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For a Long Life, Retire in Manhattan
PhotoCredit Todd Heisler/The New York Times In his famous essay about New York, E. B. White distinguished among three cities and three types of New Yorkers. The first two — the city belonging to people...
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Reverse Network Effects: Why Todays Social Networks Can Fail as They Grow Larger
Network effects are the holy grail for Internet startups looking for venture-scale returns. On a platform with network effects, the value to a user increases as more users use it. Facebook, Twitter,...
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The FBI’s Approach to the Cyber Threat
Remarks as delivered.Good morning everybody. Thank you for the introduction. Thank you for the opportunity to share some thoughts with you. Let me start by thanking Symantec for putting this event on...
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I lost my OpenBSD full-disk encryption password
The other day I set up a new OpenBSD instance with a nice RAID array, encrypted with Full Disk Encryption. And promptly proceeded to forget part of the passphrase.We know things get interesting when I...
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Philae Found
Philae found5 September 2016 Less than a month before the end of the mission, Rosetta’s high-resolution camera has revealed the Philae lander wedged into a dark crack on Comet...
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Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in responsiveness
Earlier this summer I wrote about Mozilla’s efforts to rollout a multi-process architecture, codename Electrolysis, for Firefox. In the months since, Mozilla has completed its initial tests on 1...
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A Design Defect Is Breaking iPhone 6 Pluses
People all over the world mail their broken iPhones to microsoldering specialist Jessa Jones. Aided by powerful microscopes and precision soldering irons, experts like Jessa pluck tiny chips off logic...
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Leaked Catalog Reveals a Vast Array of Military Spy Gear Offered to U.S. Police
A confidential, 120-pagecatalogue of spy equipment, originating from British defense firm Cobham and circulated to U.S. law enforcement, touts gear that can intercept wireless calls and text messages,...
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The Drug of Choice for the Age of Kale
The day after Apollo 14 landed on the moon, Dennis and Terence McKenna began a trek through the Amazon with four friends who considered themselves, as Terence wrote in his book “True Hallucinations,”...
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Impact of metadata on Image Performance
A typical JPEG file contains a lot more information than just the bytes required to store image data. A JPEG file also has a lot of metadata in each file containing auxiliary information about the...
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Intel acquires Movidius
5 September 2016Today, I’m excited to announce the planned acquisition of Movidius by Intel. Movidius’ mission is to give the power of sight to machines. As part of Intel, we’ll remain focused on this...
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Getting to Bootstrap v4
Getting to v4 · Issue #20631 · twbs/bootstrap · GitHubSkip to content You can't perform that action at this time.You signed in with another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session.You signed out...
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Is HTTP Public Key Pinning Dead?
I have a confession to make: I fear that HTTP Public Key Pinning (HPKP, RFC 7469)—a standard that was intended to bring public key pinning to the masses—might be dead. As a proponent of a fully...
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Why Remote Work Should Change Startup Culture
Remote work seems to be all the rage in hiring these days, but just because you’re hearing a lot about it doesn’t mean that companies are more willing to adopt it. Companies with cultures that value...
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Dolphin Emulator – Booting the Final GameCube Game
Every single GameCube game can at least boot in Dolphin 5.0. Except one. Star Wars: The Clone Wars and its complex way of using the PowerPC Memory Management Unit rendered it unplayable in Dolphin up...
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Krypton Abandons Ethereum-Based Blockchain After 51% Attack
Stephanie Kent, Krypton’s founder, working from a convenience store after having lost power in her home due to the Florida hurricane, Hermine.The world of cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin and...
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Vidpresso (YC W14) is hiring entry / mid-level JavaScript developers
We're looking for someone who likes to take ownership of a project, and see it through to completion, with or without supervision. Our stack is like 2 months old, and is frontend heavy… React +...
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Most Depressed Adults in the U.S. Remain Untreated
By Will Boggs MDNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Most adults in the U.S. who screen positive for depression are not being treated for depression, according to results from Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys...
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Students at Berlin University Build Chess Game on Ethereum
A group of students from the Technical University of Berlin (TU) has created a chess game on Ethereum using blockchain-based, distributed computing tools. Their mission was to observe how protocols...
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