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Fortran is still a thing
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One interesting triviality. In modern Fortran you can do "list comprehension": integer :: i
integer, parameter :: n = 20
integer, dimension(n) :: index = [(i, i = 1, n, 1)] ! list comp
And this works just like range(1, n+1) in Python (array index starts from 1 by default in Fortran).The list comprehension in Fortran can even be nested (because it is essentially a do-loop), according to this Rosetta Code example:
https://rosettacode.org/wiki/List_comprehensions#Fortran
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75% of med students are on antidepressants, stimulants, or both? (2017)
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When an economic system can no longer be sustained except by its members being on drugs, it’s nearing the end.
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2019)
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Peek | Backend Engineer, Principal Platform Engineer, Sr iOS Engineer, Web Team Lead | San Francisco & Seattle | ONSITE | Full-timePeek makes the world's tours & activities easily bookable — anytime, anywhere. Our leading technology empowers operators to manage and grow their businesses.We're looking for talented engineers to come work on our industry-leading SaaS for tours and activities operators in San Francisco and Seattle. We're well-funded and are growing quickly. We use Ruby, Elixir, Ember, React, Swift, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, GraphQL, Realm, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP. Join us!See full job descriptions and apply here:
> Backend Engineer: https://grnh.se/b048c8491
> Principal Platform Engineer: https://grnh.se/bc186d791
> Senior iOS Engineer: https://grnh.se/5cb706351
> Web Team Lead: https://grnh.se/25c80e8b1Check out the rest of our stack: https://stackshare.io/peek/peek-stackIf you have any questions, feel free to email jacob AT peek DOT com.
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Show HN: Quickly browse the history of any GitHub file
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Granted github access, but always get "GitHub API rate limit exceeded for your IP (60 requests per hour)".
This is a free github account, is it normal? Using Chrome Version 72.0.3626.96 (Official Build) (64-bit)
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I Hit $115k/Month with a Status Quo Improvement
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> I know one entrepreneur building an app who's too focused on the security of his app. Unless the fundamental offering of your app is security, you don't need to be concerned about that until you have some actual users to secure.Ignoring security in favor of profits is exactly the reason why we get massive leaks like the most recent 2.7M medical calls one. [1] You can certainly make money by screwing over your customers, but I don't think this behavior should be promoted.Security is not unlike brushing your teeth. It's about habbits. You need to do it correctly and consistently. If you skip brushing your teeth for years, you can't just spend days brushing your teeth to catch up.--[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19191241
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Nokia phones sent identifiable data to Chinese server
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I purchased a Xiaomi phone 4 years ago and some of the Xiaomi apps (cleaner, antivirus, and link accounts) were sending personal info to China as well. These suspicious apps were impossible to remove.
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Black – Uncompromising Python code formatter
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There are some things in Black that I don't particularly like, for example the preference for double quotes over single quotes...But the part that drives me crazy is this... # in:
ImportantClass.important_method(exc, limit, lookup_lines, capture_locals, extra_argument)
# out:
ImportantClass.important_method(
exc, limit, lookup_lines, capture_locals, extra_argument
)
instead of ImportantClass.important_method(exc, limit, lookup_lines,
capture_locals, extra_argument)
which to my eyes is way more readable and understandable. I understand what in some corner cases (if the call is too long that all arguments require its own line) it may be weird, but in those cases, it is showing that you try to do something strange in the first place (too long of a method name or too many elements in the call)
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SaaS CTO Security Checklist
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While it's easy to pick holes in specific areas of this, overall I really like the layout and presentation of the advice.
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2019)
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Frontend Engineer – JavaScript HTML CSS jQuery | ZEISS Digital Innovation Partners | Munich, Germany | ONSITEhttps://zeiss.ly/recruiting-sip-muc-frontendengineer
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Ross Perot Has Died
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Really glad he's dead. He was just another cheerleader for the unfettered greed and capitalism that is destroying the Earth. Good Riddance!
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How many kinds of USB-C to USB-C cables are there?
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This is one of the reasons why USB-C doesn't particularly interest me. USB-C doesn't provide any benefits that I value, but comes with an increase in complexity and potential for (sometimes physically damaging) error.
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I'm writing a book about algorithms and Lisp
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This seems like the perfect book to round out these:- Berkeley: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs [Racket version] (http://berkeley-cs61as.github.io/textbook.html)- Duke: Discrete Math [Racket] (https://www2.cs.duke.edu/courses/spring15/compsci230/syllabu...)Can anyone recommend other core CS books/courses that uses Lisp (or variants) or other functional languages?
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Steam Windows Client Local Privilege Escalation 0day
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This is concerning, especially as the steam client is a platform for downloading remote code execution-enabled programs.I can't imagine the number of security vulnerabilities in Steam games. Most games require invasive anti-cheat services that are connected to a command-and-control sever with full RCE capabilities (and RAM dumping/analysis, etc).If you want a specific example, take Unreal Tournament (1999) on steam: this is an old game, yet its security practices remain unchanged. Most public servers I tried to connect to pushed dlls on my computer, that were then loaded by the game executable, to provide a variety of mods, anti-heat services, and more.That means anyone hosting a UT99 has RCE and privilege escalation capabilities on any client that connect trough Steam, without even trying hard. More concerning is the fact that games are a very specific medium: robustness/security is often not the primary concern, most are networked, and few are patched [a few ears] after release, yet remain launched on a regular basis for decades to come. Moreover, newer games tend to push resource usage too much for elaborate sandboxes.That's the reason why I run Steam trough flatpak's sandbox: at least, it, or games, don't have access to my filesystem. I still have concerns over the login token, though. Wayland does provide some extra protection against potential keyloggers/others, but I wish Steam itself was constructed like a browser, sandbox-wise.(yes, the remote dll loading happened on Linux, trough wine/proton, a testament to the engineering of these compatibility layers).
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Timsort, the Python sorting algorithm
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Isn't this the same idea as the Introsort[1], which was created in 1997 (four years earlier) and is the default sorting algorithm in C++'s standard library (and .NET framework since 4.5)?[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introsort
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The Bytecode Alliance: Building a secure, composable future for WebAssembly
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One pretty annoying thing with WASM is that it is pretty hard to generate due to requiring a structured control flow so anyone generating it must implement relooper och stackifier. Is there any work on solving this issue?http://troubles.md/posts/why-do-we-need-the-relooper-algorit...
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Ask HN: Haven't worked for a while, best guide/advice to start a hobby project?
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The key to treating anxiety is to confront the fear. But it's not clear what your fear is here.If you wrote some code and put it on GitHub would that count as deploying real code?
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Automate the Boring Stuff with Python (2015)
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I’m right there with ya calderarrow. I’m a middle aged physician with no prior programming experience, but I picked this book up on a whim a few years ago and it changed my life. I started automating little thing a here and there and now I see opportunities everywhere that a “real developer” could capitalize on. For as expensive as EMR’s are, you will NEVER meet a doctor who loves theirs, they just hate some less than others. Patient portals are even worse. This industry is ripe for disruption.
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Ask HN: Are there any openly available software architecture documents?
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I think it's worth looking at it like another product that you produce. I like to imagine someone seeing my code for the first time and trying to make sense of it.Architecture: this is often documented with some kind of diagram. I personally find them to be unhelpful.Flow: I'm guessing people aren't familiar with your UI. The best way to document would be to record a video, but that might be a little extra. I would make a powerpoint doc with screenshots to show the common flows.For me, it kinda looks like this:- Assume expertise in the individual technologies you've used- If you picked the tech, then write why you did, and link to resources to learn more about it- Write down which general constraints I placed on myself that might not be common. EX: naming patterns, cyclomatic complexity, using a functional approach, or being more point-free in a language where it's not common, choices around duplicate code- Make a nested list of the folder structure and describe what each folder is for (even if it feels obvious), and describe how the different parts interact with each other. The questions to answer are: what are the high-level dependencies between dirs? Are there any cyclical dependencies?- Find the knots (especially complex parts of the codebase) and make sure they're documented properly
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Pollution from tire wear is worse than exhaust emissions?
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Here in Seattle folks are starting to look at salmon "pre spawn mortality" suspecting chemicals from worn tires.https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.8b03287
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The effects on cognition of sleeping 4 hours per night for 12-14 days
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YMMV, but I've found anecdotally, that qualitative aspects of my sleep have an outsized impact vs. the # of hours, to a point of course.For instance, in my teens/early twenties, I (like many) was able to sleep quite a bit less. Lots of late nights traipsing around the internet, lots of midnight projects.In my mid-twenties, I suddenly found that I needed much more sleep. If I didn't get at least 8 hours, I woke up completely drained. Other adults I spoke to confirmed that this was normal.Then, I switched apartments and got a new bed. Suddenly, I was waking up much easier, even with few hours of sleep.This pattern has repeated a few times throughout my life. I'll notice I'm waking up more tired than usual, and then something will change—a new room with more natural light, a better mattress, the loss of something I didn't realize was stressing me—and I'll suddenly need less sleep.I'm sure none of this is shocking to anyone, but the key thing for me was that even when my sleep quality was apparently deteriorated, I didn't notice it. I still fell asleep easily, I still had dreams, I was still comfortable in my bed, etc. The sleep cycle, it seems, just wasn't as restorative due to other factors.I have a little pet theory that some of the "Super CEOs" we hear about who get by on 4-5 hours of sleep a night are:1. Slightly exaggerating the rigidity of their superhuman schedule (I used to work in media, and I've worked with an outsized number of people who have public reputations for this kind of stuff. Anecdotally, I've found that nearly all exaggerate and sometimes outright lie.)2. Adept at compartmentalizing stress and environment, to the extent that they're able to get quality sleep regardless. This skill would naturally track other responsibilities in their life as well.
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Interactive Map of Linux Kernel
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Is there a newer version of this? This is for Linux 2.6.36, released October 2010.
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Memory safe ‘curl’ for a more secure internet
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I like how the comment referenced in the article with the description "Rust itself can't even properly clean up its own memory" was answered today saying the restriction of unwinding on oom is going away; it's not a fundamental issue, just something that wasn't implemented that way the first time.
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Dockerfile Security Best Practices
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Do not pass sensitive data to docker build via --build-arg. When you access this with "ARG" you will log the information in the docker history, visible to all. Use "--secret" or use the ARG in an intermediate build stage which doesn't have it's history preserved, then copy any necessary files form the intermediate image to your file image manually.A perfect example of this would be passing your NPM_TOKEN to install company scope packages.
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Parsing Algorithms
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I don't mind paying for quality content (and I mind paying in cash a lot less than paying with personal data), but if someone wants a free alternative to this, I recommend https://craftinginterpreters.com/ . Bit lighter on the theory side, but exactly what you need if you want to write a parser in practice.
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Gallery-dl – download images from several image hosting sites
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Interesting that the list of image upload sites is a who's-who of sites. Always looking for alternatives to Imgur which is laden with ADs and doesn't work with an AD-blocker turned on (it explicitly asks you to turn it off)
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An update to storage policies across your Google Account
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They advertise this inactivity manager. The problem is you can only use it if you provide a phone number.So I guess that's a way to enforce that users have only one account (or a small number).I have a dozen accounts. I don't really use most of them a whole lot. And all but 2 of them have very small amount of data stored. I created them mostly to isolate them in their tracking, not to get a huge amount of free storage.No idea what the conditions say about multiple accounts. I don't waste my time reading them. I understand that their lawyers have spent a lot of time to reserve all rights to them and leave nothing to me. That's the price of free services.
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Lonely people's brains are different due to excess of imaginary social contact
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This is one of the most validating discussions I've read in a while. I think of myself as shy, lonely, maybe a little autistic. I grew up very alone as an only child, and would make up games or role play with myself to pass time in the evenings after school.As I grew older, I had many poor social experiences. I felt that the social sphere was dominated by callous, insensitive jerks who talked louder, or whoever had the wittier comeback when being egged on, and I was hurt many times, and I most likely hurt others as well! I started to resent interactions with most people, thinking that most people aren't well intentioned or are unaware. I didn't want to have small talk or banter, because I was interested in random trivia and deep emotional experiences, which don't have a place in many social situations or seem to interest much people. Obviously I have also found quite a few people who were graceful in this regard, such as the few close friends I still have.
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2021)
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Web developer | Remote | 3+ years experience | Full-timeWe're hiring for a web developer as we shake up the audio space! The startup is VC-backed and fully remote indefinitely, but based in London, ENG.Tech tack (3+ yrs ex.)
- React.js
- JavascriptAny questions, just give me a shout! Alternatively, if you want to ping me personally, feel free [email protected]. Thanks!Full job spec: https://apply.workable.com/avid-international-limited/j/0DEB...
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Boeing charged with 737 Max fraud conspiracy and agrees to pay over $2.5B
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Rather than fining the company, fine the individuals responsible.
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Sales of electric cars up by 43% in 2020
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_electric_cars_currentl... FTW
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Fecal transplant turns cancer immunotherapy non-responders into responders
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I heard about this on south park
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Cancel We The Web? (2020)
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> “Stallman… is a hard man to like. He is driven, often impatient. His anger can flare at friend as easily as foe. He is uncompromising and persistent; patient in both.”I advocate for the four freedoms. I think a large chunk of open source development and a large chunk of free software development are essentially a programmer's take on the scientific method.However-- and bear with me here-- I don't want to be an insufferable asshole to my friends.Finally-- and again, bear with me-- I don't want to regularly communicate with core allies who are insufferable assholes.Where is the place for me?lights dim, string intro for the aria
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Where did the other dollar go, Jeff?
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> The most egregious misrepresentation of value creation in the letter is [...] compensation to employees. This is patently ridiculous. Every single dollar of compensation paid out is done transactionally: it is used to purchase labor. In a typical transaction, no market value is created. [...]> Money and labor are both more abstract than fruit, so there is a little bit of leeway to interpret employment transactions as being non-zero-sum. [...] But however you look at it, taking full credit for every single dollar of compensation as value creation— as if Amazon, and not the US Mint, created those dollars, and as if the many, many millions of hours of labor consumed by the company in return were valueless— is a ghastly overstatement.It's obviously sensible for the author to focus on Amazon & Bezos' letter in the blogpost instead of casting a broad non-specific net, but I feel like this very argument is the main one used by various government ministers / congressmen / economists / etc. ad nauseum to justify various support & investments in large multinationals and the so-called "job creation"/"value creation" they offer national economies throughout the world. Time. And. Time. Again. And it has never made any sense to me for these exact reasons.It also strikes me as a pretty basic fallacy that should not hold up to any scrutiny when used by high-profile decision-makers like this.*
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Dear EU: Please Don't Ruin the Root
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Very little worthwhile reading in this thread. It's mostly people complaining about something they don't understand. Read that article and move on is my advice.
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Positions chess engines don't understand
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Politics are about making up rules that others have to follow. May be AI still not good at playing this level of politics.
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Teardown of a PC Power Supply
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I'm glad to see Ken's blog on HN. He does incredible stuff with reverse-engineering old proprietary chips, e.g. the HP nanoprocessor which he reverse-engineered from masks then wrote a disassembler for.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewlett-Packard_Nanoprocessor
http://www.righto.com/2020/09/hp-nanoprocessor-part-ii-rever...
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Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash reporting
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Curiously and arguably somewhat hypocritically, this fork is hosted on github, which relies on telemetry and user data.
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How The Chronicle is trying to malign Sci-Hub
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"'She said that while she gets some help, Sci-Hub remains pretty much a one-woman show (it’s “mainly me,” she said)' -- The Chronicle of Higher Education"So they lie to their readers that Sci-Hub run by a woman is some kind of not a real thing but a ‘show’,..."I'd like to point out that "...a one-woman show" is an expression in American English that does not carry any extra connotations of "show" such as fictional or a falsehood.
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Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads in Android TV
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I’m a bit late but you _can_ uninstall the update. I’m away from my tv but it’s something like settings>apps>show system apps> Android home launcher > uninstall updates
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Mozilla VPN Completes Independent Security Audit by Cure53
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Once I learned that Mozilla was using Mullvad servers, my trust to Mullvad increased. Though, besides credibility I am not sure what other benefit Mozilla brings to the table by reselling it? Since they both use WireGuard protocol, client is mostly about UI, rather than functionality.What would be cool, if Mozilla partnered with multiple VPN providers and had a multi-hop VPN with at least 3 nodes and multi layered encryption, similar to TOR.
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Offline First
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Hey i'm all for doing away with loading spinners, but indexbd is not a catch all solution -- terribly slow for frequent simultaneous read/writes, better suited for other types of data access
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I'm working on open source full time
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Minimum Financial Compensation License.Thou shall contribute before using.———- Don’t have to say how much.- Only individuals may request anonymity- May post donor list (good for the shaming larger corporation or well-endowed benefactors/benefitees)- Profit!
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Cloudflare doesn’t have to cut off copyright-infringing websites, judge rules
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If Cloudflare was an email provider everyone would be blocking them for sending too much spam and not caring about it.
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Google 20% time volunteers have been rewriting the ITA Matrix flight search app
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> Unfortunately, the current Matrix website implementation relies on an internally deprecated web platform slated for retirement.Ahh the most Google reason ever
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Deno Is Webby
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Deno is excellent I really regret not using for my most recent node project
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The 0.5 MB of nothing in all Apple Music files (2020)
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> You can’t make changes to the metadata (e.g. change the spelling of an artist’s name) without reassembling the entire file to recalculate the offsets.Isn't this a really, really infrequent operation? And aren't hard drives fast enough these days that reassembling the entire file doesn't even take that long?
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SEC charges Nvidia with inadequate disclosures about impact of cryptomining
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This a little off-topic, but is there any sort of solution to crypto miners intercepting gaming GPUs?As a gamer, part of me gets annoyed that crypto-miners make it more difficult to get gaming GPUS. On top of that, the massive energy consumption caused by crypto mining feels excessive.But the freedom-loving part of me feels uncomfortable with solutions meant to prevent gaming GPUs from being used for crypto mining (let me use my hardware however I want).Is there some sort of better, arm-chair-expert compromise?
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Department of Justice announces new policy for charging cases under the CFAA
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Sounds like a good way to get your cheeks clapped by the Feds. Only believe it if it had the weight of law for something like this. No way would a person want to wing it with a DoJ "promise". Lol. C'mon man.
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The benefits of “low tech” user interfaces
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Car touch screen UI engineer is the third worst job, right behind 737 MAX MCAS designer and the guys who faked Volkswagen emissions.
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Tell HN: I used the same computer since 2007 (with minor upgrades)
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I want to but replacing the parts is more expensive than buying a new one sometimes.
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Ask HN: How to keep my daughter busy while tickling her curiosity
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There has never been a better time to be a self-guided music learner. When I was 11 I would have flipped right out over the possibilities available in tools like Max, an interactive visual programming environment for making audio, visual, and music programs and installations. And combining it with Arduinos is also amazing for kids (ok, for anyone!). You can try max out for a very low monthly subscription now ($10 or something similar) and there are tons and tons of wonderful online resources for learning it.
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Snap Store administrators removed signal-desktop from Ubuntu Snap
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Oh God... I am not going to repeat myself. To put it briefly: Snap Store is Canonical's Play Store.
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A Vim Guide for Advanced Users
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A useful Vi/m feature is splitting viewports with Ctrl-w + v/s. Ctrl-w + v == split current viewport vertically
Ctrl-w + s == split current viewport horizontally
Ctrl-w + = == resize viewports to equal height/widths
You can then move around the viewports with Ctrl-w + j == move one viewport down from current viewport (if available)
Ctrl-w + k == moves one viewport up from current viewport (if available)
Ctrl-w + h == moves one viewport to the left from current viewport (if available)
Ctrl-w + l == moves one viewport to the right from current viewport (if available)
You can then :q viewports or :e to open a different file in that viewport.Maybe it's so basic it never gets mentioned but I find a lot of people under utilize it.Another good one is typing . to repeat previous command. You can do A, "something"
and then just type `.` to have "something" appended to whatever line the cursor is on.
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Simulate Asteroid Impacts on Earth
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Found a bug, if the impact point is near the south pole/north pole, the regions aren't distorted to match the projection of the map.
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Amazon ends charity donation program AmazonSmile
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previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34435338
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GitHub to layoff 10% and closing all offices
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Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34726735, which was posted a hair earlier and is also on the front page right now.I nicked your title, too—I hope you don't mind!
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The age of cargo cult Agile must end
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Good luck with that, the whole enterprise space is full of companies whose business is to sell Agile development, with the whole package that belongs to it.This is what managers care about, regardless of what is being discussed on the engineering floor about what Agile is supposed to be like in practice.
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Extracting the GameBoy ROM from photographs of the die
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Very cool. Although bit recognition could be made more robust by using information from all three channels instead of just one. Eg by projecting on the principal component and applying the threshold there.
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System76 Open Firmware
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I ended up buying a second hand Evoo Gaming Laptop, with like 12 CPU 16 GB Ram, Nvidia GPU. It cost me around 800 dollars. I installed PopOS and I like the performance and convenience of this machine.
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Twitter won’t allow retweeting tweets linking to Substack
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Farcaster and web3 fixes this, but all of your identities are so overloaded with past web3 hate that you‘ll never be able to admit it
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Microsoft exec says Windows 11 kernel will soon be booting with Rust inside
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One thing caught my eye:96 KLOC of C++ is now 152 KLOC of Rust.What causes the increase, and is that 1.5x ratio typical?
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How to make a QR code with Stable Diffusion
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This is cool and can’t wait until there’s more accepted steganography where every image has some side channel of info encoded into the image in a way that as a viewer I don’t notice it, but my phone’s camera can discern.
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Reddit Doubles Down
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I used to spend a lot of time on Reddit. This blackout has helped me realize there is more to life. I used to be pretty active averaging a post a day and 10+ comments. But, Reddit lost me now. Of course, not a big deal for them given how little impact the blackout is making in terms of revenue and so on, but this one was necessary for me.
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Marijuana addiction: those struggling often face skepticism
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If anyone is struggling, the reddit forum the article references is r/leaves (a clever play on the marijuana subreddit, r/trees). It's the marijuana equivalent of r/stopdrinking. Both are wonderful, supportive communities that have helped many people.
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PSA: Intel Graphics Drivers Now Collect Telemetry by Default
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tl;dr:> We are unilaterally altering the Terms & Conditions for the device you purchased. Pray we don't alter them further.
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A new method to reprogram human cells to better mimic embryonic stem cells
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It's quite a leap to imagine that developmental processes in cells are entirely reversible, but maybe it's possible. The main thing to look at in this study is this:> "Professor Polo said the precise molecular mechanisms underlying the iPS epigenome aberrations and their correction were not fully known, and further research was needed to understand them."Think about the truly ridiculous level of programmatic fidelity involved in human (or any mammalian) reproduction. Two cells, one from the XY male and one from the XX female, merge to form a viable zygote. One cell. Somehow, that cell contains all the information necessary to develop into to a kangaroo, or a whale, or a human, or a naked mole rat. Hundreds of different cell types, expressing thousands of celluar receptor proteins, to keep it all coordinated.A lot of the developmental processes involve selective deactivation of large regions of the genome (nerve cells don't need much of what heart cells need, and so on), but somehow it's all coordinated. What they're claiming is that this selective deactivation can somehow be reversed, but they don't quite understand how, at a molecular-structural level.It all points to the 3D structure of the genome being important at many levels, but there's no good way to experimentally analyze that yet, not really.
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What do I think about Community Notes?
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https://pol.is mentioned at the end of the article seems to be very interesting.
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I used a Game Boy camera for Facetime video calls in iPadOS 17
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I had done the same at the beginning of the year, except using a Windows desktop and an Elgato HD60S+ (still using an Analogue Pocket, its dock and a Gameboy Camera)At some point I replaced the Pocket+Dock with a Super Famicom, RetroTink 5X and Super Gameboy 2 for extra lulz
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The Fantilator Page
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I hope this isn't too unrelated, but I've named [bigassfans.com](https://bigassfans.com) my Best World Wide Web Site of The Year Award for 13 years in a row!
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FPGA N64
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Is there any wrapper for mister cores that allows them to work on a PCIe FPGA card? It would be cool to have an N64 inside my PC.
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Tell HN: Please stop offering your services
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Personally I just don't click offers for now, as it just don't worth the time to go over all the offers in the current form.
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In Fifty Days, Payments Innovation Will Stop In Silicon Valley
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no bitcoins in CA
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Programmers' salaries at Google $250k (and up)
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Beginner level engineer - barely pushing 80k.I'm working at the wrong place =(
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Mari0=Mario + Portal ..Open source game
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I think his license is the best one I've seen yet. In main.lua it says... * NOT COPYRIGHT STABYOURSELF.NET
NO RIGHTS RESERVED
STEAL MY SHIT AND I'LL FUCK YOU UP
PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING BY MAURICE GUÉGAN AND IF SOMETHING ISN'T BY ME THEN IT SHOULD BE OBVIOUS OR NOBODY CARES
THIS AWESOME PIECE OF CELESTIAL AMBROSIA IS RELEASED AS NON-COMMERCIAL, SHARE ALIKE, WHATEVER. YOU MAY PRINT OUT THIS CODES AND USE IT AS WALLPAPER IN YOUR BATHROOM.
FOR SPECIFIC LICENSE (I know you linux users get a hard on when it comes to licenses) SEE http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
NOW GO AWAY (or stay and modify shit. I don't care as long as you stick to the above license.)*
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The most dangerous code in the world
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Everyone who does any development should read this paper. It is not just for SSL specialists!
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Obama, NSA, Verizon and DoJ sued for $3B over PRISM
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Quick search for telecom immunity shows me that hn forgot that Verizon, et al are exempt from such prosecutions after the GOP pushed for said immunity in the late aughts. That was a good fight the dems put up against this sort of thing, but alas. Not to mention the fact that no laws seem to have been broken, only the heart of a libertarian redditor.
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An open MySQL bug receives a real Birthday cake
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I just had occasion to use mysqldump --no-data a few days ago, and then came across this today. Not a good feeling! C'mon, mySQL devs ... fix it already.
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Google Removes Vital Privacy Feature From Android, Claims Release Was Accidental
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I have to admit, the EFF has just lost a chunk of support from me over this. Google never released this feature - you needed to install some 3rd party app to expose the settings, this alone is enough for anyone of any intelligence to know they are doing something not intended for the general public.Seriously EFF, get your act together please. I do want to support you, but not like this.
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/u/161719 tells us all why surveillance is not OK
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this story sucks (downvote me, I don't care)/u/161719 is not even good for writing fiction; is not even good for writing anything at all
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A Motion-Sensing Keyboard
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Very cool. Did anyone else notice that the direction of many of the gestures were reverse of the "natural" motion. I.e. to scroll left, the hand gestures to the left, rather than to the right as if you're dragging the viewport to the right. Also, to zoom in, the thumb and index finger are brought together, rather than spread apart as if you're dragging to points on the viewport away from each other.Obviously this would all be configurable but it's strange to work on something to reduce HCI friction while using a design that's counterintuitive.
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NASA presents evidence that microwave thrusters seem to work
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The top comment (on the actual article) suggests that the effect may be a result of dark matter resonance:http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111...Which is way over my head, but interesting.
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OpenStreetMap Then and Now
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FWIW, the maker of this (Martijn Exel) gave a talk on where to improve OSM last saturday in Seattle at the OSM 10th anniversary event. Slides from his talk are here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ey85IHqupj7aWxq92Rzq...Personally like his other tool, the OSM vs. US Census Tiger 'battlegrid' : http://184.73.220.107/battlegrid/#10/41.8941/-87.7753
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Apple’s “warrant canary” disappears
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So now what? Now that the canary has disappeared, is there no other information that can be transmitted to us? It feels like it's a binary signal that just got set permanently, so there's no more information we can glean from it.
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GitHut – Programming Languages on GitHub
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This was already submitted months ago :s
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WebGL Fundamentals
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This article expect you to already know 3d programming.
You need to be familiar with vectors, matrices, buffers and shaders.
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Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad
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To sum up:* "we have competition and that's hard"* "writing code is hard"* "no srsly, it's really hard yo"
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Finish your stuff
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Just leaving this here, side project comic strip
http://www.commitstrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Strip-...
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Why has the quality of brick buildings declined in the last 100 years?
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He is right about a couple of things, though he does not seem to have much of a grasp about buildings in general.He is right that sills (whatever material they are made of) should always protrude. I agree that the 1970's and 80's will probably be considered the low point in building (and were certainly the low point in automobile quality).He apparently doesn't understand that the brick header in the older building is actually weight-bearing while the one in the newer building is a veneer covering a poured-concrete structural header.He misses the main point: the older building is much better quality because it cost much more in relative terms. Buildings, like most of our modern products have declined in quality because we don't spend as much on them. But we have far more stuff - buildings and everything else.
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A Back Door to Encryption Won't Stop Terrorists
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I think one thing we as a tech community overlook is the expectations on the intelligence community. The broader community expects the intelligence agencies to stop ALL terrorists attacks, and thats just not feasible. This drives the intelligence agencies to do more, which is why I think there is a big push for broad dragnet activity.
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Model 3 Unveiling [video]
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The low price especially concerns me since that means they're targeting high volume sales. A great question is what will become of the millions of batteries 5, 10, 15 years from now.https://www.teslamotors.com/blog/mythbusters-part-3-recyclin...Goes in to some detail but basically states, we have some good ideas, but our fallback is the land fill since these batteries etc are considered non toxic. Still: sourcing, building, recycling, and disposing of these batteries seems like a giant problem that is hard to believe is environmentally sound
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Housing in the Bay Area
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I love this, but why does he list just those specific members?
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Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?
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In my field, most cutting-edge papers show up in the monthly digest from www.optimization-online.org, a pre-print site for optimization papers.
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Introducing Rust Language Server
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There's some talk of getting this into Sublime Text https://github.com/jonathandturner/rustls/issues/18
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An External Replication on the Effects of Test-driven Development [pdf]
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I was eager to read this paper but found little substance in it.
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Google Trusted Contacts
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If you have concerns you can always use this. I am planning to opensource thishttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spacetime
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Harassment at Apple: A personal perspective
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this is an interesting perspective on tech and women in tech.
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A bigger problem than ISIS: The Mosul Dam is failing
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This is eerily similar to Bitter Lake.. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x35szal
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Best Practices for ML Engineering from Google [pdf]
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Great resource. I have a chrome extension http://compakt.nhatqbui.com where I naively added ML features but it was too inconsistent. I now understand the cautioned approach the guide advises on adding ML to a product.
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Mo.js: motion graphics toolbelt for the web
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holy moly so much code for the demo animation
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Leaked Snapchat emails: Anti-gun group told to pay or NRA ads may appear
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What a great salesman.
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