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How a comedy slogan became a symbol of protest
IT HAS been used to speak out against the pope, police brutality and rising student fees. It has spread from Craggy Island, a fictional outpost of Ireland, to Britain. It was present for the unseating...
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Lob (YC S13) Is Hiring a User Acquisition Manager
Lob is building a suite of APIs to automate enterprise workflows. Our most popular API is our print and mail API that enables companies to send physical mail as effortlessly as sending emails. We are...
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Partcl – a tiny command language
Partcl - a tiny command languageZaboutposts@me+me</>meMinimalist interpreters have always attracted me. First of all, they are a good fit for embedded systems whenever you need a custom...
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TensorFlow Fold: Deep Learning with Dynamic Computation Graphs
Posted by Moshe Looks, Marcello Herreshoff and DeLesley Hutchins, Software EngineersIn much of machine learning, data used for training and inference undergoes a preprocessing step, where multiple...
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State of Clojure 2016 – Results and Analysis
Welcome back to the annual State of Clojure survey results. This year we held steady in our response rate as 2,420 of you took the time and effort to weigh in on your experience with Clojure - as...
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Privacy is Power: Why the fight for privacy matters
The desk I’m typing this on is a little wobbly. I adjusted the legs yesterday to be a little shorter after noticing the reason my wrists were hurting was because they were bent upward at an...
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CoreOS: Moving from fleet to Kubernetes
Over the past two years, we’ve seen a shift in the way organizations think about and manage distributed applications. It started with fleet, and today we are seeing widespread adoption of Kubernetes,...
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YC Research: Universal Healthcare
Four years ago, Watsi became YC’s first non-profit. They’ve since raised over $7.5 million to fund life-changing healthcare for more than 10,000 patients in 24 countries.Today, we’re excited to...
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Thoughts about a WebGL-Next (2016)
TL;DR: what a WebGL2 successor could look like and why it can’t be ‘WebVulkan’The topic of ‘WebVulkan’ as a WebGL2 successor is coming up from time to time, here’s my 2ct since I also spend a lot of...
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New GitHub Terms of Service
We’re in the process of updating our Terms of Service, and we’d like to get your input on the draft of our new Terms.Why the change?In short, our current Terms of Service agreement could do a better...
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More on GVFS
After watching a couple of days of GVFS conversation, I want to add a few things.What problems are we solving?GVFS (and the related Git optimizations) really solves 4 distinct problems:A large number...
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Grappling with Go (Go vs. Rust Followup)
In a previous blog post, I observed that one of the medium-term possibilities we’re seriously considering for NTPsec is moving the entire codebase out of C. I continued that the two languages we’re...
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India floats the idea of a universal basic income
NOVEMBER 8th was not just the day of Donald Trump’s election. It was also when Indians found out most banknotes would lose all value unless promptly exchanged. Ever since, many have expected their...
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Thousands of deadly U.S. military airstrikes have gone unreported
The American military has failed to publicly disclose potentially thousands of lethal airstrikes conducted over several years in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, a Military Times investigation has...
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Intel Says 10GHz CPU by 2005 (Dec 2000)
10GHz by 2005 running at < 1 voltThe P6 micro-architecture was introduced with the Pentium Pro at 150MHz in 1995 and is still with us today with the Pentium III at 1GHz. The P6 architecture will be...
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A330 flight control laws saved Voyager, inquiry finds
An in-flight mishap involving a Royal Air Force Airbus A330 Voyager en route to Afghanistan last year has been categorised as “an extremely serious near-miss” by the director general of the UK Military...
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What do you mean by “Event-Driven”?
Towards the end of last year I attended a workshop with my colleagues in ThoughtWorks to discuss the nature of “event-driven” applications. Over the last few years we've been building lots of systems...
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Rackspace lays off 200 locals in company-wide cuts
Updated 8 hours agoRackspace Hosting Inc. announced the largest downsizing in its 19-year history Tuesday, cutting its total U.S. workforce by 6% and eliminating the jobs of about 200 people at its...
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