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Scalable Live Video Streaming Using NGINX and MPEG-DASH/HLS
Deliver modern applications with NGINX. Explore high-performance load balancing, API gateways, and web server solutions trusted by top global enterprises.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,107 posts.
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Introducing FBLearner Flow: Facebook's AI Backbone
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How to become a data scientist
This is Part One in a three-part series examining how to become a data scientist. Supported by extensive research and expert opinions, it aims to provide a comprehensive guide to anyone looking to move into this field, irrespective of background and experience. The topic of Part One is: "What is Data Science?".
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Making Chrome on Windows Faster with PGO
Chrome is always looking for ways to speed up the web. Starting in Chrome 53, Chrome has started using Microsoft’s Profile Guided Optimizat...
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Embed, encode, attend, predict: the new deep learning formula for NLP models
Over the last six months, a powerful new neural network playbook has come together for Natural Language Processing. The new approach can be summarised as a simple four-step formula: embed, encode, attend, predict. This post explains the components of this new approach, and shows how they're put together in two recent…
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The Myth of AI – Jaron Lanier
That mythology, in turn, has spurred a reactionary, perpetual spasm from people who are horrified by what they hear. You'll have a figure say, "The computers will take over the Earth, but that's a good thing, because people had their chance and now we should give it to the machines." Then you'll have other people say…
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Atom 1.9 and 1.10 beta
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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Avoiding a pointless blockchain project
Blockchains are overhyped. There, I said it. From Sibos to Money20/20 to cover stories of The Economist and Euromoney , everyone seems to be climbing aboard the blockchain wagon. And no doubt like others in the space, we’re seeing a rapidly increasing number of companies building proofs of concept on our platform…
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FreeBSD Q2 2016 Status Report
This quarter brings several exciting improvements over previous models. We have enhancements from different teams, new features like robust mutexes and support for full disk encryption with GELI. You'll find expanded graphics support, both at the chipset and window manager levels, and ongoing development in many…
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How to Crawl the Web Politely with Scrapy
How to crawl the web with Scrapy without harming websites. Here are a few tips for netizens who want to build polite and considerate web crawlers.
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HTTPS Adoption doubled this year
Despite having been around for over 20 years, HTTPS always remained very lightly adopted – until 2016. Data from two independent sources shows that HTTPS adoption more than doubled from 2015 to 2016. Snyk CEO Guy Podjarny digs into this data.
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Amazon EC2 Elastic GPUs
I have written about the benefits of GPU-based computing in the past, most recently as part of the launch of the P2 instances with up to 16 GPUs. As I have noted in the past, GPUs offer incredible power and scale, along with the potential to simultaneously decrease your time-to-results and your overall compute costs…
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Advanced Deanonymization Attacks
News posted by Whonix staff. The Whonix Blog. Stay Tuned. (rss)
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Sandstorm now supports RHEL 7, CentOS 7, Arch, and more
Take control of your web by running your own personal cloud server with Sandstorm.
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Edward McCluskey has died
News, research, and insights from Stanford University.
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From Java code to Java heap (2012)
The Java programming language is a high-level, object-oriented language. It is rapidly evolving across several fronts to simplify and accelerate development of modern applications.
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Blender 2.8 project status
code.blender.org
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Faithful Elm and the Amazing Router
Building an Elm demo app to show how Elm can be used in a project.
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Flightradar24 ADS-B Receivers On-board a Surface Ocean Robot
We are excited to announce for the first time that we have received and processed ADS-B signals collected by our autonomous boat. The unmanned surface vehicle, a Wave Glider® manufactured by Liquid Robotics® and managed by Maritime Robotics as part of their new partnership, is receiving ADS-B signals from aircraft…