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Amazon, Facebook and Google can all be beaten
Even the greatest companies can only do three things well at a time.
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How Facebook's Instagram Acquisition Led to the Open Sourcing of React.js
Pete Hunt, CEO @ Smyte. OG React.js. Ex-Facebook and Instagram [React](/react) is now one of the most popular JavaScript UI libraries in
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Monotonicity Types: Towards a Type System for Eventual Consistency
A few weeks back, we published a draft of an article entitled _Monotonicity Types_. In it, we describe a type system which we hope can aid the design of distributed systems by tracking monotonicity with types....
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Brave expands Basic Attention Token platform to YouTube
With today's release of Brave browser 0.19.95 for the desktop, audiences can use the Brave Payments system to reward their favorite YouTube creators with Basic Attention Tokens (BAT).
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ZFS from a MySQL perspective
As the purpose of a database system is to store data, there is close relationship with the filesystem. Yves Trudeau reconsiders the use of ZFS with MySQL.
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Speed up your Python using Rust
Rust is a language that has no runtime so it can be used to integrate with any runtime; You can write modules in Rust and call using Python
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Using Go for Scalable Operating System Analytics
At Kolide, part of what we do is build a client-server system that facilitates the management of large, isolated installations of an open-source tool called osquery. While I’ve written and spoken about osquery in the past, in this post I want to focus on how we use Go to solve many of the challenges we face building…
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A Sampling of Anti-Decompilation Techniques
Traditional (assembly level) reverse engineering of software is a tedious process that has been made far more accessible by modern day decompilers. Operating...
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Citus Cloud 2, Postgres, and Scaling Without Compromise
Relational databases have been a mainstay for decades. But what happens when you need to scale out a relational database like Postgres? This post announces Citus Cloud 2, the latest version of the Citus managed database as a service that scales out Postgres horizontally in the cloud.
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Google Maps Gets a New Look
We’ve updated Google Maps with more relevant information, a new color scheme and new icons to help you quickly identify points of interest.
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Startup Ideas
Hey, my name is Kyle Corbitt and I’m a software developer at Y Combinator. I spend most of my time creating software to support our founders as they build their businesses. Before joining YC I ran my own startup. When I was in high school, I sometimes got the frustrating feeling that all of the good startup ideas had…
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An On-Device Deep Neural Network for Face Detection
Apple started using deep learning for face detection in iOS 10. With the release of the Vision framework, developers can now use this…
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Bill to Legalize Marijuana and Opium Cleared for Indian Parliament (2016)
Revolutionize your legal experience with Lawyered. Using technology to make legal services accessible and affordable just a click away.
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LIGO and Virgo announce the detection of a black hole binary merger
Scientists searching for gravitational waves have confirmed yet another detection from their fruitful observing run earlier this year. Dubbed GW170608, the latest discovery was produced by the merger of two relatively light black holes, 7 and 12 times the mass of the sun, at a distance of about a thousand million…
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PyAnnotate – Auto-generate type annotations for mypy
For statically checking Python code, mypy is great, but it only works after you have added type annotations to your codebase. When you h...
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SLING: A Natural Language Frame Semantic Parser
Posted by Michael Ringgaard, Software Engineer and Rahul Gupta, Research ScientistUntil recently, most practical natural language understanding (NL...
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1Password X: A look at the future of 1Password in the browser
1Password X is our brand new, full-featured experience that runs entirely in your browser. Find out what it can do.
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Closest Temperate World Orbiting Quiet Star Discovered
A temperate Earth-sized planet has been discovered only 11 light-years from the Solar System by a team using ESO’s unique planet-hunting HARPS instrument. The new world has the designation Ross 128 b and is now the second-closest temperate planet to be detected after Proxima b. It is also the closest planet to be…
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We're officially launching UBI
It has begun! As I write, field officers in Bomet County, Kenya are beginning to enroll the first (post-pilot) households into the largest basic income initiative in history. The past 19 months since…
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Code together in real time with Teletype for Atom
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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No boundaries: Exfiltration of personal data by session-replay scripts
This is the first post in our “No Boundaries” series, in which we reveal how third-party scripts on websites have been extracting personal information in increasingly intrusive ways. [0] by Steven Englehardt, Gunes Acar, and Arvind Narayanan Update: we’ve released our data — the list of sites with session-replay…
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Dell Offers Computers Preinstalled with Ubuntu
Looking for a new PC with Ubuntu pre-installed? We thought we’d run through the latest Dell Precision computers that come pre-installed with Ubuntu. These are systems developed by and for developers, and are available in form factors ranging from sleek ultrabooks to powerful workstations. Here’s a quick runthrough of…
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Debian and GNOME announce plans to migrate communities to GitLab
GitLab today announced it was abandoning the industry-standard Contributor License Agreement in favor of a Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) and license
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