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.
The secret rules of the internet
The murky history of moderation, and how it’s shaping the future of free speech.
Hasnain says:
An absolutely essential read on content moderation and how large companies are effectively playing the role of the gate keeper here. Too many quotes, it's hard to cherry pick a single one. Really long but every word is worth it.
"While public debates rage about government censorship and free speech on college campuses, customer content management constitutes the quiet transnational transfer of free-speech decisions to the private, corporately managed corners of the internet where people weigh competing values in hidden and proprietary ways. Moderation, explains Microsoft researcher Kate Crawford, is "a profoundly human decision-making process about what constitutes appropriate speech in the public domain.""
Posted on 2016-04-19T06:10:44+0000