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The 1863 edition of the “Dictionnaire Infernal” is the stuff of nightmares
Demon ruler Bael, from the Dictionnaire Infernal. Louis Le Breton/Public DomainThe demons of the underworld that tempt us into sin are (theoretically, anyway) endless in number. Yet this didn’t stop...
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'Living Drug' That Fights Cancer by Harnessing Immune System Clears Key Hurdle
Image of a CAR-T cell (reddish) attacking a leukemia cell (green). These CAR-T lymphocytes are used for immunotherapy against cancer (CAR stands for chimeric antigen receptor). After the proliferation...
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Toward Go 2
Toward Go 213 July 2017Introduction [This is the text of my talk today at Gophercon 2017, asking for the entire Go community's help as we discuss and plan Go 2. We will add a link to the video when it...
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Garmin makes 360 degree camera
Garmin is proud to announce the versatile VIRB 360, a compact, rugged and fully spherical 360-degree camera. The waterproof VIRB 360 is an easy-to-use camera that captures impressive high-quality video...
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Persona 5 is now playable on RPCS3 (PS3 Emulator)
Last week the Persona 5 video seen below was posted showing how RPCS3 had been improved to fix various emulation issues with the game. The issue where Persona 5 had broken bloom and depth of field,...
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The Best Free Machine Learning Content on the Web
When I was writing books on networking and programming topics in the early 2000s, the web was a good, but an incomplete resource. Blogging had started to take off, but YouTube wasn’t around yet, nor...
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Why Can’t Americans Get a Raise?
American workers are stuck on the stairway to nowhere.shironosov/iStockThere’s a disturbance in the force of the U.S. economy. An airline canceled flights because it couldn’t find enough pilots to...
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Cover (YC W16) Raises $8M Series A
What’s next?Insurance in the future will be about services + insurance. Our company is geared towards figuring out the right mix of services that resonate with customers such that they’re getting the...
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Bitcoin study: Period of exclusivity encourages early adopters
Giving early adopters the first access to new technologies can help diffuse those technologies among the masses. A notable example is Google’s rollout of Gmail: In 2004, about 1,000 select users were...
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Sourced Adventures – Adventure Travel Startup ($125,000/mo)
Hello! What's your background, and what are you working on?My name is Kyle Davidson. I'm the founder of Sourced Adventures, an online adventure travel company based in New York City.We specialize in...
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Show HN: (sukhoi) Flexible and extensible Webcrawler in python
README.mdMinimalist and powerful Web Crawler.Sukhoi is built on top of the concept of miners, it is similar to what happens with scrapy and its spiders. However, in sukhoi the miners can be placed in...
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How CircleCI Processes 4.5M Builds per Month
By Rob Zuber, CTO at CircleCI.BackgroundCircleCI is a platform for continuous integration and delivery. Thousands of engineers trust us to run tests and deploy their code, so they can focus on building...
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Analysts Call BS on IBM's Watson
IBM’s Watson unit is receiving heat today in the form of a scathing equity research report from Jefferies’ James Kisner. The group believes that IBM’s investment into Watson will struggle to return...
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My Father’s Weakness for Beer Never Lessened His Strengths
Pauline Campos | Longreads | June 2017 | 9 minutes (2,131 words)By the time I was eight, I knew how to pour the contents of a beer can into a travel mug without foam. I used to joke that this is why I...
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Why the First Complete Map of the Ocean Floor Is Stirring Controversial Waters
Earth has no shortage of stunning landforms: Mt. Everest rises majestically above the clouds; the Grand Canyon rents deep into desert rock layers; the mountains that make up the Ethiopian Highlands,...
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Using Deep Learning to Create Professional-Level Photographs
Posted by Hui Fang, Software Engineer, Machine PerceptionMachine learning (ML) excels in many areas with well defined goals. Tasks where there exists a right or wrong answer help with the training...
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Tru Life: How Truman Capote Became a Cautionary Tale of Celebrity Culture
In a life that spanned nearly six decades,Truman Capote wrote stories that remain reliably in print. The short story “A Christmas Memory” is a yuletide classic, and his popular novel, Breakfast at...
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The Vatican's Latinist
In 1970, the Procurator General of the Discalced Carmelite Order, Finian Monahan, was summoned to the Vatican for a meeting. The subject of the meeting was a promising young American priest by the name...
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California Today: A Spreading ‘Yimby’ Movement
Fifty or so stark white crosses dot the desolate road leading to a military training facility in the Mojave Desert.Each one marks the site of a fatal vehicle crash and is stenciled in black with the...
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Universal Now: Now, on Every Cloud
Thursday, July 13th 2017(19hago)Universal Now: Now, on Every CloudAbout a year agowe introduced now to the world. We set out to validate very simple hypotheses. Deployment should generally not take...
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