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The Death Treatment (2015)
Belgian law allows euthanasia for patients who suffer from severe and incurable distress, including psychological disorders.Credit Photograph Courtesy Tom MortierIn her diary, Godelieva De Troyer...
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A kidney donor at 18 now regrets it
When I was 18, my stepfather’s brother had been on dialysis for just over a year. He was thin, he exercised regularly and he seemingly was in perfect health, but inexplicably his kidneys began to fail...
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The Deletion of gcj
I originally posted this on G+ but I thought maybe I should expand it a little and archive it here.The patch to delete gcj went in recently.When I was put on the gcj project at Cygnus, I remember...
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Kenyan girls who code: Mentors spur African tech innovations
Image caption Harriet Karanja (R) had the idea for the app after witnessing a robberyKenyan schoolgirls are building apps to end ticket queues and transform organ donation, with the help of new mentor...
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Show HN: Lightweight time-management CLI tool
README.mdTired of $ sleep 4231; beep? This is a very simple solution to help with short-term time management. The beep sound uses the motherboard audio, so it works even if your speakers are muted,...
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Automatically grading multiple choice exams from photos using Python and OpenCV
Over the past few months I’ve gotten quite the number of requests landing in my inbox to build a bubble sheet/Scantron-like test reader using computer vision and image processing techniques.And while...
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Ask HN: How do you keep motivated if nobody supports you?
How do you keep motivated if nobody supports you?Wish I haven’t touched a computer when I was 10. This is going to be “short”, no need to write a perfect essay to show my today's position. I’m a 26...
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NixOS 16.09 released
We no longer produce graphical ISO images and VirtualBox images for i686-linux. A minimal ISO image is still provided.Firefox and similar browsers are now wrapped by default. The package and attribute...
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Exfiltrating files with BusyBox
Published Mon, 3rd Oct '16This is a super quick post on a simple method to exfiltrate data from systems running BusyBox, a shell commonly used on embedded devices. Such systems often lack common tools,...
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WalmartLabs open sources the application platform that powers Walmart.com
Walmart probably isn’t the first company that comes to mind when you think about open-source software (or the second or third, really), but WalmartLabs, Walmart’s innovation-focused tech division, has...
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Introducing Marketplace: Buy and Sell with Your Local Community
By Mary Ku, Director of Product ManagementFacebook is where people connect, and in recent years more people have been using Facebook to connect in another way: buying and selling with each other. This...
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Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend
Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekendWhy's that company so big? I could do that in a weekendI can’t think of a single large software company that doesn’t regularly draw internet...
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How we improved Kubernetes Dashboard UI in 1.4 for your production needs
With the release of Kubernetes 1.4 last week, Dashboard – the official web UI for Kubernetes – has a number of exciting updates and improvements of its own. The past three months have been busy ones...
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A Base Filesystem Project for macOS
I’ve pushed a basic remote macOS filesystem project to GitHub. Its got all the bits and pieces necessary to work but I haven’t audited all parts of it for correctness. I’ll do that as I start...
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The State of JavaScript – Survey results
Over nine thousand developers took part in the first edition of the State Of JavaScript survey.They answered questions on topics ranging from front-end frameworks and state management, to build tools...
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IEEE P802.3bz Approval for 2.5G/5G Ethernet
Wired networks relying on traditional Cat 5e and Cat 6 cables (at their maximum channel length of 100m) have been limited to 1 Gbps so far. At the other end of the spectrum, 10 Gbps required augmented...
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Amazon bans incentivized reviews tied to free or discounted products
Amazon is making a significant change to its Community Guidelines, announced today, which will eliminate any incentivized reviews, except for those that emerge from within its own Amazon Vine program....
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)444 points by whoishiring8 hours ago | hide | past | web | 640 comments | favoritePlease lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE,...
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Show HN: Use Trello as a Helpdesk
BoardThreads - the helpdesk software that works inside Trellohelpdesk software that works inside Emails received on a certain address are immediately sent to Trello. Threaded emails are kept within the...
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Police use-of-force data is finally coming to light
When Oscar Grant was shot and killed in 2009, there was no data about the shooting of black men by Bay Area Rapid Transit police.All we knew was that BART had received 66 complaints, with excessive use...
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