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https://github.com/echelon/laser-testbed You can also find more stuff that he's done at his website, http://brand.io/

I read the paper when this first showed up on HN[1]. The most important thing they did was to create a training set with higher granularity in the data than much of anything previo…

Would you care to send me an email? I'd love to ask someone who worked at one of these companies a few questions. joelfriedly@gmail.com Thanks!

I can't seem to edit this now, but someone else reposted the link to Python 3.4.0a1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6155530 Their submission currently has 34 upvotes.

Their posting frequency dropped significantly over the past year, probably as a result of never receiving any upvotes. At the time they were (presumably) hellbanned, they were post…

An example: First alpha release of Python 3.4 is out (python.org) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6155423 It probably linked to [1], but all we can tell is that it was somethi…

The password can be easily found by googling the SHA1 hash.

This should be to https://www.nebula.com/nebula-one (without the trailing slash)

According to the statistics site that the OP used, 54 million Americans are single. [1] Ignoring the 62 million Americans that are under fifteen, we find that only 21% of American …

> I tried and the link is down. lunabluehotel.com seems to have gone offline yesterday, I suspect as a result of a traffic spike following their blog post. From their twitter strea…

This sounds eerily familiar. Around a decade ago, a data analytics company called Pharmatrak was actually found guilty of breaking federal wiretapping statutes for doing something …

I don't think so. "Statistically significant" is a relative term and when testing an entire population is infeasible (as it often is), we instead sample some fraction that we belie…

They wrote in the release that they wouldn't give any more interviews until they saw "Adrian Chen get featured on the front page of Gawker, a whole day, with a huge picture of him …

Thanks for this, keeping track of them all in my Google Calendar was just cluttering it up and hadn't provided any benefit yet. One typo: Summary of Stanford's online course offeri…

We made our IRC bot respond to TWSS jokes, but ours was just a dumb match from a set of few thousand jokes that we scraped from offline. You can look at the code at: https://github…

From the site's Green Arrays Architecture paper [1]: Our architecture explicitly omits a clock, saving energy and time among other benefits. Also, they quoted instruction execution…

If sudo works the same way on Mac's as it does on Linux, then anyone in the sudoers file could give a rogue application root access.

Google released the world's largest corpus and did us a favor by analyzing it for n-grams. For example, they found that the phrase "serve as the initial" was over a 100 times more …

I believe FB blocks links to TPB. They actually changed my password and sent me an email saying that they thought my account had been compromised when I tried to do it once. Howeve…

the statement "the British Empire did a lot more good than harm" is a disgusting, privileged statement... Where was this quote even in the article?