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Two HN Announcements

The HN community feels like it owns HN, and we like it that way. HN has become an important institution in the tech community, and though it was initially developed for YC founders it's clearly...

Click to view the original at blog.ycombinator.com

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Nexus

Built to get the best out of the world’s most popular OS, Nexus is the ultimate Android experience. You’re always among the first to receive software and security updates4. And you’ll have the freshest, fastest version — Android 6.0 Marshmallow — working for you right out of the box.

Click to view the original at google.com

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The Case of Richard Glossip

September 2015 I used to think the debate about capital punishment was a matter of abstract questions like when it is permissible to kill someone. In practice it isn't. In practice the problem...

Click to view the original at pg.posthaven.com

Hasnain says:

"I used to think the debate about capital punishment was a matter of abstract questions like when it is permissible to kill someone. In practice it isn't. In practice the problem with the death penalty is the incompetence of the people we entrust with it."

Posted on 2015-09-29T02:29:14+0000

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How to explain the KGB’s amazing success identifying CIA agents in the field?

Paranoid CIA heads blamed Soviet moles, but the real reason for the repeated disasters was much simpler

Click to view the original at www.salon.com

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Hasnain says:

"I’ve known so many programmers who would have been much more successful in their careers if they had only been better writers, better critical thinkers, better back-of-the-envelope estimators, better communicators. And aside from success in careers, we have to ask the broader question: What kinds of people do we want children to grow up to be?"

Posted on 2015-09-28T17:48:11+0000

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