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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,414 posts.
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You are being followed: The business of social media surveillance
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Don’t prematurely obsess on a single “big problem” or “big theory”
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. (Susan Ertz, “Anger in the Sky”) There is a particularly dangerous occupational haz…
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So Far, So Good
Kind people already sent donations that will make my childrens' lives easier, when I'm not there any more. Thank you enormously! :-)
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OpenAI and Microsoft
We’re working with Microsoft to start running most of our large-scale experiments on Azure.
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A Practical Guide to Lasers for Experimenters and Hobbyists
However, many others have contributed in one form or another (newsgroup postings, email, laser parts, etc.). They are cited in the Acknowledgments and/or in the individual sections which contain their material. And, by the way, the name: "Sam's Laser FAQ" was more or less created by those who have read and commented…
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Creativity is a great motivator
After a few years teaching a beginners course, I realized that using creativity is a great motivator to learn programming. Even in a technical field like software engineering, even with logic-driven students, the desire to create and express oneself is stimulating and inspiring.
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Using the OS X 10.10 Hypervisor Framework: A Simple DOS Emulator
Since Version 10.10 (Yosemite), OS X contains Hypervisor.framework, which provides a thin user mode abstraction of the Intel VT features. It enables apps to use virtualization without the need of a kernel extension (KEXT) – which makes them compatible with the OS X App Store guidelines.
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Ask a Female Engineer: Interviewing and Company Culture
Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
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Statistician calls for audit to address election hacking fears
Double-check needed before Electoral College cements presidential results on Dec. 19
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Sun, Oracle, Android, Google, Mozilla and JDK Copyleft FUD
I have probably spent more time dealing with the implications and real-world scenarios of copyleft in the embedded device space than anyone. I'm one of a very few people charged with the task of enforcing the GPL for Linux, and it's been well-known for a decade that GPL violations on Linux occur most often in embedded…
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Purposes, Concepts, Misfits, and a Redesign of Git
PerezDeRosso2016 Santiago Perez De Rosso and Daniel Jackson: " Purposes, concepts, misfits, and a redesign of git ". Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications , 10.1145/2983990.2984018 .
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Too Many Knobs
Xu2015 Tianyin Xu, Long Jin, Xuepeng Fan, Yuanyuan Zhou, Shankar Pasupathy, and Rukma Talwadker: " Hey, you have given me too many knobs!: understanding and dealing with over-designed configuration in system software ". Proceedings of the 2015 10th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering …
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Telegram has now 100M Monthly Active Users
Telegram reaches 100,000,000 monthly active users in 2.5 years, 350,000 new users join daily.
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The Ops Identity Crisis
A big theme in the keynotes and conversation during Velocity Conf in NYC a few weeks ago was the role of ops in an "ops-less" and "server-less" world. It's also been a big feature in discussions on twitter and in conversations I've had with coworkers and friends in the industry.
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SOLID Go Design
This post is based on the text of my GolangUK keynote delivered on the 18th of August 2016. A recording of the talk is available on YouTube .
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Developer Preview: RethinkDB Now Available for Windows
We’re pleased to announce today that RethinkDB is now available for Windows . You can download a Developer Preview of our Windows build, which runs natively on Microsoft’s operating system.
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Scalable and secure access with SSH
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Node 5.7.0 (stable) released
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
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Qt WebBrowser 1.0
Explore the Qt Blog for the latest insights on e.g. Qt Creator, your go-to source for cross-platform development tips and updates.
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Introducing dumb-init, an init system for Docker containers
Introducing dumb-init, an init system for Docker containers Chris K., Software Engineer Jan 6, 2016 At Yelp we use Docker containers everywhere: we run tests in them, build tools around...