Author: encyphr

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2020)

Please state the job location and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per company. If it isn't a…

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Joy: Web framework with Clojure syntax, fast startup and low memory usage

Joy is a web framework written in janet for people who like clojure syntax, fast startup time and very low memory usage. (import joy)(defn home [request]  (joy/render :text “You found joy!”))(def routes [[:get “/” home]])(def app (joy/handler routes))(joy/server app 8000) Joy starts up in milliseconds so you can get started (and restarted) without worrying about restarting…

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Taleb-Advised Universa Tail Fund Returned 3,600% in March

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OFFSystem

The Owner-Free File System (OFF System, or OFF for short) is a peer-to-peer distributed file system in which all shared files are represented by randomized multi-used data blocks. Instead of anonymizing the network, the data blocks are anonymized and therefore, only data garbage is ever exchanged and stored and no forwarding via intermediate nodes is…

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Show HN: RegEx for Regular Folk – A visual, example-based introduction to RegEx

This is an experimental “book” about regular expressions. It is largely visual and example-based, as opposed to most regex resources I found while I was learning. I also attempted to choose test cases that highlight some common gotchas. I think it’ll be worth your time.This book’s intended audience is regex beginners. Some programming experience is…

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Comprehensive Tutorial on Time Series Modelling and Forecasting

In the previous post we have seen how to visualize a time series data. In this post we will discuss how to do a time series modelling using ARMA and ARIMA models. Here AR stands for Auto-Regressive and MA stands for Moving Average Before we start discussing the ARIMA models, we should know the stationarity…

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ICANN board withholds consent for a change of control of the .org registry

Today, the ICANN Board made the decision to reject the proposed change of control and entity conversion request that Public Interest Registry (PIR) submitted to ICANN. After completing extensive due diligence, the ICANN Board finds that withholding consent of the transfer of PIR from the Internet Society (ISOC) to Ethos Capital is reasonable, and the…

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Linux touchpad like a MacBook: April 2020 update

Linux touchpad like a MacBook: April 2020 update

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I’ve Consed Every Pair

Back when cafes were open, I met an enthusiastic programmer who wanted to tell me how awesome the Clojure language is. While that is a sentiment with which I can wholeheartedly agree, I found it ironic that this programmer seemed not to realize that I had used Lisp as my primary language for 15 years…

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Millions of emails leaking from sites to advertising and analytics companies

Breaches have been found on websites including Wish.com, JetBlue.com, Quibi.com, WashingtonPost.com, NGPVan.com and numerous other organizations…Most popular websites on the internet are using 3rd party analytics and advertising Javascript code — and depending on how a website sets up their marketing systems, typically email systems and new user signup flows, the user emails can accidentally…

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