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It’s Now Possible to Telepathically Communicate with a Drone Swarm
DARPA’s new research in brain-computer interfaces is allowing a pilot to control multiple simulated aircraft at once. A person with a brain chip can now pilot a swarm of drones — or even advanced...
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Parry and Thrust: On Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley
In 1968 there existed in the U.S. two especially splendid exemplars of a now-extinct species: the celebrity intellectual. They were Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr. Then in their early forties...
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Tao Tajima – WebGL and GreenSock Animation
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Before Food Trucks, Americans Ate 'Night Lunch' from Beautiful Wagons
T. H. Buckley inside one of his lunch wagons. From the collection of Worcester Historical Museum, Worcester, MassachusettsIn 1893, Boston was bustling, especially after the sun went down. “Night owls...
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Remote Code Execution in Alpine Linux
tl;dr I found several bugs in apk, the default package manager for Alpine Linux. Alpine is a really lightweight distro that is very commonly used with Docker. The worst of these bugs, the subject of...
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Google remotely activated battery saving mode on multiple people's phones today
If you're having trouble getting a problem solved with Google Support, consider u/dmziggy's Reddit Request before making a post.Reportmajor, reoccuring bugsby messaging the Mod Team.NOTE: You must be...
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How Did Cool Become Such a Big Deal? (2014)
Cool is still cool. The word, the emotional style, and that whole flavor of cultural cachet remains ascendant after more than half a century.It is, according to linguistic anthropologist Robert L....
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Multiple gas explosions and fires in Massachusetts
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Living in One of R. D. Laing’s Post-Kingsley Hall Households (2013)
Kingsley Hall was the first of Laing’s household communities that served as a place where you could live through madness until you could get it together and live independently. It was conceived as an...
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Introducing the Unrestricted Adversarial Examples Challenge
For the purposes of this challenge, we have created a simple “bird-or-bicycle” classification task, where a classifier must answer the following: “Is this an unambiguous picture of a bird, a bicycle,...
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Host Your Blog on DigitalOcean with Docker, Nginx and Let’s Encrypt
This post summarizes the steps needed to setup a blog like this, using Ghost on DigitalOcean with CoreOs, Docker, Nginx and Let's Encrypt.During this tutorial we are using a (recent) Ubuntu Linux...
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The Most Notorious Towing Company in Chicago Gets the Boot
CHICAGO—In a city known for gangsters, bootleggers and corrupt politicians, residents will tell you the most reviled actor on the North Side is a tow-truck company.For more than half a century,...
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A Fully Automated HTTPS Server Powered by Nginx, Let's Encrypt and Docker
HTTPS-PORTAL is a fully automated HTTPS server powered byNginx, Let's Encrypt andDocker. By using it, you can run any existing web application over HTTPS, with only one extra line of configuration.The...
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A new insomnia therapy
We live in a golden age of sleeplessness. The buzz of the all-night streetlamps, the natter of 24-hour news anchors, the scrolling Niagaras of social media feeds have built a world that is hostile to...
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Securing cookies in Go
When I first started learning Go I had experience with web development, but a little less experience working directly with cookies. I was coming from a Rails background, and while I had to read/write...
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Insect-inspired robot can fly a kilometer on a charge with flappy wings
The incredible agility of the common house or fruit fly puts every drone and robot to shame, but devices inspired by them are beginning to catch up. A new four-winged flapping robot not only...
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Thousands of scientists publish a paper every five days
Authorship is the coin of scholarship — and some researchers are minting a lot. We searched Scopus for authors who had published more than 72 papers (the equivalent of one paper every 5 days) in any...
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Show HN: Mindstamp – Make Any Video Interactive in Seconds
Mindstamp helps you understand and grow your audience by adding interactive notes, questions, and personalization to any video in seconds. Create Your First Video play_circle_outline Watch Demo...
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Beluga whales adopt lost narwhal in St. Lawrence River
An unusual visitor has been hanging out in the St. Lawrence River for the past three years: A narwhal, more than 1,000 kilometres south of its usual range. But the lone narwhal is not alone — it...
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S3 trickery: using it as a scheduler
“March calendar” by Charles Deluvio 🇵🇭🇨🇦 on UnsplashOne of the fun parts in using serverless is the fact that you can try out new ideas and provision them in a flick of a finger. I’ve mentioned more...
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