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What Is Glitter?

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What Is Glitter?

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Willy Wonka and the Medical Software Factory

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Learning to Design RNA

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Real-time air pollution map

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Willy Wonka and the Medical Software Factory

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The Layer Cake – how Flutter creates delicious eye-candy at 120fps

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The Layer Cake – how Flutter creates delicious eye-candy at 120fps

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Test your knowledge of American Incarceration

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Test your knowledge of American Incarceration

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New best story on Hacker News: AT&T will put a fake 5G logo on its 4G LTE phones

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How to Version Control Jupyter Notebooks

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How to Version Control Jupyter Notebooks

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Best talks 2018?

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Best talks 2018?

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Deformities Alarm Scientists Racing to Rewrite Animal DNA

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When Power Goes to Your Head, It May Shut Out Your Heart

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Deformities Alarm Scientists Racing to Rewrite Animal DNA

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When Power Goes to Your Head, It May Shut Out Your Heart

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A simple UI trick to increase your dwell time by 37%

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A simple UI trick to increase your dwell time by 37%

Article URL: https://seotify.com/blog/articles/increase-dwell-time.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18740459 Points: 4 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Lu3JDg via

Lessons in negotiation from Stalin at Yalta

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Lessons in negotiation from Stalin at Yalta

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Neural Network Knows When Cat Wants to Go Outside

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Neural Network Knows When Cat Wants to Go Outside

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Java 12 – Features Frozen, String Literals Delayed

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Java 12 – Features Frozen, String Literals Delayed

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On Disbelieving Atrocities (1944)

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On Disbelieving Atrocities (1944)

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Amazon Echo stores your voice recordings – sent other user’s records via GDPR

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Technorealism, Alvin Toffler, and the Forgotten Third Wave

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Technorealism, Alvin Toffler, and the Forgotten Third Wave

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Amazon Echo stores your voice recordings – sent other user’s records via GDPR

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Google to open artificial intelligence lab in Princeton

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Python 3 Is Now 10 Years Old Was It Worth It?

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Number of babies born in Japan is the lowest since records began

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Number of babies born in Japan is the lowest since records began

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Python 3 Is Now 10 Years Old Was It Worth It?

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The World Through the Eyes of the US

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The World Through the Eyes of the US

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People Fall Off Cruise Ships with Alarming Regularity

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People Fall Off Cruise Ships with Alarming Regularity

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Malaysia seeks $7.5B in reparations from Goldman Sachs

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Malaysia seeks $7.5B in reparations from Goldman Sachs

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Learning to Design RNA

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Exclave: Hardware Testing in Mass Production, Made Easier

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Gatwick drones: Two arrested over flight disruption

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Some thoughts about learning

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Dostoyevsky's “Dream of a Ridiculous Man” (2014)

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Chinese battery expert is charged with stealing trade secrets from US employer

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California lets self-driving startup Zoox offer autonomous rides

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Introspected REST: An alternative to REST and GraphQL

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Show HN: A new spline

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Building TypeScript Projects with Bazel

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An Amoeba-Based Computer Found Solutions to 8-City Traveling Salesman Problem

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New best story on Hacker News: Introducing Project Mu

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Gatwick drones: Two arrested over flight disruption

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Discord raises $150M, surpassing $2B valuation

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Slack: An Apology and an Update

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Chinese battery expert is charged with stealing trade secrets from US employer

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AT&T will put a fake 5G logo on its 4G LTE phones

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Show HN: A new spline

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Facebook open-sources a speech-recognition system and a machine learning library

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Can Users Control and Understand a UI Driven by Machine Learning?

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Can you use a magnifying glass and moonlight to light a fire? (2016)

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An Amoeba-Based Computer Found Solutions to 8-City Traveling Salesman Problem

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Introspected REST: An alternative to REST and GraphQL

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The Poet Of Minnesota, Vietnam And Mythical Men

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Building TypeScript Projects with Bazel

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What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System

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Real-time air pollution map

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QUIC Crypto and simple state machines

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California lets self-driving startup Zoox offer autonomous rides

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Raspberry Pi Pet Detector Camera Using Python, TensorFlow, and Twilio [video]

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Some thoughts about learning

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Video of Glitter Bomb for Package Thieves Exposed as Partial Fake

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Transparency Report: Government requests for customer data globally

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A New Largest-Known Prime Number

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Dostoyevsky's “Dream of a Ridiculous Man” (2014)

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Evaluation of five password managers

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Star Citizen: The Road to Release, Financials and New Partners

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The rise of the internet and a new age of authoritarianism

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Star Control II

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Blueprint for a more accessible internet

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Experiment: Recoil vs. Muzzle Velocity

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Arthur C. Clarke’s eccentric and influential predictions

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Can Users Control and Understand a UI Driven by Machine Learning?

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Slack: An Apology and an Update

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QUIC Crypto and simple state machines

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The Poet Of Minnesota, Vietnam And Mythical Men

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Discord raises $150M, surpassing $2B valuation

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A New Largest-Known Prime Number

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Can you use a magnifying glass and moonlight to light a fire? (2016)

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What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System

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Arthur C. Clarke’s eccentric and influential predictions

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Transparency Report: Government requests for customer data globally

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AT&T will put a fake 5G logo on its 4G LTE phones

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Facebook open-sources a speech-recognition system and a machine learning library

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