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Watch a Drone Take Over a Nearby Smart TV
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Wired
Watch a Drone Take Over a Nearby Smart TV
Smart TVs continue to look dumber by the day.
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WeWork isn’t a tech company; it’s a soap opera
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The Verge
WeWork isn’t a tech company; it’s a soap opera
I dedicate this to the energy of We.
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AI startup that raised $30m claims to automate app making just uses humans
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The Verge
This AI startup claims to automate app making but actually just uses humans
Who could have seen that coming?
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Cloudflare S-1
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Wework loses $5200/customer, lost $1.3B in H1/2019
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Boing Boing
Wework loses $5200/customer, lost $1.3B in H1/2019
Financial disclosures from Wework in support of its IPO reveal that the company loses almost $5,200/customer, and that it hemorrhaged $1.3B in the first half of 2019.
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Ask HN: What's the point of the TM and (R) symbols?
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From automatic differentiation to message passing [video]
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YouTube
From automatic differentiation to message passing
See updated video here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/video/from-automatic-differentiation-to-message-passing/
Automatic differentiation is an elegant technique for converting a computable function expressed as a program into a derivative-computing…
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Hedonometer
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hedonometer.org
The Hedonometer
Hedonometer.org is an instrument that measures the happiness of large populations in real time. The hedonometer is based on people’s online expressions, capitalizing on data-rich social media, and measures how people present themselves to the outside world.
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Google’s rivals opt out of search engine auction, calling it ‘anti-competitive’
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VentureBeat
Google’s rivals opt out of search engine auction, calling it ‘unethical’ and ‘anti-competitive’
Google rivals have called for intervention from EU regulators over Google's decision to open an auction process to become the default Android search engine.
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CEO compensation has grown 940% since 1978
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Economic Policy Institute
CEO compensation has grown 940% since 1978: Typical worker compensation has risen only 12% during that time
The latest report in EPI’s annual series analyzing current and long-term trends in CEO compensation.
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The IT Guy vs. the Con Artist
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Iceland grapples with the prospect of a future with no ice
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NY Times
What Worries Iceland? A World Without Ice. It Is Preparing. (Published 2019)
As rising temperatures drastically reshape Iceland’s landscape, businesses and the government are spending millions for survival and profit.
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At Booming Toptal, No Stock for Employees or Investors
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The Information
At Booming Toptal, No Stock for Employees or Investors
Toptal, a service that connects companies with freelance software engineers, is a Silicon Valley success story. Founded in 2010, it soon attracted funding from well-known investors including Andreessen Horowitz and hired scores of employees who were promised…
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Hiring Is Broken: What Do Developers Say About Technical Interviews?
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ResearchGate
(PDF) Hiring is Broken: What Do Developers Say About Technical Interviews?
PDF | Technical interviews -a problem-solving form of interview in which candidates write code- are commonplace in the software industry, and are used... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
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Q-Learning
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Facebook Trannoscription Opt-In Says Nothing About Human Listeners
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I wasn’t getting hired as a data scientist, so I sought data on who is
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Medium
I wasn’t getting hired as a Data Scientist. So I sought data on who is.
Instead of focusing on skills thought to be required of data scientists, we can look at what they have actually done before
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Launch HN: Vendr (YC S19) – Buying software so you don’t have to
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Trigger a Kernel Panic to Diagnose Unresponsive EC2 Instances
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Amazon
New – Trigger a Kernel Panic to Diagnose Unresponsive EC2 Instances | Amazon Web Services
When I was working on systems deployed in on-premises data centers, it sometimes happened I had to debug an unresponsive server. It usually involved asking someone to physically press a non-maskable interrupt (NMI) button on the frozen server or to send a…
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A scientist must go where the evidence leads
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Scientific American Blog Network
A Scientist Must Go where the Evidence Leads
When our cherished ideas are contradicted by the facts, we must avoid the human tendency to double down on those ideas
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Making Cloud.typography Faster
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Csswizardry
Making Cloud.typography Fast(er) – CSS Wizardry
What issues does Hoefler&Co’s Cloud.typography introduce, and how can we mitigate them?
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