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Breaking Spotify DRM with PANDA

Disclaimer: Although I think DRM is both stupid and evil, I don't advocate pirating music. Therefore, this post will stop short of providing a turnkey solution for ripping Spotify music, but it will...

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ASA adjudication on EA "Dungeon Keeper" advert

Electronic Arts Ltd t/a EA GamesOnslow HouseOnslow StreetGuildfordSurreyGU1 4TNDate: 2 July 2014Media: E-mailSector: LeisureNumber of complaints: 1Complaint Ref: A14-258907AdA direct e-mail for the...

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Show HN: Automatic web page content extractor for Node.js and the command line

README.mdAn automatic web page content extractor for Node.js!Automatically grab the main text out of a webpage like this:extractor = require('unfluff'); data = extractor(my_html_data);...

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IRC logs from the beginning of the Gulf War (1991)

403 ForbiddenYou don't have permission to access /pub/academic/communications/logs/Gulf-War/desert-storm/ on this server.Apache Server at www.ibiblio.org Port 80

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Google Ventures Library

We started Design Staff over 2 years ago with a simple mission: Help startups design great products. Since then, we published dozens of articles based on our experiences working with startups of all...

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Automated brute force attack against the EFI PIN

Updated: The code has already been reviewed and is working, One user I confirm that he implement it with his Teensy 3 and it worked without problems, If you just want to read the code that works...

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How Does One Create A Gtk+ Application?

How does one go about creating a gtk+ working application? Is it even possible?Seriously.TL;DR: The Gtk+ ABI is broken so often that distribution-supplied binaries rarely work.* * *Imagine it is the...

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Homemade Speakers

I had the awesome opportunity of taking the EE423 Speaker Design class offered at USC while I was going to school there. The class is taught by  engineers from JBL, with some help from people like Tom...

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Jamming XKeyScore

Back in the day there was talk about "jamming echelon" by adding keywords to email that the echelon system was supposedly looking for. We can do the same thing for XKeyScore: jam the system with more...

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The Fibonacci heap ruins my life

A couple of Sundays ago, I wrote an implementation of Dijkstra’s algorithm in Clojure. The core algorithm came to twenty-five lines. I banged out the code as I sat in a coffee shop with some other...

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Programming Interactive Worlds with Linear Logic

ThesisPh.D. ThesisChris MartensAbstractInteractive storytelling weaves together deep computational ideas with humanity's rich history of story and play, providing an important context for tools and...

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The McDonalds Monopoly Fraud (2014)

Apr 9, 2014 · 303,092 viewsThe McDonald’s Monopoly game is one of the most successful marketing promotions of all time. Every year, for a limited time only, you can win big money collecting Monopoly...

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IBM has donated to the open source community SystemML(machine learning platform)

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The Utopian UI Architect

An ex-Apple interface designer’s 40-year plan to redesign not just the way we use computers, but the way we think with themWhen Bret Victor came in for his first day of work as a “Human Interface...

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For Inventor of Eudora, Great Fame, No Fortune (1997)

By JO THOMASRBANA, Ill. -- A hedgehog ran under the sofa in Steve and Cindy Dorner's living room, dodging children and visitors, while two large tropical birds gave a running commentary. Out of range...

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Jeff Kell, ListServ and IRC pioneer, has died

« The Wide World of Connecting Storage | MainNovember 25, 20153000 community keystone Jeff Kell diesJeff Kell, the man who founded the keystone of 3000 help, advice and support that is the 3000-L...

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Visual question answering using CNN+RNN

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This Week in Servo 43 (submitted via Servo itself)

In the last two weeks, we landed 165 PRs in the Servo organization’s repositories.The huge news from the last two weeks is that after some really serious efforts from across the team and community to...

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Why FPGA manufacturers keep their bitstream formats secret

Every FPGA vendor keeps the bitstream format for their device secret. Only the tools provided in binary-only format by the vendor (and a select few third parties under NDA) can generate these...

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Next Generation Eclipse IDE

Che transforms the workspace into a high performance environment accessible through RESTful APIs that can be controlled by any IDE. Use Che as a hosted Workspace server, customized with your own...

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