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Schneiderman: Spectrum-Time Warner defrauded customers on internet service
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman releases a report on voting rights across the state, detailing the results of his inquiry into the unprecedented level of voting complaints regarding the April 2016...
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Visual Studio Code 1.9
Welcome to the first 2017 release of Visual Studio Code. There are a number of significant updates in this version that we hope you will like, some of the key highlights include:The release notes are...
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Launch HN: RankScience (YC W17) – Automated Split-Testing for SEO
There are many small details that make a big impact on your rankings, from title tags, headings, meta-tags, image alt text, and more. RankScience sits next to your website, making thousands of...
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Announcing Rust 1.15
The Rust team is happy to announce the latest version of Rust, 1.15.0. Rust is a systems programming language focused on safety, speed, and concurrency.If you have a previous version of Rust installed,...
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Data from man's pacemaker led to arson charges
MIDDLETOWNInvestigators used the data from a Middletown man’s pacemaker to help get an indictment in a fire that caused about $400,000 in damages.Ross Compton, 59, has been indicted on felony charges...
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To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics
Math conferences don’t usually feature standing ovations, but Francis Su received one last month in Atlanta. Su, a mathematician at Harvey Mudd College in California and the outgoing president of the...
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Latin Lover
It was, subversively enough, a Latin teacher who was the first to hint to us that the Romans were not quite the Englishmen-in-training that we had been led to believe. Eleven or twelve years old and...
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Copper is key in burning fat
A fluorescent probe creates a heat map of copper in white fat cells. Higher levels of copper are shown in yellow and red. The left panel shows normal levels of copper from fat cells of control mice,...
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Amazon's Antitrust Paradox
abstract. Amazon is the titan of twenty-first century commerce. In addition to being a retailer, it is now a marketing platform, a delivery and logistics network, a payment service, a credit lender, an...
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Whonix – A desktop operating system designed for advanced security and privacy
Whonix×We need your help! Whonix requires donations to stay alive. Do your part!Based on TorWhonix is based on Tor, which is a free software and an open network that helps you defend against network...
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Bosch and Bruegel review – more gripping than a thriller
Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel the Elder work like antagonistic muscles in the imagination, pulling with and against each other. Bosch is a painter of medieval hellfire whose fantastical creations...
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Automata in the Ancient World (2007)
(Image of Hephaestus courtesy of Classics Unveiled)There were golden handmaids also who worked for him, and were like real young women, with sense and reason, voice also and strength, and all the...
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Google must turn over foreign-stored emails pursuant to a warrant, court rules
A federal magistrate judge handed down an opinion this afternoon, In re Search Warrant No. 16-960-M-01 to Google, ordering Google to comply with a search warrant to produce foreign-stored emails. The...
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Type Driven Domain Modelling, Part 2: Evolving Models with F# – Lucas Reis' Blog
Evolving Models With F#This is part 2 of a series:We wrote our initial domain in part 1. The user produces an event called AddToBasket, with a product and a quantity. Then we wrote a function that...
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The Purpose of Sleep? To Forget, Scientists Say
In the years since, Dr. Tononi and Dr. Cirelli, along with other researchers, have found a great deal of indirect evidence to support the so-called synaptic homeostasis hypothesis.It turns out, for...
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The FCC is stopping 9 companies from providing subsidized Internet to the poor
Regulators are telling nine companies they won't be allowed to participate in a federal program meant to help them provide affordable Internet access to low-income consumers — weeks after those...
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Use of Ad-Blocking Software Rises by 30% Worldwide
Facebook has tried to ban it. Google has attempted to outsmart it.But no matter what these tech giants do, people’s use of software to block digital advertising — often the lifeblood of companies’...
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Defeating Quantum Algorithms with Hash Functions
In this post I’ll explain why quantum computers are useless to find hash function collisions, and how we can leverage this powerlessness to build post-quantum signature schemes. I’ll then describe a...
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A Forth to Scratch compiler
I have implemented a FORTH-interpreter/compiler that can run the kinds of code Scratching Forth generates, but not exactly, but it could be modified.https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/137676871/These...
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Using logistic regression to predict parking difficulty
Our team thought about how to recognize this “fingerprint” of difficult parking as a feature to train on. In this case, we aggregate the difference between when a user should have arrived at a...
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