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Could cutting salt do more harm than good?online.wsj.com
A long-running debate over the merits of eating less salt escalated when one of the most comprehensive studies yet suggested cutting back on sodium too much actually poses health hazards. -
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Flappy Bird: What I Did For The Pandora Version - PandoraLivepandoralive.info
Since nobody had released a Flappy Bird clone on the repo, I took some time a couple of days ago to look for some of them that may be working without much effort on the Pandora. Since Flappy Bird was a such popular and, honestly, not very hard game to ... -
Three Trends That Will Make A Difference In Mobile Payments | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
In the summer of 2008, I was in Paris delivering a mobile payments presentation to the CEO of a French bank. At the end of the meeting, he asked me when we.. -
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For ‘Big Data’ Scientists, Hurdle to Insights Is ‘Janitor Work’nytimes.com
The analysis of giant data sets promises unique business insights, but much manual effort is still required to prepare the information for parsing. -
In Silicon Valley, Mergers Must Meet the Toothbrush Testdealbook.nytimes.com
Companies like Google, Facebook and Cisco Systems are employing unorthodox criteria — say, whether a product is used daily, like a toothbrush — to size up their deal targets, and they are handling most acquisitions internally instead of relying on Wall... -
Malware Traffic Could Forewarn of International Conflicts | MIT Technology Reviewtechnologyreview.com
Government hackers apparently went to work as Israel and Russia ramped up military action this year. -
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What you should know about JavaScript regular expressions • Bjorn Tiplingbjorn.tipling.com
Regular expressions in JavaScript may not always be intuitive. I aim to provide some clarity by providing examples about things I have found myself getting stuck on. This post covers a few topics including state in regular expressions, regular... | Bjo... -
A Dramatic Upgrade for Interferometrycentauri-dreams.org
What can we do to make telescopes better both on Earth and in space? Ashley Baldwin has some thoughts on the matter, with reference to a new paper that explores interferometry and advocates an approach that can drastically improve its […] -
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A game of chance became anything butboston.com
Lottery officials this summer seemed shocked to learn that a handful of high stakes gamblers had taken over one of their $2 games, with just three betting clubs accounting for most of the winning tickets statewide during periods when prizes swell. The ... -
A brief history of USB, what it replaced, and what has failed to replace itarstechnica.com
USB isn't perfect, but it replaced lots of ports we'll never have to see again. -
Feds: Red light camera firm paid for Chicago official’s car, condoarstechnica.com
Former Redflex CEO, contractor, Chicago transport official indicted for fraud. -
Do Interviewers Sell Themselves Short? The Effects of Selling Orientation on Interviewers' Judgmentsamj.aom.org -
With Subway in the Sky, Valley Meets Plateaunytimes.com
La Paz, the Bolivian capital, has always looked down on El Alto, its upstart younger sibling on a plateau above. But a new mass-transit cable-car system may change that. -
Elegant n-gram generation in Python - Locally Optimallocallyoptimal.com
A quick few snippets of code today – solving how to compactly and elegantly generate n-grams from your favorite iterable. For starters, let -
Mapping Migration in the United Statesnytimes.com
An interactive map showing nationwide migration patterns in the United States since 1900.