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How Employers Get Out of Paying Their Workers
Employers illegally siphon billions of dollars out of low-wage workers' paychecks each year, but the vast majority of these crimes go unreported.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 16,894 posts.
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Why Mitch McConnell Cannot Be Allowed to Decide the Fate of the Patriot Act
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has made it clear this week that, while the Senate is rapidly approaching recess, the Senate “will stay in [session] until a deal is struck to extend” the Patriot Act. McConnell has also introduced legislation for both long-term and short-term reauthorization...
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Just Don't Hire 0x Engineers
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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WooThemes joins Automattic
Today marks the beginning of the next exciting chapter in our journey as WooThemes: we are joining the Automattic family!
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CoreOS and the the Future of the Internet
Use Equinix Fabric to establish direct, low-latency connections to a variety of services providers.
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A Bitcoin miner in every hand
By Balaji S. Srinivasan (@balajis)
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The Day Google Decided HttpWatch Was ‘Unwanted Software’
This blog post isn’t about HTTP performance or HttpWatch itself but you may find it useful if you advertise a software product with Google Adwords. Hopefully, you’ll also find our conversation with Google amusing! What Happened ? We received an email like this: Subject: Your AdWords account: Ads...
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Meet: Fast way to schedule a one-to-one on the go
Stories about sunrise, sunset, twilight, golden hour, daylight, solar phenomena and travel — published on Sunrise.am.
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The Failure of Agile
I am proud to be one of the 17 founders/authors of the The Agile Manifesto back in 2001. I think it provided a jolt of energy, hope of a better way of doing things, of creating software and making the world work better. It was a pivotal turning point.
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Telegram Hits 2B Messages Sent Daily
This is getting serious. Just 5 months after reaching 1 billion messages , Telegram doubled in user activity — and hit 2 billion messages delivered per day.
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Inspiration vs. Imitation
An indie design engineer based in Brooklyn.
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UN Experts Say TPP and Fast Track Threaten Human Rights
Prominent experts at the United Nations have now indicated that secretive trade agreements such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) undermine human rights around the world, both because of the secretive, corporate-dominated process, and due to the substantive content of the provisions that arise...
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EFF Asks Patent Office to Focus on Protecting Public from Bad Patents
This week, together with Public Knowledge and Engine, EFF submitted written comments to the Patent Office regarding its Patent Quality Initiative. We urge the Patent Office to ensure that this program actually reduces the number of invalid patents being issued. Its quality efforts should serve the...
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Elon Musk Series: Introduction
A post about how Elon Musk became the real world Iron Man.
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The Psychology of Pricing: A Gigantic List of Strategies
Dive into the customer's mind. Read guides. Watch cool videos. Pricing, sales, design, negotiation, and more.
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I would have hired Doug, but...
Philip Greenspun wrote a post on his Harvard blog about MIT grads over 50 having a hard time finding work. In his post he cites a piece I wrote about how I would have hired Doug Engelbart, when I was running my first startup in the 80s. His piece is getting a lot of traffic. That's good. I'm glad people are thinking…
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First Look at the Rift, Shipping Q1 2016
Since the earliest days of the Oculus Kickstarter, the Rift has been shaped by gamers, backers, developers, and enthusiasts around the world....
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“Information asymmetry” cuts both ways
– A Soviet-era political joke according to Wikipedia , though I've only seen it in an English text describing the C++ object model