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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 812 posts.
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MapReduce for the Masses: Zero to Hadoop in 5 minutes with Common Crawl
Common Crawl aims to change the big data game with our repository of over 40 terabytes of high-quality web crawl information into the Amazon cloud, the net total of 5 billion crawled pages.
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An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress
Today, a group of 83 prominent Internet inventors and engineers sent an open letter to members of the United States Congress, stating their opposition to the SOPA and PIPA Internet blacklist bills that are under consideration in the House and Senate respectively. We, the undersigned, have played...
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Bug Prediction at Google
What's the problem? Here at Google, we have thousands of engineers working on our code base every day. In fact, as previously noted , 50%...
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How SOPA Affects Students, Educators, and Libraries
Big media groups like the MPAA and the RIAA have historically targeted college campuses with “anti-piracy” measures, and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) — the blacklist bill they’re trying to push through Congress — is no exception. The bill’s supporters insist that it targets only “rogue”...
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Nvidia Opens CUDA Platform, Releases Compiler Source Code
NVIDIA's CUDA Compiler (NVCC) is based on the widely used LLVM open source compiler infrastructure. Developers can create or extend programming languages with support for GPU acceleration using the NVIDIA Compiler SDK .
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EFF: Some Facts About Carrier IQ
There has been a rolling scandal about the Carrier IQ software installed by cell phone companies on 150 million phones, mostly within the United States. Subjects of outright disagreement have included the nature of the program, what information it actually collects, and under what circumstances....
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From zero to Go: launching on the Google homepage in 24 hours
How Go helped launch the Google Doodle for Thanksgiving 2011.
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TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha
The excitement for a new version has been tremendous and today we’re finally able to repay the much appreciated loyalty and moral support from the community by releasing the first public alpha: TextMate 2.0 alpha .
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ThemeForest author to sell more than $1million in WordPress stock themes
Discover ideas, trends and tools to inspire your creative projects on the Envato Blog.
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Trillion-frame-per-second video
By using optical equipment in a totally unexpected way, MIT researchers have created an imaging system that makes light look slow.
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WordPress 3.3 "Sonny"
The latest and greatest version of the WordPress software — 3.3, named “Sonny” in honor of the great jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt — is immediately available for download or update inside your WordP…
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WebSockets RFC is now official
Search IETF mail list archives
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JQuery plugins site accidentally deleted - last backup one year old.
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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Standing Up For Android
It seems these days you don’t have to go far to find people that want to belittle Android, often for reasons they feel are perfectly objective and valid. I’d call out Marco Arment and J…
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Code snippets on Microsoft website shown in form of images.
Azure Translator is a cloud-based machine translation service you can use to translate text through a simple REST API call. The service uses modern neural machine translation technology and offers statistical machine translation technology. Custom Translator is an extension of Translator, which allows you to build…
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CNET Injecting Malware into Downloads
Download.com has been caught inserting malware/adware into the 3rd party software it distributes