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Challenges for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Why is the world’s most advanced AI used for cat videos, but not to help us live longer and healthier lives? A brief history of AI in Medicine, and the factors that may help it succeed where it has...
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When Roman “Barbarians” Met the Asian Enlightenment
This “fantasy city” by Dmitry Zaviyalov combines the architecture of many of Rome’s Asian contemporaries.This week, the BBC announced the discovery of two “ethnically Chinese” skeletons at an ancient...
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How I added 6 characters to Unicode (and you can too)
Star characters (☆★) have long been part of the Unicode standard, which means they can appear as characters in web pages, text, and email. But half-stars were missing, so they required special images...
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The most commonly used photo camera-lens combinations
We have generated an infographic of top 50 interchangeable-lens digital cameras using our collected and processed data out of 11,573,861 photos. Below, you can see the most commonly used combinations...
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Sourcegraph launches a new semantic code search and browsing interface
Today, we’re announcing a new edition of Sourcegraph that makes it even faster and easier to answer your everyday programming questions. If you code in Go, check it out now. If you use another...
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Rescale YC W12 Is Hiring for Senior Software Engineer, Platform
Rescale YC W12 Is Hiring for Senior Software Engineer, Platform58 minutes ago | hideRescale offers a software platform and hardware infrastructure for companies to perform scientific and engineering...
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What New York Can Learn from Barcelona’s ‘Superblocks’
No matter the merits, the debate over what a modern urban streetscape should look like, how it should function and whom it should serve has grown increasingly clamorous around the world. In New York...
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Guccifer 2.0 Hacked Clinton Foundation
Many of you have been waiting for this, some even asked me to do it.So, this is the moment. I hacked the Clinton Foundation server and downloaded hundreds of thousands of docs and donors’...
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An Introduction to Machine Learning in Julia
28 Sep 2016 | Abhijith C and Ranjan AnantharamanMachine learning is now pervasive in every field of inquiry and has lead to breakthroughs in various fields from medical diagnoses to online...
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Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars
I run a little single player software empire, and right now the product that’s paying my bills is S3stat. It’s a SaaS product that processes human readable reports from the basic logfiles that Amazon...
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New studies of the brain’s ability to decode words in loud situations
Sept. 26, 2016 1:07 p.m. ETMany people have trouble understanding conversations in noisy situations. Scientists are beginning to understand why.The problem is sometimes called “hidden hearing loss”:...
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Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?
What's especially neat about that talk is the fact that it's from CUSEC: a student-run conference out of Montreal. So many great talks I've seen online were from that conference.Never went to it as a...
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Why Podcasting Still Needs RSS
The Open ApproachAt RadioPublic, we are dedicated to the principles of the open web, chief among them the idea that nobody needs to ask permission to participate as a producer or consumer. As a result,...
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Behind the Pixel: Google’s First Real Threat to Apple’s iPhone
Google is embarking on a wholesale revamp of its mobile phone strategy, debuting a pair of slick and powerful handsets that for the first time will go head-to-head with Apple Inc.’s iconic...
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DRAKON: a visual language for specifications from the Russian space program
DRAKON is a visual language for specifications from the Russian space program. DRAKON is used for capturing requirements and building software that controls spacecraft.The rules of DRAKON are...
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Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data
In the "first half of 2016" (the most specific we're permitted to be), we received a subpoena from the Eastern District of Virginia. The subpoena required us to provide information about two Signal...
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Daydream – Google VR
By clicking “Sign Up”, you agree to receive emails in accordance with Google’s Privacy Policy. You may opt out at any time. Please enter a valid email addressSelect your VR interestSign up Please...
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Yahoo scanned customer emails for US intelligence
By Joseph MennSAN FRANCISCO, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers' incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S....
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Ooshma Garg, founder of Gobble (YC W14) – Startup School video and AMA
There's a huge gap between how startup success is portrayed in the media and how it actually happens. Prior to participating in YC, Ooshma had been working on Gobble for three years. During that time...
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An Open Letter From Elizabeth Holmes
For our stakeholders,After many months spent assessing our strengths and addressing our weaknesses, we have moved to structure our company around the model best aligned with our core values and...
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