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How Juul became worth $38B
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TechCrunch
How Juul made vaping viral to become worth a dirty $38 billion
A Juul is not a cigarette. It’s much easier than that. Through devilishly slick product design I’ll discuss here, the startup has massively lowered the barrier to getting hooked on nicotine. Juul has dismantled every deterrent to taking a puff.
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Fully static, unprivileged, self-contained, containers as executable binaries
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GitHub
GitHub - genuinetools/binctr: Fully static, unprivileged, self-contained, containers as executable binaries.
Fully static, unprivileged, self-contained, containers as executable binaries. - genuinetools/binctr
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Show HN: RedixDB – a fast persistent key-value store with the Redis protocol
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Can AI Predict the Next Area to Gentrify?
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Bloomberg
How Machine Learning and AI Can Predict Gentrification
New research from the Urban Studies journal uses London as a test site to show how machine learning can predict which neighborhoods will gentrify next.
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Let’s Try t-SNE
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Observablehq
Let’s Try t-SNE!
An Observable notebook by Mike Bostock.
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Depression, Self-Identity and Reality: Living in a Story Created by Facebook
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Medium
Depression, Self-Identity and Reality: Living in a Fictional Story Created by Social Media
On the dangers of outsourcing your reality and identity to Facebook or any other social media platform.
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Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?
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Why American cities are weirdly shaped
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The Economist
Why American cities are so weirdly shaped
How strange municipal boundaries came about, and how they hold cities back
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Over 19,000 Orange Livebox ADSL modems are leaking their WiFi credentials
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badpackets.net
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We provide cyber threat intelligence on emerging threats, DDoS botnets, and network abuse.
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Congress votes to make open government data the default in the United States
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E Pluribus Unum
Congress votes to make open government data the default in the United States
On December 21, 2018, the United States House of Representatives voted to enact H.R. 4174, the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2017, in a historic win for open government in the …
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Schedule – 35th Chaos Communication Congress
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Five Years That Changed Dating
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The Atlantic
The Five Years That Changed Dating
When Tinder became available to all smartphone users in 2013, it ushered in a new era in the history of romance.
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Modeling Life Outcomes with Stochastic Methods
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tmarkovich.github.io
Modeling Life Outcomes with Stochastic Methods
IntroductionMy wife and I got married a little less than a year ago, and we’re starting toconsider the life that we can build together. Like most couples, we...
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The bleak picture of two-factor authentication adoption in the wild
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Babel alternative written in Rust – almost 20x faster
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GitHub
GitHub - swc-project/swc: Rust-based platform for the Web
Rust-based platform for the Web. Contribute to swc-project/swc development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Turning GraphQL diagrams to mock back end
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Don't allow popups during page unload
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Chromestatus
Don't allow popups during page unload - Chrome Platform Status
Pages may no longer use the window.open() API to open a new page during its unload.
The popup blocker already prohibits this, but now it is prohibited whether or not the popup blocker is enabled.
For now, enterprises can use the AllowPopupsDuringPageUnload…
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A Full Hardware Guide to Deep Learning
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Tim Dettmers
A Full Hardware Guide to Deep Learning — Tim Dettmers
In this guide I analyse hardware from CPU to SSD and their impact on performance for deep learning so that you can choose the hardware that you really need.
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Neural networks in JavaScript – free 19-part course
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Scrimba
Neural Networks in JavaScript
A fun and practical Brain.js tutorial. This 19-part course teaches you how to build neural networks in JavaScript through interactive Scrimba tut
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Wikipedia2Vec: Optimized Implementation for Learning Embeddings from Wikipedia
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arXiv.org
Wikipedia2Vec: An Efficient Toolkit for Learning and Visualizing...
The embeddings of entities in a large knowledge base (e.g., Wikipedia) are highly beneficial for solving various natural language tasks that involve real world knowledge. In this paper, we present...
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New prime record: 51st Mersenne prime
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Johndcook
New prime record: 51st Mersenne prime
A new prime record was announced yesterday. The largest known prime is now Written in hexadecimal the newly discovered prime is For decades the largest known
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