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Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?
For me, it's definitely Ribbonfarm:http://www.ribbonfarm.com/I stumbled into Venkat's blog about two and half years ago and I'm still trying to find my way out. The rabbit hole gets even deeper when...
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Sputtering Startups Weigh on U.S. Economic Growth
Updated Oct. 23, 2016 11:20 a.m. ETThe U.S. economy is inching along, productivity is flagging and millions of Americans appear locked out of the labor market.One key factor intertwined with this loss...
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Red Gate Woods: The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor
"Caution - Do Not Dig"A curious epitaph, but a forest preserve is a curious place to house a nuclear reactor laboratory, and Red Gates Woods in Cook County, Illinois had all kinds of unusual happenings...
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To influence people don't try to persuade them. Use ‘pre-suasion’ instead
Today and every day we are the targets of salespeople, marketers, advertisers, fundraisers and (heaven knows) politicians trying to persuade us to buy something, do something or think a certain way....
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What it truly means when a huge Antarctic glacier is unstable
If there is one story that, more than anything else, makes you wonder if global warming could cause very fast changes and hit planetary tipping points in our lifetimes, it was a moment in 2014.That was...
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Overview of JavaScript ES6 features
JavaScript has changed quite a bit in the last years. These are 12 new features that you can start using today!The new additions to the language are called ECMAScript 6. It is also referred as ES6 or...
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Why Tim Cook Is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple
What happens to a company when a visionary CEO is gone? Most often innovation dies and the company coasts for years on momentum and its brand. Rarely does it regain its former glory.Here’s...
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Webcams used to attack Reddit and Twitter recalled
Media captionTechnology explained: What is the internet of things?Home webcams that were hijacked to help knock popular websites offline last week are being recalled in the US.Chinese electronics firm...
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AI can learn from data without ever having access to it
AI, like all software, isn’t immune to being hacked. In recent months, security researchers have shown that machine learning algorithms can be reverse-engineered and made to expose user data, like...
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Distrusting New WoSign and StartCom Certificates
Mozilla has discovered that a Certificate Authority (CA) called WoSign has had a number of technical and management failures. Most seriously, we discovered they were backdating SSL certificates in...
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Happiness is a Boring Stack
I spend way too much time on Hacker News. It's a fun place, and a good way to keep up to date on all the new tech that us developer folk seem to need to know about. But it also leaves a fella feeling...
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Concorde
Concorde - Chris LambToday marks the 13th anniversary since the last passenger flight from New York arrived in the UK. Every seat was filled, a feat that had become increasingly rare for a plane that...
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Errors from Microsoft's Cloud
1.5M ratings 277k ratings Sounds perfectWahhhh, I don’t wanna Archive Oct 25th, 2016 Open in app Facebook Tweet Reddit Mail Embed Permalink Sep 15th, 2016 Open in app Facebook Tweet Reddit Mail Embed...
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Welcome to the CMU Artificial Intelligence Repository (1994)
;;; Wed Aug 31 13:37:45 1994 by AI Repository ;;; readme.txt -- 21974 bytes ************************************************************************** *** PLEASE READ THIS FILE BEFORE RETRIEVING FILES...
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Is an Engineer an Artist?
Robert Rathbun Wilson Hall, in Batavia, Illinois | Photo by Chris Smith / Flickr One of my favorite moments from the history of science comes from a man whose name may be hard to improve on: Robert...
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Xiaomi unveils concept phone with near bezel-less display
Chinese device maker Xiaomi has announced another clutch of mobile hardware, including a concept smartphone developed in collaboration with designer Philippe Starck.Xiaomi CEO and founder Lei Jun...
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Twitter Plans Hundreds More Job Cuts as Soon as This Week
Twitter Inc., having failed to sell itself, is planning to fire about 8 percent of its workforce as the struggling social-media company prepares to go it alone for the time being.Twitter may eliminate...
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The Pentagon’s ‘Terminator Conundrum’: Robots That Could Kill on Their Own
Those advantages have now evaporated, and of all the new technologies that have emerged in recent decades, such as genomics or miniaturization, “the one thing that has the widest application to the...
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Electronic surveillance up 5x in DC area since 2011, almost all sealed cases
Secret law enforcement requests to conduct electronic surveillance in domestic criminal cases have surged in federal courts for Northern Virginia and the District, but only one in a thousand of the...
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Having fun abusing the C language
I was looking through the book Expert C Programming again when I came upon their “light relief” section on The Internation Obfuscated C Code Competition. It’s a contest to write the most obscure code....
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