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Amex, Challenged by Chase, Is Losing the Snob War
That blue card, executives at American Express knew, was the Chase Sapphire Reserve, a wedge of plastic and metal that was already giving the Amex brass night terrors. In August, Chase released the...
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Musical User Interfaces
BackgroundThis is an ongoing set of projects focused on better interfaces for music software. The goal is to re-think many of the ways in which audio software is designed. These are a set of prototypes...
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Dungeonfs: A FUSE filesystem and dungeon crawling adventure game engine
README.mdA FUSE filesystem and dungeon crawling adventure game engine.The command-line mount command is used to mount the FUSE filesystem. It can be used to mount as a background process with the...
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A Competitive Programmer's Handbook
Competitive Programmer's Handbookwritten by Antti Laaksonen The purpose of this book is to give the reader a thorough introduction to competitive programming. The book is especially intended for...
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Apple receives permit in California to test self-driving cars
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) has secured a permit to test autonomous vehicles in California, fuelling speculation that it is working on self-driving car technology in a crowded arena of companies hoping to offer...
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Bob Taylor Has Died
His idea led to the Arpanet, the forerunner of the internet.A half-decade later, at Xerox’s storied Palo Alto Research Center in Northern California, Mr. Taylor was a key figure in another...
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Explanation of DeepMind's One-Shot Learning with MANNs
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 new Mac Pro: The audacity to say “Yes” in a design culture of “No”
April 15, 2017∞https://marco.org/2017/04/15/mac-pro-audacity-of-yesMuch of modern Apple’s design philosophy is to relentlessly strip down most products to the bare minimum in certain areas as...
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How a weapon against war became a weapon against the web
Every year, artists and technology enthusiasts meet in Linz, Austria, for the Ars Electronica Festival, a meetup in the city’s downtown, located just off the Danube River. The festival is a haven for...
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Optical illusions that flummox computers
There’s a scene in William Gibson’s 2010 novel Zero History, in which a character embarking on a high-stakes raid dons what the narrator refers to as the “ugliest T-shirt” in existence — a garment...
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Tax Scam Records: Artist discovers his songs were released by shadowy companies
‘Tax Scam Records’: Artist discovers albums of his songs were released by shadowy companies in 1977 “Tax Scam Records” is a phrase that was coined by collectors to identify albums that are believed...
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Guide to Italian Bakeries
jovinacooksitalian.com111.jpg By Peter Genovese I NJ Advance Media for NJ.com Does anyone make better cookies, pastries and desserts overall than the Italians? We don't think so! And bread? Please. But...
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Optimizing Rust Struct Size
Anyone who knows me knows that I've been spending a lot of time working on the Rust compiler, to the detriment of all my other projects. I'm glad to say I'm done.The 2000-foot version: Rust structs,...
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Mini.css: Minimal, responsive, style-agnostic CSS framework
You can import the default flavor of mini.css in your webpage by simply adding the following reference inside your HTML page's <head>...
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How many jobs really require college?
It is the conventional wisdom in some circles that we need to send even more people to college. As Bill Gates wrote, “America is facing a shortage of college graduates…By 2025, two thirds of all jobs...
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An Oral History of Something Awful
I sometimes suspect that we're seeing something in the Internet as significant as the birth of cities. It's something that profound and with that sort of infinite possibilities. It's really something...
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Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor
Submit to be redirected to the previous visitor's URL!31,653 URLs passed on. The service is provided free of charge, use at your own risk.We assume no responsibility for reliability or performance.©...
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Ex-Professor Says Dismissed Racketeering Case Is Still ‘Devastating’
PhotoJoy Laskar, a high-profile professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, in 2013. “It has been devastating personally, professionally,” he said of the case against him, which was rejected...
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Preventing AMI’s BiOS from interfering with coreboot flashing on the Librem 13
I wrote recently about one of our collaborators having tried to install coreboot and unfortunately bricking his laptop in the process. I sent him mine as a replacement, then he swapped hard drives and...
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Apple's cash hoard swells to $246B
Apple's enormous cash hoard grew to $246.09 billion in the fiscal first quarter, up $8.49 billion from the previous quarter. That figure is larger than Sri Lanka's estimated 2016 gross domestic...
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