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My Grandfather Thought He Solved a Cosmic Mystery
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The Atlantic
My Grandfather Thought He Solved a Cosmic Mystery
His career as an eminent physicist was derailed by an obsession. Was he a genius or a crackpot?
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Notorious patent enforcement entity values its entire portfolio at $2, folds
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Ars Technica
Notorious patent enforcement entity values its entire portfolio at $2, folds
Shipping & Transit LLC targeted companies including Radio Shack and JetBlue.
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Indirection Is Not Abstraction
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Silas Reinagel
Indirection Is Not Abstraction
Extreme Software Engineering Blog
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Alan Kay: Is It Already Too Late to Create the Future? [video]
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NIH VideoCasting
2018 Lindberg-King Lecture: The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Create It. But Is It Already Too Late?
Computer science pioneer Alan Curtis Kay, Ph.D., will deliver this year’s Lindberg-King Lecture in the Lister Hill Auditorium. His talk is noscriptd, “The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Create It. But Is It Already Too Late?” A child prodigy, Dr. Kay was…
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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2018)
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Carlo – Web rendering surface for Node applications
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GitHub
GitHub - GoogleChromeLabs/carlo: Web rendering surface for Node applications
Web rendering surface for Node applications. Contribute to GoogleChromeLabs/carlo development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Major Study Finds ‘Some Evidence’ of Link Between Cellphone Radiation and Cancer
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NY Times
Study of Cellphone Risks Finds ‘Some Evidence’ of Link to Cancer, at Least in Male Rats (Published 2018)
Many caveats apply, and the results involve radio frequencies long out of routine use.
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Microsoft regularly shared data of India bank customers with US intelligence
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Scroll.in
Microsoft regularly shared data of India bank customers with US intelligence agencies, claims report
The RBI flagged the matter in a report that has been placed before the audit committees of banks.
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We Regulate the Wrong Things
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Strong Towns
We Regulate the Wrong Things
Most cities’ zoning and development regulations obsess over things that are easy to measure, like building height and density, at the expense of the things that actually determine whether we’re building quality places.
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Coding as an Engineering Manager
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Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki [video]
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kottke.org
Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki
After he retired from making feature length films in 2013, legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki started work on a short film using CGI animation techniques, which he had never worked with before. For two years, a film cre
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SQL Pivot: Converting Rows to Columns
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Databricks
SQL Pivot: Converting Rows to Columns | Databricks Blog
In Apache Spark 2.4, the community has extended this powerful functionality of pivoting data to SQL users. In this blog, using temperatures recordings in Seattle, we’ll show how we can use this common SQL Pivot feature to achieve complex data transformations.
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In Medieval Europe, No Outfit Was Complete Without a Personal Eating Knife
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Atlas Obscura
In Medieval Europe, No Outfit Was Complete Without a Personal Eating Knife
They were fashionable and functional, used for dining and self-defense.
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New iPad Pro Has Comparable Performance to 2018 15“ MacBook Pro in Benchmarks
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MacRumors
New iPad Pro Has Comparable Performance to 2018 15" MacBook Pro in Benchmarks
A series of benchmark results have shown up on Geekbench for the new iPad Pro, and its new eight-core A12X Bionic chip is truly a powerhouse. ...
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Linus Torvalds announces Linux (1991)
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web.archive.org
Linux Online - Linus Torvalds announces Linux
Press Release.
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Facebook promised to fix political ads on its platform. It hasn't
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AT&T blacks out HBO, Cinemax for Dish, Sling TV users over carriage dispute
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Telecompaper
AT&T blacks out HBO, Cinemax for Dish, Sling TV users over carriage dispute
AT&T has blocked its HBO and Cinemax channels for Dish and Sling TV customers over a carriage dispute. This is the first channel blackout for HBO in its 40 years of operation. AT&T acquired HBO when it bought Time Warner for USD 85.4 million, a transaction…
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Graveyard Keeper: How the graphics effects are made
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Game Developer
Graveyard Keeper: How the graphics effects are made
The summary of tips and tricks used in Graveyard Keeper to make different graphical effects and apply them on a pixel art picture.
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On Hold for 45 Minutes? It Might Be Your Secret Customer Score
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WSJ
On Hold for 45 Minutes? It Might Be Your Secret Customer Score
Retailers, wireless carriers and others crunch data to determine what shoppers are worth for the long term. The score can determine the prices you pay, the products and ads you see and the perks you receive. “Not all customers deserve a company’s best efforts.”
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Horizon: Facebook’s Open Source Applied Reinforcement Learning Platform
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Facebook Research
Horizon: Facebook's Open Source Applied Reinforcement Learning Platform - Facebook Research
In this paper we present Horizon, Facebook’s open source applied reinforcement learning (RL) platform. Horizon is an end-to-end platform designed to solve industry applied RL problems where datasets are large (millions to billions of observations), the feedback…
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Modeling Message Queues in TLA+
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Hillel Wayne
Modeling Message Queues in TLA+
I recently did a corporate TLA+ workshop and some people asked what TLA+ specs look like in practice. If you looked at the most common public examples, you’d probably come away thinking that people only used it for critical consensus algorithms. This is a…
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