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WhatsApp – Opting out of new terms doesn’t stop Facebook taking information
Opting out of WhatsApp’s controversial new terms doesn’t actually stop it sharing information with Facebook.The company provoked outrage this week when it announced that it was changing its terms to...
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1Password – Standalone licenses vs. new subscription service
I have a license for 1Password on my two computers (one is MacOS and the other is Windows) and my two mobile devices (iPhone and iPad). I'm perfectly happy and think it's the best password management...
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A Russian Family Was Isolated for 40 Years, Unaware of WWII (2013)
Siberian summers do not last long. The snows linger into May, and the cold weather returns again during September, freezing the taiga into a still life awesome in its desolation: endless miles of...
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Ask HN: What's the best library for making cross-platform UIs?
It would help a lot to have the question elaborate on what you really need. What do you mean by "best", and do you actually need the best? Do you need easy to learn, or code that is easy to deliver, or...
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The Secret Justice System That Lets Executives Escape Their Crimes
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Electric Vehicles – It's Not Just About the Car
By Michael Liebreich, Chairman of the Advisory Boardand Angus McCrone, Chief EditorBloomberg New Energy FinanceView the PDF version.One of the key characteristics of complex systems, such as the...
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GitHub Code Search – Programmers' Goldmine
Learning new language or framework can sometimes be a struggle. Traditional approach is to read documentation which explains the concepts, and provides simple examples. Sometimes that might be enough,...
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The Price of Solar Is Declining to Unprecedented Lows
The installed price of solar energy has declined significantly in recent years as policy and market forces have driven more and more solar installations.Now, the latest data show that the continued...
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How I built a Slack bot to help me find an apartment in San Francisco
I moved from Boston to the Bay Area a few months ago. Priya (my girlfriend) and I heard all sorts of horror stories about the rental market. The fact that searching for “How to find an apartment in San...
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FreeSense: Indoor Human Identification with WiFi Signals
(Submitted on 11 Aug 2016)Abstract: Human identification plays an important role in human-computer interaction. There have been numerous methods proposed for human identification (e.g., face...
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KickSat: open source spacecraft project
KickSat · GitHubSkip to content mechanical CAD Model of KickSat-2 Updated Aug 2, 2016 ax25 An Arduino library for sending AX.25 packets over the HopeRF RFM22/23 radio modules Updated Jul 24, 2016...
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Researchers Map Locations of Servers in Netflix’s Content Delivery Network
When you open Netflix and hit “play,” your computer sends a request to the video streaming service to locate the movie you’d like to watch. The company responds with the name and location of the...
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Meet the Father of Digital Life (2014)
In 1953, at the dawn of modern computing, Nils Aall Barricelli played God. Clutching a deck of playing cards in one hand and a stack of punched cards in the other, Barricelli hovered over one of the...
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Why do UDP packets get dropped?
There's a joke about UDP. it goes like this: "Never mind, you probably wouldn't get it."The first time I heard this joke I did not understand it because I didn't really understand what UDP was. UDP is...
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Tasmanian Devils Developing Resistance to Transmissible Cancer
WIKIMEDIA, KERESHDuring the last 20 years, a contagious cancer has decimated Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) populations. Cancer cells, which are spread by biting, grow deadly tumors on the...
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Why some trees evolved to live underground (2014)
With the exception of wildlife film makers, arboriculturalists and a few scientists, most of us don't spend much time in the leafy upper reaches of tree canopies. But in the underground forests beneath...
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The Undermining of American Charity
Magnum PhotosNew York City, 1977; photograph by Susan MeiselasOur backgrounds may be relevant to the criticisms we make here of a major flaw in the financing of charities today. Lewis Cullman is a New...
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Show HN: Price changes alerts for any store
You can add your product in ThePriceMiner to get notifications about price changes. Seeing the price evolution of a product you can set the right price to your product to maximize your sales volume or...
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My favorite Erlang Program (2013)
The other day I got a mail from Dean Galvin from Rowan University. Dean was doing an Erlang project so he asked “What example program would best exemplify Erlang”. He wanted a small program, that would...
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