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A river of lost souls runs through western Colorado
UNNATURAL CAUSES | SICK AND DYING IN SMALL-TOWN AMERICA: Since the turn of this century, death rates have risen for whites in midlife, particularly women. In this series, The Washington Post is...
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Show HN: Gridmaster – A Code School for Learning Spreadsheets
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Blueprint – A React UI toolkit for the web
Blueprint is a collection of React UI components, covering the majority of the common interface elements, patterns and interactions on the Web. Using Blueprint ensures that you'll end up with an...
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Zero-allocation Trie Traversal
November 13, 2016 nullprogram.com/blog/2016/11/13/As part of a demonstration in an upcoming article, I wrote a simpletrie implementation. A trie is a search tree where the keys are a sequence of...
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My Subconscious Is a Better Developer Than I Am
Occasionally I flatter myself that I'm alright at this development lark. Such egotistical talk is foolish. What makes me pause even more when I consider the proposition is this: my subconscious is a...
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The Apache Cassandra battle highlights major problem with open source projects
Image: iStockphoto/ijeabDevelopers prefer Apache-licensed software, but the companies involved in Apache Software Foundation (ASF) projects should tread carefully. While it's great to be associated...
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OVH automatically migrates expiring paid SSL to Let's Encrypt certificates
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Black hole jets can influence star formation in galaxies
Credit: National and Kapodistrian University of AthensA new study conducted by a group of astrophysicists led by Dr K. Dasyra suggests that black hole jets can affect the star formation in galaxies by...
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GNU Parallel Tutorial
GNU Parallel tutorialThis tutorial shows off much of GNU parallel's functionality. The tutorial is meant to learn the options in GNU parallel. The tutorial is not to show realistic examples from the...
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Epitaph for a Bronx Accent
There’s a saying that to lose a language is to lose a whole world. My uncle, Robert Tolchin (Americanized from Tolchinsky)—who died in September—was one of the last great speakers of Jewish Bronx, a...
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The Real Spectre
Osvaldo Scalezi Junior has a dark sense of humour. “If I’m murdered one of these days,” he says, leaning forward in a chair in the police station in the Brazilian city of Santos, “I fear it’ll be very...
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AdultFriendFinder was hacked
November 13th, 2016What happened? Friend Finder Network Inc is a company that operates a wide range of 18+ services and was hacked in October of 2016 for over 400 million accounts representing 20...
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The Mirror Effect: The rise of mirrors in the fifteenth century
Polished metal and obsidian mirrors have existed from ancient times, and because of this, historians have usually passed over the introduction of the glass mirror as if it was just another variation on...
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Tango: Distributed Data Structures Over a Shared Log (2013)
Distributed systems are easier to build than ever with the emergence of new, data-centric abstractions for storing and computing over massive datasets. However, similar abstractions do not exist for...
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New Zealand earthquake: Tsunami follows powerful tremor
New Zealand earthquake: Two dead following powerful tremor13 November 2016From the section AsiaShareShare this withEmailShare this with EmailFacebookShare this with FacebookMessengerShare this with...
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If Prisoners Ran Prisons
Every year, countless reports on how to make prisons more rehabilitative are published by think tanks, scholars, and advocates. Some of them rely on interviews with prisoners, while others focus on...
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A guide to using the Facebook Pixel
Facebook allows us many different ways to target users with advertising. Facebook rewards advertisers for posting relevant ads. Not only money can be saved by targeting people who are interested in the...
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Overlay.NET: An easy-to-use overlay library written in C#
README.mdSynopsisOverlay.NET aims to be An easy-to-use overlay library that allows you to render visuals to other windows, and offers lots of overlay options, from external WPF windows to shared...
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Diamonds Suck (2006)
I recently got engaged, and found myself in the market for a suitable engagement ring. Over the past few months, I've done quite a bit of research on diamonds and the diamond industry. What I learned,...
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Andreessen Horowitz, Point72 Invest in Crowd-Sourced Quantopian
Andreessen Horowitz and Steve Cohen’s Point72 Ventures are among investors in a $25 million funding round for Quantopian Inc., the five-year-old online platform where coders build and run computerized...
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