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Why in the world would you own bonds?
…Bond markets offer ridiculously low yields? Founder and Co-CIO Ray Dalio describes this new paradigm and implications for investors.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,820 posts.
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Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now?
SMS text messages were already the weakest link securing just about anything online, mainly because there are tens of thousands of employees at mobile stores who can be tricked or bribed into swapping control over a mobile phone number to someone else. Now we’re learning about an entire ecosystem of companies that…
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Introducing the Wikimedia Enterprise API
Over the last 20 years the Wikimedia projects have grown into essential knowledge resources that are not just used by billions of people, but also by many commercial organizations that incorporate …
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It's time to build: a New World's Fair
We must look to the past — to the World's Fairs — to build the future.
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Librem Tunnel Is Leaving iOS
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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Improving large monorepo performance on GitHub
GitHub has done a lot of work in the last six months to improve performance for large monorepos.
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UC secures landmark open access deal with world’s largest scientific publisher
The University of California today (March 16) announced a pioneering open access agreement with the world’s largest scientific publisher, Elsevier, making significantly more of the University’s research available to people worldwide — immediately and at no cost. The deal will put more UC research into the hands of…
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Docker Raises $23M
Palo Alto, Calif., – March 16, 2021 – Docker, Inc.™, a leading provider of collaborative application development platforms for development teams, today
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Our journey from a Python monolith to a managed platform
Dropbox, to our customers, needs to be a reliable and responsive service. As a company, we’ve had to scale constantly since our start, today serving more than 700M registered users in every time zone on the planet who generate at least 300,000 requests per second. Systems that worked great for a startup hadn’t scaled…
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Migrating Millions of Concurrent WebSockets to Envoy
Slack has a global customer base, with millions of simultaneously connected users at peak times. Most of the communication between users involves sending lots of tiny messages to each other. For much of Slack’s history, we’ve used HAProxy as a load balancer for all incoming traffic. Today, we’ll talk about problems we…
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Moderation in Infrastructure
Infrastructure companies need a distinct approach to moderation that focuses on neutrality and due process.
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Justice at Spotify
Spotify is growing in value, yet music workers everywhere see little more than pennies in compensation for the work they make. With the entire live music ecosystem in jeopardy due to the coronavirus pandemic, music workers are more reliant on streaming income than ever. We are calling on Spotify to
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The Y Combinator Experience – Remote Edition
In this post, I share my experience in the W21 batch of the YCombinator accelerator program.
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Loss of myelin is one of the major factors of age-related brain deterioration
A new study led by the University of Portsmouth has identified that one of the major factors of age-related brain deterioration is the loss of a substance called myelin.
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How C++ Resolves a Function Call
C is a simple language. You’re only allowed to have one function with each name. C++, on the other hand, gives you much more flexibility: You can have multiple functions …
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Google Took Down My Chrome Extension for Using Lodash
So there I was, happily closing out some tabs before heading to bed, when I noticed a new email from the Chrome Web Store at 12:30am: I went to Intention's…
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Euler's Fizzbuzz (2020)
FizzBuzz is a common coding problem asked in technical screenings or interviews. It goes something like this:
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It’s time to stop using SMS for security
By now most infosec professionals are aware of various ways SMS text messaging can be hijacked. For example so-called “SIM Swap” attacks…
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Amazon S3’s 15th Birthday: 5,475 Days and 100T Objects
I wrote the blog post that announced Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) fifteen years ago today. In that post, I made it clear that the service was accessed via APIs and that it was targeted at developers, outlined a few key features, and shared pricing information. Developers found that post, started to write…
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A salt monopoly could spike car accidents in the Midwest
Michael Milken, private equity, and a salt roll-up are showing we're in for shortages and price spikes.
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The OODA Loop: How Fighter Pilots Make Fast and Accurate Decisions
The OODA Loop is a four-step process for making effective decisions in high-stakes situations. It involves collecting relevant information, recognizing potential biases, deciding, and acting, then repeating the process with new information. Read on to learn how to use the OODA Loop.
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Facebook's GDPR consent bypass reaches Austrian Supreme Court
Austrian Supreme Court may refer case to Court of Justice, questioning the basis of Facebook's business model in Europe.
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Why we decided for and against Ubuntu Core
Nitrokey explains why NextBox runs Debian instead of Ubuntu Core. An in-depth look at the technical and philosophical reasons behind the OS choice for the NextBox platform.
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Performance comparison: counting words in Python, Go, C++, C, Awk, Forth, Rust
Performance comparison of counting and sorting word frequencies in various languages (Python, Go, C++, C, AWK, Forth, and Rust)
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When Should I Interrupt Someone?
How many times have you sat there trying to work through a technical problem, and thought: