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Personalized news recommendations and privacy are not mutually exclusive
Why personalized news recommendations and privacy are not mutually exclusive
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 31,707 posts.
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2020 Cloud Report: AWS vs. GCP vs. Azure
The 2020 Cloud Report compares AWS, GCP, and Azure on microbenchmarks and customer-like-workloads to understand performance tradeoffs within each cloud.
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WebAssembly becomes a W3C Recommendation
Following HTML, CSS and JavaScript, WebAssembly becomes the fourth language for the Web which allows code to run in the browser
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ICANN Delays .ORG Sale Approval
An update on the proposed acquisition of Public Interest Registry (PIR) by Ethos Capital and where ICANN was in the process in December 2019.
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Cracking LUKS/dm-crypt passphrases
Linux uses dm-crypt in order to provide transparent disk or partition encryption. What are the options in case you need to recover passphrase from such encryption? There are already ready-made tools, but we have also produced and published our own in order to support newer LUKS format/ciphers/hashing.
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The Architecture of a Large-Scale Web Search Engine, Circa 2019
Our Journey to Microservices, Kubernetes and beyond.
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Police Have No Duty to Protect You, Federal Court Affirms Yet Again
The “social contract” is a one-way street. You pay your taxes or go to jail. In return, the government may or may not provide some of those services you
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Ways to reduce the costs of an HTTP(S) API on AWS
Hundreds of articles for game developers and enthusiasts.
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“My Car does not start when I buy Vanilla Ice Cream” (2015)
Did you ever imagine that an “Ice Cream” could shake the entire General Motors? In 2010, the Pontiac Division of General Motors received a very funny complaint from one of its customers. It was so weird & bizarre that it took the entire General Motors by storm. However, on reading the entire Case, this definitely
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FastMRI initiative releases neuroimaging data set
As part of the fastMRI research project to use AI to speed up MRI scans, NYU Langone Health is making a new dataset of de-identified brain MRIs available to researchers and Facebook AI is sharing additional tools and resources.
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Vim 8.2
For MS-Windows, download the self installing executable . Signed MS-Windows files are available on the vim-win32-installer site ( gvim_8.2.0012_x86_signed.exe is recommended) For Unix you probably want to get the latest version using git, see the github page Otherwise see the Download page for options.
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Using Broadway in an Elixir application
Discover how Broadway can help you create highly concurrent data processing pipelines in your Elixir app.
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Startup Growth and Venture Returns
If you miss the best-performing seed investment, you will eventually be outperformed by someone who blindly invests in every credible deal.
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Repl from Repo
Find the right repository, bring it into Replit, and get to work. What changed in GitHub imports, authentication, and the Git pane.
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Introducing E2, new cost-optimized general purpose VMs for Google Compute Engine
A technical look at dynamic resource management behind E2 VM machine types.
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Face recognition in European police forces
The majority of the police forces that answered questions by AlgorithmWatch said they use or plan to introduce face recognition. Use cases vary greatly across countries, but almost all have in common their lack of transparency.
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Speeding Up the Rust Compiler
I last wrote in October about my work on speeding up the Rust compiler. With the year’s end approaching, it’s time for an update.
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User Agent Changes
Vivaldi is changing how it presents its User Agent in the upcoming release. Here is an explanation of what a User Agent is and what we are doing.
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Better password protections in Chrome
Posted by Patrick Nepper, Kiran C. Nair, Vasilii Sukhanov and Varun Khaneja, Chrome Team Today, we announced better password protection...
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Preventing Tracking Prevention Tracking
This blog post covers enhancements to Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) included in Safari on iOS and iPadOS 13.3, Safari 13.0.4 on macOS Catalina, Mojave, and High Sierra.
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Object-recognition dataset stumped the world’s best computer vision models
When computer vision detectors are turned loose in the real world, their performance noticeably drops. In an effort to close this performance gap, a team of MIT and IBM researchers set out to create a very different kind of object-recognition dataset called ObjectNet.
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Things end users care about but programmers don't
A list of things I've noticed are important for end users but hard for programmers to understand or implement