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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,327 posts.
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The Ruby on Rails Tutorial for Rails 4.0 final
News & blog about Learn Enough (including the Ruby on Rails Tutorial)
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Three Planets in Habitable Zone of Nearby Star
A team of astronomers has combined new observations of Gliese 667C with existing data from HARPS at ESO’s 3.6-metre telescope in Chile, to reveal a system with at least six planets. A record-breaking three of these planets are super-Earths lying in the zone around the star where liquid water could exist, making them…
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Ambition can be poison
In the right dose, ambition works wonders. It inspires you to achieve more, to stretch yourself beyond the comfort zone, and provides the motivation to keep going when the going gets tough. Rightfully so, ambition is universally revered. But ambition also has a dark, addictive side that’s …
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Book discovery service: No Names. No Jackets
huayded100 ให้บริการหวยออนไลน์ที่ครบวงจร ตั้งแต่หวยรัฐบาลไทย หวยลาวพัฒนา หวยฮานอย ไปจนถึงหวยหุ้นและยี่กี บาทละ 900-950
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How secure is HTTPS today? How often is it attacked? (2011)
This is part 1 of a series on the security of HTTPS and TLS/SSL HTTPS is a lot more secure than HTTP! If a site uses accounts, or publishes material that people might prefer to read in private, the site should be protected with HTTPS. Unfortunately, is still feasible for some attackers to break...
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EFF: Help Us Protect Mesh Networking From Overbroad Patents
Earlier this year, we announced that along with the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, we were challenging six patent applications that, if granted, could threaten the development of 3D printing technology. We asked you—the community—for help, and your input was...
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Your Feedback Matters – Update on Xbox One
Your Feedback Matters – Update on Xbox One, Xbox One, Xbox, Microsoft
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Creative usernames and Spotify account hijacking
Spotify supports unicode usernames which we are a bit proud of (not many services allow you to have ☃, the unicode snowman, as a username). However, it has also been a reliable source of pain over the years. This is the story of one time when it bit us pretty badly and how we spent Easter dealing with it.
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MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL
It has recently been brought to our attention that the MySQL man pages have been relicensed. The change was made rather silently going from MySQL 5.5.30 to MySQL 5.5.31. This affects all pages in the man/ directory of the source code. You can tell the changes have come during this short timeframe (5.5.30->5.5.31). The…
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Facebook Is Not Blocking Tor Deliberately
A number of users have noticed that Facebook is blocking connections from the Tor network....
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The Constitution Applies When the Government Bans Americans From the Skies
The government does not have the unchecked authority to place individuals on a secret blacklist without providing them any meaningful opportunity to object, the ACLU argued in a brief filed last Friday with the federal district court in Oregon.
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LLVM 3.3 Released
This document contains the release notes for the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure, release 3.3. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including major improvements from the previous release, improvements in various subprojects of LLVM, and some of the current users of the code. All LLVM releases may be downloaded from the…
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