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I made our office play personalized entrance theme music
How I hacked the office WiFi to play entrance theme music for my colleagues (and myself!)
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,763 posts.
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IPvlan overlay-free Kubernetes Networking in AWS
Lyft is pleased to announce the initial open source release of our IPvlan-based CNI networking stack for running Kubernetes at scale in…
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Broken packets: IP fragmentation is flawed
As opposed to the public telephone network, the internet has a Packet Switched design. But just how big can these packets be?
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Generating all permutations, combinations, and power set of a string (2012)
Combinatorics is a branch of mathematics that deal with counting of discrete structures. Two concepts that often come up in the study of c...
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Cargo cult data science
Data science as a cargo cult
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How to Escape Saddle Points Efficiently
The BAIR Blog
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Why Our Super Bowl Ad Failed
Cards Against Humanity purchased a Super Bowl ad, but it was not successful.
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What it means to be a Postgres extension
Because Citus is an extension to PostgreSQL and not a fork, the effort required to remain compatible with the latest versions of the open source PostgreSQL database has been dramatically reduced. After a new PostgreSQL version is released, Citus packages are often updated and in sync within days.
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The Many Layers of Packaging: Why PyPI Isn't an App Store
Thoughts on FOSS and fintech, layered by Mahmoud Hashemi
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Ten Weeks with Y Combinator’s Startup School
In early March 2017, I found out that Y Combinator had announced its first online startup school. That really made me happy, since we’ve…
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Using Deep Learning to model personal visual aesthetics
Visual aesthetics are very personal, often subconscious, and hard to express. In a world with an overload of photographic content, a lot of time and effort is spent manually curating photographs…
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Things about programming I learned with Go
Go has been gaining a significant popularity over last few months. Language-related articles and blog posts are written every day. New Go projects are started on Github. Go conferences and meetups attract more and more people. This language certainly has its time now. It became a language of the year 2016 according to…
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How to Get Hired at CircleCI
Come work with us. Join our amazing team of highly technical engineers and business leaders to help us build great developer tools.
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Bitcoin study: Period of exclusivity encourages early adopters
Bitcoin experiment at MIT, conducted by MIT Sloan School of Management professors Christian Catalini and Catherine Tucker, shows delaying access for tech-savvy early adopters, effectively stripping them of their exclusive status, can stifle the spread of new products.
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Apple at Its Best
Apple’s original competitive advantage — the integration of hardware and software — is more durable than disruption theory would suggest.
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Java 8: New features in ConcurrentHashMap
DEAD CODE TECH LAW Contact us Our Location Icon label Alaska Icon label Nevada Icon label New Mexico Icon label Arizona Understanding the Role of a Medical Malpractice Lawyer: A Comprehensive Guide Medical malpractice cases are complex legal undertakings that require a specific set of skills and expertise. When faced…
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Jessamyn West, Technology Lady (2015)
The role of the modern librarian, and other things
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Undefined Behavior in 2017
Since you talk about the sanitizers and tools like Checked-C, I’ll note there’s also SaferCPlusPlus[1], which is essentially a memory-safe (and data race safe) subset of C++. The idea is that there are a finite number of C++ elements that contribute to memory unsafety, and since the advent of C++11, it is now…
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Why I Don't Prepare for Job Interviews
Cramming may get a candidate a job. But they won’t succeed at the job if they don’t have the skills and experience needed.
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YC W17 Launch: Wifi.com.ng – Uncapped ISP for Africa
We’re in the middle of YC’s W17 batch. As companies launch they’ll be doing a Q&A on Hacker News – aka Launch HN – in addition to being included in a roundup on the blog. Here are the companies that have recently launched. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wifi.com.ng…
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PHP 7.2.0 Released
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
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The Three Ways of XOR
We all know the XOR operation. It’s the cousin of NOT, AND and OR. Like AND and OR, it is a binary boolean function. Unlike them, most programming languages ...