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IRC and Emacs all the things
This post is a succinct and technical description on how to bridge all your messengers into IRC and therefore Emacs.
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YC W20 Online-Only Demo Day
Edit: YC W20 Demo Day is now on March 16. See here [https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-w20-online-demo-day-now-on-march-16/] for more info. On March 23, YC will host our 30th Demo Day online. With the growing concern over COVID-19, we believe this is the right thing to do for the safety of all attendees, including our…
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Caffeine boosts problem-solving ability but not creativity, study indicates
While the drug is known to increase focus, alertness and motor skills, its effect on creative thinking had not been studied previously.
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Study: Low Carb Diet May Prevent, Reverse Age-Related Effects Within the Brain
The news in brief: 1) Brain changes associated with aging become visible much earlier than would be expected, in the late 40's. 2) This is hypothesized to result from neurons’ loss of energy; if so, researchers may have found a way to prevent or reverse these effects. 3) This can be done with diet, by
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FreeNAS and TrueNAS Are Unifying
FreeNAS and TrueNAS have been separate-but-related members of the #1 Open Source storage software family since 2012.
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Stanford Medicine COVID-19 test now in use
The Stanford Clinical Virology Laboratory has deployed an in-house diagnostic test for the virus that causes COVID-19. Rapid identification of infected people could help limit the spread of the virus.
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Sequoia Capital memo to their portfolio founders on Coronavirus
Here is a note that we sent to Sequoia founders and CEOs today to provide guidance on how to ensure the health of their business while…
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Facebook sues Namecheap
We don’t want people to be deceived, so we take legal action against misleading domains.
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Beer Drinkers Guide to SAML
Learn about SAML authentication and the mechanics behind some of the most common SAML use cases, all through the fictional BaaS (Beer-as-a-Service).
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The History of the URL
January 11th, 1982, 22 computer scientists met to discuss an issue with ‘computer mail’ (now known as email).
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Computational predictions of protein structures associated with COVID-19
The scientific community has galvanised in response to the recent COVID-19 outbreak, building on decades of basic research characterising this virus family. Labs at the forefront of the outbreak response shared genomes of the virus in open access databases, which enabled researchers to rapidly develop tests for this…
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Explaining copyright broke the YouTube copyright system
Update 5/6/24: A podcast recording of this same panel discussion has also been targeted multiple times on the Spotify platform. The Engelberg Center’s experiences with these are documented here .
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Is Go Duck-Typed?
In programming languages, duck typing can be approximated as the application of the duck test to objects. Here we explore if go is duck typed.
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Deep Learning Algorithms: The Complete Guide
All the essential Deep Learning Algorithms you need to know including models used in Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing
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PowerShell 7.0
Today, we're happy to announce the Generally Available (GA) release of PowerShell 7.0! Before anything else, we'd like to thank our many, many open-source
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Stop using Material Design text fields
Why you shouldn't use or imitate the text fields from Google's Material Design UI library.
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Moznet IRC is dead; long live Mozilla Matrix
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Covid-19 precautions for Stripe employees and customers
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes