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How Square is Becoming a Fintech Game Changerhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88df557cc148b1ae13d0fab453b39c&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.smallbusinesscomputing.com%2Fnews%2Fsquare-fintech%2F&c=12270425206929812698&mkt=en-usSquare has been making big waves in the fintech industry lately. You might know Square as the brainchild of Jack Dorsey (yes, co-founder and CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey) and Jim McKelvey that has been ...Aug 23, 2021 7:25 AM
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After a dozen flights, NASA’s chopper has yet to come a cropperhttps://arstechnica.com/science/2021/08/after-a-dozen-flights-nasas-chopper-has-yet-to-come-a-cropper/Kitty Hawk a century ago. Mars today. Where 100 years from now?Aug 17, 2021 5:08 PM
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A Mission to Make Virtual Parties Actually Funhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88eaf14b9b468d9a2e513d62e56ba9&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fstory%2Fzoom-parties-proximity-chat%2F&c=14177377232231322456&mkt=en-usWe've been in this pandemic for a while now, and we've sort of gotten used to a primarily virtual social life. Meetings and classes on Zoom are adequate, the catch-up call while you tidy your kitchen ...Nov 30, 2020 1:00 AM
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Launch HN: QuestDB (YC S20) – Fast open source time series databasehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23975807Hey everyone, I’m Vlad and I co-founded QuestDB (https://questdb.io) with Nic and Tanc. QuestDB is an open source database for time series, events, and analytical workloads with a primary focus on performance (https://github.com/questdb/questdb).It started in 2012 when an energy trading company hired me to rebuild their real-time vessel tracking system. Management wanted me to use a well-known XML database that they had just bought a license for. This option would have required to take down production for about a week just to ingest the data. And a week downtime was not an option. With no more money to spend on software, I turned to alternatives such as OpenTSDB but they were not a fit for our data model. There was no solution in sight to deliver the project.Then, I stumbled upon Peter Lawrey’s Java Chronicle library [1]. It loaded the same data in 2 minutes instead of a week using memory-mapped files. Besides the performance aspect, I found it fascinating that such a simple method wasJul 28, 2020 1:57 PM
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Launch HN: PostEra (YC W20) Medicinal Chemistry-as-a-Service and Covid Moonshothttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23700275Hey everyone! We’re Alpha, Matt and Aaron, co-founders of PostEra (https://postera.ai/). The title above is quite a mouthful (we used all 80 characters) so we'll begin by breaking down what it means.What is medicinal chemistry? It’s part of discovering new drugs. A drug hunter decides what disease to focus on and then selects ‘targets’: usually proteins whose activity is key to the disease. Then they look for a molecule that can ‘hit’ that target and stimulate a response which will hopefully have beneficial effects. Developing such a molecule that is potent and safe is medicinal chemistry.Despite it being a crucial part of drug development, this field has relied on trial-and-error approaches—a very expensive way to muddle toward a drug. Where computational tools have been used, they have emphasized the 'best' designs without any awareness of what it would take to physically make the drug in a lab and test it. Our approach is to apply computational methods that know how to make these deJul 1, 2020 11:27 AM
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KitchenAid Releases Its Very Own Collection of Cordless Applianceshttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMilAFBVV95cUxPSlpKVkF5aGlDTGYyWHIzWVZQazNIRkFwcjNNdkxyZ0lRQklEZTBUek5EUjc5VkdyV3d4VWxXQ2FRandYNThsemoxY0hkY1JBUEduR3ZpVUMwT0JFSG1nM1ZnMDlCY1ZWOC01czg1M3ltdzN2ZkJkMEVaNHpZUzBhSE80Z1VzdzUwNnR6ZS1uc183cnlK?oc=5KitchenAid Releases Its Very Own Collection of Cordless Appliances SheKnowsJun 8, 2020 7:00 AM
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Ask HN: Why have post numbers become green and red?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21880128Dear HN, I appreciate you for the minimalistic interface that just does not contain anything unnecessary. For what purpose did you start using colors in post number?Does this mean the beginning of the end of the HN I know and love? Maybe now you will make a mobile app? Hang a banner warning that you store cookies? Forbid to use adblock?I could not understand for a while what this differentiation means. My first thought was that green posts - being voted positively and vice versa. Now I realized that they are simply alternating. It reminds me Mark Miller's "Tragedy of Common Lisp" story, and maybe the theory of broken windows a little bit.Thank you for all the wonderful that I discovered because of you.Dec 25, 2019 7:56 PM
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How The Mandalorian Fits Into the Larger Star Wars Timelinehttps://time.com/5717734/mandalorian-star-wars-timeline/The new Star Wars TV series is now streaming on Disney+Nov 12, 2019 3:42 PM
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Why a Fund Closes and Reopens (and Why It Matters to You)http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88f5bd745f4303940361b5255cf5db&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.morningstar.com%2Ffunds%2Fwhy-fund-closes-reopens-why-it-matters-you&c=6542658860364042010&mkt=en-usWe all know the frustration of arriving at a store excited to buy something only to realize it’s sold out. This situation can also happen with a mutual fund. You might get excited about its management ...Sep 5, 2019 3:00 AM
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Why You Should Take a Minimalist Vacation — & How to Do Ithttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiigFBVV95cUxPaXpBc2pqWHBPZkhoTVhoUUJsXzZyWW9nMExQNDAwUjZ3ejFlamNGTDZzMDd5Xy1uS2p4djVIOGFEUzRaNmhlSmFDSm8yOC1pMGJJM3hNNVVjMHRtUHlUb2RZWDExdHhrRWlxSS1zcnhISjNWb0pLOUhCN1NxUFJWU0VrUGxFS1hGWnc?oc=5Why You Should Take a Minimalist Vacation — & How to Do It SheKnowsNov 30, 2018 8:00 AM
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Review: Anki's Vector Robot Isn't the Smartest AI, but He's Definitely the Most Adorablehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85cb65167b4129a94f2ff82675d7fe&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.macrumors.com%2freview%2fanki-vector-robot%2f&c=13480197100902302241&mkt=en-usAnki has been making toys that use artificial intelligence for years now, starting with the Anki Overdrive set of racing cars and the interactive Cozmo toy robot, but this year the company launched ...Nov 16, 2018 12:50 PM
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Review: Anki's Vector Robot Isn't the Smartest AI, but He's Definitely the Most Adorablehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85cd4c93b6475498854358200b0a4e&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.macrumors.com%2freview%2fanki-vector-robot%2f&c=13480197100902302241&mkt=en-usAnki has been making toys that use artificial intelligence for years now, starting with the Anki Overdrive set of racing cars and the interactive Cozmo toy robot, but this year the company launched ...Nov 16, 2018 12:50 PM
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Review: Anki's Vector Robot Isn't the Smartest AI, but He's Definitely the Most Adorablehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e6ab55364eba88f33574eda09826&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.macrumors.com%2freview%2fanki-vector-robot%2f&c=13480197100902302241&mkt=en-usAnki has been making toys that use artificial intelligence for years now, starting with the Anki Overdrive set of racing cars and the interactive Cozmo toy robot, but this year the company launched ...Nov 16, 2018 12:50 PM
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Review: Anki's Vector Robot Isn't the Smartest AI, but He's Definitely the Most Adorablehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a894ff5c2e1478e8d952fbc0be08074&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.macrumors.com%2Freview%2Fanki-vector-robot%2F&c=13480197100902302241&mkt=en-usAnki has been making toys that use artificial intelligence for years now, starting with the Anki Overdrive set of racing cars and the interactive Cozmo toy robot, but this year the company launched ...Nov 16, 2018 12:50 PM
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Review: Anki's Vector Robot Isn't the Smartest AI, but He's Definitely the Most Adorablehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d194a6ff4ed3a770adb5319d991c&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.macrumors.com%2freview%2fanki-vector-robot%2f&c=13480197100902302241&mkt=en-usAnki has been making toys that use artificial intelligence for years now, starting with the Anki Overdrive set of racing cars and the interactive Cozmo toy robot, but this year the company launched ...Nov 16, 2018 12:50 PM
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Review: Anki's Vector Robot Isn't the Smartest AI, but He's Definitely the Most Adorablehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85c97c91464e00a2608eba4ccc19f4&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.macrumors.com%2freview%2fanki-vector-robot%2f&c=13480197100902302241&mkt=en-usAnki has been making toys that use artificial intelligence for years now, starting with the Anki Overdrive set of racing cars and the interactive Cozmo toy robot, but this year the company launched ...Nov 16, 2018 12:50 PM
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Review: Anki's Vector Robot Isn't the Smartest AI, but He's Definitely the Most Adorablehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e03e6f5f49d0832143570a521613&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.macrumors.com%2freview%2fanki-vector-robot%2f&c=13480197100902302241&mkt=en-usAnki has been making toys that use artificial intelligence for years now, starting with the Anki Overdrive set of racing cars and the interactive Cozmo toy robot, but this year the company launched ...Nov 16, 2018 12:50 PM
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How to Improve Your Wellnesshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88ea7a360643d0933b5d23e54843f1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.psychologytoday.com%2Fus%2Fblog%2Fmodern-mentality%2F201809%2Fhow-improve-your-wellness&c=16101003446267941447&mkt=en-usWhen we are met with the common greeting, “How are you?” we often impulsively respond with a rendition of, “well.” The last time you responded this way, was it true? Even if you were, how did you know ...Sep 17, 2018 9:33 AM
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Show HN: Tok'n'talk – Conversations using your ERC20/ERC71 tokenshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17957933Hi, we've created an app https://tokntalk.club/ to experiment with using tokens ERC20 and ERC721 in slightly different way than monetary use cases you're familiar with.ERC20 - They are treated as memberships in 'token clubs'. If you have given ERC20 token you can write messages in its dedicated club. eg. Maker MRK club https://tokntalk.club/clubs/MKR or in Berlin Coin BRLN club https://tokntalk.club/clubs/ethereum:0x80046305aaab08f6033b5...ERC721 - Those tokens can be used as avatars. To give you ability to change 'personalities', create their history and grow them as recognizable characters. We are supporting ~40 different kinds of ERC721s and we're always looking to integrate new ones.Now, you might be asking: Why?The reason is simple. We believe that this is the only way for blockchain community to go forward. Communication based on signed messages is crucial for progress but it's not enough. We need filters rooted in the very base of our beliefs. Filters that will help guard our atSep 11, 2018 8:05 AM
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Is Code Free Speech?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a895b353b2d43ce83e18bc41bebeb83&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pbs.org%2Fwgbh%2Fnova%2Farticle%2Fis-code-free-speech%2F&c=17485553986703307811&mkt=en-usEditor’s Note: This article was originally published in an edition of NOVA’s email newsletter, NOVA Lens, and has now been repurposed for NOVA Next. Sign up for NOVA Lens here (select “NOVA ...Jul 27, 2018 10:14 AM
