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There’s no glory in overworking – it’s just imminent burnout
Sleep is for the weak. Failure is a choice. There is only success, and those too lazy to achieve it. I lived for the stress. If you weren’t stressed, you weren’t challenged. And if you weren’t...
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An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments
[Aristotle] Aristotle, On Sophistical Refutations, translated by W. A. Pickard, http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/sophist_refut.html[Avicenna] Avicenna, Treatise on Logic, translated by Farhang Zabeeh,...
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Bulletproof kernel updates on Solus
We’re happy to announce the rollout of clr-boot-manager in our stable repository. clr-boot-manager, from the Clear Linux Project For Intel Architecture, enables a more bulletproof update experience by...
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Show HN: Colormind – Color schemes via Generative Adversarial Networks
Colormind - the smart color palette generatorGenerate Colormind is a deep learning AI that knows color theory. It can generate color palettes from scratch, or it can take your input and intelligently...
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How much your computer can do in a second
Let's find out how well you know computers! All of these programs have a variable NUMBER in them. Your mission: guess how big NUMBER needs to get before the program takes 1 second to run. You don't...
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A Constructive Look at TempleOS (2015)
TempleOS is somewhat of a legend in the operating system community. Its sole author, Terry A. Davis, has spent the past 12 years attempting to create a new operating from scratch. Terry explains that...
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Who Killed Ötzi the Iceman? Clues Emerge
“When I was first contacted with the idea, I thought it was too difficult, too much time has passed,” said Inspector Horn, a noted profiler. “But actually he’s in better condition than recent homicide...
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Triple Flaw in Nest's Dropcam Opens the Door to Burglars
Three vulnerabilities in Nest’s Dropcam and Dropcam Pro security cameras have been discovered by Florida-based security researcher Jason Doyle that could allow an attacker – or in this case, a...
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AsciiMath is an easy-to-write markup language for mathematics
Operation symbolsTypeSee+`+`-`-`*`*`**`**`***`***`//`//`\\`\\`xx`xx`-:`-:`@`@`o+`o+`ox`ox`o.`o.`sum`sum`prod`prod`^^`^^`^^^`^^^`vv`vv`vvv`vvv`nn`nn`nnn`nnn`uu`uu`uuu`uuu`Miscellaneous...
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In Defence of the Monolith, Part 2
Key TakeawaysThe requirements for scalability and to handle intrinsic domain complexity are two important forces to consider when selecting an architecture for a system. Modular monoliths can suffer...
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Corporations in the Age of Inequality
DCS latestLatestOn a sunny morning in December 2013, as Google employees boarded the bus that would take them on their daily commute from Oakland to the company’s Mountain View headquarters, protesters...
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Attack of the Killer Microseconds
By Luiz Barroso, Mike Marty, David Patterson, Parthasarathy RanganathanCommunications of the ACM, Vol. 60 No. 4, Pages 48-5410.1145/3015146CommentsThe computer systems we use today make it easy for...
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Qattara Depression Project: Time to Revisit?
The Qattara Depression is a large low-lying area in the desert of north-west Egypt. Its lowest point is 133 meters below sea level. If the depression were flooded to sea level, the lake formed would...
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Ask HN: A question for those who went to MIT/Stanford/CMU
Ask HN: A question for those who went to MIT/Stanford/CMU19 points by artisfury1 hour ago | hide | past | web | 22 comments | favoriteI am wondering what's the learning environment and what behavior...
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Why do we manage academia so badly?
The previous post (Every attempt to manage academia makes it worse) has been a surprise hit, and is now by far the most-read post in this blog’s nearly-ten-year history. It evidently struck a chord...
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Mandatory File Locking for the Linux Operating System (2007)
Mandatory File Locking For The Linux Operating System Andy Walker 15 April 1996 (Updated September 2007) 0. Why you should avoid mandatory locking ----------------------------------------- The Linux...
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The High-Speed Trading Behind Your Amazon Purchase
I wanted to buy some mini marshmallows recently, so I went on Amazon. Perhaps because of their resemblance to packing material—light, bulky, ubiquitous—I figured they’d be cheap. But when I found the...
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Amazon Connect – Simple to use, cloud-based contact center
" As a fully remote company, we needed a cloud-based soft phone that could easily scale up or down, keep our remote workers connected, and give us the 24/7 availability our clients know us for. Amazon...
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Proposed Chromium policy on JavaScript dialogs
History of JavaScript dialogsJavaScript was introduced in 1995, and in the very first version of JavaScript were methods on the window object namedalert(),confirm(), and prompt().While they fit into...
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I’m Not “Black Enough” for Inc. Magazine
Yet, I have had to admit to myself that I am somewhat offended by the question. And perhaps more offensive than the question being asked, is the answer people want to hear.It has become clear to me...
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