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You can get Markdown nowadays too, at least using this Python wrapper: https://aws-samples.github.io/amazon-textract-textractor/not... It's very consistent, though pricey.

Many shelters in the US are run be religious organizations and discriminate against gay people, too. This is particularly a problem because LGBTQ make up a sizeable chunk of homele…

People who have never faced consequences for their actions rarely consider the possible consequences of their actions

I've written similar code for investment banks, to extract financial reporting data from PDFs. It's shocking to think how much of the financial world runs on this kind of tin-cans-…

If you're in Oakland, you can get haircuts for $15 at Lee's Barbershop in Chinatown: https://www.yelp.com/biz/lees-barber-shop-oakland Probably not the point, but there's generally…

This is a recurring problem in the animal feed industry. Easiest explanation for the phenomena: the small particles fall through the gaps gaps between the large particles.

Anyone who complains wind-turbines being unsightly should be forced to live next to an oil-refinery :-(

This is such garbage. If you clickthrough on this guy's "research", you'll find that he objects to Google's "Go Vote Today" reminder is unfair politically because: - It increases v…

I worked on a product like this for a long while, so I can appreciate how hard the problem is you are trying to solve. Some things I realized along the way: * Price capture needs t…

- We don't have the breadth of Safelight's material (early days I guess), but the areas we cover, we do a much better job. It was our frustration with this kind of training materia…

This was the post that got to the front page: https://www.reddit.com/r/InternetIsBeautiful/comments/4a4ol6... The warmest feedback tended to come through PMs and email.

Beta online now: https://www.hacksplaining.com There's a gap in the market for online security training aimed at developers. Most training companies focus on security awareness for…

Well spotted - I kind of mangled that explanation. The risk being mitigated is if somebody gets a dump of your old emails. Short-lived reset tokens don't help if they have full acc…

Interesting site, never seen that before. It's kind of hard to get a feel for what the product does, though, without any screenshots.

Oh wow. Would love to know you did that. :-o

My bad, I've removed the reference to outdated password schemes. :-o

Give it a try, it's free! We don't cover mobile specifically, but if you are building APIs, much of the advise is useful. And thinks like password management are useful for every d…

Author here! I put this together because I was bit frustrated with the quality of teaching resources for my development team. (And I find the OWASP wiki a bit of a mess.) Not sure …