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| 151. | Recovering deleted files using only grep (blog.nullspace.io) | |
| 142 points | 2014 | author antics showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks! :) I know embarrassingly little about filesystems. I'm glad you pointed this out. EDIT: though, I'd point out that if you really wanted to recover the file you…” | ||
| 152. | Can Namecoin obsolete ICANN (and more)? (theumlaut.com) | |
| 141 points | 2014 | author elidourado showed up | their comment | thread
“Just wanted to add that if any of you work for companies that send engineers to the IETF, there is an Internet-Draft RFC that would normalize the use of several P2P…” | ||
| 153. | I Got Fired Last Week. That’s a Good Thing. Here’s Why (alexgivesup.com) | |
| 140 points | 2014 | author alexkorchinski showed up | their comment | thread
“This closely describes what what happened to me, although we didn't yet have the specialists to fill those roles (we did use agencies however). The two most notable…” | ||
| 154. | How the backpropagation algorithm works (neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com) | |
| 140 points | 2014 | author michael_nielsen showed up | their comment | thread
“I'd love if you could give me pointers to your favourite explanations of how neural networks function (even better, if you can say what you particularly liked about…” | ||
| 155. | Python web scraping (jakeaustwick.me) | |
| 138 points | 2014 | author Jake232 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I've done extensive scraping in both Python and Ruby, as I wrote most of the scraping / crawling code at, so I can chip in. Overall, I prefer Python. That is pretty much…” | ||
| 156. | HPN-SSH: High Performance ssh and scp (psc.edu) | |
| 138 points | 2014 | author rapier1 showed up | their comment | thread
“Honestly, I initially released them without any sort of license - entirely free from any sort of license restriction. People don't seem to understand that so I said they…” | ||
| 157. | Logging can be tricky (corner.squareup.com) | |
| 138 points | 2014 | author evan_miller showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I didn't make it as clear as I could have, but the difference is that the problematic system had an unrelated process creating slightly more writes. I sort-of glossed…” | ||
| 158. | DEFCON Router Hacking Contest Reveals Major Vulnerabilities (eff.org) | |
| 138 points | 2014 | author rangak showed up | their comment | thread
“I think you are referring to the description of Track 1 and 2. Seems like you were one of the contestants. Sorry, we didn't mean to label anyone a newbie. It is just…” | ||
| 159. | React-cursor: a JavaScript implementation of the Cursor concept first seen in Om (github.com) | |
| 136 points | 2014 | author dustingetz showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I have added a short section to the readme describing how `react-cursor` differs from other, similar, libraries (e.g. Cortex).” | ||
| 160. | Emacs Major Mode for Sequence Diagrams (github.com) | |
| 136 points | 2014 | author josteink showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“This is completely correct. But my main motivation for creating this was getting something working in a easy and portable fashion. Basically I wanted to have something I…” | ||
| 161. | Computer Science from the Bottom Up (bottomupcs.com) | |
| 135 points | 2014 | author delsarto showed up | their comment | thread
“This book was created both from my experiences and the experiences of teaching 3rd year operating systems classes. Students came in to that class having done a 2nd year…” | ||
| 162. | Working From Home? Here's an Extra Shot of Focus (techblog.livingsocial.com) | |
| 133 points | 2014 | author caffo showed up | their comment | thread
“sadly, I don't, but I always wanted one.” | ||
| 163. | Gremlin.js: Throw a thousand monkeys at your page (dailyjs.com) | |
| 132 points | 2014 | author fzaninotto showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I'm one of the authors of Gremlins.js. Glad to see that some of you find it interesting. I wrote a blog post a while ago about the purpose of the lib, it's called…” | ||
| 164. | Tesla Model S – Cost of Ownership vs. Honda Odyssey (teslacost.com) | |
| 132 points | 2014 | author pakile showed up | their comment | thread
“and I have an important update. I added this Epilogue to the website tonight: -- I created this website two days ago, and during that time, have witnessed 100s of…” | ||
| 165. | Execute SQL against structured text like CSV or TSV (github.com) | |
| 130 points | 2014 | author dinedal showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“- Multiple file/table support is coming. - I like the -tab setting. Will add. I also want to support -dlm=xFF format for arbitrary delimiters, which makes working with…” | ||
| 166. | Facebook Paper's gesture problems (scotthurff.com) | |
| 130 points | 2014 | author scottieh showed up | their comment | thread
“I disagree that one can achieve the same effect by swiping near the center. A middle-to-left swipe on the phone doesn't make use of Paper's exciting physics-driven…” | ||
| 167. | A Path to Full-time Open Source (mikeperham.com) | |
| 129 points | 2014 | author mperham showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the comments, all. Yep, Pro is not open source. That said, 90% of my time is spent supporting Sidekiq OSS users, dealing with questions and issues so the OSS…” | ||
| 168. | Mistakes Programmers Make when Starting in Machine Learning (machinelearningmastery.com) | |
| 128 points | 2014 | author jasonb05 showed up | their comment | thread
“Time for new hosting... a good problem to have I guess.” | ||
| 169. | Why Lisp is a Big Hack and Haskell is Doomed to Succeed (2011) (axisofeval.blogspot.ca) | |
| 127 points | 2014 | author implicit showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi. I wrote that article. I've never seen a Java application that hasn't succumbed to an unexpected NullPointerException at least once over its entire development cycle.…” | ||
| 170. | Python for Finance (amazon.com) | |
| 127 points | 2014 | author yves_quant showed up | their comment | thread
“The book mainly covers chapter by chapter "all you need" to do Finance with Python. From data structures, performance Python, (Bayesian) statistics, stochastics to Excel…” | ||
| 171. | Please Stop Asking Me to Speak About Women in Technology (snipe.net) | |
| 127 points | 2014 | author snipeyhead showed up | their comment | thread
“and yes, you nailed it. :)” | ||
| 172. | Syntax extensions and regular expressions for Rust (blog.burntsushi.net) | |
| 126 points | 2014 | author burntsushi showed up | their comment | thread
“I don't know enough about PyPy to really answer your question with any certainty, but I have some guesses. Firstly, it's my understanding that JITing pays a runtime…” | ||
| 173. | iOS application architecture: MVVM, behaviors, singletons, subclassing (objc.io) | |
| 126 points | 2014 | author AshFurrow showed up | their comment | thread
“and I see your point. There is a line to be drawn somewhere, but that's often up to the developer. However, on iOS, models tend to be very thin, through convention…” | ||
| 174. | HTML5 Video and the End of Plugins (blog.zencoder.com) | |
| 126 points | 2014 | author mmcclure showed up | their comment | thread
“and I can assure you, as someone that works in the video industry EME is definitely something to dream about. DRM is absolutely, 100% a necessity if you want to deal…” | ||
| 175. | 2048 implemented in 487 bytes of C (gist.github.com) | |
| 123 points | 2014 | author corruptio showed up | their comment | thread
“Per many requests, here is an annotated version” | ||
| 176. | Brainfuck beware: JavaScript is after you (2012) (patriciopalladino.com) | |
| 123 points | 2014 | author alcuadrado showed up | their comment | thread
“as mentioned in the article, it started as part of a security research, but once started I couldn't help myself from pushing it further and see how far I could get. So I…” | ||
| 177. | KnightOS, a third party OS for TI z80 calculators (github.com) | |
| 123 points | 2014 | author Sir_Cmpwn showed up | their comment | thread
“with the help of some open-source contributors. Feel free to send questions my way. Even people who don't know assembly can help, if you're interested. We need assembly,…” | ||
| 178. | Why the Facebook Experiment Is Lousy Social Science (ischool.berkeley.edu) | |
| 122 points | 2014 | author gpanger showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for taking an interest in my critique of the FB experiment. Quick FYI is that the post is up on Medium: ...where I can fix things like broken links. It was…” | ||
| 179. | Exposing Malicious Tor Exit Relays (cs.kau.se) | |
| 121 points | 2014 | author phw showed up | their comment | thread
“We believe that the Russian relays are actually controlled by the same person/group. More details are in Section 4.2 of the paper.” | ||
| 180. | What "viable search engine competition" really looks like (blog.nullspace.io) | |
| 120 points | 2014 | author antics showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Sorry, but you're wrong. Understanding a good amount of detail about your users, and in particular, about their social context, is a massive win for search relevance.…” | ||
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