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Google is joining the Open edX platform
Posted by Dan Clancy, Director of ResearchA year ago, we released Course Builder, an experimental platform for online education at scale. Since the...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,327 posts.
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My startup is Microsoft-based, here's why
Everyone mocks the Microsoft stack until they see the bills. What our .NET and SQL Server setup really costs to run, compared to the cool-kid alternatives.
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Basecamp Personal
Since the beginning, Basecamp has been marketed as a collaboration tool for small businesses (or small groups inside larger businesses). However, over the years we’ve also heard from many thousands of people who use Basecamp outside of work. They’ve turned to Basecamp to help them ma…
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Security releases issued
Posted by James Bennett on Feb. 19, 2013
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RethinkDB 1.8: date support, querying nested objects, 8x disk usage improvements
Michael Lucy ( @mlucy ), an engineer at RethinkDB, introduces these new features in this two-minute video:
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Docker 0.6: Events API, registry improvements, expert mode, security updates.
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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Introducing Trello Gold
Research, expert perspectives, and product announcements from Atlassian on how teams can work smarter with AI. Subscribe for monthly insights on the future of teamwork.
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The Psychedelic Experience FAQ
A Frequently Asked Questions file about Psychedelic Experiences
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“No-fly” trial: Closing arguments
Judge William Alsup convened day five of the trial in Ibrahim v. DHS — the first lawsuit challenging a U.S. government “no-fly” order to make it to trial — on Friday morning with the announcement that, “I received this additional material about the [plaintiff’s] daughter and her attempts to come here.”
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Chromecast: Exploiting the Newest Device By Google
On Wednesday, July 24th Google launched the Chromecast. As soon as the source code hit we began our audit. Within a short period of time we had multiple items to look at for when our devices arrived. Then we received our Chromecasts the following day and were able to confirm that one of the bugs existed in the build…
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GCC 4.8.1 released, C++11 feature complete
The release of GCC 4.8.1 was announced today (31 May 2013) on the gcc mailing list. In addition to many bug fixes, GCC 4.8.1 adds support for C++11 ref-qualifiers, the final missing C++11 feature. This makes GCC the first C++11 [Ed.: language specification] feature complete compiler to be released.
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How secure is HTTPS today? How often is it attacked? (2011)
This is part 1 of a series on the security of HTTPS and TLS/SSL HTTPS is a lot more secure than HTTP! If a site uses accounts, or publishes material that people might prefer to read in private, the site should be protected with HTTPS. Unfortunately, is still feasible for some attackers to break...
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$10,000 Raised for PyLadies at PyCon 2013
In a first-ever event, the PyCon organizers hosted a charity auction with the proceeds benefitting PyLadies , a mentorship group to help bri...
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Memory – Part 4: Intersec’s custom allocators
malloc() is extremely convenient because it is generic. It does not make any assumptions about the context of the allocation and the deallocation. Such allocators may just follow each other, or be separated by a whole job execution. They may take place in the same thread, or not… Since it is generic, each allocation…