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Spotify Teardown: Inside the Black Box of Streaming Music
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MIT Press
Spotify Teardown
An innovative investigation of the inner workings of Spotify that traces the transformation of audio files into streamed experience.Spotify provides a stream...
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The remote UK community living off-grid
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The remote UK community living off-grid
Photographer Ed Gold lived alongside the off-grid community of Scoraig in the Highlands of Scotland.
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New Peanut Allergy Drug Shows ‘Lifesaving’ Potential
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NY Times
New Peanut Allergy Drug Shows ‘Lifesaving’ Potential
Results from a new study may lead to approval of what could be the first drug that ameliorates potentially deadly reactions in children with severe peanut allergies.
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NYC Housing Authority routinely disputed tests that revealed lead in apartments
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NY Times
Tests Showed Children Were Exposed to Lead. The Official Response: Challenge the Tests
For at least two decades, the New York City Housing Authority routinely disputed tests that revealed lead in its apartments. Private landlords almost never do this.
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Why you shouldn't “work remotely”
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Blair Reeves
Don't work "remotely" - Blair Reeves
Depending on who you ask, “remote” working is either gaining steam in the tech industry or still a coveted-but-rare perk for the lucky few. A pattern that seems to be emerging is this: Tech giants like Amazon and Google, wagering that their corporate brand…
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Time is Partial: distributed consistency models and weak memory models
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CMPS290S, Fall 2018
Time is Partial, or: why do distributed consistency models and weak memory models look so similar, anyway?
by Sohum Banerjea ⋅ edited by Aldrin Montana and Lindsey Kuper
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The Problem with Scientific Credit
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Nautilus
The Problem with Scientific Credit
I first learned about Douglas Prasher three years ago, when an algorithm we’d just developed made an unpredictable prediction: He…
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Why Standing Desks Are Overrated
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NY Times
Are You Sitting Down? Standing Desks Are Overrated
They’re not cures for anything, and standing is not exercise.
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Who Is Telling the Truth About Prenoscription Opioid Deaths?
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The Media Industry and the “Make-Google-Pay” Fantasy
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Monday Note
The Media Industry and the “Make-Google-Pay” Fantasy
by Frederic Filloux
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The History, Controversy, and Evolution of the Goto Statement [pdf]
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Why you're having trouble hiring
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Blair Reeves
Why you’re having trouble hiring
I was discussing recruiter spam with a friend of mine the other day. He mentioned a recent message he received soliciting his interest in more than a dozen open Director and VP-level gigs. Cool, ri…
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Show HN: Funky – Easier, flexible, and more interactive shell functions
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GitHub
GitHub - bbugyi200/funky: Funky takes shell functions to the next level by making them easier to define, more flexible, and more…
Funky takes shell functions to the next level by making them easier to define, more flexible, and more interactive. - bbugyi200/funky
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Ask HN: Starting a career in security at 40?
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Post-REST
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Bitcoin falls below $5,000
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BBC News
Bitcoin falls below $5,000
The fall brings the total value of all Bitcoin in existence to below $87bn.
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Show HN: Self-Driving Pi Car
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GitHub
GitHub - felipessalvatore/self_driving_pi_car: A deep neural network based self-driving car, that combines Lego Mindstorms NXT…
A deep neural network based self-driving car, that combines Lego Mindstorms NXT with the computational power of a Raspberry Pi 3. - felipessalvatore/self_driving_pi_car
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Varying Speaking Styles with Neural Text-to-Speech
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If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon Valley
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If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon Valley
The HBO series gets it right. And it doesn’t make any more fun of us tech people than we deserve.
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It's Time to Change the Narrative About Clean Energy
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UNREASONABLE.is
It's Time to Change the Narrative About Clean Energy
The clean energy conversation has become part of a larger culture war that fits neatly into the media’s all-too-predictable tendency of false equivalence.
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Brainwaves Encode the Grammar of Human Language
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Max Planck Neuroscience on Nautilus
Brainwaves Encode the Grammar of Human Language
Every day you hear at least some utterances you’ve never heard before. That you can understand them is partly due to the fact that they are structured according to grammatical...
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