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How Fast Internet Affects Home Priceswsj.com
Real-estate agents across the country are seeing more home buyers preferring areas and homes based on access to high-speed Internet, and recent studies show the availability has a big impact on pricing. -
A Dutch city is giving money away to test the “basic income” theoryqz.com
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Hevelin Collection — Digitization of the Hevelin fanzines is underway!...hevelincollection.tumblr.com
Digitization of the Hevelin fanzines is underway! We are beginning with the earliest fanzines, from the 1930′s-50′s. I took the first stack upstairs last week, and began photographing them with our... - www-systems.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk
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The art of tour guidingthemonthly.com.au
Tour guiding in Australia is easy on some levels: you feed your charges well, take them to the right places, and try to keep their feet warm. But extreme weather, mechanical problems, flies in the daytime, mosquitoes at night, the Germans, the lack of ... -
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US probing possible airline collusion that kept fares highbigstory.ap.org
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government is investigating possible collusion among major airlines to limit available seats, which keeps airfares high, according to a document obtained by The Associated Press. The civil antitrust… -
Genetic analysis of 40,000-year-old jawbone reveals early modern humans interbred with Neandertalsphys.org
In 2002, archaeologists discovered the jawbone of a human who lived in Europe about 40,000 years ago. Geneticists have now analyzed ancient DNA from that jawbone and learned that it belonged to a modern human whose recent ancestors included Neanderthals. -
From the ashes: Artists create teahouse in Griffith Park with wood from 2007 firelatimes.com
The invitation was cryptic. A small piece of wood with a laser-burned message that read, "June 30, 2015. Please join us for tea and wishes overlooking the city. Sunrise, Griffith Park."  -
Support wider set of platforms. Mobile? Web? · Issue #49 · google/gxuigithub.com
First off, thank you for creating this incredible Go library! I've recently discovered it and I'm a huge fan! I really like the approach of using OpenGL for platform-independent, high performance U... -
Dynamic Languages Wizards Series - Panel on Language Designyoutube.com
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This Online Anonymity Box Puts You a Mile Away From Your IP Address | WIREDwired.com
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NewSQL vs. NoSQL for New OLTPyoutube.com
"NewSQL vs. NoSQL for New OLTP", by Michael Stonebraker, MIT ** Disclaimer The views and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker(s) and do ... -
ŷhat | 7 Datasets You've Likely Never Seen Beforeblog.yhathq.com
There are some great industry standard datasets out there: Iris, the 20 newsgroups, anything from UCI, and the Yelp academic dataset come to mind. There are even some great non-traditional ML datasets and/or lists (we've probably tweeted them all out)... -
Deprogramming corporatismblog.garrytan.com
There’s a culture to big corporations that is unnatural and detrimental to founders who have spent too much time in them. Some experienced founders have a really hard time coping with starting a... -
No Craig Newmark Did Not Donate To EFF; He Helped Make CFAA Worse Instead | Techdirttechdirt.com
There's been a bunch of fuss online over the "news" that Craigslist is supposedly donating $1 million to EFF when the money is not actually from Craig. It's from a startup that Craigslist has sued out of business, under a... - cs.washington.edu
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