Ivacy VPN: a VPN you should not use

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Ivacy VPN, the VPN that suddenly got so popular because of their affordable prices and, based on their claims, fast speed and zero-log policy. I heard about it around a year ago from a friend, who had some compliments and complaints about it. When I was comparing VPN providers for a blog post, I had Ivacy VPN on my draft. ...

Personal VPN to Bypass Internet Censorship, VPN Blocking and Bandwidth Throttling

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Having a VPN, Virtual Private Network, is essential nowadays for many reasons, such as accessing restricted content by your ISP or government, bypassing geographically restricted content, protecting your privacy, and so on. In an earlier post, I have reviewed the top three VPN providers. If you are looking for a secure and affordable VPN provider, Private Internet Access is an ...

How to translate usernames in multilingual WordPress websites

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If you are running multilingual Wordpress website and want to display a user's name differently for some languages, you have landed on the solution to achieve just that. I needed to show different username for my Arabic blog, as Arabic has different letters than Latin. Based on my research, there are two solutions. The first is to purchase and subscribe to WPML's ...

How to create multiple accounts on a website using one email

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Whenever I want to create a new product, such as a website, bot, mobile app, I immediately create its social accounts (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, ... etc) right after deciding what the name of the product is going to be. However, creating a new email for every product is annoying. Filling out forms, confirming your identity, recalling/storing multiple credentials, checking the ...

Developing a blazing fast website in Python using Falcon and Bjoern

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Few days back, I wanted to develop a web service in Python. I wanted to run the service on my VPS with as minimal resources as possible while providing a fast service. I started looking for benchmarks online of different Python web frameworks and WSGI servers, and found out about two awesome libraries, falcon and bjoern. Falcon is a micro-framework that is designed ...

Expanding and weighting stereotypical properties of human characters

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A great deal of research and applications utilize adjectival properties of nouns. For instance, Linguistic Creativity --a sub-field of Computational Creativity that is focused on language-- uses properties of nouns to generate jokes, metaphors, analogies and stories automatically. Nonetheless, obtaining quality properties of nouns is a difficult task to achieve, especially when the desired nouns are proper nouns (e.g. Albert Einstein) or ...

Adding multi-lingual comments to your website using Disqus

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Having comments and discussions on your website is an important thing as it encourages your visitors to interact and share ideas, not to mention any SEO advantages. Disqus is a great platform for discussions and comments. With it, you can add commenting feature to your website without any backend development. All you need to do is create an account, link ...

How to setup and use Stanford CoreNLP Server with Python

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Stanford CoreNLP is a great Natural Language Processing (NLP) tool for analysing text. Given a paragraph, CoreNLP splits it into sentences then analyses it to return the base forms of words in the sentences, their dependencies, parts of speech, named entities and many more. Stanford CoreNLP not only supports English but also other 5 languages: Arabic, Chinese, French, German and ...

Get Free CS:GO skins and cases from Drakemoon [HACK]

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In Counter Strike - Global Offensive (CS:GO), you get some drops as you play and rank up. Most of the time, these drops are cases which require you to buy a key (~2.4€) to open one case. In case you got a skin as a drop, it is usually not a valuable one. A case in CS:GO has couple of weapons and a mystery item. ...