If a brain-stimulation gadget catches on, expect controversy over “brain doping”

Source: Olympic Athletes Are Electrifying Their Brains, and You Can Too – IEEE Spectrum

Op-Ed Columnist Hillary Health Shocker! Think the Clinton-Trump Race Will Be a Landslide? Hold Your Horses Hillary Clinton’s 15,000 New Emails to Get Timetable for Release Liberal, Moderate or Conservative? See How Facebook Labels You New York 101 Why Are New York City’s Streets Always Under Construction? The New Health Care The EpiPen, a Case Study in Health Care System Dysfunction Zika, a Formidable Enemy, Attacks and Destroys Parts of Babies’ Brains Abu Zubaydah, Tortured Guantánamo Detainee, Makes Case for Release Andrea Tantaros of Fox News Claims Retaliation for Sex Harassment… Feature Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart Feature Where the Death Penalty Still Lives Who Will Be President? Travel Tips You Can Save on Airfare (If You Know the Tricks) Op-Ed Columnist Why America’s Leadership Fails Fixes Putting the Power of Self-Knowledge to Work Editorial The Fake $400 Million Iran ‘Ransom’ Story Delicate Mix of Compassion and Politics as Obama Visits Louisiana Flood Victims Steven Hill, Who Starred on ‘Law & Order’ and ‘Mission: Impossible,’ Dies at 94 Tucson Becomes an Unlikely Food Star Economic Trends The Housing Market Is Finally Starting to Look Healthy Loading…TrendingAdvertisementBook Review | NonfictionOverselling A.D.H.D.: A New Book Exposes Big Pharma’s Role

Source: Overselling A.D.H.D.: A New Book Exposes Big Pharma’s Role – The New York Times

Okay folks. Time’s up. It’s too late to say that Python’s packaging ecosystem terrible any more. I’m calling it.

Python packaging is not bad any more. If you’re a developer, and you’re trying to create or consume Python libraries, it can be a tractable, even pleasant experience.

I need to say this, because for a long time, Python’s packaging toolchain was … problematic. It isn’t any more, but a lot of people still seem to think that it is, so it’s time to set the record straight.

If you’re not familiar with the history it went something like this:

Source: Deciphering Glyph :: Python Packaging Is Good Now

Some people begin to work or tackle personal tasks before sunrise, aiming to find focus before distractions begin in the standard morning rush.

Source: Why 4 a.m. Is the Most Productive Hour – WSJ

TL;DR Motivated by a friend, we’ll share bits of our experience during the Olympic Games Rio 2016. Before starting, I would like to clarify that Globo.com only had rights for streaming the content …

Source: More than 400 Tb of live streaming were transferred during the Olympic Games Rio 2016 | Leandro Moreira

Social media APIs and their rate limits have not been nice to me recently, especially Instagram. Who needs it anyway? Sites are increasingly getting smarter against scraping / data mining attempts. AngelList even detects PhamtomJS (have not seen other sites do this). But if you are automating your exact actions that happen via a browser, […]

Source: I Don’t Need No Stinking API – Web Scraping in 2016 and Beyond

 Today, we’re releasing two large datasets for robotics research:Grasping: A collection of 650k grasp attempts, data used in: http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.02199Push: A collection of 59k examples of pushing motions, data used in: http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.07157

Source: Today, we’re releasing two large datasets for robotics research: Grasping: A…

The Model S P100D with Ludicrous mode is the third fastest accelerating production car ever produced, with a 0-60 mph time of 2.5 seconds. However, both the LaFerrari and the Porsche 918 Spyder were limited run, million dollar vehicles and cannot be bought new. While those cars are small two seaters with very little luggage space, the pure electric, all-wheel drive Model S P100D has four doors, seats up to 5 adults plus 2 children and has exceptional cargo capacity.

Source: New Tesla Model S Now the Quickest Production Car in the World

Let the Scala compiler work for you. We provide type classes, instances, conversions, testing, supplements to the standard library, and much more.

Source: Typelevel.scala | Higher-kinded types: the difference between giving up, and moving forward