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Google Translate MEAT GRINDER turns gay into 'faggot', 'poof', 'queen'(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by tacon 12y ago|0 comments
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How to build backlinks for startups(myhelpster.com)
2 points by tacon 12y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 12y ago
The CERN Large Hadron Collider sensors[0] (not head-mounted!) [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider
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by tacon 12y ago
Harley Davidson filed for a sonic trademark on their engine sound back in 1994[0]. (I think it failed, not sure.) But it's pretty easy to reproduce the sound to remind people: Potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, ... [0] http:&#x2
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A woman who can't feel fear(washingtonpost.com)
95 points by tacon 12y ago|43 comments
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Why would anyone want an eyeball tattoo?(bbc.com)
2 points by tacon 12y ago|0 comments
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Optucourse – Mentor-led learning groups for MOOCs(optucourse.com)
1 points by tacon 12y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 12y ago
It's a long piece, and I think this summarizes it well: "The vast majority of Americans outside the military can be triply cynical in their attitude toward it. Triply? One: “honoring” the troops but not thinking about them. Two: “
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'Billionaires' Book Review: Money Can't Buy Happiness(newrepublic.com)
47 points by tacon 12y ago|44 comments
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CrowdMed wants to crowdsource your medical care(readwrite.com)
1 points by tacon 12y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 12y ago
I'm still searching for a society in history that engages in torture against its opponents that doesn't eventually turn to torturing its own citizens. They will, of course, be labeled terrorists when that happens, but that time i
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by tacon 12y ago
I found a bug on me one morning upon awakening and became convinced I had bed bugs. After some googling, I built a cheap bed bug detector out of sugar solution and yeast, which produced a steady stream of CO2 for several days. Bed bugs ar
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How much does your doctor really make?(theatlantic.com)
1 points by tacon 12y ago|0 comments
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The Maps (2005-2014)(scimaps.org)
1 points by tacon 12y ago|0 comments
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Countering “Trusting Trust”(schneier.com)
1 points by tacon 12y ago|0 comments
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The Risk of Our Obsession with Technology(hooversworld.com)
2 points by tacon 12y ago|0 comments
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Americans Feel Better Informed Thanks to the Internet(pewinternet.org)
1 points by tacon 12y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 12y ago
I'm getting a WordPress login. :-(
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by tacon 12y ago
I'd heard of this before, but I never knew it now has a name, "manufactured spending", with forums [1] and subreddits [2]. [1] http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/manufactured-spending-719/ [2] http:&#x
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Intro to Manufactured Spending(thepointstraveler.com)
2 points by tacon 12y ago|1 comments
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Using your resources wisely while you’re in search of Product Validation(entrepreneurship.blogs.ie.edu)
2 points by tacon 12y ago|0 comments
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Linux Containers: Parallels, LXC, OpenVZ, Docker and More(aucouranton.com)
55 points by tacon 12y ago|14 comments
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The R language, for programmers(johndcook.com)
110 points by tacon 12y ago|77 comments
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AK-47: Weapon of Peace(qz.com)
2 points by tacon 12y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 12y ago
This piece is of amazingly low quality. Almost all the "discoveries and innovations" are echoes of work performed before the golden quarter. For example, Alexander Fleming noticed the effect of penicillin in 1928. The engineeri
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What I learned from diving with great white sharks(aeon.co)
20 points by tacon 12y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 12y ago
I like the serendipity of Hacker News, so I don't want to filter out or in specific topics. But if you filter for quality, I love that. Using machine learning to pick out the "best" items was the subject of a discussion rec
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by tacon 12y ago
Camp DevOps is once a year, and I stumbled across it this year as it was in Houston. campdevops.com The web site might give you ideas about who is in this space, or query the speakers for ideas on training. There are also local meetups on
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Misophonia is a newly identified condition for people hypersensitive to sound(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by tacon 12y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 12y ago
When Microsoft delivers real containers to Windows, I doubt they will make it open source. You can require open source interfaces to closed source products, and wait a long time.

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