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Andy Weir’s Best Seller ‘The Martian’ Gets a Classroom-Friendly Makeover
After getting dozens of inquiries from teachers, Mr. Weir, who describes himself as “a lifelong space nerd,” asked his publisher, Crown, if they could release a cleaned-up edition of the book.The novel...
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Show HN: Unplugg: An automated Forecasting API for timeseries data
Note: Access is limited to valid access tokens only.The API is available at https://api.unplu.gg/. With Unplugg’s API you can request a forecast based on a provided timeseries. To do this you have to...
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Inside NASA’s Space Farming Labs
For the first time since the end of NASA's Apollo missions to the moon, there is serious talk of sending humans beyond low earth orbit. NASA has been courting ideas for journeys to the moon and...
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A Physicist Who Denies That Dark Matter Exists
“He is one of those dark matter people,” Mordehai Milgrom said about a colleague stopping by his office at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Milgrom introduced us, telling me that his friend is...
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New Rust hash table leads Benchmarks Game
program source code, command-line and measurements× sourcesecsKBgzcpucpu load1.0Rust #45.30156,224172816.5057% 90% 72% 99% 1.2C gcc6.46130,076150017.0651% 37% 89% 88% 1.3C++ g++...
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I Wrote My Fastest Hashtable
I had to get there eventually. I had a blog post called “I Wrote a Fast Hashtable” and another blog post called “I Wrote a Faster Hashtable.” Now I finally wrote the fastest hashtable. And by that I...
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Self-driving cars in the browser
The demo is loading and is ready in one second... But we need JavaScript to work. Note: this works only in modern browsers, so make sure you are on the newest version🤘This is a project I have been...
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Prophet: forecasting at scale
Today Facebook is open sourcing Prophet, a forecasting tool available in Python and R. Forecasting is a data science task that is central to many activities within an organization. For instance, large...
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Tesla Tanks After Goldman Downgrades to Sell
Tesla Inc. fell 5 percent after Goldman Sachs Group Inc. turned negative on the stock and cast doubt on Chairman Elon Musk’s ability to deliver the company’s new vehicle on time.Analyst David...
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Emscripten/HTML integration tips
TL;DR things I learned while adding a HTML UI to my 8-bit emuUpdate 25-Feb-2017: a small update to the last section with an easier way to mark C-functions which should be callable from JavascriptI...
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My 2015 MacBook Pro Retina Exploded
One afternoon as I was lying on my bed browsing the internet, my MacBook Pro suddenly turned off. I turned it back on and within a few seconds there was weird hissing sound, followed by white smoke and...
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Qt Quick WebGL Streaming
WebGL Streaming is optimized for Qt Quick and allows you to run remote Qt Quick applications in a browser.I’m working on a platform plugin to run remote applications in your browser, using OpenGL...
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Show HN: Poxi – A Hackable Pixel Art Editor
README.md Poxi is a modern, hackable pixel art editor for the browser with focus on elegance, simplicity and productivity.IntroductionYou can either use Poxi as a pixel art editor or as a renderer for...
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How to Self-Publish a Novel in 2017
February 25, 2017 ~11 minutes While putting the finishing touches on Singular, I thought it would be nice to capture all the steps required to self-publish a novel, so that any reader thinking of doing...
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Show HN: Everything you need to build your own Turn Touch smart home remote
About three years ago I was driving up the 101 coming back from a Demo Day and I had a lightbulb moment about the way I wanted to control my new Hue lightbulbs. That’s when the idea of Turn Touch was...
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Even good bots fight: The case of Wikipedia
AbstractIn recent years, there has been a huge increase in the number of bots online, varying from Web crawlers for search engines, to chatbots for online customer service, spambots on social media,...
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Introducing Handle – Boston Dynamics
Offentliggjort den 27. feb. 2017Handle is a research robot that stands 6.5 ft tall, travels at 9 mph and jumps 4 feet vertically. It uses electric power to operate both electric and hydraulic...
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Incident management at Google – adventures in SRE-land
Of course, unlike the actual firefighters pictured here, our incidents don’t normally involve risk to life and limb. Despite the imperfect metaphor, Google Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) have a lot...
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Measuring how deadly our daily activities are
It’s always distressing and tragic when we hear a report of shark attack. But what is the actual likelihood of dying due to a shark encounter in Australia? How concerned about this are you as you go...
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RCMP commissioner warns IT failures will have 'catastrophic' consequences
Canada's top cop is warning that ongoing computer network failures and slipshod service from Shared Services Canada could have "catastrophic" consequences for police and the public.CBC News has...
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