In 2012, Thomson, Diamond, Weng, et al. published Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems : a transactional protocol optimized for geographic replication. Each Calvin cluster is comprised of multiple replicas , where a replica is a collection of nodes which store a complete copy of the…
In recent times, there have been a couple of tremendously popular blog posts explaining JOINs using Venn Diagrams. After all, relational algebra and SQL are set oriented theories and languages, so …
We're building a note app that needs to do OCR as well as possible. We hoped there would be a good modern 2019 comparison of the image OCR services, but as of July 2019, there wasn't, so we wrote one.
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When demoing Hyperview to new engineers, there’s one comment that frequently comes up about the HXML data format:
Whether you're a city planner, a small business owner, or a software developer, gaining useful insights from data can help make services work better and answer important questions. But, without strong privacy protections, you risk losing the trust of your citizens, customers, and users.
Since March, Trail of Bits has been working with the Python Software Foundation to add two-factor authentication (2FA) to Warehouse, the codebase that powers PyPI. As of today, PyPI members can enable time-based OTP (TOTP) and WebAuthn (currently in beta). If you have an account on PyPI, go enable your preferred 2FA…
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
Find the right repository, bring it into Replit, and get to work. What changed in GitHub imports, authentication, and the Git pane.
In this post, we show you how easy it is to introduce back doors that are easily missed by project owners… leaving your code insecure.
Business Roundtable today announced the release of a new Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation signed by 181 CEOs who commit to lead their companies for the benefit of all stakeholders.
We’re excited to announce that we’ll be holding interviews for the Summer 2019 batch in Bangalore for founders based in India. This will take place from May 7 to 9. We’ve received an increasing number of applications from India and this will allow us to interview more Indian founders. So far, we’ve funded over 40…
The received wisdom suggests that Unix’s unusual combination of fork() and exec() for process creation was an inspired design. In this paper, we argue that fork was a clever hack for machines and programs of the 1970s that has long outlived its usefulness and is now a liability. We catalog the ways in which fork […]
On the weekend of Anime Expo, an artist promised the humanly impossible -- custom art commissions with a five-minute turnaround time. The not-so-hidden catch? The artist wasn't a human at all, but an AI exposed to millions of anime images.
This investigates the connections between organizations and people involved with policy making at ICANN focused around the effort to remove price caps from the .ORG domain registry
I recently got an e-mail saying I had violated Twitter’s rules for hateful conduct. I immediately thought my account password had been compromised, o...
Telemetry services and GitLab. (GitLab CE will continue to be free software)
This review looks at the Q2 2019 and lifetime hard drive failure rates of the 108,461 hard drives in use at Backblaze's data centers.
Today we’re announcing a big step in securing the open source supply chain: we’re welcoming Semmle to the GitHub family.
A new study from the Blavatnik Institute finds that intense exercise and fasting activate hormones that boost cells’ capacity to dispose of defective proteins, which clog up the cell, interfere with its functions, and, over time, precipitate diseases including neurodegenerative conditions such as ALS and Alzheimer’s.
When an ISP decides to exempt certain applications or services from cutting into a user's data cap, that's zero rating. And the evidence is in that it conclusively makes broadband more expensive. A comprehensive multi-year study by the non-profit Epicenter.works, comparing the 30 member countries...
