Amazon has a patent to keep you from comparison shopping while you’re in its stores
This could be a huge deal as Amazon seeks to buy Whole Foods.
DeepMind Open Source – Datasets | DeepMind
A large-scale, high-quality dataset of URL links to approximately 300,000 video clips that covers 400 human action classes, including human-object interactions such as playing instruments, as well as human-human interactions such as shaking hands and hugging. Each action class has at least 400 video...
US Navy destroyer collides with merchant ship near Japan - BBC News
A number of injuries have been reported but the extent of the damage is still being determined.
Analysis | The surprising number of American adults who think chocolate milk comes from brown cows
Many people are agriculturally illiterate, researchers say. They blame the industrial food system.
Hasnain says:
Reminds me of all those posts where people were complaining about (bay) leaves in their food from chipotle.
This is really sad though.
"Seven percent of all American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows, according to a nationally representative online survey commissioned by the Innovation Center of U.S. Dairy.
If you do the math, that works out to 16.4 million misinformed, milk-drinking people. The equivalent of the population of Pennsylvania (and then some!) does not know that chocolate milk is milk, cocoa and sugar."
Posted on 2017-06-16T18:44:47+0000
America’s new tobacco crisis: The rich stopped smoking, the poor didn’t
The nation has largely won the war on smoking, unless you’re uneducated or live in a rural area.
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Posted on 2017-06-16T16:06:25+0000
The Konami exodus - Nikkei Asian Review
TOKYO -- "You are unfairly discrediting the company." Those words were contained in a letter that Japanese gaming giant Konami sent last fall to Hideo
Hasnain says:
"A staffing agency employee who asked not to be named said he notifies gaming companies if a prospective hire is an ex-Kon. He said that is because Konami files complaints to gaming companies who take on its former employees."
Damn
Posted on 2017-06-15T16:33:35+0000
These Maps Reveal the Hidden Structures of 'Choose Your Own Adventure' Books
If you decide to see more, click on this story.
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Posted on 2017-06-15T16:31:49+0000
Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs - Stack Overflow Blog
Do you use tabs or spaces for code indentation?
You and Your Research
At a seminar in the Bell Communications Research Colloquia Series, Dr. Richard W. Hamming, a Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California and a retired Bell Labs scientist, gave a very interesting and stimulating talk, `You and Your Research' to an overflow audience of some 200...
Hasnain says:
Rediscovered this again and re-read it, still incredibly amazing. Covers career growth in general and is very relevant to this day.
Posted on 2017-06-15T02:33:56+0000
Muslims Awake To Begin Their Ramadan Fast Were 'A Lifeline' In Grenfell Tower Blaze
One Grenfell Tower resident tells HuffPost UK how he woke up his neighbours.
Hasnain says:
The other scary part is that the government apparently knew about this type of fire safety hazard for quite a while but sat on the report for reasons unknown
Posted on 2017-06-14T20:57:55+0000