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Saving the Prized Chile That Grows Only in Oaxaca’s Mountains
Julián Isidro’s father, Robustiano Isidro Dominguez, rotates pasillas above a heat source. Chris GuibertIn 1933, riding on the back of a second-rate horse, it took the late anthropologist Ralph L....
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Four Lessons from a Failed Startup – From and for First Time Founders
My startup, Maderight, is shutting down. We were a software powered apparel manufacturer that allowed companies to submit designs and manage prototyping, production, and logistics through our web app....
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The Private Blockchain Fallacy
In all the blockchain hype, a simple, yet self-refuting idea keeps popping up: a Private Blockchain.In order to understand why a private blockchain is nonsense, we must first define what a block chain...
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The varieties of material existence
By Michael NielsenStatus: Rough and speculative working notes, very quickly written – basically, a little raw thinking and exploration. Knowledgeable corrections welcome!William James wrote a book with...
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Thanks for the Surprise Integration with My Website, Apple
Those of you who are avid readers of my Stack Overflow profile know that I am the creator of JGuitar.com, a popular guitar chord and scale calculator website. I'm also a longtime fan of Apple products....
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Taxify is entering the e-scooter game
Estonian ride-hailing company Taxify will compete with Bird and Lime in Europe with its new brand of e-scooters, called Bolt, launching in Paris on Thursday.The company has rolled the scooter sharing...
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C++ Lifetime profile v1.0 posted
I love C++. I also love safe code and not having to worry about dangling pointers and iterators and views. So I’ve been doing some work to make my life less conflicted: As long promised, the Lifetime...
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NIST’s Encryption Standard Has Minimum $250B Economic Benefit
NIST’s Encryption Standard Has Minimum $250 Billion Economic Benefit, According to New Study |...
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Meow Wolf’s Magic Kingdom
The California Sunday MagazinePhotographs by Christian Michael FilardoOne afternoon this spring, I was exploring the dim, salmon-pink kitchen inside the Meow Wolf collective’s first permanent exhibit,...
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All the plastic you can and cannot recycle
Most people are trying their best to recycle plastic - but the many different ways in which recycling is collected by different councils across the UK has left them confused. What can be recycled and...
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PyLisp: Lisp in Just Over 100 Lines of Python
Hi everyone,I recently posted a little LISP in JavaScript (with an accompanying tutorial). People seemed to like it, so here's another, slightly improved version: this time in Python!This tutorial is...
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Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has the highest code quality?
SQLite.and for this reason alone!https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html As of version 3.23.0 (2018-04-02), the SQLite library consists of approximately 128.9 KSLOC of C code. (KSLOC means thousands of...
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‘Robotic Skins’ turn everyday objects into robots
When you think of robotics, you likely think of something rigid, heavy, and built for a specific purpose. New “Robotic Skins” technology developed by Yale researchers flips that notion on its head,...
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A Cat Meme Photographer from a Century Ago
Much as internet surfers — i.e. everyone in 2018 — enjoy sharing silly and picturesque JPEGs with one another that feature clever quips or inspirational sayings, Americans of a century ago passed...
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A Soviet-era airport, once the height of luxury, faces demolition in Armenia
Inside the 'revolutionary' Soviet airport that was once the height of luxury but now faces demolition in ArmeniaThe now-abandoned Zvartnots airport in Armenia once hosted Kremlin VIPs and visitors from...
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Deep learning experiments in OCaml
Last year we held a machine learning seminar in our London office, which was an opportunity to reproduce some classical deep learning results with a nice twist: we used OCaml as a programming language...
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Discovery of Galileo’s lost letter shows he edited his ideas to fool Inquisition
It had been hiding in plain sight. The original letter — long thought lost — in which Galileo Galilei first set down his arguments against the church’s doctrine that the Sun orbits the Earth has been...
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UBeam wireless power’s CEO Meredith Perry steps aside amidst B2B pivot
After repeatedly missing self-imposed deadlines for progress on its wireless charging-at-a-distance phone case, CEO Meredith Perry has decided to shift out of the CEO position and into a board member...
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RPKI – The required cryptographic upgrade to BGP routing
We have talked about the BGP Internet routing protocol before. We have talked about how we build a more resilient network and how we can see outages at a country-level via BGP. We have even talked...
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