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AWS announces new region in Canada
AWS is excited to announce immediate availability of the new Canada (Central) Region. Canada joins Northern Virginia, Ohio, Oregon, Northern California, and AWS GovCloud as the sixth AWS Region in...
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The Finder’s GUI tax can be very expensive
Once a month, I download roughly 25 gzipped (.gz) files from Apple—these are our Mac App Store sales reports, with one file for each App Store region. I could have Safari expand these files (via the...
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Show HN: Legal Concepts for Founders – Online Handbook
Here at Clerky, we build software to make legal paperwork easier for startups and their attorneys. We are the most popular way for startups to get formation paperwork done, and have products covering...
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The Silent Anniversary: Fifteen Years Since Our Last Major Crash
November 29, 2016AS NOVEMBER comes to a close, we’ve passed a remarkable milestone. It has now been fifteen years since the last serious crash involving a major U.S. air carrier.On November 12th, 2001,...
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Microsoft is bringing Windows 10, with desktop app support, to ARM chipsets
Microsoft is bringing a full version of Windows 10, complete with desktop app support, to ARM chipsets. The software giant demonstrated Windows 10 running on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 chip today,...
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John Glenn has died
His legend is otherworldly and now, at age 95, so is John Glenn.An authentic hero and genuine American icon, Glenn died this afternoon surrounded by family at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical...
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Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About Financial Discipline
Earlier this year, Astro Teller, a ponytailed scientist and science fiction writer, gave a TED Talk.It was a first for Teller, but not for X, or Google X, as the research lab he runs used to be known....
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1213486160 has a friend: 1195725856
Back in February, Iwrote about finding a ridiculous number being passed to malloc. That number was 1213486160, and it turned out to be "HTTP" on the wire. If you search the web for that, besides...
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Belarus finally bans Tor
Leonid Evdokimov2016-12-08 00:00:00 +0000 UTCCountry: BelarusProbed ISPs: Beltelecom (AS 6697)Censorship method: TCP injectionsWe have recently heard of network anomalies in Belarus. Tor has been...
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Quarter of inmates could have been spared prison without risk, study says
A quarter of the US prison population, about 364,000 inmates, could have been spared imprisonment without meaningfully threatening public safety or increasing crime, according to a new study.Analyzing...
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A Reason Why Your Contractual Agreement Shouldn't Be a “Work for Hire”
We’ve read and researched a fair amount of legalese here at Craft Blue regarding contractual agreements. While the general adage is that “Work for Hire” contracts are an industry norm for transferring...
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Behind the financial maneuvering at Hostess
Stephen A. Schwarzman, a co-founder of Blackstone, took home the largest haul last year: nearly $800 million. He and other private equity executives receive more annually than the leaders of Facebook...
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Proposed server purchase for GitLab.com
We want to make GitLab.com fast and we knew it was time to leave the cloud and purchase our own servers. In this post is our thinking about what chassis, rack, memory, CPU, network, power, and hosting...
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Max Levchin of Affirm: Seeking Endurance Athletes of Business
PhotoMax Levchin, chief executive of Affirm.Credit Earl Wilson/The New York Times This interview with Max Levchin, the chief executive and a founder of Affirm, an online financial services firm, has...
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Linux 4.9 is out
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds-AT-linux-foundation.org>To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org>Subject: Linux 4.9Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2016 12:50:25 -0800Message-ID:...
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All of Richard Feynman’s physics lectures are now available free online (2014)
Richard Feynman was something of a rockstar in the physics world, and his lectures at Caltech in the early 1960s were legendary.As Robbie Gonzalez reports for io9, footage of these lectures exists, but...
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Spaced repetition
When should one review? In the morning? In the evening? Any old time? The studies demonstrating the spacing effect do not control or vary the time of day, so in one sense, the answer is: it doesn’t...
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Some Tools for Go Lang That You Might Not Know Yet
Year’s end is coming closer. Time to clean up repositories and polishing up the toolset. All the well-known tools have been installed already–is there anything else to add to the toolbox?Here are a few...
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Happy 23rd Birthday, DOOM
It's that time of year again, where we say Happy Birthday to one of my most favorite games, DOOM! Every year I try to reveal something about the game's development that hasn't been documented to death....
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Passage to America, 1750
Passage To America, 1750 At the end of the seventeenth century approximately 200,000 people inhabited the British colonies in North America. The following century saw an explosion in numbers with the...
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