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Bram Moolenaar Discusses Developing Vim, How He Uses It, and Version 8
TL; DR: Celebrating 25 years of productivity and billions of lines of code written, Vim is an open-source text editor loved by millions of programmers around the world. Perhaps not for the...
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Tragedy Made Steve Kerr See the World Beyond the Court
But talk around the house was more likely to involve the Dodgers or Bruins. Malcolm was a good athlete, a basketball player growing up and an avid tennis player until the end. He and Steve spent a lot...
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OpenWrt and LEDE to re-merge
[LEDE-DEV] Talks between OpenWrt and LEDEHauke Mehrtenshauke at hauke-m.deWed Dec 21 10:06:22 PST 2016We had multiple meetings to find a solution to solve the problems between the OpenWrt and the LEDE...
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HoloJS – A framework for creating UWP applications using JavaScript and WebGL
README.mdHoloJS is a framework for creating UWP applications using JavaScript and WebGL. HoloJS is a C++ library that hosts Chakra to run JavaScript code, and also hosts ANGLE to handle OpenGL ES...
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U.S. government begins asking foreign travelers about social media
The prompt includes a drop-down menu that lists platforms including Facebook, Google+, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube. | GettyNEW YORK — The U.S. government quietly began requesting that select...
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Uber lawsuit alleges employees were misled on equity compensation
An Uber employee has filed a lawsuit accusing the company of misleading employees about their equity compensation. Uber “devised a fraudulent scheme to recruit highly sought software engineers,”...
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How Social Isolation Is Killing Us
Social isolation is a growing epidemic — one that’s increasingly recognized as having dire physical, mental and emotional consequences. Since the 1980s, the percentage of American adults who say...
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This French Grocery Chain Is Totally Trolling Amazon Go
WHAT: French grocery chain Monoprix creates an almost exact remake of Amazon's recent promo video for its tech-powered grocery store of the future.WHO: Monoprix, RosaparkWHY WE CARE: Not long ago,...
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Why Are Medical Ultrasound Systems So Inexpensive?
Hackernews linked to a Medium post on ultrasound devices today, entitled "Why are Ultrasound Machines So Expensive?" which, being my core area of expertise with over 20 years in the industry, I was...
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India rupee ban: Snapdeal to deliver cash
Image copyrightReutersImage caption Indian tech firms have been taking advantage of a cash-crunch that has led to queues at banks and ATMsOne of India's biggest online retailers has started offering...
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Python 3.6.0 released
[RELEASE] Python 3.6.0 is released!Ned Deilynad at python.orgFri Dec 23 05:34:48 EST 2016On behalf of the Python development community and the Python 3.6 release team, I am pleased to announce the...
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Transfer Learning and Fine-Tuning Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
by Anusua Trivedi, Microsoft Data ScientistThis is a blog series in several parts — where I describe my experiences and go deep into the reasons behind my choices. In Part 1, I discussed the pros and...
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The Disadvantages of an Elite Education (2008)
Exhortation - Summer 2008PrintOur best universities have forgotten that the reason they exist is to make minds, not careersBy William DeresiewiczJune 1, 2008It didn’t dawn on me that there might be a...
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TiddlyWiki App Engine Server
README.mdThis is a minimal Google App Engine app, written in Go, that can serve as the back end for a personal TiddlyWikiThe TiddlyWiki5 implementation has a number of back end options. This app...
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Building and Linking Libraries in C
C Libraries In general, libraries are created from many library source files, and are either built as archive files (libmine.a) that are statically linked into executables that use them, or as shared...
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Dubai Police now using Crime Prediction software
Minority Report is often a go-to sci-fi comparison for new technology, but retina scanners and motion controls are just side dishes to the film's central futuristic idea: a system to predict when and...
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Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People
The Idea That Eats Smart PeopleIn 1945, as American physicists were preparing to test the atomic bomb, it occurred to someone to ask if such a test could set the atmosphere on fire. This was a...
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Re: What is acceptable for -ffast-math? (2001)
Linus Torvalds - Re: What is acceptable for -ffast-math? (Was: associative law incombine)This is the mail archive of the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project.To: <dewar at gnat dot...
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IQ is only a minor factor in success
How much is a child’s future success determined by innate intelligence? Economist James Heckman says it’s not what people think. He likes to ask educated non-scientists -- especially politicians and...
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Newest MacBook Pro is the first MacBook not recommended by Consumer Reports
sourceAppleConsumer Reports, one of the most thorough publications to do testing on laptops, says Apple's new MacBook Pros have problems with consistent battery life. As a result, Apple's latest...
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