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New study shows we work harder when we are happy
Happiness makes people more productive at work, according to the latest research from the University of Warwick.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,400 posts.
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JDK8 + Facebook React: Rendering single page apps on the server
A post by August Lilleaas, published March 20, 2014.
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Microsoft Says: Come Back with a Warrant, Unless You’re Microsoft
Update (March 28, 2014): Microsoft has announced a new policy which is described in a new post. EFF has long argued that law enforcement agencies must get a warrant when they ask Internet companies for the content of their users’ communications. In 2013, as part of our annual Who Has Your Back...
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Npm security post-mortem
npm Blog (Archive); updates from the npm team are now published on the GitHub Blog and the GitHub Changelog
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Hostile AI: You're soaking in it
I was in a Facebook discussion about “Friendly Artificial Intelligence” — this is a buzzword from the Singularity Institute people. They be...
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What I've Learned From Female Founders So Far
On the whole, I got a great response to my request for feedback about how YC could encourage female founders. It's clear there are two separate problems: 1) Some women already starting startups...
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Why are roller coaster loops not circular?
Why are the loops on roller coasters never circular?
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Django 1.7b1 released
Posted by James Bennett on March 20, 2014
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2048 Numberwang
Join the numbers and get Numberwang! Careful: this game is extremely addictive!
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Elasticsearch – the definitive guide
Powered by Elasticsearch. Ready to deploy your data? Start free.
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Sales Hiring Guide For B2B Startup Founders
Everything you need to know about sales hiring for startups: the stages, a 5-step recruiting process, and strategies to build a top team.
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Happy Birthday Docker
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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Separating Programming Sheep from Non-Programming Goats
⚠ Please note, this paper was ultimately retracted by its author (pdf) in 2014: In 2006 I wrote an intemperate description of the results of an experiment carried out by Saeed Dehnadi. Many of the extravagant claims I made were insupportable, and I retract them. I continue to believe, however, that
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Hack: a new programming language for HHVM
Visit the post for more.
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Kotlin M7
Kotlin M7 is here and with it some long awaited features. Compiler and Language Changes Inline support One of the biggest features of M7 is support for inline functions. Kotlin encourages the use o
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Los Angeles Cops Argue All Cars in LA Are Under Investigation
Do you drive a car in the greater Los Angeles Metropolitan area? According to the L.A. Police Department and L.A. Sheriff’s Department, your car is part of a vast criminal investigation. The agencies took a novel approach in the briefs they filed in EFF and the ACLU of Southern California’s...
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Developing Service Oriented Architectures
Having spent the last four years rolling out a handful of service oriented architectures, some lessons are finally coming together, and this is an attempt at documenting them.
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Can the Bloomberg Terminal be "Toppled"?
I invest in early-stage AI, ML, and data startups at FirstMark Capital, and I write about the space here
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New RFS – Breakthrough Technologies
We’d like for Y Combinator to fund more breakthrough technology companies—companies that solve an important problem, have a very long time horizon, and are based on an underlying technological or...
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What if you didn't need money or attention?
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Two New YC Partners: Justin Kan and Aaron Harris
I’m delighted to announce that Justin Kan and Aaron Harris are joining Y Combinator as Partners. Justin was in the very first YC batch with me in the summer of 2005, and has been a part-time partner since 2011. Justin founded Kiko, Justin.tv/Twitch.tv, Socialcam, and Exec. He took the “do what it takes” directive of…
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JsDelivr – The advanced open source public CDN
This is a guest post by Dmitriy Akulov and his project jsDelivr. – Editor's note. As a developer you are probably aware of Google Hosted Libraries. Google offers an easy ...