Replace These Words in Your Writing

Writing is hard, and weird, and in the scheme of human existence pretty new. We’ve been talking for maybe half a million years, writing for just about 5,000. So sometimes we write stuff that we’d never say aloud. We use a complicated or “smart-sounding” word when a simpler word w … | Continue reading


@lifehacker.com | 5 years ago

Show HN: DebView, a platform for sane and constructive debates

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@debview.eu | 5 years ago

How to make more than $ 1000 a day

ربما ترى شخصا ناجحا فتحاول تقليده لكن دائما ماتفشل، هذا أمر طبيعي فأنت ترى نسخته الاخيرة فقط. لكن ماذا لو شاركت معك بداياتي في عالم الت... | Continue reading


@th3gangs.com | 5 years ago

Quantum Machine Learning

Quantum computers are becoming available, which begs the question: what are we going to use them for? Machine learning is a good candidate. In this course we will introduce several quantum machine learning algorithms and implement them in Python. | Continue reading


@edx.org | 5 years ago

Backups and redundancy at sr.ht

sr.ht1 is 100% open source and I encourage people to install it on their on infrastructure, especially if they’ll be sending patches upstream. However, I am equally thrilled to host sr.ht for you on the “official” instance, and most users find this useful because the maintenance … | Continue reading


@drewdevault.com | 5 years ago

HDCP is ridiculously annoying – DRM sucks for consumers

I decided to treat myself to an upgraded home cinema experience. But mandatory copy-protection has meant I’ve spend the weekend trying and failing to get things working, rather than watching … | Continue reading


@shkspr.mobi | 5 years ago

How a beginner C++ programmer made a game engine from scratch

Announcing Rubeus, and how we made a game engine | Continue reading


@blog.sdslabs.co | 5 years ago

Shopping Turned into Breaking in Store's Network: SSRF via GraphQL Query

SSRF using arbitrary GraphQL Query | Continue reading


@wongmjane.com | 5 years ago

Walking in my (Electron) shoes

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@asylum.madhouse-project.org | 5 years ago

Did ‘Ethereum’ Just Get Banned as a Google Ad Keyword?

A smart contract auditing startup Decenter recently tweeted that Google (Alphabet Inc.) has allegedly blacklisted keywords that have Ethereum (ETH) in it, on its advertising platform Google Ads. https://twitter.com/DecenterTeam/status/1083392362544594944 This comes as a slightly … | Continue reading


@btcwires.com | 5 years ago

A long read on a former quant coder convicted of stealing algorithms

• The Cambridge graduate from Hubei, upset with his £400,000 bonus, quit his London firm, taking with him valuable market-trading algorithms • Former employer G-Research has worked tirelessly to keep the codes under wraps and the thief behind bars | Continue reading


@scmp.com | 5 years ago

My Long, Winding Journey to “Software Developer”

There's only one maker at Atomic without a college degree – me. It's been a long, strange road to where I am, but I'm thankful for the experience. | Continue reading


@spin.atomicobject.com | 5 years ago

Nature Machine Intelligence Journal Is Now Live

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@nature.com | 5 years ago

MulchFest Day 2 Preview: 87 things you need to know about today's Chip-a-thon in Tompkins Square Park

EV Grieve is the leading news, entertainment and lifestyle blog about the East Village of New York City. | Continue reading


@evgrieve.com | 5 years ago

Creating a Vaadin Flow Server-Side API for a JavaScript Component

Today we are going to explore some tips about how to create a Java server-side wrapper for a regular javascript component using Vaadin Flow. | Continue reading


@flowingcode.com | 5 years ago

Data Structure and Algorithms Problems from Interviews

Data structures and algorithm questions are an important part of any programming job interview, be it a Java interview, C++ interview or a... | Continue reading


@javarevisited.blogspot.com | 5 years ago

Epicurus (341–271 B.C.E.)

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@iep.utm.edu | 5 years ago

Darpa Wants to Build Conscious Robots Using Insect Brains

"Even small insects have subjective experiences, the first step towards a concept of 'consciousness.'" | Continue reading


@futurism.com | 5 years ago

How to implement router for spa

how to implement a react router in line | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

A Street Style With Jaycina Almond

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@atelierdore.com | 5 years ago

Configuring git

What can you find inside the .gitconfig file and how can you make git look much nicer with a few simple settings there? | Continue reading


@switowski.com | 5 years ago

Old World, High Tech

An ancient Greek calendar was ahead of its time | Continue reading


@smithsonianmag.com | 5 years ago

People with Schizophrenia Have Increased Antibodies for Epstein Barr Virus

Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder that has been baffling scientists for decades. It's one of the most enigmatic afflictions out there, and no matter how much research is carried out, the mysteries continue to pile on. | Continue reading


@sciencealert.com | 5 years ago

The uncanny familiar – Can we ever really know a cat?

Felines walk the line between familiar and strange. We stroke them and they purr, then in a trice they pounce | Continue reading


@aeon.co | 5 years ago

Using Flyway and GitLab to Deploy a MySQL Database to AWS RDS Securely

One of my passions is to be a trainer. Sharing knowledge, meeting new people, be continuously challenged, it fuels my brain, and I’m always learning something new. I’m creating a new tr… | Continue reading


@joaorosa.io | 5 years ago

Scala Developer Journey into Rust: Introduction

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@blog.madhukaraphatak.com | 5 years ago

Cli2: make your Python callbacks work on CLI too

unfrustrating python CLI | Continue reading


@pypi.org | 5 years ago

Data Mining Reveals When People Make Blunders in Chess (2016)

Decision making is influenced by the complexity of the situation, the skill of the decision maker, and the time pressure. But one of these is much more important than the others, a new study reveals. | Continue reading


@technologyreview.com | 5 years ago

Wikipedia blocked in Venezuela as internet controls tighten

The NetBlocks internet observatory has collected technical evidence of the blocking all editions of Wikipedia in Venezuela as of 12 January 2019. The restrictions, implemented by the largest telecommunications provider CANTV. ... | Continue reading


@netblocks.org | 5 years ago

Yale Study Shows White Leftists Dumb Down Their Speech Talking to Minorities

Read more at Countable → | Continue reading


@countable.us | 5 years ago

"Trump has concealed details of his face-to-face encounters with Putin from senior officials in administration" - Mathew Ingram's Nuzzel Newsletter on Sun, Jan 13 2019

Sun, Jan 13 2019: Mathew Ingram (mathewi) Newsletter on Nuzzel. Subscribe to Mathew Ingram's Nuzzel Newsletter | Continue reading


@nuzzel.com | 5 years ago

Managing your dotfiles (2014)

Your dotfiles will most likely be the longest project you ever work on. For this reason, it is worthwhile to organize your dotfiles project in a disciplined manner for maintainability and extensibility. | Continue reading


@anishathalye.com | 5 years ago

Show HN: Emaildrop – a free disposable email service with a GraphQL API

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@emaildrop.io | 5 years ago

UX rant: The nightmare horrorshow that is the Apple TV remote

Op-ed: Yes, it looks great. It also needs to work! | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 5 years ago

Ulysses Pact

The Ulysses Pact is a form of commitment device that helps us to build and maintain good habits and decisions despite future temptations. | Continue reading


@nickwignall.com | 5 years ago

RSS Feed dying in 2019?

Firstly,What RSS means? | Continue reading


@vedipen.com | 5 years ago

We Still Don’t Understand Why Time Only Flows Forward

The past is gone, the future not yet here, only the present is now. But why does it always flow the way it does for us? | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Word Embeddings with Gensim #Python #MachineLearning

This posts discuss about word embeddings and how can you train your own custom data specific embeddings using gensim (a python utility) | Continue reading


@prakhartechviz.blogspot.com | 5 years ago

The blind spot

It’s tempting to think science gives a God’s-eye view of reality. But we forget the place of human experience at our peril | Continue reading


@aeon.co | 5 years ago

What Does ‘Switch SCE to AUX’ Mean?

During the launch of Apollo 12 a major malfunction was caused by 2 lightning strikes. See http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2013/02/apollo-12-struck-by-lightning.html for more info.The solutio... | Continue reading


@space.stackexchange.com | 5 years ago

Architecture of Odor Perception

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, have now quantified and mapped the functional units of the olfactory center in the brains of vinegar flies... | Continue reading


@maxplanck.nautil.us | 5 years ago

Fix for Windows 10&8 Partition Mounted as Read-Only on Linux When Dual Booting

Users dual booting Windows 10 or 8 and a Linux distribution, be it Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, openSUSE and so on, will sometimes noticed that the Windows partition is mounted as read only. | Continue reading


@linuxuprising.com | 5 years ago

Seeing how fast Julia can pop count

Making sure Julia can count bits. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets. | Continue reading


@gist.github.com | 5 years ago

Building a Personal Highlights Tracker in Notion

Notion [https://www.notion.so] is a relatively new wiki tool that's been gaininga lot of traction lately, especially with task management geeks like myself.You can think of it initially like a web-based wiki (with desktop & mobileapps), it has a hierarchy of pages you can fill wi … | Continue reading


@lukemerrett.com | 5 years ago

Digital Native Vertical Brands Are Boring

Economics shaping aesthetics Executive summary Everlane. Warby Parker. Bonobos. Glossier. Digital-first consumer brands that are all hugely successful and growing rapidly thanks to business savviness and venture capital funding that has helped them grow rapidly. When compared to … | Continue reading


@fiveeasypieces.substack.com | 5 years ago

Africans in Guangzhou, China

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@en.wikipedia.org | 5 years ago

What Happened to Apple?

How Apple and Amazon Test Two Very Different Futures for Capitalism | Continue reading


@eand.co | 5 years ago

Calls for Huawei boycott get mixed response in Europe

Europe is giving US-led calls for a boycott of Huawei 5G telecoms equipment a mixed reception, with some governments untroubled by spy suspicions against the Chinese giant, but others backing a ban. | Continue reading


@thelocal.no | 5 years ago