How the internet flips elections and alters our thoughts — Robert Epstein — Aeon Essays
The internet has spawned subtle forms of influence that can flip elections and manipulate everything we say, think and do
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Posted on 2016-03-10T07:07:13+0000
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Who ordered that?
An unexpected data signal that could change everything has particle physicists salivating.
Cannot clone Spec repo · Issue #4989 · CocoaPods/CocoaPods
What did you do? Run pod setup What did you expected to happen? Clone Spec repo master What happened instead? It only downloads a few bytes and then throws error: fatal: unable to access 'ht...
How to pass a programming interview
This post started as the preparation material we send to our candidates, but we decided to post it publicly. Being a good programmer has a surprisingly small role in passing programming...
Homework is wrecking our kids: The research is clear, let’s ban elementary homework
Homework does have an impact on young students — but it’s not a good one
One of the FBI’s Major Claims in the iPhone Case is Fraudulent
“We have enormous computing power in the US government, but we need to be able to bring it to bear without the phone killing itself.” - FBI Director James Comey, March 1, 2016.
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"In short, they're asking the public to grant them significant new powers that could put all of our communications infrastructure at risk, and to trust them to not misuse these powers. But they're deliberately misleading the public (and the judiciary) to try to gain these powers. This is not how a trustworthy agency operates. We should not be fooled."
Posted on 2016-03-09T02:26:57+0000
Announcing SQL Server on Linux - The Official Microsoft Blog
It’s been an incredible year for the data business at Microsoft and an incredible year for data across the industry. This Thursday at our Data Driven event in New York, we will kick off a wave of launch activities for SQL Server 2016 with general availability later this year. This is the most signif…
How this language learning app got 110 million users without spending a dollar on marketing
The biggest challenge for learning apps is users dropping off after a while. Duolingo founder and Carnegie Mellon University professor Luis von Ahn shares some secrets on overcoming that.
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Posted on 2016-03-08T04:52:25+0000
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