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The Anti-Helicopter Parent’s Plea: Let Kids Play
Mike came out to the yard, his wineglass in one hand and a piece of cheese in another. His wife, Perla Ni, a lawyer who directs a nonprofit, was working late. Where Mike has a loud, large and...
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CoreDNS: DNS service discovery for the cloud
Currently CoreDNS supports (among others) the followingmiddlewares:chaos: respond to CH class queries,dnssec: on-the-fly DNSSEC signing of records,etcd: SkyDNS replacement,file: serve DNS from a set of...
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Europe and Russia prepare for historic landing on Mars
Almost three weeks after it crash-landed the Rosetta orbiter on a comet, the European Space Agency (ESA) is gearing up to land another spacecraft — this time on Mars. It hopes that a craft called...
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Introducing Google Cloud Shell’s new code editor
Open the code editor from the Cloud Shell toolbar. You’ll also notice that we’ve introduced the ability to upload and download files from your Cloud Shell home directory. Start editing your code and...
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Donald Knuth used an Erlang-like notation
Combing through The Art Of Computer Programming (TAOCP) by Donald Knuth, I’ve found something interesting. Right at the beginning of the book, where he’s stating the basis of his presentation of...
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Introducing Rust Language Server
@nrc and I have been hard at work on IDE support, turning the Rust Language Server demo we showed at RustConf into an actual project. Today, we're making our first source pre-alpha release of the...
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Linux kernel security bug lifetime
In several of my recent presentations, I’ve discussed the lifetime of security flaws in the Linux kernel. Jon Corbet did an analysis in 2010, and found that security bugs appeared to have roughly a 5...
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Thankful and lucky to have helped build Khan Academy
In early 2010 I saw Sal Khan doing something inspiring. He had been diligently posting educational video after educational video on YouTube for years (“secret to overnight success…”) and was starting...
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Germans React to UK’s micro:bit
Getting kids interested in programming is all the rage right now, and the UK is certainly taking pole position with its BBC micro:bit, just recently distributed to every seventh-grader in the land....
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Show HN: Get encrypted data from people that don’t know how to encrypt
readme.mdWarning: This project is in alpha state. This means it is not 100% ready and you should use it at your own risk.Rationale: For many web and mobile development studios, no matter how hard they...
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Why Pylint Is Both Useful and Unusable, and How You Can Actually Use It
This is a story about a tool that caught a production-impacting bug the day before we released the code. This is also the story of a tool no one uses, and for good reason. By the time you're done...
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OpenSSL after Heartbleed
Did you know...?LWN.net is a subscriber-supported publication; we rely on subscribers to keep the entire operation going. Please help out by buying a subscription and keeping LWN on the net. Rich Salz...
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CSS Blend Mode Gotcha
I learnt a little thing whilst playing around with CSS blend modes this morning which I thought I should share.I was just making a little visual:Visual without blend modesAnd I thought, wouldn't it be...
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Double Solitude
Credit Illustration by Antoine MaillardAt eighty-seven, I am solitary. I live by myself on one floor of the 1803 farmhouse where my family has lived since the Civil War. After my grandfather died, my...
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What Happened to Eastern Airlines Flight 980?
By the time it crashed, Eastern Air Lines Flight 980 would have been just about ready to land. Beverage carts stowed, seat backs upright, tray tables locked. The 29 people on board would have just...
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SpaCy v1.0: Deep Learning with custom pipelines and Keras
I'm pleased to announce the 1.0 release of spaCy, the fastest NLP library in the world. By far the best part of the 1.0 release is a new system for integrating custom models into spaCy. This post...
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Algorithm that changed the web to as we know it
Whether you want to:Work with Search engine(s) in any formWork with the web in generalBe a better web developeryou must know the following.This article helps you draw the hollistic picture in your...
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DocuSign Payments
DocuSign built a $3 billion valuation by providing a simple way to execute an electronic signature. That has worked well as far as it goes, but in order to separate from the growing pack of competitor...
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How to Design Perfect Software Products
pieterh wrote on 29 Jan 2012 12:33My tweet "Still amazed by the power of engineers to over-design. Complexity is easy, folks, it's simplicity that is hard" got over 50 retweets. Clearly I touched a...
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