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The Democratization of Censorship
John Gilmore, an American entrepreneur and civil libertarian, once famously quipped that “the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” This notion undoubtedly rings true for...
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China begins operating world’s largest radio telescope
BEIJING (AP) — The world's largest radio telescope began searching for signals from stars and galaxies and, perhaps, extraterrestrial life Sunday in a project demonstrating China's rising ambitions in...
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Some cities are taking another look at LED lighting after AMA warning
If people are sleepless in Seattle, it may not be only because they have broken hearts. The American Medical Association issued a warning in June that high-intensity LED streetlights — such as those in...
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As Our Jobs Are Automated, Some Say We'll Need a Guaranteed Basic Income
Customers use interactive kiosks to place orders at Eatsa, a fully automated fast food restaurant in San Francisco. Justin Sullivan/Getty Imageshide captiontoggle caption Justin Sullivan/Getty...
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Swiss endorse new surveillance powers
Image copyrightEPAImage caption The authorities say the powers are needed to monitor the highest-risk suspectsSwiss voters have given a strong approval to a law on new surveillance powers for the...
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John Carmack .plan Archive (2014)
README.mdMirror of the John Carmack .plan Archive on floodyberry.com. These are the exports of ZIP files for his .plan files, organized by day and year.
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The decline of Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow was created in 2008 by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky, as a more open alternative to earlier Q&A sites such as Experts-Exchange. The name for the website was chosen by voting in April...
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Tiny Renderer or how OpenGL works
README.mdCheck the wiki for the detailed lessons. My source code is irrelevant. Read the wiki and implement your own renderer. Only when you suffer through all the tiny details you will learn what is...
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Show HN: Rust, ARM Cortex M, and a Generated HAL
I’ve written a bit about embedded devices, and a bit about Rust in the past, but I wanted to share something I’ve been working on (wtih the help of some really smart people) for the last few weeks....
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Reshaping web defenses with strict Content Security Policy
Even with such a helpful tool, building a safe script whitelist for a complex application is often all but impossible due to the number of popular domains with rresources that allow CSP to be...
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India’s Space Agency Hits New Milestone With Satellite Launch
India’s space agency on Monday put eight satellites into two separate orbits in a single flight, a first for the agency as it hit another milestone in its low-cost space mission.The Indian Space...
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Burning Ship Fractal
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia High-quality overview image of the Burning Ship fractal High-quality image of the large ship in the left antennaThe Burning Ship fractal, first described and...
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Show HN: Printed Books from WhatsApp with Python and LaTeX
Two of my best friends and I have been running a WhatsApp group chat for almost four years now. Three years ago we started turning these chats into printed books, and as I’m about to complete the third...
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How Convolutional Neural Networks Work
pdf [2MB] ppt [6MB] Nine times out of ten, when you hear about deep learning breaking a new technological barrier, Convolutional Neural Networks are involved. Also called CNNs or ConvNets, these...
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People who can’t afford Teslas are using car-sharing networks to pay for them
Car manufacturers are clearly preparing for a future when people don’t buy many cars. Ford plans to launch its ride hailing service in 2021. GM just invested $500 million in Lyft. Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s...
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SVG has more potential
19 Sep 2016I think many of us are not using SVG to its full potential. I often see SVG used as an alternative image format or as a simple solution for icons, and whilst it’s great for these things,...
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BeagleBone Black Wireless
Replacing the 10/100 Ethernet port with onboard 802.11 b/g/n 2.4GHz WiFi and Bluetooth, the popular open source BeagleBone™ Black computer now comes with built-in wireless networking capability. Based...
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A novel brewing process via controlled hydrodynamic cavitation
(Submitted on 21 Sep 2016)Abstract: This paper describes a completely new brewing equipment and process based upon controlled hydrodynamic cavitation, providing significant advantages in terms of...
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Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications (2010)
Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications © 2010 Richard Szeliski Welcome to the Web site (http://szeliski.org/Book) for my computer vision textbook, which you can now purchase at a variety of...
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Restoring YC's Xerox Alto day 8: it boots
We've been restoring a Xerox Alto from the 1970s for several months, and we finally got it to boot and run some programs! There's still some hardware debugging ahead of us, since the Alto drops into...
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