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Great response from StrongLoop, it was ridiculous over-react from Joyent to publicly pull out the pitchforks.

To me, real story is, all 96 tablets less than $50 in China.

When I was 28 years old, found I had high blood pressure. Over next 7 years I took BP meds but also lost weight and worked out. Doctors ran tests but never found a root cause - it …

If there is one thing I've managed to become sure of in my time on earth, it is that existing financial systems are explicitly designed by the status quo to be abused by the status…

From burritocop (linkdead): Hacking Secret Ciphers with Python http://inventwithpython.com/hacking/ I haven't yet read the book but I've heard good things about it. It looks like i…

How about looking into paying this man for his honest bug finding work? The response from FB on this is disgusting. "We are unfortunately not able to pay you for this vulnerability…

Yet another datapoint that marijuana vaporizers are a great bet for a hardware startup.

Sorry to hear this. Jumping bail and escaping the country, is a valid option, in my mind.

This is senior high school analytics and stating failure as a certainty with this simple model is over-reaching, not to mention, Mark Shuttleworth's money.

This is really helpful, thanks.

That style has merit. Whomever submitted that code, which obviously resulted in creating extra work to waste Linus' time, that person has many choices, such as leaving and never co…

Wow, this is really pretty cool. I'm surprised not more discussion on it. Thanks for sharing.

Hi HN, thanks for taking time to look at my project!

From gitsum, who is linkdead: "I mined about 13000 bitcoins in 2010 when it was possible to mine with a single quad core CPU. It was worth about $100 when I stopped mining in Augus…

Doesn't everyone realize by now that these android tv boxes are a dime a dozen here in China now? What the heck makes this a legitimate kickstarter? They have their PCBA in a teste…

Shame that this is the biggest news to come out of PyCon.

Google Glass banned in McDonalds.

As an American that lives and works in China, I can certainly vouch that it is a real trick to even download the regular version of Skype, and best I can tell it is impossible with…