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Female Founders Conference 2015 applications are open
We’re delighted to announce the second Y CombinatorFemale Founders Conference [http://www.femalefoundersconference.org/], on Saturday, February 21 in San Francisco. Once again, we’ll bring current and future founders together to share their stories, give advice, and make connections. At YC, we have the honor of…
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PostgreSQL 9.4 Released
18 DECEMBER 2014: The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces the release of PostgreSQL 9.4, the latest version of the world's …
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EFF in Court to Argue NSA Collection from Internet Backbone Is Unconstitutional
Oakland - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will argue on Friday before a federal court that the National Security Agency (NSA) is violating the Fourth Amendment by copying and searching data that it collects by tapping into the Internet backbone. The hearing on a motion for partial summary...
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Bioluminescent trees as an alternative to electric lighting
When people think of Registered Apprenticeship, they may picture careers in construction, manufacturing, or the skilled trades. But apprenticeship is also creating exciting career pathways in industries that keep our communities beautiful, safe, and thriving — including turfgrass management and groundskeeping. New…
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An Update to End-To-End
Posted by Stephan Somogyi, Product Manager, Security and Privacy In June, we announced and launched End-To-End , a tool for those who need...
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A redesign of the Django websites
Posted by Jannis Leidel and Russell Keith-Magee on Dec. 15, 2014
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Federal Court Throws Out Six Weeks of Warrantless Video Surveillance
Update: On December 15, Judge Edward Shea issued his written opinion in United States v. Vargas, which you can read here. The public got an early holiday gift today when a federal court agreed with us that six weeks of continually video recording the frontyard of someone's home without a search...
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UNSW researchers set record in solar energy efficiency
Solar engineers from UNSW's Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics have set a new world-record in solar energy efficiency, achieving an electricity conversion rate of over 40%.
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Our 6 TB Hard Drive Face-Off
Backblaze is transitioning from using 4 TB hard drives to using 6 TB hard drives in the Storage Pods we will be deploying over the coming months...
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Effectively Managing Memory at Gmail Scale
While JavaScript employs garbage collection for automatic memory management, it is not a substitute for effective memory management in applications. JavaScript applications suffer from the same memory related problems that native applications do, such as memory leaks and bloat, yet they must also deal with garbage…
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The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
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Go 1.4 is released
Go 1.4 adds support for Android, go generate, optimizations, and more.
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Google News to shut down in Spain
After 9/11, one of our engineers, Krishna Bharat, realized that results for the query “World Trade Center” returned nothing about the terror...
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When your IP traffic in AWS disappears into a black hole
When we’d spin up new machines, some would fail our health checks. There was no network traffic between these boxes and our database machines.. The ARP tables on the database boxes had cached, outdated MAC addresses from no-longer-living boxes.