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iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus: Preliminary Benchmark Results - srikar
http://www.anandtech.com/show/8559/iphone-6-and-iphone-6-plus-preliminary-results
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ksk
The A8 chip is "only" a dual-core and clocked at a relatively modest 1.4GHz.
It's heartening to see it beat competing 2+GHz Quad-cores. To me, it looks
like ... | {
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Smart Luggage with built-in laptop tray, usb charger and location tracking - bhaile
http://barracuda.co
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ohjeez
WANT.
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IRS Bitcoin Probe of Goes Too Far, Says Republicans - ryan_j_naughton
http://fortune.com/2017/05/21/irs-bitcoin-congress/
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RichardHeart
link to letter: [https://waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-
content/uploads/2017/05/20...](https://waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-
content/uploads/2017/05/2017.05.17-Coinbase-Letter-Hatch-Br... | {
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The Rise of the New Global Elite - pointillistic
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/01/the-rise-of-the-new-global-elite/8343/
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edj
Single page: [http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2011/01/the-
rise-o...](http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2011/01/the-rise-of-the-
new-global-elite/8343... | {
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First release of LibreSSL portable is available - klapinat0r
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=140510291304119&w=2
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erobbins
So, an audited port of openssl comes out and the discussion centers around:
1\. why CVS sucks and the openbsd team should spend 3 months doing nothing but
reworking their development pro... | {
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} |
Serious Business: Python is not just for Engineering - PyCon 2011 [video] - swanson
http://blip.tv/file/4878796
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samuel1604
Awesome talk, a lot of those talks can get really boring but that guy knew how
to present!
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Ask HN: Favorite Project Management Solutions? - stanley
We're a small web startup with a CEO in New York, a CMO in Vancouver, a CTO with 4 developers in San Francisco, and a small outsourcing team offshore.
We use Git for SCM, but we haven't found an ideal solution for communicating everything else.<p>Taking into p... | {
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3 New Elements Named - Darmstadtium, Roentgenium and Copernicium - llambda
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/05/science/3-new-elements-named-darmstadtium-roentgenium-and-copernicium.html?_r=1
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Todd
I just watched an enjoyable BBC documentary "Chemistry: A Volatile History".
The last episode concludes with a visit t... | {
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} |
Inequality and Risk (2005) - sillysaurus3
http://www.paulgraham.com/inequality.html
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MR4D
should be tagged with (2005)
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Easy-Type Passwords: A boon to air-gapped credentials - jeffalyanak
https://rights.ninja/passwords/
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jeffalyanak
Like many of you out there, I use an encrypted keychain to manage credentials,
so remembering all of my passwords is no longer a problem. Unfortunately,
those long, secure passwords I like to use are ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: My first time developing a rails app. What do you think? - peachananr
I came from a PHP background, and I've decided to jump ship to rails.<p>https://www.bucketlistly.com is the result of 2 months of learning by doing.<p>What do you think of the app? Would love to hear all of your feedback.<p>Feel free to si... | {
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Ask HN: How do you decide features set of your product? - pknerd
I am working on a <i>side project</i> which is not something that is new or unique or out of the world. There are many similar apps available which are being downloaded but I still want to make one by believing that I will find my market anyway.<p>My q... | {
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Mos – A lightweight tool for smooth and reverse scrolling (mouse) on macOS - telcy
https://github.com/Caldis/Mos
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Zekio
This is one of my biggest problems with MacOS, that the touchpad and external
mouse aren't scroll direction independent....
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Show HN: Online Screen Recorder - sabbakeynejad
https://www.veed.io/screen-recorder
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Jaruzel
It shouldn't immediately request mic/camera/screen access on the landing page.
That's a complete put off for me.
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Genes Responsible For Cancer-Fighting Substance In Opium Poppies Discovered - sparknlaunch
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112546826/genes-responsible-for-cancer-fighting-substance-in-opium-poppies-discovered/
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Turing_Machine
Terrible title. In addition to the article saying nothing about a "cure" (as
ji... | {
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A dead simple approach to a Vagrant stack - thecodemonkey
https://github.com/MiniCodeMonkey/Vagrant-LAMP-Stack
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WestCoastJustin
Vagrant is awesome, and if anyone is interested, I've put several screencasts
together about Vagrant [1], and creating a Vagrant box with Veewee [2]. These
will hopefully help you und... | {
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} |
Meet the Maker of Apple's Other Tablet - mshafrir
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2010/tc20100122_583507.htm?campaign_id=rss_topStories
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Luyt
If Apple really launches the iSlate in about a week, the days for the modBook
might be numbered.
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A running list of sites that don't use AWS - DoctorOW
https://blog.owenwalters.net/2019/02/05/a-running-list-of-sites-that-dont-use-aws/
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QuinnyPig
I spot at least three errors. Just because a company signs a large deal with
GCP or Azure doesn't mean that they don't have workloads on other providers. I
guess I'm... | {
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} |
Writing Great Mystery Plots - jawns
https://www.vulture.com/2019/10/charles-finch-on-how-he-writes-charles-lenox-mysteries.html
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LeonB
> I start by writing a brief, extremely dull short story ...about three pages
> ... I refine it for weeks...
> that small story contains a full, straightforward account of the c... | {
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I’m basically fine with investing in evil (2007) - apsec112
http://blog.givewell.org/2007/01/20/21/
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schimmy_changa
I think most people miss the point of public, large-scale divestment (as
opposed to private, small scale consumer ethical purchases which I find not
super useful).
Divestment by a well-respected o... | {
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} |
How to Setup a Unix News Server (1999) - kruhft
http://aplawrence.com/Unixart/newsserver.html
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floren
It seems like the way news propagates, it should be possible to eliminate bad
posters IF most people on the network are either running their own server or
posting from a friend's server. If spam is popping up, y... | {
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Ask HN: Got celebrity to tweet about my project... - oldmanstan
she's going to tweet to her many thousands of followers sometime next week.<p>It's a PHP/MySQL website hosted on Dreamhost. I've never had to scale, and don't know anything about handling traffic larger than a few people an hour.<p>How should I prepare ... | {
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Fluent Interfaces Are Bad for Maintainability - ingve
http://www.yegor256.com/2018/03/13/fluent-interfaces.html
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Mister_Snuggles
While I don’t like Fluent interfaces at all, I don’t like the alternative
presented much either.
My dislike of Fluent interfaces stems from two things. First, it’s trying to
contort a... | {
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} |
Dropbox: yet another security kerfuffle? - taytus
http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/18/dropbox-yet-another-security-kerfuffle/
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trekkin
Would spideroak be a better option then?
| {
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Gamevenda – reddit for games. - xerxe6
www.gamevenda.com
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xerxe6
[http://www.gamevenda.com](http://www.gamevenda.com)
| {
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How Can an Existing Centralized Finance System Defeat a Crypto-Currency? - arud
https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/99972/how-can-an-existing-centralized-finance-system-defeat-a-crypto-currency
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sharemywin
Don't kid yourself look at bit coin wealth distribution.
[https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/1-... | {
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} |
We're Sorry - chrisdinn
http://blog.scribblelive.com/2012/03/were-sorry-2/
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sp332
As an end-user, I like Scribble. And really, if The Verge is putting up with
vid.io's consistently inconsistent crap, they shouldn't complain about an
occasional glitch from Scribble.
| {
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Google’s Rivals Gear Up to Make Antitrust Case - drkimball
https://www.wsj.com/articles/googles-enemies-gear-up-to-make-antitrust-case-11561368601?mod=rsswn
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seltzered_
Somewhat related, last month there was an 'antitrust and competition
conference' at chicago booth school of business, and their videos came up l... | {
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} |
Life on the B Ark: an interview with Ian Stewart - RiderOfGiraffes
http://home.earthlink.net/~douglaspage/id83.html
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RiderOfGiraffes
This is the chap who wrote the article referenced here:
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1594496>
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Ask HN: Am I too old to start a programming career? - Colin_M
I first got into coding ~5 years ago. Taught myself a few languages, did some online contract work on the cheap. I decided to go back to school for a CS degree. By the time I graduate, I'll be in my early 30's.<p>I know that the CS field tends to ... | {
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Researchers discuss the challenges posed by science’s embrace of English - salutonmundo
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01797-0
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FartyMcFarter
I'm not sure I believe this paragraph:
> I’ve worked on many multinational collaborations, and I notice that European
> researchers often speak to each other ... | {
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A hacker accessed a Ring camera and harassed an 8-year-old - zeppelin_head
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/12/12/she-installed-ring-camera-her-childrens-room-peace-mind-hacker-accessed-it-harassed-her-year-old-daughter/
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mindslight
Buy a surveillance device for your daughter, _get a surveillance devic... | {
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} |
How the Legal System Failed Aaron Swartz — And Us - coloneltcb
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/01/everyone-interesting-is-a-felon.html
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imuakame
"In another time, a man with Swartz’s dark drive would have headed to the
frontier. Perhaps he would have ventured out into the wilderness, like T... | {
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The epic roleplaying stunt Dau is now churning out epicly bad movies - nkurz
https://www.polygon.com/2020/4/23/21232719/dau-natasha-degeneration-review-russian-epic-movies-now-streaming-ilya-khrzhanovsky
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duxup
Is there more of a summary of what this film or thing ... is?
My reading comprehension sometimes esca... | {
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} |
Chris Cox, Zuckerberg lieutenant, to return to Facebook - dcgudeman
https://www.wsj.com/articles/zuckerberg-lieutenant-returns-to-facebook-a-year-after-departure-11591899761
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Zaheer
The discussion when he left was that Chris did not agree with Facebook's
stance on the role / responsibility they have as a platfor... | {
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} |
Mending the RubyGems Fences - sandal
http://blog.majesticseacreature.com/mending-the-rubygems-fences
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sandal
This is not actually a dead link, but posterous is intermittently 404ing
sometimes. Reload a couple times if that happens, sorry. :-/
~~~
telemachos
Since it's the top-most post, what worked for me whe... | {
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My two week project turned into a full-time open source startup - darafsheh
http://blog.servicebot.io/my-two-week-project-turned-into-a-full-time-open-source-startup/
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darafsheh
Hi all, founder of ServiceBot here, we have just released our limited time
free open-beta instances. Feel free to signup on our website... | {
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} |
Writing to the Framebuffer - __sb__
http://seenaburns.com/2018/04/04/writing-to-the-framebuffer/
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Jasper_
Keep in mind that /dev/fb, on a modern system, isn't an actual framebuffer on
your GPU. It's a land of make-believe, mostly supported to get the kernel
console ("fbcon") working. Going back for at least 10 y... | {
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} |
Looking to name a new tool, offering a reward of $100 - samerbuna
http://bootname.com/website/70135296-simple-group-emailing-with-mail-merge-and-tracking
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samerbuna
We're building a simple tool to help us with our group emails, we wanted
something simple, you define (or import) your contacts information, organ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Where is WordPress heading in 2018? How's it evolving? - mgos
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stephenr
Given that they just patched a bug caused by their insistence on using their
own bullshit string futzing "prepared statements", I don't think "evolve" is
the right term.
Stagnate maybe?
~~~
mgos
Interesting. What do you think WP wil... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Full-text search of Unix files? - bravura
I have a lot of notes organized as text files in a directory hierarchy on my Unix machine. I would like to index and search these notes, using full-text search and approximate matching (so grep does not suffice). I prefer a command-line utility. I am looking for a si... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Do algorithms reveal sexual orientation or just expose our stereotypes? - ALee
https://medium.com/@blaisea/do-algorithms-reveal-sexual-orientation-or-just-expose-our-stereotypes-d998fafdf477
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YeGoblynQueenne
Something that I found truly shocking is that, in the paper's data, the number
of straight men is exactly... | {
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} |
One-bit Computing at 60 Hz - Garbage
http://laughtonelectronics.com/Arcana/One-bit%20computer/One-bit%20computer.html
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chinpokomon
This reminds me of Dave Taylor's "Pinky Processor." [1] Crack dot com has been
shut down for years, so I couldn't find a better source, but the idea was to
have single bit processors... | {
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} |
I fly twice a week with a swiss army knife and have never been caught.. - Edmond
where's the beef is security?
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GrandMasterBirt
It's like the Israilies say: We screen with insane technology but never look
the person in the eyes and ask them a straightforward question to see if they
are unnecessarily stressed. ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How can I create an RSS feed for any website/url? - ildix
I've been using feedly.com to track websites and curate content for a newsletter. Certain websites that used to offer public RSS feeds no longer have them, two quick examples: https://genius.com/articles + https://daily.ban... | {
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Most Un-Impressive Recruiting Pitch I've Ever Seen :( - mattjaynes
http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/372-dear-no-first-name
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staunch
Interesting because Schwartz Communications was Viaweb's PR firm.
An old Viaweb press release:
<http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1997_August_11/ai_19658522>
_"... | {
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Circular Doubly Linked List - Eyssant
https://www.alphacodingskills.com/ds/circular-doubly-linked-list.php
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whycombagator
While a circular doubly linked list is an interesting data structure, this is
a slightly strange site/resource - at least as far as algo/ds go.
Perhaps I am being too harsh, but the site is ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Cambodia's vast medieval cities hidden beneath the jungle - kawera
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/11/lost-city-medieval-discovered-hidden-beneath-cambodian-jungle
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allisthemoist
_> LIDAR: An airborne laser scanner (ALS) is mounted to a helicopter skid pad.
Flying with pre-determined guidelines, inclu... | {
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} |
Hulu now longer claims to be "sold out" of online ad inventory - pakafka
http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20081216/hulu-has-fewer-eyeballs-advertisers/
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jm4
I'm so tired of users who routinely submit links to every single article they
write- whether on topic or not- in order to generate ad revenue. Yesterday
th... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
It's So Hard To Say Goodbye To Consumers - zabbyz
http://founderdating.com/its-so-hard-to-say-goodbye-to-consumers/
======
zabbyz
Great post Noah. Making a pivot is such a hard decision...Anyone else have any
experience with this? I'd be interested to hear more about making the decision
to pivot (or making the decis... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Project Longshot: 100 Year probe mission to Alpha Centauri - sown
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Longshot
======
rtf
My favorite Wikipedia article(and also a space-related article) is "Ultimate
fate of the universe":
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_fate_of_the_universe>
It's the dramatic title that do... | {
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} |
Sent $35,104.11 USD to CoinBase. Never received Bitcoins - mgrunin
This story dates back to December 8th when I initiated an ACH transfer with CoinBase.com for a total sum of $35,104.11. On that very same day, the system informed me that I would be credited with the bitcoins come December 13th.<p>December 13th came by... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Can Bird build a better scooter before it runs out of cash? - clairity
https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-bird-scooters-money-profit-strategy-20190505-story.html
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siruncledrew
> _The apparent life span varied between models. The Xiaomi m365 — the
> consumer model with which Bird first launched ... | {
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Open letter to Microsoft on specs for obsolete file formats [2012] - yuhong
http://unsustainableideas.wordpress.com/2012/10/22/open-letter-ms-obsolete-formats/
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yuhong
MS response:
[http://unsustainableideas.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/response-...](http://unsustainableideas.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/response-
ope... | {
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} |
Apple Q2 2012: 35.1M iPhones, 11.8M iPads, 4M Macs, and 7.7M iPods - aaronbrethorst
http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/24/apple-q2-2012-35-1m-iphones-11-8m-ipads-4m-macs-and-7-7m-ipods/
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spdy
They sold roughly 60M units of high margin products in one quarter. They are
printing money for years now. One of the quotes u... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Really back Hackers inject Windows 7 start menu code in Windows 8 - jeffreyfox
http://www.myce.com/news/its-back-hackers-inject-windows-7-start-menu-code-in-windows-8-64344/
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shdon
Nice one. This may actually convince me to get Win8 as it would then become a
much more useable desktop OS.
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Ask HN: Is there a state-by-state guide to IP assignment issues that affect startups? - teuobk
I've been talking with some friends about doing a startup, but there's a concern about the potential IP minefield we might be encounter. In short, one of us has a contract with a software company that makes an extremely a... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How My Start-Up Failed - mijustin
http://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?article_id=41260
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edw519
_Like Edison and the lightbulb, like Gates and the pc operating system...I was
about to become the first person in America to sell condom key chains._
That was probably your first mistake. Neither ... | {
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} |
Trump invites tech leaders to roundtable next week - DelaneyM
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/12/06/trump-invites-tech-leaders-roundtable/95042516/
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minimaxir
This is the third article submitted about the story, yet it keeps getting
flagged.
Political stories _with a strong tech component_ don't fa... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
'Female' hurricanes cause more deaths, because people don't take them seriously - edward
http://www.theverge.com/2014/6/2/5770778/hurricanes-with-female-names-deadlier-because-less-threatening
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ColinWright
Discussion:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7835925](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7835925)
... | {
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} |
Google chart API - daily limit lifted - r7000
http://code.google.com/apis/chart/#usage
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r7000
I may have missed this before but the updated usage policy is:
"There's no limit to the number of calls per day you can make to the Google
Chart API. However, we reserve the right to block any use that we regard as
a... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
US Secret Service: “Massive Fraud” Against State Unemployment Insurance Programs - elsewhen
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/05/u-s-secret-service-massive-fraud-against-state-unemployment-insurance-programs/
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yalogin
I am amazed at how well these criminals from another country know the details
of the systems in ... | {
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} |
Health Insurers Pay Facebook Gamers Virtual Currency To Oppose Reform Bill - Hunchr
http://www.businessinsider.com/health-insures-caught-paying-facebook-users-virtual-currency-to-send-letters-to-congress-opposing-reform-bill-2009-12
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julio_the_squid
In related news, Health Insurers Pay Congress Members Actual ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Live London Air Traffic in BigQuery - alex-olivier
https://github.com/alexolivier/flight2bq
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iamdave
Haven't looked at the code, but something stuck out to me in the readme:
What's with those squawk codes? Hashed, perhaps?
~~~
lerxst
The headings are a little misaligned on the readme.
For the first row of data... | {
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} |
World's Fastest Production Drone - x0054
http://utbgeek.com/uncategorized/tanky-drone-ready-to-fly-racing-at-its-best/
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Billonto
What about landing, it looks like it's landing directly on the battery. Would
be nice to have a stand or plate to protect the battery. Looks really fast
though.
~~~
x0054
Creator here... | {
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} |
‘We were sold off’: WeWork’s staff face uncertain future as company collapses - vanusa
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/nov/22/we-were-sold-off-weworks-support-staff-face-uncertain-future-as-company-collapses
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rollerboi
I don't have the sources for this atm, but I heard last night that SoftBank
doesn't ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Hands-On with the $159 Google Pixel Buds - rbanffy
https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/04/hands-on-with-the-159-google-pixel-buds/?ncid=rss&utm_source=tcfbpage&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&sr_share=facebook
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axaxs
My opinion: Google is selling and pricing hardware based on software... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Calculus Is So Last Century - enitihas
http://www.wsj.com/articles/calculus-is-so-last-century-1457132991
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arcanus
The article paints a false dichotomy between teaching calculus and
statistics/heuristics/linear algebra.
In reality, it is increasingly important to have exposure to all these fields.
| {
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} |
Stevey's Tech News, Issue #1 - fad
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/09/steveys-tech-news-issue-1.html
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joe
I'm glad Steve doesn't take himself too seriously.
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edu
What about videos showing how people uses iSuck on myTube?
Em, wait. Forget about it.
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Indoor Mapping Data Format - davidkhess
https://register.apple.com/resources/imdf/
======
davidkhess
Some more context and background here:
[https://blog.safe.com/2018/10/indoor-mapping-ios-
imdf/](https://blog.safe.com/2018/10/indoor-mapping-ios-imdf/)
| {
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Top 15 U.S. Startup Accelerators and Incubators Ranked - pitdesi
http://techcocktail.com/top-15-us-startup-accelerators-ranked-2011-05
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pg
This site is banned on HN (I'm not sure whether for posting fluff articles or
for spamming), but I unkilled this post lest it seem like we were trying to
suppress it.
They... | {
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Couresera HD Video Downloader - gurrrung
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/coursera-hd-video-downloa/kpnmpopgchfdpjephjkcgikfjnbpoahf
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gurrrung
Right now, an issue with video downloads of Coursera is that it doesn't allows
to download videos in HD. This extension resolves that issue by providing the
vide... | {
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Ask HN: Crowdfunding – Best Practice - protdum
Hi guys,
I've been looking at how to raise funds from my small startup and a lot of ppl are pointing that crowdfunding could be the way to go. In most cases I see that ppl have physical products that they give away to those who support the idea, but how about if you&... | {
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Spiders think with their webs, challenging our ideas of intelligence - jonbaer
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24532680-900-spiders-think-with-their-webs-challenging-our-ideas-of-intelligence/
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leshokunin
Interesting to think of how this relates with the Extended Mind theory
([https://en.wikipedia.org/wik... | {
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Ask HN: Is it worth open-sourcing my early stage startup? - derwiki
It's something I was interested in trying to do at my last job before I quit, but the battle was hand auditing an entire, mature codebase. The site I want to open source (http://www.cameralends.com) is less than 2 months old and could easily be audi... | {
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Cloudflare’s CEO has a plan to never censor hate speech again (2017) - fennecfoxen
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/cloudflares-ceo-has-a-plan-to-never-censor-hate-speech-again/
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sarcasmatwork
In regards to: [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/technology/8chan-
cloudfla...](https://www.nytimes.com/201... | {
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Student Who Found GPS Device On His Car Due To Reddit Comment Sues The FBI - jedwhite
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110304/10254213366/student-who-found-gps-device-his-car-due-to-reddit-comment-sues-fbi.shtml
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tptacek
For my little branch of this comment thread, can we leave aside the FBI's
reason for plant... | {
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In Defense of Older Workers: There’s No Substitute for Experience And Maturity - henrik_w
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130425040156-8451-in-defense-of-older-workers-there-s-no-substitute-experience-and-maturity
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nowarninglabel
Hmm, all the examples of people given that did great things after 40... | {
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Babushka. Sane deployment. - speek
http://babushka.me/#demo
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ben_h
Thanks for submitting this, speek :)
For those that are interested in trying out babushka, here's a 30 second crash
course. To install:
bash -c "`curl -L babushka.me/up`" # If you're on a Mac
bash -c "`wget -O - babu... | {
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I'm not crazy, things are listening, Part 2 - mring33621
I was just in the elevator with a colleague at work. He told me that over Christmas break, he built custom 'Loft' beds for his kids, with desks positioned under the beds. I mentioned that my kids would like that, too, and we both agreed that bunk beds ... | {
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How MSG Got a Bad Rap (2016) - matt4077
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-msg-got-a-bad-rap-flawed-science-and-xenophobia/
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userbinator
IMHO the fact that Asians have been consuming it in huge amounts for over a
century, and yet there hasn't been any common health problems linked to it,
should be enough o... | {
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Ask HN: What is your current job? Are you happy with it? - parth_setya
What constitutes a work day in your life?
Are you happy with the money you make?
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godelmachine
I'm working as a BMC Remedy Consultant. My job is akin to that of System
Administrator. I'd say I'm quite happy with it since I get to learn so man... | {
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The Toronto Star’s owner dreamed it would be a nonprofit. It’s being sold to PE - raybb
https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/05/the-toronto-stars-owner-once-dreamed-that-it-would-be-a-nonprofit-now-its-being-sold-to-a-private-equity-firm/
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GoRudy
Smart move by these PE guys. The print business is scary but they own 55... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Did you get today off work? - sbochins
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marpstar
We did. This is the first year they've offered this day off. Our clients are
almost entirely in the public sector, so I'd imagine that our support lines
would've been dead and our sales team without clients to sell to.
| {
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Why the next big thing after VR/AR and self-driving cars is health - kobleistvan
https://medium.com/neveli-cares/why-the-next-big-thing-after-vr-ar-and-self-driving-cars-is-health-1d0935141794#.76owhq7zs
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ohitsdom
Not a very strong argument, IMO. AR/VR and self-driving cars are poised for
huge growth because 1) ... | {
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Choose the Right Language to Save the Planet - yglukhov
https://yglukhov.github.io/Choose-The-Right-Language-To-Save-The-Planet/
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llccbb
If only there was something useful to this post... Maybe real examples of a
single algorithm written in a minimum of two languages? Maybe an expanded view
of greenhouse gas emi... | {
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As Facebook Sweeps Across Europe, Regulators Gird for Battle - carlchenet
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/26/technology/as-facebook-sweeps-across-europe-regulators-gird-for-battle.html
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jakozaur
As a European I wish EU would fight harder to create its own tech giants,
rather than fight existing ones (e.g. Faceboo... | {
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} |
LinkedIn to Buy Online Education Site Lynda.com for $1.5B - qnk
http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/09/linkedin-to-buy-online-education-site-lynda-com-for-1-5-billion/
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calinet6
Congratulations Lynda.com!
Story time. When I was in high school, I worked in a little computer lab in my
small hometown of Ojai, California... | {
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Are you ready for Perl6? - cygx
https://github.com/cygx/p6-tinycc/commit/43987c8ef008513012a820b682c8a049a04af443
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esaym
How about an explanation of what is going on here?
~~~
cygx
It's a combination of the | prefix operator that interpolates into a list, the
~ prefix stringification operator and the => infix p... | {
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Huddle's 'highly secure' work tool exposed KPMG and BBC files - evansd
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-41969061
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gejjaxxita
It seems from the article that security tokens were not unique and being
generated with a 20 millisecond granularity, furthermore the security tokens
were the only thing required to ac... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Adding something Special to my semester project - roversoccer18
I am a CS student at Penn State, and for a class I have to come up with a project that makes use of networking sockets connecting to a MySQL data base, HTML 5, and real time synchronization of the data in the data base. My idea was the create a... | {
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Visualizing Fitts's Law (2007) - kevin
http://particletree.com/features/visualizing-fittss-law/
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oneplane
IIRC this is one of the reasons the UI on the Mac opted for a fixed context-
dependant menu bar at the top of the screen instead of the per-window one used
by Windows (and Java).
It's basically 'fling your ... | {
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} |
Nuclear deterrence is limited by geography - robszumski
http://www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1204122/nuclear-deterrence-the-revenge-of-geography/
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cameldrv
Jeffrey Lewis often has smart things to say, but sometimes his articles make
no sense, at least from a technical, on their face, perspective. If nukes
real... | {
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} |
Ten years of Ubuntu - hpaavola
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/10/ten-years-of-ubuntu-how-linuxs-beloved-newcomer-became-its-criticized-king/
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pjmlp
Ubuntu LTS is the only GNU/Linux distribution that keeps me on Linux on one of
my laptops (an Asus netbook).
All the other distributions fail sh... | {
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} |
Hurricane Maria Killed as Many American Citizens as 9/11 Did - vinnyglennon
https://warisboring.com/hurricane-maria-killed-as-many-american-citizens-as-911/
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roenxi
9/11 was tragic, but consider the damage caused by the response in the last 15
years [1]. The number of Afghani civilian deaths alone is an order of... | {
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} |
Random password generator (cli app) - sepisoad
https://github.com/sepisoad/rpg
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seba_dos1
pwgen?
| {
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} |
Stack Overflow Hits 10M Uniques - nands
http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/25/stack-overflow-hits-10m-uniques-boldly-goes-where-no-qa-site-has-gone-before/
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pierrefar
Just to be clear: 10 million uniques is measured using analytics cookies,
quantcast in this case. The exact definition varies by analytics provider, ... | {
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} |
In a fatal crash, Uber’s autonomous car detected a person, but chose to not stop - consumer451
https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/611094/in-a-fatal-crash-ubers-autonomous-car-detected-a-pedestrian-but-chose-to-not/
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privong
Lots of discussion here already:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1701480... | {
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The Blog Timestamp is Dying - champion
http://graysky.org/2013/09/blog-timestamp/
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ezy
I was hoping that the author would be complaining about this, but they didn't.
That is unfortunate. The date something was written is a very important part
of its context. This is one thing newspapers get right, and a lot of... | {
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} |
I2C in a Nutshell - fra
https://interrupt.memfault.com/blog/i2c-in-a-nutshell
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inamberclad
Probably one of the least painful digital buses.
If anyone is wondering how to access an I2C bus from a Linux computer, say, a
raspberry pi:
int fd = open("/dev/i2c-1", O_RDWR);
ioctl(fd, I2C_SLAVE, [slave address here]... | {
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