Ask HN: Why does Google put the query in the URL hash instead of query string?
If you are search from any place (toolbar, addressbar) other than google.com, your search query would be passed in as a query string.But once you are already on google.com search page, the entire page...
View ArticleDgsh – Directed graph shell
Syntax A dgsh script follows the syntax of a bash(1) shell script with the addition of multipipe blocks. A multipipe block contains one or more dgsh simple commands, other multipipe blocks, or...
View ArticleBuilding Better Interfaces with SVG
<input type="checkbox" id="option"/><label for="option"> Click me<svg viewBox="0 0 60 40" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path d="M21,2 C13.4580219,4.16027394...
View ArticleAlphabet’s Waymo Cuts Cost of Key Self-Driving Sensor by 90%
Alphabet Inc.’s self-driving car unit, Waymo, has slashed the cost of a key technology required to bring self-driving cars to the masses and rolled it out Sunday in an autonomous Chrysler Pacifica...
View ArticleMissiles of North Korea
Due to the growing obsolescence of North Korea’s conventional military capabilities, North Korea has pivoted towards a national security strategy based on asymmetric capabilities and weapons of mass...
View ArticleSoftware Developers Should Have Sysadmin Experience
Being a software developer and being a system administrator are very different things. Many folks lump the two professions together, but the skillsets do...
View ArticleXLA: The TensorFlow compiler framework
This document describes a compiler framework for linear algebra called XLA that will be released as part of TensorFlow. Most users of TensorFlow will not invoke XLA directly, but will benefit from it...
View ArticleStanford Unsupervised Deep Learning Tutorial
Deep Learning is a rapidly growing area of machine learning. To learn more, check out our deep learning tutorial. (There is also an older version, which has also been translated into Chinese; we...
View ArticleUpping the Ante: Top Poker Pros Face Off vs. Artificial Intelligence
Wednesday, January 4, 2017By Byron Spice and Garrett AllenPoker Pro Dong Kim shown here in the first Brains vs. AI contest in 2015.Four of the world’s best professional poker players will compete...
View ArticleBrain impairments in premature infants may begin in the womb
new study suggest that factors contributing to early birth might also impact the brain’s development in the womb, leading to significant neurodevelopmental disorders, such as autism, attention deficit...
View ArticleRNN poetry: Commitment
by Deep Gimble IIcommitment for sea moon feetthrough two two moons more deepup where them grew high all light away where his lips seemed clearI love she thought by those whom but yet should me my son...
View ArticleSipHash and HalfSipHash Added to Linux Kernel
SipHash - a short input PRF ----------------------------------------------- Written by Jason A. Donenfeld SipHash is a cryptographically secure PRF -- a keyed hash function -- that performs very well...
View ArticleFrom OS X to Ubuntu
A year earlier I decided to switch from OSX to Ubuntu, so now is a good time to make a little retrospective. TL;DR: Linux now offers a pleasant desktop user experience and there's no way back for me.I...
View ArticlePMD source code analyzer
PMD is a source code analyzer. It finds common programming flaws like unused variables, empty catch blocks, unnecessary object creation, and so forth. It supports Java, JavaScript, Salesforce.com...
View ArticleHow Yahoo came up with its new name: Altaba
Yahoo was already a shell of its former self. Now part of the company is getting an obscure new name: Altaba.When Verizon agreed to buy the company for $4.8 billion in July, it planned to purchase just...
View ArticleAtlassian acquires Trello for $425M
Atlassian today announced that it has acquired project management service Trello for $425 million. The vast majority of the transaction is in cash ($360 million), with the remainder being paid out in...
View ArticleGraph Isomorphism update: quasipolynomial claim restored
January 9, 2017 update: quasipolynomial claim restored On January 4 I announced that Harald Helfgott pointed out an error in the analysis of my Graph Isomorphism test. The error invalidated my previous...
View ArticleWhat’s a fire, and why does it burn?
I was staring at a bonfire on a beach the other day and realized that I didn’t understand anything about fire and how it works. (For example: what determines its color?) So I looked up some stuff, and...
View ArticleBringing Wide Color to Instagram
Last September, Apple announced the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, which include cameras that capture a greater range of colors than previous models, and screens that can display that wider color range. We’ve...
View ArticleThe first web site ever
The World Wide Web projectThe WorldWideWeb (W3) is a wide-area hypermedia[1] information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents. Everything there is...
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