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APRIL 11, 2024

One of the Neapolitan underworld’s most powerful bosses, Paolo Di Lauro was invisible to the Italian police for most of his career. But since his 2005 capture, William Langewiesche reports, some wonder if Di Lauro was the only man capable of controlling Naples’s meanest streets. Photographs by Massimo Vitali.

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JUNE 4, 2023

The concept of property is a social construction. Animals, such as cats, can own a piece of food, or a territory, but only as long as they are able to personally maintain a credible threat of violence. And animals can only defend concrete, physical properties, such as an area, a dead bird or a tree. … Continue reading Do we need copyright?

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JUNE 28, 2024

A cadre of engineers who specialize in tunneling and excavation say that we have barely begun to take advantage of the underground’s versatility. The underground is the next great frontier, they say, and figuring out how best to use it should be a priority as we look ahead to the shape our civilization will take.

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JUNE 17, 2024

Image courtesy of UC Davis. Photographer: Don EdwardsJust in time for cucumber season, some news that surprises me. Did you know that you should store cucumbers at room temperature?Credit Credit for my enlightenment goes to UC Davis.

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OCTOBER 27, 2024

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JULY 16, 2024

At a certain point in every programmer’s career we each find a bug that seems impossible because the code is right, dammit! So it must be the operating system, the tools or the computer that’s causing the problem. Today’s story is about some of those bugs I’ve discovered in my career. This bug is […]

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

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AUGUST 25, 2023

“If you could choose only one of the following two inventions, indoor plumbing or the Internet, which would you choose?” ” -Robert J. Gordon Justin Fox is the latest pundit to ring the &#…

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Hacker News

JUNE 25, 2024

I say this with emphasis after not having a day job since 2012! But let's go back to September 2012, three months after I left banking for good. You know what's easier than entrepreneurship? A day job. I've been running a lifestyle business, this site, since I started it in 2009. I decided to focus

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JUNE 8, 2024

Our lives are governed by 600,000 gallons of AN8 jet fuel. That's what literally everything at the station runs on, and without it, the south pole would be a cold, dead place. AN8 Jet Fuel is used to power both machinery and equiptment operating on the ice, as well as a huge bank of generators…

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Hacker News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The way you typically represent a "missing" or "invalid" value in C# is to use the "null" value of the type. Every reference type has a "null" value; that is, the reference that does not actually refer to anything.

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JUNE 10, 2024

Business conditions began to deteriorate around 2012, and the firm lost its anime production capabilities following an exodus of its creative staff.

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JUNE 1, 2023

It is time for a more hands-on post again. This time I am even going to give you some actual source code to play with! The issue I want to discuss today, is the issue of multithreaded GUIs. For the project I am currently working on, there are two reasons why the GUI should be multithreaded:…

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JUNE 30, 2024

Conway's Game of Life is one of the most popular and iconic cellular automata. It is so famous that googling it loads up a working simulation right in your browser! The rules for the Game of Life (GoL) can be stated in a few lines: The world is an infinite rectangular array of cells, each of…

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JUNE 4, 2024

There was a surprising amount of discussion on Hacker News today on whether or not underscores are stupid, with suggestions ranging from changing key bindings to using the Dvorak layout. Here’s an alternative (although possibly slightly drastic) solution - get a Japanese keyboard:

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MAY 23, 2024

Sure Starbucks was the first retailer to mass market cappuccinos, lattes, and other espresso concoctions. But it was Caffe Reggio, a dimly lit place with an old-school Bohemian atmosphere at 113 Macdougal Street, which brought the first espresso machine to America in 1927, introducing New York to Italian coffee drinks.

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Analytics Vidhya

MAY 25, 2023

FIFA announced Goal-Line Technology (GLT) in FIFA World Cup 2012 Japan […] The post How is AI Powering the Future of Sports? We can not imagine a sports industry without artificial intelligence, especially today! We’ve got a league of examples to admit that. appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Hacker News

JANUARY 10, 2024

Netflix was founded in the US in 1997, starting initially as a DVD-rental delivery service before finally morphing into more of a VoD streaming service. Today, it serves the US and Canada, Latin America, the Caribbean, and, as of January th

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Hacker News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

How to spot moral meltdowns before it's too late.

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APRIL 28, 2024

Casaubon called the future volumes. the Key to all Mythologies.—George George Eliot, Middlemarch Here are two readings of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Which do you think we should be teaching in our schools and universities?[1]Reading 1]Reading 1.

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JUNE 20, 2024

Quantum foundations are still unsettled, with mixed effects on science and society. By now it should be possible to obtain consensus on at least one issue: Are the fundamental constituents fields or particles? As this paper shows, experiment and theory imply unbounded fields, not bounded particles, are fundamental.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Singing synthesis technology is changing musical situation in Japan recently. There are a lot of original compositions using singing synthesis softwares such as Vocaloid in a video site Niko Niko Douga or YouTube. Hit songs in the video sites are remastered and published as CDs from major record companies.

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AUGUST 23, 2024

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Ever heard of Manoj Bhargava? Probably not. He's a former monk who struck it rich with that ubiquitous red bottle: 5-Hour Energy. Read his improbable story.

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MAY 14, 2024

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Between 2012 and 2022, at least 1,910 people advocating for environmental protection were killed worldwide, a new report finds. Read more on E360 →

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AUGUST 9, 2024

To the extent that he was at home anywhere, David Foster Wallace was at home in the world of math. On commonalities between language, fiction, and math.

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JULY 1, 2023

Computer scientists at Kobe University in Japan have built a computer that draws inspiration from the swarming behavior of soldier crabs. The computer is based on theories from the early 1980s that studies how it could be possible to build a computer out of billiard balls. Proposed by Edward Fredkin and Tommaso Toffoli, the mechanical […]

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Analytics Vidhya

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Since 2012 after convolutional neural networks(CNN) were introduced, we moved away from handcrafted features to an end-to-end approach using deep neural networks. This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction Computer vision is a field of A.I. that deals with deriving meaningful information from images.

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OCTOBER 11, 2024

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OCTOBER 11, 2024

Back in January of 2012, Russ Cox posted an excellent blog post detailing how Google Code Search had worked, using a trigram index. By that point, I’d already implemented early versions of my own livegrep source-code search engine, using a different indexing approach that I developed independently, with input from a few friends.

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DECEMBER 9, 2023

One January day in 1998, Jon Postel emailed eight of the 12 organizations that served as address books for the entire internet.

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MARCH 14, 2024

My post a couple of months ago about the long lunch break that French kids get (between one and a half and two hours) elicited a lot of great responses. By Ministry of Education regulation, French children spend a minimum of 30 minutes eating (it's often more), and then usually have at least an hour…

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