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Mozilla Awards $385k to Open Source Projects
For many years people with visual impairments and the legally blind have paid a steep price to access the Web on Windows-based computers. The market-leadin
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 810 posts.
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Torus: A distributed storage system by CoreOS
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
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How Dropbox securely stores your passwords
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
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What Happened at the Satoshi Roundtable
Last weekend I attended the Satoshi Roundtable conference along with Charlie Lee and about 70 other members of the bitcoin community.
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The rectangularness of countries
What is the most rectangular country?
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Keybase chooses Zcash
You're reading the Keybase blog. There are more posts . When you're done, you can install Keybase .
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IPv6 Support for EC2 Instances in Virtual Private Clouds
Update (7/13/2017): Since this post was published, IPv6 supported has been extended and now supports 15 Regions and Multiple AWS Services. The continued growth of the Internet, particularly in the areas of mobile applications, connected devices, and IoT, has spurred an industry-wide move to IPv6. In accord with a…
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React Native on the Universal Windows Platform
Today, Microsoft and Facebook announced at Facebook’s developer conference, F8 2016, that we’re adding Universal Windows Platform (UWP) support to React Native. This is provided as an open source, community-supported framework. The new UWP support extends the reach of these native apps to a new market of 270 million…
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Deep Learning Is Easy – Learn Something Harder
Caveat: This post is meant address people who are completely new to deep learning and are planning an entry into this field. The intention is to help them think critically about the complexity of the field, and to help them tell apart things that are trivial from things that are...
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Image Compression with Neural Networks
Posted by Nick Johnston and David Minnen, Software EngineersData compression is used nearly everywhere on the internet - the videos you watch onlin...
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Why Kubernetes isn't using Docker's libnetwork
Kubernetes has had a very basic form of network plugins since before version 1.0 was released — around the same time as Docker's libnetwork and Container Network Model (CNM) was introduced. Unlike libnetwork, the Kubernetes plugin system still retains its "alpha" designation. Now that Docker's network plugin support…
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How to Crash Systemd in One Command
After running this command, PID 1 is hung in the pause system call. You can no longer start and stop daemons. inetd-style services no longer accept connections. You cannot cleanly reboot the system. The system feels generally unstable (e.g. ssh and su hang for 30 seconds since systemd is now integrated with the login…
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Why Clojure? (2010)
I have recently become quite an enthusiast for the language Clojure . But why? Why would someone who has spent the last 30 years programmi...
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OpenAI technical goals
OpenAI’s mission is to build safe AI, and ensure AI’s benefits are as widely and evenly distributed as possible.
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How convolutional neural networks see the world
Note: this post was originally written in January 2016. It is now very outdated. Please see this example of how to visualize convnet filters for an up-to-date alternative, or check out chapter 9 of my book "Deep Learning with Python (2nd edition)".
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Facebook's new front-end server design
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Moving on from Picasa
Update March 26, 2018 : The Picasa Desktop application will no longer work online, which means that you will not be able to upload or downlo...
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You can’t fix diversity in tech without fixing the technical interview
Hiring is broken. A brief history of technical interviewing, look at where things standa today, and what can be done.
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Free Transactional Email Services – The Best Alternatives to Mandrill and Co
Round-up and comparison of several popular and free transactional email services and Mandrill alternatives.
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The Beauty of Roots (2011)
Around 2006, my friend Dan Christensen created a fascinating picture of all the roots of all polynomials of degree ≤ 5 with integer coefficients ranging from -4 to 4:
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Golang’s Real-Time GC in Theory and Practice
How the Golang concurrent GC achieves low latencies in real-time systems: a visualization of the algorithm and an empirical comparison with other languages.
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