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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,763 posts.
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Men not at work: Why so many men aged 25 to 54 are not working (2016)
The job market is a whole lot better than it was during the worst of the Great Recession, but around 7 million American men between the ages of 25 and 54 – mostly too old to be in school and too young to retire – are neither working nor looking for work. That amounts to […]
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I spent three months working full time to get a job
A retrospective on the technical interview process based on three months of searching for a job.
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Where Are the Customers' Yachts? Or a Good Hard Look at Wall Street (2012)
Once in the dear dead days beyond recall, an out-of-town visitor was being shown the wonders of the New York financial district. When the party
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Understanding AdSense account suspensions due to invalid traffic
In today's post, we'll be discussing AdSense account suspensions due to invalid traffic. We have found that there are two types of publishers who may have inval…
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The Implementation of Functional Programming Languages
“The Implementation of Functional Languages” is a book about implementing functional programming languages using lazy graph reduction, and it divides into three parts. The first part describes how to translate a high-level functional language into an intermediate language, called the lambda calculus, incuding detailed…
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What happens when you swipe a credit card
Ninety percent of Americans have used a credit card, but far fewer understand the underlying systems enabling their payments. So let’s dive…
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Decline of the Dad Job
Before I learnt to read I made sense of the world by conjuring up images in my mind, particularly for abstract concepts. I could count before I could read and had an image for each number. Many of …
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A Programmer’s Introduction to Unicode
Pixels and polygons and shaders, oh my!
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Nintendo Switch Teardown
The Nintendo Switch system is a major evolution of the Wii platform. It’s both a home console and a handheld mobile device. We tore it down.
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Making math more Lego-like
A trio of Harvard researchers has developed a new 3-D pictorial language for mathematics with potential as a tool across a wide spectrum, from pure math to physics.
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JavaScript in Parallel: Web Workers and SharedArrayBuffer
Legal Issues in Open Source Software Development2017172 points67 commentsSoftware Engineering details
Common legal challenges and effective strategies in open source software development. Ensure your projects are legally sound & compliant
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Sexism at Uber from Female Management
My last days at Uber in San Francisco were filled with disrespect, condescending managers, and sexism.
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How we secretly introduced Haskell and got away with it
Channable is a tool for marketeers and webshop owners that connects shops to market places, affiliate platforms, and comparison websites. We download product data through a feed or API connection, clean it up using our configurable rules engine, and we send the transformed data to any platform.
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The Amazing Power of Word Vectors (2016)
For today’s post, I’ve drawn material not just from one paper, but from five! The subject matter is ‘word2vec’ – the work of Mikolov et al. at Google on efficient vect…
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How to choose and pair typefaces
Pair typefaces effectively: Categorize fonts by properties. Use 3×3 grid method to find combinations.
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Mathematical Notation in Emacs
Any combination of these tools may be chosen; Fira Code is not required to utilize prettify-symbols or pretty-mode. Similarly, the entire Fira Code font is not required to use Fira’s ligatures.
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How I discovered my left AirPod was bad
tl;dr: My left AirPod had some hardware issue. I got a new one. Now the AirPods work great. The morning Apple's AirPods went up for sale, I was boarding a plane, and had just gotten to my seat on the plane. I knew they'd be in short supply (though I didn't know just how short—my local Apple Store only gets a small…
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Dolphin Progress Report: February 2017
As most of you know, Dolphin was born a GameCube emulator. A lot of its core design and concepts are based around assumptions made that it would only be a GameCube emulator. And, as a GameCube Emulator, Dolphin performs admirably, with the ability to boot every single title and a large portion of the library having no…
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Jennifer Widom Named Dean of Stanford School of Engineering
Widom, an innovator in engineering education, taught one of Stanford’s first MOOCs.
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94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid State Battery
John Goodenough and his team have developed the first all-solid-state battery cells that could lead to safer, faster-charging, longer-lasting rechargeable batteries.
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Sandstorm gets a security review
Take control of your web by running your own personal cloud server with Sandstorm.
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Containers Come to Firefox Test Pilot
The Containers feature in Firefox Nightly gives users the ability to place barriers on the flow of data across sites by isolating cookies, indexedDB, localStorage, and caches within discrete browsing ...
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Improvements to searching for special characters in programming languages
Now for queries containing sequences of 2-3 special characters such as [== vs ===] and [+=], Google will return results on the meaning of these sequences in programming …