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Evidence That Robots Are Winning the Race for American Jobs
“The conclusion is that even if overall employment and wages recover, there will be losers in the process, and it’s going to take a very long time for these communities to recover,” Mr. Acemoglu...
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“Insanity Is Doing the Same Thing and Expecting Different Results”
Albert Einstein? Narcotics Anonymous? Max Nordau? George Bernard Shaw? George A. Kelly? Rita Mae Brown? John Larroquette? Jessie Potter? Werner Erhard?Dear Quote Investigator: It’s foolish to repeat...
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About the security content of iOS 10.3
Released March 27, 2017AccountsAvailable for: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, iPod touch 6th generation and laterImpact: A user may be able to view an Apple ID from the lock...
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Statistician Proves Gaussian Correlation Inequality
As he was brushing his teeth on the morning of July 17, 2014, Thomas Royen, a little-known retired German statistician, suddenly lit upon the proof of a famous conjecture at the intersection of...
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Scottish Parliament Backs Independence Vote and Defies U.K
Scottish lawmakers backed plans by the nationalist government in Edinburgh to pursue a second independence referendum, setting up what promises to be a lengthy and acrimonious showdown within the U.K....
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Impossible Java
Mysterious snippetSome time ago I came by a very strange piece of Java code. It was extracted from a working application. In a simplified form it looks like...
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Twitch to start selling video games this week
Video game streaming site Twitch will soon begin selling PC games and other in-game content on its site, the company says. We understand the games may arrive as soon as tomorrow or later this week,...
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Software Engineer Starts Unlikely Business: A Weekly Newspaper
The debut has touched off a modern version of an old-fashioned newspaper war, with a fledgling independent newcomer pitting itself against a community staple, printed since 1877, that has had cuts in...
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Staying Rich Without Manufacturing Will Be Hard
Discussions about manufacturing tend to get very contentious. Many economists and commentators believe that there’s nothing inherently special about making things and that efforts to restore U.S....
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NIST Physicists Show Ion Pairs Perform Enhanced 'Spooky Action'
Adding to strong recent demonstrations that particles of light perform what Einstein called “spooky action at a distance,” in which two separated objects can have a connection that exceeds everyday...
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Glimmer – Fast and light-weight UI components
Fast and light-weight UI components With the attention to detail you've come to expect from Ember.Close to the metal Glimmer is one of the fastest DOM rendering engines, delivering exceptional...
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The House just voted to wipe out the FCC’s landmark Internet privacy protections
The Senate and House have voted to repeal an FCC ruling that protects your Internet privacy and data from ISPs. Here's all the steps you can take to protect yourself. (Jhaan Elker/The Washington...
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Alcatel-Lucent releases source for 8th, 9th and 10th editions of Unix
NameLast modifiedSizeDescriptionParent Directory - 1972_stuff/2016-07-06 11:13 - Bug_Fixes/2001-04-23 10:25 - Dan_Cross_v8/2017-03-28 06:35 - Dan_Cross_v10/2017-03-28 10:13 - Dennis_v1/2008-12-16...
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Tencent buys 5% of Tesla
Tencent, Asia’s second highest valued tech firm, has bought a five percent share in Tesla. According to a filing, the Chinese firm scooped up 8,167,544 shares for around $1.7 billion to become one of...
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How to write Common Lisp in 2017 – an initiation manual
How to write Common Lisp in 2017 -an initiation manual for the uninitiatedOne of the key problems in onboarding developers to use modern Common Lisp is the vertical wall of difficulty. Things that are...
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New male contraceptive may be submitted for Indian approval this year
Doctors are on the cusp of launching the first new male contraceptive in more than a century. But rather than a Big Pharma lab, the breakthrough is emerging from a university startup in the heart of...
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New York Has a Great Subway, If You’re Not in a Wheelchair
I felt grateful to have come back so far, but each time a broken curb tipped over my wheelchair, a taxi refused to stop for me or a stalled subway elevator left me stranded, my frustration mounted. I...
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Neural Episodic Control
I've found that the overwhelming majority of online information on artificial intelligence research falls into one of two categories: the first is aimed at explaining advances to lay audiences, and...
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The Arrival of AI
Chris Dixon opened a truly wonderful piece in the Atlantic entitled How Aristotle Created the Computer like this: The history of computers is often told as a history of objects, from the abacus to the...
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Show HN: Fly – A global load balancer with middleware
Fly · The application-aware load balancerFlyApp performance optimizationPricingDocsSign inSign upAccelerate applications, learn more about your visitors, and ship faster with pre-built middleware.Sign...
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