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Rethinkdb Postmortem
layouttitleWhen we announced that RethinkDB is shutting down, I promised to write a post-mortem. I took some time to process the experience, and I can now write about it clearly.In the HN discussion...
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Detailed VPN Comparison Chart
This website is temporarily unable to service your request as it has exceeded it’s resource limit. Please check back shortly. If you are the owner of the account and are regularly seeing this error,...
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Regular Expression Denial of Service and Catastrophic Backtracking
Regular expressions are incredibly powerful, but you would be hard pressed to find anyone who believes they’re very intuitive. Sure, there’s that one developer you know who’s excellent at it, but most...
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Airbus CEO sees 'flying car' prototype ready by end of year
Airbus Group Chief Executive Tom Enders speaks during a news conference on the aerospace group's annual results, in London, Britain February 24, 2016. REUTERS/Hannah McKay
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Frankly, do we give a damn…? Study finds links between swearing and honesty
Profanity is obscene language which, in some social settings is considered inappropriate and unacceptable. It often refers to language that contains sexual references, blasphemy or other vulgar terms....
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ImageOptim alpha adds SVG support
1.7.0a2Warning! This is an unstable preview version of ImageOptim and it may be buggy!SVG optimizatinos via SVGO.In this alpha build you must have Node.js 7 installed in /usr/local/bin/node and enable...
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Archaeologists and Metal Detectorists Find Common Ground
Many archaeologists consider metal detectorists looters who shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near their labs or dig sites, but Dr. McBride has a different view.“It’s a real ongoing debate in the...
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Show HN: Java SDK to Integrate Multiple Services with Just One API
README.mdIntegrate Multiple Services With Just One APICloudRail is an API integration solution which abstracts multiple APIs from different providers into a single and universal interface.Current...
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What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining a Unicorn
Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered...
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DMARC Secured Your Email Identity but Broke Mailing Lists
Just 10 lines of python 3 code show email's biggest problem:from email.mime.text import MIMEText msg = MIMEText('Just wanted to show you https://hacker.com/') msg['Subject'] = 'Victim - let me show you...
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Galileo satellites experiencing multiple clock failures
Image copyrightESAImage caption Artwork: The European Commission is about to place an order for more Galileo spacecraftThe onboard atomic clocks that drive the satellite-navigation signals on Europe's...
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Java 8: New features in ConcurrentHashMap
The java.util.concurrent got a massive overhaul with the release of Java 8.We’ve been introduced to whole new classes like CompletableFuture that brought a long awaited improvement to asynchronous...
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Chinese Officials Selling Every Kind of Personal Data Online
Back in 2015, Techdirt wrote about a government project in China that involves "citizen scores," a rating system that will serve as a measure of a person's political compliance. The authorities aim to...
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Self-segregation: how a personalized world is dividing Americans
It’s a fact: while Americans have countless tools with which to connect with one another, we are also watching fragmentation, polarization, and de-diversification happen en masse. The American public...
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Show HN: CloudBoost – Open-Source Parse, Firebase and Algolia Combined into One
README.mdCloudBoost is the Complete NoSQL Database Service for your app. Think of CloudBoost as Parse + Firebase + Algolia + Iron.io all combined into one :Data-Storage / JSON Storage / BLOB...
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Curl hearts Mozilla
Today Mozilla revealed the new logo and “refreshed identity”. The new Mozilla logo uses the colon-slash-slash sequence already featured in curl’s logo as I’ve discussed previously here from back before...
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Ready for Realtime and Scale: Announcing Realm Mobile Platform 1.0
Today we’re very proud to announce that Realm Mobile Platform 1.0 is now generally available and ready for production use cases ranging from the very smallest to those with massive scale. We’ve been...
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Interview with Chris Lattner [audio]
Sponsored by:Audible: With Audible, you’ll find what you’re looking for. Get a free 30-day trial.Eero: Finally, Wi-Fi, that works. Use code ATP for free expedited shipping.Squarespace: Build it...
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Ask HN: The WSJ paywall workaround no longer works. Why are their links allowed?
A few points: 1) The workaround works for me if I open an incognito chrome window and copy/paste the "web" link from HN. It doesn't work w/o incognito.2) If the article gets upvotes, then enough people...
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Who is Anna-Senpai, the Mirai Worm Author?
On September 22, 2016, this site was forced offline for nearly four days after it was hit with “Mirai,” a malware strain that enslaves poorly secured Internet of Things (IoT) devices like wireless...
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