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I found the best anagram in English
I found the best anagram in EnglishI planned to publish this last week sometime but then I wrote a line of code with three errors and that took over the blog.A few years ago I mentioned in passing...
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Dear Mark Zuckerberg: Democracy is not a Facebook focus group
With his 5,800-word manifesto on “Building Global Community,” Facebook chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg seems to be easing ever more into his role as benevolent dictator of the media universe....
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How setting the TZ environment variable avoids thousands of system calls
This blog post explains how setting an environment variable can save thousands (or in some cases, tens of thousands) of unnecessary system calls that can be generated by glibc over small periods of...
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GPUs Are Now Available for Google Compute Engine and Cloud Machine Learning
Supercharge machine learning The new Google Cloud GPUs are tightly integrated with Google Cloud Machine Learning (Cloud ML), helping you slash the time it takes to train machine learning models at...
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Introducing Netflix Stethoscope
Netflix is pleased to announce the open source release of Stethoscope, our first project following a User Focused Security approach.The notion of “User Focused Security” acknowledges that...
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Isso: A Commenting Server Similar to Disqus
LinksIsso @ PyPiIsso @ GitHubHelp Join #isso on Freenode or open an issue on GitHub. Or join the mailing list, just send an email to isso@librelist.com.ContributeWrite Code,Translate orFlattr.Quick search
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Association between polygenic risk scores for ADHD and cognitive outcomes
AbstractBackground: Children with a diagnosis of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder ( ADHD) have lower cognitive ability and are at risk of adverse educational outcomes; ADHD genetic risks have...
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A “killer business model”: AI in the insurance industry
A report by IBNR Weekly, one of the most respected publications in insurance, alarmed many industry-insiders:“In an attempt to better understand Lemonade’s “killer” pricing, we “applied” for renters...
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Char2Wav: End-To-End Speech Synthesis
We present Char2Wav, an end-to-end model for speech synthesis. Char2Wav has two components: a reader and a neural vocoder. The reader is an encoder-decoder model with attention. The encoder is a...
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From lunch to acquisition: How Atlassian bought Trello
Last September, Atlassian co-CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes flew from Sydney to New York to have lunch with Trello CEO Michael Pryor. The two met at a Mexican restaurant not too far from Trello’s offices....
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High-Resolution Image Inpainting Using Multi-Scale Neural Patch Synthesis
README.mdThis is the code for High-Resolution Image Inpainting using Multi-Scale Neural Patch Synthesis. Given an image, we use the content and texture network to jointly infer the missing region....
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Show HN: Plot directly in your terminal with matplotlib
README.mdAn awesome iTerm2 backend for Matplotlib, so you can plot directly in your terminal.The above is achieved with zero modifications to your Python script. For example, the above plots are...
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Engineer? Swiftype is hiring in SF
Software EngineerFull-time•San Francisco, CA We are hiring software engineers to join our core engineering team and work on our search platform and products that power hundreds of millions of queries a...
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Want an energy efficient datacenter? Build it underwater
Illustration: MCKIBILLOWhen Sean James, who works on data-center technology for Microsoft, suggested that the company put server farms entirely underwater, his colleagues were a bit dubious. But for...
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Weaponizing PostScript
In a recent pentesting assignment, there was a service which converted uploaded files to PDF/A format, to make them safer for handling. After all, they were uploaded to the service by external users....
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PuTTY 0.68 has been released
Download PuTTY: release 0.68Home |FAQ |Feedback |Licence |Updates |Mirrors |Keys |Links |TeamDownload:Stable· Snapshot |Docs |Changes |Wishlist This page contains download links for PuTTY release 0.68....
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Dwitter – A social network for short JavaScript demos
4Awesome!fullscreensharestuk function u(t){z=255;x.fillStyle=R(S(t)*z,S(t*2)*z,S(t*3)*z,.5);s=1920/c.clientWidth;c.onmousemove=(e)=>{x.fillRect(e.clientX*s,e.clientY*s,s*2,s*2)}134/140 }Please log...
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Google Research and Daydream Labs: Seeing eye to eye in mixed reality
Virtual reality lets you experience amazing things—from exploring new worlds, to painting with trails of stars, to defending your fleet to save the world. But, headsets can get in the way. If you're...
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Upspin – Another option for file sharing
ann@example.com/dir/file. Any user with appropriate permission can access the contents of this file by using Upspin services to evaluate the full path name, typically via a FUSE filesystem so that...
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Instacart is playing games with its workers’ pay
In September, the grocery delivery company Instacart announced a big change that pissed off many of its workers: The startup was replacing tips with a “service fee” that would be collected by the...
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