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Reducing power consumption for background tabs
Efficient power usage is an important aspect of speed, one of Chrome’s key pillars . To prolong battery life, Chrome should minimize power ...
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,763 posts.
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Why your startup should be a Delaware C-Corp, not an LLC
LLC vs C Corps. Get valuable insights and learn how to protect your business from unwanted legal liabilities. Be ahead of the competition.
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How I Made $70k Self-Publishing a Book about Ruby on Rails
Did I mention how awesome it is to live 30 minutes from a ski lift?In March of 2016, I launched a course called The Complete Guide to Rails Performance. Sinc...
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Using JDK 9 Memory Order Modes
This guide is mainly intended for expert programmers familiar with Java concurrency, but unfamiliar with the memory order modes available in JDK 9 provided by VarHandles. Mostly, it focuses on how to think about modes when developing parallel software. Feel free to first read the Summary .
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We’ve lost control of our personal data, including 33M NetProspex records
Earlier this week, I read a really interesting piece on 3 things that need to be done to save the web [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/11/tim-berners-lee-web-inventor-save-internet] . The first observation was that "we’ve lost control of our personal data" and
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Introducing Keras 2
Keras was released two years ago, in March 2015. It then proceeded to grow from one user to one hundred thousand.
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Future of Java 8 Language Feature Support on Android
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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PostgreSQL Parallel Query v2
A recent Twitter poll asked What is your favorite upcoming feature of PostgreSQL V10? In this admittedly unscientific survey, "better para...
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How I got my dream job in the tech industry without a CS degree
A story about the unconventional strategies I used to land a job I love.
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Keep the Internet Open
The FCC has announced plans to roll back policies on net neutrality, and its new head has indicated he has no plan to stop soon. The internet is a public good, and I believe access should be a...
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Enabling Continual Learning in Neural Networks
Computer programs that learn to perform tasks also typically forget them very quickly. We show that the learning rule can be modified so that a program can remember old tasks when learning a new one. This is an important step towards more intelligent programs that are able to learn progressively and adaptively.
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Reverse Engineering the Hacker News Ranking Algorithm
A data-driven exploration of how the Hacker News ranking algorithm works.
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Some fun with π in Julia
A Pi Day tour of π in Julia: how Julia represents π, computing it with inline assembly and Taylor series (Madhava and Machin), and finding guaranteed bounds with interval arithmetic.
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Scala Native v0.1
We’re excited to announce the first release of Scala Native , an optimising ahead-of-time compiler for Scala built on top of the LLVM compiler infrastructure.
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JSON Web Tokens should be avoided
JWT, JWE, JWS, etc. are terrible designs and need to be scrapped, not resuscitated.
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Raspberry Pi Zero W as a headless time-lapse camera
tl;dr: There are many ways to capture time-lapse videos. But this one is cheap, completely wireless, and mine. If you want to skip the post and go straight for the glory, grab a copy of my Time-lapse app for the Raspberry Pi. Time-lapses transform subtle, slow processes into something beautiful, and often make us…
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The CIA's “Development Tradecraft Do's and Dont's”
Useful best practices for malware writers, courtesy of the CIA. Seems like a lot of good advice. General: DO obfuscate or encrypt all strings and configuration data that directly relate to tool functionality. Consideration should be made to also only de-obfuscating strings in-memory at the moment the data is needed…
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On Programming Languages: Why My Dad Went from Programming to Driving a Bus
I discuss, with stories, why programming language choice matters and provide guidelines, along with an infographic of popular 2017 languages.
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The Sandstorm Team Is Joining Cloudflare
Take control of your web by running your own personal cloud server with Sandstorm.