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Under digital surveillance: how American schools spy on millions of kids
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the Guardian
Under digital surveillance: how American schools spy on millions of kids
Fueled by fears of school shootings, the market has grown rapidly for technologies that monitor students through official school emails and chats
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Ask HN: What's a Promising Area to Work On?
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WeWork founder will get $1.7B to let SoftBank take over his company
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The Verge
WeWork founder will get nearly $1.7 billion to let SoftBank take over his company
Forget golden parachutes; this is a golden escape pod
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Ranked-choice voting is on the ballot in New York City
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NY Times
New Yorkers Have a Chance to Remake How They Vote
Ranked-choice voting is on the ballot in this fall’s election.
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Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?
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WeWork Accepts SoftBank Takeover Offer
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NY Times
WeWork’s Multibillion-Dollar Takeover by SoftBank Could Turn Into a Money Pit (Published 2019)
The shared-office company, which scrapped an initial public offering and pushed out its chief executive last month, isn’t profitable and may not be for the foreseeable future.
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Slimbook announce collaboration for creation of a PowerPC laptop
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47 Attorneys general now support Facebook antitrust investigation
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The Sociable
47 Attorneys General Now Support Facebook Antitrust Investigation
New York's attorney general announces today that 47 attorneys general have joined the antitrust investigation into Facebook, reaching as far as the territory of Guam.
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An Introduction to Real-Time Subsurface Scattering
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therealmjp.github.io
An Introduction To Real-Time Subsurface Scattering
A little while ago I was doing some research into the state-of-the-art for approximating subsurface scattering effects in real-time (mainly for skin rendering), and I had taken a bunch of loose notes to help me keep all of the details straight. I thought…
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Bipolar-Zener Combo Takes On CMOS
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EETimes
EETimes - Bipolar-Zener Combo Takes On CMOS -
Quantum tunnelling effect reduces mask steps, slashes lead time
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Natural Language Processing (2018) [pdf]
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gt-nlp-class/notes/eisenstein-nlp-notes.pdf at master · jacobeisenstein/gt-nlp-class
Course materials for Georgia Tech CS 4650 and 7650, "Natural Language" - jacobeisenstein/gt-nlp-class
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Mother finds acceptance for autistic son in Moncton's 'geek' community
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CBC
Mother finds acceptance for autistic son in Moncton's 'geek' community | CBC News
A mother's search for inclusion and acceptance of her son finally has a hopeful chapter, thanks to New Brunswick's 'geek' community.
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WeWork postponed thousands of layoffs because it can't afford to pay severance
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Insider
WeWork has reportedly postponed thousands of layoffs because it's too broke to pay workers severance
WeWork is thought to be in danger of running out of cash within a month if it doesn't get new funding soon. It had planned to cut jobs to save money.
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Mexico’s Attempt to Save Freud from the Nazis
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The MIT Press Reader
Mexico's Little-Known Attempt to Save Freud From the Nazis
Had the campaign to bring Freud to Mexico succeeded, the imperiled psychoanalyst would have found himself living among the world’s foremost artists and intellectuals.
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Node.js 13.0.0
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Release 2019-10-22, Version 13.0.0 (Current), @BethGriggs · nodejs/node
Notable Changes
assert:
If the validation function passed to assert.throws() or assert.rejects()
returns a value other than true, an assertion error will be thrown instead
of the original error t...
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Dazzling Night Sky When the Milky Way Collides with Andromeda in 4B Years
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Kottke.org
Behold Our Dazzling Night Sky When the Milky Way Collides with Andromeda in 4 Billion Years
This is what our night sky is going to look like in 3.9 billion years: Wow! So what’s going on here? Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers at NASA have predicted that our own Milky Way galaxy and the nearby Andromeda galaxy (M31
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AWS Experiencing Intermittent DNS Resolution Errors
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The Google Antitrust Investigations–Learning from Germany’s Facebook Inquiry
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Automated Continuous Deployment at Heroku
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Heroku
Automated Continuous Deployment at Heroku
Over the past four years, the Heroku Runtime team has transitioned from occasional, manual deployments to continuous, automated deployments. Changes are...
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Don't Use VPN Services
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Gist
Don't use VPN services.
Don't use VPN services. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
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Terra Nullius
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