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Life is Short
January 2016Life is short, as everyone knows. When I was a kid I used to wonder about this. Is life actually short, or are we really complaining about its finiteness? Would we be just as likely to feel...
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How many hours a week should academics work?
How many hours do you work in a week? Many academics feel overworked and exhausted by their jobs. But there is little evidence that long hours lead to better results, while some research suggests that...
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I ended up paying $150 for a single 60GB download from Amazon Glacier
How I ended up paying $150 for a single 60GB download from Amazon GlacierIn late 2012, I decided that it was time for my last remaining music CDs to go. Between MacBook Airs and the just-introduced...
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The Tennis Racket
Your Post Has Been Launched!Fabulous! Don't forget to share with your friends on Twitter and Facebook.Heidi Blake is the UK investigations editor for BuzzFeed News and is based in London.John Templon...
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Netboot
Bootloader DownloadsThese iPXE disks will automatically load into boot.netboot.xyz:TypeDHCP BootloadersStatic BootloadersDescriptionISOnetboot.xyz-dhcp.isonetboot.xyz-static.isoUsed for CD/DVD, Virtual...
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Dear open source maintainers, a letter from GitLab
Job van der Voort Jan 15, 2016Dear open source maintainers,We want GitLab to be the best place for any software project, whether open source or not, whether big or small.The letter of GitHub’s open...
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Video games are essential for inventing artificial intelligence
The most important thing for humanity to do right now is to invent true artificial intelligence (AI): machines or software that can think and act independently in a wide variety of situations. Once we...
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Why Violins Have F-Holes
Before electronic amplification, instrument makers and musicians had to find newer and better ways to make themselves heard among ensembles and orchestras and above the din of crowds. Many of the...
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Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides for 80 Years
No, this isn't a make-believe place. It's real.They call it "Ball's Pyramid." It's what's left of an old volcano that emerged from the sea about 7 million years ago. A British naval officer named Ball...
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Time is an illusion – challenges in distributed computing synchronization
The Nov/Dec issue of acmqueue is out!acmqueue is free for ACM professional membersDownload the app from iTunes or Google Play,or view within your browser.More information hereDistributed Computing...
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Did European Court Just Outlaw “Massive Monitoring of Communications” in Europe?
Over the past two years, a trio ofhigh-profilecases before the European Court of Human Rights that concern the United Kingdom’s large dragnet surveillance programs—and the country’s collaboration with...
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Riemann – A network monitoring system
Powerful stream primitives(where(or (service#"^api")(service#"^app"))(where(tagged"exception")(rollup53600(email"dev@foo.com"))(else(changed-state(email"ops@foo.com")))))Riemann streams are just...
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Google’s AMP Poised to Take the Lead from Facebook’s and Apple’s Walled Gardens
Photo: NasaBy the end of February, Google will deploy at full scale its Accelerated Mobile Pages project by sending search results to amp-html pages. Because it integrates all monetization instruments...
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Why Is Your Team Falling Behind? Ask ‘The Penny Game’
One of the chief concerns of a software development team is managing work. We even have our own jargon—user stories, tasks, chores, bugs, epics, sprints—terms we use to help juggle assignments and stay...
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E-Cigarettes, as Used, Aren’t Helping Smokers Quit, Study Shows
Electronic cigarettes are widely promoted and used to help smokers quit traditional cigarettes, but a new analysis from UC San Francisco found that adult smokers who use e-cigarettes are actually 28...
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SSH tunnelling for fun and profit: AutoSSH
Now that you are able to create various forward or reverse SSH tunnels with lots of options and even simplify your live with ~/.ssh/config you probably also want to know how make a tunnel persistent....
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Scrapy Tips from the Pros
Scrapy is at the heart of Scrapinghub. We use this framework extensively and have accumulated a wide range of shortcuts to get around common problems. We’re launching a series to share these Scrapy...
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The State of Meteor Part 1: What Went Wrong
It’s no secret that Meteor is in a state of flux right now.Blaze is being threatened by React. Meteor’s homegrown package system might be replaced by NPM. And there’s even rumors that Tracker and...
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Guide to Linear Regression
Guide to Linear RegressionWritten by Alexander Woods, Jul 19, 2015, 4 CommentsLinear regression is one of the first things you should try if you’re modeling a linear relationship (actually, non-linear...
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As Angel Investors Pull Back, Valuations Take a Hit
As Angel Investors Pull Back, Valuations Take a Hit - WSJDOW JONES, A NEWS CORP COMPANYNews Corp is a network of leading companies in the worlds of diversified media, news, education, and information...
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