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Show HN: A flask app to make dashboards, easily
README.mdEasily configurable, chart dashboards from any arbitrary API endpoint. JSON config only. Ready to go.This project is a flask blueprint that allows you to create sleek dashboards without...
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I’m Joining Stripe to Work on Atlas
I’m joining Stripe to work on Atlas. Let me tell you why.(If you don’t know me, howdy, I’m Patrick. I’ve run a succession of small software businesses from Japan for the last 10 years. They’re...
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OpenBSD on HP Stream 7
Recent events have rocked the mobile computing world to its core. OpenBSD retired the zaurus port, leaving users in desperate need of a new device. And not long before that, Microsoft released the...
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Fortress of Tedium: What I Learned as a Substitute Teacher
One wintry mix of a morning, while I was in training to be a substitute teacher, I saw a textbook that was being used in an 11th-grade English class. The class was studying transcendentalism, and the...
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In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999)
About twenty years ago Jobs and Wozniak, the founders of Apple, came up with the very strange idea of selling information processing machines for use in the home. The business took off, and its...
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Additional Notes on “Drawing Dynamic Visualizations” (2013)
Additional Notes on "Drawing Dynamic Visualizations"Bret Victor / May 21, 2013Last week, I released a talk called Drawing Dynamic Visualizations, which shows a tool for creating data-driven graphics...
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One-bit Computing at 60 Hertz
There's a wrinkle, and it's that each of the 256 destinations is organized to hold four bytes, not two. This is evident on the schematic. The Jump Destination Register drives eight EPROM address...
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How to Organize the Largest US Prison Strike Ever from Inside Prison
Inmates imprisoned across nearly half the United States are planning to go on strike today, the 45th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising. Some will stop work, others will start hunger strikes,...
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European court says linking to illegal content is copyright infringement
In a decision that is already controversial, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled in favor of copyright owners and against hyperlinks. The CJEU decision, though qualified, raises...
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Owl Lisp – A purely functional Scheme that compiles to C
READMEOwl Lisp -- a purely functional scheme Copyright (c) 2016 Aki Helin OVERVIEW ~~~~~~~~ Owl Lisp is a functional dialect of the Scheme programming language. It is mainly based on the applicative...
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Ants are destroying plants by nurturing perfect aphid colonies
Enlarge/ Ants from the species Pheidole megacephala tending aphids. They protect the tiny insects from predators and milk them for a sugary fluid called honeydew.One of the worst effects of ant...
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HTSQL – A comprehensive navigational query language for relational databases
OverviewHTSQL is a comprehensive navigational query language for relational databases.HTSQL is designed for data analysts and other accidental programmers who have complex business inquiries to solve...
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FlyWeb – Pure Web Cross-Device Interaction
FlyWeb is an experimental project we’ve been prototyping from within the depths of Mozilla’s platform division. It started as a side-project late last year, and since then a small, ad-hoc team has...
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22-year British student invents a mobile fridge that could save many lives
A 22-year-old British student has invented a mobile fridge that could save millions of lives across the world.Will Broadway's "Isobar" has been designed to keep vaccines at the ideal temperature while...
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How to Become a C.E.O.? The Quickest Path Is a Winding One
As a product manager, Mr. Kurian added sales and marketing and team management to his engineering background. He later did a stint as a strategy consultant, which he recalls as a crash course in...
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No Driver? Bring It On. How Pittsburgh Became Uber’s Testing Ground
PITTSBURGH — Any day now, Uber will introduce a fleet of self-driving cars in Pittsburgh, making this former steel town the world’s first city to let passengers hail autonomous vehicles.So with the...
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DebianDog – A small Debian Live CD
DebianDog-Jessie forum thread.DebianDog-Jessie updates and fixes information.Extra squashfs modulesDebianDog-Jessie is upgrade from DebianDog-Wheezy with some modifications and fixes needed for Jessie....
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How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly
Translations: Belorussian Introduction: Four Types of Discursive Writing From time to time people express amazement at how I can get so much done. I, of course, aware of the many hours I have idled...
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Cap’n Proto
Cap’n Proto is an insanely fast data interchange format and capability-based RPC system. Think JSON, except binary. Or think Protocol Buffers, except faster. In fact, in benchmarks, Cap’n Proto is...
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