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Hacker News for Hackers
Hacker News is one of the best sources for news in the intersection of technology and business. Hacker News gets nearly 1000 submissions on a busy weekday, and quite a bit less on the weekends:
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3D scanning like a pro
Almost any sensor yields more interesting results if mounted on a moving platform. Remember scanning thermometer ? It’s time to mount TOF LIDAR (Time Of Flight / Light Imaging, Detection, And Ranging) on two precision rotary stages arranged for pan and tilt operation. Rig provides real-time position data along with…
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Announcing DatHTTPD
Serve sites over Dat and HTTPS, with automatic certificate provision.
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The Shape of Rome (2013)
The new Mayor of the city of Rome, Ignazio Marino, just announced his intention to destroy one of the city’s central roads, the Via dei Fori Imperiali, and turn the area around the old Roman Forum into the world’s largest archaeological park. Reactions have ranged from commuters’ groans to declarations from…
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How Citus Executes Distributed Transactions on Postgres
Distributed transactions are one of the meanest, baddest problems in relational databases. This post explains why distributed transactions are hard and how the Citus database supports distributed transactions by employing features like distributed deadlock detection, 2PC, and streaming replication in Postgres.
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The Ethics of Running a Data Breach Search Service
No matter how much anyone tries to sugar coat it, a service like Have I been pwned [https://haveibeenpwned.com/] (HIBP) which deals with billions of records hacked out of other peoples' systems is always going to sit in a grey area. There are degrees, of course; at one end
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Interpreting neurons in an LSTM network
A few months ago, we showed how effectively an LSTM network can perform text transliteration .
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Announcing Ionic 2 Final
Today, I’m incredibly excited to announce Ionic Framework 2.0.0. Before we get into that, though, a little history lesson is in order… Back in March 2015 the Ionic team was given a unique opportunity to take all the lessons learned building a mobile framework on Angular 1 and reimagine it for a new and fast […]
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Shutting down FTP services
Those of you who have been around for a while may remember a time when you used to be able to mount kernel.org directly as a partition on your system using NFS (or even SMB/CIFS). The Wayback Machine shows that this was still advertised some time in January 1998 , but was removed by the time the December 1998 copy was…
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Switching from Common Lisp to Julia
I have written this post for developers in the Common Lisp community who asked why I am switching to Julia. It may only be relevant for the small set of people who use Common Lisp for scientific computing.
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The Door Problem (2014)
“So what does a game designer do? Are you an artist? Do you design characters and write the story? Or no, wait, you’re a programmer?”
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Myspace lets you hijack any account just by knowing the person’s birthday
In April this year whilst roaming the plains of the wild world web, I stumbled across an old Myspace account of mine. Attempting to gain access and delete the account I discovered a business process so flawed it deserves its own place in history. I wrote to Myspace describing my
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Equifax or Equiphish?
More than a week after it said most people would be eligible to enroll in a free year of its TrustedID identity theft monitoring service, big three consumer credit bureau Equifax has begun sending out email notifications to people who were able to take the company up on its offer. But in yet another security stumble…
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3-D printed ovaries produce healthy offspring in mice
Bioprosthetic ovaries produced mouse pups in otherwise infertile mice
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Summary: $200B Broadband Scandal (2005)
The case is simple: Do you have a 45 Mbps, bi-directional service to your home, paying around $40? Do you have 500+ channels and can choose any competitive service? You paid an estimated $2000 for this product even though you did not receive it and it may never be available. Do you want your money back and the…
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Connecting a Git Repository to Amazon S3 and AWS Services
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Connect Your Git Repository to Amazon S3 and AWS Services Using Webhooks and New Quick Start
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Creating an Autonomous System for Fun and Profit
The thoughts and projects of an engineer who likes to convert solder, firmware, and wire into all sorts of different forms of entertainment.
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Look before you paste from a website to terminal
All about making life easier and efficient with Linux
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Where machine learning meets rule-based systems
Summary: This post addresses some high-level questions like: Longer term, how much of the verification of Intelligent Autonomous Systems can be done with just Machine Learning (ML)? Should most req…