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Show HN: Track UK car price depreciation. Get alerted when they change
Ever wanted to check how a model is depreciating over time, to see whether it's the right time to buy?Now you can.How does it work?Go to AutoTrader or PistonHeads, set your search criteria, and view...
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Whiteboard sticker for your laptop
Lots of people have asked me if I could make one for them but making them by hand is REALLY time consuming. With enough interest, I can rent out a machine to automate the process so that everyone can...
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‘Oh Yeah,’ from ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,’ Is the Origin of a Fortune
ZURICH—Dieter Meier has never seen “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.”That alone might make Mr. Meier unusual. Legions of fans made the 1986 comedy a breakout success for Matthew Broderick, who played Ferris,...
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Resilient cooperators stabilize long-run cooperation in Prisoner’s Dilemma
Experimental designOur experiment was designed to closely resemble a number of previous studies of finitely repeated Prisoner's Dilemma (PD)2,3,10. Anonymous individuals were randomly paired to play a...
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Bibliomania: the strange history of compulsive book buying
When I was a young woman, I drew a sort of perverse pride from my willingness to skip a meal or two in order to afford books. Soon enough, with the ubiquity of credit card touts on campus, I could buy...
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Java Without If
Over the past year my team has been doing something shocking to a lot of engineers: we’re favoring pure Java over Clojure. We aren’t rewriting all our Clojure code, but we definitely prefer Java for...
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Site Reliability Engineering
Edited by Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff and Niall Richard Murphy Members of the SRE team explain how their engagement with the entire software lifecycle has enabled Google to build,...
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Twitter discloses national security letters
Today, we’re able to speak openly about two national security requests for the first time, specifically two national security letters (NSLs). These NSLs were accompanied by gag orders when they were...
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Show HN: Open-source, self-hosted torrent search engine written in Elixir
README.mdWeb application that indexes all popular torrent sites, and saves it to the local database.Goals:No javascriptCrawl multiple index sites for torrents and magnet links.Run without ceremony. No...
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Designing a product with mental health issues in mind
Zander is a designer at Monzo, whose focus is to create a world-class experience for Android and iPhone that is as powerful, simple, and accessible for all of our users.Every year in the United...
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Oracle’s Cloud Licensing Change
Over the last couple of years I’ve been doing talks about running Oracle databases in the cloud. In both my talks and articles I refer to the Licensing Oracle Software in the Cloud Computing...
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Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone not allowed in the US
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Black market Blackphones get sent a kill message that bricks them
Even if it came in this retail packaging, beware of Blackphones bought from unauthorized sellers—Silent Circle is trying to disable them.Sean GallagherEnlarge/ The owner of a Blackphone 2 purchased...
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New organisms have been formed using the first ever 6-letter genetic code
Scientists have engineered the first ever 'semi-synthetic' organisms, by breeding E. coli bacteria with an expanded, six-letter genetic code.While every living thing on Earth is formed according to a...
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Box Breathing
Breathe in sync with this:This Navy SEAL breathing technique, aka box breathing or tactical breathing, is used to calm yourself down, a simple 4 second rotation of breathing in, holding, breathing out,...
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Embeddable lisp interpreter that implements call/cc, written in TypeScript
README.mdEmbeddable lisp interpreter that implements call/cc, written in TypeScript.Installationnpm install --save lisp-interpreterUsageimport { repl } from"../index";repl(["do", ["set",...
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How companies should treat their most enthusiastic customers
THE hero of Nick Hornby’s novel, “High Fidelity”, cannot get enough of vinyl records. By day Rob Fleming runs a record shop where he spends his time sampling the stock and constructing fantasy...
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WGA screenwriting credit system
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Barcelona bans new hotels in city centre
The mayor of Barcelona on Friday banned the opening of new hotels in the saturated city centre, to end the flow of locals out of the area due to pressure on housing from the tourism sector. The new...
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The Post-Snowden Cyber Arms Hustle
Just after lunchtime one day in February 2015, Manish Kumar entered the presidential palace in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott via the side gate—the one reserved for private business. His...
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