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The Great Moon Hoax
Throughout the final week of August 1835, a long article appeared in serial form on the front page of the New York Sun. It bore the headline:GREAT ASTRONOMICAL DISCOVERIES LATELY MADE BY SIR JOHN...
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Adventures in /usr/bin and the likes
Adventures in /usr/bin and the likes - Dormammu's BlogAdventures in /usr/bin and the likes - Dormammu’s BlogFebruary 19, 2017I just love Linux! For me it makes interacting with your computer fun and...
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For Generation Z, ‘Live Chilling’ Replaces Hanging Out in Person
Almost every day when they get home from school, Gracie, age 16, and Sarah, age 14, open the app Houseparty, where they can video chat with to up to seven of their friends at once. The sisters, who...
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Reflecting on A Strange Year at Uber
As most of you know, I left Uber in December and joined Stripe in January. I've gotten a lot of questions over the past couple of months about why I left and what my time at Uber was like. It's a...
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Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic?
There have been rumblings regarding some sort of nuclear incident—or possibly incidents—in the Arctic over the last month. Multiple reports, some of them from official monitoring organizations, have...
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Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters
This is a real story, and it's not only about Google. I'm getting emails from recruiters at Amazon, Facebook, and smaller Silicon Valley startups. They find me somehow, most likely through this blog,...
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Deploystack – Curated list of best tools for launching your website
All the hosting services presented here are "Infrastructure as a Service" (you pay to rent a machine and you are free to do whatever you want) but Heroku is a "Platform as a Service". You don't get a...
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APL in R
APL was introduced by Iverson (1962). It is an array language, with many functions to manipulate multidimensional arrays. R also has multidimensional arrays, but not as many functions to work with...
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Show HN: Swift SOAP Client library through code generation
README.mdLark is a SOAP library written in Swift.FeaturesCommunicationIf you need help, open an issue.If you'd like to ask a general question, open an issue.If you found a bug, open an issue.If you...
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Google and Mozilla's message to AV and security firms: Stop trashing HTTPS
In its evaluation of popular AV products, the study finds that 13 of 29 intercept TLS connections and all but one degrades client security. Image: Zakir Durumeric et alA surprisingly large number of...
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Death at St. Paul's (2014)
Early in the morning of Monday December 4th, 1514, an assistant gaoler named Peter Turner entered the cathedral close of the old St Paul’s. He was to attend to the one inmate then held in Lollards...
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Welcome to the New AWS AI Blog
If you ask 100 people for the definition of “artificial intelligence,” you’ll get at least 100 answers, if not more. At AWS, we define it as a service or system which can perform tasks that usually...
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Manifestos and Monopolies
It is certainly possible that, as per recent speculation, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is preparing to run for President. It is also possible that Facebook is on the verge of failing “just like...
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Show HN: GraphQL Voyager – Represent Any GraphQL API as an Interactive Graph
README.mdRepresent any GraphQL API as an interactive graph. You can also explore number of public GraphQL APIs from our list.FeaturesQuick navigation on graphLeft panel which provides more detailed...
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The Making Of “Homer At The Bat,” The Episode That Conquered Prime Time (2012)
On Feb. 20, 1992, more American homes tuned into The Simpsons than they did The Cosby Show or the Winter Olympics from Albertville, France. A foul-mouthed cartoon on a fourth-place network bested the...
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Evidence that ancient Japan was more cosmopolitan than previously thought (2016)
Ancient Japan may have been far more cosmopolitan than previously thought, archaeologists said Wednesday, pointing to fresh evidence of a Persian official working in the former capital of Nara more...
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IBM Data Science Experience: Whole-Cluster Privilege Escalation Disclosure
Posted on February 21, 2017For the impatient, click here for the original report.This is a disclosure of a privilege escalation vulnerability I found in the IBM Data Science Experience product, which...
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What I Heard from Trump Supporters
After the election, I decided to talk to 100 Trump voters from around the country. I went to the middle of the country, the middle of the state, and talked to many online.This was a surprisingly...
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Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video]
Windows is built for developers, and the Windows 10 Creators Update is no exception. In this session, we'll focus on how Visual Studio 2017 and the Windows 10 Creators Update make you more productive....
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