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The going rate for self-driving talent is $10M per person
When Sebastian Thrun started working on self-driving cars at Google in 2007, few people outside of the company took him seriously. “I can tell you very senior CEOs of major American car companies would...
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In India, a Rich Food Culture Vanishes from the Train Tracks
Train journeys in India were once defined by food, brought by passengers from their homes and purchased from vendors like this one. Passengers shared food with each other, exchanging stories and...
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Valve Bans Game Publisher After It Sues Players That Gave It Bad Steam Reviews
Video game developer Digital Homicide, it would seem, is out to commit digital suicide. The studio already earned a bit of bad press earlier this year by slapping game critic Jim Sterling with a...
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Google's plan to deter aspiring ISIS recruits
Google has built a half-trillion-dollar business out of divining what people want based on a few words they type into a search field. In the process, it’s stumbled on a powerful tool for getting inside...
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How Google’s Blind Lawyer Does His Job
Video by Josh Block; Article by Blake EdwardsOn his daily commute from New Jersey, Jack Chen, a lawyer in Google’s New York offices in Chelsea, navigates two train stations, the subway, and busy...
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Ash Trees Could Disappear
Ash trees—strong, elastic, versatile—have been used to make everything from handles for Neolithic tools to the rim of a wheel found in King Tutankhamun's tomb to modern baseball bats. But now an...
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The Difference Between Rationality and Intelligence
PhotoCredit Marion Fayolle ARE you intelligent — or rational? The question may sound redundant, but in recent years researchers have demonstrated just how distinct those two cognitive attributes...
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Golang landmines
There are three easy to make mistakes in go. I present them here in the way they are often found in the wild, not in the way that is easiest to understand.All three of these mistakes have been made in...
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Udacity plans to build its own open-source self-driving car
Sebastian Thrun’s online education startup Udacity recently created a self-driving car engineering nanodegree, and on stage at Disrupt today Thrun revealed that the company intends to build its own...
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Distressed ravens show empathy
Research finds that ravens apparently console their friends after an aggressive conflict with a flock mateby GrrlScientist for ScienceBlogs | @GrrlScientistHumans have long tried to distinguish...
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No Exit
Equity compensation has long been an essential element of the startup mythos, and the economic linchpin of a system through which Silicon Valley converts “hustle” into intellectual property. Valley...
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Google HTML/CSS Style Guide – Omit Optional Tags
Use UTF-8 (no BOM). Make sure your editor uses UTF-8 as character encoding, without a byte order mark. Specify the encoding in HTML templates and documents via<meta charset="utf-8">. Do not...
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What San Francisco Says About America
San Francisco — AFTER more than 27 years abroad, mostly as a foreign correspondent in Asia covering civil unrest and poverty, I wander the streets of this city, my new home, like an enchanted...
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Ever wondered how many open FTP servers there are?
README.mdThis is a list of all (796,578) FTP servers directly connected to port 21 in the IPv4 address space that allow anonymous logins. The login must be completed in less then 5 seconds to qualify...
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I gave commit rights to someone I didn't know
17 Sep 2016(Spoiler: trusting your contributors works)Some years ago, I polished up and released an abandoned project for storing financial data in Django. It let you declare “Money” fields on your...
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On DRY and the cost of wrongful abstractions
This article has been on my to do list for quite some time now. But it seems that only today I found the energy and time to take it from idea to implementation. Coincidence or not, I'm at the same...
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Show HN: CodeBuff – smart code formatter
README.mdAbstractCode formatting is not particularly exciting but many researchers would consider it either unsolved or not well-solved. The two well-established solutions are: Build a custom program...
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The disruption of Silicon Valley’s restaurant scene
With razor-thin profit margins, restaurateurs find they can increase wages only so much. Paying a livable wage is a struggle in Palo Alto, where the average one-bedroom apartment rents for $2,800, the...
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Why do Anything?
The StoneBy COSTICA BRADATANHave you heard the story of the architect from Shiraz who designed the world’s most beautiful mosque? No one had ever conjured up such a design. It was breathtakingly daring...
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Show HN: SpaceNeovim – Spacemacs for Neovim
README.mdSpaceNeovim is Spacemacs for Neovim. Forked from ctjhoa/spacevim and rewritten/restructured almost entirely (but still majorly inspired by the original fork).Unlike Spacevim, SpaceNeovim...
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