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What are Differential Equations and how do they work?
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,567 posts.
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French bar owners arrested for offering free WiFi but not keeping logs
At least five bar owners in Grenoble, France have been arrested for providing WiFi at their businesses without keeping logs. The bar owners were arrested
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Lambda Calculus Diagrams (2015)
The following table shows diagrams of identity, the booleans, some standard combinators, some Church numerals, the predecessor function on Church numerals, and Omega. term definition diagram alternative I/1 λx.x K/true λx.λy.x false/0 λx.λy.y S λx.λy.λz.(x z)(y z) Y λf.(λx.x x)(λx.f(x x)) 2 λf.λx.f(f x) 3 λf.λx.f(f(f…
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Open-source self-hosted comments systems for static websites
A side-by-side comparison of open-source, self-hosted commenting systems for static sites — so choosing one doesn’t mean opening every repository yourself. Stars, open issues and last-commit dates are refreshed daily. Missing a system, or a column you need? Leave a comment below or open an issue.
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Actively speaking two languages protects against cognitive impairment
The prevalence of dementia in places where more than one language is spoken is 50% lower than in regions where the population uses only one languageA study has shown that Alzheimer's patients with a higher degree of bilingualism receive a later diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment
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The End of the American Internet
For its first two decades, the consumer internet was American - American companies, products, attitudes and laws set the agenda. That’s not so true anymore - there are more smartphones in China than in the USA and Western Europe combined. Software creation and company creation is diffusing, and atti
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Color blindness
Color blindness is an inaccurate term. Most color-blind people can see color, they just don't see the same colors as everyone else. There ha...
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Scottish Nitroglycerin and One Legged Stools (2014)
Main Menu - click above Man, thermometer, one legged stool & vat of nitro 1870 . Alfred Nobel chose Ardeer, in Ayreshire, as the ...
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Rust Starter Kit 2020
You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites . This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.
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Enjoy the Best, Not the Latest, Media
Tried and tested beats new and marketed
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Physicists Build Circuit That Generates Clean, Limitless Power from Graphene
Researchers harnessed the atomic motion of graphene to generate an electrical current that could lead to a chip to replace batteries.
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Avoiding Worry Driven Development
Sofware dysfunction is more often motivated by worry than it is by a lack of technical skill
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An Honest Review of Gatsby
I write about software, building companies, and whatever else I'm obsessed with.
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JQuery to React: How we rewrote the HelloSign editor
HelloSign is a Dropbox company that provides a Web-based eSignature solution: If you have a document you want someone to sign, you upload the document file, then show you an editor in which you place all the fields to build the form the recipient will fill out—signatures, dates, initials, etc. You send this prepared…
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Google: “Any harm Epic has suffered is not irreparable and is of its own making”
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Apple Watch momentum is building
In a few months, the number of people wearing an Apple Watch will surpass 100 million. While the tech press spent years infatuated with stationary smart speakers and the idea of voice-only interfaces, it was the Apple Watch and utility on the wrist that ushered in a new paradigm shift in computing.
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Iron, How Did They Make It, Part III: Hammer-Time
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2020175 points23 commentscited by 5History & Retro Computing details
This week, we continue our four-part (I, II, III, IVa, IVb, addendum) look at pre-modern iron and steel production. Last week we took our ore and smelted it into a rough, spongy mass of iron called…
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Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India
A look into why most of the Hacktoberfest PRs are “manufactured” in India
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Hacking Grindr Accounts with Copy and Paste
Sexuality, relationships and online dating are all rather personal things. They're aspects of our lives that many people choose to keep private or at the very least, share only with people of our choosing. Grindr [https://www.grindr.com/] is "The World's Largest Social Networking App for Gay,
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Startup Hiring 101: A Founder's Guide
A collaborative AI workspace, built on your company context. Build and orchestrate agents right alongside your team's projects, meetings, and connected apps.
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Pressing YubiKeys
If you work in tech, you probably have a YubiKey. I have this one, the YubiKey 5C Nano:
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Faster Than Light in Our Model of Physics: Some Preliminary Thoughts
Stephen Wolfram uses his fundamental physics model to analyze how to go faster than light as an engineering problem & discusses the structure of space & nature of time for the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program keynote address.
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Global capital is the tail that wags the U.S. economic dog
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace2020141 points172 commentsTech Industry & Business details
Although Wall Street would be ferociously opposed to policies that limit the unfettered flow of capital around the world, the right polices could sharply reduce the economic disruption wreaked on workers, producers, farmers, and the middle class.
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Pelican static site generator 4.5
Pelican static site generator