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31.		Exact mapping between Variational Renormalization Group and Deep Learning (2014) (arxiv.org)
		97 points by _qc3o on Nov 30, 2016 \| 13 comments
32.		How and why did humans domesticate animals? (aeon.co)
		104 points by diodorus on Nov 29, 2016 \| 26 comments
33.		Decoding the Thought Vector (gabgoh.github.io)
		252 points by kebinappies on Nov 30, 2016 \| 22 comments
34.		“They Went to Sea in a Sieve, They Did” (sportsnet.ca)
		113 points by Thevet on Nov 30, 2016 \| 15 comments
35.		The Case Against Dark Matter (quantamagazine.org)
		172 points by bilifuduo on Nov 30, 2016 \| 53 comments
36.		Amazon Lex – Build Conversational Voice and Text Interfaces (amazon.com)
		284 points by appwiz on Nov 30, 2016 \| 54 comments
37.		On Funding Hapi.js Core Development (sideway.com)
		133 points by bricss on Nov 30, 2016 \| 46 comments
38.		India has launched a 648MW solar power plant (venturesafrica.com)
		294 points by Osiris30 on Nov 30, 2016 \| 152 comments
39.		Princeton University Math Major Course Guide (princeton.edu)
		157 points by kercker on Nov 30, 2016 \| 54 comments
40.		Tiny-dnn – A C++11 implementation of deep learning (github.com/tiny-dnn)
		143 points by chang2301 on Nov 30, 2016 \| 49 comments
41.		Top OpenBSD Donors (openbsdfoundation.org)
		144 points by ttflee on Nov 30, 2016 \| 59 comments
42.		Amazon Rekognition – Image Detection and Recognition Powered by Deep Learning (amazon.com)
		182 points by dwynings on Nov 30, 2016 \| 44 comments
43.		Amazon Polly – Text to Speech in 47 Voices and 24 Languages (amazon.com)
		179 points by davidgomes on Nov 30, 2016 \| 53 comments
44.		Ariadna – Opensource geocoder for OSM data (github.com/maddevsio)
		65 points by Gen1us2k on Nov 30, 2016 \| 13 comments
45.		Qubes OS Begins Commercialization and Community Funding Efforts (qubes-os.org)
		129 points by detaro on Nov 30, 2016 \| 24 comments
46.		Amazon EC2 Elastic GPUs (amazon.com)
		139 points by madmax108 on Nov 30, 2016 \| 33 comments
47.		Netflix Downloads (netflix.com)
		256 points by LukeB_UK on Nov 30, 2016 \| 119 comments
48.		Amazon Athena: Query S3 Using SQL (amazon.com)
		176 points by polmolea on Nov 30, 2016 \| 44 comments
49.		Docker for AWS Public Beta (docker.com)
		92 points by rpeden on Nov 30, 2016 \| 23 comments
50.		[dupe] Thousands of xHamster login credentials surface online (techcrunch.com)
		55 points by subpar on Nov 30, 2016 \| 48 comments
51.		Ask HN: Is there a “ground-up” explanation of PGP/GnuPG?
		121 points by kqr on Nov 30, 2016 \| 29 comments
52.		UK's new Snoopers Charter just passed an encryption backdoor law by the backdoor (theregister.co.uk)
		133 points by tomtoise on Nov 30, 2016 \| 115 comments
53.		Setting targets for a new feature (intercom.com)
		34 points by nathaliemc on Nov 30, 2016
54.		Facebook has cut off Prisma’s Live Video access (techcrunch.com)
		64 points by tchalla on Nov 30, 2016 \| 26 comments
55.		U.S. To Forgive at Least $108B in Student Debt in Coming Years (wsj.com)
		126 points by blacktulip on Nov 30, 2016 \| 262 comments
56.		AWS Snowmobile – Massive Exabyte-Scale Data Transfer Service (amazon.com)
		102 points by beef3333 on Nov 30, 2016 \| 38 comments
57.		The art of building products (codelitt.com)
		59 points by kaiomagalhaes on Nov 30, 2016 \| 6 comments
58.		Snowball Edge – Petabyte-scale data transport with on-board storage and compute (amazon.com)
		60 points by irs on Nov 30, 2016 \| 10 comments
59.		It Was Never About Ops (biven.org)
		71 points by michaelbiven on Nov 29, 2016 \| 52 comments
60.		The end of capitalism has begun (2015) (theguardian.com)
		84 points by rpeden on Nov 30, 2016 \| 81 comments
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