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I graduated and found out I'm $200,000 in debt - nefitty
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2016/01/student_loan_crisis_at_its_ugliest_i_graduated_and_found_out_i_owe_200_000.html
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jaksdhkj
It is the ultimate responsibility of the person taking out these unsecured
loans to figure it out. The school ... | {
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Sitzfleisch: The German concept to get more work done - sonabinu
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180903-to-have-sitzfleisch---its-a-professional-compliment
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wirrbel
As a German I spent an abroad term in Canada, so here as a grain of salt the
difference between German and the work ethic across the pond.
9am: ... | {
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Pandalized: Sites Negatively Impacted by Google's Panda Update - rlander
http://www.pandalized.com/
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bcrescimanno
Does it make me vindictive to want to see most of these sites never "recover?"
This basically reads like a list of sites that, up through the "panda" update,
I would mistakenly click on, get pissed o... | {
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Getting Started With HTML5 Game Development - rnyman
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/09/getting-started-with-html5-game-development/
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PixelCut
We've made WebCode to make HTML5 game development in Canvas a bit easier. It
is a vector drawing app that instantly generates JavaScript Canvas code, so
you don't have t... | {
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Alex Brown: "The entire OOXML project is now surely heading for failure" - andyu
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20100401074623393
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juhgfcgvhnjm
The OOXML project was a great success. The point was to allow MS to claim that
there was no propriety lock in and so it was perfectly re... | {
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Goldman Sachs trade secret thief claims codes were 'open source' - sweetdreams
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a1wLXjWnp_5E
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rrival
What, they're running this? <http://www.marketcetera.com/site/>
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michaelawill
His first mistake was leaving Goldman to begin with. In my opinion Goldman i... | {
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Why America Shouldn't Dominate the World - georgecmu
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/afghanistan/2020-02-10/price-primacy
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hindsightbias
Meh, better to let China rule the world. It’s not like the US wanted to do all
the heavy lifting in the Balkans, Libya and Syria. We should have just let the
EU flail a... | {
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Show HN: Aqua – A website and user system (Hapi/React/Flux) - jedireza
http://jedireza.github.io/aqua/
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fiatjaf
I don't understand what does it do. A "website" for what? A user system? It
makes a website for me in which users can sign up and login, but then what?
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jedireza
It's a starter/boilerplate.
----... | {
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Command Lines: Alive & Kicking - joshuacc
http://uxmag.com/technology/command-lines-alive-kicking
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nayanshah
There has to be a blend between the command line and the GUI. Even keyboard
shortcuts in applications are included in it, without which its impossible to
work for power users.
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Ask HN: What's the Difference Between Profit Sharing and Equity? - leventkaplan
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byoung2
Profit sharing is like someone renting out a house and giving you a percent of
the rent. If they sell the house, or if no one rents, the gravy train stops.
Equity is like someone giving you a percent ownership in a house. It... | {
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CeramicSpeed’s Driven Concept Might Become the Most Efficient Bicycle Drivetrain - untangle
https://www.bicycling.com/bikes-gear/a22092182/ceramicspeeds-driven-concept-might-become-the-worlds-most-efficient-drivetrain/
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woodruffw
As mentioned (and slightly buried) by the article, the really fascinating part
is t... | {
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Things I Learnt from fast.ai v3 - raibosome
https://towardsdatascience.com/10-new-things-i-learnt-from-fast-ai-v3-4d79c1f07e33
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panpanna
Am I one only who doesn't like the fastai approach to ML?
At times it's just a little bit too much handwaving for my taste.
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windsignaling
As someone who learned ML the "t... | {
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AOL chief cuts 401k benefits, blames Obamacare and two “distressed babies” - rsobers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/02/06/aol-chief-cuts-401k-benefits-blames-obamacare
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lxt
Wow. A billion dollars in profit, 12 million in his pocket each year...but the
7 million for health care has to come o... | {
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Deleted my account on Quora, with confirmation, account/data still viewable. - samstave
I recently deleted my account with Quora [1].<p>I asked them in the email to delete the account and all data with the account.<p>They replied via email and stated they would be happy to delete my account and help me out - and the... | {
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Show HN: VSCode extension to copy/paste multiple code snippets in your workspace - randusercoding
https://github.com/adoi/multicopy
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randusercoding
VS Code extension to copy and paste multiple snippets of code in your
workspace
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Ask HN: Why Is This Flagged? - lainon
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17468033<p>This is a neutral, academic article which satisfies everything the HN guidelines solicit.<p>Is there a hidden rule to not talk about such topics on HN?
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natch
I guess because it's an encyclopedia article, and not... | {
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Peinjector: MITM PE file infector - geographomics
https://github.com/JonDoNym/peinjector
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redwards510
Doing some testing of my own using BDFProxy opened my eyes as to what large
sites are using http vs https for downloading files. If your primary reason
for existing is providing binaries for download, you have n... | {
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GitHub's new buttons look like they are disabled or like labels - node-bayarea
I'm not a big Github user like many of you. I just find it really odd to click on the buttons. They just look disabled or like labels! I have to rethink before clicking. Hopefully the Github design team can make it better!
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throw... | {
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Infosys introduces new artificial intelligence platform - itprofessional4
http://www.financialexpress.com/article/industry/companies/infosys-introduces-new-artificial-intelligence-platform/245848/
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pamelabuck
I don't want to be elitist but really? The company that is well-know for being
a body shop that takes al... | {
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Twilio looks better from afar - aaronpk
http://www.diggz.org/index.php/2012/10/16/twilio-is-like-the-worst-girlfriend/
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robbiet480
Yet another terrible assassination piece by Johnny Diggz, the CEO of Tropo, a
quickly failing Twilio competitor. He has been a real dick since the early
days and spreads lies and r... | {
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Show HN: My first iOS app, a modern MUD client for iPhone and iPad - novum
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue. Fortunately a friendly MUDRammer[0] appears to lend aid! http://appstore.com/mudrammeramodernmudclient<p>MUDs are online multiplayer text-based games. There are thousands, set in fantas... | {
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27 Killed in Connecticut Shooting, Including 18 Children - kankana
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/15/nyregion/shooting-reported-at-connecticut-elementary-school.html?smid=fb-nytimes&_r=0
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kankana
Greatly disappointed about the event. Shameful for peopling behave like the
most underdeveloped hillbillies in the ... | {
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Writing a browser extension for three browsers - einaregilsson
http://einaregilsson.com/writing-a-browser-extension-for-three-browsers/
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ejcx
In my previous work at a company that made it's money from a browser
extension, I saw what hell it was to develop browser extensions for all major
browsers.
I should note... | {
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The FroYo update: a list of phones confirmed for Android 2.2 - Thracks
http://tech.icrontic.com/articles/the-android-2-2-update-what-phones-get-froyo/
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aditya
It is open source software - right? Why aren't there any homegrown releases
for these updates that bring them to your phone before your carrier does? Or... | {
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Clojure Protocols and the Expression Problem - fogus
http://formpluslogic.blogspot.com/2010/08/clojure-protocols-and-expression.html
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pwpwp
This looks nice, but I have a small nit to pick: the expression problem
concerns _static_ type safety, so discussing it in the context of an
untyped/dynamically typechecked ... | {
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Radio Shack's TRS-80 turns 35 today. Please don't call it "Trash-80." - technologizer
http://techland.time.com/2012/08/03/trs-80/
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geophile
I loved my TRS 80. It was an affordable computer, and I could hack on it in
Z80 assembler or BASIC. (I loaded the assembler from a cassette tape, played
on a Radio Shack c... | {
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Weaveworks announces subscription for upstream Kubernetes - slgeorge
https://www.weave.works/blog/operate-and-scale-kubernetes-with-our-support
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slgeorge
This is a totally a product announcement, and to declare interest I work for
Weaveworks. As it's Kubecon EU starting tomorrow there should be a lot of
interest... | {
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Classic: about so called web apps - linopolus
http://web.archive.org/web/20120509105723/http://teddziuba.com/2008/09/a-web-os-are-you-dense.html
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shakna
> The "Web Operating System" just highlights how much journalists don't know
> about computers.
And how hard it is to predict the future of IT. Google was a no... | {
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ReactOS 0.4.0 Released - ekianjo
https://reactos.org/project-news/reactos-040-released
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mhd
I'm quite impressed that they can load graphics drivers now. Those generally
seem to be arcane as heck, delving deeply into the internals of not just the
applications they support (e.g. games), but the operating system it... | {
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Picking Locks with Audio Technology - ingve
https://cacm.acm.org/news/246744-picking-locks-with-audio-technology/fulltext
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Pick-A-Hill2019
Dug out a link to the orginal research paper (mainly because I was a bit
skeptical of the claims)
[https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~junhan/papers/SpiKey_HotMobile2...](https://w... | {
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Kubernetes 1.10 released - el_duderino
http://blog.kubernetes.io/2018/03/kubernetes-1.10-stabilizing-storage-security-networking.html
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wolfgang42
Is there an easy way to get a single-node production-ready Kubernetes
instance? I'd like to start using the Auto DevOps features that GitLab is
adding, but all the tut... | {
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Ask HN: What causes a top 10 front page post to jump to slot #79 in seconds? - jqueryin
Seriously mods, this is taking things a little too far.<p>We went from #9 with a vote, submission time, and comment count matching a current top 10 post to all the way to #79 in the matter of a minute. Linked is the screenshot sh... | {
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The rise of programmable self - Garbage
http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/01/programmable-self-motivation-hacks-digital-data.html
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dreeves
I'm pretty excited about this movement (if it's fair to call it that yet)
since my startup, Beeminder (mentioned in the article!), pretty much
epitomizes the author's definition ... | {
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} |
Why No One Is Beating Tesla's Range - prostoalex
https://jalopnik.com/why-no-one-is-beating-teslas-range-1837952903
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kenhwang
No one's beating Tesla's range because no one is willing to use the NCA
battery chemistry. All the other automakers stick to NMC (for very good
reason). Tesla will have a ~20% range and c... | {
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} |
Outrageous - IE IQ Story is a hoax - dsdirect
http://www.webjives.org/outrageous-ie-iq-story-is-a-hoax
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ColinWright
Same story, much discussion: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2840626>
Documenting the re-submissions: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2840900>
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Microservices without the Servers - alexbilbie
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/microservices-without-the-servers/
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baconmania
This is Amazon's wet dream. Your app isn't an app at all, it's just a
collection of configs on the AWS Console. When and if the time comes to
migrate off of AWS, you realize you don'... | {
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} |
Haiku R1/beta2 has been released - waddlesplash
https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2020-06-09_haiku_r1_beta2/
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charlesdaniels
I'm glad to see Haiku is still making progress!
I really enjoy the visual style of Haiku. The look-n-feel of it seems better
to me than any other UI I've seen, and I say that as someone who n... | {
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} |
Pediff – tools for visually comparing web pages - duxet
https://github.com/Schibsted-Tech-Polska/stp.pediff
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anomie
We've been using a similar tool ([https://github.com/BBC-
News/wraith](https://github.com/BBC-News/wraith)) for a little while now and
it's transformed our way of working - 50 page layouts x 5 re... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Why are managed database services so expensive? - g_delgado14
I noticed that on virtually any platform that provides managed databases (Digital Ocean, GCP, AWS, etc etc) has non-linear price increases. I use a managed db service personally and it's easily 90% of my infrastructure bill. Why is that? What&#... | {
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Company sent email to 400+ applicants without BCC. Hilarity and stupidity ensued - eru_melkor
http://i.imgur.com/mXJk5xN.jpg
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nougatine
Either my sense of humour is different or this is not hilarious at all.
Embarrassing for the company, maybe, but hilarious?
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pyrophane
Well, stupidity anyway. Do programm... | {
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Nobody Cares - timf
http://bhorowitz.com/2011/10/08/nobody-cares/
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jessedhillon
At the risk of pounding the Jobs-is-dead meme too hard, this reminds me of a
good story I read recently about Steve Jobs:
_Jobs tells the VP that if the garbage in his office is not being emptied
regularly for some reason, he would... | {
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Tesla and Tucker – Similarities Between Automakers - jonbaer
http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a21094/what-tesla-needs-to-learn-from-tucker/
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Animats
The law here is the FTC's "Mail Order Rule".[1] Properly, Tesla allows
consumers to cancel your order at any time and receive a full refund. The
other requireme... | {
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An Algorithm That Unscrambles Fractured Images - sgy
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/534146/the-algorithm-that-unscrambles-fractured-images/
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evanb
This reminds me of dual photography:
[http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/dual_photography/](http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/dual_photography/)
in the sen... | {
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Unsupervised sentiment neuron - gdb
https://blog.openai.com/unsupervised-sentiment-neuron/
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ericjang
Why are people being so critical about this work? Sure, the blog post provides
a simplified picture about what the system is actually capable of, but it's
still helpful for a non-ML audience to get a better under... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Ballmer says Microsoft intends to become industry leader in cloud computing - eplanit
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/12/AR2010071205166.html?wprss=rss_technology
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marssaxman
Ballmer says a lot of things. It has been years since Microsoft has
successfully followed through on its in... | {
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} |
Firefox 79 - caution
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/07/firefox-79/
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shantara
Android version comes with a completely new design, and empty "What's new"
section in Google Play gave no indication it's going be such a major change.
Even more importantly, it has overridden data collection preferences after the
upda... | {
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} |
Why Slogging and Schlepping Are Key Startup Values - sk2code
http://www.fastcompany.com/3006142/paul-graham-and-buster-benson-why-slogging-and-schlepping-are-key-startup-values
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jeremyjh
One pattern that has held-back my personal side-projects from ever achieving
any real value (other than my own education) is... | {
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Why Elephants Don’t Explode: How Nature Solves Bigness - aaossa
http://noticing.co/on-size-and-metabolism/
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Terr_
This reminds me of an old (1928) piece titled "On Being The Right Size" by JBS
Haldane [0], which lightly touches on many different concerns related to
sizing:
> Of course tall land animals have oth... | {
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The creator of Pepe the Frog is suing Infowars - noyaav
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/07/us/pepe-frog-infowars-lawsuit-matt-furie-trnd/index.html
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tinus_hn
Their argument is they have 1st amendment protection. Good luck with that!
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What is SageMathCloud: let's clear some things up - williamstein
http://sagemath.blogspot.com/2014/08/what-is-sagemathcloud-lets-clear-some.html
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fafner
I really hope SMC succeeds. Sage is pretty awesome and probably the closest
thing we have as a free software alternative to things like Mathematica. But
Sage ... | {
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Windows update knocks out internet connections - AndrewDucker
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38301548
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EKSolutions
So Microsoft recommend rebooting your machine and then if that doesn't work,
go to their website for further instructions?
It's "Keyboard not found, press any key to continue" all over again!... | {
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} |
Amazon Fulfillment Center Tours - savara
http://amazonfctours.com/
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hackcasual
Down for me, archive.org from September: [https://web-
beta.archive.org/web/20160917172140/http://amazo...](https://web-
beta.archive.org/web/20160917172140/http://amazonfctours.com)
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ShowHN: LinkThing - dreadsword
http://www.linkthing.co
This is not a startup, and there's no business here. Its a "scratching an itch" weekend project. I'm a link junkie, and like to save big collections of stuff - be it travel info for an upcoming trip, funny gifs, or whatehaveyou. There's no social, and no discover... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Scientist quits antimissile panel, saying task is impossible (1985) - Thimothy
http://www.nytimes.com/1985/07/12/world/scientist-quits-antimissile-panel-saying-task-is-impossible.html
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dogma1138
Things have surely changes in 30 years, because effective missile defense is a
reality these days.
That said SDI wasn... | {
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} |
The Avenger (2015) - Thevet
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/09/28/the-avenger
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dang
Discussed at the time:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10251586](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10251586)
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Startup Conversations With Myself: What Should I Work On? - bdfh42
http://onstartups.com/home/tabid/3339/bid/8853//Startup-Conversations-With-Myself-What-Should-I-Work-On.aspx
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elv
imo the only thing you should work on is THAT thing that keep you up all
nights and that you cant get it out of your head: your pa... | {
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JQuery for LaTeX in HTML - tav
http://groups.google.com/group/whits/browse_thread/thread/d3bdfcde37ebcb2e/75c0c952b2e46019?show_docid=75c0c952b2e46019
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jasondavies
See also: <http://www.mathjax.org/>
Used in <http://mathoverflow.net/>
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Ask HN: What tips or tricks do you use for fast and efficient note taking? - mtrpcic
I often find myself wanting to document various pieces of information during meetings or my commute, but often the information is coming at me faster than I can put it all on paper. I end up getting flustered and the quality of my ... | {
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Ask HN: How did you implement Authorisation/Access Control for your SaaS product - devj
I have been tasked to implement access control in a multi-tenant SaaS product. Would be really helpful if you can share your experiences in implementing RBAC/ABAC/etc and also point to relevant articles or OSS projects to... | {
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Trade in your iPad, get a $200 gift card - kapkapkap
http://content.microsoftstore.com/en-us/offers?WT.mc_id=PromoEmail_iPadTradein_9-5-13_GetDetails#offer-tablet-trade
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t0
Their recycler ([http://cexchange.com/](http://cexchange.com/)) will resell
the iPads to cover the $200 loss, which will actually create m... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Former Google exec, Android founder accused of having a 'sex ring' in complaint - CPLX
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2019/07/02/android-creator-andy-rubin-accused-having-sex-ring-ex-wife/1634963001/
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nske
"Sex ring"? What does that even mean? A company exec liked sex, was likely
unfaithful towa... | {
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Ask HN: Does this software exist? - ScottWhigham
As a musician on the side, I've come across a "problem" that I'm hoping someone can help me solve. Here's the "problem":<p>* I have a group of songs that I play (let's say 50) that is a fairly static list<p>* I want to be able to plan out set lists based on those song... | {
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How Space Cadet pinball won the Windows desktop - davidst
http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/headline-story/14948/space-cadet-pinball-windows-history/
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mrspeaker
In 2005 I started to dabble with reverse engineering, and the first target I
ever attempted was 3D Pinball... and amazingly enough I found a ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Anker’s minuscule 27W USB-C brick - robin_reala
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/10/25/18022106/anker-powerport-atom-pd-1-27w-usb-c-brick-gallium-nitride
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ggm
Schuko, British and Aussie pinouts?
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Ask HN: Why are FOSS projects beginner unfriendly? - thewhitetulip
I have been in the FOSS community since a few years now and projects either lack documentation or they don't actually support new comers to the projects. I faced an issue recently about docs too, it seems like big projects do not care about total ... | {
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UI / UX Design Interviews – Luca Burgio - frankiefreesbie
https://medium.com/ux-design-interviews/3a4d85289cc3
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frankiefreesbie
Frank : The “design” is an important part of our analogic life. What is the
role of the designer in our digital life?
Luca : I think now design has a central role in our digital life... | {
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Why Users Abandon Forms with Select Menus - antimid
http://uxmovement.com/forms/why-users-abandon-forms-with-select-menus/
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kileywm
The article suggests radio buttons instead of most select menus.
I can appreciate the ease with which one can skim radio buttons vs select
options; however, once there are more tha... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Automate OS Image Build Pipelines with EC2 Image Builder - Trisell
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/automate-os-image-build-pipelines-with-ec2-image-builder/
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alexellisuk
Does this remove the need for packer?
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'Sonic Attack' Symptoms Reportedly Spreading to US Diplomats Around the World - mikece
https://gizmodo.com/bizarre-sonic-attack-symptoms-reportedly-spreading-to-u-1827132459
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fithisux
Mass hysteria?
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Cost of Employer-Provided Health Insurance Rises Toward $19k a Year - myroon5
https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/cost-of-employer-provided-health-insurance-rises-toward-19-000-a-year-1505838600
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costcopizza
I don't think employers should even offer health insurance.
Leave it to the consumer to buy just like all o... | {
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What kind of developer do I need? - xxshadmakuxx
Hello, I'm looking do develop what I would believe to be a web-based app. I do not possess the technical skills to create it myself so I'm kind of in the dark as to where to start and what kind of developer I'd even need. The Idea itself is not particular... | {
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JavaScript with apples: var vs. let vs. const - ggregoire
https://twitter.com/kosamari/status/806941856777011200
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jayajay
I just stopped using `var` entirely, and now I almost exclusively use `const`
everywhere unless I'm dealing with flags or counters in which case I use
`let`.
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draw_down
Yep, there is no (... | {
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Ask HN: Best way to block an EC2-hosted scraper? - brandnewlow
Hey, HN,<p>Windy Citizen gets slooooow about once every hour and according to our logs, around this same time, someone or something is making a ton of requests to our RSS feeds, grabbing hundreds of them at once.<p>From what I can tell, the thing grabbing ... | {
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Ask HN: This guy copied my site / idea. What should i do? - adamqureshi
I have a start up i launched a year ago. Its making me some side income. https://onlyusedtesla.com/<p>Then a customer of mine sent me this:
https://usedtesla.io/<p>Anyone have any advice on what todo? Im not really th... | {
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Impedance Mismatch - johns
http://www.unfactor.com/blogengine.net/post/2008/05/Impedance-Mismatch.aspx
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michael_dorfman
A nice piece. I'm not sure why some people find the notion that the object
model is usually different from the database model so difficult to understand
or accept. I've seen more than one pro... | {
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Apple offers Safari users safer browsing with USB security key support - tuiopopiutoiu
https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/06/apple-safari-usb-security-key-support/
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ERD0L
Safari is so underrated, if only FF could be better on Mac
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Synaesthesia
I love Safari, for it’s syncing with my phone and password features... | {
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Ask HN: How did you hack your home? - selmat
Do you have any DIY hacks you have made in your home?<p>Any usefull or just interesting project with rpy, arduino, custom atmel and other diy platform count.
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ocdtrekkie
Oddly, my favorite is an LED strip in my bathroom. It's very subtly animated,
but the point is, it... | {
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} |
Think the heatwave was bad? Climate already hitting key tipping points - pseudolus
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-heatwaves/think-the-heatwave-was-bad-climate-already-hitting-key-tipping-points-idUSKCN1UN065
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mnm1
I really hope this can be done without the help and with the actual opposition
f... | {
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} |
Apple suppliers aim to resume full production in China despite coronavirus fears - exposay
https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-suppliers-aim-resume-full-production-china-february-coronavirus-fears-2020-2
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tpmx
Electronic component suppliers (e.g Distrelec) started sending "we're on top
of this, promise"-type e... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Riot Games Approach to Anti-Cheat - cammm
https://engineering.riotgames.com/news/riots-approach-anti-cheat
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exgamedev
Back when I worked in games we would detect cheaters and then shadow ban.
Quarantine them by only matching them into games with other cheaters.
You may still have to ban them from certain elemen... | {
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} |
OCaml: what you gain - edwintorok
http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2014/02/13/ocaml-what-you-gain/
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nathell
I have very fond memories of OCaml. It was OCaml that introduced me to
functional programming, way back in 2000 in my freshman year at the uni. I'm a
Lisper/Clojurian these days, but I think warmly of OCaml's... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Sort image downloads automatically using Stowbots - nlowell
http://stowbots.com
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nlowell
Hi everyone,
Super excited to share this with you all!
I'll be in the comments for any questions.
| {
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} |
Tesla remotely extends range of vehicles for free in Florida - riccardo_gr
https://electrek.co/2017/09/09/tesla-extends-range-vehicles-for-free-in-florida-escape-hurricane-irma/amp/
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eponeponepon
non-AMP version here: [https://electrek.co/2017/09/09/tesla-extends-range-
vehicles-...](https://electrek.co/2017/09/... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Best Developer Tools? - fapi1974
I’m writing a blog post about the best developer tools available at various points in the app lifecycle – everything from design to build to market and monetize. I put together a survey, which you can access here:<p>https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CVMDYQW<p>Or you can just u... | {
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} |
In praise of Dewey - wallflower
https://aeon.co/essays/dewey-knew-how-to-teach-democracy-and-we-must-not-forget-it
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spodek
One of my favorite observations from John Dewey is that children constantly
ask questions... except in the classroom. It's worth thinking about for a
while and what it says about our goals i... | {
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} |
Hardcore C++: why "this" sometimes doesn't equal "this" - AndreyKarpov
http://joostdevblog.blogspot.ru/2013/03/hardcore-c-why-this-sometimes-doesnt.html
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yew
It's worth noting that (at least as far as I'm aware) the standard doesn't
require this method of implementing multiple inheritance.
Although most imple... | {
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} |
FBI operating fleet of surveillance aircraft flying over US cities - denzil_correa
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/02/fbi-surveillance-government-planes-cities
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deathhand
> _The FBI asked the AP not to disclose the names of the fake companies it
> uncovered, saying that would saddle taxpayers with th... | {
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} |
Even GitHub’s innocent Octocat has a hidden face - adichat
https://medium.com/@adityatakesnote/even-githubs-innocent-octocat-has-an-hidden-face-d3eb3599c3ff
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t0mbstone
I expected this article to be an analysis of the Octocat logo, showing some
sort of hidden face.
Instead, it was just a bunch of random facts ab... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
SILE Typesetting System - gkya
http://sile-typesetter.org/what-is/
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qznc
Compared to TeX I miss two things: Math mode and TikZ.
One of the quality marks of TeX for me, is that the fonts match everywhere.
For inline math, the x-height of normal and math font is the same. The font
and text size used in plots is i... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
AWS Rekognition vs. Microsoft Cognitive Services vs. VisageCloud - bocse
https://www.facebook.com/VisageCloud/posts/1509145412440473
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bocse
More details on [https://visagecloud.com](https://visagecloud.com)
| {
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} |
Show HN: Scaling NPM in VMs with Npmserve - whockey
https://blog.plaid.com/npmserve/
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polymathist
Wow! I think it's worth emphasizing that in the given example, the time taken
to install all dependencies went from 8m10s to 7.5s. Seems like a huge
productivity boon for any teams working with Node.
~~~
ilaksh
Is ... | {
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} |
Ranking Programming Languages by Size of Community and Number of Projects - ghurlman
http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2010/12/ranking-programming-languages.php
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timtadh
Original blog post here: [http://www.dataists.com/2010/12/ranking-the-
popularity-of-pr...](http://www.dataists.com/2010/12/ranking-the-populari... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Surveillance Capitalism - bottle2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism
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dang
For a topic as well-covered as this
([https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...](https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=comments%3E0%20Surveillance%20Capitalism&sort=byDate... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Copycattery (and why it won't serve you) - pjrvs
http://pjrvs.com/copycats/
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pjrvs
I welcome comments here or on twitter (@pjrvs), since I don't use comments on
my own site.
| {
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} |
Appleseed 1.8.0-beta - franzb
https://github.com/appleseedhq/appleseed/releases/tag/1.8.0-beta
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chakharsh14
1.8.0 Beta is really a good release. Lots of improvement and fixes been made.
Kudos to whole Appleseed development team.
[https://show-box.ooo/](https://show-box.ooo/)
| {
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} |
Luminati – Anonymity Network for Web Crawlers - luminati
http://luminati.io/
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rcsorensen
What's the cost?
How are the tunnels set up?
This looks very much like it could be a thin pricing layer over a hacked
botnet, which wouldn't be right to support at all.
~~~
hobs
If you look at the parent company (hola.org... | {
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} |
Sharon Van Etten found the drive to make music again - kikitee
https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/music-2/remind-me-tomorrow-interview-sharon-van-etten/
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markoman
Her most well known song is 'Every time the sun comes up', which features in
the Volvo Wedding & Lighthouse commerical which came out a few year... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Why jwz uses Safari instead of Firefox - pavel_lishin
http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/04/why-i-use-safari-instead-of-firefox/
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mdaniel
I have moral opposition to using any browser that is deeply integrated into
the OS. We have seen IE, and let us hope that we do not return to that dark
age. I would never claim t... | {
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} |
Reline – reformatting text width of files and piped text - CodeHustler
https://github.com/JaredMHall/reline
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pwg
How does this differ from the 'fmt' utility included in the GNU textutils set?
~~~
CodeHustler
I thought that fmt only separated text by columns not by characters or words?
~~~
pwg
You are thinkin... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How does one get into energy entrepreneurship (e.g. solar)? - zxcvvcxz
Say I want to manufacture/sell solar modules to buildings in my city or something like that. Where would one get started? Background/theoretical knowledge is an obvious starting point, but then...?
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mchannon
Having done ex... | {
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} |
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