Deadly animal prion disease appears in Europe
How brain disorder related to mad-cow disease spread to Norway is a mystery.
Got a Hot Seller on Amazon? Prepare for E-Tailer to Make One Too
Rain Design has been selling an aluminum laptop stand on Amazon.com Inc. for more than a decade. A best-seller in its category, the $43 product has a 5-star rating and 2,460 customer reviews.
Parents Urged To Anchor Furniture After 3rd Child Killed By IKEA Dresser
Important PSA.
Hasnain says:
I nearly dropped ours on my foot the other day, didn't realize it was this dangerous
Posted on 2016-04-20T22:37:19+0000
Wangle — an asynchronous C++ networking and RPC library
Wangle is a C++ library for building protocols, servers, and clients in an asynchronous, clean, composable, and scalable manner.
Hasnain says:
Wangle is pretty cool. I love the executors which make it easy to shuffle work around efficiently.
Posted on 2016-04-20T16:54:49+0000
How I Investigated Uber Surge Pricing in D.C. - Features - Source: An OpenNews project
Source - Journalism Code, Context & Community
Hasnain says:
A background piece for the last link; on how they gathered data and ran an analysis using geo apis and uber's apis
Posted on 2016-04-20T06:39:57+0000
Uber seems to offer better service in areas with more white people. That raises some tough questions
Uber offers better service in white areas. Is that a problem?
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Posted on 2016-04-20T06:39:29+0000
Why is there a screen that says “It is now safe to turn off your computer”? | The Old New Thing
Why is there a screen that says “It is now safe to turn off your computer”? ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ April 19, 2016By Raymond Chen - MSFT11 0 0 0 I don’t know whose idea it was, but Windows 95 added a screen that appeared when you shut down Windows. It’s now safe to turn offyour computer. This message was ad…
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Posted on 2016-04-20T06:32:41+0000
A polyglot's guide to multiple dispatch - Eli Bendersky's website
A polyglot's guide to multiple dispatch April 19, 2016 at 05:02 Tags C & C++ , Multiple dispatch This is the first article in a series dedicated to multiple dispatch - an advanced abstraction technique available to programmers out-of-the-box in some languages, and implementable in others. This first…
Hasnain says:
This is an awesome read on programming languages, dynamic/static typing and dispatching
Posted on 2016-04-20T06:30:24+0000
What convolutional neural networks look at when they see nudity – Clarifai Blog | Artificial...
Last week at Clarifai we formally announced our Not Safe for Work (NSFW) adult content recognition model. This week, one of our data scientists will walk you through a technical exploration of how he taught computers to see naked people. Warning & Disclaimer: This post contains visualizations of nud…
Hasnain says:
A pretty cool analysis on how to understand a neural network
Posted on 2016-04-20T06:17:27+0000
Intel to Cut 12,000 Jobs, Forecast Misses Amid PC Blight
Intel Corp. will eliminate 12,000 jobs, or 11 percent of its workforce, embarking on the deepest cutbacks in a decade to gird for a fifth year of declines in the personal-computer market.