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Uber to Pay $20M to Settle FTC Charges on Earnings Claims for Drivers
WASHINGTON—Uber Technologies Inc. agreed Thursday to pay $20 million to resolve Federal Trade Commission allegations that it misled drivers about potential earnings and vehicle financing.The consumer...
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Uber to pay $20m to 'misled' drivers
Dave LeeNorth America technology reporter20 January 2017From the section TechnologyShareShare this withEmailShare this with EmailFacebookShare this with FacebookMessengerShare this with...
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Don’t Tell Your Friends They’re Lucky
Cornell professor of economics Robert Frank says he’s alive today because of “pure dumb luck.” In 2007, he collapsed on a tennis court, struck down by what was later diagnosed as a case of sudden...
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AWS in Plain English
Hey, have you heard of the new AWS services: ContainerCache, ElastiCast and QR72? Of course not, I just made those up.But with 50 plus opaquely named services, we decided that enough was enough and...
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Bayes Impact (YC S14) is hiring software engineers
What We DoBayes Impact is a technology nonprofit that builds data-driven social services. Our services leverage software and data science to deliver personalized and scalable interventions for millions...
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The Infrastructure Behind Twitter: Scale
Overview of Twitter FleetTwitter came of age when hardware from physical enterprise vendors ruled the data center. Since then we've continually engineered and refreshed our fleet to take advantage of...
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Why Small Businesses Aren’t Spending More on Tech
"There’s an app for that.” There aren’t many other phrases that so clearly show just how much we’ve become used to instantly look to technology to solve problems, or make what we already have better....
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Performance comparison of (relational) embedded databases for .NET
20/Jan2017By Christophe DiericxIn this post, we will establish a performance comparison among several freely distributable embedded database technologies for the .NET crowd. Your real-life mileage may...
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How quickly can you remove spaces from a string?
Sometimes programmers want to prune out characters from a string of characters. For example, maybe you want to remove all line-ending characters from a piece of text.Let me consider the problem where I...
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Introducing Riptide: WebKit's Retreating Wavefront Concurrent Garbage Collector
As of r209827, 64-bit ARM and x86 WebKit ports use a new garbage collector called Riptide. Riptide reduces worst-case pause times by allowing the app to run concurrently to the collector. This can make...
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How to Get into Natural Language Processing
We’re excited to introduce a new series we’re calling Paths. Each post will outline an emerging technology and give you clear steps on how to get started in that field.This series was designed with...
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Summus: Basic compiler front end using LLVM as back end
readme.mdBasic compiler frontend using LLVM as backend written without C macros (includes and simple defines don't count 😊) so it is easy to read and understand.Create and refine a most basic compiler...
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How Deutsche Bank Made a $462M Loss Disappear
On Dec. 1, 2008, most of the world’s banks were still panicking through the financial crisis. Lehman Brothers had collapsed. Merrill Lynch had been sold. Citigroup and others had required...
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The practice of programming, 18 years later
Over the new year holiday time I had a chance to get away from it all, and snuck up to Finland to sit in a lodge on the Gulf of Finland, sip coffee, take saunas and read. I brought along a few books,...
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Neocities: Free, modern Geocities reboot
HTML editor, right in your browserNo tools needed. With our easy-to-use HTML editor, you're ready to start building your awesome website right now.If you'd rather use your favorite desktop editor, no...
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Joxa – A concurrent, distributed Lisp
Joxa is a small semantically clean, functional lisp. It is a general-purpose language encouraging interactive development and a functional programming style. Joxa runs on the Erlang Virtual Machine....
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ZeroVM: Virtualization based on Chrome's NaCl
What is ZeroVM?ZeroVM is an open source virtualization technology that is based on the Chromium Native Client (NaCl) project. ZeroVM creates a secure and isolated execution environment which can run a...
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GRVI Phalanx joins The Kilocore Club
The work-in-progress GRVI Phalanx massively parallel accelerator framework has been ported to the Xilinx Virtex UltraScale+ XCVU9P.On Dec. 30, 2016, a design with 30 rows by 7 columns of clusters of 8...
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Languages on BEAM, the Erlang virtual machine
README.orgOverviewThis document is intended to list (a) languages implemented to run on the BEAM, the Erlang virtual machine, and (b) documents (articles & presentations) about the hows and whys...
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