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Shortly: a Serverless Pastebin Service - All Data is Stored in the URL
ShortlyShortlyServerless pastebin serviceFork me on GitHubSave as URLPaste code into the text area.Click Save as URL.Copy the URL from the address bar.Share!
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Bitcoin Network Speed 8 Times Faster than Top 500 Supercomputers Combined
The bitcoin network hashrate estimate on bitcoinwatch.com passed 1 exaFLOPS (1,000 petaFLOPS) this week – over 8 times the combined speed of the top 500 supercomputers. Experts will be quick to point...
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Most data isn’t “big,” and businesses are wasting money pretending it is
Big data! If you don’t have it, you better get yourself some. Your competition has it, after all. Bottom line: If your data is little, your rivals are going to kick sand in your face and steal your...
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A Saudi Arabia Telecom's Surveillance Pitch
AboutStoriesBlogSoftwareProjectsBlog>>A Saudi Arabia Telecom's Surveillance PitchMay 13, 2013Last week I was contacted by an agent of Mobily, one of two telecoms operating in Saudi Arabia, about...
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Subreddit connections
In April 2013 I posed the question: has anyone ever tried to perform social network analysis on Reddit by visualising the links between different subreddits? As you can see from the discussion on that...
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Executable Archaeology: The Case Of The Stupid Thing Eating All My RAM
Everyone has had that dreaded experience: you open up the task manager on your computer… and there’s a program name you don’t recognize. It gets worse when you google the name and can’t find a concrete...
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U.S. Secretly Obtains Two Months of A.P. Phone Records
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a...
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Go 1.1 is released
It is our great pleasure to announce the release of Go 1.1.In March last year we released Go 1.0, and since then we have released three minor "point releases". The point releases were made to fix only...
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Terra – a low-level counterpart to Lua
A low-level counterpart to LuaDownload TAR BallView On GitHubGetting StartedAPI ReferencePublicationsZach DeVitozdevito at stanford dot eduTheme by orderedlistTerra is a new low-level system...
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Larry Page posts about his voice
About 14 years ago, I got a bad cold, and my voice became hoarse. At the time I didn’t think much about it. But my voice never fully recovered. So I went to a doctor and was diagnosed with left...
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Turing Drawings
Turing DrawingsTuring DrawingsYour browser does not support the canvas element.Copyright © 2012 Maxime Chevalier-BoisvertAddendum by Darius BaconThis is an asm.js fork of Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert's...
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Mt. Gox Dwolla account frozen by DHS
i've been using okpay for several weeks now without problems at gox as an alternative...there's a withdrawal delay sometimes when gox is out of reserves, though.wire transfer in to okpay usually also...
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Dribbble offline due to Postgres problem
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Give them an inch and they take $773 million
Give them an inch and they take $773,074,040 ◇ notes.unwieldyMay 15, 2013In early 2012, Southwest Airlines began reducing seat pitch—better known as legroom—in their 737s by a single inch, from 32” to...
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Announcing Online MS in Computer Science in Collaboration with Georgia Tech
There are a few moments in my life I will never forget. Like the moment I proposed to my wife, Petra. Or the moment Stanley crossed the finish line in the DARPA Grand Challenge. Today is one of those...
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Kiera Wilmot, student who caused small explosion, won't face charges
Kiera Wilmot, the Polk County girl who caused a small explosion on her high school campus by mixing household products, will not face criminal charges, the State Attorney's Office said Wednesday.Kiera,...
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Show HN: Chrome Extension for the one thing I miss on HN
Makes Hacker News easier to read by adding a bit of color to every story, based on points. Makes Hacker News easier to read by adding a bit of color next to the upvote button besides every story, where...
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FreeCiv now playable as HTML5 game, including on mobile devices
Freeciv-webHomePlay OnlineFreeciv WikiDownloadFreeciv ForumCode on GithubDonate!Freeciv is a Free and Open Source empire-building strategy game inspired by the history of human civilization. The game...
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What I wish systems researchers would work on
I just got back from HotOS 2013 and, frankly, it was a little depressing. Mind you, the conference was really well-organized; there were lots of great people; an amazing venue; and fine work by the...
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Send money with Gmail
Google WalletOverviewBuy In StoresBuy OnlineSend MoneyStay SafeGoogle Wallet is now integrated into Gmail. This means you can securely send money to friends and family in the U.S. - without leaving...
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