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GitLab Master Plan
GitLab announces $20M in Series B funding, and its Master Plan to build an integrated toolset for the modern developer!
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,107 posts.
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Logical Induction
MIRI is releasing a paper introducing a new model of deductively limited reasoning: “Logical induction,” authored by Scott Garrabrant, Tsvi Benson-Tilsen,
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Scalable and secure access with SSH
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A tale of an impossible bug: big.LITTLE and caching
When someone says multi-core, we unconsciously think SMP. That worked out well for us until recently when ARM announced big.LITTLE. ARM’s big.LITTLE architecture is the first mass produced AMP architecture and as we’ll see next, it raises the bar for how hard multi-core programing is.
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Rosetta catches dusty organics
Follow ESA's mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
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Startup employees don't earn more
We estimate typical startup salaries and equity compensation, and find early-employees don't earn more than large company employees.
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Can computers read through a book page by page without opening it?
A. R. Sanchez, B. Heshmat*, A. Aghasi, M. Zhang, S. Naqvi, J. Romberg, R. Raskar
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Why Do Tourists Visit Ancient Ruins Everywhere Except the United States?
In 1250, the southeastern United States was home to a city larger than London whose people built 200 huge, earthen pyramids. So why do so few people know about it?
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FlyWeb – Pure Web Cross-Device Interaction
FlyWeb is an experimental project we’ve been prototyping from within the depths of Mozilla’s platform division. It started as a side-project late last year, and since then a small, ad-hoc ...
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Be Productive Anywhere: Strategies for Better Remote Work
After years of working from coffee shops and couches, there's one thing I'm certain of: working remotely is hard. Incredibly hard. On paper, it sounds all rainbows and unicorns—you get to choose your own hours, you don't need to deal with a boss looming over your shoulder, and you can...
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Rkt reaches 1.14.0
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
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Channels adopted as an official Django project
Posted by Andrew Godwin on Sept. 9, 2016
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V8 JavaScript Engine: V8 Release 5.4
V8 v5.4 comes with performance improvements and reduced memory consumption.
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Recreating Our Galaxy in a Supercomputer
A new simulation of our Milky Way galaxy has solved a decades-old mystery.
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Four billion messages an hour: benchmarking Deepstream throughput
A realtime server for the modern web
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How Seattle Killed Micro-Housing
Micro-housing—dorm-room-sized apartments in desirable, walkable neighborhoods—isn’t for everyone, but it most definitely is for Anna Rogers. Anna is a recent college graduate who grew up in the suburbs of Seattle and now works a retail job while looking to start a career that harnesses her passion for politics. Thanks…
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How to Test Drive Your Business Idea Before Quitting Your Job
This post on validating a new business idea (or business venture) was inspired by lean methodology books like Lean Startup, Running Lean, 4 Steps to the Epiphany, and Lean Analytics.
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People are still bad at gauging their own interview performance
Why are people so bad at gauging their own interviewing performance? We investigated and dig into the data to see what we can learn.
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WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio
This post presents WaveNet, a deep generative model of raw audio waveforms. We show that WaveNets are able to generate speech which mimics any human voice and which sounds more natural than the best existing Text-to-Speech systems, reducing the gap with human performance by over 50%.
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Introducing “Ask a Female Engineer”
Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
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Sophisticated OS X Backdoor Discovered
Back in January this year we found a new family of cross-platform backdoors for desktop environments. After the discovery of the binaries for Linux and Windows systems, we have now finally come across the OS X version of Mokes.A.
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We’re in the Middle of a Data Engineering Talent Shortage
Stay up-to-date with the latest news, practical tips & best practices from Qlik on data analytics, data integration, data literacy, and big data analytics.
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Moving Towards a More Secure Web
To help users browse the web safely, Chrome indicates connection security with an icon in the address bar. Historically, Chrome has not exp...
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