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The Fantasy of Opting Out
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The MIT Press Reader
The Fantasy of Opting Out
Those who know about us have power over us. Obfuscation may be our best digital weapon.
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Lack of cdnjs activity
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Lack of cdnjs activity · Issue #13524 · cdnjs/cdnjs
Hello, it seems the last commit is in 17days ago. Why there is no commit recently? Want to back this issue? Post a bounty on it! We accept bounties via Bountysource.
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Quiet.js – Transmit and receive data in the browser at 44.1kHz
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Here Dragons Abound: Exploring procedural generation and display of fantasy maps
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Blogspot
Here Dragons Abound
Exploring procedural generation and display of fantasy maps.
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We Will Call It Pala: A Story for the Psychedelic Movement
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aurynproject.org
We Will Call It Pala
We Will Call It Pala - A Story For The Psychedelic Movement
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Stop Explaining Black Box Models for High Stakes Decisions
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Arxiv-Vanity
Please Stop Explaining Black Box Models for High Stakes Decisions
Black box machine learning models are currently being used for high stakes decision-making throughout society, causing problems throughout healthcare, criminal justice, and in other domains. People have hoped that creating methods for explaining these black…
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Sunset Geometry (2016)
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Sunset Geometry
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Million Short
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Firefox to Discontinue Sideloaded Extensions
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Mozilla Add-ons Blog
Upcoming changes to extension sideloading
Sideloading is a method of installing an extension in Firefox by adding an extension file to a special location using an executable application installer. This ...
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Russ Cox: Surviving Software Dependencies
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queue.acm.org
Surviving Software Dependencies - ACM Queue
Software reuse is finally here, and its benefits should not be understated, but we
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The Feds are building an America-wide face surveillance system and ACLU is suing
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www.theregister.co.uk
The Feds are building an America-wide face surveillance system – and we're going to court to prove it, says ACLU
Civil-rights warriors sue FBI, DEA, DoJ over fears of secretive mass-spying network
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Show HN: Simple command line note taking tool
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GitHub - tomlockwood/dn: Daily notes command line tool
Daily notes command line tool. Contribute to tomlockwood/dn development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B
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Jon Erlichman
Breaking: Google buys Fitbit for $2.1 billion
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Life expectancy for American men drops for a third year
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CBS News
Life expectancy for American men drops for a third year
Many men are dying earlier due to "deaths of despair" linked to drugs, suicide and ill health
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Texas Instruments’ Speak and Spell
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IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News
The Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame: Texas Instruments’ Speak & Spell
A child’s toy helped propel Texas Instruments into a huge new technical discipline: digital signal processing
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Linus Torvalds: Git proved I could be more than a one-hit wonder
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TechRepublic
Linus Torvalds: "Git proved I could be more than a one-hit wonder."
Commentary: The world rightly lauds Linus Torvalds for Linux, but Git will arguably have a bigger impact.
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Data Dictatorships: The Arms Race to Hack Humankind
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Borjamoya
Data Dictatorships: The Arms Race to Hack Humankind by Borja Moya - borjamoya.com
Data Dictatorships, my latest book, explores the geopolitical arms race taking place to merge biotech and infotech to hack humankind.
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Bayard is a full-text search and indexing server written in Rust
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GitHub - mosuka/bayard: A full-text search and indexing server written in Rust.
A full-text search and indexing server written in Rust. - mosuka/bayard
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Scikit-Learn’s Defaults Are Wrong
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r y x, r
Scikit-learn’s Defaults are Wrong
This recent Tweet erupted a discussion about how logistic regression in Scikit-learn uses L2 penalization with a lambda of 1 as default options. If you don’t care about data science, this sou…
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Show HN: Turn any website into an API (for those who miss Kimono)
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simplescraper.io
Simplescraper — Scrape Websites and turn them into APIs
Web scraping made simple — extract data with our popular free Chrome extension and powerful cloud platform. Turn websites into structured data and LLM-ready content at scale, via no-code dashboard or flexible API.
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Fitbit to Be Aquired by Google
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Fitbit
Fitbit to Be Acquired by Google
Fitbit, Inc. (NYSE: FIT) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Google LLC for $7.35 per share in cash, valuing the company at a fully diluted equity value of approximately $2.1 billion. “More than 12 years ago,…
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