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The Death of Corporate Research Labs
In American innovation through the ages , Jamie Powell wrote: who hasn’t finished a non-fiction book and thought “Gee, that could have bee...
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,567 posts.
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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2020
Hard drive failure rates on an annualized and quarterly basis for 139,867 hard drives by make and manufacturer.
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Popular seafood species in sharp decline around the world
Fish market favourites such as orange roughy, common octopus and pink conch are among the species of fish and invertebrates in rapid decline around the world, according to new research.
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If founders treated their investors the same way they treated their employees
Founder: Hey Joe! How are you doing? Everyone here loved meeting you, and we would really love to have you on board as our investor! We really respect your expertise, and think this could be a grea…
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Modeling a Wealth Tax
A wealth tax will usually have a threshold at which it starts. How much difference would a high threshold make? To model that, we need to make some assumptions about the initial value of your stock and the growth rate. Suppose your stock is initially worth $2 million, and the company's trajectory is as follows: the…
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Making sure you're not a bot!
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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How many pieces can a puzzle have?
Patrick Honner tweeted a few days ago: My 7 yo pointed out that our 300 piece puzzle actually contains 18 x 18 = 324 pieces and I just don’t know what to believe anymore. — Patrick Honner (@M…
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Accused spy Alexander Yuk Ching Ma evidently beat the polygraph
On Thursday, 13 August 2020, FBI Special Agent Chris Jensen filed under seal a criminal complaint against Alexander Yuk Ching Ma of Honolulu, Hawaii, charging him with “Conspiracy to Gather and Communicate National Defense Information of the United States to a Foreign Nation.” On Monday, 17 August 2020, the complaint…
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Haskell Mini-Patterns Handbook
Collection of small Haskell patterns with detailed description, examples and exercises
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Kotlin 1.4
Today we’re releasing Kotlin 1.4.0! Over the past years, we’ve been working hard on making Kotlin a programming language that is fun, enjoyable, and productive to work with. To continue our pursuit of this goal with this version of Kotlin, we put a lot of energy and effort into improving the performance and quality of…
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How to deploy a React app for free
Check out these different ways to deploy a React app for free, including using Vercel, Firebase, and Cloudflare Pages.
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A circuit-like notation for lambda calculus (2015)
Lately, I’ve been playing around with inventing a visual writing system for lambda calculus.
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Apple, Epic, and the App Store
The App Store is not one thing: it is installation, payments, and customer management; the further Apple gets from iOS, the worse its actions are for users and developers.
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Using a Yubikey as a touchless, magic unlock key for Linux
Yubikeys are great for security, but their benefits decrease somewhat when you leave them in your computer unattended. I also have login passwords that are way too long. How to solve these problems? Use a Yubikey to unlock your computer!
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A 35-year-old bug in Patch found in efforts to restore 29-year-old BSD
A 35 Year Old Bug in Patch. Larry Wall posted patch 1.3 to mod.sources on May 8, 1985. A number of versions followed over the years. It's b...
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Named Tensors
Named tensors for better deep learning code.
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An Introduction to OpenBSD [video]
A talk on OpenBSD for beginners
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Idris 2 version 0.2.1
A new version (0.2.1) of Idris 2 has been released. You can download the source (including generated Scheme and Racket files for bootstrapping) from the download page .
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Understanding Recursive Queries in PostgreSQL
This article gives a simple introduction with examples to recursive queries in PostgreSQL. It also includes a comparison to Oracle recursive queries.
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Microsoft Put Off Fixing Zero Day for 2 Years
A security flaw in the way Microsoft Windows guards users against malicious files was actively exploited in malware attacks for two years before last week, when Microsoft finally issued a software update to correct the problem.
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Google: Open Letter to Australians
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Reversing Mental Age with Psychedelics
INTRODUCTION There are some overlaps in the effects of serotonergic psychedelic drugs such as LSD, peyote, psilocybin mushrooms and also the state of mind that newborn infants and young children ar…
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WebAssembly without the browser
Most WebAssembly tutorials and examples you will find online focus on using it inside the browser in order to accelerate various functionality of a website or web app. However, there is an area where WebAssembly is really powerful but not talked too much about: outside the browser usage scenarios. That is what we’ll…