Mitigating Memory Safety Issues in Open Source Software
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PiinPoint (YC W14) Is Hiring Software Engineers in Waterloo, Canada
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European Citizens’ Initiative for a ban on biometric mass surveillance
Sign the petition for a new law now 13205 have already signed. Help us get to 1 million! The EU has the power to end these abusive practices. European Citizen’s Initiative Who can sign this ECI? This ECI is open to all EU citizens, even if you currently live outside the EU (although there are…
Always Bet on Text
I figured I should just post this somewhere so I can make future reference to how I feel about the matter, anytime someone asks me about such-and-such video, 3D, game or “dynamic” multimedia system. Don’t get me wrong, I like me some illustrations, photos, movies and music.But text wins by a mile. Text is everything.…
Pixar in a Box: the art of storytelling
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The Hazards of Asset Allocation in a Late-Stage Major Bubble
Executive Summary The long, long bull market since 2009 has finally matured into a fully-fledged epic bubble. Featuring extreme overvaluation, explosive price increases, frenzied issuance, and hysterically speculative investor behavior, I believe this event will be recorded as one of the great bubbles of financial history, right along with the South Sea bubble, 1929, and…
How Poverty Makes Workers Less Productive
Editor’s note: This is an excerpt of Planet Money’s newsletter. You can sign up here. Empty wallet Pixabay hide caption toggle caption Pixabay As Washington debates sending checks to Americans and increasing the minimum wage, a new study offers evidence for how such policies could help eliminate poverty. Obviously, giving more money to people without…
The Origin of Robot Arm Programming Languages
So far my life has been rather extraordinary in that through great underserved luck1 I have been present at, or nearby to, many of the defining technological advances in computer science, Artificial Intelligence, and robotics, that now in 2021 are starting to dominate our world. I knew and rubbed shoulders2 with many of the greats, those…
The role of officer race and gender in police-civilian interactions in Chicago
Diversity in policingIn the wake of high-profile police shootings of Black Americans, it is important to know whether the race and gender of officers and civilians affect their interactions. Ba et al. overcame previous data constraints and found that Hispanic and Black officers make far fewer stops and arrests and use force less than white…
Show HN: Bestsnip – Draw animations online with automatic inbetweening
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Dover (YC S19) is hiring a growth engineer to modernize recruiting
The CompanyDover is building the first end-to-end recruiting automation platform for the world’s top companies. We combine best-in-class candidate evaluation technology with bespoke process automation to help companies find and hire top talent for their open roles.Recruiting is a $50B/year industry in the US, but recruiting departments and agencies still have incredibly manual processes. Recruiters…
Solving Magic Squares Using Backtracking
By Elijah Tarr on December 21, 2020A magic square can be thought of as a matrix with specific rows, columns, and diagonals adding up to the same number, called the magic constant. For an $n times n$ magic square, the magic constant is $begin{align*} dfrac{1}{n} sum_{k=1}^{n^2} k end{align*}$ For example, a magic square with dimensions…