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As U.S. 'superstar' cities thrive, weaker ones get left behind
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Reuters
As U.S. 'superstar' cities thrive, weaker ones get left behind
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) - In the depths of the financial crisis, when the world was shunning debt and battening down for the worst, city officials here zagged in what seemed a preposterous direction and spent $600 million on a new convention center.
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Dungeon Generation in Diablo 1
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BorisTheBrave.Com
Dungeon Generation in Diablo 1
Diablo1 is a classic 1996 hack and slash rogue-like. several fans took it upon themselves to reverse-engineer the source code. I began a week long deep dive into how exactly did lead developer, Dav…
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Amateur radio digital communications
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Health Insurers Make It Easy for Scammers to Steal Millions
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ProPublica
Health Insurers Make It Easy for Scammers to Steal Millions. Who Pays? You.
Health insurers are regarded as fierce defenders of health care dollars. But the case of David Williams shows one reason America’s health care costs continue to rise. The personal trainer spent years posing as a doctor and billing the nation’s top insurers…
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Netflix CEO may have missed the real reason why US subscriber numbers plunged
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MarketWatch
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings may have missed the real reason why U.S. subscriber numbers plunged
Consumers turn to a trusted source when they don’t now what to watch on their streaming service.
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Meta-learning neural Bloom filters
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Patrick Winston of MIT CSAIL has died
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MIT News
Professor Patrick Winston, former director of MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, dies at 76
Beloved professor conducted pioneering research on imbuing machines with human-like intelligence, including the ability to understand stories.
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Ask HN: What have the past 12 months taught you?
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Cities Want 'Digital Twins' to Manage Traffic
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CityLab
Why Real-Time Traffic Control Has Mobility Experts Spooked
A plan to develop a data standard for technology that could monitor and manage various mobility services has raised privacy fears.
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Alert issued for stolen car with nuclear substance in Chile
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Reuters
Alert issued for stolen car with nuclear substance in Chile
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - What appeared to be a typical case of car theft in Chile’s capital on Friday became more dire when authorities said the vehicle was carrying a dangerous radioactive substance.
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Chrome 76 prevents NYT and other news sites from detecting Incognito Mode
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Ars Technica
Chrome 76 prevents NYT and other news sites from detecting Incognito Mode
In Chrome 76, websites can no longer check FileSystem API to detect private mode.
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Large Scale Adversarial Representation Learning Explained
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Equifax Is Said to Be Near $650M Settlement for Data Breach
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NY Times
Equifax Is Said to Be Close to Reaching Deal in Huge ’17 Data Breach
The agreement, which calls for the company to pay around $650 million, is meant to resolve federal and state inquiries and consumer claims over the exposure of data of at least 145 million people.
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Court Filings Say Corporations Fed Opioid Epidemic
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Nytimes
3,271 Pill Bottles, a Town of 2,831: Court Filings Say Corporations Fed Opioid Epidemic
Cities and counties are suing major drugstore chains and Walmart, contending they distributed billions of painkillers that devastated communities.
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Zebrafish used to help save a dying boy
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STAT
The boy was dying. Zebrafish helped save his life
The successful treatment shows “precision medicine” can be expanded beyond cancers, where it has shown the greatest promise, scientists reported Monday.
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Three people play a Tetris-like game using a brain-to-brain interface
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University of Washington
How you and your friends can play a video game together using only your minds
UW researchers created a method for two people help a third person solve a task using only their minds.
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Lockheed's Skunk Works Building Bigger Fusion Reactor
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The Drive
Skunk Works' Exotic Fusion Reactor Program Moves Forward With Larger, More Powerful Design
This will be the company's fifth major design iteration as it pushes ahead toward building a potentially revolutionary practical prototype.
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The Mathematical Nomad, Paul Erdős
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Medium
The Mathematical Nomad, Paul Erdős
“The Man Who Loved Only Numbers”
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Managing a Secure JSON Web Token Implementation
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Managing a Secure JSON Web Token Implementation
Learn to securely manage a JSON Web Token implementation. From signing algorithms, expiration policies, and key management, get ready to take your understanding to the next level.
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Software design is also about relationships
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Medium
Software Design is Human Relationships: Part 3 of 3, Changers & Changers
In parts 1 and 2 we saw:
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Drug cartels use dollar bill serial numbers as random keys for delivery receipts
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Twitter
Adam Rawnsley
Pretty interesting tactic used by drug cartels. They use dollar bills and the serial numbers on them as receipts for cash/drug courtier drops.
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