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Wolverines: The Future of Search and Rescue
The wolverine has a reputation. “He is one of the most powerful, thievish, daring, and efficient killing machines known to man,” writes Mark Allardyce in Wolverine: A Look into the Devil’s Eyes. The...
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Twitch could be a $20B company within Amazon
Amazon’s Bet on Twitch Was Ahead of Its TimeIn 2014 Amazon surprised many by buying Twitch. Today it has an edge as Facebook, Google and others jockey to own live video.Follow-Up Fridayisour attempt to...
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What Slack might learn from its Open Source alternative
What if you could use one Slack account across multiple teams? What if Slack had threaded messaging? What if Slack supported markdown, or languages other than English?Mattermost is an open source,...
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An alarming number of scientific papers contain Excel errors
A surprisingly high number of scientific papers in the field of genetics contain errors introduced by Microsoft Excel, according to an analysis recently published in the journal Genome Biology.A team...
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Benchmarking State-Of-the-Art Deep Learning Software Tools
(Submitted on 25 Aug 2016)Abstract: Deep learning has been shown as a successful machine learning method for a variety of tasks, and its popularity results in numerous open-source deep learning...
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Majority of mathematicians hail from 24 scientific ‘families’
INTERFOTO/D. H. Teuffen/Mary Evans Picture LibraryAnecdotally many mathematicians report a shared genealogy with Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler, born in 1707.Most of the world’s mathematicians fall...
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The Strange Reason Nearly Every Film Ends by Saying It’s Fiction
Virtually every film in modern memory ends with some variation of the same disclaimer: “This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely...
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Amazon is piloting teams with a 30-hour workweek
Amazon.com will soon launch a program to experiment with a 30-hour workweek for select employees.The program will have a few technical teams made up entirely of part-time workers. These 30-hour...
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Ntfy: A utility for sending notifications
README.rstntfy brings notification to your shell. It can automatically provide desktop notifications when long running commands finish or it can send push notifications to your phone when a specific...
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Breaking a myth: Data shows you don’t actually need a co-founder
How are you, Jon? Just fine, Jon. Great, Jon. Let’s get this party started. Sure, Jon.We are often told that starting a startup on your own is madness. There are thousands of articles out there that...
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A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-To
FreeBSD is a fast, secure, modern Unix-like operating system with a fantastic community, great documentation, and powerful technologies like ZFS and LLVM. It’s my operating system of choice for...
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India Achieves Historical First-Ever Surplus of Power
For the first time since India’s independence in 1947, the country now has a power surplus. This is a remarkable achievement as India was just a few years ago grappling with rampant power deficits and...
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Analyzing HTTPS Encrypted Traffic to Identify User OS, Browser and Application
(Submitted on 15 Mar 2016 (v1), last revised 21 Jul 2016 (this version, v4)) From: Amit Dvir Dr. [view email][v1] Tue, 15 Mar 2016 20:00:54 GMT (123kb)[v2] Wed, 23 Mar 2016 07:00:32 GMT (0kb,I)[v3]...
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How Fuhu went bankrupt
When graphic designers at children’s tablet and app maker Fuhu Inc. put up a Christmas tree with wacky ornaments for the holidays, an executive ripped them off and trashed them.They couldn’t get a...
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Opera server breach incident
Earlier this week, we detected signs of an attack where access was gained to the Opera sync system. This attack was quickly blocked. Our investigations are ongoing, but we believe some data, including...
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British Prime Minister seeks to reduce international student intake
As Home Secretary, May prevented international students from being excluded from the government's migration targetsRussell Watkins/Department for International DevelopmentInternational students are...
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Ask HN: How do you handle DDoS attacks?
Ask HN: How do you handle DDoS attacks?9 points by dineshp239 minutes ago | hide | past | web | 3 comments | favoriteFor owners of small websites running on DigitalOcean, GCP or AWS, how do you handle...
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How to Stay Rich in Europe: Inherit Money for 700 Years
Lamberto Frescobaldi sets two wine glasses atop a wooden barrel in the spacious cellar of his company's winery in a 1,000-year-old castle not far from Florence. Uncorking a bottle of Nipozzano, he...
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“To a Top Scientist at Woomera Rocket Range, South Australia” (2009)
In 1957, following the announcement that the Soviets had trumped the U.S. with the successful launch of Sputnik 1, Australian schoolboy Denis Cox sent this urgent letter to the Royal Australian Air...
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The piracy paradox at Udemy (2015)
My Pluralsight courses get pirated all the time. I used to have Google alerts for them but frankly, the flood of emails I’d get each day just didn’t justify the “return” I’d get by forwarding them on...
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