Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,456 posts.
Meritocracy is a political philosophy that holds power should be vested in individuals according to merit. Advancement in such a system is based on perceived intellectual talent measured through examination and/or demonstrated achievement in the field where it is implemented.
Recently, main was formally added to the W3C HTML specification. Now that the dust has settled, it's about time we dive in to find out where and when it's appropriate to use main. Let's get started.
This release includes regex string matching, fourteen new array operations, support for random sampling, error handling improvements, support for authentication keys, and over 65 bug fixes, features, and enhancements.
It seems like these days I can’t eat breakfast without reading about some new encryption app that will (supposedly) revolutionize our communications — while making tyrannical regimes fa…
Automatic differentiation is a well-studied technique for computing exact numeric derivatives. Dan Piponi has a great introduction on the subject , but to give you an overview, the idea is that you introduce an algebraic symbol such that but . Formulas involving are called dual numbers (e.g., , ) in much the same way…
In this issue: The Fallacy of Cracking Contests How to Recognize Plaintext News The Doghouse: Iomega Zip Disks Counterpane Systems News Final Report from the Commerce Department Technical Advisory Committee on Key Recovery Comments From Readers About "CRYPTO-GRAM"
If you are 17 or under, a federal prosecutor could have charged you with computer hacking just for reading Seventeen magazine online—until today. It’s not because the law got any better. Earlier today, we wrote about news sites that alarmingly prohibit their youth audiences from accessing the news...
Play Monster Madness to see how it leverages asm.js, a supercharged subset of JavaScript and Web Port of Unreal Engine 3 for a slick, plugin-free multiplay
I got this email today: Hi Matt, I apologize for the cold email. I was researching Automattic , Inc. and wanted to ask you if there was any gaps/pains within your CMS and website. I work for the “R…
I have signed the StopWatching.Us letter today. I am not a US citizen, so even if the letter succeeds, I don’t think my privacy will improve substantially. But at least I did something.
At Open Whisper Systems, we often get emails from people who’d like to donate money to the project. For an OSS project, particularly one that aspires to a collective sense of ownership, handling donations is not always entirely straightforward. The fundamental contradiction is that while donatio...
So far, you’ve focused on becoming famil iar with the tools that Clojure provides: immutable data structures, functions, abstractions, and so on. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to think about your programming tasks in a way that makes the best use of those tools. You’ll begin integrating your experience into a new…
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Intrigued by the Go programming language.
I’ve been programming for quite some time and have explored a variety of programming paradigms along the way. From time to time people will ask 1 which is better: functional programming or object-oriented programming. Having done both extensively in my time I can exclaim a resounding: it depends .
In summer 2013 I traveled to the most isolated country in the world. I've experienced expected and unexpected things. This is my illustrated travel journal.
