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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 812 posts.
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EFF: forced disclosure of encryption password violates 5th Amendment
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged a federal court in Colorado today to block the government's attempt to force a woman to enter a password into an encrypted laptop, arguing in an amicus brief that it would violate her Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination...
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Selenium 2.0: Out Now
We are very, very pleased to announce the release of Selenium 2.0. If you’ve been waiting for a stable release since 1.0.3, now’s the chance to update. And if you do, what will you find…
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Treating Students as Gifted Yields Impressive Academic Results, Study Finds
Schools that seek to help students who are underrepresented in advanced programs should treat them as gifted young scholars, an approach that can result in many of them actually performing at a gifted level within a few years, according to a U.S. Dept. of Education study of a North Carolina program.
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All about 64-bit programming in one place
Access technologies that use data for modern code, machine learning, big data, analytics, networking, storage, servers, cloud, and more.
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Realtime image processing in Python
Image processing is notoriously a CPU intensive task. To do it in realtime, you need to implement your algorithm in a fast language, hence ...
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Facebook's Three New Products
Learn about Meta: our mission, principles, leadership, who owns the company, apps (Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads) and products like Quest.
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Clojure on Heroku
We're very excited to announce official support for Clojure, going into public beta as of today. Clojure is the third official language supported by Heroku
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The 'intellectual property' oxymoron
“ If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and the…
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Faster JavaScript parsing
Over the past year or so I’ve almost doubled the speed of SpiderMonkey’s JavaScript parser. I did this by speeding up both the scanner ( bug 564369 , bug 584595 , bug 588648 , bug 639420 , bug 645598 ) and the parser ( bug 637549 ). I used patch stacks in several of those bugs, and so in those six bugs I actually…
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Sublime Text 2: Beta
Since the first public Alpha at the end of January, there have been 12 new releases, and many more dev builds. On average, that's a new version every two weeks for the past five months. During this time, Sublime Text 2 has made great strides in functionality, and a correspondingly large increase in users. Sublime Text…
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A preview of Gmail’s new look
Posted by Jason Cornwell, User Experience Designer We get a lot of great feedback about how Gmail helps you be more efficient, keep in to...
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RIM’s Response to 'Open Letter'
Explore expert insights on secure communications from BlackBerry — covering government, critical infrastructure, resilience, compliance, and trusted communications at scale.
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Introducing Babel
Babel is about letting many different languages work together. Programming languages live in code blocks inside natural language Org documents. A piece of data might pass from an Org table to a Python code block, then maybe move on to an R code block, and finally end up embedded as a value in the middle of a paragraph…
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The Noob Guide to Online Marketing
“Get me to page 1 of Google, while emailing our customers a bi-weekly newsletter, engaging influencers on Twitter, maintaining a captive Facebook audience, capturing new leads, and putting out 3 blog posts a week.” Harsh? Yes. Familiar? Definitely. Everything a Non-Marketer Needs to Take a…
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555 Timer footstool
The succinct story of a modest little footstool– involving datasheets, cnc routing, laser engraving, plywood, glue, chips, all-thread, angle grinders, mountains of sawdust, dowel rods, spray paint, and a picture of a cat.
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Global Interpreter Lock, or how to kill it
People that listened to my (Armin Rigo) lightning talk at EuroPython know that suddenly, we have a plan to remove the Global Interpreter Loc...
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Wizards of bullshit: How Forbes turned $6.5 million into $20 billion
Forbes is reporting that Facebook’s Zuckerberg is now richer than the Google’s Sergey and Larry. How did that happen? By using the most naive form of financial extrapolation and calling it fact. Here’s how the financial alchemy works: GSV Capital spent $6.5 million to buy 225,0…
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Google Introducing New Visual Design Across All Products
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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