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Two.js
Two.js is a two-dimensional drawing api geared towards modern web browsers. It is renderer agnostic enabling the same api to draw in multiple contexts: svg, canvas, and webgl.Two.js requires...
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Traffic From Syria Disappears From Internet
At around 18:45 UTC OpenDNS resolvers saw a significant drop in traffic from Syria. On closer inspection it seems Syria has largely disappeared from the Internet.The graph below shows DNS traffic from...
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Coinbase Nabs $5M in Biggest Funding for Bitcoin Startup
By Sarah E. NeedlemanEleven-month-old startup Coinbase announced Tuesday the largest funding round to date for a Bitcoin startup, a $5 million investment led by Union Square Ventures.Gary TanBrian...
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Plot.ly: Think Matlab for the Web
Copy & paste data directlyonto a Plotly graph.Try with this sample data: 0.000,0.000,0.866,0.866 0.100,0.153,0.915,0.762 0.200,0.297,0.940,0.643 0.300,0.428,0.940,0.513 0.400,0.543,0.918,0.375...
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John Carmack starting port of Wolf 3D in Haskell
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Why Isn't Gatsby in the Public Domain?
When The Great Gatsby rolls out to theaters across the country this weekend, it will bring to the screen a story familiar to millions from a literary classic that's often dubbed the proverbial "Great...
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Aaron Greenspan sues Facebook, Sequoia, Andreesen, YC, others
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How the Syrian Electronic Army Hacked The Onion
This is a write-up of how the Syrian Electronic Army hacked The Onion. In summary, they phished Onion employees’ Google Apps accounts via 3 seperate methods.The SEA began by sending phishing emails to...
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Microsoft to pay $1 billion to buy the digital assets of Nook Media LLC
Microsoft is offering to pay $1 billion to buy the digital assets of Nook Media LLC, the digital book and college book joint venture with Barnes & Noble and other investors, according to internal...
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Tesla Smashes Earnings And Revenue Expectations
Robert Scoble / FlickrElectric car maker Tesla will release its first quarter financial results after the closing bell. Analysts are looking for a profit of $0.03 per share. Last month, Tesla founder...
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Why I'm Furious with Silicon Valley (2011)
Why I'm Furious with Silicon ValleyThe sad tale of a boy who cried "regulation!"June 14, 2011Also published on QuoraTopics = {Financial Regulation+Payments+Silicon Valley}We've reached the moment of...
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Too Busy To Read? - General James 'Mad Dog' Mattis Email Is A Must Read For You
APIn the run up to Marine Gen. James Mattis deployment to Iraq in 2004, a colleague (presumably a junior) wrote to him asking about the importance of reading military history for an officer, those of...
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Cyberthieves Looted A.T.M.’s of $45 Million in Just Hours
It was a huge bank heist – but a 21st-century version in which the robbers never wore ski masks, threatened a teller or set foot in a vault.Yet, in two precision operations that involved people in more...
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The Truth About Reddit
1. Reddit has become, simply put, mainstream media.As noted in Ad Age recently, Reddit closed out 2012 with more than 37 billion page views and 400 million unique visitors. Even people who don't check...
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10 years later, ‘Star Wars Kid’ speaks out
In an exclusive with L’actualité, Ghyslain Raza talks for the first time about the infamous video and the dangers of cyberbullyingby macleans.ca on Thursday, May 9, 2013 8:52am - VIEW IN CLEAN READING...
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Show HN: Remove backgrounds from images online
Upload ImageDrag your image onto the drop-zone above, or choose a file using the button.Images with sharp boundaries between contrasting foreground and background work best.We're working on handling...
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A bill in Congress legalizes cell phone unlocking and fixes the DMCA
A bill called the "The Unlocking Technology Act" has been introduced today (May 9th) that would completely fix Section 1201 of the DMCA, making unlocking and jailbreaking cell phones, tablets, and game...
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Scientology Is Terrible At Photoshop
[UPDATE: Check out the Photoshop job by the church, after the jump!]Yesterday’s events in Portland turned out to be a riot here at the blog as we followed the adventures of Mark “Wise Beard Man”...
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A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009)
1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not impressed due to the lack of tail call recursion, concurrency, or...
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New Closed-Captioning Glasses Help Deaf Go Out To The Movies
Sony's Entertainment Access Glasses, seen here in a prototype image, display captions for deaf and hard-of-hearing moviegoers.Sony EntertainmentThere will be a special attraction for deaf people in...
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