Learn to Love Black Hat SEO - grovulent
http://danielhaggard.com/157/why-google-should-learn-to-love-black-hat-seo/
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lazylland
One of the cool things that Google provided during their SearchWiki experiment
was the [x] button. An option to remove a site from further search results.
This could... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Peak detection in a 2D array - wheaties
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3684484/peak-detection-in-a-2d-array
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axiom
I don't think there's a good solution to this problem without incorporating
some kind of prior distribution, and a statistical model of what paws tend to
look like. Heuristics will only take you... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: A live-drawn portrait of the common face - sloev
https://vrangen.net/fuzzy
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sloev
Author here.
A python program continously draws 22 different faces over each other.
All faces are aligned at the eyes.
The drawing particles have three different behaviors:
1\. Move randomly
2\. Move randomly with 45 ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: RealIdeas.site (submit an idea, get 10 real ones back) - RealIdeas
https://realideas.site/
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blauditore
Ideas themselves should not be overrated. People often think the main part of
building a successful product is having the right idea, and expect some form
of compensation for submitting a good one. But... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: DIY Position Tracking Using HTC Vive's Lighthouse - ashtuchkin
https://github.com/ashtuchkin/vive-diy-position-sensor
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ashtuchkin
Hey, author here. I used the system described in the link for indoor
stabilization of a drone, plus precise landing, to support an automatic
battery swap station project (hav... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Tell HN: IActionable Makes the Top 16 for AppQuest 2011 - vyrotek
Our startup has been thrown into the spotlight by making it into the Top 16 of Salesforce.com's App Quest contest. It's obviously an exciting and nerve-racking time for us. We've come a long way since we original posted the concept here on HN over a y... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Great Climate Migration Has Begun - edward
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/23/magazine/climate-migration.html
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9nGQluzmnq3M
> _In Southeast Asia, where increasingly unpredictable monsoon rainfall and
> drought have made farming more difficult, the World Bank points to more than
> eight million pe... | {
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} |
The spirit of Buffy the Vampire Slayer lives on - jseliger
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/06/23/vampire_fiction/print.html
======
ujjwalg
I loved that show. I wish they make a movie out of it of course with the same
cast and there are sequels after sequels of it. Even if they turn out to be
terrible, I am g... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Alan Kay at Demo: The Future Doesn't Have to Be Incremental - corysama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTAghAJcO1o
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dredmorbius
The core idea of non-incremental progress: Xerox PARC accomplished what it did
in large part by forcing technology 15 years into the future. The Alto, of
which PARC built around 2000, m... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: advice on the customer conversion rate needed - smikhanov
Hi community, I am looking for some advice on the approach to market analysis.<p>We are planning to enter the energy saving appliances market in Europe. The idea is that customer purchases an appliance that monitors his energy consumption and allows t... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
John McAfee Told His Followers to ‘Flood’ the SEC’s Inbox. It Didn’t Go Well - DyslexicAtheist
https://www.ccn.com/john-mcafee-told-his-followers-to-flood-the-secs-inbox-it-didnt-go-well/
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Havoc
>crypto token [...] redeeming Building grade Sand
haha. A sand backed crypto token...that's amazing.
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} |
Ask HN: How do I anonymize a user's IP Address? - thisismyhnuser
For instance, take the IP address of "215.54.387.9"...if I simply use "215.54.387" and leave out the last "9" is that enough so that the IP address cannot be traced back to the user? My understanding is that a government ent... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The March of Progress (in programming language syntax :) - progga
http://alan.dipert.org/post/153430634/the-march-of-progress
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acqq
The proper list starts with:
1956: Fortran I:
PRINT 1, X
1 FORMAT (F10.2)
Fortran was able to use the same format specificati... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Morphic for JavaScript - sedachv
http://www.chirp.scratchr.org/blog/?p=34
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stcredzero
What would it take to port Morphic directly on top of Objective-C? One could
keep all of the selectors around in a collection. One could also keep class
references. Not sure what to do about passing blocks.
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"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Why is 911 so expensive? - mkovji
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mtmail
Can you add relevant articles or statistics to your question?
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} |
Apple makes 23 different dongles – and it would cost you $857 to buy them all - djvdorp
http://uk.businessinsider.com/apple-dongles-2017-8?international=true&r=UK&IR=T
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pmx
You'd never need all of these though, would you? There is a lot of overlap
between the dongles that unless you had a lot of devices you woul... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Live Hackathon. Creating Online Markdown Editor for API documentation. - superpow
Hi guys,<p>We are a San Diego based startup that is doing a hackathon this weekend. We are working on an internal project to publish and maintain documentation without any software installation. Over the next 2 days we are do... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Pursuit of Emptyness by John Perry Barlow - dedalus
http://w2.eff.org/Misc/Publications/John_Perry_Barlow/HTML/The_Pursuit_of_Emptyness.html
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mark_l_watson
Thoughtful essay that I bet rubs some people the wrong way. I permanently
delicio.us bookmarked this, but I am not sure which of my friends and family
... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A Note-Taking Editor with LaTeX Math Based on VS-Code - fango
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336554675_A_Note-taking_Editor_for_Authoring_Markdown_Documents_containing_Math_Formulas
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lioeters
The article is about the following VS Code extension for writing Markdown with
math formulas using LaTeX syntax... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
If you don't know how to program - noelchurchill
and you have a relatively simple web app you want to make, where do you start. What scripting language would be best to learn on? All the RoR buzz started to lead me in that direction and I bought the agile web dev book, but now I'm not sure if that is the best plac... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Idea dump, December edition - jacquesm
http://jacquesmattheij.com/idea+dump%2C+December+edition
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weego
(69) The Never Ending Story
I came up with and specced out something like this for a school which never
got passed the planning stage. The idea was more simple in that there was a
seed story, and then the kids... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Obama lawyers asked secret court to ignore public court's decision on spying - uptown
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/09/obama-fisa-court-surveillance-phone-records
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randomname2
As a The Guardian reporter summarized:
June 2, 6:03pm: Obama says he'll sign law banning bulk collection... | {
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AS3 Bitwise gems - fast integer math - RWilson
http://lab.polygonal.de/2007/05/10/bitwise-gems-fast-integer-math/
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mahmud
Interested parties can also look at how the Tamarin VM implements those
bitwise opcodes natively.
<http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/>
Flash opcodes into Nanojit IR:
[http://hg.mozil... | {
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Scaling the GitLab database - koolba
https://about.gitlab.com/2017/10/02/scaling-the-gitlab-database/
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koolba
> Sticky connections are supported by storing a pointer to the current
> PostgreSQL WAL position the moment a write is performed. This pointer is
> then stored in Redis for a short duration at the end of... | {
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Introducing Instagram Reels - theBashShell
https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/introducing-instagram-reels-announcement/
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wojcikstefan
This flips the typical narrative of "Chinese companies copy our products and
their government lets them" on its head. I understand why this is a valid
business move, b... | {
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Children told lies by parents lie more as adults - EndXA
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191002102759.htm
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borghives
what does lying more as adults equate to?
Edit: found the answer in the article:
The analysis found that parenting by lying could place children at a greater
risk of developing pro... | {
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Show HN: FlyByChat, the site I'm working on. Looking for feedback. - bdr
http://beta.flybychat.com/
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spking
I'd suggest making a single, clear call to action. Perhaps "Chat anonymously
with a random partner" would be the best option to drive attention to first,
since it requires the least effort and commitment... | {
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Show HN: Bribeshare – More Social Sharing - bribeshare
Hello,<p>I launched <a href="https://www.bribeshare.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.bribeshare.com/</a> because I wanted some friends to share things on my behalf, then I thought why not allow everyone to share when they come to my b... | {
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Pocket Sized Virtual Reality Device - prbuckley
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/smartvr-make-your-phone-a-virtual-reality-viewer/x/7469849#/
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n-gauge
I wonder how this would work without any magnetic switches - just that having
made my own cardboard viewer for a nexus 7 and without the magnetic switch you
hav... | {
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Using Rust for Monitoring 30k API Calls per Minute - yannikyeo
https://hackernoon.com/using-rust-for-monitoring-30k-api-calls-per-minute-ec193u37
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dragonsh
Just waiting for it to show up on the front page of HN, given it has the magic
"Rust" in it.
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Gravity Waves and Neutrinos: The Later Work of Joseph Weber - dnetesn
http://mitp.nautil.us/article/162/gravity-waves-and-neutrinos
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yodon
As someone who was peripherally involved in this field I'm very glad this
history of science was recorded and hope the author repeats the analysis for
the context around the ... | {
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Asterisks in Python - ingve
http://treyhunner.com/2018/10/asterisks-in-python-what-they-are-and-how-to-use-them/
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zmmmmm
This is one of those areas where I find Python a little contradictory. About
50% of the time it's "explicit is better than implicit" and "there should be
one and only one good way" and then th... | {
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How Erlang does scheduling (2013) - weatherlight
http://jlouisramblings.blogspot.com/2013/01/how-erlang-does-scheduling.html
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pron
When Quasar was very young we had something very similar to Erlang's
reduction-based preemption; we later disabled it in favor of preemption on
communication only. The reason is this... | {
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Frustrated man charged by police after shooting his uncooperative computer - tim333
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/22/frustrated-man-charged-by-police-after-shooting-his-uncooperative-computer
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DanBC
All In The Mind (BBC R4 programme about mental health) had an episode about
screen time, especially ... | {
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How to make a simple 'vintage' HTML website but that will work on mobile? - mymythisisthis
How to make a simple 'vintage' html website but that will work on mobile?<p>I enjoy that static websites from the early web. I don't need anymore, don't want anymore.<p>How do I make one that works well on a ... | {
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Getting Deep Speech to Work in Mandarin - kornish
http://svail.github.io/mandarin/
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weinzierl
The amazing part is that their system seems to be adaptable to any language
with a minimum of human effort.
> One of the reasons deep learning has been so valuable is that it has converted
> re... | {
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Public speaking for introverts - vanwilder77
http://danshipper.com/public-speaking-for-introverts?utm_source=Dan%27s+Blog+List&utm_campaign=718f71be14-Newsletter_nice_design_17_8_11_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c18fe7384e-718f71be14-40620601
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patio11
Some kids grow up on football. I grew up on public speakin... | {
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Ask HN: What is Stackoverflow doing to avoid its decline? - soroso
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mayoff
This is going to sound harsh, but here's my take.
When you're farting around, you want to read “fun” questions and answers (e.g.
“Interesting uses of sun.misc.Unsafe”), and when you see stackoverflow moving
away from the “fun”, you ha... | {
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Top engineering university to open jobs exclusively to women - trirpi
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/jun/18/top-engineering-university-to-open-jobs-exclusively-to-women
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lostmymind66
Blatant gender bias is not the way to reduce gender bias.
~~~
100100010001
I disagree. There is no way they are contr... | {
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A story of "launch" disaster: fast-food style - icodemyownshit
http://andyswan.com/blog/2009/09/21/a-story-of-launch-disaster-fast-food-style/
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andyswan
I'm the original author of this. And just to clarify a few points:
1\. This really happened. 2\. It was done on purpose by the owner. 3\. They
did normally c... | {
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The Use of Sub-Routines in Programmes (1951) [pdf] - tosh
http://www.laputan.org/pub/papers/wheeler.pdf
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misterdoubt
More readable:
[https://gist.github.com/kimsk/a8dc99eb9dd491152bcc9f4a58a33d...](https://gist.github.com/kimsk/a8dc99eb9dd491152bcc9f4a58a33d0e)
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Someone
This is by the D.J. Wheeler
([https... | {
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Ask HN: Is there anything Google App Engine could improve? - grep
Is there anything App Engine could improve for you to use it?
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bemmu
I wish there were some "quick deploy" mode for when you are developing a
staging version of your app and not needing the scalability yet. I have
staging and production versions... | {
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What happens when you register a domain? - jgrahamc
https://blog.cloudflare.com/using-cloudflare-registrar/
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cf-fan
While I would love to transfer my 9 domains to cloudflare , here's my concern:
transferring domains involves temporarily disabling whois guard, making my
info public. It remains one of those wierd ... | {
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} |
36c3 visitor who hosts neonazi and hate speech domains ejected from congress - DyslexicAtheist
https://twitter.com/hackerfantastic/status/1211590283806138368
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IfOnlyYouKnew
I love these people who insist they are only in it for the “principle of free
speech”, then somehow make a completely unconnected point abou... | {
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} |
Cookie Stuffing with Google Adsense - jakeludington
http://www.benedelman.org/news/050712-1.html
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Smerity
As the article points out, they must be making good money for this attack to
be practical. The back of the envelope calculation seems reasonable: even
paying Google reasonably high CPMs they're making it b... | {
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} |
Haiku meets 9th processor - protomyth
https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/pawe%C5%82_dziepak/2013-12-20_haiku_meets_9th_processor
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GuiA
I have a fantasy that 20 years from now, Haiku will be the operating system of
choice for hackers with design sensibilities (NB: I didn't say _graphic
design_ ) who want a powerful, f... | {
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} |
Please stop writing poor user stories - gghootch
http://garmlucassen.nl/post/123571158691/poor-user-stories
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gghootch
Hi everyone, if you enjoyed this post please take a moment to complete my
survey. Your contribution is of incredible value for my research!
[http://garmlucassen.nl/survey](http://garmlucassen.... | {
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Why Are There So Many Robocalls? Here’s What You Can Do About Them - ss2003
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-there-are-so-many-robocalls-heres-what-you-can-do-about-them-1530610203
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tonyquart
I think it's because robocall is still one of the cheapest and most converting
marketing trick for them. I have just read... | {
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What’s wrong with GUIs - edw519
http://crustyoldfart.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/whats-wrong-with-guis/
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makecheck
I agree with the article's points.
I tend to wonder if the state of GUIs isn't as simple as "too many developers
use Windows and don't look elsewhere". Windows ships with a lousy shell and
not many ... | {
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Marketing advice from Deadmau5 - pud
http://deadmau5.tumblr.com/post/23238420396/some-advice-on-rollercoasters-and-shit
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rockmeamedee
Ha, I would never have thought deadmau5 had such awful writing skills.
| {
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iPhone vs Android OS Fragmentation - cwan
http://mattmaroon.com/2010/11/18/fragmentation/
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drivebyacct2
I think the Android fragmentation rant is really, really tired. But, is it
fair to compare a year old Android phone and anything prior to 3GS?
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patrickaljord
It is fair if 3GS still has significant marke... | {
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} |
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