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A small Wisconsin company stored thousands of people’s CDs, then vanished
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The Verge
A small Wisconsin company stored thousands of people’s CDs, then suddenly vanished
Customers’ physical music collections may be lost forever
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Shopping Sucks Now
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Vice
I'm Fed Up with Shopping Now
The internet has created a tyranny of perfect information, so there is more to know about which thing is the right thing to buy than any human can comprehend.
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Dota 2 with Large Scale Deep Reinforcement Learning [pdf]
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Genius sues Google and LyricFind over allegedly stolen song lyrics
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The Verge
Genius sues Google over allegedly stolen song lyrics
Genius used a clever watermarking scheme to catch the alleged theft.
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The Outer Worlds: Fixing the “game thinks my companion is dead” bug
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BBC Sound Effects
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BBC Sound Effects
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The Arctic may have crossed key threshold in a long-dreaded climate feedback
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Anchorage Daily News
The Arctic may have crossed key threshold in a long-dreaded climate feedback
The consequences will be felt far outside the Arctic in the form of altered weather patterns, increased greenhouse gas emissions, and rising sea levels, according to a major new federal assessment of the region released Tuesday.
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Some BBC election result stories were computer-generated
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BBC News
General Election 2019: How computers wrote BBC election result stories
The BBC carried out its biggest test of machine-generated journalism to cover the general election.
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DepHell – Project Management for Python
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Startup Growth and Venture Returns
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AngelList Venture
Startup Growth and Venture Returns: What We Found When We Analyzed Thousands of VC Deals
If you miss the best-performing seed investment, you will eventually be outperformed by someone who blindly invests in every credible deal.
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Show HN: LastingPaper – A Desktop App for Your E-Ink Kindle
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LastingPaper
The Best Partner of Your E-Ink Kindle
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Bloomberg Just Bought CityLab–and Put Half Its Reporters Out of a Job
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Mother Jones
Bloomberg Just Bought CityLab—and Put Half Its Reporters Out of a Job
As part of the sale, the Atlantic is making layoffs.
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Intel Takes Lidar Indoors
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ZDNet
Intel's new RealSense camera brings hi-res LiDAR to a small form factor
With its proprietary LiDAR technology, Intel says the new camera is ideal for indoor use cases that require high levels of depth perception, such as the automation of inventory management.
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Deep Learning Breakthrough Made by Rice University Scientists
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Ars Technica
Deep Learning breakthrough made by Rice University scientists
Rice University's MACH training system scales further than previous approaches.
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Facebook Ads Can Still Discriminate, Despite a Civil Rights Settlement
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ProPublica
Facebook Ads Can Still Discriminate Against Women and Older Workers, Despite a Civil Rights Settlement — ProPublica
New research and Facebook’s own ad archive show that the company’s new system to ensure diverse audiences for housing and employment ads has many of the same problems as its predecessor.
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Tony Booker, inventor of assembly code, has died
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NY Times
Tony Brooker, Pioneer of Computer Programming, Dies at 94 (Published 2019)
After meeting Alan Turing, Mr. Brooker went to work at the University of Manchester and wrote the programming language for the first commercial computer.
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The Next Nuclear Plants Will Be Smaller and Safer
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Wired
The Next Nuclear Plants Will Be Small, Svelte, and Safer
A new generation of reactors will start producing power in the next few years. They're comparatively tiny—and may be key to hitting our climate goals.
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America’s First Amphetamine Epidemic 1929–1971 (2008)
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PubMed Central (PMC)
America’s First Amphetamine Epidemic 1929–1971: A Quantitative and Qualitative Retrospective With Implications for the Present
Using historical research that draws on new primary sources, I review the causes and course of the first, mainly iatrogenic amphetamine epidemic in the United States from the 1940s through the 1960s. Retrospective epidemiology indicates that the ...
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New York City Is on the Verge of Disaster
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Substack
Why New York City Is On the Verge of Disaster
(BIG issue 8-20-2019)
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Confessions of a Book Pirate (2010)
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The Millions
Confessions of a Book Pirate
"TRC" is a self-described bibliophile who has "pirated" thousands of books. How and why does he do it, and what does he think the publishing industry should do to curb the looming ebook piracy threat?
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CIA Gift Shop
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