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How Instagram closed my account and gave it to a football celebrity
My name is Andrés Iniesta and my only mistake was having the exact name and last name as a famous football player.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,426 posts.
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Finding MongoDB instances without any authentication
I would like to take a moment to discuss databases. Most people use Shodan to find devices that have web servers, but for a few years now I've also been crawling the Internet for various database software. I usually mention this during my talks and I've tried to raise awareness
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A mixed-format, mixed-architecture, mixed-sided diskette (2008)
As an IBM PC historian, one aspect of my hobby is archiving gaming software. (You can take that statement to mean anything you want — whatever you think of, you’re probably right.) At…
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If David Cameron bans secure encryption he can't intercept
8:30 : Wake up and get out of bed. Open the curtains to see the sun shining, put a dressing gown on and go downstairs to make some coffee.
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The self-hating web developer
I frequent /r/learnprogramming to help answer both technical and career oriented questions about programming. It's an extremely gratifying use of time.
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Goodbye, OpenStack
I just removed myself from every OpenStack mailing list and meetup. I’m sure I’ll still use it, but I don’t see myself as part of that community any longer. When I was at DreamHost, I really felt like part of that community and that I could help make it better. However, in the three years since I’ve left DreamHost, I…
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Intellectual pursuits may buffer the brain against addiction
Mice engaged in stimulating activities were less likely to seek out cocaine
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Introducing Incremental
I’m pleased to announce the release of Incremental (well commented mli here), a powerful library for building self-adjusting computations, i.e., computations...
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Must Be This Tall to Write Multi-Threaded Code
David Baron put this up in Mozilla’s San Francisco office a while back:
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Homejoy says goodbye
Homeaglow is the easiest way to find a great house cleaner!
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How I optimised my life to make my job redundant
If you’re a regular reader, you may have noticed a rather major job change on my behalf [https://www.troyhunt.com/2015/05/so-dust-has-finally-settled.html] recently. The day to day office grind has gone and corporate life is now well and truly behind me, where
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Designing a Programming Language
Programming languages come in a variety of different paradigms. Even so, there tend to be two main camps along the language front. There are static languages and there are dynamic languages. To avoid too much history and any sort of in-depth analysis, this article will simplify things with a number of assumptions. One…
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Pyxley: Python Powered Dashboards
Web-based dashboards are the most straightforward way to share insights with clients and business partners. For R users, Shiny provides a framework that allows data scientists to create interactive web applications without having to write Javascript, HTML, or CSS. Despite Shiny’s utility and success as a dashboard…
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RethinkDB 2.1 beta: automatic failover with Raft
The upcoming 2.1 release will introduce important improvements , including support for automatic failover. Although we’re still hard at work on the finishing touches that will make the new features ready for production use, the beta offers an opportunity to get an early look.
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The Web’s Cruft Problem
The Web's Cruft Problem is out. Stay connected to Telerik Blogs for .NET, JavaScript, cross-platform app development (and beyond) news and tutorials.
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GCC 5.2 released
Command-line optimization and target options are now streamed on a per-function basis and honored by the link-time optimizer. This change makes link-time optimization a more transparent replacement of per-file optimizations. It is now possible to build projects that require different optimization settings for…
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How to learn data science
What's the best way to learn data science? This guide will show you how to learn data science and stay motivated.
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Buenos Aires Censors and Raids the Technologists Fixing Its E-Voting System
Buenos Aires is currently in the middle of electing its mayor and city council. With a first round that took place on July 5th, and a second round due on July 19th, the election is the first time Argentina's capital city has used an electronic voting system called Vot.ar, created by local company...
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1.5 TB of Dark Net Market scrapes
Mirrors of ~89 Tor-Bitcoin darknet markets & forums 2011–2015, and related material.
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Why “Whiplash” Won an Oscar for Best Editing
whiplash (n): 1. the lash of a whip. 2. an abrupt snapping motion or change of direction resembling the lash of a whip. 3. a neck injury caused by a sudden ...
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Victory for CloudFlare Against SOPA-like Court Order
Striking a blow against the continuing effort to force service providers to serve as IP police, CloudFlare and EFF have pushed back against a court order that would have required CloudFlare to monitor its service to enforce a trademark held by a group of music labels. Last week, Judge Alison J....