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Seneca Systems (S16) hiring smart, resourceful full-stack engineers
Full Stack EngineerSeneca Systems is looking for a passionate full-stack engineer. As an early member of the team, you will be afforded significant autonomy, equity, and room to grow with the company....
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Docker in Production: A History of Failure
My first encounter with docker goes back to early 2015. Docker was experimented with to find out whether it could benefit us. At the time it wasn’t possible to run a container [in the background] and...
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Steven Pinker on Language, Reason, and the Future of Violence
On CRISPRCOWEN: Let’s take bioengineering technologies, gene editing, CRISPR, and the like. Imagine a much more advanced version than what stands right before us. Imagine that parents could to some...
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H.264 is Magic
H.264 is a video compression codec standard. It is ubiquitous - internet video, Blu-ray, phones, security cameras, drones, everything. Everything uses H.264 now.H.264 is a remarkable piece of...
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Turkey blocks social media again to stall protests – here’s how to access them
Turkey has once again blocked access to social media in an apparent effort to keep a lid on protests; many in the capital and elsewhere are demonstrating following the arrest of a number of opposition...
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Serverless Map/Reduce
Lambda: The Infinite Core CPUI've written before about how AWS Lambda is proving to be a powerful tool for data-intensive workloads (such as model selection in machine learning). Parallelization with...
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DeepMind and Blizzard to Open Up StarCraft II to AI
We’ve worked closely with the StarCraft II team to develop an API that supports something similar to previous bots written with a “scripted” interface, allowing programmatic control of individual units...
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How junk science put a woman behind bars for 25 years
Twenty-five years after she was first accused of the arson-murder of her uncle, 68-year-old Sonia Cacy on November 2 was finally exonerated by Texas’ highest criminal court, a move that clears the way...
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Dalai Lama: Behind Our Anxiety, the Fear of Being Unneeded
PhotoCredit Nathaniel Russell In many ways, there has never been a better time to be alive. Violence plagues some corners of the world, and too many still live under the grip of tyrannical regimes. And...
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Jury finds Rolling Stone responsible for defamation with gang rape story
CHARLOTTESVILLE — A federal court jury decided Friday that a Rolling Stone journalist defamed a former University of Virginia associate dean in a 2014 magazine article about sexual assault on campus...
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Turbo.js – Dead Simple GPGPU for the Web
On low power CPUs with integrated graphics, or even older phones, the performance gain from using turbo.js is going to be the the most obvious. However, all client-side parallel calculations can...
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Paris agreement on climate change has come into force
Image copyrightAFPImage caption The Ashalim Solar Thermal Power Station in Israel's Negev desert: Paris is intended to push the world away from fossil fuel useThe Paris agreement on climate change has...
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Y Combinator's Hardware Guy Leaves After 14 Months
The head of Y Combinator's much-trumpeted push into hardware has quit, and the famous tech incubator isn't replacing him.Luke Iseman, who joined the Palo Alto-based fund 14 months ago with the goal of...
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Primitive Technology – Shrimp Trap
I built a shrimp trap from lawyer cane, sticks and vine. Then I caught some shrimp and ate them.Shrimp (and fish) traps are simple traps designed to catch aquatic life due to their shape. It consists...
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Switching from macOS: Developer Environment
This is part 2 of an ongoing “Switching from macOS” series. Yesterday I wrote about The Basics.I am a professional web developer working on multiple continuously delivered node apps on GitHub, working...
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Mysterious 'ping' sound from sea floor baffles Igloolik
Hunters in a remote community in Nunavut are concerned about a mysterious sound that appears to be coming from the sea floor.The "pinging" sound, sometimes also described as a "hum" or "beep," has been...
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Solid metallic hydrogen has been produced in the laboratory
(Submitted on 5 Oct 2016)Abstract: We have studied solid hydrogen under pressure at low temperatures. With increasing pressure we observe changes in the sample, going from transparent, to black, to a...
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Bus1 is the new Kdbus
For some time there have been one or two developers essentially trying to move part of D-Bus into the kernel, mainly (as far as I understand) for efficiency reasons. This has so far culminated in the...
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Show HN: Make an app by adding JSON to this app
README.mdhttps://www.jasonette.comCreate your own native iOS app with nothing but JSON. Then send it over the Internet.★ Jasonette fetches this JSON markup from a server:★ And self-constructs into the...
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FlyWeb – An API for web pages to host local web servers
For the past several months, a small team at Mozilla has been working on an experimental new Web API and an accompanying browser feature called FlyWeb.What does it do?In short, FlyWeb provides an API...
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