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Security proofs prove non-failproof
[Cryptography] Security proofs prove non-failproofJon Callasjon at callas.orgSat Feb 18 12:49:51 EST 2017As a mathematical logician, I'm a huge fan of proofs, and yet sneer at a lot of security...
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Families Hear from Completely Paralyzed Patients via New Device
Wendy was barely 20 years old when she received a devastating diagnosis: juvenile amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), an aggressive neurodegenerative disorder that destroys motor neurons in the brain...
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Hero Patterns – A collection of SVG background patterns for your web projects
Hello! I’m Steve Schoger, a UI designer and illustrator from Kitchener, Ontario. I draw and maintain Hero Patterns. Hero Patterns will always be updating and will always be free. Follow me on Twitter...
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Detection of radioactive iodine at trace levels in Europe in January 2017
Iodine-131 (131I), a radionuclide of anthropogenic origin, has recently been detected in tiny amounts in the ground-level atmosphere in Europe. The preliminary report states it was first found during...
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The Mark Zuckerberg Manifesto Is a Blueprint for Destroying Journalism
It’s not that Mark Zuckerberg set out to dismantle the news business when he founded Facebook 13 years ago. Yet news organizations are perhaps the biggest casualty of the world Zuckerberg built.There’s...
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Co-founder Conflict
Garry TanCrunch Network ContributorGarry Tan is managing partner at Initialized Capital, a seed-stage VC firm. He was previously a partner at Y Combinator. Before that he was co-founder of Posterous...
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Show HN: Generate a quiz from a Wikipedia page
README.mdTo run:requirements.txt contains the libraries/modules you'll need. You'll also need to download some data so that the nltk library works. To do this, start the Python console (ie. type...
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Why check-cashing stores are a good deal, according to a UPenn professor
Sometimes using a check casher is smarter than using a bank, says Lisa Servon.Courtesy Lisa Servon• University of Pennsylvania professor Lisa Servon went to work as a teller at a check-cashing store to...
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FCC chief wants smartphones’ hidden FM radios turned on
FCC chairman Ajit Pai says he’d love to see more smartphone makers activate the hidden FM radio inside their devices, but he doesn’t think the commission should step in to do anything about it.Though...
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Cafe overwhelmed with customers after it is accidentally awarded a Michelin star
Véronique Jacquet, the café owner who works behind the bar, said: “Suddenly, we were rushed off our feet. Reporters were coming in and then my son phoned me from Paris, where he lives. He almost died...
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Purser.js: A JS library for preserving user data from first visit to signup
README.mdA lightweight JavaScript library for preserving user data from first website visit to signup.UsageThe library stores data such as utm_medium, landing_page and referrer in a localStorage...
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Mathematics of Civilization V
Back to game conceptsThis article presents some of the mathematics of Civilization V. It was originally published by alpaca at the CivFanatics forum. Notice that this article represents the state of...
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Codebrag – Daily code review tool
README.mdBelow is a developer guide if you want to hack on Codebrag yourself.If you are looking for general information on the project, please see the main website.If you are just looking for...
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'Acting Wife': Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments
NBER Working Paper No. 23043Issued in January 2017NBER Program(s): ED LS Do single women avoid career-enhancing actions because these actions could signal personality traits, like ambition, that...
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Torus development has been stopped at CoreOS
PermalinkBrowse files Merge pull request #449 from philips/add-project-statusREADME: add a project status Showing 1 changed file with11 additions and 1 deletion. +11−1 README.md@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ [![Go...
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Yahoo hack warning: What happened and should you be worried?
Yahoo has warned customers that cyber attackers may have compromised their accounts in the past two years, finally alerting them about malicious activity it has known about for months. The warning,...
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Recommendations about coding in C++
Yes, you've guessed correctly - the answer is "42". In this article you will find 42 recommendations about coding in C++ that can help a programmer avoid a lot of errors, save time and effort. The...
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Ticketmaster Migrates Infrastructure to AWS
Valentine’s Day was a nail-biter for Jody Mulkey, chief technology officer at Ticketmaster. Coming off high-profile Grammy performances Sunday night, both Chance the Rapper and thrash-metal band...
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How terrible code gets written by sane people
When I found out I would be working on porting an old Python codebase to Node, I was slightly excited. These kinds of projects always give you more creative freedom than the ordinary code maintenance...
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