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Smarking (YC W15) Is Hiring a Senior Product Manager and Others in SF
Full healthcare coverageUnlimited paid time off Access to all Fitness SF locations Lunch and dinner everyday, snacks 24/7Free office parkingRegular team nights and happy hours
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DNA Fountain – Capacity-approaching DNA storage
DNA Fountain is a strategy to store and retrieve DNA information that is robust and approaches the theoretical maximum of information that can be stored per nucleotide. The success of our strategy lies...
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Show HN: A theme color extracting library implemented in C
README.mdA theme color extracting library implemented by C.This library is used in a related company for years.TODO: Using KD-Tree to find some colors.聖 白蓮聖 白蓮（ひじり びゃくれん，Hiziri...
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Square Buys OrderAhead
by March 1, 2017, 9:00 AM ESTSquare Inc. said it acquired startup OrderAhead’s dining pickup website and app that allow people to place take-out orders and skip the line at restaurants.The deal gives...
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Google and Apple have different innovation signatures
Steve Jobs has been granted 347 patents in the past decade, many awarded posthumously. By contrast, Google’s Sergey Brin and Larry Page only have a combined 27 over the same period.It’s a telling...
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The Tragedy of Newcomb Mott, Who Thought He Could Walk into Soviet Russia
Newcomb Mott, center, at his trial. TASSWhen Newcomb Mott flew into the small airport in Kirkenes, Norway, in 1965, nothing had ever truly gone wrong in his life.He was 27 and tall (over six feet),...
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Thirteen thousand, four hundred, fifty-five minutes of talking to get one job
I spent three months working full time to get a job. Here’s how it all went down.This is a long article. If you don’t like reading, here are the highlights:Yup, hiring is messy.Build empathy for your...
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Electronic meters’ false readings up to six times higher than actual consumption
Some electronic energy meters can give false readings that are up to 582% higher than actual energy consumption. This emerged from a study carried out by the University of Twente (UT), in collaboration...
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How the Brain Dumps Its Trash (2016) [video]
A recently discovered waste-removal system is a linchpin in preserving neural healthCredit: MaryLB ©iStock.comAdvertisement | Report AdThe brain gets rid of some 1.5 kilograms of waste products a year,...
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OOSheet is a Python module for manipulating LibreOffice spreadsheet documents
README oosheet is a module developing OpenOffice.org Spreadsheet automated routines using Python. Documentation is available at http://oosheet.hacklab.com.br/ or else, you can build it from source...
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Gokrazy – a pure-Go userland for Raspberry Pi 3 appliances
Your app(s) + only 4 moving partsthe Linux kernelthe Raspberry Pi firmware filesthe Go compiler and standard librarythe gokrazy userland All are updated using the same command.Web status interface On a...
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Web Crawling with Node.js, it’s an interesting world
Today’s some fun time! I’ll try to scrape a website, I wanted something simple but unique, so I chose to scrape Google search results(Oh the irony!)I am not at all a Javascript expert, but picking up...
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How to choose and pair typefaces
The act of choosing two typefaces is probably the first (and often most difficult) task you do when creating a new design. Many people get stuck here, myself included.Recently, I discovered a simple...
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Nissan driverless car guilty of “close pass” overtake of UK cyclist
A French journalist has inadvertently captured video footage of a Nissan driverless car failing to give sufficient room when overtaking a cyclist. The video was shot in London earlier today. The...
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Show HN: Free Writing – Never stare at a blank screen again
Well done! You successfully completed the task. Now that you have broken the writer's block, start writing what you actually wanted to.Interested to know how you performed? Here you go... (all time in...
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When Factory Jobs Vanish, Men Become Less Desirable Partners
In many small towns across the country, there aren’t very many good jobs these days. Once there were factories that employed millions and paid decent wages. Today, young men are scraping by working at...
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Show HN: A new hobby OS from “scratch” in C#
README.mdA Multitasking Monolithic Kernel based x86 targetting Operating System written in C# from scratch aiming for high level implementation of drivers in managed environment and security. How to...
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Japanese village creates field-sized 3D paintings made of coloured rice shoots
From ground level, it didn’t look like much. In fact, the scene looked like a lot of rural Japan: rice paddies with tender shoots in shades of green, rippling in the wind and stretching off into the...
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