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Inside reviewhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d106979247fb8c2fcbb5f42c34dd&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.polygon.com%2f2016%2f6%2f28%2f12049410%2finside-review%2f&c=11366214248891968731&mkt=en-usInside is a better game than Limbo. I don't make that claim lightly. Limbo, the first (and, before now, only) game from Inside developer Playdead, stands as one of the first great triumphs of console ...Jun 28, 2016 5:00 AM
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Inside reviewhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a857cefa7514a2da8d2a3640f8ab73d&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.polygon.com%2f2016%2f6%2f28%2f12049410%2finside-review%2f&c=11366214248891968731&mkt=en-usInside is a better game than Limbo. I don't make that claim lightly. Limbo, the first (and, before now, only) game from Inside developer Playdead, stands as one of the first great triumphs of console ...Jun 28, 2016 5:00 AM
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Inside reviewhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a8574788e874b24804012938bb1613c&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.polygon.com%2f2016%2f6%2f28%2f12049410%2finside-review%2f&c=11366214248891968731&mkt=en-usInside is a better game than Limbo. I don't make that claim lightly. Limbo, the first (and, before now, only) game from Inside developer Playdead, stands as one of the first great triumphs of console ...Jun 28, 2016 5:00 AM
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Ask HN: How do you diversify your income?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11407888As I get older, I'm trying to focus less on absolute financial independence than a sort of income redundancy, where I have enough sources of revenue to sustain my barest expenses in case something goes wrong.My dream: four or five streams, requiring different levels of investment and labor, but generally clocking in under 40 hours and, to the point where I could lose one or face a serious cutback in two, and never be in jeopardy.I know this overlaps with the passive income obsession, so I'm excited to hear HN's thoughts, but I'm concerned less with overall effort than reducing the risk tied to my income coming solely from my job.I'm super interested to hear if any HN'ers have tried to diversify their income outside of tech, maybe through some small-ball physical investments like ATMs or vending machines?background: late 20s, FE dev, small amount of savings, no debtApr 1, 2016 7:38 PM
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Why the vacation apartment sector is boominghttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8c7d9db7ae4153ba1abe1252087704&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breakingtravelnews.com%2Ffocus%2Farticle%2Fwhy-the-vacation-apartment-sector-is-booming%2F&c=3141807439801700025&mkt=en-usOver the past decade, while the vacation sector as a whole has gone through a lot of ups and downs, one area has shown remarkable resilience and consistent growth. Vacation apartments doubled as a ...Jan 25, 2016 4:00 PM
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Ask HN: Moratorium on threads related to the culture wars and identity politicshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10659075The Hacker News guidelines permit "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity".Now, even HN qualifies what isn't suitable for political stories: "Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon." Rest assured, most such stories do not satisfy this criterion, or wear off their novelty all too quickly.Be it the Millennials whose whining will immanentize the eschaton, the white heterosexual males and their original sin of mercantilism and colonialism, the feminists and Cultural Marxists who want to usurp Western values (whatever they are this month)... it is all grinding.The chief complaint, of course, is that threads on this subject are devoid of any value pertaining to debate. They instead serve as hubs for signaling normative dispositions. The inevitable result of such vacuous posturing is attrition. Discussions grow ever more primordial, threads on the subject increase and these elements spill over to other threadsDec 1, 2015 9:48 PM
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Ask HN: How good are the local startup scenes in Lisbon and Sofia?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10638815I'm a solo founder and my startup is beginning to get some momentum. To capitalise on this I've decided it's time to move ops out of my spare bedroom and in to a more dynamic environment. Main goal for moving: increase my chances of bumping in to like minded people and finding a co-founder / first hire.I've narrowed the choice down to Lisbon or Sofia (having started with London, Paris, Barcelona, Sofia and Lisbon) and would love to hear the experiences of any HNers who have spent time in either city - especially if it was while bootstrapping your own startup (or working for someone else's)!Things I'd love to know: quality, size and diversity of local talent; quality of local accelerators and investors; how easy/hard it is to find (good) people that want to take a risk and work for an early stage startup; friendliness of the local startup scene.My pros for Sofia:- Betahaus co-working space- Fantastic cost of living (~30% cheaper than Lisbon - which itself is already cheap)- Lovely city,Nov 27, 2015 9:01 PM
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How expensive is SF rent? Use Unix commands to find outhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10597772How expensive is SF rent? Here's a coding challenge that uses Unix command line tools to find out.Hacker friends suggested I post the result and code here because I'm writing open source statistics software and this is a practical example of results and code.The results for a one bedroom in SF: mean $3348, median $3475, interquartile range $1514, and standard deviation $1130.How to use Unix commands to find out: use `curl` to fetch Craigslist apartment listings, then `sed`, `grep`, and `tr` to filter and parse the data, then `num` to calculate the statistics. curl -s http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/sfc/apa\?min_price\=1\&bedrooms\=1 | sed 's/\(Nov 19, 2015 9:20 PM
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Costa Diademahttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88fe0a57ed4bc0bb2fabc9875d827e&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftravel.usnews.com%2Fcruises%2Fcosta-cruises-290%2Fcosta-diadema-943%2F&c=3678971038946824499&mkt=en-usThe 4,947-passenger, 1,253-crew Costa Diadema first set sail in 2014 as one of the largest ships in the Costa fleet. Foodies will love that in 2016, the ship became the first in the world to produce ...Nov 18, 2015 9:56 AM
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I Turned Off JavaScript for a Whole Week and It Was Glorioushttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88cdc94aea40bda18a4c6777d3c109&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2F2015%2F11%2Fi-turned-off-javascript-for-a-whole-week-and-it-was-glorious%2F&c=11718921688328504438&mkt=en-usThere's another web out there, a better web hiding just below the surface of the one we surf from our phones and tablets and laptops every day. A web with no ads, no endlessly scrolling pages, and no ...Nov 17, 2015 11:00 PM
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Mustardy Potato Pierogieshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89b23a867f451dbc9453d908ffe045&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foodandwine.com%2Frecipes%2Fmustardy-potato-pierogies&c=13569227787880117210&mkt=en-usThursday was "Polish Night" at the restaurant run by Grant Achatz's parents, with specials like sausage and sauerkraut, cabbage soup and pierogies. Those humble pierogies inspired the avant-garde ones ...Nov 10, 2015 1:40 PM
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Ask HN: Staying Happyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10104051I really remember it, back to the time when i was in college, i have so much tasks. I needed to attend campus club. Lots of assignment. But the fact i was happy still surprises me.It has been ~1.5 years since i graduated from my college and got to work as a software engineer. I got decent job with decent salary (at least pretty good in my area). The workplace itself considered as a "fun" environment: sleeping pod, ping pong table, coffee machine and no cubicles. Also, workload is lighter than class assignments. But it seems like i am not happy anymore -- i don't know why. (Btw, yes, i do love coding. I do some of my pet projects in weekend)I tried to do so much things (to try) making myself happier: Cycling around the city, playing some game with friends; but none of them seems to be working.After all, i want to create happiness, not to "do something" or "buy something" to make myself happy. I know happiness is intrinsic and subjective. Two persons doing a same thing may perceive that Aug 22, 2015 10:41 PM
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How To Leave A Legacy Where You Workhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a41e8ed4a4b92bbf2902695b6c045&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Fnextavenue%2F2015%2F08%2F12%2Fhow-to-leave-a-legacy-where-you-work%2F&c=1253238670922377572&mkt=en-usAlmost everyone wants to leave some sort of a legacy — to be remembered for something meaningful. In my work with organizations that have employees looking toward retirement or encore careers, lately ...Aug 12, 2015 7:08 AM
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Ask HN: Blockchainshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10032099More and more noise seems to be appearing about blockchains. I see the small benefit of use in transactions between organisations, but am struggling for the case for private blockchains and some points of cryptocurrency in general. I don’t know if this is the best place to ask, but everything online is full of jargon and is inaccessible to me.I have a few questions:- What are the benefits of using a private blockchain (should I be thinking of it as a replacement to a General Ledger?)? Is this just another name for a ledger with auditable history?- Can a blockchain exist without mining or without a currency/coin? Will all private blockchains need a “coin”? (eg the Goldman Sachs coin or ABC plumbing coin?)And another couple of broader questions- What keeps people interested in a blockchain (and currency) once all of the easy mining is done eg, for people joining later?- I see that transaction costs for bitcoin keep rising, is that related to the size of the blockchain?- I thought bitcoinAug 10, 2015 12:27 AM
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Weapons of maths destruction: are calculators killing our ability to work it out in our head?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e7065ba14f36866e9bb12cec34f3&url=https%3a%2f%2ftheconversation.com%2fweapons-of-maths-destruction-are-calculators-killing-our-ability-to-work-it-out-in-our-head-44900&c=17161250584496746377&mkt=en-usSince the 1980s we have had access to calculators of various types. Today, we can include computers and smartphones – which are attached to our hip 24/7. So does this ubiquitous access to calculators ...Aug 9, 2015 1:34 PM
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Weapons of maths destruction: are calculators killing our ability to work it out in our head?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85dc6c58f54919a4c4434ccbb65d20&url=https%3a%2f%2ftheconversation.com%2fweapons-of-maths-destruction-are-calculators-killing-our-ability-to-work-it-out-in-our-head-44900&c=17161250584496746377&mkt=en-usSince the 1980s we have had access to calculators of various types. Today, we can include computers and smartphones – which are attached to our hip 24/7. So does this ubiquitous access to calculators ...Aug 9, 2015 1:34 PM
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Weapons of maths destruction: are calculators killing our ability to work it out in our head?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85dd8d3d714dc1aa0eef2f1e04f7e4&url=https%3a%2f%2ftheconversation.com%2fweapons-of-maths-destruction-are-calculators-killing-our-ability-to-work-it-out-in-our-head-44900&c=17161250584496746377&mkt=en-usSince the 1980s we have had access to calculators of various types. Today, we can include computers and smartphones – which are attached to our hip 24/7. So does this ubiquitous access to calculators ...Aug 9, 2015 1:34 PM
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Weapons of maths destruction: are calculators killing our ability to work it out in our head?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e093f2194f3fbebc2002da0500da&url=https%3a%2f%2ftheconversation.com%2fweapons-of-maths-destruction-are-calculators-killing-our-ability-to-work-it-out-in-our-head-44900&c=17161250584496746377&mkt=en-usSince the 1980s we have had access to calculators of various types. Today, we can include computers and smartphones – which are attached to our hip 24/7. So does this ubiquitous access to calculators ...Aug 9, 2015 1:34 PM
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Weapons of maths destruction: are calculators killing our ability to work it out in our head?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85de84dccd4cd6904986038ea2e4d4&url=https%3a%2f%2ftheconversation.com%2fweapons-of-maths-destruction-are-calculators-killing-our-ability-to-work-it-out-in-our-head-44900&c=17161250584496746377&mkt=en-usSince the 1980s we have had access to calculators of various types. Today, we can include computers and smartphones – which are attached to our hip 24/7. So does this ubiquitous access to calculators ...Aug 9, 2015 1:34 PM
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Weapons of maths destruction: are calculators killing our ability to work it out in our head?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d0f3b20947a8aa122157f8dbf548&url=https%3a%2f%2ftheconversation.com%2fweapons-of-maths-destruction-are-calculators-killing-our-ability-to-work-it-out-in-our-head-44900&c=17161250584496746377&mkt=en-usSince the 1980s we have had access to calculators of various types. Today, we can include computers and smartphones – which are attached to our hip 24/7. So does this ubiquitous access to calculators ...Aug 9, 2015 1:34 PM
