Transparency effects in SNES and Genesis games via composite video artifacts
The SNES and Genesis lead the pack of the 4th generation of video game consoles. The common versions of these consoles can support RGB without any more effort than acquiring a cable and a monitor....
View ArticleGravity: a new programming language and VM written in C
README.mdGravity is a powerful, dynamically typed, lightweight, embeddable programming language written in C without any external dependencies (except for stdlib). It is a class-based concurrent...
View ArticleSome Reflections on Being Turned Down for a Lot of Data Science Jobs
👉 The decision was close, but the team has decided to keep looking for someone who might have more direct neural net experience.👉 Honestly, I think the way you communicated your thought process and...
View ArticleAmerica’s opioid epidemic is worsening
ON TUESDAY February 28th, in an address to a joint session of Congress, Donald Trump vowed to end America’s “terrible drug epidemic”. When discussing America’s social ills, Mr Trump has a tendency to...
View ArticleWeebly is hiring an Operations Engineer
New York, NY873 Broadway, Suite 501BNew York, NY 10003San Francisco, CA460 Bryant StSan Francisco, CA 94107Scottsdale, AZ4301 N Scottsdale Rd, Suite 150Scottsdale, AZ 85251 Berlin, GermanyNeue...
View ArticleHydrogen – An advanced drum machine for Linux
Hi allThe Hydrogen team is happy to announce the '14 ways to contribute to Hydrogen' campaign !With this 'campaign' we are hoping to get some motivated people on boardExperienced programmers are of...
View ArticleWorld’s richest doctor gave away millions, then steered the cash to his company
He was greeted like a star philanthropist.The world’s richest doctor had just made a $12 million gift to the University of Utah. Members of the university community were urged to come thank him. And...
View ArticleStock options are complicated
Originally written for some coworkers at Wave who were thinking about early exercise.Most employees at startups get some of their pay in stock options. This is often framed to the employee as “you get...
View ArticleThe Hidden Link Between Autism and Addiction
Shane Stoner’s addiction began in 2008. He lost a factory job, his parents divorced, his father died—and then a relative introduced him to heroin. “I felt like heroin gave me confidence,” Stoner says....
View ArticleConvertKit: How Nathan Barry Bootstrapped an Email Marketing Business
Tell us about yourself and what you're working on.Hey there! My name is Nathan Barry and I run ConvertKit, an email marketing company for professional bloggers. You can think of it as a more powerful...
View ArticleNewton Storage History (2007)
I joined the Newton group in early June of 1992. I’d been at Apple since 1987 working on tools and then a database engine in the development tools group, but after a bunch of bad politics that I won’t...
View ArticleUC proposes its first enrollment cap on out-of-state students
In an unprecedented move to ease controversy over its admission policies, the University of California on Monday proposed a 20% systemwide limit on nonresident undergraduate enrollment and vowed to...
View ArticleIntroducing Google Cloud Container Builder
By David Bendory, Tech Lead and Software Engineer and Christopher Sanson, Product Manager, Google Cloud Container Builder TeamAt Google everything runs in containers, from Gmail to YouTube to Search....
View ArticleResources about programming practices for writing safety-critical software
README.mdThis is a list of resources about programming practices for writing safety-critical software.Disclaimer: I don't work on safety-critical software so the resources presented here are not...
View ArticleSnap Tumbles Below IPO Opening Price as Analysts Say Sell
After a euphoric market debut, Snap Inc. shares dropped for the first time in three days and fell below the opening price of $24 on their first day of public trading after analysts began weighing in...
View ArticleFirefox 52 released
Added support for WebAssembly, an emerging standard that brings near-native performance to Web-based games, apps, and software libraries without the use of plugins.Added automatic captive portal...
View ArticleLaunch HN: Penny (YC W17) – a personal finance coach
Hey HN, we’re the founders of Penny (https://www.pennyapp.io), part of YC’s W17 batch. We’re building an easy way for people to keep track of their finances. In a nutshell: download the app, connect...
View ArticleHow we convinced founder-angels to invest in our developer tool startup
Product + Networking + Blogging + Luck = Angel InvestmentLast week closed an angel investment of around $200K USD. Our backers are The Founders Fund II (a Norwegian early stage fund) and a group of...
View ArticleCausal Inference Book
My colleague Jamie Robins and I are working on a book that provides a cohesive presentation of concepts of, and methods for, causal inference. Much of this material is currently scattered across...
View ArticleHow the Instant Pot cooker developed a cult following
By Jessica MurphyBBC News, Toronto6 March 2017From the section BusinessShareShare this withThese are external links and will open in a new windowEmailShare this with EmailFacebookShare this with...
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