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Build a digital clock in Conway's Life
There you go... Was fun.Well, the design is certainly not optimal. Neither from the bounding box standpoint (those 7-segment digits are huge), nor from the initial population count (there are some...
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Show HN: Nomouse
README.mdDiscourages use of mouse by dimming screen by 10% of maximum brightness whenever you left click. Brightness gets restored over next 6.666 seconds. This is supposed to be annoying and motivate...
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Diego, A Centenarian Giant Tortoise Whose Sex Drive Saved His Species
CHARLES DARWIN RESEARCH STATION, Galápagos — Of all the giant tortoises on these islands, where the theory of evolution was born, only a few have received names that stuck.There was Popeye, adopted by...
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How to recover lost Python source code if it's still resident in-memory
I screwed up using git ("git checkout --" on the wrong file) and managed to delete the code I had just written... but it was still running in a process in a docker container. Here's how I got it back,...
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I invented the web. Here are three things we need to change to save it
Today marks 28 years since I submitted my original proposal for the worldwide web. I imagined the web as an open platform that would allow everyone, everywhere to share information, access...
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Russian TV offers money for staged “action” in Sweden?
“They came to us and told us they wanted to see some action. They wanted to bribe each of us with 400 Swedish Krona” (40 EUR) – so two Swedish teenagers from the suburb of Rinkeby in Stockholm told a...
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Principle of Sufficient Reason
Entry Navigation Entry ContentsBibliographyAcademic ToolsFriends PDF Preview Author and Citation Info Back to Top First published Tue Sep 14, 2010; substantive revision Wed Sep 7, 2016 The Principle...
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Ask HN: What are some good technology blogs to follow?
I was going to reply that Joel quit blogging already, opened a his site to find a prooflink - and wow! He actually writes new stuff, and even the site looks new.Anyway, the old-time Joel posts should...
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Linting HTML using CSS
When HTML is written incorrectly, nothing much happens. Because of this, it's easy to have invalid, unsemantic, or unaccessible bits in markup without it being obvious. There are many ways we can lint...
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Troubled covert agency responsible for trucking nuclear bombs across America
The unmarked 18-wheelers ply the nation’s interstates and two-lane highways, logging 3 million miles a year hauling the most lethal cargo there is: nuclear bombs.The covert fleet, which shuttles...
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Online Demo of DeepWarp: Photorealistic Image Resynthesis for Gaze Manipulation
Here you can try out the DeepWarp. Pick an image with a face in it and click on "Let's whatever!" button. The result should appear below shortly afterwards (be patient though).Supported image...
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New ways to foot the hefty bill for making old ships less polluting
SHIPPING may seem like a clean form of transport. Carrying more than 90% of the world’s trade, ocean-going vessels produce just 3% of its greenhouse-gas emissions. But the industry is dirtier than that...
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The 10,000-hour rule is wrong and perpetuates a cruel myth
Magnus Carlsen, the world's top chess player, before playing Israel's Boris Gelfand in the Candidates Tournament at the IET on Savoy Place in 2013 in London. Carlsen, 22, from Norway, became the...
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Boaty McBoatface submarine set for first voyage
Jonathan AmosScience correspondent13 March 2017From the section Science & EnvironmentShareShare this withThese are external links and will open in a new windowEmailShare this with...
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We didn’t lose control – the Web was stolen
12 Mar, 2017 The Web we have is not broken for Google and Facebook. People farmers are reaping the rewards of their violations into our lives to the tune of tens of billions in revenue every year. How...
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Show HN: A general-purpose encoder-decoder framework for Tensorflow
README.mdREAD THE DOCUMENTATIONCONTRIBUTINGA general-purpose encoder-decoder framework for Tensorflow that can be used for Machine Translation, Text Summarization, Conversational Modeling, Image...
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The line is blurring between city and suburb
Mike Black / ReutersLook no further than the suburbs to see how American ideals of success are transforming.People in US suburbs are changing the way they shop, where they eat, and what they want in...
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Uber is forcing drivers in Seattle to listen to anti-union propaganda
Over the past few years, Uber has been fighting to avoid acknowledging its drivers as employees, as doing so would cost them a lot more money than it does now to keep its ‘partners’ on its platform.But...
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10 cold email tips I used to get 60,000 subscribers
Every pitch counts.I’ve worked at Toggl since 2015 and in the two years, I’ve driven over 150,000 visits to Toggl (*that can be directly accounted for) thanks to, almost exclusively, cold emails.My...
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Intel buying Mobileye for up to $16B to expand in self-driving tech
First they partnered, and now comes the acquisition: multiple media outlets in Israel are reporting that the computing giant Intel is acquiring Mobileye, a leader in autonomous driving technology, for...
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