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Forget the lines at High Park: check out U of T's cherry blossomshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a892f62333a43059d5729d7ab662744&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.utoronto.ca%2Fnews%2Fforget-lines-high-park-check-out-u-t-s-cherry-blossoms&c=12146211481278452367&mkt=en-usEach spring, large crowds descend on High Park to behold the majesty of its many cherry blossoms – and shamelessly snap selfies. For those who prefer quieter surroundings, U of T's Robarts Library ...Apr 21, 2017 2:10 PM
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Ask HN: Which is the most powerful satellite camera directed towards earth?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14139787Remember the scene from MIB where 'K' zooms in on his wife and watches her live. How close are we to that ?After a quick search, I found a few videos which showed scenes of an area with some traffic activity but it wasn't that zoomed in. As far as images go, I haven't found any other image source providing a better definition image than what Google Maps provide.The American government had used live satellite feed while carrying out the Bin Laden operation ( Source of Information: Documentary | Correct me if wrong ).Are there any images/videos publicly available which demonstrate the limits of cameras in space directed towards earth ?If not publicly available, can you describe how a possible image/video might look like and what are the current limits for those cameras ?Apr 18, 2017 3:44 PM
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Comic-Conhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88cdb5b1f54a53af3eaa0345d2d5d5&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.etonline.com%2Flatest%2Fevent%2Fcomic-con&c=2453787758077850565&mkt=en-usMichael Weatherly and Cote De Pablo talk to ET at San Diego Comic-Con about their new 'NCIS' spinoff, premiering Sept. 4 on Paramount+. 'Borderlands' star Jamie Lee Curtis and director Eli Roth prank ...Jul 21, 2016 4:17 PM
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Does Your Doctor Have Malpractice Claims? How To Find Outhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88c57c490740849f98dcf105c45369&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Famino%2F2016%2F04%2F19%2Fdoes-your-doctor-have-malpractice-claims-how-to-find-out%2F&c=13656217257096985378&mkt=en-usThis is the last article in series that focuses on your rights as a patient—both inside the hospital and out. Previously, I wrote about the Patient’s Bill of Rights, informed consent, medical sherpas, ...Apr 19, 2016 9:36 AM
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TakeGuru – New Active Hobby Global Marketplacehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11026671New powerful Internet start-up in the field of travelling and active outdoor and indoor activities, namely TakeGuru, has been launched at the end 2015. Presentation of the service took place at the Internet summit Fast Track Lisbon.TakeGuru (http://takeguru.com/) is the first online service which helps people who travel to other countries in getting a hobby or continuing to be engaged in active outdoor and indoor activities. Now people, who for certain reasons are going on a trip, can online reserve the air tickets, accommodation and excursions. They rent a car, effect an insurance in advance. However they should still look for the corresponding their interest activities upon arriving to the destination place or spend much time studying the sites among searching systems of Internet.Mean a particular active hobby? Arrive to a special spot? Previously to your landing at any place in the world TakeGuru takes over for the fast online matching and agreeing the short-term courses with the loFeb 3, 2016 2:45 PM
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Statistics, Part II: Second Foundationhttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiggFBVV95cUxPbXgzYWZmOG5hclBZYUk5VmJhTENOWFd5R1lHTHVUaGpZbl8tQy1HcDQ0TFVMenYtRmRlaHlPWG5zdFFtZi1PclhLekNFbkpRT0NoSlVPazRKZEJXbW54bXk1c3FnVnVUNll1TWtlLXQ1NHpPQ2I0OFpLS0tiQzJ0LVNR?oc=5Statistics, Part II: Second Foundation Spectroscopy OnlineFeb 1, 2016 8:00 AM
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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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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: Why does some music labels hide their albums on Allmusic.com?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10412420Now and then when I visit http://allmusic.com and click an album I get an error page saying "Due to label restrictions, we are no longer permitted to display this information on AllMusic."I find this very strange, why on earth would a label restrict information about an album they have?So I asked Allmusic that question and got this response from Zac Johnson, Senior Product Manager: "If I felt as though I was comfortable going into the intricacies of the deals that are in place between a specific worldwide distributor and our data provider, I would detail it further, but the truth is that it's an area that I don't want to poke further."Example album: "The Definition" by Jon Bellion. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jon-bellion-mn0003006966/discography (click the album link to see the error message)To see the response from Allmusic, go here: https://getsatisfaction.com/allmedianetwork/topics/some-albums-are-unreachableCan HN shed some light on what's going on?Oct 19, 2015 12:27 PM
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Filmmakers Show the Scale of the Solar System in Amazing Videohttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMid0FVX3lxTFBCZndvODdwanRqV2s4SUR2RGFLSV8xai1leEZNWjFVcl9WMk1FX3JQY1plcEhISFRjM3d0NTloeW5jZXVYNVFHZGdUNm5lOXZYYWhwOWkwZkR4QkV4SnNtZWpiRkpFRl9wMkoxeXlmQUJZYU1xTEhn?oc=5Filmmakers Show the Scale of the Solar System in Amazing Video SpaceSep 22, 2015 7:00 AM
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MacOS is the new Windowshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9816994I'm typing this on my late 2010 MacBook Air. Recently I was starting having problems with it (you know when you type your password and the system does not recognize your key presses, etc.). And I thought, “Oh, ok, I have to accept that we live in a world of planned obsolesce (how else faster-than-a-gigahertz multi-gigabyte-RAM machine could become slow? If it is capable of real-time response to user's actions, it should respond in real-time) and I have to upgrade to get my job done”.So I switched to this new aesthetically marvelous wonder: an early 2015 13 inch MacBook Pro. In 5 days I'm using it the machine restarted two (or three?) times "because of problems" though it has much less software installed than my old rock-stable-in-comparison MacBook Air. And now I'm installing an OS update which already restarted my system twice. First it restarted the system, than it said, “Ooops, I cannot verify the update”, fiddled with it for several more minutes, restarted-downloaded-restarted... WJul 2, 2015 5:20 AM
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Patriot Act Section Goes Way Too Farhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9628531Via: http://www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion/letters/2015/05/29/letter-patriotact-sunset-senate-spying/28185561/"Section 215 of the Patriot Act is scheduled to sunset on Monday. This law was secretly interpreted to allow the mass surveillance of who you talk to on the phone. Such information can be deeply intimate and private: Consider, for instance, what you could infer from a record of numerous calls to a local oncology center and pharmacies. Section 215 is a pointless, expensive intrusion into the private life of every American. On May 22, the Senate voted against extending Section 215. Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has indicated he will bring it up again for a lastminute vote on Sunday. I write to encourage local readers to ask their senators, especially McConnell and Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, not to extend these surveillance provisions because they run counter to the spirit and letter of the Constitution. Your say: Submit a letter to the editor (http://static.cincinnati.com/leMay 30, 2015 1:47 AM
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Ask HN: Why doesn't hn have a notification mechanism?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9502725//Half rant, half ask hn...please forgive.Why doesn't hn have a notification mechanism equivalent to reddit's orange-red?When someone posts something sensible in response to one of my comments on (any) social platform then I'd like to know about it so that I can thank them/respond/decide to ignore.hn does not do this - worse...recently responding to old comments was disabled.Now I appreciate hn's minimalistic design and that they don't bug me with adverts and random ad notifications...but this just seems broken when viewed in terms of the forum's broader purpose of facilitating dialog...May 7, 2015 12:47 AM
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Ask HN: EU Opportunities in Software Development and Medicinehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9062852Hello all,I'm a Portuguese software development student and I'll be completing my Master's in Informatics and Computer Engineering (aka Software Development) next year, majoring in Distributed Systems and minoring in Artificial Intelligence. I'm also in a long term relationship with a med student that will also be graduating next year, when she'll be taking the Harrison Exam, a nationwide exam for all med students graduating that year that rank them by grade and prioritize their specialty internship choice in our National Health System. This exam essentially decides her medical specialty for the rest of her life, which due to possible bad luck, may damage her career prospects and make her unhappier overall. When I'll graduate, the job market that'll be waiting for me is essentially comprised of a bunch of outsourcing companies that work primarly in SAP and Microsoft SharePoint, website, back-office and other business critical applications development in C# and .Net, with a very small bFeb 17, 2015 3:52 PM
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Ask HN: Finding a technical lead in Cambridge, MA?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8675900Over the last several months, I have tested and validated a business opportunity in the legal space. Customers are very interested - 4 or the last 5 have asked to be part of a paid Beta as soon as possible. I'd like to get something workable into customers hands as soon as possible, but am hamstrung by my technical skills.I'm by background and skillset much more business than technically oriented. I know enough Python/Django to be dangerous and have built a working proof-of-concept / demo. However, I know when I'm at the limit of my capabilities, and to take it from POC to working product, would like to bring on someone to help buildout a real product.Some of the problems that need to be solved for (many of which I've been dealing with in one capacity or another): - web scraping. Done mostly with BeautifulSoup to date + lots of custom regexes. There are a lot of corner cases to deal with. - regularly scraping 10,000s of pages and watching for changes on those pages - entity and person Nov 30, 2014 3:42 AM
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Elite: Remembering the Original Open-Worldhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a853903f24f47b38b5ebc97acb43c34&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.gamespot.com%2farticles%2felite-remembering-the-original-open-world%2f1100-6419961%2f&c=7485454407852247235&mkt=en-usGameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. I was maybe a little young to have fully appreciated the space ...Jun 2, 2014 4:26 PM
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Elite: Remembering the Original Open-Worldhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a852c79ef664318ad6b53926767254b&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.gamespot.com%2farticles%2felite-remembering-the-original-open-world%2f1100-6419961%2f&c=7485454407852247235&mkt=en-usGameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. I was maybe a little young to have fully appreciated the space ...Jun 2, 2014 4:26 PM
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Elite: Remembering the Original Open-Worldhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a853ad7fe9c446cbda2454b5c2deb0b&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.gamespot.com%2farticles%2felite-remembering-the-original-open-world%2f1100-6419961%2f&c=7485454407852247235&mkt=en-usGameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. I was maybe a little young to have fully appreciated the space ...Jun 2, 2014 4:26 PM
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Elite: Remembering the Original Open-Worldhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a853981211642ddbd98d254b3cf953d&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.gamespot.com%2farticles%2felite-remembering-the-original-open-world%2f1100-6419961%2f&c=7485454407852247235&mkt=en-usGameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. I was maybe a little young to have fully appreciated the space ...Jun 2, 2014 4:26 PM
