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My Journey into Fractals
Hi, I’m Greg, and for the last two years, I’ve been developing a 3d fractal exploration game, which started as just a “what if” experiment.I would describe myself as technical artist, meaning, I am bad...
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Amazon private label brands are quietly taking over Amazon.com
Arabella. Lark & Roe. Mae. NuPro. Small Parts.You might not know it from their names, but these brands all belong to Amazon.Amazon’s private label business is booming, on pace to generate $7.5...
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How to deliver on Machine Learning projects
As Machine Learning (ML) is becoming an important part of every industry, the demand for Machine Learning Engineers (MLE) has grown dramatically. MLEs combine machine learning skills with software...
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'SnapCrap' app invites San Francisco residents to report poop on city streets
See something gross? The new 'SnapCrap' app allows you to take a photo and press submit. Tickets get instantly submitted to San Francisco's 311 line.See something gross? The new 'SnapCrap' app allows...
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Air traffic controller dies ensuring flight gets off the ground
By Archicco Guilianno Updated September 30, 2018 09:15:03An Indonesian air traffic controller has sacrificed his life to ensure a plane carrying hundreds of people safely made it off the ground after...
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National Theater in London Offers Glasses with Live Subtitles
Mr. Suffolk said it was difficult to know how many people would use the equipment. The theater has bought 50 pairs, at a cost of around $1,050 per pair. One in six people in Britain lives with some...
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More Than 150 Vulnerabilities Discovered in US Marine Corp Websites
As much as 150 vulnerabilities were discovered by white hat hackers in US Marine Corp websites and related services. For the findings which happened during a three-week bug bounty program, the ethical...
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UK cyber security agency backs Apple, Amazon China hack denials
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s national cyber security agency said on Friday it had no reason to doubt the assessments made by Apple and Amazon that refuted a Bloomberg story that their systems contained...
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Making sense of the Supermicro motherboard attack
There has been a lot of ‘fog of war’ regarding the alleged implantation of Trojan hardware into Supermicro servers at manufacturing time. Other analyses have cast doubt on the story. But do all the...
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Bellingcat – 305 Car Registrations May Point to Massive GRU Security Breach
In an unprecedented step, the Dutch Military Intelligence and Security Service (MIVD) and the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Justice on October 4, 2018 disclosed the identities under which four Russian...
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What an Audacious Hoax Reveals About Academia
Further reading: It’s surprisingly easy to get a fake paper published in an academic journalNext, Sokal sent off this jabber to Social Text, a peer-reviewed academic journal that was, at the time, a...
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Don’t sign a CLA
A large minority of open-source projects come with a CLA, or Contributor License Agreement, and require you to sign one before they’ll merge your patch. These agreements typically ask you to go above...
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How Our Marketing Team Spends Money Each Month
Highlights:We spent $93,653 in August 2018We spent $3,041 on ads. We budget $4,000 per month (total!)We spent $3,151 on software tools (our stack includes 28 paid tools)Grab your free marketing budget...
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Iterative Optimization on Hot Paths in Go Apps
At Samsara, we provide real-time data to our customers while ingesting millions of events per minute from thousands of connected devices. The software that powers this is thunder, an open-source...
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Weak passwords banned in California from 2020
5 October 2018Share this with FacebookShare this with MessengerShare this with TwitterShare this with EmailShare this with FacebookShare this with WhatsAppShare this with MessengerShare this with...
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A $500M Central Bank Heist and How It Was Foiled
An accountant walked up to a teller at a suburban London branch of HSBC Holdings PLC and asked to transfer $2 million to Japan. The teller pulled up the account and stared at her screen. There was $500...
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K-map, the weird cousin of k-anonymity (2017)
Suppose that you're a doctor who studies human sexual behavior. You want to run a study with all the patients that you can find, but you don't find a lot of volunteers. You only end up with about 40...
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Ask HN: Did reading HN bring anything valuable into your life?
Yes. I was once young and naive. I wanted to work for a cool startup or a big tech company like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc.Thanks to HN I learned that silicon valley culture is toxic and all those...
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Tesla Q3 2018 Vehicle Safety Report
At Tesla, the safety of our customers is our top priority, which is why it’s critical that we design and build the safest cars in the world. Not only do we conduct extensive in-house testing and...
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Europe is drawing fresh battle lines around the ethics of big data
It’s been just over four months since Europe’s tough new privacy framework came into force. You might believe that little of substance has changed for big tech’s data-hungry smooth operators since then...
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