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Porsche: The Hedge Fund That Also Made Cars
The story of how Porsche tried and failed miserably at its hostile takeover of Volkswagen.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,419 posts.
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Paint.Net 4.0 is now available
Thanks to everyone who helped out with the extensive alpha and beta releases with all the bug reports, crash log submissions, and general feedback. It has all been a tremendous help in creating the…
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Maintaining digital certificate security
Posted by Adam Langley, Security Engineer On Wednesday, July 2, we became aware of unauthorized digital certificates for several Google ...
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Bizarre Shadowy Paper-Based Payment System Being Rolled Out Worldwide
Or how cash would be described in the press if invented today. Full bitcoin series here : Bizarre Shadowy Paper-Based Payment System Being Rolled Out Worldwide New York, February 17, 2014 World governments announced a plan today to allow citizens to anonymously carry parts
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AWS Frankfurt, Germany Region
It is time to expand the AWS footprint once again, this time with a new Region in Frankfurt, Germany. AWS customers in Europe can now use the new EU (Frankfurt) Region along with the existing EU (Ireland) Region for fast, low-latency access to the suite of AWS infrastructure services. You can now build multi-Region…
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We Invite Everyone at Etsy to Do an Engineering Rotation
At Etsy, it’s not just engineers who write and deploy code - our designers and product managers regularly do too. And now any...
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EFF Asks Judge to Rule NSA Internet Backbone Spying Techniques Unconstitutional
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today presented a federal court with a detailed explanation of how the NSA taps into the Internet backbone and requested the judge rule that the agency is violating the Fourth Amendment by copying and searching the collected data. EFF argues...
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Stuff Goes Bad: Erlang in Anger
Beginning in version 11.8.0, we will be improving the security of the Heroku CLI by storing authentication credentials in your system keychain by default. The Heroku credential manager makes use of OS-native secure storage tools with interfaces designed for sensitive data while maint
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Docker 0.8: Quality, new builder features, btrfs, OSX support
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old immune system
Results in mice are first evidence of natural intervention triggering stem cell-dependent regeneration of organ or system ; p rotection from chemotherapy immunosuppression indicates effect could be conserved in humans.
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Were Intelligence Agencies Using Heartbleed in November 2013?
Yesterday afternoon, Ars Technica published a story reporting two possible logs of Heartbleed attacks occurring in the wild, months before Monday's public disclosure of the vulnerability. It would be very bad news if these stories were true, indicating that blackhats and/or intelligence agencies...
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Oculus Joins Facebook
We started Oculus with a vision of delivering incredible, affordable, and ubiquitous consumer virtual reality to the world. We’ve come a long...
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Use SQL subqueries to count distinct 50x faster
NB: These techniques are universal, but for syntax we chose Postgres. Thanks to the inimitable pgAdminIII for the Explain graphics. So useful, yet so slow
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YC Portfolio Stats
We get asked a lot for statistics on the YC portfolio. Even though some of these aren’t that helpful [1], here is the latest update on the numbers we get asked about the most. As always, all the credit goes to the founders. Total market cap of all YC companies: >$30 billion Total money raised by all YC companies: >$3…
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The World Health Organization calls for the decriminalisation of drug use
Transform Drug Policy Foundation is an independent charity working towards a safer system of legal regulation for all drugs. When we legalise and regulate drugs that are currently illegal we can take the power away from organised crime and establish safety controls.
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Tor exit node operator prosecuted in Austria
June 30th, 2014 marks a turning point for Austria. Not only was the Vorratsdatenspeicherung (data retention) terminated preliminarily for good (no, really), the operation of TOR exit nodes supposedly was also declared a criminal offense by a regional criminal court. The accused was operating a TOR exit node which was…
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The Government is Silencing Twitter and Yahoo, and It Won't Tell Us Why
The government is using shaky legal arguments to silence major Internet companies without giving them – or the public – the opportunity to respond. In three separate recent cases, the government has sent a grand jury subpoena to Yahoo or Twitter and requested a gag order from a magistrate judge, attempting to bar…
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We are throttling the FCC to dialup modem speeds until they pay us for bandwidth
Since the FCC seems to have no problem with this idea, I've (through correspondence) gotten access to the FCC's internal IP block, and throttled all connections from the FCC to 28.8kbps modem speeds on the Neocities.org front site.
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Linux 3.13
Summary of the changes and new features merged in the Linux kernel during the 3.13 development cycle