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Spotify trying to lock-in users just after IPO (2018)
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FreeYourMusic.com
Spotify trying to lock-in users just after IPO - FreeYourMusic.com
Spotify has recently IPO’ed, and its stock is available publicly to buy. The company is now under even closer watch from the public market, as it tries to beat the competition and compete in the market where it doesn’t really have any great distribution models.…
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Reeling It In: How a Social Network for Anglers Won 7M Users (2018)
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Forbes
Reeling It In: How A Social Network For Anglers Won 7m Users
Fishing is big business. The Swedish startup Fishbrain is already the biggest sports fishing app and social network in the world, but it wants more.
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Canada grounds Boeing 737 Max 8 following fatal crash
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CBC
No Boeing 737 Max 8s can fly into, out of, or over Canada: transport minister | CBC News
Canada is grounding all of its Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft and banning the jet from entering its airspace until further notice as safety concerns continue to mount following two deadly crashes.
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Ingres: Can You Ever Go Back? (2006)
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Kellblog
Ingres: Can You Ever Go Back? - Kellblog
In an eerie turn of events, my ex-, ex-, ex-employer Ingres Corporation has been resurrected by, of all people, Terry Garnett, one of Oracle’s early marketing vice presidents, now of Garnett & Helfrich Capital. They have bought Ingres back from … Continue…
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Market Concentration Is Threatening the US Economy
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Project Syndicate
Market Concentration Is Threatening the US Economy | by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Rising inequality and slow growth are widely recognized as key factors behind the spread of public discontent in advanced economies, particularly in the United States. But these problems are themselves symptoms of an underlying malady that the US political…
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CIA Implicated in Attack on North Korean Embassy in Madrid
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EL PAÍS
CIA implicated in attack on North Korean embassy in Madrid
According to Spanish investigators, two of the men who broke into the diplomatic headquarters have connections to the US intelligence service
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Erlang OTP 21.3
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Dwarf Fortress is coming to Steam with graphics
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Polygon
Dwarf Fortress is coming to Steam ... with graphics
Developers will upgrade its ASCII aesthetic and offer Steam Workshop support
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Show HN: Stuff – An Alternative to Facebook Events
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stuff.li
Stuff - Invitations to private and public events
Stuff is a platform for your digital invitations. To manage private gatherings and public events.
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Facial recognition's 'dirty little secret': Millions of online photos scraped
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NBC News
Facial recognition's 'dirty little secret': Social media photos used without consent
People’s faces are being used without their permission, in order to power technology that could eventually be used to surveil them, legal experts say.
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Ask HN: How can I learn how to paint?
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Why normalize Unicode strings
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When "Zoë" !== "Zoë". Or why you need to normalize Unicode strings | With Blue Ink
Never heard of Unicode normalization? You’re not alone. But it will save you a lot of trouble.
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‘The Left Hand of Darkness' at Fifty
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The Paris Review
The Left Hand of Darkness at Fifty
Packed with strange details and beautiful quirks, Ursula K. Le Guin’s novel allows us to imagine that our world could be different.
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Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop
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Troy Hunt
These Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop
This will be short, ranty and to the point: these warnings are getting ridiculous:
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Buckminster Fuller on technology and useless jobs
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Open Culture
Buckminster Fuller Rails Against the “Nonsense of Earning a Living”: Why Work Useless Jobs When Technology & Automation Can Let…
We are a haunted species: haunted by the specter of climate change, of economic collapse, and of automation making our lives redundant. When Marx used the specter metaphor in his manifesto, he was ironically invoking Gothic tropes. But Communism was not a…
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How we made Haskell search strings as fast as Rust
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Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage
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USA TODAY
Facebook, Instagram were down most of Wednesday around the globe for many users
Having trouble accessing Facebook or Instagram Wednesday? You weren't alone.
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U.S. to ground Boeing 737 Max 8
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Business Insider
Trump announces all Boeing 737 Max jets are immediately grounded following its 2nd crash in 5 months
The US had resisted calls to ground the plane as much of the rest of the world did so.
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Cells seem to decode their fate through optimal information processing
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Quanta Magazine
The Math That Tells Cells What They Are
During development, cells seem to decode their fate through optimal information processing, which could hint at a more general principle of life.
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Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet development, cancels products
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Ars Technica
Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet development, cancels products
The group that brought us the Pixelbook and Pixel Slate is being downsized.
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Reinforcement Learning with Unity 3D
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Project - Reinforcement Learning with Unity 3D: G.E.A.R
Over the course of the last several months I was working on a fantastic project organized by the Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures & Augmented Reality. As a result, together with a team of students, we have developed a prototype of an autonomous…
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