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by stephenboyd 9y ago
They should remove Seattle's entry here. The Pronto network was cancelled in March due to disuse. https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/01/seattle-bike-...
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China's 'sharing economy' booms, but can it last?(reuters.com)
32 points by stephenboyd 9y ago|19 comments
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by stephenboyd 9y ago
Part 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14372267
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Paint colors designed by neural network, Part 2(lewisandquark.tumblr.com)
1 points by stephenboyd 9y ago|1 comments
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by stephenboyd 9y ago
You can use them for free if you put the Creative Commons credit on an acknowledgements page with a link to where you got it.
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by stephenboyd 10y ago
The author doesn't even operate like his own gender.
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by stephenboyd 10y ago
They could check this by testing the same model against later census results.
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by stephenboyd 10y ago
As a web developer, I appreciate this rare use of JavaScript in a CS lesson.
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by stephenboyd 10y ago
Genetic engineering and super-AI will eventually overlap. We'll use the new AI to be more capable in genetic engineering. And the new AI may use genetic engineering to empower itself in a more capable physical form than the hardware we
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by stephenboyd 10y ago
Unless you live in a total dictatorship, it's selfish to be completely disinterested in what's going on in the world, more so if you're personally unaffected by a deluge of horrors happening to others. We don't yet live
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by stephenboyd 10y ago
Unless you live in a total dictatorship, it's selfish to be completely disinterested in what's going on in the world. We don't actually live in that dictatorship yet here in the US, and the actions and expressed preferences o
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by stephenboyd 10y ago
For now, I don't. I'm busy working on paid proprietary projects for my clients. I'll have to save up more money before I choose to dedicate a working vacation to OSS. I spend a good portion of my non "working" time
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by stephenboyd 10y ago
The Amazon Echo records data from all of its users, not just the murderers. It's creeping close to bulk monitoring.
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Clean Tech Rises Again, Retooling Nature for Industrial Use(nytimes.com)
1 points by stephenboyd 10y ago|0 comments
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by stephenboyd 10y ago
Don't forget your software development consultant. I wouldn't mind an extra 20% :) I'm not convinced of your point, but I wonder how far you could take it. Do you tip your kid's teacher, your professor, a librarian, your
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by stephenboyd 10y ago
> Swagger and RAML are really similar, but RAML 1.0 uses its own YAML-based format to describe entities. Swagger actually uses either JSON or YAML that conforms to JSON-API, but YAML is the default in its editor web app. So they're
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by stephenboyd 10y ago
This is similar to the practical side of the CS education we got at The Evergreen State College, except fancy high-level stuff like Unix and C wasn't covered until long after we learned to write simple programs in assembly/machine
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by stephenboyd 10y ago
There's also the nasolacrimal duct to consider. Other than those little details, one of my favorite insights from studying biology is that almost all animals are basically tubes with accessory organs attached, deuterostomes and protost
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by stephenboyd 10y ago
I think there's an opportunity for a simpler-to-use alternative CLI Git client. Something more user-friendly than the /usr/bin/git program we're talking about and more developer-friendly than the existing Git GUI ap
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by stephenboyd 10y ago
In the 'Getting Started' section of a site named 'Web Fundamentals,' you have articles on service workers, promises, async functions, and shadow DOM. They're great introductions to those topics, but those aren'
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The long-run poverty and gender impacts of mobile money(science.sciencemag.org)
2 points by stephenboyd 10y ago|0 comments
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by stephenboyd 10y ago
In this case, the wheel started off with an impractical oval shape and the reinventions are usually making it rounder. If you'd stopped the churn two years ago, people would be using Bower for front-end package management in addition t
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by stephenboyd 10y ago
I'd like to use something like this for making and iterating user-testable prototypes with team members who might not know how to use version control, text editors, IDE's, etc. I work with smart entrepreneurs and designers who can
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by stephenboyd 10y ago
I've been getting better sleep ever since I upgraded my phone to iOS 10 with its bedtime feature built into the Clock app.
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Insomniacs Are Helped by Online Therapy, Study Finds(nytimes.com)
1 points by stephenboyd 10y ago|1 comments
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Giant Arch, a Feat of Engineering, Now Covers Chernobyl Site in Ukraine(nytimes.com)
1 points by stephenboyd 10y ago|0 comments
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by stephenboyd 10y ago
There are a lot of mechanisms involved in the relationship between eating food and getting fat. One that I often think of as a fatal flaw in many weight-loss diets is that different foods have varying effects on satisfaction and hunger — so
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by stephenboyd 10y ago
Bernie Sanders sent this message clearly, and he had enough financial support from the middle and working class to outspend Clinton in the primary. So it's possible.
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by stephenboyd 10y ago
I'm typing on a 2014 X1 Carbon now. Its touch-sensitive function row really is a disappointment. The inherent flaws in the design concept have all been elaborated in these discussions, but the X1C also had a poor implementation that Ap
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by stephenboyd 10y ago
This is the tweet from official Wikileaks: "We can confirm Ecuador cut off Assange's internet access Saturday, 5pm GMT, shortly after publication of Clinton's Goldman Sachs speechs." https://twitter.com/w

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