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Tesseract OCR
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GitHub - tesseract-ocr/tesseract: Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)
Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository) - tesseract-ocr/tesseract
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Apple sued by teen wrongly accused of shoplifting by unreliable facial-rec tech
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The Register
Apple sued in nightmare case involving teen wrongly accused of shoplifting, driver's permit used by impostor, and unreliable facial…
Theft spree repeatedly blamed on wrong guy – lawsuit
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FireCracker internals: a deep dive inside the technology powering AWS Lambda
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Tal Hoffman
Firecracker internals: a deep dive inside the technology powering AWS Lambda
You are most likely familiar with AWS Lambda and Fargate — Amazon’s serverless computing engines. At its nature, serverless computing introduces quite a challenging task requiring both tight security and great performance. For exactly that matter Amazon came…
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The online data that's being deleted
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Bbc
The online data that's being deleted
For years, we were encouraged to store our data online. But it's become increasingly clear that this won't last forever – and now the race is on to stop our memories being deleted.
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Cities try to phase out gas stoves but cooks are pushing back
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WSJ
Cities Try to Phase Out Gas Stoves—but Cooks Are Pushing Back
Many restaurant and home chefs prefer cooking on gas-burning ranges, and persuading some to switch to electric stovetops is proving to be a hard sell—a sentiment the natural-gas industry has seized on.
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Data leak shatters the lie that the innocent need not fear surveillance
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the Guardian
Huge data leak shatters lie that the innocent need not fear surveillance
Our investigation shows how repressive regimes can buy and use the kind of spying tools Edward Snowden warned us about
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Visualizing all the vacant office space in San Francisco
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Visualizing All the Vacant Office Space in San Francisco
As we outlined yesterday, there is over 17 million square feet of vacant office space now spread across San Francisco, which is up from around 16 million square feet of vacant space three months ago and as compared to under 5 million square feet of vacant…
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MVT – forensic tool to look for infections on smartphones
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GitHub - mvt-project/mvt: MVT (Mobile Verification Toolkit) helps with conducting forensics of mobile devices in order to find…
MVT (Mobile Verification Toolkit) helps with conducting forensics of mobile devices in order to find signs of a potential compromise. - mvt-project/mvt
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Show HN: Angle Grinder – A terminal app to slice, dice, and aggregate your logs
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GitHub - rcoh/angle-grinder: Slice and dice logs on the command line
Slice and dice logs on the command line. Contribute to rcoh/angle-grinder development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Julian Assange Case: Keystone Witness Admits He Lied, US Media Ignores
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The Wire
Julian Assange Case: Key Witness Admits He Lied, US Media Ignores Exculpatory Revelations
Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson admitted to an Icelandic newspaper that he lied about being asked to hack computers in order to get immunity and misrepresented his ties with the Wikileaks founder.
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Zoom to Acquire Five9
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GlobeNewswire News Room
Zoom to Acquire Five9
The combination of Zoom’s robust communications platform with Five9’s intelligent cloud contact center will enable organizations to reimagine the way they...
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Habits of Expert Software Designers (2019)
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The MIT Press Reader
Eight Habits of Expert Software Designers: An Illustrated Guide
The best designers employ specific habits, learned practices, and observed principles when they work. Here are a few of them.
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The History of the Dot Com Era
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Medium
The History of the Dot Com Era
I graduated from college in 1997. While at college, the Netscape IPO, Yahoo IPO, eBay IPO, and Amazon IPO all happened. When I graduated, I…
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Torvalds wants new NTFS driver in kernel
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Show HN: Magic Mushroom Map
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Magicmushroommap
Magic Mushroom Map
Forecasts where and when liberty cap are likely to grow based on habitat and recent weather conditions.
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Show HN: Muler, a search engine for drug info built with Flask
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Pythonanywhere
Muler
Muler is a Flask app that allows users to search for pharmacological information by generic or proprietary drug names.
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We are drowning in churn and noise. I am fighting by switching this site to PDF
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Ask HN: Did you quit smoking cannabis? If so, why?
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Cryptocurrency is like taking the worst parts of today's capitalist system
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Jackson Palmer
Cryptocurrency is like taking the worst parts of today's capitalist system (eg. corruption, fraud, inequality) and using software to technically limit the use of interventions (eg. audits, regulation, taxation) which serve as protections or safety nets for…
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When Norbert Wiener met Albert Einstein on a Train to Geneva (1925)
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Privatdozent
When Wiener met Einstein (1925)
This issue narrates Norbert Wiener’s chance encounter with Albert Einstein in his own words as recounted to his sister Bertha in 1925. At the time of his writing of the letter Wiener was on one of his frequent trips around Europe, traveling from Leipzig to…
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Perlin vs. Simplex
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Perlin vs. Simplex
During my deep dive into Perlin and Curl noise, I kept bumping into the subject of Simplex noise. I figured it was worth going down that rabbit hole for a day or so. Here’s what I’ve fo…
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