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NYC scientist fired after raising questions about a DNA test gets $1M settlement
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NY Times
She Was Fired After Raising Questions About a DNA Test. Now She’s Getting $1 Million. (Published 2019)
Marina Stajic, an official at the Office of Chief Medical Examiner in New York City, raised concerns that the test could lead to wrongful convictions. Her bosses were livid.
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Why Do People with Depression Like Listening to Sad Music?
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Multirepos suck. Monorepos suck. We need a new generation of source control
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Rookout
Can't Git no satisfaction: why we need a new-gen source control | Rookout
Remember the good old days of enterprise software? When everything had to be installed on-premises? To install an application, you’d have to set up a big,
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Show HN: Applying the Unix philosophy to neural networks
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GitHub - cloudkj/layer: Neural network inference the Unix way
Neural network inference the Unix way. Contribute to cloudkj/layer development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Fortnite’s success led to months of intense crunch at Epic Games
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Polygon
How Fortnite’s success led to months of intense crunch at Epic Games
Sources reveal long hours and intense pressure while working on hit game
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Spent 50 hours on a take-home assignment only to be ghosted
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reddit
Spent 50 hours on a take-home assignment only to be ghosted.
I can't believe this is actually happening. I'm graduating soon and had applied for a full-time job at a startup. Around 10 days after I had...
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Nemu – Modern Hypervisor for the Cloud by Intel
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GitHub
GitHub - intel/nemu: ARCHIVED: Modern Hypervisor for the Cloud. See https://github.com/cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor instead
ARCHIVED: Modern Hypervisor for the Cloud. See https://github.com/cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor instead - intel/nemu
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An Introduction to C and GUI Programming
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Raspberry Pi
An Introduction to C & GUI Programming – the new book from Raspberry Pi Press
An Introductrion to C & GUI Programming, the new book from Simon Long and the Raspberry Pi Press is out now. Get your copy today.
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New aircraft rises 'like a balloon'
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BBC News
New aircraft rises 'like a balloon'
Designed by Scots engineers, the Phoenix is a new type of plane which can travel long distances and stay aloft for long periods.
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Ask HN: Have you started a business because nobody wanted to hire you?
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Nim – The first natively compiled language with hot code-reloading at runtime
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Nim - First natively compiled language w/ hot code-reloading at runtime - Viktor Kirilov [ACCU 2019]
#nim #c++ #ACCUConf
Nim is a statically typed systems and applications programming language which offers perhaps some of the most powerful metaprogramming capabilities. It is also the first language that is compiled to native executable code and fully supports…
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Stripe announces a new, redesigned Checkout experience
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Stripe
Checkout migration guide
Learn how to migrate to Stripe's latest integrations.
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Apple now repairing MacBook keyboards in store, promising next day turnaround
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9to5Mac
Apple now repairing MacBook keyboards in-store, promising next-day turnaround time
Apple will now complete MacBook keyboard repairs in its retail stores, as opposed to shipping them offer to repair centers.
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China’s Pig Pandemic Should Worry Everyone
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Amazon's Alexa Reviewers Can Access Customers's Home Addresses
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Accenture sued over website redesign so bad it Hertz
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The Register
Accenture sued over website redesign so bad it Hertz: Car hire biz demands $32m+ for 'defective' cyber-revamp
Rental firm fuming after consultancy 'never delivered a functional site or mobile app'
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Notes on AI Bias
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Benedict Evans
Notes on AI Bias — Benedict Evans
Machine learning is the new centre of tech, and like all big new things there are issues. ‘AI bias’ is much-discussed right now: machine learning finds patterns but sometimes it finds the wrong one, and it can be hard to tell.
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The 'Dark Ages' Weren't as Dark as We Thought
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Literary Hub
The ‘Dark Ages’ Weren’t As Dark As We Thought
There can be few more damning or more useless terms than “the Dark Ages.” They sound fun in an orcs‐and‐elves sort of way and suggest a very low benchmark from which we have since, as a…
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Finding Practical Applications for Origami
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Smithsonian Magazine
How Origami Is Revolutionizing Industrial Design
Scientists and engineers are finding practical applications for the Japanese art form in space, medicine, robotics, architecture and more
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Databricks open-sources Delta Lake to make data lakes more reliable
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TechCrunch
Databricks open-sources Delta Lake to make data lakes more reliable
Databricks, the company founded by the original developers of the Apache Spark big data analytics engine, today announced that it has open-sourced Delta Lake, a storage layer that makes it easier to ensure data integrity as new data flows into an enterprise’s…
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Two Cathay Pacific captains lose eyesight during flights
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South China Morning Post
Two Cathay captains lose eyesight on flights, sparking investigations
A spokeswoman says the airline is aware of the investigations and is cooperating fully with the Air Accident Investigation Authority.
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