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Google’s new AI algorithm predicts heart disease by looking at your eyes(theverge.com)
2 points by aleem 9y ago|0 comments
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Servo Motor Basics(youtube.com)
2 points by aleem 9y ago|0 comments
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by aleem 9y ago
I recently got the Jimu MeeBot Kit [1] for my kids which sells via apple.com and costs $130. Two weeks later the Lego Boost launched on Aug 1, priced at $160 [2]. The difference between the two kits is night and day. Lego is leap years ahea
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by aleem 9y ago
Awesome stuff! Had a lot of questions hope you don't mind am father to a few boys who love legos and have just gotten into logic gaming. How long have you been programming? What was your early exposure like? Which language tools, legos
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New York police department needs to replace 36,000 Windows Phones(nypost.com)
1 points by aleem 9y ago|2 comments
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When behavioral economics meets a $700M Powerball jackpot(kottke.org)
2 points by aleem 9y ago|0 comments
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by aleem 9y ago
I thought that was fairly obvious. As per the author's aritcle it is definitely not a direct connection. FB relies heavily on first-degree connection analysis. If you and I end up in the same phonebook (which the author mentions) or th
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by aleem 9y ago
Though very uncanny, this is rather easy to extrapolate even using the basic facets FB has available. But the most overlooked is photos. They are offline beacons and are to offline tracking what websites are to online tracking. For example
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CRISPR Opens Up New Possibilities for Transplants Using Pig Organs(technologyreview.com)
3 points by aleem 9y ago|0 comments
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by aleem 9y ago
The simplest and most effective trick is to have a link that is not visible to humans but only to crawlers. When an IP ends up on that link you know it's a crawler. You can then proceed to block it. A honeypot in other words. Typically
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by aleem 9y ago
Amazon for example values market share above all else, re-investing all it's earnings back into infrastructure and expansion. Google/Android also valued market share. Apple valued profitability. This has meant that Android has som
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by aleem 9y ago
This is a short term strategy at best. Apple generates 7bn from services with 700mn active phones. Without "planned obsolescence" the 700mn number would be much higher as would services revenue. Edit: services is iTunes, music, Ap
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by aleem 9y ago
The scenario is a bit more nuanced though and creeps into Internet freedom. - Reminds me of CraigsList vs PadMapper[1]. In that scenario I side with CL -- it was right to block PM. PM or others should not be allowed to build a new UI on top
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by aleem 9y ago
Consumers would prefer to get packages delivered to their doorsteps but the coordination of package delivery and consumer availability isn't always feasible. This is the solution to that problem and nothing more. And one of many availa
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by aleem 9y ago
The industry at large and Apple in particular is coming at them from the other direction preferring premium, furthering ad blockers and offering better privacy defaults (iOS 11). Elon Musk has gone so far as to allude that Google is the onl
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by aleem 9y ago
This came up via the HN story on "$80k/month App Store Scam"[0]. If the person is intelligent enough to get past the App store approval process and everything that's required to build and publish an app, it counters the
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Why do Nigerian scammers say they are from Nigeria? (2012) [pdf](microsoft.com)
75 points by aleem 9y ago|38 comments
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by aleem 9y ago
It's apparently a thing now. Peter Thiel has purportedly invested millions in anti-aging. A company called Ambriosa in particular matches older people with younger people for blood routine blood transfusions. While this study may or ma
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by aleem 9y ago
From one of the comments on the article > Backing off will no more produce a creative genius than pushing your child. Neither strategy makes the slightest difference to what is essentially an autonomous process. Beethoven's father d
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Explain Shell(explainshell.com)
775 points by aleem 10y ago|85 comments
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by aleem 10y ago
Is postman interceptor going away too? The biggest sore-point for me is that I still can't copy-as-curl-request a POST request from Chrome debugger tools (or other browser) and import it into postman. Relevant issue: https:/&#x2F
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Javascript + SVG Railroad Diagrams(github.com)
3 points by aleem 10y ago|0 comments
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by aleem 10y ago
Worse still, Instagram is on a collision course with SnapChat [1]. > Mark Zuckerberg talked about the long-term strategy for Instagram’s growth, and the fact that in a few months, the company created a new product identical to Snapchat’s
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by aleem 10y ago
Why not open source itand accept PRs. You still get control and people can help keep it up to date?
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by aleem 10y ago
Or you could just use > Claudia Bot Builder helps developers create and deploy chat-bots for various platforms in minutes to AWS Lambda. It simplifies the messaging workflows, automatically sets up the correct web hooks, and guides you t
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by aleem 10y ago
Before clicking I was secretly wishing it illuminated a pixel for each visitor on the new mac Touchbar. This is pretty cool too.
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by aleem 10y ago
It works remarkably well if you use a development toolchain (serverless and claudia are both good though I prefer the latter). My only gripe is that API Gateway (APIG) charges $3.5 per million requests and there is no other way to invoke la
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by aleem 10y ago
> I would rather commit seppuku than fail -- Elon Musk on failure Project Titan is not a failure but it has suffered major setbacks, the credit or blame for which lies with Tim Cook. It takes unrelenting passion and fanaticism to wield t
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by aleem 10y ago
HTTPStat https://github.com/davecheney/httpstat now uses the HTTP Tracing library to provide some pretty neat graphs, letting you visualise the HTTP Tracing output. $ httpstat https://news.ycombinator.c
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by aleem 10y ago
There are many downsides when you don't control the standard. Microsoft is not in the meetings when Google PMs decide the roadmap nor will they have any clout in directing its future or adding its own features. It's merely a consu

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