Google Training Ad Placement Computers to Be Offended
This glitch in the company’s giant, automated process turned into a public-relations nightmare. Companies like AT&T and Johnson & Johnson said they would pull their ads from YouTube, as well as...
View ArticleAmazon Planning a Microsoft Office Killer
Amazon is aiming to join the productivity suite battle with its own solution, a new report reveals, with the company planning to develop software that would compete against the enterprise products...
View ArticleThe Debugging Mindset
The January/February issue of acmqueue is out now Debugging PDF March 22, 2017Volume 15, issue 1 Devon H. O'Dell Software developers spend 35-50 percent of their time validating and debugging...
View ArticleShow HN: Fake SMTP server as a service
Use our webmail interface like real email client. See recipient and sender e-mail addresses, check and download attachments, verify HTML email body, validate the source code and much more coming soon!
View ArticleAsk HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2017)
Location: EU UTC+1Remote: YesWilling to relocate: NoTechnologies: Python, Elastic-search/Solr, Postgresql/Mysql/rdbms, Cassandra, Redis/nosqlI do your backend/full-stack. Previously I've done entire...
View ArticleWhy Did Greenland’s Vikings Vanish?
On the grassy slope of a fjord near the southernmost tip of Greenland stand the ruins of a church built by Viking settlers more than a century before Columbus sailed to the Americas. The thick...
View ArticleAsk HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)54 points by whoishiring38 minutes ago | hide | past | web | 67 comments | favoritePlease lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE,...
View ArticleReport: Android overtakes Windows as the internet’s most used operating system
Mobile is today as important, if not more important, than desktops when it comes to the internet and apps. A clear reminder of that comes with news of a report claiming that Google’s Android has...
View ArticleTesla Passes Ford by Market Value Before Musk Delivers Model 3
Tesla Inc.’s market capitalization surpassed Ford Motor Co., as investors bet Elon Musk can deliver on ambitious growth targets before his more affordable Model 3 sedan even hits the market.The...
View ArticlePython coding interview challenges
README.mdApril 2017 - Huge Update!Overhauled to now include 120 challenges and solutions and added Anki Flash Cards.Also included are unit tested reference implementations of various data structures...
View ArticleEvery attempt to manage academia makes it worse
I’ve been on Twitter since April 2011 — nearly six years. A few weeks ago, for the first time, something I tweeted broke the thousand-retweets barrier. And I am really unhappy about it. For two...
View ArticleBeyond Bookmarks and Read-It-Later: The Whole New Use-It-Later, Granary.pro
Save web page links for later useIf you find a web page with information to use later, or if you're looking at it, save it to Granary.pro instantly.Instead of tags, Granary.pro also automatically...
View ArticleRotating molecules enable near 100% efficient OLEDs
Writing in Science this week, the team, from the University of Cambridge, the University of East Anglia and the University of Eastern Finland, describes how it developed a new type of material that...
View ArticleHelp the world solve problems with Account Takeover. We’re hiring
Who are we?We leverage massive scale machine learning and our global network of data predicts fraudulent behavior with unparalleled accuracy. Having seen strong traction from customers like Airbnb,...
View ArticleHow to Learn Hadoop for Free
The "big data" technology landscape is changing really, really fast. One consequence of this is that it's hard to find good training resources since they become outdated so quickly. I wanted to get...
View ArticleStudent Debt Giant Navient to Borrowers: You’re on Your Own
Over the past several years, Jack Remondi, chief executive of student loan giant Navient Corp., has gone out of his way to tout the company’s devotion to helping Americans cope with student debt.He’s...
View ArticleWhy do developers who could work anywhere flock to the most expensive cities?
Politicians and economists lament that certain alpha regions — SF, LA, NYC, Boston, Toronto, London, Paris — attract all the best jobs while becoming repellently expensive, reducing economic mobility...
View ArticleShow HN: A ncurses CRM system (and accounting)
Thanks for your support.A comment about the single user and huge data. I've a test database with 100 000 account, 1 000 000 events, etc. That is about 2 gb in size. Not huge, but not tiny...
View ArticleEU Outlines Plan to Develop Home-Grown Exascale Supercomputers
HomeNewsEU Outlines Plan to Develop Home-Grown Exascale SupercomputersMichael Feldman | April 4, 2017 07:51 CESTMinisters from seven European countries have signed on to a plan to develop an exascale...
View ArticleWhy You Feel the Urge to Jump
Have you ever stood in a high place and felt the urge to jump? Judith Dancoff did one beautiful, clear day on Deception Pass Bridge, a narrow two-lane causeway that ribbons between two islands north of...
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