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A Decade-Old Gag Order, Lifted
A Decade-Old Gag Order, Lifted | American Civil Liberties UnionJump to navigationSkip navigationAmerican Civil Liberties UnionBecause Freedom Can't Protect ItselfGuidestar Exchange Gold ParticipantBBB...
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Unseen Art – classical art paintings in 3D for the blind
3D PRINT THEM SO THEY MAY BE TOUCHED AND FELT.3D printing enables people to produce the art in low costs, whether it will be in exhibitions or in their own home. Accessible anywhere in the world where...
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Why CardDAV took so long
Bron Gondwana – 1 December 2015... or why CardDAV took so longThis is the first post in the FastMail 2015 Advent Calendar. Stay tuned for another post tomorrow.This blog post is very technical,...
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Unicorns vs. Donkeys: Handy Guide to Distinguishing
Unicorns vs. Donkeys: Your Handy Guide to Distinguishing Who’s WhoNo surprise, a lot of unicorns are actually donkeys.I’ve been having this conversation a lot lately:Friend: “Did you see [startup] just...
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Why I Still Use Python for High Performance Scientific Computing
In 2013 Campello, Moulavi and Sander published a paper on a new clustering algorithm that they called HDBSCAN. In mid-2014 I was doing some general research on the current state of clustering,...
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Hypothes.is: an open platform for scholarly discussion on the web
Add the above script tag to your web site's HTML to load the Hypothesis sidebar on your site.To show highlights by default, also add:Alternatively, if you use WordPress, checkout the Hypothesis...
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A letter to our daughter
Dear Max,Your mother and I don't yet have the words to describe the hope you give us for the future. Your new life is full of promise, and we hope you will be happy and healthy so you can explore it...
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GitHub's Metal Cloud
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Human Brains Are Wired to Blame Rather Than Praise
December 4, 2015, 8:36 PM EST E-mailTweetFacebookLinkedinShare iconsOuch! Did you do that on purpose?Psychologists have long concluded that people tend to judge others more harshly for their negative...
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The Manager as Debugger
I have observed that the best engineering managers I know are often also great debuggers. Why would this be? What is it about these two tasks that has such an overlapping skill set?A great debugger is...
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Let's Encrypt Stats
Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority brought to you by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). ISRG is a California public benefit corporation, and is recognized by...
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Advent of Code – solve a puzzle every day
Advent of Code[About][Stats][Leaderboard][Log in]Pick a day from the advent calendar to begin:--*--25>o< 24>*<<< 23>>O<<<< 22>O>*<<o<<...
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TPP Threatens Security and Safety by Locking Down US Policy on Source Code Audit
Multiplerecentreports on serious security vulnerabilities in cable modems and routers paint a dire picture of the state of security of the devices that millions of users depend upon to connect to the...
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Unexplored Areas in Data Compression
Unexplored areas in Data CompressionA good colleague of mine, Rich Geldreich put up a interesting article talking about his viewpoints in future directions in lossless compression technology. So I...
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Ignition: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (1972) [pdf]
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Introducing d3-shape
Introducing d3-shapeSay you’re building a new tool for studying data. What’s the most natural representation for specifying a visualization? A configurable chart? Abstract operators and coordinate...
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Waterproof Quadcopter Is Also a Submarine
Behold the Naviator, a new drone built by researchers and students at Rutgers University. As the portmanteau moniker would suggest, the bot is at home both in the water and in the air. This remotely...
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Pricing Programmers
I realized that I don’t understand how to think about the prices for programmers. This is me thinking aloud so I’ll be clearer the next time pricing comes up.First, there are at least three audiences...
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In search of a European Google
The idea of a European Google seems very far fetched. Why is that? Photograph: Deco /Alamy David Galbraith, a partner at venture investment firm Anthemis, has a statistic he likes to quote. “The...
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Spanish galleon may contain biggest treasure haul ever found on seabed
A 1708 Samuel Scott painting showing action off Cartagena, the battle at which the Spanish galleon San Jose was sunk by the British. Photograph: Samuel Scott The wreck of a Spanish galleon laden with...
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