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Amazon speaks up about WikiLeaks decision
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Google Kills Wave
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EFF on Apple's iPhone Developer Program Agreement
The entire family of devices built on the iPhone OS (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad) have been designed to run only software that is approved by Apple—a major shift from the norms of the personal computer market. Software developers who want Apple's approval must first agree to the iPhone Developer...
Google's AdSense Revenue Share
Today, in the spirit of greater transparency with AdSense publishers, we’re sharing the revenue shares for our two main AdSense products — A...
Clojure Protocols can extend final Java classes (like java.lang.String)
Clojure is written in terms of abstractions. There are abstractions for sequences, collections, callability, etc. In addition, Clojure supplies many implementations of these abstractions. The abstractions are specified by host interfaces, and the implementations by host classes. While this was sufficient for…
Facebook is not worth $33 billion
Facebook is an amazing success as a social network. Anyone who can get 500 million people to connect, share photos, and click on little cows in Farmville deserves major kudos. But the bullshit monopoly-money valuation merry-go-round has to stop. It’s getting beyond ridiculous and when even…
Unlocking and jailbreaking are now legally protected in the U.S.
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) won three critical exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) anticircumvention provisions today, carving out new legal protections for consumers who modify their cell phones and artists who remix videos — people who, until now...
Appeals Court Holds that Email Privacy Protected by Fourth Amendment
In a landmark decision issued today in the criminal appeal of U.S. v. Warshak, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the government must have a search warrant before it can secretly seize and search emails stored by email service providers. Closely tracking arguments made by EFF in its...
Python is now Python 3
A major Python update has just been moved from the testing repositories and will be available on a mirror near you. The default "python" package is now for the 3.x series while the 2.x series has been moved to a "python2" package, with python-2.7 having been scheduled to be the last major release in the python-2.x…
Amazing feats of Clang Error Recovery
In addition to parsing and generating machine code for your source files when valid, a compiler frontend's job is also to detect invalid code and give you a hint that explains what is wrong so you can fix the problem.
A new approach to China: an update
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Chromium Blog: A New Crankshaft for V8
Today we are introducing Crankshaft, a new compilation infrastructure for V8, Google Chrome’s JavaScript engine. By using aggressive optimi...
Analysis of 50+ requests for my "Offer HN" conversion rate optimization help
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Heroku Node.js Support (experimental)
UPDATE: Node.JS is now officially available on Heroku. Today we’re offering experimental support for node.js to a limited set of users. We know there is a.
The Graphing Calculator Story - a developer who refused to leave
Pacific Tech's Graphing Calculator has a long history. I began the work in 1985 while in school. That became Milo , and later became part of FrameMaker . Over the last twenty years, many people have contributed to it. Graphing Calculator 1.0, which Apple bundled with the original PowerPC computers, originated under…
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Think big with a gig: Our experimental fiber network
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Gtk3 on a HTML5 backend
The last few weeks I've been working on an interesting new idea, hacking out a prototype. The code is not really clean enough for public consumption yet, and a bunch of features are missing. However, its now at the stage where it can be demoed and evaluated. I think the best way to introduce it...