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EFF Statement on Passage of Massie-Lofgren Amendment Regarding NSA Backdoors - J2K
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/eff-statement-massie-lofgren-amendment-passing-house
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TheSpiceIsLife
Are we to believe that passing laws will prevent intelligence agencies from
doing certain things? It would seem to me the... | {
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Testing for Beginners - brycecolquitt
http://blog.enoughtobedanger.us/testing-for-beginners/
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gailees
Thank you. I've used Codeacademy, Coursera, Udacity, edX, and while all of
them do a somewhat decent job teaching me how to program, I've totally missed
the boat on testing.
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bcbrown
I don't really like... | {
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What Mahatma Gandhi Taught Me about Growth Hacking - yannpg
http://yanngirard.typepad.com/yanns_blog/2015/03/what-mahatma-gandhi-taught-me-about-growth-hacking.html
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luxpir
Nice perspective. Won't summarise here, it'll be better for people to
read/skim themselves (30 seconds), but in general the concept holds ... | {
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Twitter’s Lack of Patents Seen as a Risk to Investors - RougeFemme
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-18/twitter-pre-ipo-patent-paucity-seen-posing-investor-risk-tech.html
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alexqgb
"If Twitter does deal with patent-infringement lawsuits, they don’t have too
many patents to lean on to countersue. That does pu... | {
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Performance Benchmark Analysis of Istio and Linkerd - blixtra
https://kinvolk.io/blog/2019/05/performance-benchmark-analysis-of-istio-and-linkerd/
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boulos
Thanks for doing some comparative analysis! However, the latency graphs label
the y-axis as milliseconds while the description says microseconds. One of
them ... | {
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We Interviewed the Most Hated Man on the Internet - stfu
http://www.vice.com/read/hunter-moores-new-site-will-make-getting-a-blowjob-as-easy-as-ordering-pizza
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iwaffles
There was also an article about him in the latest issue of Rolling Stone:
<http://www.rollingstone.com/latestissue> which is unfortunately pay... | {
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Between the Bars: Snail-mail blogging for prison inmates - mbrubeck
http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/20101114-00
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Derferman
After reading the article, I looked into similar services available online.
While I couldn't find any blogging sites, both WriteAPrisoner[1] and
PrisonPenPals[2], while dated, offer to connect ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How would you convince your company to start using version control? - vital101
I recently started working at a fairly progressive marketing company with a small web development team (5 people). Up until this point, they've managed the multitudes of sites that they have done by creating a "dev" folder on th... | {
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3Blue1Brown Essence of calculus, chapter 1 [video] - adenadel
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDMsr9K-rj53DwVRMYO3t5Yr
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seycombi
I have never seen so many (mainly) positive comments in so short a time on a
youtube channel. Many thanks to Grant Sanderson aka 3Blue1Brown (and also
Leibniz and Newto... | {
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The Kings of Concentration - lbr
http://www.inc.com/magazine/201405/brian-dumaine/how-leaders-focus-with-distractions.html
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jqm
Very good article.
I like the portion on inner focus. Have never heard that concept before.
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Show HN: Spoofing Desktop Icons over PWA - kmf84
https://github.com/0x1235/PWA_Spoofing_PoC
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AppLabCloud
Thanks for sharing this little helpful tool! Works perfect!
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There are monsters out there. They hide in the edges of your social circle - CarolineW
https://medium.com/@ken.burnside/for-good-men-to-see-nothing-c1be3e65c52f
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CarolineW
I'm guessing this won't get much discussion, many votes, and that lots of
people will be uncomfortable and say it doesn't belong. However, I ... | {
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Proxy.app Lands In App Store - passfree
http://blog.websecurify.com/2014/05/proxy-app-lands-in-app-store.html
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tptacek
To replace Burp, you need at a minimum a proxy that reliably works at high
speed on a huge variety of sites, a UI for capturing, altering, and resending
requests, and a "fuzzer" that will transf... | {
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The history of the modern graphics processor - kaptain
http://www.techspot.com/article/650-history-of-the-gpu/
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rayiner
> The evolution of the modern graphics processor begins with the introduction
> of the first 3D add-in cards in 1995, followed by the widespread adoption of
> the 32-bit operating systems and t... | {
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Ask HN: Best team password manager? - simonebrunozzi
Hi,
at our startup we are looking for a great team password manager. Let's say that security for us is more important than average. Any good suggestions? The only recommendation I've got so far is CommonKey, but I have no experience with team password mana... | {
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A Path Less Taken to the Peak of the Math World (2017) - BerislavLopac
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-path-less-taken-to-the-peak-of-the-math-world-20170627/
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ColinWright
I remember working on the log-concavity thing back in 1989 or so. I remember
getting very excited that I'd proved a couple of small cases, b... | {
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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2016) - whoishiring
Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:<p><pre><code> Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
</code></pre>
Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunitie... | {
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Twitter clients that can filter tweets by regex? - jmillerinc
Want to filter out tweets containing http://4sq.com or http://gowal.la.<p>Any recommendations on how to do this?
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aneesh
What is this for? You can use the search API directly (it works with URLs):
<http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-API-Documentati... | {
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Show HN: A site that automatically aggegrates all great GIFs - MaxGfeller
http://gifster.io
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MaxGfeller
For those wondering: This site was built with the help of
[https://github.com/maxgfeller/giffer](https://github.com/maxgfeller/giffer)
and some adapters and plugins
([https://github.com/MaxGfeller/giffer/wik... | {
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Mark Pilgrim on Joel Spolsky’s “Martian Headsets” - nickb
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2008/03/18/translation-from-ms-speak-to-english-of-selected-portions-of-joel-spolskys-martin-headsets
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hernan7
A little bit too vitriolic for my taste, sorry.
This appears to be the case with Mark Pilgrim's latest posts f... | {
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Ask PG: Why has fallentimes fallen off the leaderboard? - jgrahamc
He has karma of 6883: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fallentimes<p>Yet he is not on the leaders list: http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
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EricBurnett
>PG: A couple weeks ago I added a recency threshold for the leaderboard. It's
currently ... | {
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Woman hunts for photos and treasures in used books, returns them to their owners - bookofjoe
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2020/08/04/used-books-photos-return-owner/
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aspenmayer
Now this is open source intel. Things like this are fun. Reminds me of
geocaching a bit, and location-based AR games.
[http... | {
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What I Learned In My First Year Of iOS Consulting - brandontreb
http://brandontreb.com/learned-first-year-ios-consulting
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acconrad
One of my common hangups with these kind of posts is the lack of history as to
what lead people to these consulting gigs. Where were you before, and how long
were you there? How lo... | {
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You Are Probably Not a Hacker - yo-mf
http://bch.me/J5tU02
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jmduke
What's the point?
Call yourself a hacker, a brogrammer, a rock star, a ninja, whatever -- churn
out cool stuff and I'll be impressed.
The latest trend of 'you're not a hacker, _I_ 'm a hacker!' smacks of juvenile
hipsterdom.
~~~
yo-mf
I have... | {
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Quebec's Disney-inspired solution to flu-shot chaos - cwan
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/h1n1-swine-flu/quebecs-disney-inspired-solution-to-flu-shot-chaos/article1364403/
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joezydeco
Funny, my county's health department just set up a number where you call and
set up a reservation to come in. Why g... | {
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Joe Armstrong: The Mess We’re In - tosh
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4
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greenyoda
For those who haven't read it yet: Joe Armstrong died today:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19706514](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19706514)
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metastew
Found a transcript for this talk, if anyone's i... | {
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Fast Ordered Collections for Swift Using In-Memory B-Trees - ingve
https://github.com/lorentey/BTree
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lemoncucumber
Sounds very similar to the copy-on-write-friendly b-trees used in Btrfs,
originally researched by by Ohad Rodeh: [http://liw.fi/larch/ohad-btrees-
shadowing-clones.pdf](http://liw.fi/larch/ohad-btr... | {
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Why does Singapore top so many tables? - wiradikusuma
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24428567
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forktheif
Nice how the negative aspects are nicely pushed into a small box at the right
side, and a single a few lines at the end, as if they matter less.
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Fast-food breakfast sales decline as fewer head to work - cwan
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/20/AR2010022003718.html
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ilkhd2
That was surprising relationship. If it will keep going for awhile, fast food
can never recover due to very low quality of food at first place.
| {
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Bitter Lake - jsingleton
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02gyz6b/adam-curtis-bitter-lake
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chazu
Fantastic film. While Curtis is clearly subverting the documentary genre, the
view he presents of the modern world (not only in Bitter Lake but in his other
works) is a fascinatingly bleak and much-needed remi... | {
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Ask HN: How do you search through your files? - sdan
Backing up files is great. But how do you index and search through files; i.e. not just the titles, but suppose you were looking for a document that had a certain topic.<p>Is there a Google for searching files?
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denimboy
ls -lR > INDEX for file names then use ... | {
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Ask HN: When do ISPs begin selling your data, and is a VPN all that's needed? - arikr
When does the "ISPs selling your data" begin, and is a VPN without logging all that's needed?
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atmosx
IMHO the ideal situation to selectively play along. A router running Linux/BSD
which can be configured have re... | {
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Show HN: Minimal Reader for the ESV Bible, Written in Janet - jonstaab
https://github.com/staab/esv
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camjohnson26
One thing that bothers me about modern Christianity is that I don’t think
Christian Bibles or worship songs should be copyrighted. I understand why they
feel the need to protect their work but it see... | {
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} |
British Telecom ordered to blacklist Usenet search engine - otherwise
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/07/british-telecom-ordered-to-blacklist-usenet-search-engine.ars
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regularfry
Part of the problem with this ruling is the abuse of Cleanfeed, BT's blocking
system. There are a lot of people in the ... | {
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Over 100,000 Visas Have Been Revoked by Immigration Ban, Justice Dept. Reveals - beedogs
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/over-100-000-visas-have-been-revoked-immigration-ban-justice-n716121
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superdug
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your tee... | {
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Dr. Brian May on Freddie Mercury's creativity - patrickaljord
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/happy-birthday-freddie-mercury.html
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teoruiz
He's signing the article as:
_Dr. Brian May, CBE. Guitarist._
As in: Doctor Brian May with a PhD in astrophysics from the Imperial College
London, Commander of th... | {
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Show HN: Rate my project browshot.com - jusob
http://browshot.com/
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DanBC
Good Luck!
I _really_ like the idea of people testing stuff on small screens. I used an
EEE pc 701 for a few years, and that has a tiny screen.
Two tiny nitpicks: >A service to easily make screenshots of web pages in any
screen size, a... | {
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Show HN: A chrome bug makes it hard to leave page - mkoryak
http://www.dogself.com/
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mkoryak
and this is how it is done:
window.onbeforeunload = function () {
var cat = document.createElement('a');
cat.setAttribute('href', 'http://ult... | {
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Open, Decentralized, Identity Ecosystem - Fiahil
http://identity.foundation/
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motohagiography
Key problem for them to solve is not data, it's legitimacy.
The use cases for digital identity were things like getting speeding tickets,
fines, taxation, collections, and other social management uses. Basically the
st... | {
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Ask HN: Does it feel like 1999? - 11thEarlOfMar
In the late '90s, dot-com era, every day was a party on Wall Street. The market was up 4 days out of 5. In the first <i>week</i> of 1999, AMZN popped 49.4%, and the NASDAQ finished the year +77.1%.<p>I'm getting that same, strange sensation of 'giddy dread... | {
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The Spy Who Loved Me: An undercover surveillance operation that went too far - danso
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/25/the-spy-who-loved-me-2
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mortov
North Americans are probably astonished at what is 'permitted' for UK police
to become involved in - there are no constitutional protections and no
effe... | {
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Dame Fortune - lermontov
http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/luck/dame-fortune
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B1FF_PSUVM
Larry Niven tossed out the idea of "selected lucky" humans, because somewhen
in the future you'd have to win a state lottery to reproduce (because of
indefinite life extension and whatnot.)
~~~
jondubois
Probably AI will simu... | {
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Ask HN: Do you cold call? - nahcub
For your service, do you reach out to potential customers without any referral or lead? If you do, how well does it work? Do you have any advice?
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dsr_
I get cold-called all the time. Here are the mistakes people make:
1\. They waste my time (which is also a waste of their tim... | {
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Ask HN: Probability and Statistics online courses - aaossa
Hi HN,<p>I'm looking for good courses about this topic because I want to remember some stuff and be ready to learn about machine learning and deep learning later.<p>Do you have some course or a book to study about this?<p>Thanks!
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mindcrime
First:
... | {
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Big data meets Big Brother as China moves to rate its citizens - mathgenius
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/chinese-government-social-credit-score-privacy-invasion
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mankash666
I don't see how the West is any different. We have credit scores, background
checks, car accessories that report our driving patterns to i... | {
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Automated IP Configuration for React Native Development - andy_ppp
http://moduscreate.com/automated-ip-configuration-for-react-native-development/
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ModusSchwartz
This really belongs in React Native core.
IMO
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Topology: The Slum of Combinatorics - Foe
http://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/Opinion1.html
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klyrs
As much as I love Doron's writing, his pieces are deliberate flamebait, with a
vanishingly small target audience. Does this really belong on HN?
~~~
rsj_hn
Also, this post hasn't aged well at all. Mirror Symme... | {
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The Men Who Stare At Screens (why going to the gym might not be good enough) - kscaldef
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/14/phys-ed-the-men-who-stare-at-screens/?hp
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carbocation
This is a warning sign: "Men who spent more than 23 hours a week watching TV
and sitting in their cars (as passengers or as driver... | {
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Show HN: Branditch - service for daily handpicked content - philfrasty
http://branditch.com
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philfrasty
If you are active in social-media both private and/or professionaly you are
probably familiar with the following: getting great content to share...every
single day! I usually crawl blogs, use sites like bott... | {
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Company builds private real-time surveillance DB with 9B license plate scans - mindgam3
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ne879z/i-tracked-someone-with-license-plate-readers-drn
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mindgam3
> Digital Recognition Network (DRN), is not run by a government, although law
> enforcement can also access it. Instead, DRN... | {
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Another wordpress core exploit in the wild - parito
https://blog.sucuri.net/2017/02/wordpress-rest-api-vulnerability-abused-in-defacement-campaigns.html
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parito
This privilege escalation vulnerability affects the WordPress REST API that
was recently added and enabled by default on WordPress 4.7.0.
So basically ... | {
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Pirate Android developer steals game and publishes on his own account - luddule
http://androidcommunity.com/total-jerk-developer-steals-beta-game-he-was-supposed-to-be-testing-publishes-to-android-market-20110111/
Has anyone else ran into this sort of thing? it's a really distrubing trend?
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sproxn
Thats pretty ... | {
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Show HN: Patching.io - Timeline of awesome apps from Glitch.com - robvanderleek
https://patching.io
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robvanderleek
FD: I'm building Patching
Everyday a lot of awesome little software apps are created by developers on
glitch.com On Patching you can find the best and latest Glitch apps.
I find it difficult to di... | {
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Myths in Cycling (1): Wider Tires Are Slower (2018) - tokai
https://janheine.wordpress.com/2018/01/03/12-myths-in-cycling-1-wider-tires-are-slower/
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bjourne
> The UCI requires a minimum wheel size of 55 cm, yet racers use 700C wheels
> that are 10 cm larger than required. If wheel weight mattered as much as
> mo... | {
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Epic win for transparency on ACTA - stse
http://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/2010/03/10/epic-win-for-transparency-on-acta/
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erikstarck
Christian is an MEP in the European Parliament for the Pirate Party of Sweden.
I sort of like politicians who use words like "epic win". :)
~~~
stse
Especially when it's ge... | {
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(Don't) Outsource your iPhone app - WingForward
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jun/23/business/la-fi-app-goldrush-20100624
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WingForward
Bad reporter. No donut.
"agreed to build Deliso's app for about $5,000." "sold more than 5,500 copies.
A year after its release, the 99-cent app still sells about 200 copie... | {
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} |
A SQLite Tutorial with Node.js - ScottWRobinson
http://stackabuse.com/a-sqlite-tutorial-with-node-js/
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le-mark
I didn't see anything in the code to address database contention for
inserts/updates. This is SQLites achilles heel, even in a single process, with
multiple writing threads. But it's _easily_ remedied b... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How do you organize notes? - papercutter
Hi!<p>I'm interested in knowing how you organize/store your notes (quotes/code snippets/random notes/todo etc)<p>I take a lot of notes myself, and I currently store them as text files in the dropbox folder and sync them across my computers and iphone. (iphone notes ca... | {
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How To Impress a Girl - Alex3917
http://alexkrupp.typepad.com/sensemaking/2009/02/how-to-impress-a-girl.html
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amitt
Isn't this already happening with YouTube? People making a name for themselves
without going through the normal channels?
| {
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Meteor 1.5 - tcsf
https://blog.meteor.com/announcing-meteor-1-5-b82be66571bb
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czk
Glad to see this out, looking forward to 1.6 as well with the Node upgrades.
bundle-visualizer is a nice way to break down the bundle size and help you
determine what to consider dynamically importing.
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kabes
Exact code spli... | {
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The 10 Minute Design Challenge: Learn quick UI sketching with me - DanI-S
http://10minutedesign.tumblr.com/post/16467656721/intro
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DanI-S
The first challenge is here, and there'll be a new one later today:
[http://10minutedesign.tumblr.com/post/16495873834/challenge-...](http://10minutedesign.tumblr.com/post/... | {
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Cool Old Terminal – Awesome emulator - ionicabizau
https://github.com/Swordifish90/cool-old-term
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DanBC
The fonts on CGA / EGA / VGA were pretty brutal.
[http://compgroups.net/comp.fonts/fonts-in-the-rom-of-ibm-
s-d...](http://compgroups.net/comp.fonts/fonts-in-the-rom-of-ibm-s-display-
adapters/257794)
... | {
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Tolerating the Surface Pro - peschkaj
http://ozar.me/2013/05/why-im-tolerating-the-surface-pro/
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rayiner
I don't see battery life as being a small problem on a tablet. My ipad mini
(with LTE) has become my primary communication device because I can use it
intensively and forget to charge it for days at a time.... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Soul of a New Machine: Rethinking the Computer [video] - tosh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvZA9n3e5pc&list=PLoROMvodv4rMWw6rRoeSpkiseTHzWj6vu
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zeckalpha
The title is a reference to Tracy Kidder’s book:
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of... | {
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Post-mortem of Christmas Eve Amazon ELB outage - cperciva
http://aws.amazon.com/message/680587/
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thrownaway2424
The post-mortem is missing important pieces.
1) When was the problem detected? 2) How was the problem detected: automated
monitoring, operator vigilance, or customer complaints? 3) When were custome... | {
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Tool to help migrate application code from Oracle to PostgreSQL - based2
https://github.com/societe-generale/code2pg
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e7e6
Hi, author here. If you wish to discuss the tool further, do not hesitate!
| {
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Put Down the Pitchforks; Amazon Didn't Steal Your Dunning-Krugerrands - QuinnyPig
http://lastweekinaws.com/blog/put-down-the-pitchfork-aws-didnt-steal-your-dunning-krugerrands.html
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dsl
But Amazon really did screw up here.
The attackers were able to announce more specific prefixes than Amazon was
announcing its... | {
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} |
Sequent raises $12 million from Russian and US funds for mobile wallet tech - shlema
http://www.ewdn.com/2013/07/11/californias-sequent-raises-12-million-from-russian-and-us-funds-for-mobile-wallet-tech/
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ExpiredLink
I guess the name is already taken:
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequent_Computer_Systems](http:... | {
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Agency contract work, good or bad? You decide... - cityzen
http://goldfingerknuckle.tumblr.com/post/10167962423/agency-contract-work-good-or-bad-you-decide
Some of my thoughts/frustrations on working for agencies... look forward to hearing other's thoughts on this.
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sheaninesix
Speaking as someone who has work... | {
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Chrome Plugins Built in Boston - kmccarth
http://bostinnovation.com/2011/04/02/chrome-plugins-built-in-boston/
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kmccarth
I'm definitely missing a lot of plugins built in Boston. please let me know
which I am missing
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Veracity 0.9.1 - dchest
http://www.ericsink.com/entries/veracity_0_9_1.html
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shii
Any use this yet and can share experience?
edit: no irc channel found for veracity-scm, does it exist anyone? also, I
found the piping method they used to get their PGP key was causing issues with
sudo, just wasn't accepting my ... | {
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Investment worthy? Off-the-plan property sales - Metroengine
http://www.metroengine.com.au
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Metroengine
Demo video is very easy to understand
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Ask HN: Anyone Familiar with Building Analytic Dashboards? - bbissoon
Hi HN, I'm running into a half-wall with building a dashboard to incorporate social media and google analytics of the user's website.<p>Anyone interested or could point me in the right direction to get started? Thanks all!
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SEJeff
I would su... | {
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Root vulnerability found in iPhone OS, exploitable via SMS - sounddust
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/20090702/tc_pcworld/applepatchingserioussmsvulnerabilityoniphone
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yan
I'll be waiting for the details of this one. I just love the idea of someone
involuntarily paying $.25 to get rooted.
~~~
sounddust
If... | {
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Style Guide for NASA History Authors and Editors - ademarre
https://history.nasa.gov/styleguide.html
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tradersam
> Define frequently used acronyms upon first usage. Try to avoid excessive use
> of acronyms, which is a plague of bureaucratic writing and speech.
e.g.:
> The space shuttle system consists of four p... | {
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I hired someone with Asperger's – now what? - rtexal
http://on.cnn.com/16WwSKG
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fein
I find it rather annoying that people like myself get lumped into this as well
when such broad definitions are being used.
Do I prefer to be alone/ in a small group most of the time? Hell yes! It's
more exclusive and I get more... | {
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} |
Nest is being rolled into Google’s hardware team - uptown
https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/07/nest-is-being-rolled-into-googles-hardware-team/
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supergeek133
Already posted one hour ago (Nest Blog):
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16327103](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16327103)
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sctb
Thanks, we'v... | {
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Download Instagram images (Full size HD) bypassing Instagram security - introvertmac
Instagram by default don't allow user to save image, Inspect element is also bit complicated. I wrote this script using python,beautiful soup and flask. you can download images just by clicking link of image, visit http:/&#x... | {
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Ask HN: How do you protect your stock against a 20+% drop? - vixotic
There is 401k, IRA, passive investing, low-cost indexing and all that and the main thing is to be in for the long term. But still working in a big tech company generally ends up giving you RSUs and ESPPs that after a few years you have a single stock... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A Code Red: Network Edition - kiyanwang
https://m.signalvnoise.com/inside-a-code-red-network-edition/
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Pick-A-Hill2019
I find it hilarious/annoying when authors put the TLDR; at the END of an
article (or post-mortem write-up in this instance). Since HN is a diverse
community (see Tabs vs. Spaces, Vim vs. Vi etc)... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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A tour of BTRFS - Avi Miller - tambourine_man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxWuaozpe2I
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giis
Only problem with BTRFS is its mainly developed by Oracle. And Oracle is well-
known for its active development and support for opensource (like mysql) :p
[http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/18/oracle-makes-more-moves-
t... | {
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} |
Big Picture guy is now at Atlantic with InFocus - awesome photography blog - pitdesi
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/
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Entlin
Great pictures. But without keyboard shortcuts to jump directly between
pictures, one is constantly micro-managing the window scrolling to fit each
pic inside the browser window.
~~~
... | {
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Ask HN: Get people to review your paid app - maco022
What's the best way to get people to rate / review your paid app in the app store without being intrusive?
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ssing
I asked similar question few days back. Not much but good start.
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1922863>
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Project Funded Online Hits $1 Million Milestone - jmhperks
http://www.npr.org/2012/02/11/146738529/kickstarter-crowns-a-millionaire
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nekgrim
and, 72 minutes later, Double Fine's project became the second $1 million
project : <http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/24-hours>
| {
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Fun with a webcam - apu
http://www.raphnet.net/divers/webcam/webcam_en.php
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deutronium
I really like <http://www.inventgeek.com/Projects/AlphaRad/Overview.aspx> to
view radiation from Americium from smoke alarms also using a webcam
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jacquesm
If you want to play around with webcams and bluescreening as wel... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How do you improve your analytical thinking? - PirxThePilot
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itamarst
Writing: both learning how to write, and then practicing writing.
Specifically, writing as a way of working through a problem and explaining it.
I talk about this in more detail, and suggest a book to read about writing,
here: [https:/... | {
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Ask HN: Etiquette for open source bug reports? - delinquentme
So I've been working on a few projects in which I've found a number of bugs. It turns out I found 3 in the time span of 20 minutes and I sent them merrily along to the developers ...<p>Is this bad etiquette? Should I be waiting a day / a few hours betwe... | {
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8 principles for self-investment - imartin2k
https://medium.com/the-mission/8-principles-for-self-investment-813374eb3e61#.w817p9hs1
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e2e4
Very helpful.
| {
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Curiosity Mars Rover Snaps 1.8B-Pixel Panorama (Narrated Video) - jdnier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2UaFuJsqxk
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jdnier
A really well done fly through video of a very large image, with some
incredible detail within.
| {
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} |
Blueprint: A CSS Framework - danw
http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/blueprint_a_css_framework/
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niels
I just redid my site using blueprint, and it's great. The layout is more
robust (I'm not a css wizard), and overall browser consistency has improved.
It was also very easy to use.
~~~
heri
i am co... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What was your first programming book? - mrburton
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RNeff
A Guide to FORTRAN Programming by Daniel McCracken
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rabarar
Complete Turbo Pascal, First Edition
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howard941
K&R
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onion2k
Camel book 2nd edition
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itcheeze
QBASIC for Dummies
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Scullwm
php3 reference book
| {
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} |
Apple gets smacked by $450M e-book price-fixing fine - CrankyBear
http://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-gets-smacked-by-450-million-e-book-price-fixing-fine/
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6stringmerc
> _Apple did not conspire to fix e-book pricing and this ruling does nothing
> to change the facts We are disappointed the Court does not recogn... | {
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} |
What happened to "real world" startups? - g0atbutt
http://thestartupfoundry.com/2011/02/27/ask-tsf-readers-what-happened-to-real-world-startups/
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vyrotek
I see proof these problems every day. There are definitely a lot of non-tech
guys out there who have great ideas but no way to execute. When friends and
fami... | {
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} |
Snooze your way to success: how sleep affects your productivity - aytekin
https://medium.com/swlh/snooze-your-way-to-success-how-sleep-affects-your-productivity-5677e62e9cb1
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saifsadiq1995
So what is avg time to sleep a day?
| {
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Show HN: Please Critique My Vocabulary Building Tool for Japanese - msglenn
I built a Japanese vocabulary building tool that pulls words and phrases from popular media, like songs and tv shows. I would love some feedback on whether or not the concept resonates. You can check it out at http://lexicandy.com&... | {
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} |
New Test Finds 580 Fatal Diseases Before Conception - edw519
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/parent-carrier-test-eliminate-scourge-rare-childhood-diseases/story?id=12632510
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zdw
Upsides of this - "before conception" means that it avoids the whole abortion
debate.
Downsides of this - once the insurance companies ... | {
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} |
Eisenhower Matrix (Time Management) - vinchuco
http://jamesclear.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/eisenhower-box.jpg
Explanation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_management#The_Eisenhower_Method
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vinchuco
Explanation:
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_management#The_Eisenhower_...](http://e... | {
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} |
Google Plans To Buy Its Way Into Real Estate - fjabre
http://searchengineland.com/google-plans-to-buy-its-way-into-real-estate-33652
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az
very interesting... so how do I get bought?
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zandorg
From the 'Brief Timeline Of Google’s Real Estate Efforts': "January 16, 2009"
- wrong year, buddy!
| {
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} |
Real-Life Massive Multi-Player Spy Game - captaincrunch
http://labs.blue74.com/
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geekfactor
Promoting a game like this would be an interesting way for China, Russia,
NastyCorp, etc. (insert bad guy) to cultivate a network of HUMINT sources
within the U.S. for low priority work. Create and run it as a game until
... | {
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} |
Show HN: Deploy an API Gateway HTTP API Today with AWS CDK - nideveloper
https://github.com/cdk-patterns/serverless/tree/master/the-simple-webservice
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peeyek
For people who want to try using this stack, please be aware of the cost
running this stack isn't cheap.
I recommend to watch this session in ServerlessDa... | {
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} |
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