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This Is Your Life in Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley — Photo Credit — Vadim KurlandThis is Your Life in Silicon ValleyYou wake up at 6:30am after an Ambien-induced sleep. It’s Friday. Last night at The Rosewood was pretty intense — you had...
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A More Flexible Paxos
With systems getting more and more distributed, the Paxos algorithm has been gaining popularity. However, a major drawback with today’s configurations is that you cannot run too many Paxos servers in a...
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Nav Coin Attains Dedicated Tor Nodes
Nav Coin has announced its users now have access to dedicated Tor nodes. This added feature gives users the option to mask their IP address while connecting to the Nav Coin network, offering an extra...
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The Solitary Vice: Victorian Views on Masturbation
Woman’s Mission: Companion of Manhood by George Elgar Hicks, 1863.(Tate Museum)During the Victorian era, masturbation—also known as self-pollution, self-abuse, or onanism—was believed to be both a...
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Tyre – Typed regular expressions
I’m happy to announce the release of Tyre, a library for Typed Regular Expressions.Tyre is a set of combinators to build type-safe regular expressions, allowing automatic extraction and modification of...
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How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?
Paul A. Gompers Harvard Business School - Finance Unit; Harvard University - Entrepreneurial Management Unit; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); European Corporate Governance Institute...
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The Confusion of Variational Autoencoders
Why do deep learning researchers and probabilistic machine learning folks get confused when discussing variational autoencoders?There is a conceptual and language gap between these fields. The sciences...
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A Guide to Co-Founder Fit
What we cover in this piece: The depth and length of relationship matter Know your co-founder's true strengths, weaknesses — as well as your own Complimenting Skill Sets Define roles and be happy with...
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The SEC has temporarily halted trading of Neuromama Ltd.
Neuromama Ltd. might be the most prominent example, but it’s unlikely to be the only one.On Monday, the Securities and Exchange Commission halted its shares, which trade on over-the-counter markets in...
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Nvidia stuffs desktop GTX 1080, 1070, 1060 into laptops, drops the “M”
Just under a year since Nvidia brought the full desktop version of the GTX 980 to laptops, it is beginning to put an end to cut-down laptop chips altogether. Starting today, the desktop versions of the...
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Stories and Tips: Interviews with Facebook, Twitter, Amazon and Others
Many of my students have been asking questions lately about how to do technical interviews, so I've decided to write about my interviewing experiences. I will start by giving a number of anecdotes...
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Extracting data from Wikipedia using curl, grep, cut and other bash commands
In this article I am going to show you how I was able to extract and process some information from Wikipedia only using a combination of common bash utilities like curl and grep.The needIf you are a...
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Ideas for getting started in the Linux kernel
Getting new people into OSS projects is always a challenge. The Linux kernel is no different and has it's own set of challenges. This is a follow up and expansion of some of what I talked about at...
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Go 1.7 is released
Go 1.7 is released15 August 2016 Today we are happy to announce the release of Go 1.7. You can get it from the download page. There are several significant changes in this release: a port for Linux on...
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Why didn't Larrabee fail?
Welcome to TiddlyWiki created by Jeremy Ruston; Copyright © 2004-2007 Jeremy Ruston, Copyright © 2007-2011 UnaMesa Association Man - this blog isn't even a day old and I'm already getting shit about...
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Google launches 1-to-1 video calling app Duo
Google Duo works across Android and iOS — all you need is a phone number Simple interface Duo is simple from start to finish. To get started, all you need is your phone number and you’ll be able to...
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Looking at your program’s structure in Go 1.7
Go 1.7—out today!—features an new SSA-based compiler backend. SSA is a method of describing low-level operations like loads and stores that roughly map to machine instructions, with the special...
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Colorized man pages
man() { env \ LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$(printf "\e[1;31m") \ LESS_TERMCAP_md=$(printf "\e[1;31m") \ LESS_TERMCAP_me=$(printf "\e[0m") \ LESS_TERMCAP_se=$(printf "\e[0m") \ LESS_TERMCAP_so=$(printf...
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YC Tech Stacks
For weekly recaps of The Macro, sign up here.At Datanyze, we collect and organize information pertaining to the tech stacks of over 45 million websites and mobile apps. We know things like:How many...
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