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Eta – A powerful language for building scalable systems on the JVM
PurityEta is pure by default which means that calling a function with the same arguments will yield the same results every time. This means that you can treat your function definitions as equations and...
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Paper Centrifuge
Video: Manu Prakash et. al., 2017Inspired by an ancient toy, researchers from Stanford University have developed an ingenious hand-spun paper centrifuge. Incredibly, the device costs just 20 cents—and...
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The MongoDB hack and the importance of secure defaults
If you have a MongoDB installation, now would be the time to verify that it is secure. Since just before Christmas, over 28,000 public MongoDB installs have been hacked. The attackers are holding the...
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Poor Neighborhoods Make the Best Investments
This is not a social justice argument. I'm not writing this post to shame you into taking some altruistic action for the greater good. What I'm going to present here is pure dollars and cents. Consider...
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Show HN: Founderkit – Startup tool recommendations from 1,000 YC founders
Welcome to the Founderkit communityHere’s how the site works:How rankings work Rankings are based on popularity, % recommended, and recency of ratings.Upvote the best reviews Reviews often have unique...
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Integrating GTA V into Universe
The Universe integration with Grand Theft Auto V, built and maintained by Craig Quiter's DeepDrive project, is now open-source. To use it, you'll just need a purchased copy of GTA V, and then your...
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China has wealth of data on what individuals are doing at a micro level
Living in China, it's safe to assume pretty much everything about you is known — or easily can be known — by the government. Where you go, who you're with, which restaurants you like, when and why you...
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Incentive pay schemes can affect employee well-being
In contrast to previous studies, profit-related pay and employee share-ownership had a mix of negative and no significant effects on attitudes.Image Credit: WikimediaIncentive-related pay schemes can...
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Avoiding False Cause
Tech teams often cargo-cult the practices and patterns that are established earlier on by their creators.This can lead to useless boilerplate proliferating and sometimes to the creators finding that...
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The best antivirus software of 2017
Antivirus software is a must for all PCs. Without it, you risk losing your personal information, your files, and even the cash from your bank account. Because of that,I am going to tell you which one...
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FCC Commissioner Vows to Ignore Staff's 'Serious Concerns' About Net Neutrality
This week, the FCC finally completed its investigation of so-called “zero-rating” schemes, finding that AT&T is likely violating net neutrality rules by charging outside video providers more for...
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TensorFlow machine learning now optimized for the Snapdragon 835 and Hexagon 682
Apps optimized for the Qualcomm Hexagon DSP can run faster and consume less power. Qualcomm Technologies is introducing even more support for Google’s machine learning framework called TensorFlow— it’s...
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Mac on Linux (2007)
2007-10-09Things are progressing slowly, but a "merge-able" MOL kernel module is starting to take shape in SVN. There's still quite a bit of work to be done and if you'd like to help out I'd appreciate...
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Calling bullshit
The world is awash in bullshit. Politicians are unconstrained by facts. Science is conducted by press release. So-called higher education often rewards bullshit over analytic thought. Startup culture...
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Command execution on Ansible controller from host
########### Computest security advisory CT-2017-0109 ############# Summary: Command execution on Ansible controller from host Affected software: Ansible CVE: CVE-2016-9587 Reference URL:...
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Explaining .NET Standard Like I'm Five
.NET Core, ASP.NET Core, .NET Standard 1.1, .NET Standard 2, Netstandard, .NET Framework - so many .NETTY things, no wonder I see comments like these:“I find the netstandard thing to be awesome but at...
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Blender for Hackers – 3D modeling is just like using VIM
Modeling 3D objects is pretty neat. Whether it is for animating a video or making an interactive program, having some understanding the basics of a 3D program makes it easy to create impressive looking...
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Alphabet Says It Shut Down Titan Drone Internet Project
In 2014, Google and Facebook Inc. vied to acquire Titan Aerospace, a maker of high-altitude, solar-powered drones. Google won the bidding, so Facebook purchased its own company, which was building a...
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Mac Pro 2 Concept Design
503 Service UnavailableThe server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.Additionally, a 503 Service Unavailable error...
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What lies beneath async/await in C#?
Nowadays, asynchronous programming isn’t something unusual. We all know that when it comes to do some I/O operations or HTTP request, we should do it async. Why? There’re several reasons but two most...
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