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Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation
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Oh god. I had the pleasure of seeing one of their new executives speak. An ex-Microsoft guy.I won't be surprised at all when they alienate their userbase with a pointless redesign that adds nothing of substance.The kinds of people that are working at Reddit now are the kinds of people who are not creative and incapable of creating something original. They are the kinds of people who join a tech company solely to ride off the coat tails of those who came before them with original ideas and substance.Naturally, since they don't understand the original desire and intent they are not able to contribute anything new or original. So how they contribute is instead by a route redesign of something that already exists.Redesigns are generally not about improving upon something that was there before. They are a political process for who can get control over something popular that someone already made.
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Software development and screen readers at 450 words per minute
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FYI for anyone interested: There is a google group called Blind Dev Works. It is run by a blind developer. (I am co-admin, but it is his group.)https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/blind-dev-works
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A newly discovered moon tunnel
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Speaking of "moon tunnels" why not send TBMs up thete and mine whateveratetials are in the crust while building fused wall smooth habitats and transportation and hydroponic garming areas, etc. Id build it at the poles so that sumligjt is fairly readily available all "lunar day" otherwise you need some nuclear power up there or solar power station at the poles beaming mw power.
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Gmail Launches Add-ons
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I was a Gmail user since 2004 or so, relying on the Web client. It was good, the message threading worked, labels were strictly greater than folder structure, and archiving to "all mail" is an excellent notion.The web UI has gone to crap lately, it being overly bloated, not refreshing inbox anymore after a while, getting rid of plain text (though this was a long time ago). The message composition editor is a mess!I tried gmail with mutt, I tried gmail with mu4e. They didn't quite replicate the good bits what I wanted. To overcome the psychological barrier I changed email vendors and jumped to mu4e workflow with a fresh start. This is readily a better experience and since I didn't have to worry about fully replicating the Gmail experience I was able to "settle for less".
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Nasdaq Plans to Introduce Bitcoin Futures
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If the bitcoin price was increasing linearly people would not be blaming the technology so much. Rapid exponential growth followed by abrupt decline in repeated cycles makes people confused.
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List of oldest companies: Before 1300
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Wow Japan totally dominates the lists! I wonder how they do that.
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Stuffing a Tesla Drivetrain into a 1981 Honda Accord
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One day I'll take my '67 VW Bus and put a nice powerful engine in it. Maybe one of the early 90s Porsche engines (as it would be nice to stay air-cooled and Porsche has VW heritage).But damn it's an expensive hobby to even own an older car - let alone mod it.
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Getting any Facebook user's friend list and partial payment card details
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What bounty did he receive for filing this?
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Inheritance Often Doesn't Make Sense
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I'm not convinced the sqr rect example is the best one, at least to say inheritance is wrong. I think this is an example of how not to use inheritance. In my mind the base class should be shape (not rect) or four-sided shape, or whatever the name is for shapes with non-curved sides.Just me?
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Amazon Aurora Backtrack
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If you use Datomic with DynamoDB, this feature is available at Query level.
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Twitter Will Show Who Pays for Ads and How Much They Spend
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I hope this sounds the alarm on how shockingly cheap it is to promote political extremism on these platforms. Donald Trump saw much cheaper effective ad rates than Clinton on social media by crafting viral outrage memes as ads.It will be interesting to look at the effective CPM rates of various candidates on Twitter using this data. I'm hoping they don't just show how many people were shown the Tweet as an ad, but also those who saw it from organic distribution via retweet.I think you'll find that outrageous, incendiary politicians pay a lot less per view than reasonable ones.
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Writing copy for landing pages
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Can anyone recommend any services that provide copy critiques like Stripe did to the websites in this post? I don't have the time to read and digest the book suggestions and I don't want to open a business with Stripe Atlas.
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Discord raises $150M, surpassing $2B valuation
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You know, this might be a linguistic nit, and likely not a popular one to mention on HN, but...I find it awfully odd to use the word "surpassing" to describe valuation, given that valuation is a number on paper. "Surpassing" is for something where there were expectations to exceed; or an arduous challenge overcome to the surprise of onlookers.Valuation is an expectation; by definition it cannot be exceeded. While running a company is surely arduous, the most interesting challenge and the place to surpass expectations is not in the board room where the valuation is decided; and whether the math is massaged to offer a valuation a few decimal digits above or below a nice round $2B is more a foible of those in the room than any real indication of... anything.Odd phrasing, to say "surpassing" here. It's numeric assignment.
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iOS Menu
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Funny, a couple years ago I thought a lot about pulling off visualeffectviews with rounded edges when making thimblemac.com, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26518520/how-to-make-a-s... goes a bit into the various os-version-specific ways people have done this
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Remote code execution vulnerability in apt/apt-get
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If this were one of those bugs that do the full PR bullshit run and use a catchy name and a landing page, I'd propose it be called "Inapt"
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I Bought a House with Solar Panels
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There’s a couple things wrong with this article and I have a decent understanding of why Jug (RIP) did what he did. (I worked at Sunrun and created this fake account to hide identity; I worked in finance). Not to bash the sales reps or trainers, but they are so far removed from the financing of the product they don’t know what’s going on.First, at the end the sales rep who provided the #s is bullshit. The sales reps are notorious for inputting whatever #s they want into the internal SFDC system so the average monthly bill isn’t accurate. This isn’t an exception, it’s their own rule to accelerate sales (management does not tell them to do this. To be specific)The 2.9% escalator is an aggressive and risky product, but requires zero upfront and an incredibly low initial $/kWh. He more than likely was saving money and would have been for at least several years. I don’t know his intentions but you can read between the lines and I don’t want to talk about the dead.Also, I forget if Conedison does tier pricing, but if it did with all his gadgets, his bill would have been through the roof.Lastly, Sunrun does offer cash/loan/0%/1.9%/prepaid products, and if I were to go for a cash deal, I would use Sunrun/Vivint/SolarCity because it’s a huge headache to coordinate with developers and file all the correct paperwork.
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Ikonate – fully customisable and accessible vector icons
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There's a certain irony in having the link to the accessibility disclaimer be so hard to target.
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Half of England Is Owned by Less Than 1% of Its Population, Researcher Says
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This is the crowd that wants to stay in europe- if you get support per square kilometer for farming, and you are a noble with a estate- this is why you want the poor to support the rich.
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SACK Panic – Multiple TCP-based remote denial-of-service issues
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Folks,imo, TSO is intel NIC card function, does this affect others like from Cavium CPU?thanks
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BLUF: A military standard to make writing more powerful
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BLUF is great until you realize that people just want you to write "BLUF: ipsem lorem" and that is all they read, and then then you get the same problem of having to explain your email body to someone over and over again. I can't stand BLUF for anything besides the most simple asinine events that happen.
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How a double-free bug in WhatsApp turns to remote code execution
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I recall someone once designed an image format which stored (image width - 1), and added 1 to the image dimensions while decoding. That eliminates an edge case, but no clue what would happen with MAX_INT image size...
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An electric crate motor you can drop into your car
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This sounds great for a small 4 cylinder vehicle - until you start thinking about most cars today only have power steering so a manual steering box isn't available. Then you need a 12V battery to operate most of the lights, speedometer, radio, etc. What do you charge this with? If you do a step down transformer there's more of your range eaten up. Then there's other power stuff: seats, wonders, wipers and roofs. More range bye-bye. Sounds like you would still need some other power source to make all of the modern creature comforts in a standard ICE powered vehicle operate.
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Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings
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I'll repost what I posted on my Facebook timeline since it seems relevant to this discussion. One thing I'd like to add though: given how things have changed over the past decade, the culture at Google is no longer just a shareholder or employee concern: it is a societal concern. Companies like Google and Facebook own our lives and it is in humanity's interest that the company be under proper leadership. The alternative is more regulation on these kinds of companies (which probably isn't a bad thing in any case).It has been a decade since I worked at Google, but this makes me really sad.To be fair, the Google culture had its fair share of problems with whiny, entitled little shits and "brogrammers". And it has had its some spectacularly bad executives who are probably irredeemable assholes as well as executives who are too weak to keep their colleagues in line.But even at around 30.000 employees it was a fundamentally good place to work.Yes, it was competitive as fuck, but that's what happens when you have a high density of talent and ambition in one place. Much of the internal competitiveness was good. At least the way I saw it. I haven't worked many places where you start to work on something, only to discover that someone else is working on the same thing and this becomes a positive. You can collaborate and/or compete. And both can, and did, lead to better outcomes.Of course, occasionally you'd have deadbeats that would game the system and use the efforts of others to promote themselves unfairly, but largely I think people deserved their success.A few friends of mine still at Google have told me that the company I worked for is gone. It is a different company now. More corporate. Less open. Less creative. Less fun.
Most don't really talk about Google anymore. Be it in positive or negative terms.TGIF was among the things that set Google apart. That even inspired other companies and led them to understand that it is important to bring the top and bottom of the company in contact with each other on a regular basis.I don't buy that Google has outgrown TGIF. I think the problem is that top management simply haven't been capable of evolving. I suspect Sundar Pichai simply isn't able to lead the company in a manner that can preserve what was good about Google. If "only" 25% of employees follow TGIF (which would be a great turnout for most companies) that's on Sundar. That is his failure as a leader. It isn't that the company has outgrown it.And that's sad, because when the soul of a company dies, eventually, so will its ability to attract talent and perform. It'll be a slow decline. But this is nonetheless a clear symptom of decline.Sundar needs to get his act together or Larry needs to find a more suitable CEO.
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Recreation.gov
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The launch this year was a bit rough for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) permits here in Minnesota. They limit permits to lakes, and the holiday weekends go fast, so I'm one of those who makes the Labor day plans (etc) in January.Mine worked. Lovely site, knew exactly what I was headed to, and got my permits. Seems others had issues if they had to search around. Entire thing sounds like it shook apart later that morning. They canceled the reservations and did a second 'launch', which was the right thing to do. I don't know of anyone who thought they had booked, canceled, and could not get a permit later. Successfully turned a terrible kickoff into something OK.
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The Ripe NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses
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I hope all home provision moves to CGNAT IPv4; IPV6 are too easy to track, and every ISP that I've seen ties the prefix to the customer.Who cares about cookies, 1st party or 3rd party, when you have a unique ~60 bit per customer identifier?My ISP gives un-natted IPv4, but I get a different one each time I reboot the modem, which I do every now and then.
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Alcoholics Anonymous vs. other approaches: the evidence is now in
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Someone else mentioned this and I agree wholeheartedly. I think unless you have a physical addiction to something, you just need to discard it and "forget" about it.For drinking, I think the new Heineken 0.0 is a game changer. You can go out to a bar and hold one and drink, get the placebo effect.
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Army Corps of Engineers to Build Temporary Hospitals in NY
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All of those shipping container to modular homes should be working on making mobile hospital wards.Doesn't need to be fancy, just functional and better than being in a tent.Need someone to coordinate it though.
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Temporal circuit of brain activity supports human consciousness
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I'll be the asshole here: this is crap. They took some weak correlations (anti-correlations whatever) between conscious brains and 'unconscious' brains induced via Ketamine. The rest of the paper is just creating new jargon for large vague regions of the brain, and tons of jump-the-shark assumptions about how they work together.Most notably, there's no mention of STDP, nor the cingulate gyrus, or any reference to the fine-structure internals of the brain.
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I gave away my books and sales increased
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What's the best way to get a paper copy? I see Amazon for the DevOps book; are they the easiest to deal with? Most reliable? Highest margin?
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Millions of Americans skipping payments as wave of defaults and evictions looms
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This is the main reason I have been scratching my head thinking how the hell is NASDAQ going up. Though might just be sour that I didn't go back in after getting at the right time
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Trump says he will ban TikTok through executive action
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Explanation of the current legal structure that can be used to ban/force divestment of TikTok:https://www.lawfareblog.com/tiktok-and-law-primer-case-you-n...In short, a president has substantial powers (granted by Congress via IEEPA and CFIUS) to institute a ban or force a divestment of any company "engaged in interstate commerce in the United States", if "national emergency" or "national security" is involved. So, legally, it seems that president can ban TikTok, under certain conditions (that may not be so difficult to achieve). The link above only explains the current legal framework, not whether banning the TikTok is in itself a good or a bad thing. IANAL, so I can't judge the competence of the presented arguments, but it is written by a respected law professor.
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Ask HN: How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” Stripe rule?
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If anyone is interested in talking about fraud prediction or high risk adult payment transactions, I have been looking at this space and think there are some interesting opportunities. Email in profile.
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Ami, a tiny cube on wheels that French 14-year-olds can drive
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France has had a long tradition of these "Voiture sans permis" (car without permit), which usually had a limit on weight and power. They were popular among teenagers learning to drive, poorer residents who couldn't afford larger cars, and unfortunately occasionally drunks who couldn't qualify for a regular license.In fact, most of Europe for a long time had multiple tiers of licenses for "regular" cars. It's my understanding that part of the popularity of the three wheeled Reliant Robin was caused by the fact that until 2001 you could drive it with a Motorcycle license, which I presume is much easier to get than a full car license. Also, I believe it was cheap.
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Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in your terminal
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I hate the "ctrl+S" to save IMO. On Mac ctrl+S is not used to save, cmd+S is. Don't assume what OS it's being run on.
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Publisher Nacon Cracked and Pirated Our Game: The Sinking City
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Isn't what Nacon did illegal under the anti-circumvention provision of the DMCA?
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Ask HN: Those who quit their jobs to travel the world, how did it go?
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I travelled the world for 13 months with my partner and our two daughters (4 and 6 when we left) in 2017/2018. We talk about our experiences on that trip all of the time.We didn't work at that time, unless you count being an amateur travel agent, which actually a lot of work.We are actively attempting to design our lives in a way that would allow us to do it again.Needless to say, it was incredible. I would do it again. It cost us a lot (in both money spent and opportunity costs), but I would easily pay 2x (and we certainly could have done it cheaper).Then, when I got home, I receive multiple job offers (which I mostly avoided). So, it did not harm long-term earning potential (and given how much people admire the story, may have improved it).
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Lou Ottens, inventor of cassette tape, has died
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I love the character of cassette tapes. They aren't my primary medium for listening to music, but I'll be damned if they don't sound pleasant to the ear.
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)
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NoiseAware | Front-End Developer | Remote (we're based in Dallas) | Full-Time | noiseaware.comNoiseAware was created in the wake of one party that went too far. Which meant in the beginning, our goal was simple: prevent incidents at rental properties with noise monitoring technology. And that was a great start. Our smart sensors speak for themselves in how effective they are at preventing costly damage without sacrificing the privacy of guests. We've continued to grow and evolve our solutions and are growing our team quickly.Strong experience needed in AWS, Kubernetes, Go, and Vue.Competitive salary, benefits, stock options.https://jobs.lever.co/noiseaware/ba54e151-9b28-4c99-846c-9dc...You can apply by following the job posting or emailing me directly at kerry [at] noiseaware.ioWe're also hiring a Cloud Solutions Architect.
https://jobs.lever.co/noiseaware/5467fab6-55a8-402d-a9af-0ad...
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iOS 14.6 device hacked with a zero-click iMessage exploit to install Pegasus
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Does anyone know if there is a publicly available list of the 50k numbers that were exploited by this software?
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Captcha pictures force you to look at the world the way an AI does
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Why do they keep using captchas when this test of humanity has such a major flaw and there are so many people with this degree of visual disability who can still easily use computers? Don't programmers know there are laws against that? I know they don't care but to choose it as a means of proof of humanity - a test considered illegal in many countries - seems truly backward of technology.
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Work Hard (2007)
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>"It is also important to direct your effort in a fruitful direction rather than a fruitless one"This is actually the most critical sentence in the entire article.I read an article somewhere, maybe 25 or 30 years ago, that was about this exact topic.Some successful scientist, I don't even remember his name now, was asked about his success.He said that others worked just as hard and diligently. But his skill was in selecting the projects that had a high degree of probability of success. He would watch others in his profession and see how they made horrible choices in the selection of their work. The unsuccessful people made a series of unwise choices. Tilting at windmills that had exceptionally poor chance of success, areas where there was no funding available or very difficult to get funding, and all sorts of other problems.The same thing is true with everything. For example, lots of people start businesses that are shitty selection right off the bat - they have almost zero chance of success before they even begin. All teh perfect execution and hard work will be for naught. The founder has blinders on.You always hear about the successes. People always say false things like, the idea is 1%, execution is 99% of it. Not true. It's more like, the idea is worth 99%, and the execution is the other 99% of success. Trust me, I've seen a LOT of great execution on shit ideas and the company goes down the drain. You just never hear of them. And by the way, this is in regards to ideas that are actually have a corporation started around them, as opposed to just aimlessly talking about ideas.Anyways, take what you will from what I just wrote.
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GateBoy – A gate-level simulation of the original Game Boy hardware
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This is awesome!
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Tell HN: Amplitude (YC W12) just went public – AMA
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Please tell us the story of getting your first customer
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Convoy Crackdown – power to freeze bank accounts without trial or legal recourse
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5th grade social studies lesson from 2080:By the 2020’s western state power is no longer exercised through employment of a physical law enforcement corps. The middle class is sufficiently controlled by a centralized financial structure, but the social protection capacity of the state has become overwhelmed by both the numbers of the underclass and the wealth of the overclass. This is often presented as an intentional political position, but it should be easy to see that this was just a pragmatic alignment with the inevitable reality. A pandemic pushes the state into a position to assert absolute power, and a series of protests arise to test that power, while investors enter a mania for alternative financial systems. The differences in response to the various threats to state power raise the ultimate question of this learning unit: Is there such a thing as a power based on and constrained by the consent of the governed, or is a government only legitimized by its ability to exert and retain power in the form of control over the governed?
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Ask HN: Teach me something new
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One of the most deceptively dangerous projects that a DIYer can take on is bathroom wall tiling re-grouting. Tiles may not have a strong bond to their substrate and once you remove the grout may fall into the tub/floor, usually breaking. Then, when you search for tile replacements you find no perfect match for your old tile. Always put a heavily padded rug or blankets over the tub before doing tile work so that fallen tile do not break. Also, if you re-tile, buy a lot of extras and keep them stored safely. Oscillating multi-tools are the best for removing old grout, but their vibrations will shake the wall, loosing tiles that you've removed grout from.
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Few people grasp the amount of effort Daniel Gackle expends running HN (2020)
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For those not wanting to be forced to login or don't have an account to read comments: https://nitter.net/paulg/status/1282055086433284103
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FCC to remove companies from robocall database for non-compliance [pdf]
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I’ve gone a completely different route and only allow whitelisted calls to my phone - and just to make sure there is no confusion if I received a call or not I’ve disabled voice mail on my line as well.Anyone who wants to contact me and is not on the whitelist sends postal mail, which is significantly more expensive then a phone call, and that has proven to be a huge deterrent.Debt collectors chasing down long dormant charge-offs will happily ring my phone off the hook if given a chance but they won’t spring for first class postage or proof of delivery.
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SHA-3 Buffer Overflow
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LibreSSL-based implementations seem unaffected. I can calculate that hash using hashlib without a segfault.
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Falcon Heavy Launch [video]
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How come you dont see or hear a sonic boom when the go faster as sound or did i miss that?
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White House deletes tweet after Twitter adds 'context' note
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> Seniors are getting the biggest increase in their Social Security checks in 10 years through President Biden’s leadershipThe further bit of context is this is because inflation is at its highest level in 40 years. Not sure it was wise to tee that up as a comment on "President Biden’s leadership."
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Apple 'created decoy labor group' to derail unionization
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Apple fights right to repair same way - creating fake self repair program to pretend its all solved.
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Raspberry Pi security alarm – the basics
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A significant number of homes already have wireless sensors installed. Almost all of these sensors (glass break, motion, contact, key fob, etc) can be monitored via sdr using rtl_433.I always thought it would be a pretty viable start up business to sell a security system in a box for people with existing security equipment. Connect the security system in a box and then open and close your door/window/etc to begin monitoring those wireless events.Shameless plug: I wrote the rtl_433 GE/Interlogix sensor protocol decoder.
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Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?
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Let's compare:The law and order way:- Pay $$$ for a dozen of separate services, still have a lot of content not available to you- Be forced into using crappy apps which may or may not be available on your favorite platform- You could pay for years, but you never own anything - the moment you stop paying, you are left with nothing at all- Be prepared for your favorite series be yanked from the service in the middle of your watching it because some lawyers didn't agree- Be shown long idiotic un-skippable ads 4-5 times per hour- Be unable to share your content with family, at least legally, and often be limited in number of devices allowed to access content- The content is available only when you are online and with good internet connection- If the content you're interested in is old or foreign or both - sucks to be you- Maybe you'll get subtitles. Maybe not. Roll the dice.- If the company decides the content is "not agreeable with modern sensibilities", they'd just remove it and you have no way to access it anymore- If you don't know which service owns a particular piece of content, maybe there's a third-party service that knows that. Maybe not. Certainly nobody among content owners cares.The Arrgh and Jolly Roger way:- Pay nothing- No ads ever- Get access to the content that is convertable to any format known to man and will play on any device- All the content can be made available offline and ported to any device that can play a video or talk standard media player protocol- Infinite shareablity to any devices in your household- You get it once, you have it forever and can store it for as long as you like, for zero cost- You can get practically any content, no matter how old and what the twitter mob thinks about it- You can get it translated and with subtitles in many languages, in formats supported by devices from mobile phone to smart TV- There are many specialized search engines allowing to find any piece of content that exists, and usually it takes minutes, not hoursSo, am I open to piracy? Hmm... Tough question.
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Comcast gave false map data to FCC
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> I expect more from a government body like the FCCWe need people who expect things to be better than they are. I'm not sure anyone who's been following the FCC for the last 10 years or so would really expect better. As pointed out elsewhere, Comcast won't get in any trouble for lying through their teeth.
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Starbucks illegally fired US workers over union, judge rules
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I like how the article states that "In recent months [Starbucks] has raised pay and made other changes in response to the discontent."No.It has made those changes in response to union activity. No changes happened until it became apparent the unionization was actually happening.
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SVB Hall of Shame
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I don’t understand the vitriol. It’s shitty, yes, but I honestly doubt the players are somehow blacklisted.
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Bark – Text-prompted generative audio model
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A few years a back someone had the genius idea of making a robo-answering phone program that would give vague but encouraging replies when it received some unsolicited sales pitch. Although it was a fixed sequence of responses, it fooled some callers for a surprisingly long time.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSoOrlh5i1kSomeone needs to hook create the plumbing to capture speech to text, feed it to a GPT script that has been told how to reply to such call center calls, then send that back through a TTS generator like this one.To overcome any latency issues, it could build in a ploy to buy time like the old script did, eg, make the robo-answerer sound like a somewhat addled old man who has to think before each reply, perhaps prefixing responses with "hmm, ahh, ..." to buy time to generate the response.
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Dropbox telemetry can't be disabled
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Why anyone would use a data storage and backup platform that openly does this and many other things for their most intimate personal or most private business data is utterly beyond me. There are many, many zero-knowledge solutions out there, and ones that at least don't openly spy on user data.
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PostgreSQL: No More Vacuum, No More Bloat
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I generally put Postgres WAL on nonvolatile RAM (battery backed thing) and the database on a bunch of NVMe RAIDz3 arrays striped with two 64-core AMD EPYC CPUs. Is fast.
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Show HN: Open-source obsidian.md sync server
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This answer of the Obsidian CEO just convinced me that it was time to subscribe to a Obsidian sync licence and I must admit that I'm more than happy with it.
This software is really a gem for note taking !
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Gene-Engineered Mouth Bacteria
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Isn't gum disease more of a long term problem that cavities ( assuming you don't have a ridiculously sugary drink diet ).
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Firefox 118
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Firefox still a thing? Wow
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The midwit home
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I was already running home server, so for me, setting up smart home was relatively simple:- Buy Zigbee USB dongle
- Install Home Assistant and Zigbee2MQTT in Docker on server
- Initial configurationIt requires basic technical knowledge, but after initial configuration it just works.There were three major pains:- Configuring camera (ONVIF is pure pain) - it works initially, but I physically plug-in cameras only when I'm going on holiday
- Configuring voice assistant
- Finding good ZigBee remotes
- Price of Hue Wall Switch (DIY approach is possible by gutting cheap button)Cameras and voice assistant troubles were arguably result of my "keep as much as possible within local network" approach.Minor pains:- Binding remotes to light bulbs, so they work even if server is down
- Finding instructions how to bind certain ZigBee accessories (they have "just open our proprietary app and it will explain what to do" manual)
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For what are the Windows A:\ and B:\ drives used?
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I still have my MSX Hotbit with a 5 1/4 floppy disk extension. I had a lot fun with it in the past. Now I'm wondering what to do with it... At this time, I guess kids will find interesting that a computer must be attached to the TV so you can have a screen. Some love the typewriter, which prints at the same time you type!
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Why I am not worried about Japan’s nuclear reactors
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interesting: the site moved, now the commentary section is turned off (wondering why). "The article is mostly correct ..." and "In theory we should be more worried about the ash radiation from our coal plants ..." are still the highest rated comments :(Hoping for the best for my friends in Tokyo and the rest of Japan.
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Larry Page Begins Major Google Reorg: Engineers, Not Managers, In Charge
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I mistakenly thought Larry Wall was the new Google CEO. It seemed a little odd at first, but then I thought it was very cool. Now it doesn't seem quite as interesting.
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IPhones and 3G iPads log your location in an unencrypted file on the device
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Not news at all to someone in the digital forensic community: https://alexlevinson.wordpress.com/2011/04/21/3-major-issues...
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Edit like an Ace
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I wonder why they have chosen Ace over CodeMirror. CodeMirror has very similar set of features, is less bloated and works on more browsers.
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Apple using patents to undermine open standards again
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This is interesting.To me, it seem, that Apple knows its a lost battle before it even begins. So the only purpose here is to delay the open standard for as long as possible.Why do I think this? Because they filed it at the last minute...not once, not twice, but three time!
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Html5please
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WoW! Great work.. A good resource.
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Writing and Speaking
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I thought pg talk was amazing and inspiring. Really good speaker in my opinion, this didn't seem like he was reading. I think the only problem are the obvious and loud "huuuuuh", but that's something he can train himself not to say. I wouldn't qualify him as a bad speaker. Quite the contrary
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Why Your Startup Can’t Find Developers
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Google stopped asking questions like "how many golf balls fit into a plane", but they didn't stop asking puzzles and programming trivia questions.If you know how to ask these questions, and what insight you're looking for from them, they can be very insightful. Here's the different types of questions and puzzles you should ask, how, and what insight to get from them: https://www.sandglaz.com/blog_posts/104-How-to-interview-and...
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Multiprocess Firefox
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I really wish all these could be speed up by us Kickstarting it or donating on it.It has taken far too long for e10s.
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We Need to Talk About TED
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A big problem with TEDx is lack of quality control.I know one TEDx event that asked a top ten website cofounder to apply as a speaker and then rejected him.I attended the cofounder's talk at a top university renowned for innovation, and it was awesome.I also attended the TEDx event this cofounder was rejected from, and it was horrible.We left after a couple hours, uninspired and none the wiser.Here's a time and money-saving tip: Go on Quora.
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Navdy
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i can't wait for self driving cars and a ban on human drivers.
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Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old immune system (2014)
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I participated in the eastern orthodox church (Christian) for a few years and was introduced to their fasting (no meat or dairy products, and eating small amounts). First timers are advised to start slowly (omit one thing) and gradually get to full fasting. The typical fasting schedule is to fast on Wednesday and Friday (with a couple of exceptions) of each week. There are also long fasting periods before Easter and Christmas (and 2 or 3 shorter fasting periods).Initially, it was quite difficult but over time became much easier. Over time I lost some weight (although that was not an objective) and generally began feeling healthier and more energetic.
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A Rust Contributor Tries Their Hand at Go
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Here's part of why the interface thing is useful: it gives you dependency injection almost for free, and it allows modules to be extremely decoupled. You can create a module-local interface describing not just a "generic X" but "specifically what methods of X I want". That way you don't even depend on other object's types, but only on their permitted actions. And making mocks is very easy. The IO libraries use this extensively; they don't depend on where you're getting your IO from. They just require it does this or that.Bonus, you can define "tolerable minimum" and "nice to have" versions of the same local interface. Define your methods in terms of the first, but attempt to cast to the second. if nice, ok := minimal.(Nice); ok {
// do stuff only possible with the nice to have interface
}
Example: the HTTP libraries will flush your IO if you give them something flushable, but they don't require it.
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UBlock Origin
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This is the main reason I've switched to Firefox on android
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Firefox exploit found in the wild
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Updating software shouldn't give a sense of security, instead use sandbox/cipher technologies more generalized, for firefox you could use firejail[0] or sandfox[1].Or even more general approaches like subuser[2] or QubeOs[3].Personally I use FF 28.x + Noscript + Adblock plus + Firejail 0.9.28-1 and I feel quite confident I won't get hacked by random attacks.[0] https://l3net.wordpress.com/2014/09/19/firejail-a-security-s...[1] https://igurublog.wordpress.com/downloads/script-sandfox/[2] http://subuser.org/[3] https://www.qubes-os.org/
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Computer Sciences Courses That Don't Exist, but Should
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"I'm so cool I'm going against the crowd" bullshit.
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Thanks for Trumpet Winsock
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My first experience with Trumpet WinSock was on a small project where the computer talked to some state of the art (at the time) network connected data acquisition devices. Coming from a Unix world at the time, the whole windows ecosystem and specially its networking felt stone age, ridiculously buggy and error prone. It quickly drove us back to the old SunOS and Silicon graphics Irix workstations.
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Painkillers now kill more Americans than any illegal drug
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But illegal drugs destroy many more lives.
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Jenkins 2.0 Beta
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Jenkins always struck me as one of the few software projects that don't use OSGi but should be using it.
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HARC
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I try to make a private study of the global survey of Wisdom Literature in an attempt to distil the essence of what it basically means to live a good life and be a moral person. Everything from Confucius to Aurelius, from Goethe to Gogol. And on and on. Wouldn't it be prudent, whilst you have such an assemblage of noble thinkers, to compile some sort of universal knowledge base of choice epigrams. For the purpose of henceforth explicitly delineating what it means to be "beneficial" and "just" for all future readers to come?In any case, this looks like a necessary and timely line of inquiry and am looking forward to the fruits of these endeavours. Good luck!
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Japan adding mandatory programming education to all elementary schools
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As a Japanese and a Programmer, I seriously worries about this move.For one thing, almost all current teachers has no experience of programming.
Other thing is the culture of teaching in Japan.When you solve the problem by using a knowledge that isn't teached yet, the teacher said."You can't do that! You haven't been taught that yet!"So, I can see the future where they say"You can't use recursion! You haven't been taught that yet!"Also, there is a seriously stupid culture in Japanese teaching.Given a problem, "He went shopping and brought 6 candy bags which contains 3 candies each. How many candies does he have?"The answer must be "6 * 3 = 18". not "3 * 6 = 18"
The multiplication is not commutative.
Because... I don't know. Some so called teaching expert who is the author of some textbook explicitly stated that.(Actually, it must be 3 * 6 = 18 in original Japanese because, the word order of Japanese grammar requires to write like "he brought bag which contains 3 candies, 6." indicating this isn't even a math problem at all.)That's why I worries about it.As for Japanese isn't fluent in English even though we have mandatory English class, It's totally different reason.School in Japan's English teaching is in fact bad. But that isn't the reason.
If you're living in Japan, you have absolutely no reason to use English at all in your entire life.
You can't improve language skill without actually using it.
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The Origins of SageMath; I am leaving academia to build a company [pdf]
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Not being familiar with the software itself, but how is starting a company, which is just a legal interface around the effort, would advance the effort? Several comments here indicated that documentation was an inhibitor. Would the company structure fix that?
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“But he does good work.”
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Some possibly useful advice: if I'm at a conference and someone I sort of know says, "This one speaker is being an ass. He's pestering me about another speaker." I'm like, "yeah, yeah that's part of being an organizer".But if that person says, "Can you help me? Bill Smith is harassing me." Now they've got my attention.In this case I don't know what the exact dialog was, but if you want help be sure to ask for it and state clearly why. People will respond more proactively.
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Show HN: Give 7B people an instant physical address
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I'm surprised nobody has mentioned MGRS as a somewhat similar system. Coordinates look like so; 4QFJ 1234 5678.That means the coordinate is in the 100km grid-square named 4QFJ. At 12,340m North and 56,780m East of the SW corner.It's easy to reason about the coordinates if they're on the same square, and given how big squares are they usually will be. You do need to memorize some letters and numbers, but since the relationships between coordinates are clear, you should only need to memorize the least-significant digits for nearby locations.
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Yandex.Mail's successful migration from Oracle to Postgres [pdf]
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This seems good.Not related with the migration itself but I tried to use yandex and its mailing service a couple of years ago when attempting to become google independent but it didn´t work well with spanish queries so I eventually went back to google. But I recall that yandex mail was really nice.
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GNU Octave
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Only one person has mentioned what I think is a critical distinction. MATLAB + Simulink + Coder Products = hundreds of man-hours saved in the engineering design-development-prototype-deploy process. Obviously this is not as relevant to academics and CS, but the thousands of $$$ spent on the tools is made up many times over in saved highly-trained man-hours.
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Alien life could be so advanced it becomes indistinguishable from physics
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I know of an ancient book that has been saying this all along.
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Before You Grow
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"""Startups are defined by growth, but growth isn’t step one in building a great company."""I'd argue it is. Building something people love is all about growth. If they love it, they'll talk about and champion it. In fact measuring generic word of mouth growth is a decent way of figuring out if people love the product (my working hypothesis is that engagement is great but if they go beyond that...we're golden).I'd say ignore all kinds of growth except word of mouth growth. I don't care about user acquisition schemes...as soon as the word of mouth growth flattens the alarm bells must go off and all other measures are probably just life extending measures.I'd also say ignore "growth hacking" especially of the "I'll trick people to like my product" variety. Genuine product improvement is the best growth hacking there is.
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The Awk Programming Language (1988) [pdf]
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I've got the source code to both the book (in English and French) as well as awk. How? I sent email to bwk that we were trying extend awk to be sort of threaded (think awk scripts as first class so you have awk foo { } awk bar { } and you could do foo | bar). We called it bawk, BitMover's awk.Anyhow, I asked Brian if we could base it off the one true awk and he tarred up ~bwk/awk and sent it to me.I love that guy, the culture of the Bell Labs people and the people that worked with them is great.I've stolen a bunch of awk ideas over the years. BitKeeper (first DSCM) has a programming "language" for digging info out of the repository. For example, this:http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/bkdocs/dspec-changes-json-v.txtprints out the repo history as a json stream. One of my guys said that it couldn't be done, heh, it could be :)Everyone should learn some awk, it's so handy.
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Razer targets perfect Linux support
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Not a gamer, but wanted a better mouse so I bought some razor mice products over the years, required internet to setup/huge bloated driver/software package, and then hardware wise the build quality wasn't there. Gave up on them and went to the Apple mouse, much happier (didn't realize at the time but gestures are much nicer than buttons if you're not a gamer).
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Two frequently used system calls are ~77% slower on AWS EC2
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What is this colored fiber in my chicken?
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Answer: it's an oxygen shortage in the overly thick muscle, causing tissue deathSolution: oxygen masks for the chickens
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How I learned to code in my 30s
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I learned to code at 18. I did not fall in love with programming: this owed at least in part to Fortran IV, punch cards, and a Burroughs mainframe that was often under maintenance. But I coded a craps game simulation, and passed.I relearned to code at 31 or so. There was data over here that I needed in a different format over there, and didn't care to retype. I taught myself some minicomputer assembler from the instruction set reference. At that same job, I learned to write macros in the OS's command-line interpreter. I found that I enjoyed programming. And I went back to school.That was a while ago, long enough that the second or third language that I learned on my own was Perl 4. I would never have called myself a ninja or a rockstar. Yet I have over the years written some very useful code.
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Ask HN: What free resources did you use to learn how to program ML/AI?
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1. Udacity: Machine Learning2. Deep Learning Summer School Montreal 2016 https://sites.google.com/site/deeplearningsummerschool2016/h...2. selfdrivingcars.mit.edu + youtube playlist "MIT 6.S094: Deep Learning for Self-Driving Cars" (https://youtu.be/1L0TKZQcUtA?list=PLrAXtmErZgOeiKm4sgNOknGvN...)3. Coursera: Machine Learning with Andrew Ng4. Standford Cs231n (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-PvXUjD6qg&list=PLlJy-eBtNF...)5. Deep Learning School 2016 (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOfMuxkACrYn...)6. Udacity: Deep Learning (https://www.udacity.com/course/deep-learning--ud730)I created a blog (http://ai.bskog.com) to have as a notepad and study backlog. There I keep track of what free courses I am currently taking and which one I will take next.p.s.Although video courses are good. Everyday life makes it sometimes difficult to listen to videos on youtube while for instance doing chores around the house or working out, because you often need to a. see the slides/code examples, and b. put it into practice right away... therefore, podcasts are good to give you a flow of information.Linear Digression, Data skeptic and (thanks to this thread i now discovered Machine Learning Guide)Don't be discouraged if there is stuff you do not understand or feel like: i can never remember these terms or that algorithm. Just be immersed in the information and stuff will fall into place. And later when you hear about that thing again it will make more sense. I tend to use a breadth first approach to learning, where i get exposed to everything before digging into details thus getting an overview of what i need to learn and where to start.
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Juicero Is Shutting Down
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I hope the writers of "Silicon Valley" were paying attention to this saga. There's some juice left to be squeezed from it.
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Business questions engineers should ask when interviewing at ML/AI companies
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This is silly.
You’re the one being evaluated here. Can you code, or are you just a “sophisticated” smartass?The trick is to find out all these answers WITHOUT asking the interviewer.
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