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No-fly list takes legal hit
The federal government violated a former Stanford University doctoral student's legal rights nine years ago when it put her on its secretive "no-fly" lists targeting suspected terrorists, a San...
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Why Are There So Many Pythons?
Python is amazing.Surprisingly, that’s a fairly ambiguous statement. What do I mean by ‘Python’? Do I mean Python the abstract interface? Do I mean CPython, the common Python implementation (and not to...
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Show HN: Kimono – Never write a web scraper again
Web scraping. It's something we all love to hate. If you're a developer, you know what we're talking about. You wish the data you needed to power your app, model or visualization was available via API....
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The search for the lost Cray supercomputer OS
Jan. 14, 2014 - 6:00 AM PST Jan. 14, 2014 - 6:00 AM PSTIn 1976, famed computer architect Seymour Cray released one of the most successful supercomputers ever made: the Cray-1, a stylish 5.5-ton...
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Super successful companies
I spent some time recently thinking about what companies that grow up to be extremely successful do when they are very young. I came up with the following list. It’s from personal experience and I’m...
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World’s most photographed places
The heatmap shows the places people like, based on the number of panoramio photos at each place in the world. The dark areas have few photos, the red areas have more and the yellow areas have a large...
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In London 'Guardians' live in empty office buildings
Jan. 15, 2014 10:30 p.m. ETThe London housing market is hot. One way to cool off rent payments? Live in an empty office. Hired to guard buildings from squatters, property guardians can save a lot of...
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Same word. Different places? Different meanings
Same word. Different places? Different meanings. | Derek SiversEntrepreneur, programmer, avid student of life. I make useful things, and share what I learn.2014-01-16I had just moved to Singapore when...
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California woman who drove with Google Glass beats traffic ticket
By Marty GrahamSAN DIEGOThu Jan 16, 2014 8:26pm ESTSAN DIEGO (Reuters) - A California woman ticketed for driving while wearing Google Glass, a tiny computer mounted on an eyeglass frame, had her...
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OpenBSD will shut down if we do not have the funding to keep the lights on
'Re: Request for Funding our Electricity' - MARC[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] List: openbsd-misc Subject: Re: Request for Funding our Electricity From: Bob Beck...
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World's First Massive Online Degree Program Starts Today
Udacity Blog: Sebastian Thrun: World's First Massive Online Degree Program Starts TodaySebastian Thrun: World's First Massive Online Degree Program Starts TodayToday, marks the first day in class for...
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Announcing The Matasano/Square CTF
Announcing The Matasano/Square CTFWe've teamed up with Square to run a joint Capture The Flag contest.What is it?Your target is a small embedded device; a microcontroller running compiled C code.You...
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Yale students made a better version of its course catalog. Yale shut it down
The page students inside Yale saw when attempting to access a student creating online class planning service earlier this week. (CourseTable.com)A pair of Yale students and brothers, Peter Xu and Harry...
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Introducing our smart contact lens project (for diabetics)
You’ve probably heard that diabetes is a huge and growing problem—affecting one in every 19 people on the planet. But you may not be familiar with the daily struggle that many people with diabetes face...
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Building an open source Nest
Earlier this week, Google bought Nest, a connected devices company, for $3.2 billion. This might seem like an ungodly sum for a company that makes thermostats and smoke detectors, but it makes absolute...
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Termcoin - a bitcoin wallet for your terminal
README.mdA bitcoin wallet for your terminal.termcoin is written in node.js, using blessed, and uses bitcoind (and optionally other cryptocurrency rpc servers) as its backend.ScreenshotsUsagetermcoin by...
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Chrome Is The New C Runtime
Cross-platform app development is more important than ever. 10 years ago, you just whipped out your Visual Studio when you needed a client application, but not anymore. With “app-ification” going...
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Dropbox raises about $250 million at $10 billion valuation
Jan. 17, 2014 4:52 p.m. ETDropbox Inc. has closed on about $250 million in a funding round that values the online-storage provider at close to $10 billion, according to two people familiar with the...
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What are the lesser known but useful data structures?
There are some data structures around that are really useful but are unknown to most programmers. Which ones are they?Everybody knows about linked lists, binary trees, and hashes, but what about Skip...
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Cookie Bomb or Let's Break the Internet
I have no idea if it's a known trick, but I believe it should be fixed. Severity: depends. I checked only with Chrome.We all know a cookie can only contain 4k of data.How many cookies can I creates?...
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