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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,895 posts.
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My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga
Update 3, Nov 2 2015 (PM): Well, it’s been…strange. First, it seems my account was finally deleted by Livecoding.tv (thank you!) After being up all night with libel posted all over it, hours after Jamie Green (the other Livecoding co-founder) and Sam Altman (Y Combinator president) replied to the Hacker News thread…
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Your own Debian Mail Server (part II): how to prove you are not a spammer
TL;DR: check mail-tester.com or Spam Checker. If you don't get 10/10, read this post. In a previous post, we saw how to configure a Debian mail server with Postfix and Dovecot, but we did not address an important issue: spam. Major e-mail providers are defending their users …
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Locked doors, headaches, and intellectual need
You know those things that, once you learn about them for the first time, you start seeing them absolutely everywhere? Recently, that’s been my experience with problem-solution ordering issues. They keep cropping up: not just in the context of gam...
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Bayesian ranking of items with up and downvotes or 5 star ratings
Evan Miller wrote a great article How Not To Sort By Average Rating . He shows that simple formulas like score = upvotes - downvotes or score = upvotes / (upvotes + downvotes) don’t work. He proposes to use the lower bound of the Wilson score confidence interval. The formula is complicated and somewhat of a hack…
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Breaches, traders, plain text passwords, ethical disclosure and 000webhost
It’s a bit hard to even know where to begin with this one, perhaps at the start and then I’ll try and piece all the bits together as best I can. As you may already know if you’re familiar with this blog, I run the service Have
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How New Long-Range Radios Will Change the Internet of Things
New radios that combine miles of range with years of battery life are changing the way we build and use connected devices. Here’s how.
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Interview Humiliation
(All these great ideas, but no one is listening? Check out my book: Convincing Coworkers )
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Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002
What did people's desktops look like?
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Copy-Pasting URLs from Google Search Can Leak Previous Searches
Note: This information has been disclosed to Google appropriately, they have chosen to not fix this behavior.
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Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?
If you’ve ever been a Homejoy customer this should piss you off. “Fly Maids” has all your data and they seem pretty awful.
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Rreverrse Debugging
rr is the debugger for Rust (et al.) that is is almost too good to be true.
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List of Y Combinator companies I have worked with (hacked)
Background: I have worked with lots of companies as security consultant through bug bounties either I asked them if they need my service or they approached. I’m a big fan of Paul’s essa…
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Why Software Outsourcing Doesn't Work Anymore
Remote and offshore software outsourcing was a perfect business concept ten years ago. Not anymore. Here is why.
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PostgreSQL on the Command Line
Working efficiently with psql
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Intel x86 considered harmful – survey of attacks against x86 over last 10 years
Back in summer I have read a new bookpublished by one of the core Intel architects about the Management Engine (ME).I didn’t quite like what I read there. In...
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Software Is the New Oil
I was with some friends this weekend and one of them was talking about an investment committee meeting he attended and there was a discussion at that meeting about some of the threats out there in the macro investment landscape. One of them was “vanishing liquidity” and the significant change in net cash flows from […]
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Visualizing Docker Containers and Images
This post is meant as a Docker 102 -level post. If you are unaware of what Docker is, or don't know how it compares to virtual machines ...
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Processed meats as bad as cigarettes: bad reporting on good science
Today, the WHO issued a report that says, in essence, processed meats and red meats are carcinogens. This has been reported in a variety of…
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HAproxy in the era of Microservices
Tales of a Software Craftsman