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Android Wear now works with iPhones
Just pair your iPhone with an Android Wear watch to bring simple and helpful information right to your wrist.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,426 posts.
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Understanding ETF “Flash Crashes”
Join your peers in reading the latest perspectives and insights from FactSet experts across topics that matter to you.
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Steinway's 600,000th piano, the Fibonacci
The Steinway & Sons Global Website
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Examining the core memory module inside a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe
The IBM 1401 mainframe computer was announced in 1959 and by the mid-1960s had become the best-selling computer , extremely popular with me...
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Chernobyl: the true scale of the accident
A total of up to 4000 people could eventually die of radiation exposure from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (NPP) accident nearly 20 years ago, an international team of more than 100 scientists has concluded.
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OS X Command Line Utilities
The OS X Terminal opens up a world of powerful UNIX utilities and scripts. If you’re migrating from Linux, you’ll find many familiar commands work the way you expect. But power users often aren’t aware that OS X comes with a number of its own text-based utilities not found on any other operating system. Learning about…
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How widely used are security-based HTTP response headers?
In this blog I look at how widespread the usage of common security based HTTP response headers are in the Alexa Top 1 Million most visited sites.
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How the Dutch got their cycling infrastructure (2011)
How did the Dutch get their cycling infrastructure? This question keeps coming back because it is of course relevant to people who want what the Dutch have. Road building traditions go back a long …
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Why telephone keypads are arranged the way they are
Why are the push buttons on a telephone arranged the way they are?
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Linear Algebra: What matrices are
Most high school students in the United States learn about matrices and matrix multiplication, but they often are not taught why matrix multiplication works the way it does. Adding matrices is easy…
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On doing things other people can't
Sources of Power: winning by finding a different game instead of playing the standard one better, and why to pass on that meta-skill.
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A Little Bit of the Manuals
Of the barrage of advice the world was prepared to give me from the vantage point of the Internet, one unique bit of advice came from a long-time collector and rescuer of older computer documentati…
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The Tomb of Queen Esther in Persia
“How much is the taxi to Khomeini Square?” “ Gheymati nadore, it does not cost anything”, the old taxi driver spreads his arms...
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Lock freedom without garbage collection in Rust
It’s widespread folklore that one advantage of garbage collection is the ease of building high-performance lock-free data structures. Manual memory management for these data structures is not easy, and a GC makes it trivial.
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Your Job as a Founder Is to Create Believers
Before we launched HelloSign, I remember showing HelloFax to a family member. This person was normally supportive, but he took a glance and walked away. He wasn't the only one. A lot of people...
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Chip
I made this today while experimenting with cellular automata parameters , and I found it uniquely beautiful. After a while the patterns stabilise and start to look like a kind of constantly-moving circuit diagram. I call it Chip . The source is on GitHub if you're that way inclined.
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Handling App Transport Security in iOS 9
The rollout of iOS 9 is expected to come this Fall and will introduce a new privacy feature called App Transport Security (ATS) to enforce ...
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Go enjoy Python3
Given a string, get a truncated string of length up to 12. The task is ambiguous, as it doesn't say anything about whether or not 12 shou...
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Ghost: $411k Annual Revenue with a team of 6
It's April 2015, our annual run rate is $411,000 - and today we're announcing the Ghost public revenue dashboard, proudly powered by Baremetrics.
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Important Notice Regarding Public Availability of Stable Patches
grsecurity is the only drop-in Linux kernel replacement offering high-performance, state-of-the-art exploit prevention against both known and unknown threats.
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YC Stats
We get asked (a lot) for statistics on the YC portfolio about valuation and fundraising. Although these are very imperfect indicators of success, here they are. All of these companies actually went through a YC batch and got their start with us (e.g. we do not include Quora). Also, the YC application for the next…