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Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone
Updated Oct. 11, 2016 7:23 a.m. ETSEOUL—Samsung Electronics Co.SSNHZ0.00% said Tuesday that it would permanently discontinue production and sales of its embattled Galaxy Note 7 smartphone, pulling the...
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Show HN: Cluvio – A new cloud analytics platform based on SQL and R
Analysts? Analysts are users that can create dashboards and reports. You can create unlimited users that can view dashboards and reports (viewers), we only charge for analysts. 2 Analysts are included...
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Multics Emacs: The History, Design and Implementation (1979)
Multics Emacs History/Design/ImplementationCopyright © 1979, 1996 Bernard S. GreenbergApril 8, 1996What follows is my vast, unpublished 1979 "Mother of All Multics Emacs papers" from which all of my...
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NSA could put undetectable “trapdoors” in crypto keys
Researchers have devised a way to place undetectable backdoors in the cryptographic keys that protect websites, virtual private networks, and Internet servers. The feat allows hackers to passively...
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Barack Obama: America Will Take the Giant Leap to Mars
I still have the same sense of wonder about our space program that I did as a child. It represents an essential part of our character -- curiosity and exploration, innovation and ingenuity, pushing the...
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Say Cheese: a snapshot of the massive DDoS attacks coming from IoT cameras
Over the last few weeks we've seen DDoS attacks hitting our systems that show that attackers have switched to new, large methods of bringing down web applications. They appear to come from the Mirai...
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We May Never Truly Fathom Other Cultures
A Mexica ceremonial mask made from a human skull | The British Museum If they’re honest and humble enough, people who study societies that existed in the Americas before the arrival of Europeans will...
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Snapdocs (YC W14) Seeking DevOps Engineer
We're hiring our first DevOps Engineer :tada:!I'll put keywords upfront: AWS, Postgres, Docker, EC2 Container Service, Elastic Beanstalk.And now, the prose: We currently use OpsWorks to deploy to AWS....
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The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless
Most of psychology hasn’t ever seen Myers-Briggs test—the one that labels people with mysterious sets of letters like ESTJ, INFP, INTJ— as a good way to learn about people. But companies seem to have...
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Poll on macOS 10.12 is broken
When Mac OS X first launched they did so without an existing poll function. They later added poll() in Mac OS X 10.3, but we quickly discovered that it was broken (it returned a non-zero value when...
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The LLVM+SDCC toolchain
The LLVM+SDCC toolchain and its potential uses The LLVM+SDCC toolchain is meant to allow the use of languages other than C and to evaluate the effect of LLVM optimizations for 8-bit targets. Currently,...
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The Killer Cats Are Winning
Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killerby Peter P. Marra and Chris SantellaPrinceton University Press, 212 pp., $24.95Leonard Freed/Magnum PhotosA tropical bird and a tabby cat,...
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Data Mining Hacker News: Front vs. Back
After a post from this site made the front page of Hacker News (HN), a curious quirk was spotted. The first time the post was published on HN was at 2016-06-12 09:27:01.000Z. The second time the same...
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OpenAI is Using Reddit to Teach An Artificial Intelligence How to Speak
In Brief NVIDIA has delivered the first DGX-1 supercomputer to non-profit artificial intelligence research company OpenAI. The supercomputer has a whopping 170 teraflops of computing power—equivalent...
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Why Unicode Won’t Work on the Internet (2001)
SummaryUnicode, the semi-commercial equivalent of UCS-2 (ISO 10646-1), has been widely assumed to be a comprehensive solution for electronically mapping all the characters of the world’s languages,...
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Computational Law, Symbolic Discourse, and the AI Constitution
(courtesy of Wolfram Research)Leibniz’s DreamGottfried Leibniz — who died 300 years ago this November — worked on many things. But a theme that recurred throughout his life was the goal of turning...
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Introducing NodeJS-Dashboard
Node.js engineers spend significant amounts of time developing from the console. The usual workflow I’ve encountered goes something like: npm run test && node index.js which then dumps pages of...
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Hybrid computing using a neural network with dynamic external memory
AffiliationsGoogle DeepMind, 5 New Street Square, London EC4A 3TW, UKAlex Graves,Greg Wayne,Malcolm Reynolds,Tim Harley,Ivo Danihelka,Agnieszka Grabska-Barwińska,Sergio Gómez Colmenarejo,Edward...
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Show HN: Your Social Media Fingerprint (maybe NSFW)
Without your consent most major web platforms leak whether you are logged in. This allows any website to detect on which platforms you're signed up. Since there are lots of platforms with specific...
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