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Parents with annual family incomes below $125,000 will pay no tuition
News, research, and insights from Stanford University.
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Not everything is an expression
“ Everything is an expression ” is an informal slogan of several programming languages, particularly those descended from the Lisp family. It is meant to contrast with languages that distinguish statements from expressions , such as Python, JavaScript, and C.
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Why We Chose Redshift
How we decided on Redshift for giving our customers access to their raw data in SQL.
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Ebola whole virus vaccine shown effective, safe in primates
An Ebola whole virus vaccine, constructed using a novel experimental platform, has been shown to effectively protect monkeys exposed to the often fatal virus.
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Dart 1.9
Asynchronous programming is everywhere – user interaction, network access, file I/O. Dart simplifies and enhances these scenarios with the...
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How I taught my dog to text me selfies
Using an Arduino Yun, Twilio and a big red button, my dog texts me selfies.
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EFF's “Yellow Dots of Mystery” (2008)
Since late 2004, EFF has been warning the public about "printer dots" -- tiny yellow dots that appear on documents produced by many color laser printers and copiers. These yellow dots form a coded pattern on every page the printer produces and can be used to identify specific details about a...
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Node.js Tools for Visual Studio
We have updated this post. Look for an tag to find the updates. Node.js Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio (NTVS) is now available for download! NTVS is a
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“We have decided not to integrate the Dart VM into Chrome”
We work with many teams, inside and outside of Google, that use Dart every day to build business-critical apps. Their feedback is consistent...
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Hacker School is now the Recurse Center
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
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Michael Stonebraker wins Turing Award
Michael Stonebraker, an MIT researcher who has revolutionized the field of database management systems and founded multiple successful database companies, has won the Association for Computing Machinery's $1 million A.M. Turing Award, often referred to as “the Nobel Prize of computing.”
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Sublime Text 3 Build 3080
Build 3080 is now available, with many fixes, improvements and new features. Full details, and downloads, are on the Sublime Text 3 page.
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Maintaining Digital Certificate Security
Posted by Adam Langley, Security Engineer On Friday, March 20th, we became aware of unauthorized digital certificates for several Google ...
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Images that fool computer vision raise security concerns
Computers are learning to recognize objects with near-human ability. But Cornell researchers have found that computers, like humans, can be fooled by optical illusions, which raises security concerns.
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Amtrak police use of passenger data
[Passenger Name Record (PNR) view from Amtrak “Police GUI”. Click image for larger version.]
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The decline in unionization has fed the rise in incomes at the top
The decline in unionization in recent decades has fed the rise in incomes at the top
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Why We Should Demand a Shorter Workweek
I.W.W. Poster By Dustin Guastella If the labourer consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist. – K. Marx Recently a Chicago firm made headlines when it was revealed that they allowed their workers less than six minutes a day in the bathroom. Naturally, people were outraged, but this is an old…
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Super Fuzzy Searching on PostgreSQL
Bartlett Publishing has put together several lists of books available from many various publishers which are essential reading for anyone interested in the topic. Check them out today!
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Start Using Landsat on AWS
My colleague Jed Sundwall wrote the guest post below to show you how one of the newest AWS Public Data Sets is being put to use. — Jeff; You can now access over 85,000 Landsat 8 scenes through our newest Public Data Set: Landsat on AWS. The scenes are all available in the landsat-pds bucket […]
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Important Allies Join the Fight Against NSA Internet Backbone Surveillance
Last week, the ACLU filed a welcome additional challenge to the NSA’s warrantless Internet backbone surveillance (aka “Upstream” surveillance) on behalf of Wikimedia and a number of other media and human rights organizations. We applaud all of those involved in bringing the case. It adds another...
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Rationality: From AI to Zombies
Between 2006 and 2009, senior MIRI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote several hundred essays for the blogs Overcoming Bias and Less Wrong, collectively called
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We are under attack
Fighting censorship with technology since 2011. We use AI to monitor censorship and expand free speech worldwide.
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