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Theranos reportedly laying off 41% of its workforce
Embattled blood-testing company Theranos is laying off 155 people, about 41 percent of its workforce. The start-up will let go of its workers after months of regulatory setbacks as well as lawsuits...
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Physicists solve decades-old mystery of negative differential resistance
Animation of negative differential resistance. Credit: University of AlbertaWith a storied history that includes more than a half-century of research, a Nobel Prize, and multiple attempts at practical...
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Mediagenic (or, the Patent from Hell)
On August 31, 1966, a 44-year-old electrical engineer named Ralph Baer had an epiphany whilst waiting for a colleague outside a New York City bus terminal. For reasons he would never be able to...
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MuGo: A minimalist Go engine modeled after AlphaGo
README.mdThis is a pure Python implementation of the essential parts of AlphaGo.The logic / control flow of AlphaGo itself is not very complicated and is replicated here. The secret sauce of AlphaGo...
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Let’s Encrypt 2016 in Review
Our first full year as a live CA was an exciting one. I’m incredibly proud of what our team and community accomplished during 2016. I’d like to share some thoughts about how we’ve changed, what we’ve...
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The Art of Pitching: How I Got Published in The Atlantic
Getting published in a national online magazine or site like The Atlantic is a great way to gain exposure for your ideas and products. It’s also a great way to build credibility and personal brand....
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Open source collaboration across agencies to improve HTTPS deployment
Sometimes, to accomplish a worthy goal, people and organizations benefit from a little push.In 2015, the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a standard requiring all publicly...
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Building a CQRS/ES web application in Elixir using Phoenix
BackgroundI’ve been interested in Command Query Responsibility Segregation and event sourcing since hearing Greg Young talk on the subject in early 2010. During the past seven years I’ve built an...
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Indiegogo to launch campaigns combining perks and equity investment
Since its launch in 2008, you’ve been able to back crowdfunding projects on Indiegogo in exchange for “perks.” Last year, the company added JOBS act equity crowdfunding to the mix. Later this year,...
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FTC sues D-Link over router and camera security flaws
If you’ve got a wireless network, your wireless router connects your computer and other devices to the internet. If it’s reasonably designed and configured, the router also is a gate that should...
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Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust
Alacritty is a blazing fast, GPU accelerated terminal emulator. It’s written in Rust and uses OpenGL for rendering to be the fastest terminal emulator available. Alacritty is available on GitHub in...
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GAME – A new Channel9 show dedicated to game development
.GAME is a show dedicated to game development with a primary focus on .NET technology. The episodes will focus on tutorials, tips and tricks and interviews. All tutorial project files can be found on...
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Is Beijing About to Target Bitcoin?
For Felix Yang, nothing beat bitcoin.After he bought several million yuan worth of the cryptocurrency in June, the 34-year-old finance worker watched as prices skyrocketed 43 percent in the second half...
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Yugoslavian Computer Magazine Cover Girls of the 1980s-90s
Računari was a computer magazine of the former Yugoslavia which lasted from 1984 until the late 1990s – surviving the economic turbulence and wars of the 1980s-90s, and even outlasting the country...
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Lispy sets
I've been playing around with adding ordered sets to Common Lisp lately. I started out by pulling my usual tricks, skip lists and binary searched/dynamically grown vectors; but none of them turned out...
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Amazon's Alexa Moves in on Google's Android System
Amazon.com Inc’s digital assistant appeared almost everywhere at the CES technology show this week in Las Vegas, even making an unexpected appearance on rival Google’s Android system. Companies ranging...
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Show HN: Kitty – A modern, hackable, featureful, OpenGL based terminal emulator
README.asciidocSupports tiling multiple terminal windows side by side in different layouts without needing to use an extra program like tmuxSupports all modern terminal features: unicode, true-color,...
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The Riemann Hypothesis, explained
Zeros of the Riemann Zeta FunctionThe roots/zeros of the zeta function, when ζ(s)=0, can be divided into two types which have been dubbed the “trivial” and the “non-trivial” zeros of the Riemann zeta...
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