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The Big Data Brain Drain: Why Science is in Trouble
Update, August 2014: see Hacking Academia , my most recent reflection on this subject.
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Beginner's Guide to Wi-fi Interception
You know how security people get all uppity about SSL this and SSL that? Stuff like posting creds over HTTPS isn’t enough, you have to load login forms over HTTPS as well and then you can’t send auth cookies over HTTP because they’ll get sniffed and sessions
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A PRISM-inspired Google Doodle
Google is watching you...
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What the smartest people do on the weekend, everyone else will do in 10 years
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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Some Notes About Time
This is a trade-off: you can't represent a leap second, and your time is guaranteed to go backwards. On the other hand, every day has exactly 86,400 seconds, and you don't need a table of all previous and future leap seconds in order to format Unix time as human-preferred hours-minutes-seconds.
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Everything you wanted to know about SQL injection (but were afraid to ask)
This content is now available in the Pluralsight course "Ethical Hacking: SQL Injection" [http://www.pluralsight.com/courses/ethical-hacking-sql-injection]Put on your black hats folks, it’s time to learn some genuinely interesting things about SQL injection. Now remember – y’all play nice with the bits and
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Deep Learning 101
Deep learning has become something of a buzzword in recent years with the explosion of 'big data', 'data science', and their derivatives mentioned in the media. Justifiably, deep learning approaches have recently blown other state-of-the-art machine learning methods out of the water for standardized problems such as…
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Apple Developer Center still down
It’s now been almost three full days. I don’t know anything about their infrastructure, but for a web service to be down this long with so little communication, most “maintenance” or migration theories become very unlikely.
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How an unsigned rapper changed music
The relationship between label and talents has been drastically changed, and if we don’t see an adequate response on both sides, the music industry might never be the same.
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How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners
Here’s version 2 (September 2013). You can print this at 16.5″x10.75″ at 300dpi. Have an ordinary printer? Check out PosteRazor !
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Underscore Price Dynamics
Every iOS developer needs to listen to _DavidSmith’s most recent podcast episode, Real World Price Dynamics with Lauren Smith (it’s just 22 minutes).
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How Advanced Is the NSA's Cryptanalysis, and Can We Resist It?
The latest Snowden document is the US intelligence ‘black budget.’ There’s a lot of information in the few pages the Washington Post decided to publish, including an introduction by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. In it, he drops a tantalizing hint: ‘Also, we are investing in groundbreaking…
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Verizon, caught red-handed
Verizon has now on multiple occasions refused to connect my Google Nexus 7 LTE tablet, though the device was publicized widely as working on Verizon and...
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DigitalOcean Sucks. Use DigitalOcean
Published: 19-11-2013 | Author: Remy van Elst | Text only version of this article
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