For some years now, one has not had to look far to find articles
proclaiming the demise of the GNU General Public License. That license, we
are told, is too frightening for many businesses, which prefer to use
software under the far weaker permissive class…

Floating around the murky regions of digitized Unicode values are anywhere between 60 and 100 yūrei-moji — literally, "ghost characters" — haunting the Japanese kanji lexicon.

A reported huge payout for an executive accused of sexual misconduct provokes an unprecedented protest.

I have updated this article with new data, better code, and friendlier data visualization.  You can read the new version here .   Th...

Nature - Global conservation policy must stop the disappearance of Earth’s few intact ecosystems, warn James E. M. Watson, James R. Allan and colleagues.

Errors have been found in a recent study suggesting the oceans were soaking up more heat than previously thought.

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Hacker News (195 points, 51 comments), Reddit r/Python (140 points, 18 comments)


If you’re planning to learn data analysis, machine learning, or data science tools in python, you’re most likely going to be using the wonderful pandas library.…

Neo4j has helped popularize the graph database. Today it was rewarded with an $80 million Series E to bring their products to a wider market in what could be the company’s last private fundraise. The round was led by One Peak Partners and Morgan Stanley Expansion…

What exactly constitutes horror? Being spooked by the dark, and by the dead who might return in it, may have haunted the earliest human consciousness. Ceremonial burial predates all written history…

Today, we’re announcing updates to our Free and Pro accounts that mark a new step forward for Flickr. To be candid, we’re driving toward the future of Flickr with one eye on the rearview mirror; we…

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Hacker News (65 points, 4 comments), Reddit r/MachineLearning (29 points, 3 comments)


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