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by ojosilva 9y ago
This one is the best named of the 3. It's actually a simple contraction of Mongo + Moose, the two key libraries used in the project.
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by ojosilva 9y ago
They do have an amazingly large robots.txt in fact. https://www.linkedin.com/robots.txt
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by ojosilva 9y ago
Future-proof public transportation needs to steer away from the word "mass" as much as possible. Mass transit, of any kind, is doomed by increasing security risks and vulnerabilities. Its strict timetables and geographic scopes ar
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A Low-Tech Mosquito Deterrent (2013)(mobile.nytimes.com)
1 points by ojosilva 9y ago|0 comments
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I took my first antidepressant this week. The effects were frightening(theguardian.com)
1 points by ojosilva 9y ago|0 comments
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by ojosilva 9y ago
Request rate is very low all of a sudden. Could that be a result of the DDOS attack?
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by ojosilva 9y ago
Looks like a major internet catastrophe. CNN, Reddit, Github.io...
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by ojosilva 9y ago
Can't compare a DAW to an instrument though. Lots of guitar players use DAWs as well, so that's not really comparable. It's a whole different segment in fact. To correctly account for "computer-only musicians" we wo
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by ojosilva 9y ago
One can't just look at revenue, debt and Moody's rating of guitar makers and dealers and proclaim the guitar, the most popular instrument today by a huge margin, is dying. But the lack of prominence of the guitar in the top charts
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by ojosilva 9y ago
Just to make it clear, the issue the OP is pointing out is with whoever wrote this inexcusable piece of code in the book, not MongoDB itself. Even if the authors later clarify there's the possibility of error, just publishing such misl
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by ojosilva 9y ago
Europe has plenty of passionate "asshole" founders and other workaholic types. The lower avg valuation of the tech scene has more to do with investors and general aversion to risk, dependency on public sector financing (really awe
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by ojosilva 9y ago
Just call the "Human Uber" service instead, which will come with a pair of hands. I doubt that's more than 5% of their market, so it justifies having a differentiated price for the extra help you get.
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by ojosilva 9y ago
I think the general availability of TPUs is an important inflection point in the path to AI popularization, abd, who knows, some type of singularity event. Definitely a milestone in 21st century history. But I can't resist making a p
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by ojosilva 9y ago
The same site made me realize that there are active volcanos in the continental USA. I had no idea! https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/north-america.html
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by ojosilva 9y ago
Looks and works great, but there are 2 limitations I think would prevent it from using it in our stack: 1) It cannot be easily embedded, ie. as a field in a form. Apparently it's meant (UI-wise at least) as a full-screen editor and has
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by ojosilva 9y ago
I agree. Microservices enable startups to pivot very easily, or to implement or diverge into new sales channels quicker than with monolithic solutions. The same applies to larger business. With microservices, ie. large banks can easily offe
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by ojosilva 9y ago
I don't think the author knows what motivated IBM to make the change and just tries to make it look like IBM is Yahoo! Yahoo was a failing company trying desperately to reboot its revenue and culture. IBM on the other hand is an extrem
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Europe was the birthplace of mankind, not Africa(telegraph.co.uk)
3 points by ojosilva 9y ago|1 comments
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by ojosilva 9y ago
Here, try this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14399153 Edit: created a separate HN thread.
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by ojosilva 9y ago
If I were the author I would train another NN that compares the color with a huge set of photo+definition and decide from there. For instance "Coral Gray" looks quite accurate when compared with the average recreational diver pho
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by ojosilva 9y ago
I wasn't think corporate AI actually. Something between Wikipedia not-for-profit wikipedians and personal AI (browser or independently managed). AI is definitely not a silver bullet, but algorithm and human-based solutions are out of t
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by ojosilva 9y ago
That's a problem now only AI could solve. All other attempts at non-AI algorithms are futile. We need to be able to search through a curated internet that looks somewhat like a mix of Wikipedia and the old Yahoo directory and has to be
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Could Fast Radio Bursts Be Powering Alien Probes?(cfa.harvard.edu)
4 points by ojosilva 9y ago|0 comments
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by ojosilva 9y ago
This is apparently part of coordinated ransomware campaign targeting large corporations in Europe, only a few of which are making the news at this time. Some other links: https://www.ft.com/content/74c666ec-8dc7-3b20-b5
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by ojosilva 9y ago
Yes, you can run VBA from VBScript, Perl, etc. Basically any scripting language that can instantiate ActiveX VBA automation. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2050505/way-to-run-excel-... http://stacko
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by ojosilva 9y ago
If anyone, like me, is wondering if the bug solution is correct, here's the original documentation for the RND() function in Applesoft BASIC language (page 102): https://mirrors.apple2.org.za/Apple%20II%20Documentation%
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by ojosilva 9y ago
Here in Europe all or most of the major carmakers had been infringing the "Euro N" emission protocols set by the EU. The now current Euro 6 is however quite restrictive and is in effect since 2014/2015. Despite Euro 6 being t
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Trump's North Korea policy might just be working(edition.cnn.com)
1 points by ojosilva 10y ago|0 comments
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by ojosilva 10y ago
On a humorous note, and I don't know if this was intended or not, but in the the picture of Travis Kalanick that leads the article, if you look closely, he seems to have stepped on some sh*t. Maybe this was unintended, but the metaphor
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There Are Now Twelve New Types of Cloud(gizmodo.co.uk)
2 points by ojosilva 10y ago|0 comments

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