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Facebook Says It Found More Miscalculated Metrics
Updated Nov. 16, 2016 10:03 a.m. ETFacebook Inc. said it has uncovered several more flawed measurements related to how consumers interact with content, raising more questions about the metrics...
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Menace: The Machine Educable Noughts And Crosses Engine
The use of machine learning to teach computers to play board games has had a lot of interest lately. Big companies such as Facebook and Google have both made recent breakthroughs in teaching AI the...
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Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate
Visual Studio 2017 RCPierre CrutchfieldUnparalleled productivity for any dev, any app, and any platformEnhancements to code navigation, IntelliSense, refactoring, code fixes, and debugging, saves you...
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Mission Improbable: Hardening Android for Security and Privacy
After a long wait, the Tor project is happy to announce a refresh of our Tor-enabled Android phone prototype. This prototype is meant to show a possible direction for Tor on mobile. While I use it...
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How Casinos Enable Gambling Addicts
On the morning of Monday, August 13, 2012, Scott Stevens loaded a brown hunting bag into his Jeep Grand Cherokee, then went to the master bedroom, where he hugged Stacy, his wife of 23 years. “I love...
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Visual Studio for Mac Preview
Visual Studio for MaclindaA mobile-first, cloud-first IDE. Made for the Mac.Everything you need for mobile, cloud, and Mac developmentBuild apps for the cloud, iOS, Android, macOS, and wearablesDesign,...
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Choosing Ember over React in 2016
One month ago, we started working on a new product: Instant 2FA, the easiest way to add two-factor authentication to any site in less than an hour.Currently, whether you roll your own two-factor with...
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Quick, Draw
This is a game built with machine learning. You draw, and a neural network tries to guess what you’re drawing. Of course, it doesn’t always work. But the more you play with it, the more it will learn....
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Announcing SSL Labs Grading Changes for 2017
At SSL Labs, we have a major review of our grading criteria about once a year. As the security of the ecosystem matures, our goal is to push forward and make the requirements [for a good grade]...
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Ask HN: Anyone interested in building tools for showing bias in news?
Ask HN: Anyone interested in building tools for showing bias in news?34 points by harigov44 minutes ago | hide | past | web | 18 comments | favoriteWe all know how the election turned out. I believe...
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Google Earth VR
Get the latest news from the Google VR team. By clicking “Sign Up”, you agree to receive emails in accordance with Google’s Privacy Policy.Enter your email addressPlease enter valid email addressSign...
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Professors Make More Than a Thousand Dollars an Hour Peddling Mega-Mergers
If the government ends up approving the $85 billion AT&T-Time Warner merger, credit won’t necessarily belong to the executives, bankers, lawyers, and lobbyists pushing for the deal. More likely, it...
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Google joins .NET Foundation as Samsung brings .NET support to Tizen
Microsoft is hosting its annual Connect(); developer event in New York today. With .NET being at the core of many of its efforts, including on the open-source side, it’s no surprise that the event also...
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Rust and the Future of Systems Programming [video]
If you’re a regular reader of Hacks, you probably know about Rust, the ground-breaking, community-driven systems programming language sponsored by Mozilla. I covered Rust on Hacks back in July, to note...
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Show HN: LogRocket – Record and Replay for Redux Apps
Network activity Inspect every request/response. Redux actions Replay the actions that led to a bug. Session video See exactly what the user saw. Redux state Explore state at any moment in time.
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Baidu’s self-driving cars begin public test in Wuzhen, China
Internet giant Baidu is fast-forwarding its own self-driving car tests with a new public trial of autonomous vehicles, including cars supplied by Chinese automakers BYD, Chery and BAIC. The public...
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Fewer than 3% of cars sold in the U.S. have manual transmissions
Visitors to the upcoming Los Angeles Auto Show will see supercars, hoverboards, self-propelling luggage and all manner of new transportation options.But they’ll be hard pressed to find a clutch pedal...
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The .blog Bait and Switch
The .blog registry backtracked on its promise to send popular domains to auction.In May, co-founder and CEO of Automattic (WordPress) Matt Mullenweg announced that his company had won the auction to...
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LinkedIn is now officially blocked in Russia
Amid a tense stand-off and attempt at negotiations, Russia’s communications regulator Roskomnadzor has started to enforce a proposed block of LinkedIn in the country, after the social network failed to...
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8M GitHub profiles were leaked from GeekedIn's MongoDB
Let me make it crystal clear in the opening paragraph: this incident is not about any sort of security vulnerability on GitHub's behalf, rather it relates to a trove of data from their site which was...
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