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How the United Arab Emirates Intelligence Tried to Hire Me to Spy on Its People
Recently, we’ve been overwhelmed with news of horrors, attacks, monsters who murder the innocent in the name of a faith they don’t truly know. I’m publishing t…
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Apple celebrates one billion iPhones
Apple’s CEO Tim Cook announced the company sold its billionth iPhone when speaking at an employee meeting in Cupertino.
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What is the roundest country?
We can define roundness in many ways. For example, as you may know, the circle is the shape that given a fixed perimeter maximizes the area. This definition has many problems. One of the problems is that countries generally have chaotic perimeters (also known as borders), so they tend to be much longer than they seem…
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YC’s Summer Reading
Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
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Bringing ChakraCore to Linux and OS X
In January, we open-sourced ChakraCore, the core of the Chakra JavaScript engine that powers Microsoft Edge and Universal Windows Platform. We expressed our ambition to bring our best-in-class, but Windows-only, JavaScript engine to other platforms, with Linux as the prioritized target. Today at NodeSummit, we are…
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Our statement on the results of the Jacob Appelbaum investigation
Seven weeks ago, I published a blog post saying that Jacob Appelbaum had left the Tor Project,...
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Twitter's Fucked
The Twitter product is defective, broken beyond all hope of repair
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Salary transparency at Stack Overflow
We believe (and developers tell us ) that job seekers should be empowered with as much information as possible when looking for a job – especially salary. So we ran an experiment on Stack Overflow Jobs to see if the evidence would support it. Remarkably, we learned that job listings which include a salary range got…
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Gradient Boosting Explained in 3D
Understanding gradient boosting with interactive 3d-demonstrations
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Anti Mediocracy Manifesto for Software Development
XOScript is a simple server-side scripting language.
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LastPass autofill exploit
Mathias Karlsson decided to check out the security of the LastPass browser extensions. Here's what he found.
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Platform wars: the final score
The platform wars and over and Apple and Google both won. So, what's the score, how many smartphones and tablet are out there, and what should we think about next?
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What makes music sound “good?”
When listening to music, however, we are not just listening to a series of disconnected instants. Instead, the way things sound depends on the notes we have heard. In other words, we integrate over time . One of the most important functions of a musical scale is to limit the overall pitch content of what we're hearing…
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Verifying ARM processors against the official ARM specification
Researcher at Intel
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Employee #1: Apple
Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
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Surround 360 is now open source
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Let's Encrypt now fully supports IPv6
Let’s Encrypt is happy to announce full support for IPv6. As IPv4 address space is exhausted, more and more people are deploying services that are only reachable via IPv6. Adding full support for IPv6 allows us to serve more people and organizations, which is important if we’re going to encrypt the entire Web. IPv6 is…
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Show HN: Web Design in 4 minutes
Learn the basics of web design in 4 minutes with this interactive tutorial.
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How to escape lock-in with a multi-cloud stack
From startups to enterprises, despite material increases in efficiency and the price to performance ratio of the compute, network and storage resources we all use, infrastructure continues to come at substantial cost. It can also be a real risk driver; each implementation choice affects future scalability, service…
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We have an epidemic of bad posture
What happens if you Google “coworking space”? You see people working hard. I see lots of necks, backs, arms, wrist and hands that will need phyiscal therapy in…
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Employee benefits at Basecamp
Our headquarters in Chicago. I’m often asked about the benefits we offer at Basecamp. Potential employees are obviously curious, but most of the questions I get are from fellow business owners…
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Why do so few humans kill themselves?
The always-excellent @ctrlcreep eloquently states a puzzle in 140 characters that it took me lots of words to express previously. This puzzle is expressed at the outset of C. A. Soper’s artic…
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Ember.js 2.7 and 2.8 beta released
Ember.js 2.7, a minor version release of Ember with backwards compatible changes, is released today. Ember.js 2.8 beta is also being released today. This branch will be released as...