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Hedonometer
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hedonometer.org
The Hedonometer
Hedonometer.org is an instrument that measures the happiness of large populations in real time. The hedonometer is based on people’s online expressions, capitalizing on data-rich social media, and measures how people present themselves to the outside world.
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Google’s rivals opt out of search engine auction, calling it ‘anti-competitive’
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VentureBeat
Google’s rivals opt out of search engine auction, calling it ‘unethical’ and ‘anti-competitive’
Google rivals have called for intervention from EU regulators over Google's decision to open an auction process to become the default Android search engine.
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CEO compensation has grown 940% since 1978
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Economic Policy Institute
CEO compensation has grown 940% since 1978: Typical worker compensation has risen only 12% during that time
The latest report in EPI’s annual series analyzing current and long-term trends in CEO compensation.
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The IT Guy vs. the Con Artist
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Iceland grapples with the prospect of a future with no ice
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NY Times
What Worries Iceland? A World Without Ice. It Is Preparing. (Published 2019)
As rising temperatures drastically reshape Iceland’s landscape, businesses and the government are spending millions for survival and profit.
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At Booming Toptal, No Stock for Employees or Investors
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The Information
At Booming Toptal, No Stock for Employees or Investors
Toptal, a service that connects companies with freelance software engineers, is a Silicon Valley success story. Founded in 2010, it soon attracted funding from well-known investors including Andreessen Horowitz and hired scores of employees who were promised…
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Hiring Is Broken: What Do Developers Say About Technical Interviews?
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ResearchGate
(PDF) Hiring is Broken: What Do Developers Say About Technical Interviews?
PDF | Technical interviews -a problem-solving form of interview in which candidates write code- are commonplace in the software industry, and are used... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
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Q-Learning
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Facebook Trannoscription Opt-In Says Nothing About Human Listeners
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I wasn’t getting hired as a data scientist, so I sought data on who is
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Medium
I wasn’t getting hired as a Data Scientist. So I sought data on who is.
Instead of focusing on skills thought to be required of data scientists, we can look at what they have actually done before
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Launch HN: Vendr (YC S19) – Buying software so you don’t have to
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Trigger a Kernel Panic to Diagnose Unresponsive EC2 Instances
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Amazon
New – Trigger a Kernel Panic to Diagnose Unresponsive EC2 Instances | Amazon Web Services
When I was working on systems deployed in on-premises data centers, it sometimes happened I had to debug an unresponsive server. It usually involved asking someone to physically press a non-maskable interrupt (NMI) button on the frozen server or to send a…
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A scientist must go where the evidence leads
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Scientific American Blog Network
A Scientist Must Go where the Evidence Leads
When our cherished ideas are contradicted by the facts, we must avoid the human tendency to double down on those ideas
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Making Cloud.typography Faster
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Csswizardry
Making Cloud.typography Fast(er) – CSS Wizardry
What issues does Hoefler&Co’s Cloud.typography introduce, and how can we mitigate them?
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Google Warns Developers That All New Android Apps Require 3 Days for Approval
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Choice of Games LLC
Google Warns Developers that All New Android Apps Require Three Days for Approval
In conversation with Google Play Store developer support today, they confirmed to me that all new Android apps now require at least three days for approval.
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Counterintuitive physics property found to be widespread in living organisms
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phys.org
Counterintuitive physics property found to be widespread in living organisms
Ever since the late 19th century, physicists have known about a counterintuitive property of some electric circuits called negative resistance. Typically, increasing the voltage in a circuit causes the ...
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Chemists make first-ever ring of pure carbon
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Nature
Chemists make first-ever ring of pure carbon
Nature - Elusive 18-atom ‘cyclocarbon’ could be a step towards molecule-scale transistors.
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People Simply Empty Out (1986)
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The North Atlantic ocean current may be slowing
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Yale Climate Connections
Video: The North Atlantic ocean current, which warms northern Europe, may be slowing » Yale Climate Connections
'We are 50 to 100 years ahead of schedule with the slowdown of this ocean circulation pattern,' says climate scientist Michael Mann.
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Amazon offered ‘Amazon’s Choice’ to vendors who bought ads and lowered prices
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Digiday
Amazon offered vendors ‘Amazon’s Choice’ labels in return for ad spending and lower prices
Amazon has previously offered vendors the ability to "bid" for an Amazon’s Choice badge by lowering prices and spending more money on advertising.
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Toptal sues co-founder Breanden Beneschott for fraud
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Pacermonitor
TOPTAL, LLC v. BENESCHOTT (2:19-cv-00569), Florida Middle District Court
TOPTAL, LLC v. BENESCHOTT (2:19-cv-00569), Florida Middle District Court, Filed: 08/12/2019
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