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The diabolical genius of the baby advice industry
Human beings are born too soon. Within hours of arriving in the world, a baby antelope can clamber up to a wobbly standing position; a day-old zebra foal can run from hyenas; a sea-turtle, newly...
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Speeding Up Ruby with Shared Strings
It’s not often I am able to write a patch that not only reduces memory usage, but increases speed as well. Usually I find myself trading memory for speed, so it’s a real treat when I can improve both...
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Lazy deserialization
TL;DR: Lazy deserialization was recently enabled by default in V8 version 6.4, reducing V8’s memory consumption by over 500 KB per browser tab on average. Read on to find out more!Introducing V8...
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The hidden work when launching a SaaS
I’ve built and sold software for the Mac and iOS. Those products all had simple billing systems. On the Mac, I just plugged in a framework eSellerate and added a couple of hooks in my software to...
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Facebook lost around 2.8M U.S. users under 25 last year
Facebook is losing young users even quicker than expected, according to new estimates by eMarketer. The digital measurement firm predicted last year that Facebook would see a 3.4 percent drop in 12- to...
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Instacart has raised another $200M at a $4.2B valuation
Despite plenty of uncertainty swirling around Instacart and its complex relationship with Whole Foods — now owned by Amazon — investors still seem to not be too worried, and are pouring a fresh big...
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Electron Band Structure in Germanium, My Ass (2007)
Kovar/Hall Abstract: The exponential dependence of resistivity on temperature in germanium is found to be a great big lie. My careful theoretical modeling and painstaking experimentation...
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Inspector – A drop-anywhere C++ REPL
README.mdAllows to inject a fully-functional C++17 REPL into running, compiled programs that can access your program state and offers features like code-completion and syntax highlighting.The API is...
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The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent
In 2006 BitTorrent, or specifically peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing. was king.In a study from January of that year, P2P traffic accounted for over 70% of all internet traffic. Though, at that time,...
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Lessons from Optics, the Other Deep Learning
Would you say deep learning is mature enough to be taught in high schools?Here’s why I ask. Some time ago, I received an email from a product manager at a very large company. I love sharing personal...
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Amazon laying off corporate employees in rare cutback
Amazon is laying off hundreds of corporate employees, a rare cutback for a company that has spent most of the last few years in a frantic growth spurt.The layoffs, underway now, will fall on several...
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Can Eurostar Compete with Airlines on Speed and Price?
As flying grows even less attractive, a new London-to-Amsterdam rail route could steal passengers from the skies.How long can a train journey be to still compete with air travel? This is a question...
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White House Looks to Cut Fuel Economy Standards
The Trump administration is reportedly considering lowering fuel economy standards at the request of automakers, who've objected to goals adopted by the Obama White House.The National Highway Traffic...
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Launch HN: Haiku (YC W18) – Build and Design Cross-Platform UIs and Animations
Hey HN! Haiku is a UI-building tool for both designers and developers. You can import vector and bitmap assets, animate them with a visual timeline, make elements respond to events, script behavior (if...
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C++ implementation of the Jupyter kernel protocol
README.mdC++ implementation of the Jupyter Kernel protocolIntroductionxeus is a library meant to facilitate the implementation of kernels for Jupyter. It takes the burden of implementing the Jupyter...
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The bizarre world of indie wrestling
Wrestling is flourishing in unexpected places all across Britain. It’s a low-budget, high-energy world where DIY daredevils band together in the belief that teamwork makes the dream work – no matter...
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FCC report finds almost no broadband competition at 100Mbps speeds
If you live in the US and want home Internet service at speeds of at least 100Mbps, you will likely find one Internet service provider in your area or none at all.The latest Internet Access Services...
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Tips for the Diagnostic Interview of Mental Disorders
This excerpt — discussing 14 valuable tips to help a clinician in the diagnostic mental health interview — is reprinted here with permission from Essentials of Psychiatric Diagnosis: Responding to the...
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ZFS 128 bit storage: Are you high? (2004)
One gentle reader offered this feedback on our recent ZFS article:64 bits would have been plenty ... but then you can't talk out of your ass about boiling oceans then, can you?Well, it's a fair...
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