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The robots of CERN
The Large Hadron Collider is the world’s most powerful particle accelerator. Buried in the bedrock beneath the Franco-Swiss border, it whips protons through its nearly 2000 magnets 11,000 times every...
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Firefox 57 as the first release where only WebExtensions will be supported
Back in November, we laid out our plans for add-ons in 2017. Notably, we defined Firefox 57 as the first release where only WebExtensions will be supported. In parallel, the deployment of Multiprocess...
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Ad-Hoc polymorphism in Scala
Data processing in large part can be boiled down to transformations of one piece of data into another. In Scala, it’s easy to be productive quickly by chaining .map, .filter, .reduceLeft, and friends...
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Found: A Drug Catapult at the U.S.-Mexico Border
The catapult. U.S. Customs and Border Protection/Public DomainDrugs are important to different kinds of people. For the police, they can be an opportunity to make an arrest. For dealers, they are an...
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Critical Analysis of Stretching Theory (2011)
George HynecStretching is an activity that involves placing a part of one’s body into a position that will lengthen the muscles and tendons. The result of increasing the length of the muscles and...
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Show HN: TinyAnalytics – A lightweight web analytics tool
README.mdTinyAnalytics is a lightweight web analytics tool based on the idea that:The two most useful things are: number of unique visitors per day (with a nice chart) and list of referers who send...
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TA.Gui – A tool for non-developers and business users to automate web apps
README.mdTA.Gui is a tool for non-developers and business users to automate web appsAbove video shows a sample automation flow to automate mass account registrations (record, edit, play)Automate...
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Pixar offers free online lessons in storytelling via Khan Academy
There are few organizations in the world that can claim more expertise when it comes to storytelling than Pixar. The Disney-owned animation studio is known for its ability to consistently create...
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Show HN: Evilpass – A slightly evil password strength checker
README.mdChecks how strong your user's password is via questionably ethical means.UsagePlease don't actually use this.>>>from evilpass import check_pass>>> errors =...
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JavaScript Errors and Stack Traces in Depth
Hi, everyone! After a few weeks without writing about JavaScript, it’s about time we talk about it again!This time we’re going to talk about errors and stack traces and how to manipulate them.Sometimes...
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Show HN: Clozemaster – Learn language in context
Take your language to the next level!see more statspast 30 daysmost challenging sentencesindividual sentence progresswords learnedpast completed roundstime playedtag and favorite sentencesignore...
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What Do Animals See in the Mirror?
A couple of weeks ago, an editor at TheGuardian tweeted an image of a bald eagle staring at its reflection in a body of water. “This photo of an eagle taking a hard look at itself is not a metaphor for...
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How the Zcoin bug lets you spend 50 coins and receive 100 coins back
Update 3: How the attacker is using the bug in validation code to mint coinsIt seems that Zcoin (XZC) has a bug which has allowed an attacker to magically summon 370,000 coins out of thin air. Reading...
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The idea maze of personal logging (2016)
In another post, I laid out my reasons for building a personal logging system. Here, I’ll go into the strategy and tactics issues.Like many projects, personal logging can extend into a very large...
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BSD socket API revamp
Internet Engineering Task Force M. Sustrik, Ed. Internet-Draft February 18, 2017 Intended status: Informational Expires: August 22, 2017 BSD Socket API Revamp sock-api-revamp-01 Abstract This memo...
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Mac-dev-playbook – Mac setup and configuration via Ansible
README.mdThis playbook installs and configures most of the software I use on my Mac for web and software development. Some things in macOS are slightly difficult to automate, so I still have some...
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Atari Founder Nolan Bushnell's Visionary 80s Tech Incubator
In the annals of Silicon Valley history, Nolan Bushnell's name conjures up both brilliant success and spectacular failure. His two landmark achievements were founding Atari in 1972—laying the...
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Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper (1807)
Amendment I (Speech and Press)Document 29Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell14 June 1807Works 10:417--18 To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be...
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$500 AMD Ryzen outperforms $1100 Intel 8-core i7 6900K in 6 out of 8 benchmarks
Single and multithreaded benchmarks for AMD’s top-end 8 core, 16 thread Ryzen 7 1800X CPU are here and they’re impressive! The company’s highly anticipated family of next generation enthusiast desktop...
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Why Do Americans Refrigerate Their Eggs?
Ask The Times, a Times Insider feature, draws on New York Times expertise to answer questions submitted by you, our readers.PhotoA basket of eggs at Greenfire Farms in Havana, Fla.Credit Mark...
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