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Boosting Sales with Machine Learning
How we use natural language processing to qualify leads
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FBI Breaks into iPhone. We Have Some Questions
The FBI has successfully accessed data on an iPhone that has been the subject of a legal battle between the Justice Department and Apple, according to a court filing. EFF is pleased that the Justice Department has retreated from its dangerous and unconstitutional attempt to force Apple to subvert...
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What’s New in C# 7.0
Update (4/2017): See New Features in C# 7.0, the update to this post. What follows is a description of all the planned language features in C# 7.0. With the release of Visual Studio “15” Preview 4, most of these features are coming alive. Now is a great time to take them for a spin and tell […]
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Firing People
Firing People: a talk about firing people, by Zach Holman.
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Introduction to Zipline: A Trading Library for Python
This blogpost introduces zipline package in python with its benefits, how to install it, and using it code the moving crossover strategy for financial trade
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Let’s Encrypt client will transition to a new name and a new home at EFF
Update: Added clarification that only the Let’s Encrypt client software is changing its name and host. The Let’s Encrypt certificate authority and associated services are not changing names or relocating. Over the next few months the Let’s Encrypt client software will transition to a new name, soon to be announced…
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Top Python libraries of 2016
Last year, we did a recap with what we thought were the best Python libraries of 2015 , which was widely shared within the Python community (see post in r/Python ). A year has gone by, and again it is time to give due credit for the awesome work that has been done by the open source community this year.
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Changes to Npm's unpublish policy
npm Blog (Archive); updates from the npm team are now published on the GitHub Blog and the GitHub Changelog
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Stanford researchers show fracking's impact to drinking water sources
News, research, and insights from Stanford University.
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Hacker News Highlights, the Alan Kay Edition
Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
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A fundamental introduction to x86 assembly programming
The x86 instruction set architecture is at the heart of CPU s that power our home computers and remote servers for over two decades. Being able to read and write code in low-level assembly language is a powerful skill to have. It enables you to write faster code, use machine features unavailable in C, and…
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A single byte write opened a root execution exploit
Thursday, September 22nd 2016. An email popped up in my inbox. Subject: ares_create_query OOB write As one of the maintainers of the c-ares project I'm receiving mails for suspected security problems in c-ares and this was such a one. In this case, the email with said subject came from an individual who had reported a…
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A Survival Guide to a PhD
Musings of a Computer Scientist.
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A practical introduction to functional programming (2013)
Many functional programming articles teach abstract functional techniques. That is, composition, pipelining, higher order functions. This one is different. I...
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10-Year Exercise Periods Make Sense
Scott Kupor at Andreessen Horowitz has a post today on some potential downsides of 10-year exercise periods for startup employees’ stock options. I’d recommend reading the whole thing for context here, but to summarize: * He argues that allowing employees who leave a company to keep their optio...
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Twilio's Seed Pitch
I read yesterday evening that our portfolio company Twilio, which priced its IPO last night, is going to live code from the NYSE this morning. That brought a powerful flashback to the first time I met Jeff Lawson, founder and CEO of Twilio. It was 2008 in our old offices on the 14th floor of […]
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Develop the three great virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris
In computing, “laziness” is a broad term, generally referring to not doing any work unless you need it. Whereas its opposite is “eagerness,” doing as much work as possible in case you need it later.