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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,426 posts.
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Signal for Android: RedPhone and TextSecure in one app
Today we’ve started rolling out Signal for Android, which unites simple private messaging and simple private calling into a single app on Android. This is the culmination of our effort to combine TextSecure and RedPhone into one app, which we began on iPhone and are now bringing to completion on ...
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Apple’s Dev Agreement Means No EFF Mobile App for iOS
Today we launched a new app that will make it easier for people to take action on digital rights issues using their phone. The app allows folks to connect to our action center quickly and easily, using a variety of mobile devices. Sadly, though, we had to leave out Apple devices and the folks who...
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Making Elm faster and friendlier in 0.16
A delightful language with friendly error messages, great performance, small assets, and no runtime exceptions.
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Call Me Maybe: Chronos
Chronos is a distributed task scheduler (cf. cron) for the Mesos cluster management system. In this edition of Jepsen , we’ll see how simple network interruptions can permanently disrupt a Chronos+Mesos cluster
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The Mathematics of Paul Graham's Bias Test
A major problem in detecting biased decisionmaking is the problem of unknown inputs. For example, suppose a venture capitalist has a public portfolio which has funded 75% male founders and 25% female. Is this venture capitalist biased against women? It's impossible to know - perhaps only 10% of his applicants were …
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Raspberry Pi Zero Hidden in an Xbox Controller
I like to tinker. My wife picked me up the new Raspberry Pi Zero. It's an ultra small and ridiculously cheap computer. How small and cheap? They give it away free on the cover of magazines... Terence Eden is on Mastodon@edentIf you hurry down to WHSmith in Oxford, there are still a few @TheMagP1 copies left.❤️ 3💬 0🔁…
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Don't bother creating a mobile app
Lessons learned spending one year creating and improving our mobile app.
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The Hardest chess problem in the world?
Hebden Bridge Chess Club members will be well acquainted with my passion for digging up chess curiosities from across the ‘interweb’. Recent...
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Anti-Patterns Every Programmer Should Be Aware Of
A discussion of software design and programming anti-patterns to know for every programmer, with examples.
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Introducing 1Password for Teams
The ultimate password keeper for business, 1Password simplifies team security. Secure your company's data with our business password vault.
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I Gave My Child Autism
This website is for sale! backfromnature.org is your first and best source for information about backfromnature. Here you will also find topics relating to issues of general interest. We hope you find what you are looking for!
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Redis Geo
Note (version) : I wrote this originally as a Redis module in early 2014, then Redis included a modified version directly into official Redis releases in 2016. Note (implementation) : The implementation included with Redis 3.2+ changed some parameter orderings from my original (intentional, well-thought-out) design…
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The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work
Abstract: Cryptography rearranges power: it configures who can do what, from what. This makes cryptography an inherently political tool, and it confers on the field an intrinsically moral dimension. The Snowden revelations motivate a reassessment of the political and moral positioning of cryptography. They lead one to…
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Elixir vs. Erlang: a question of momentum
I fiddled around with Erlang the first time a number of years ago, and have come back to it off and on ever since. I’m currently using it professionally, and enjoying the experience a lot. …
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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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There are now at least eight Chromium-based Android default browsers
Google Chrome is not the default browser on Android 4.3+. There are now at least eight Chromium-based Android default browsers, and they are all subtly, though not wildly, different.
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