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Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake
I’m excited to announce that Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is the first cloud provider to offer the next generation Intel Xeon processor, codenamed Skylake.
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Teaching Machines to Draw
Posted by David Ha, Google Brain ResidentAbstract visual communication is a key part of how people convey ideas to one another. From a young age, c...
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Cloudflare Stream – Combines video encoding, global delivery, and player
Cloudflare turns seven years old today. We launched on September 27, 2010. It was only a few days after our launch that we got our first request to support video streaming. Yet, until today, we'd avoided it.
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How to Get into VR
This is the second edition of Paths [https://ycombinator.wpengine.com/category/paths/], a series outlining emerging technologies with clear steps on how to get started in each field. This series was designed with makers and aspiring entrepreneurs in mind. We talked to college students interested in engineering…
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Compute Card, a Credit Card-Sized Compute Platform
Intel Newsroom delivers the latest news, announcements, and updates. Stay informed on Intel innovations.
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How We Grow Junior Developers at the BBC
What’s the point of hiring junior developers? Joseph Wynn, a former Principal Software Engineer in the BBC News website team shared the…
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Building a scalable time-series database on PostgreSQL
We just announced the release of TimescaleDB, a new open-source time-series database optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, now available on GitHub.
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Relay Modern: Simpler, faster, more extensible
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Close-Up View of DNA Replication
Almost all life on earth is based on DNA being copied, or replicated, and understanding how this process works could lead to a wide range of discoveries in biology and medicine. Now for the first time scientists have been able to watch individual steps in the replication of a single DNA molecule, with some surprising…
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Sandstorm is returning to its community roots
Take control of your web by running your own personal cloud server with Sandstorm.
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A Brief History of the UUID
Discover the evolution of UUIDs. Explore cloud communication trends, customer stories, and tips for scalable apps with Twilio's APIs. Learn more now!
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Is the open office layout dead?
Modern work can be frustrating and chaotic—if you don’t have the right tools. From context engineering to multimodal search, go behind the scenes and hear how Dropbox engineers are building AI that actually understands you, so you can focus on the work that matters most.
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How Discord Resizes 150M Images Every Day with Go and C++
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.
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Paul Buchheit on Lessons Learned from Investing in 200 Startups
Jasper Kuria of Capital & Growth [https://capitalandgrowth.org/index.html] interviewed YC Partner Paul Buchheit about his experience as employee #23 at Google and his key investing insights. Jasper : You came up with Google’s “Don’t be evil” motto in 2000. Sixteen years later, do you feel they have stayed true? Paul …
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Intellectual Humility increases tolerance, improves decision-making
“Intellectual humility” has been something of a wallflower among personality traits, receiving far less scholarly attention than such brash qualities as egotism or hostility. Yet this little-studied characteristic may influence people’s decision-making abilities in politics, health and other arenas, says new research…
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Digging for treasure in Aladdin’s source code
When it was released back in 1993, Disney’s Aladdin for the Sega Genesis (or Mega Drive, depending on which side of the pond you lived on through the early 90’s) was really a visually striking game. Powered by what eventually became known as “Digicel” technology, along with a solid selection of middleware and some…
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Docker vs. Kubernetes vs. Mesos
Tips from experts, thoughts from leaders, news from the front line. Join the conversation beyond hyperconverged infrastructure to the enterprise cloud.
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Fact Check now available in Google Search and News
Now the Fact Check label in Google News is available everywhere, and has been expanded into Search globally in all languages.
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How is Ruby different in Japan?
I've had a few conversations recently where I say things like, "the Japanese Ruby community uses Ruby for different things than in America"... and I get blank stares. Specifically, I mention that America is very centered on Rails and web apps with Ruby. No surprise, right? "But then,
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Dodging S3 Downtime with Nginx and HAProxy
How we took eggs out of the S3 basket.
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Languages Which Almost Became CSS
When Tim Berners-Lee announced HTML in 1991 there was no method of styling pages. How a given HTML tag was rendered was determined by the browser, often with significant input from the user’s preferences
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Books from 1923 to 1941 Now Liberated
[press: boingboing] The Internet Archive is now leveraging a little known, and perhaps never used, provision of US copyright law, Section 108h, which allows libraries to scan and make available materials published 1923 to 1941 if they are not being actively sold. Elizabeth Townsend Gard, a copyright scholar at Tulane…
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How Adversarial Attacks Work
Emil Mikhailov is the founder of XIX.ai [http://XIX.ai] (YC W17). Roman Trusov is a researcher at XIX.ai. Recent studies by Google Brain have shown that any machine learning classifier can be tricked to give incorrect predictions, and with a little bit of skill, you can get them to give pretty much any result you…
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Detailed Financial Histories Exposed for Thousands
111 GB of internal customer information from National Credit Federation was left exposed in a publicly downloadable data repository. This is its story.
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Scrolling on the web: A primer
Scrolling is one of the oldest interactions on the web. Long before we had pull-to-refresh or infinite-loading lists, the humble scrollbar solved the web’s original scaling problem: how can we interact with content that’s stretched beyond the available viewport? Animations by Rachel Nabors Today, scrolling is still…