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Fh: File history with ed, diff, awk, sed, and sh

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Joe Armstrong has died

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Fh: File history with ed, diff, awk, sed, and sh

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Vendors must start adding physical on/off switches to devices that can spy on us

Article URL: https://larrysanger.org/2019/04/vendors-must-start-adding-physical-on-off-switches-to-devices-that-can-spy-on-us/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19705741 Points: 13 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2KNFcfO via

Vendors must start adding physical on/off switches to devices that can spy on us

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“It is with great sadness that I share news of Joe Armstrong's passing away”

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Linux 5.2 Is Introducing the Fieldbus Subsystem

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Virtual I/O Device (Virtio) Version 1.1

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Life lessons from the native tribe with the healthiest hearts in the world

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A Post About Porcupines

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Bauhaus at 100

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A Post About Porcupines

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Extreme Learning Machine

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Life lessons from the native tribe with the healthiest hearts in the world

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Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement

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OpenCV-Python Cheat Sheet: From Importing Images to Face Detection

Article URL: https://heartbeat.fritz.ai/opencv-python-cheat-sheet-from-importing-images-to-face-detection-52919da36433 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19705432 Points: 4 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2vf3QLU via

The new features of Fortran 2018 (2018)

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Ask HN: How do I improve our data infrastructure?

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Show HN: Mockit – Open-source app to create and configure HTTP mocked endpoints

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Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement

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OpenCV-Python Cheat Sheet: From Importing Images to Face Detection

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BYD, the World’s Biggest Electric Car Maker

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New best story on Hacker News: Refused U.S. visa eight times, Zoom CEO is now a billionaire

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New best story on Hacker News: Mozilla WebThings

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The new features of Fortran 2018 (2018)

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Show HN: Mockit – Open-source app to create and configure HTTP mocked endpoints

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Ask HN: How do I improve our data infrastructure?

I was just hired as the first permanent data scientist in a big corporation. They’ve previously relied on consultants to build the infrastructure and the data science pipelines. We’re still around 10 people in the team. The code is not pretty to look at, but this is not our biggest problem. We inherited a weird infrastructure: a mix of files in HDF5 and Parquet format dumped in S3, read with Hive and Spark. Here are the current issues: - The volume does not require a solution that is this complex (we’re talking 100Gb max accumulated over the past 4 years) - It’s a mess: every time we onboard a new person we have to spend several days explaining where the data is. - There is no simple way to explore the data. - Data and code end up being duplicated: people working on several projects that require the same subset write their own transformation pipeline to get the same results. Am I the only person here who finds it completely insane? I was thinking about building a pipeline to du

Why have so many physicists shrugged off the paradoxes of quantum mechanics?

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China unveils colossal Mars imitation base camp in Gobi desert

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Major U.S. cancer center ousts ‘Asian’ researchers after NIH flags foreign ties

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China unveils colossal Mars imitation base camp in Gobi desert

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Major U.S. cancer center ousts ‘Asian’ researchers after NIH flags foreign ties

Article URL: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/04/exclusive-major-us-cancer-center-ousts-asian-researchers-after-nih-flags-their-foreign Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19701288 Points: 81 # Comments: 101 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2IHt2Ta via

Good Visualizations to find data patterns

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Good Visualizations to find data patterns

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Working as a librarian gave me PTSD symptoms

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Python overtakes JavaScript as most questioned language on StackOverflow

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Working as a librarian gave me PTSD symptoms

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Python overtakes JavaScript as most questioned language on StackOverflow

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Hacker dumps thousands of sensitive Mexican embassy documents online

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/19/mexican-embassy-hack/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19702000 Points: 98 # Comments: 27 from Hacker News: Front Page https://tcrn.ch/2KNm1mp via

Why Joy Division? Henry Rollins examines Jon Savage’s oral history of the band

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Hacker dumps thousands of sensitive Mexican embassy documents online

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Storing files in the DB: story of an epic failure

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Starkey and the Future of Hearing Aids

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Mozilla Firefox to Enable Hyperlink Ping Tracking by Default

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Mozilla Firefox to Enable Hyperlink Ping Tracking by Default

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New best story on Hacker News: 26 States Now Ban or Restrict Community Broadband

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New best story on Hacker News: Austrian government seeks to eliminate internet anonymity, with severe penalties

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New best story on Hacker News: Its butterfly keyboard design has failed, but Apple has yet to admit its mistake

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New best story on Hacker News: First Japan-Built Airliner in 50 Years Takes on Boeing and Airbus

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Account Executive for B2B Flying Autonomous Vehicle Software (Iris Automation)

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A Technical and Cultural Assessment of the Mueller Report PDF

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After 40 Years, C-Span’s Founder Signs Off

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Kustomize – Templating in Kubernetes

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Commit messages guide

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Red Hat Replaces Oracle as OpenJDK 8, OpenJDK 11 Steward

Article URL: https://www.theserverside.com/news/252461945/Red-Hat-replaces-Oracle-as-OpenJDK-8-OpenJDK-11-steward Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19704448 Points: 80 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2IuCGt8 via

Show HN: Should you buy a house to rent it out? An interactive simulation

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The Mueller Report Can’t Be Copyrighted, Is Flagged by Copyright Bots Anyway

Article URL: https://www.eff.org/takedowns/mueller-report-cant-be-copyrighted-flagged-copyright-bots-anyway Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19704347 Points: 144 # Comments: 22 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Xt3RYp via

Selective Empathy Can Chip Away at Civil Society

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Apple said Qualcomm’s tech was no good, but privately it was ‘the best’

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Chinese spies stole trade secrets from Dutch chip machine maker ASML: report

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Malware researcher Marcus Hutchins, known as ’MalwareTech’, pleads guilty

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Scribd taking down the Mueller Report is the future the EU has voted for

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26 States Now Ban or Restrict Community Broadband

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Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?

Hi HN, Do you know any one man SaaS app that are profitable? I'm asking this because I'm considering starting a SaaS app as a side project, and I'm looking for some inspiration. Thanks! Note: this is was previously on HN here[1], but it's been few years, and I'm sure a lot of one person startups are thriving than before. [1]: http://bit.ly/1Yx3VTL Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19701783 Points: 447 # Comments: 202 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2KZMLjs via

Applied Category Theory

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Micro-promotions and mentorship: impact of small actions in engineering culture

Article URL: https://circleci.com/blog/micro-promotions-and-mentorship-the-big-impact-of-small-actions-in-an-engineering-culture/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19701416 Points: 287 # Comments: 151 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2UJS0bR via

Samurai Helmets

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What Gravitational Waves Can Say About Dark Matter

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What is ZIL anyway?

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Commit messages guide

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Kustomize – Templating in Kubernetes

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Show HN: Should you buy a house to rent it out? An interactive simulation

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Applied Category Theory

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Sensei's Library

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Apple said Qualcomm’s tech was no good, but privately it was ‘the best’

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Bézier Curves and Surfaces: The Utah Teapot

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Micro-promotions and mentorship: impact of small actions in engineering culture

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After 40 Years, C-Span’s Founder Signs Off

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The Mueller Report Can’t Be Copyrighted, Is Flagged by Copyright Bots Anyway

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Steganography: The Art of Hiding Data [pdf]

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Account Executive for B2B Flying Autonomous Vehicle Software (Iris Automation)

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The Museum of Soviet Space Travel

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Chinese spies stole trade secrets from Dutch chip machine maker ASML: report

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A Technical and Cultural Assessment of the Mueller Report PDF

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26 States Now Ban or Restrict Community Broadband

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Sampling a Procedural Sky

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Red Hat Replaces Oracle as OpenJDK 8, OpenJDK 11 Steward

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What is ZIL anyway?

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Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?

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Storing files in the DB: story of an epic failure

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Heat-Loving Microbes, Once Dormant, Thrive over Decades-Old Fire

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Selective Empathy Can Chip Away at Civil Society

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The Power of Lifetimes

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Samurai Helmets

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Logic Puzzle: The Joy of Recursion

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Why Alan Turing Wanted AI Agents to Make Mistakes

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Scribd taking down the Mueller Report is the future the EU has voted for

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Malware researcher Marcus Hutchins, known as ’MalwareTech’, pleads guilty

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What Gravitational Waves Can Say About Dark Matter

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