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escapon Announcing SyntaxNet: The World’s Most Accurate Natural Language Parser

>Training the model is basically free if you have a few GPUs and don't pay electricity

escapon Ask HN: Any good lectures/articles on building/running online community?

http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/about/ is a good read.

escapon Becoming an expert through deliberate practice

case in point: NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11348798

escapon Ask HN: teaching basic coding and web design offline, solely via iOS devices?

Unfortunately "As of March 2015, [the developed has] pulled Computable from the App Store because of ongoing stability issues."

escapon Ask HN: Your thoughts about online developer recruitment tools like HackerRank?

"Programming competitions correlate negatively with being good on the job" see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9324209 for the more nuanced actual result.

escapon Ask HN: Anyone still using IRC?

see http://irclog.whitequark.org/ for a few channels used. This particular selection is around linux on various ARM boards and phones.

escapon PowerVR Wizard GPU does real-time ray tracing at 10x lower power than Nvidia GTX

> Global illumination creates brilliant results when your eye perceive it as "real" illumination so VR with Occulus should work wonder, correct ?

escapon Why the 2012 non-Retina MacBook Pro still sells

> I will buy a quality laptop that isn't disposable and run Linux again.

you have a model to suggest ?

escapon Google Says “No” to Independent Security Audits on Android

The app in question is https://github.com/nowsecure/android-vts

escapon Introducing Lektor – A Static File Content Management System For Python

https://web.archive.org/web/20020210134317/http://www.blogge...

it was shut down in 2010 http://blogger-ftp.blogspot.com/2010/01/deprecating-ftp.html

escapon Apple Open Secret Production Laboratory in Taiwan

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10736330 points to the Bloomberg article which has slightly more info

escapon Rapidoid – No-Bullshit Web Framework for Java

dsl-json looks like an interesting tool. " DSL compiler requires Mono/.NET, but only during compilation. There is no runtime Mono/.NET dependency, only JVM. "

escapon Microsoft Research wins image recognition competition

now discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10730020

escapon Show HN: FuckFuckAdblock

Was it http://www.privoxy.org/ ? e.g. http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/quickstart.html

escapon Microsoft Research wins image recognition competition

see http://dswalter.github.io/blog/machine-learnings-first-cheat... for some background on this.

escapon Ask HN: Books about Infocom?

I am assuming you have read http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4834 and http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4848

escapon Modern Perl 4th Edition is out, ebook version is free

You can copy it as many time as you want, read it concurrently on any device that can read PDF, and you can use it offline. And if PragProg goes bust, you can still read the book.

I agree that it might be a bit ugly to have your name on it repeated but it is quite "discreet" nonetheless, and unless your name overlaps with a particular perl keyword, it should not impact full text search.

escapon Baffling Web Trackers by Obfuscating Your Movements Online

escapon Announcing Apple IIgs System 6.0.2

Mostly it is an "end-volution" of the Apple II. The CPU was the 16 bits version of the 6502 In addition, it has a really nice sound chip and nice graphics. It could play all the Apple // softwares. And the OS is "mac-ish"

escapon Announcing Apple IIgs System 6.0.2

This is an "unofficial" release (aka not by Apple). The sources of the GS/OS was leaked on the internet in 2013.

In case you want to build it yourself, there is a video tutorial:) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1tLhckz5q4 You need a mac (pre OSX)

escapon The Post-Mac Interface

on OSX: http://superuser.com/questions/8381/can-i-reduce-the-cpu-spe...

on Windows: http://superuser.com/questions/565347/how-does-windows-limit...

On Linux: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CPU_frequency_scaling

You can also play with the BIOS, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underclocking

escapon Who owns copyright to Deep Dream images?

it's from Neuromancer

escapon Ask HN: What tech blogs, podcasts do you follow outside of HN?

isn't that HN ?

escapon Facebook and PGP

He meant Werner Koch, the guy who is maintaining gnupg A few months ago, he asked again for donation, this time he got "good media exposure" and got funded. cf https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9011138

Facebook pledged to donate $50,000 a year to Koch’s project.

escapon MAME and the New Emulation Reality

see https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/textfiles/the-jason-sco... for the detail of each.

you will find them on his site, once they are ready.

escapon Frame-Based Editing

See also the work of Dave Winer in using outline to edit code (e.g http://scripting.com/stories/2012/01/23/codeNodetypesInWorld... )

and http://leoeditor.com/ to edit python code as outline

escapon Your cyberpunk games are dangerous

per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_wants_to_be_free the phrase is attributed to Stewart Brand "On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other."

escapon Programmer Tooling Beyond Plain Text

no, Aaron did not work at UserLand. Aaron was involved in the RSS world though.

Frontier is open source, http://frontierkernel.org/ and these day, Dave Winer is rewriting a similar system with node, cf https://github.com/scripting?tab=repositories

escapon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015)

UN ESCAP - Java, Android, iOS and Moodle developers - Bangkok, Thailand

ESCAP is is the regional development arm of the United Nations for the Asia-Pacific region. Learn more about ESCAP at www.unescap.org

We are still building and maintaining several web applications in Java for UN internal usage. We are also adding native Android and iOS mobile applications that interacts with these services. And doing elearning platforms on Moodle.

We are looking for Java software developers and Android developers and IOS developers and Moodle developers, to join our Software Development team, as full-time position.

On the java side, we mainly do Spring MVC webapps, with "traditional" front-end in HTML5, jQuery and Bootstrap. We deploy on Linux, so a familiarity with it is a plus.

On iOS, we are getting started so both ObjC and Swift will be used.

The job is based in Bangkok. We take care of the visa.

If you have any question, or to directly apply, write to escap.it.recruitment+hn@gmail.com

escapon Ask HN: A computer for children?

You can get Kano. Or just their OS and docs (it runs on RPi, should run on RPi2)

As for other "kids" friendly environments, you have + the MIT Scratch/ Blockly drag-and-drop visual coding environment (Kano has blockly and they build the interface with the RPi Minecraft (cf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTjN_1GFsfk ))

+ Python / Ruby / JS "for kids" books; HumbleBundle is currently having a book bundle that include a few "Programming Language" for kids book https://www.humblebundle.com/books ; you will find online a few other books (e.g. https://inventwithpython.com/ http://ruby4kids.com/ruby4kids ) based on doing games)

+ you can have the Sugar image (what's the OLPC is running) setup to run , http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Welcome_to_the_Sugar_Labs_wiki . It has a lot of nice apps, and it includes a nice Logo inspired Turtle environment (TurtleArt / TurtleBlocks)

If you decide to go into hardware as a way to get your kids started, then look at Arduino also (e.g. http://sylviashow.com/episodes/s1/e3/full/arduino ), or a simple robot controlled by your RPi.