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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,426 posts.
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Unit Economics
Commentators are looking hard for what’s wrong with startups in Silicon Valley. First they talked about valuations being too high. Then they talked about valuations not really meaning anything. ...
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Let’s Write a Firefox Web Extension
You might have heard about Mozilla's WebExtensions, our implementation of a new browser extension API for writing multiprocess-compatible add-ons. Maybe you've been wondering what it was about, and how you ...
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The Linguistics of Writing an Email Like a Boss
Finally, statistical proof that bosses write the darndest emails.
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The Jason Bourne Aesthetic
“The difference between something that can go wrong and something that can’t possibly go wrong is that when something that can’t possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.” –Douglas Adams
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Implementing Levenshtein Automata
Thanks to Ken Hironaka for kindly taking a lot of time to read and fix countless errors in this blog post!
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Improved Digital Certificate Security
Posted by Stephan Somogyi, Security & Privacy PM, and Adam Eijdenberg, Certificate Transparency PM On September 14, around 19:20 GMT, Syma...
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Denying Problems When We Don’t Like the Solutions
There may be a scientific answer for why conservatives and liberals disagree so vehemently over the existence of issues like climate change and specific types of crime.A new study from Duke University finds that people will evaluate scientific evidence based on whether they view its policy implications as politically…
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Nothing Is Agreed Yet – We Can Still Stop the TPP's Copyright Trap
Trade negotiators have a saying—that nothing is agreed until everything is agreed. What that means is that despite all of the deals that has been struck in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations so far, they remain tentative until each country signs off on the final agreement. A...
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Popular Chinese iOS apps compromised in malware attack
自2011年以来用技术对抗审查。我们使用AI监控审查并在全球范围内扩大言论自由。
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Random Forests
It’s very common for machine learning practitioners to have favorite algorithms. It’s a bit irrational, since no algorithm strictly…
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Ben Horowitz’s Best Startup Advice
Ben Horowitz is undoubtedly one of the most well-respected and successful venture capitalists in Silicon Valley. He’s known for being both…
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Just doesn’t feel good
I’ve pulled Peace from the App Store. I’m sorry to all of my fans and customers who bought this on my name, expecting it to be supported for longer than two days. It’ll keep working for a long time if you already have it, but with no updates.
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Official Kubernetes on CoreOS Guides and Tools
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
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The Hardest chess problem in the world?
Hebden Bridge Chess Club members will be well acquainted with my passion for digging up chess curiosities from across the ‘interweb’. Recent...
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0.4.1: Introducing Parse
One of the greatest feature of the Rebol language has always been its parsing engine, simply called Parse. It is an amazing piece of des...
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Candy Japan hit with credit card fraud
What is credit card fraud, how we noticed it and how it impacted our business.
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How to Write Unmaintainable Code (1999)
In the interests of creating employment opportunities in the Java programming field, I am passing on these tips from the masters on how to write code that is so difficult to maintain, that the people who come after you will take years to make even the simplest changes. Further, if you follow all these rules…
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The sad state of web app deployment
I spent a good chunk of the last four days installing an Internet web forum, which claims it can be up and running in 30 minutes. I like to think I’m pretty alright at computers. So what went wrong here? Well let me tell you.
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Disabling SSLv3 and RC4
Posted by Adam Langley, Security Engineer As the previously announced transition to SHA-256 certificates is nearing completion, we are p...
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