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by jdnier 8y ago
My company does the same, and it can be convenient. Twitter's public link shortener, t.co, is one of the worst, imho, because it ubiquitous (so you can't just treat all t.co short links as junk) and yet they make it really difficu
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by jdnier 8y ago
Have you given much thought to how this link shortener might be abused? Your https://pygy.co/ example site doesn't provide an abuse contact, for example. That doesn't help when someone sets it up deliberately to h
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The Hunt for Earth’s Deep Hidden Oceans(quantamagazine.org)
83 points by jdnier 8y ago|11 comments
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The Busboy Who Cradled a Dying RFK Recalls Those Final Moments(npr.org)
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by jdnier 8y ago
I'm blocked from the PDF link. This may be the same article, although it's dated 2016: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Carbon-dioxide-toxicit...
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Is Sleeping with Your Baby as Dangerous as Doctors Say?(npr.org)
49 points by jdnier 8y ago|79 comments
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A Victory for Dark Matter in a Galaxy Without Any(quantamagazine.org)
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Did Dark Matter Make the Early Universe Chill Out?(npr.org)
2 points by jdnier 9y ago|0 comments
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by jdnier 9y ago
Horizontal scroll would be useful.
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by jdnier 9y ago
Complex regexes do render (must escape "/"). https://regexper.com/#%5B%5E%3C%5D%2B%7C%3C (!(--(%5B%5E-%5D -(%5B%5E-%5D%5B%5E-%5D -) -%3E%3F)%3F%7C%5C%5BCDATA%5C%5B(%5B%5E%5D%5D %5D(%5B%5E%5D%5D%2B%5D) %5D%2B(%
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by jdnier 9y ago
Should I expect to have to to escape "/" as "\/"?
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by jdnier 9y ago
Yep, bought a set of non-toxic chalk pastels for my son and found the generic "know to cause cancer" warning. I had to go to the manufacturer web site and look up the MSDS report. Turns out the white chalk (presumably) contains Ti
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by jdnier 9y ago
Nice results at 192 (also three giraffes) and at 256 (four giraffes).
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by jdnier 9y ago
Playing with the wrap width (in this case 94), you'll see a small herd of giraffes instead. (This is the prime from the reddit article, rather than your smiley face. Easier to see white on black.) 10000000000000000000000000000000
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PostGraphile Instant GraphQL API for PostgreSQL Database(graphile.org)
183 points by jdnier 9y ago|50 comments
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In the Flu Battle, Hydration and Elevation May Be Your Best Weapons(nytimes.com)
2 points by jdnier 9y ago|0 comments
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by jdnier 9y ago
Recent studies have, in fact, shown that dietary salt has a significant effect on blood pressure for many people, and on endothelial function for everyone. https://nutritionfacts.org/video/sodium-and-arterial-functio...
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Scaling Slack’s Job Queue...Using Kafka and Redis(slack.engineering)
1 points by jdnier 9y ago|0 comments
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by jdnier 9y ago
"Oumuamua is now about 2 astronomical units (AU) away... At this distance, it would take under a minute for the Green Bank instrument to detect an omnidirectional transmitter with the power of a cellphone." That's pretty impr
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by jdnier 9y ago
Thanks for this. Also, recent a HN discussion about State Charts, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15835005 which led me to David Khourshid's worthwhile "Infinitely Better UIs with Finite Automata" presen
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by jdnier 9y ago
A regex can be used effectively to tokenize XML-like markup, including a lot of HTML—sometimes called shallow parsing. https://stackoverflow.com/a/6638578/234823 Attribute value minimization would be one limitatio
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by jdnier 9y ago
On my Macbook with way too much running, I get about 800MiB/s in Python2 with your script, but 1.12GiB/s with this Python3 script: import sys s = b'y\n' * 1024 write = sys.stdout.buffer.write
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Python is the fastest growing programming language due to buffer protocols(jeffknupp.com)
29 points by jdnier 9y ago|6 comments
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by jdnier 9y ago
A search engine will also show that the use of the word "mantissa" in relation to floating point numbers is discouraged in favor of "significand". "it is an abuse of terminology to call the fraction part a mantissa,
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The real prerequisite for machine learning isn’t math, it’s data analysis (2016)(r-bloggers.com)
173 points by jdnier 9y ago|52 comments
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by jdnier 9y ago
Wikipedia on Jam Handy (olympic swimmer as well as educational film maker): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam_Handy
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by jdnier 9y ago
A great quote from the article: "Advertising is the new coal. It was wonderful for propping up the internet economy. It got us to a certain level of economic prosperity, and that’s fantastic. And it also polluted the inner environment
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by jdnier 9y ago
Is that a style decision? I haven't seen that before. Seems confusing.
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by jdnier 9y ago
Works in Firefox, not in Chrome (at least on MacOS).
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Creating the largest neutrino detectors in the world(phys.org)
2 points by jdnier 9y ago|0 comments

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