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Change GitBucket user interface to make difference with GitHub
We received a mail from GitHub a few weeks ago.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,107 posts.
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Python Virtual Environments – a Primer
Create isolated project setups on all platforms, and gain a deep understanding of Python's virtual environments created with the venv module.
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How to avoid brittle code
Here are some techniques to avoid the pain of having brittleness from legacy code.
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First Impressions of a $9 CHIP Computer
Even though the CHIP is much cheaper than the Pi, I've found that is actually much more convenient (less wires and configuration).
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Launching the Electronic Frontier Alliance
We're excited to announce the formation of a new grassroots network, the Electronic Frontier Alliance. Bringing together community and campus organizations across the U.S., the Alliance will serve as an increasingly vital hub for activism and organizing addressing a spectrum of civil liberties and...
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Red Programming Language: 0.6.0: Red GUI System
Five years ago, when I started writing the first lines of code of what would become later the Red/System compiler, I had a pretty good pictu...
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Make elites compete: Why the 1% earn so much and what to do about it
The top 1 percent of Americans now earn 21 percent of total national income. Why? Jonathan Rothwell debunks three myths often used to explain away their success.
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Microsoft demos 'holoportation' 3D presence tech with HoloLens
Holoportation is a new type of 3D capture technology that allows high-quality 3D models of people to be reconstructed, compressed and transmitted anywhere in the world in real time. When combined with mixed reality displays such as HoloLens, this technology allows users to see, hear, and interact with remote…
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Learning from Tay’s introduction
As many of you know by now, on Wednesday we launched a chatbot called Tay. We are deeply sorry for the unintended offensive and hurtful tweets from Tay, which do not represent who we are or what we stand for, nor how we designed Tay. Tay is now offline and we’ll look to bring Tay...
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More Encryption, More Notifications, More Email Security
Posted by Nicolas Lidzborski, Gmail Security Engineering Lead and Jonathan Pevarnek, Jigsaw Engineer Today, we’re announcing a variety of...
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On Let's Plays – That Dragon, Cancer
I've been sitting here this morning paralyzed at what to say in response to this... The last few months since we launched That Dragon, Cancer have been pretty incredible. The mainstream culture, the gamer culture, and others have all embraced our story and been willing to listen to our heart a
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American Big Brother: A Century of Political Surveillance and Repression
In his 2004 book Perilous Times , Geoffrey R. Stone observes that with respect to free speech rights in wartime, “Time and again, Americans have suppressed dissent, imprisoned and deported dissenters, and then—later—regretted their actions.” In reality, as the timeline below demonstrates, it is not simply American’s…
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Justin Time
Justin Kan is going to be the new spokesman for YC and handle the PR requests we get. You should probably follow him on Snapchat (username: justinkan).On a more serious note, I’m always impressed with how well-spoken Justin is, and how well he is able to connect with both reporters and founders.
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Docker for Mac and Windows Beta
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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Kik, left-pad, and npm
npm Blog (Archive); updates from the npm team are now published on the GitHub Blog and the GitHub Changelog
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Obama Has Gotten 3,000+ Tweets about Encryption. Let’s Double That
EFF, ACLU, and Access Now released a statement in support of Apple and its stance on encryption last week. We called on the President to reject any attempt to force backdoors like the one the FBI was seeking to Apple’s operating system. We asked our communities to help by tweeting at the President...
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Trademark Law Does Not Require Companies To Tirelessly Censor the Internet
Over the past few days, EFF and one of our staff technologists, the talented Micah Lee, have had an illuminating back and forth with Canonical Ltd over the use of the Ubuntu mark. While we don’t believe that Canonical has acted with malice or intent to censor, its silly invocation of trademark law...
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Machine Learning in the Cloud, with TensorFlow
Posted by Slaven Bilac, Software Engineer, Google ResearchAt Google, researchers collaborate closely with product teams, applying the latest advanc...
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Race you to the kernel
Posted by Ian Beer of Google Project ZeroThe OS X and iOS kernel code responsible for loading a s...
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YC Lessons From Two Latin Americans Who Walked Into Silicon Valley
Únete a la comunidad que nunca para de aprender y transforma tu carrera. Cursos online certificados, rutas personalizadas por rol y profesores expertos.
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A Statement from The Tor Project on Software Integrity and Apple
The Tor Project exists to provide privacy and anonymity for millions of people, including human...
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Mapping Mountains
To view mountains from above is to journey through time itself: over ancient shorelines, the trails of glaciers, the marks of countless seasons, and ...
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