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Canadian journalist's detention at US border raises press freedom alarms
PhotoEd Ou, a Canadian photojournalist.Credit Kitra Cahana Ed Ou, a Canadian freelance photojournalist, spent 10 years covering the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia. He endured aggressive...
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Forwarding issues related to MACs starting with 4 or 6
nanog mailing list archivesForwarding issues related to MACs starting with a 4 or a 6 (Was: [c-nsp] Wierd MPLS/VPLS issue)From: Job Snijders <job () instituut net>Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2016 15:32:13...
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Listen to Your Customers, They’ll Tell You What to Build
Yesterday I was talking to a friend who is considering applying for a job here at Tailwind. He asked me why I took the job of Director of Marketing and Growth back in July, and among the many things...
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The Django Project Debates User Tracking
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I Dialed a Wrong Number and Stumbled into International Phone Fraud
A few weeks ago, I was trying to call Cuba. I got an error message—which, okay, international telephone codes are long and my fingers are clumsy—but the phone oddly started dialing again before I could...
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Support for better symlink handling in Windows 10
OverviewSymlinks, or symbolic links, are “virtual” files or folders which reference a physical file or folder located elsewhere, and are an important feature built in to many operating systems,...
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Htop explained
For the longest time I did not know what everything meant in htop.I thought that load average 1.0 on my two core machine means that the CPU usage is at 50%. That's not quite right. And also, why does...
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Codebase Refactoring with Go
Go should add the ability to create alternate equivalent names for types, in order to enable gradual code repair during codebase refactoring. This article explains the need for that ability and the...
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Researchers may have ‘found’ many of China’s 30M missing girls
Academics often talk about between 30 and 60 million “missing girls” in China, apparently killed in the womb or just after birth, thanks to a combination of preference for sons and the country’s...
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Reflections on Rusting Trust
The Rust compiler is written in Rust. This is overall a pretty common practice in compiler development. This usually means that the process of building the compiler involves downloading a (typically)...
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Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography
Start to finish. Comes with everything you need to understand complete systems such as SSL/TLS: block ciphers, stream ciphers, hash functions, message authentication codes, public key encryption, key...
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Amazon States Language
Copyright © 2016 Amazon.com Inc. or Affiliates.Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this specification and associated documentation files...
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Bookdown – Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown
We have released the R package bookdown (v0.3) to CRAN. It may be old news to some users, but we are happy to make an official announcement today. To install the package from CRAN, you...
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The first release candidate of Redis 4.0 is out
antirez 1 day ago. 40893 views. It’s not yet stable but it’s soon to become, and comes with a long list of things that will make Redis more useful for we users: finally Redis 4.0 Release Candidate 1 is...
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HackPrinceton Part 2: Electric Boogaloo
This weekend at HackPrinceton, my teammate Benny Yan and I made an electronic banjo. It’s a pretty simple concept: you hold down frets and strum strings, and just like an acoustic or electric banjo, it...
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People susceptible to the placebo effect may be limiting drug approvals
Since the dawn of time, people have used ointments, powders and potions to try to improve their health. Many of these elixirs have been inert — lacking any property to actually heal illnesses or makes...
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HEPCloud formation: handling troves of high-energy physics data
The NOvA project at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory aims to catch an elusive, shape-shifting particle called the neutrino in the act of transforming from one flavor, or type, into another....
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Show HN: PJON 6.1 is out
PJON acknowledge specification fixed v0.1PJON recursive acknowledgment pattern implementedChangelog:Asynchronous acknowledge implementation (459cb81) and exampleBackoff change to transmit less times...
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Rosie Pattern Language: A Supercharged Alternative to Regular Expressions
README.mdRosie will tidy up raw data (text), recognize key pieces of data, and create JSON structured outputBetter than regexRosie is a supercharged alternative to Regular Expressions (regex),...
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Adventures in the land of substrings and RegExps
Part I: Little substring that could (not).Few weeks ago a bug was filed against Dart SDK citing “very low performance of String.substring”. Here is a core of microbenchmark developer submitted together...
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