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Minimal examples of data structures and algorithms in Python
README.mdMinimal and clean example implementations of data structures and algorithms in Python.. ├── array │ ├── circular_counter.py │ ├── flatten.py │ ├── garage.py │ ├──...
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Caterpillar found to eat shopping bags, suggesting solution to plastic pollution
Wax worm specimens in a Petri dish. Credit: César Hernández/CSIC Scientists have found that a caterpillar commercially bred for fishing bait has the ability to biodegrade polyethylene: one of the...
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Show HN: Language Learning with Music and Lyrics
Linguician makes learning new vocabularies easy. Through the power of music you won’t feel the learning effort. Choose between our game modes and find your individual way for learning new...
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Ending the cult of the CEO
Published: 17 hours agoLast Updated: 11 hours agoThink of a prominent global-company CEO. Sir Martin Sorrell? Indra Nooyi? Elon Musk?Now, name the CFO and CMO. I bet you can’t. This is the challenge we...
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Oj
Oj (Optimized JSON) is fast. Faster than the build in Ruby json gem and faster even than Msgpack in most cases and yet in human readable JSON. Oj achieves this by implementing the encoding and...
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Bringing IoT to sports analytics
Bringing IoT to sports analytics Gowda et al., NSDI 17Welcome back to the summer term of #themorningpaper! To kick things off, we’ll be looking at a selection of papers from last month’s NSDI’17...
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Apple cuts App Store affiliate commission from 7% to 2.5%
Apple just sent an email to members of the App Store affiliate program saying that App Store commissions will be reduced from 7 percent to 2.5 percent on May 1st — that’s a 64 percent cut. While this...
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Oracle signs lease, fueling downtown Oakland expansion
OAKLAND — Oracle has signed a lease in downtown Oakland that enables the tech giant to expand its offices in the East Bay city and bolster its recruiting efforts, developers and brokers said Monday.The...
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Cormac McCarthy Explains the Unconscious
In his first published piece of nonfiction, Cormac McCarthy offers an unusual take on language and the unconscious mind.CreditPHOTOGRAPH BY DAVE ALLOCCA / REX / SHUTTERSTOCKThis past week, the novelist...
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Wikipedia founder launches Wikitribune, an attempt to combat fake news
Good things can happen when a crowd goes to work on trying to figure out a problem in journalism. At the same time, completely crowdsourced news investigations can go bad without oversight — as when,...
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Square Said to Acquire Team from Struggling Social App Yik Yak
Square Inc. acquired the engineering team of Yik Yak, according to a person familiar with the matter, marking the decline of the once-popular anonymous social network.The payments processor paid less...
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Glob Matching Can Be Simple and Fast Too
Here’s a straightforward benchmark. Time how long it takes to run ls (a*)nb in a directory with a single file named a100, compared to running ls|grep (a.*)nb. Superscripts denote string repetition and...
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Enhancement of human color vision by breaking the binocular redundancy
(Submitted on 2 Mar 2017)Abstract: To see color, the human visual system combines the responses of three types of cone cells in the retina - a process that discards a significant amount of spectral...
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Going Multi-Cloud with Google Cloud Endpoints and AWS Lambda
Cloud Endpoints enables you to develop, deploy, protect and monitor APIs based on the OpenAPI specification. Further, the API for your application can run on backends such as App Engine, Google...
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Google Cloud HTTP(s) Load Balancer Gains WebSockets Support
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) HTTP(S) load balancing provides global load balancing for HTTP(S) requests destined for your instances. You can configure URL rules that route some URLs to one set of...
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Robert M. Pirsig has died
Author Robert Pirsig and his son Chris in 1968. Pirsig, who wrote Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, died Monday at age 88. William Morrow/HarperCollinshide captiontoggle caption William...
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Uber gets sued over alleged ‘Hell’ program to track Lyft drivers
Uber has another lawsuit on its hands. This time, it’s about Uber’s alleged use of a program called “Hell.” The plaintiff, Michael Gonzales, drove for Lyft during the time Uber allegedly used the...
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Show HN: JSONSchema to TypeScript compiler
README.mdCompile json schema to typescript typingsExampleInput:{"title": "Example Schema","type": "object","properties": {"firstName": {"type": "string" },"lastName": {"type": "string" },"age":...
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Snapdocs (YC W14) Is Hiring a VP of Engineering
Snapdocs is an early-stage, rapidly growing company tackling the absolutely massive mortgage market. We're bringing modern, elegant software to a field that still relies on fax machines and manila...
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A practitioner’s guide to hedonism (2007)
Where is a hedonist to look for his heroes? Not to the religious traditions of the East, to be sure: they lack enthusiasm for the illusory pleasures of this world. The Buddha may have rejected the...
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