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Time-travel queries in CockroachDB
We have added a new feature: time-travel queries. To our knowledge, we are the first database to have implemented the them.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,107 posts.
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Google Fiber agrees to acquire Webpass
Gigabit fiber internet in 16 major metro areas with no data caps or contracts. Connect to high-speed internet today with gFiber Webpass.
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Where have all the iOS games gone?
Anyway I see this question coming up a lot in my twitter stream so I thought I’d post a reply here that I can link to when it comes up.
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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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JavaScript Performance Updates in Microsoft Edge and Chakra
Since we first started work on the Chakra JavaScript engine, it has been our mission and priority to make JavaScript faster for the real-world web, and to continuously improve the experience of browsing in Microsoft Edge (and previously Internet Explorer). We’ve had a very busy year, with highlights like taking Chakra…
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Progress Towards 100% HTTPS, June 2016
Our goal with Let’s Encrypt is to get the Web to 100% HTTPS. We’d like to give a quick progress update. Let’s Encrypt has issued more than 5 million certificates in total since we launched to the general public on December 3, 2015. Approximately 3.8 million of those are active, meaning unexpired and unrevoked. Our…
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Erlang/OTP 19.0 has been released
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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Concrete AI Safety Problems
We (along with researchers from Berkeley and Stanford) are co-authors on today’s paper led by Google Brain researchers, Concrete Problems in AI Safety. The paper explores many research problems around ensuring that modern machine learning systems operate as intended.
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Numerai, a hedge fund built by a community of anonymous data scientists
On February 27th 2016, an artificial intelligence named NCVSAI joined Numerai. His creator downloaded encrypted stock market data, trained…
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SPF, DMARC, and DKIM: How to Keep Your Email Out of the Spam Folder
Insights gleaned from years in the trenches. Truly essential tips, practices, and guides for achieving WordPress success.
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Ruby 2.4.0-preview1 released
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.4.0-preview1.
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Elixir v1.3 released
Elixir v1.3 brings many improvements to the language, the compiler and its tooling, specially Mix (Elixir's build tool) and ExUnit (Elixir's test framework).
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How to Pick Your Battles on a Software Team
Everyone knows they should pick their battles, but how do you decide when? Here are 3 questions for figuring out when to push back and when to let it be.
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“PayPal has demanded that we monitor data traffic as well as customers’ files”
Seafile is an open source, self-hosted file sync and share solution with high performance and reliability. Sync, access, and collaborate on files on your own server or private cloud.
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Ethereum is Doomed
I fully support the attacker’s actions, and I wish I had thought of it first.
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Building a more power-efficient browser
Today, Jason Weber shared a post on the Windows Experience Blog demonstrating the power efficiency of Microsoft Edge over other popular browsers on Windows 10. With the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, we are hard at work pushing the envelope further, engineering Microsoft Edge to last even longer with typical…
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SimpleCitizen (YC S16) Is TurboTax for Immigration
Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
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Docker Betas for AWS, Azure, Mac, and Windows
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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Docker 1.12: Now with Built-In Orchestration
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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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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We’re pretty happy with SQLite and not urgently interested in a fancier DBMS
Every once in a while, someone suggests that beets should use a “real database.” I think this means storing music metadata in PostgreSQL or MySQL as an alternative to our current SQLite database. The idea is that a more complicated DBMS should be faster, especially for huge music libraries.
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Thinking About Smart Contract Security
Over the last day with the community's help we have crowdsourced a list of all of the major bugs with smart contracts on Ethereum so far, including both the...