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10,018karma·10,359submissions·May 25, 2019
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> Which do you think are the best universities in Europe, for a MS in the various fields of Computer Science? I can only name the best two that are worthy of this for a Masters degree in Computer S…
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The approach to solving this problem looks very elegant to viewers with/without a mathematical background and the author's use of visual explanations towards solving it step-by-step helps un…
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No he will not. He stated that he would rather back an extension + General Election to go for a deal with the Brexit Party, than back Boris's deal due to the agreement mentioning a placement of a…
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The DUP doesn't support it, so this is not a fully agreed deal. Between the EU and the UK it is a 'deal', but as far as the Democratic and Unionist Party (DUP) is still concerned, they …
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Developers and creators: Cool project and a good hack! InfoSec and end-users: Potentially scary (Can find location of victim) and a risk to my privacy (using Google to triangulate location).
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This poor VR headset didn't stand a chance commercially and unlike the Oculus the lack of devs on the Daydream VR platform already sealed its fate for failure. It has been known for a long time t…
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> is WeWork the most stylish ponzi scheme of all time? Almost. The investors caught them exit-scamming and forced them to postpone the IPO due to further scrutiny of their profitability plans. As f…
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Here's one: https://gettogether.community/
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Well YouTube's actions is really unsurprising given that they have made it more unclear on which videos meet their Terms of Service. If that wasn't enough, creators also complained about &#x…
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Yes, Aral Balkan has at it for years and appears to be the heir-apparent to Richard Stallman's ethics and principles.
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Come on, You could just literally add a photo to this. Perhaps some people took advantage of that feature on Google Maps. Nice find though, but you better pray that this doesn't get flagged.
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Well Uber IPO'd this year in May, so given that he/she left in 2018, I would count the parent poster as unlucky if they forfeited those shares after leaving.
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Perhaps you should ask the first adopters who paid a premium for the Apple Watch Edition (Gold), Chromebook Pixel and the Samsung Fold to see if they are still using them. What's worse is that fi…
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The functionality to create a new poll can be found on the HN FAQ. The direct link is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll …
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General rule of thumb of every new product announcement (not revision) is to always avoid buying the very 1st generation. Android Wear is probably still stuck on 32 bit ARM and if this rumoured '…
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From the most recent tweet that has some confirmation of the 'leaked email' [0] > Finally, I offer my sincerest condolences to @waze, which unlike HKmap is an app specifically intended fo…
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Well, his move to Singapore apparently was to address the lack of finding engineering talent in the UK which has been a chronic issue in the UK for a long time. Simply finding talent elsewhere doesn&#…
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From Twitter's original information and ads website: https://help.twitter.com/en/information-and-ads > We’re very sorry this happened and are taking steps to make sure we…
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For those who haven't heard, Astropad allows illustrators, artists and animators to turn their existing iPad into a professional graphics tablet for macOS. Choosing Rust to meet the cross-platfor…
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> Greifeld referenced the WeWork IPO, which was pulled last week after a summer of volatile headlines about slashed valuations, confusing corporate governance, and a more than $900 million loss for…
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Well it seems you are in agreement with me :). I have already implied that getting a web browser or some other user-space application running on a new OS requires writing all the other low-level compo…
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Indeed, at least this is what I have been told by some friends of mine. I also use Dashlane so much that I have convinced some of my family members to try it out over the others and they have never lo…
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I don't know who thought this would be a good idea and what the use-case for Chromium Edge would be for apart from replacing the CharkaCore-based Edge. But I would like to know why to bring Edge …
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> Facebook came to my university... I stopped reading from that sentence and realised the source of skills and the so called 'tech talent' that Facebook is really looking for. It is the s…
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Unfortunately, the BBC has a questionable relationship with its current audience in its failed modernisation attempt to drive more clickbait-like articles. Whilst being funded by the tax-payer and pri…
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Good question. The BBC cannot help itself to post clickbatish fake-news level articles to drive up clicks to its non-UK audience due to competition from its profitable rivals. Unfortunately, us UK fol…
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The name certainly looks intentional. Nevertheless, I think all search engines have unanimously found the winner for the worst open-source project name ever.
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