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Leak Suggests NSA Was Deep in Middle East Banking System
For eight months, the hacker group known as Shadow Brokers has trickled out an intermittent drip of highly classified NSA data. Now, just when it seemed like that trove of secrets might be exhausted,...
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Early Macintosh Emulation Comes to the Archive
After offering in-browser emulation of console games, arcade machines, and a range of other home computers, the Internet Archive can now emulate the early models of the Apple Macintosh, the...
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The Great Japan Potato-Chip Crisis
Demand for potato chips has surged in Japan this week, with products on offer for 6 times their retail price online after Japanese snack company Calbee Inc. halted the sale of some of its most popular...
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How to Raise a Creative Child – Step One: Back Off (2016)
The gifted learn to play magnificent Mozart melodies, but rarely compose their own original scores. They focus their energy on consuming existing scientific knowledge, not producing new insights. They...
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Simplifying Firefox Release Channels
Streamlining our release process and quickly getting stable new features to users and developers is a priority for Firefox. Taking a close critical look at our release channels, it became clear that...
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Government auction of wireless airwaves will shape the future of the Internet
The Post's Brian Fung sits down with the FCC's Gary Epstein and Howard Symons, Chair and Vice-Chair of the Incentive Auction Task Force, to discuss the what the auction is, and how it could change the...
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The origins of XXX as FIXME
The token XXX is frequently used in source code comments as a way of marking some code as needing attention. (Similar to a FIXME or TODO, though at least to me XXX signals something far to the hacky...
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Brains Sweep Themselves Clean of Toxins During Sleep (2013)
Katherine Streeter for NPRWhile the brain sleeps, it clears out harmful toxins, a process that may reduce the risk of Alzheimer's, researchers say.During sleep, the flow of cerebrospinal fluid in the...
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Show HN: Web app for DNA sequence manipulation and PCR Primer design
Reverse Complement?Reverse ComplementReverse onlyComplement onlyTranslation?Show all frames Translate directly:Forward 1Reverse 1Forward 2Reverse 2Forward 3Reverse 3Best guessBLAST?NCBI BLAST for...
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Intel Discontinues the Intel Developer Forum; IDF17 Cancelled
In a bit of breaking news this morning, it appears that Intel has decided to cancel their Intel Developer Forum tradeshow going forward, including this summer’s expected IDF17.In an announcement posted...
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Sleeping tactics and f.lux
You Exec asked the VP of a Fortune 100 company who works five hours a day and sleeps twice as much, why he attributes his success to his sleeping habits. This is what we learned, the actionable...
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AT&T is now offering HBO for free. Here’s why
If you've been thinking about subscribing to HBO so you can watch “Westworld,” “Game of Thrones” and other hit shows, AT&T is hoping a new promotion will lure you to its service.The cellphone...
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Heap (YC W13) is hiring solutions engineers to make data useful for everyone
Customer Success ManagerOur strong customer relationships are a major reason why companies choose Heap as the source of truth for all of their customer data and why our customers love us so much.We’re...
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People in India are angry at Snapchat but they are boycotting a wrong app
Snapchat is making headlines again, this time after alleged comments by CEO Evan Spiegel that the app is “only for rich people” and that he didn’t “want to expand into poor countries like India and...
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How to Host Your Own Private Git Repositories
Hosting your own private git repositories is really easy. If you already have a dedicated web server (e.g. to host your blog), you have everything you need to host your own repos. Doing this is cheaper...
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Deep Patient Predicts Patients Future from Health Records
This section presents the deep patient method and describes the pipeline implemented to evaluate the benefits of this representation in the task of predicting future diseases.Deep Patient...
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Patrick Winston Explains Deep Learning
Patrick Winston is one of the greatest teachers at M.I.T., and for 27 years was Director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (which later became part of CSAIL).Patrick teaches 6.034, the...
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Teeny Tiny Mansion: text adventure game formally proven to have no dead ends
The Teeny Tiny Mansion (TTTM) is a mockup text adventure game that is formally proven to have no "dead ends". I.e. all player actions will result in a state in which the game is still winnable. I...
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