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Germany sees 'overwhelming' sales of Hitler's Mein Kampf
Image copyrightAFPImage caption A Nazi-era copy of Mein Kampf: It was Hitler's manifesto for conquest and racial intoleranceThe German publisher of a special annotated edition of Adolf Hitler's Mein...
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The ad tech renaissance
We simply must fix the monetization and distribution challenges that publishers face. This is a societal problem as well as an economic one; we need to support real news if we want to fight back fake...
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Don’t Get Trampled: The Puzzle for “Unicorn” Employees
As a product-obsessed entrepreneur and investor, I rarely focus on financing mechanics in the start-up world. It tends to be a binary outcome, and people should join a venture for the team and mission...
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Show HN: Explore ideas whose patent protection expires today
This site does not constitute legal advice. Please double-check the patent expiry date at uspto.gov. Some patents may have been granted extensions or may have been improved upon, and that improvement...
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How to Validate Demand for Your Product – Part 2
Before you build a product it's essential that you test whether or not people want it. Part 1 described how to do initial research. This post explains how you can test your hypothesis with real data...
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Why isn't memset() async-signal-safe?
Really, POSIX? Really? memset() isn't async-signal-safe? How is it not safe? … oh … that's whyJust because, I found myself rewriting some code that dumps memory. The current version is too limiting...
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The Real Name Fallacy
By J.Nathan MatiasPeople often say that online behavior would improve if every comment system forced people to use their real names. It sounds like it should be true – surely nobody would say mean...
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The Art of the Motorcade
Living on a small island crammed with monuments to past glories, the British take a keen interest in fields of endeavour where we remain world-class players, from tennis to the design of clever vacuum...
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Portacle – A Portable Common Lisp Development Environment
What This Is Portacle is a complete IDE for Common Lisp that you can take with you on a USB stick. It is multi-platform and can be run on Windows, OS X, and Linux. Since it does not require any...
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Video Games Satisfy Basic Human Needs
"Mass Effect: Andromeda” | Image from IGN / Bioware / YouTube Grand Theft Auto, that most lavish and notorious of all modern videogames, offers countless ways for players to behave. Much of this...
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Harvey Mudd College Attempting to Address Tech Diversity Issues
Veronica Rivera signed up for the introduction to computer science class at Harvey Mudd College mostly because she had no choice: It was mandatory. Programming was intimidating and not for her, she...
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LeoFS: a highly available, distributed, eventually consistent object/blob store
README.mdOverviewLeoFS is a highly available, distributed, eventually consistent object/blob store. If you are searching a storage system that is able to store huge amount and various kind of files...
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Bitcoin at an all-time high
Javascript is disabled in your browser Please enable javascript or upgrade your browser for the best experience on Coinbase. Bitcoin in circulation through the yearsBitcoin as of Bitcoin are produced...
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Isaac Asimov Asks, “How Do People Get New Ideas?” (2014)
Note from Arthur Obermayer, friend of the author:In 1959, I worked as a scientist at Allied Research Associates in Boston. The company was an MIT spinoff that originally focused on the effects of...
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Notes for the New Year
Happy 2017!As a kid, I just sort of took for granted that stuff got better every year—TVs got bigger and then thinner, cars got a little faster, and computers got unbelievably better on an exponential...
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Show HN: PDFlower – Reflow PDF papers for small-screen reading
SensibleReconstruct the object-level (such asformulas, tables and figures) layout of scholarly articles in PDF form, beyond plain-text extraction.FlexibleReflow an academic paper for the mobile device...
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Battery Cell Production Begins at the Gigafactory
Tesla’s mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy through increasingly affordable electric vehicles in addition to renewable energy generation and storage. At the heart of...
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SeaweedFS – A simple and highly scalable distributed file system
README.mddownloadIntroductionSeaweedFS is a simple and highly scalable distributed file system. There are two objectives:to store billions of files!to serve the files fast!Instead of supporting full...
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Tesla Flips the Switch on the Gigafactory
The Gigafactory has been activated.Hidden in the scrubland east of Reno, Nev., where cowboys gamble and wild horses still roam—a diamond-shaped factory of outlandish proportions is emerging from the...
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Alexa: Amazon's Operating System
The concept of an operating system is pretty straightforward: it is a piece of software that manages a computer, making said computer’s hardware resources accessible to software through a consistent...
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