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For First Time Since 1800s, Britain Goes a Day Without Burning Coal for Power
PhotoThe coal-fired Ferrybridge C power station in Northern England closed last year.Credit Oli Scarff/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images LONDON — Friday was the first full day since the height of the...
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Show HN: Replacing WordPress with GitHub Issues-like Blog Comments
This is obviously inspired by the recent Replacing Disqus with GitHub Comments post on HN.I wanted to share something similar I've done with my blog. You're looking at it now. It's not using Disqus or...
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On Becoming a Woman Who Knows Too Much
Hawa Allan | “Becoming Meta,” from Double Bind: Women on Ambition | April 2017 | 18 minutes (4,661 words)For many women, the idea of ambition is complicated. Too often when we’re are described as...
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Apple Forces Recyclers to Shred All iPhones and Macbooks
Apple released its Environmental Responsibility Report Wednesday, an annual grandstanding effort that the company uses to position itself as a progressive, environmentally friendly company. Behind the...
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Stop Guessing Languages Based on IP Address
Recently I took a trip to Europe. When I arrived in Berlin, I opened up my laptop and went to Google. Much to my surprise, despite being logged in, my results came back in German.Other large-scale...
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“Only corporations can own property, humans can only license it” – John Deere
John Deere has turned itself into the poster-child for the DMCA, fighting farmers who say they want to fix their own tractors and access their data by saying that doing so violates the 1998 law's...
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A Brief History of CNNs in Image Segmentation: From R-CNN to Mask R-CNN
2017: Mask R-CNN - Extending Faster R-CNN for Pixel Level SegmentationThe goal of image instance segmentation is to identify, at a pixel level, what the different objets in a scene are.So far, we’ve...
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Mine3D: A Web 3D Minesweeper Game
open beta Can you play Minesweeper in 3D? Same rules, one more dimension. Click here to give it a try: classic mode Or choose an entirely new experience. Delete mines instead of marking them and reduce...
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MUJI Hut: A 9.1-sqm Minimalist Cabin
A very special little place, all your own—MUJI HutWho hasn’t dreamt of living somewhere they really want to be? The tools to make that dream a reality are now available. It’s not as dramatic as owning...
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The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100K people
The fastest-growing occupation in the United States — by a long shot, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics— might surprise you: wind turbine technician.The number of workers maintaining wind...
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The Internet Isn’t Making Us Dumber – It’s Making Us More ‘Meta-Ignorant’
Photo: Jedrzej Kaminski / EyeEm / Getty ImagesAt five-foot-six and 270 pounds, the bank robber was impossible to miss. On April 19, 1995, he hit two Pittsburgh banks in broad daylight. Security cameras...
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Show HN: Securely Handle Encryption Keys in Go
README.mdMemGuard (beta)A library that handles sensitive values in memory.This library is designed to allow you to easily handle sensitive values in memory. The main functionality is to lock and watch...
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How gut bacteria change cancer drug activity
E. coli bacteria. Credit: NIHThe activity of cancer drugs changes depending on the types of microbes living in the gut, according to a UCL-led study into how nematode worms and their microbes process...
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The End of IKVM.NET
After almost fifteen years I have decided to quit working on IKVM.NET. The decision has been a long time coming. Those of you that saw yesterday’s Twitter spat, please don’t assume that was the cause....
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Ask HN: Alternatives to Vagrant for development environments?
Ask HN: Alternatives to Vagrant for development environments?34 points by purephase1 hour ago | hide | past | web | 18 comments | favoriteI've been using Vagrant for about 5-6 years now to automate the...
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ARM Releases Machine Readable Architecture Specification
The device you are reading this post on consists of a very tall stack of layers - all the way from transistors and NAND gates all the way up to processors, C, Linux/ Android/ iOS/ Windows to the...
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Viral Shah: Helped Build Julia, an Alternative Programming Language in Bengaluru
In India, the formula for success is drilled into children from a very young age: get good grades, go to an elite Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), move to America, and never come back.And yet,...
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PX8 – A PICO-8 compatible fantasy console written in Rust
README.mdPX8 is an Open Source Fantasy Console (128x128 pixels) in Rust, by using a cartridge that contains the code/gfx/music. The code could be in Python/Lua, or you could create directly everything...
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APFS filesystem format
Apr 22, 2017I started to reverse engineer APFS and want to share what I found out so far. You can send me feedback and ideas on this post via Twitter.Notice: I created a test image with macOS Sierra...
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‘I Dreamed of Africa’ Author and Conservationist Is Shot in Kenya
NAIROBI, Kenya — Kuki Gallmann could feel the ring of danger tightening around her.Over the past few days, Mrs. Gallmann, one of Kenya’s most famous conservationists and the author of the best-selling...
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