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Send Money to Friends in Messenger
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,426 posts.
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YC Stats Winter 2015
Here is what YC looks like in Winter 2015 Number of startups in the W15 batch: 114 Number of companies funded by YC overall: 842 Total market cap of all YC companies: Over $30B Total money raised by YC companies: Over $3B Number of YC companies worth more than $1B: 4 Number of YC companies worth more than $100…
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Commandos, Infantry, and Police
As I was driving home, I found myself thinking about a favorite section of the book Accidental Empires, by longtime computer journalist Robert X. Cringely. Originally published in 1993, it’s getting a little long in the tooth, but it still contains a lot of great insights about the personalities
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Your wifi shows me where you live, work and travel
Many people may already know that all your devices try to broadcast your previous connections. I expect that many more have no idea that’s happening. There have been articles published about it before, but without specific examples.
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High quality GIF with FFmpeg
About two years ago, I tried to improve the support of the GIF encoding in FFmpeg to make it at least decent. This notably led to the addition of the transparency mechanism in the GIF encoder. While this is not always optimal depending on your source, it is in the most common cases. Still, this was merely an attempt…
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What you wanted to know about AI
Recently a number of famous people, including Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk, warned everybody about the dangers of machine intelligence. …
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Stanford study shows success of different programming styles in CS class
The Graduate School of Education and the Computer Science Department engaged in a joint research project to advance new approaches to teaching.
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Life Lessons from Machine Learning
What comes to mind when you hear the term “Machine Learning”? A bunch of programmers hunched over their computers in a dark room, working on something completely virtual & divorced from reality…
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Why Are Geospatial Databases So Hard to Build?
In 2005, I decided to design my first geospatial database engine. PostGIS was unable to keep up with the modest volumes of sensor data I was working with and while I was new to geospatial data, I had skill designing database engines. It seemed simple enough to get the scale and performance I required. Nothing could…
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Pruning and Polishing: Keeping OpenBSD Modern
Owing to its historic roots as a derivative of the original Berkeley Systems Distribution (BSD), OpenBSD includes a great deal of old code. Many files bear copyright notices from the year 1980, and in some cases, even older. Although not explicitly stated as a project goal, keeping OpenBSD modern is an important part…
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Microsoft's new foldable keyboard
The latest news and stories about how technology is helping people around the world solve problems, innovate and do more each day.
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Searching 20 GB/sec: Systems Engineering Before Algorithms (2014)
SentinelOne unifies AI-powered endpoint, cloud, identity, and data protection—enhanced by our Security Data Lake for seamless and efficient cybersecurity.
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Is the Mill CPU real? (2014)
I’ve seen the Mill CPU come up a number of times — maybe because I subscribed to their updates and so I get emails about their talks. They’re getting a bunch of buzz, but every t…
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Announcing Spark 1.3
Apache Spark 1.3 introduces the DataFrame API, enhancing data processing with new features across streaming, ML, and SQL.
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