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Leap Motion: Amazing, Revolutionary, Useless
I desperately want it to work, don't you? Just like Minority Report. You wave ...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,456 posts.
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Introducing Google Helpouts
We want to use the convenience of the web to enable everyone to easily connect with someone who can help.
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Rebuilding a simplified Firefox logo
Sean Martell Creative Lead at Mozilla, Transmogrifier of vectors, animator of GIFs, CSS eyebrow waggler, ketchup chip expert, lover of thick cut bacon.
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Hacking strength: Gaining muscle with least resistance
Then, after realizing I was too weak to lift my son and his wheelchair in and out of the car, I spent just over a year gaining strength and muscle.
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What I learned from others' shell scripts
I am big fan of shell scripts and so love to learn interesting stuff from other's shell scripts. Recently I came across the authy-ssh scripts which eases two-factor authentication for ssh servers. When I walk through scripts, I learned lot of cool things that I am going to share it with you.
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An engineer's emergency kit business card
NEW! You can now buy a version of this board! (Read more .) Circuit board business cards have been done . But since circuit boards ...
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How I attacked a fellow student
I’m a college student studying abroad at the University of Pennsylvania, studying a mixture of CS, Physics and Music. This semester I decided to take a course CIS551: Network and Computer Security, eager to learn about the field. This is the story of how as part of the course, I compromised the security of one […]
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New kernel.org
If you are a developer located around Beijing, or if your connection to Beijing is faster and more reliable than to locations outside of China, then you may benefit from the new git.kernel.org mirror kindly provided by Code Aurora Forum at https://kernel.source.codeaurora.cn/ . This is …
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Introducing Heroku Fork
An application is more than source code - it’s executables, generated assets, runtime environments, dependencies, configuration, running processes, backing
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The madness of the bailout in Cyprus
Last night the finance ministers of the eurozone decided on a bailout package for Cyprus. The small country with around 1 million inhabitants has an overstretched banking sector that is in dire straits. The primary reason for this is that the Cypriotic banks hold a lot of Greek sovereign debt – debt that took a…
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What to do if a bubble is starting
Maybe now we’re actually in the early stages of a startup bubble. Valuations are trending up again. And no one is talking about a bubble anymore, so it could be happening. Many companies still...
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Twitter? It’s Not Fun Anymore
How To Be A Good Twitter Citizen Improve your presence & interaction, minimise your chance of appearing on Twit Cleaner reports.
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Elsevier steps up its War On Access
I thought Elsevier was already doing all it could to alienate the authors who freely donate their work to shore up the corporation’s obscene profits. The thousands of takedown notices sent to…
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Samsung's exFAT Linux driver officially released as GPL
Conservancy's GPL Compliance Project for Linux Developers is pleased to announce its role in assisting Samsung in a recent public compliance issue. The compliance issue was brought to Conservancy's attention when source code of an exFAT filesystem driver for Linux was unintentionally released via GitHub, and…
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Vi Hart on Stravinsky's Atonal Compositions [video]
What experimental composers have to do with copyright wrongs and the neuroscience of language.
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Yeoman 1.0 Released
Get started and then find a generator for your webapp. Generators are available for Angular , Backbone , React , Polymer and over 5600+ other projects .
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Nginx Load Balancing Basics
Nginx is a powerful high performance web server with a lot of features that can help high load projects to overcome their problems. Here you can see a particular feature of Nginx that allows you to load balance the traffic across multiple external and internal(on same hardware) servers. Load
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Data looks better naked
Rather than dressing data up, strip it down—remove to improve.