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Obsession

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Show HN: LeanReviews - quick reviews for almost anything

[{"text": "thoroughly researched", "size": 25}, {"text": "based on facts", "size": 12}, {"text": "brilliant", "size": 115}, {"text": "makes you think", "size": 32}, {"text": "somewhat cryptic", "size":...

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Wildfire.py - Self-modifying Python bytecode

#!/usr/bin/env python# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-## wildfire.py - Self-modifying Python bytecode: w.i.l.d.f.i.r.e# Copyright (C) 2013 Axel "0vercl0k" Souchet - http://www.twitter.com/0vercl0k## This program...

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I long for the future where I can safely assume my passwords are stolen

The security professional in myself wants to believe that recent Living Social breach is teaching us all one thing — our credentials on any web site are very vulnerable. If Bob Smith can get my...

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After 25 years in jail, the Internet blew my mind

This article originally appeared on The Daily Dot. The Internet did not exist when I began serving my prison sentence, in 1987. I didn’t have direct access to the Internet as it dawned onto popular...

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Light Table 0.4 released

28 Apr 2013Today, I'm proud to announce the 0.4 release of Light Table - go download it!A bit of the future.With this release our goal was to bring more people into the fold, to increase the number of...

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How to retire in 10 years

My senior year of college, I began preparing for a life of financial independence. I got a job, made a budget, and set aside some savings like anyone educated would do. My first year after graduation,...

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The McDonald's Theory of Bad Ideas

I use a trick with co-workers when we’re trying to decide where to eat for lunch and no one has any ideas. I recommend McDonald’s.An interesting thing happens. Everyone unanimously agrees that we can’t...

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Limiting Antibiotics in Animals

Connect With Us on TwitterFor Op-Ed, follow @nytopinion and to hear from the editorial page editor, Andrew Rosenthal, follow @andyrNYT.Re “Resistant Bacteria in Meat” (letter, nytimes.com, April 24):As...

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The MEAN Stack: MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS and Node.js

 April 30, 2013This is a guest post from Valeri Karpov, a MongoDB Hacker and co-founder of the Ascot Project. A few weeks ago, a friend of mine asked me for help with PostgreSQL. As someone who’s been...

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Path texts my entire phonebook at 6 AM

Last night I went to bed blissfully unaware of the catastrophic faux pas I made earlier in the day – I signed up to Path, the social network/private messaging service.For anybody who hasn’t used it...

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DWP because older is better (obviously)

Your browser does not have JavaScript enabled. Please change your browser setting if you want to use this service.This page explains:what software you need to use this servicehow to print your...

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Show HN: Automatic weekly meal planner, also plans your leftovers

Generator tourThis overview of the generator's features will help you quickly build your ideal diet plan.Calorie calculatorFind the calorie calculator by clicking "Not sure?" This helps you estimate...

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Memcache top

mobocracy:We rely on memcache pretty heavily at Tumblr, with over 10TB of cache memory available across the stack. One of the things we’ve historically had a challenging time with at Tumblr is finding...

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What if Bayes' rule was as simple as an if statement?

editPosted by Eric Kidd Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:11:00 GMTPart 3 of Refactoring Probability Distributions.(Part 1: PerhapsT, Part 2: Sampling functions)A very senior Microsoft developer who moved to Google...

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How government sites should be designed

Manchester City Council HomepageWe use cookies on your computer or mobile device to help make this website better. You can change your cookie settings at any time. Otherwise, we'll assume you're OK to...

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How I Made Video Streaming 20x More Efficient with Python and C

IntroPorn is a big industry. There aren’t many sites on the Internet that can rival the traffic of its biggest players.And juggling this immense traffic is tough. To make things even harder, much of...

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Animated Vector Icons

LivIcons - Exclusive Truly Animated Icon Pack!LivIconsOverviewIcon listVideo PreviewFeaturesExamplesIntegrationCustomizerTruly animated icon pack with power of scalable vector graphic for clean and...

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Tesla Model S Suspension Walkaround

At first it was easy to see Tesla as another EV propulsion system company, an upstart startup that made waves by bolting its very impressive electric powertrain into a modified Lotus Elise. But there...

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The Whole Problem Is That There Is No Housing Boom In Silicon Valley

Apple employees walk toward Apple headquarters to attend co-founder Steve Jobs' memorial service in Cupertino, Calif., on Oct. 19, 2011.Photo by KIMIHIRO HOSHINO/AFP/Getty ImagesThe enormous wealth...

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