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Digital Ocean Load Balancers – Simplifying High Availability
Over the past five years, we've seen our community grow by leaps and bounds, and we've grown right alongside it. More and more of our users are managing complex workloads that require more resilience...
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A scalper who used bots to buy millions of tickets, now wants to stop them
A version of this story appeared in the February issue of VICE magazine. Click HERE to subscribe. In February 2005, after the band won its third Grammy of the night, U2 drummer Larry Mullen Jr....
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Show HN: Illustrated Quicksort algorithm
0. function quicksort(list) {1. if (list.length < 2) {2. return list;3. }4. 5. const pivot = random(list);6. const less = list.filter(i => i < pivot);7. const greater = list.filter(i => i...
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Open-source Funding/Support Questionnaire
An attempt at gathering some data around the state of open-source/infrastructure fundingThere are multiple sections. Please attempt to complete as fully as possible.Estimated completion time: 5...
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Football, fire and ice: the inside story of Iceland’s remarkable rise (2016)
In 2009 a group of young Icelandic football coaches travelled to England to study for their Uefa coaching licences. The trip involved a stop at Reading, where the Icelanders were excited to see at...
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Why Did Medieval Artists Give Elephants Trunks That Look Like Trumpets?
Elephants in a 13th century manuscript. The British Library/Royal 12 F XIII The animals in the image above are elephants. They were drawn sometime around the 13th or 14th century in a medieval...
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DigitalOcean introduces Load Balancers
## Create Load Balancer curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" -d '{"name":"lb-name","region":"nyc3","droplet_ids":[], "forwarding_rules": [ {...
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Can I Talk to that William Fellow? He was so Helpful (2009)
Today we're going to take a little trip in the wayback machine with the help of my colleague Seth Manheim, who was there when this happened. Set the date to November 22, 1989, twenty years ago and one...
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Amazon rainforest was transformed over 2,000 years ago by mysterious earthworks
The Amazonian rainforest was transformed over two thousand years ago by people who built hundreds of large, mysterious earthworks.Findings by Brazilian and UK experts provide new evidence for how...
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Pijul - A free and open source distributed version control system
Pijul is a free and open source (AGPL 3) distributed version control system. Its distinctive feature is to be based on a sound theory of patches, which makes it easy to learn and use, and really...
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Inside Cloud Spanner and the CAP Theorem
By Eric Brewer, Vice President of Infrastructure, Google CloudBuilding systems that manage globally distributed data, provide data consistency and are also highly available is really hard. The beauty...
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Introducing Cloud Spanner – A Global Database Service
Remarkably, Cloud Spanner achieves this combination of features without violating the CAP Theorem. To understand how, read this post by the author of the CAP Theorem and Google Vice President of...
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Microsoft lets you crash drones and robots in its new real world simulator
Microsoft is sharing some interesting tools with the open source community today. Developers and researchers will be able to take advantage of a new simulator that will let people test and train robots...
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How PostgreSQL is tested [video]
At PgConf US 2016, PostgreSQL core team member Peter Eisentraut presented: How PostgreSQL is tested. Below is the video for that presentation. Join us at the end of March to participate in knowledge...
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40% of foreign students in the US have no close American friends on campus
Foreign students are flocking to the higher education system in the US. A recent study found that in 2011-2012, the number of international students in the US increased by 6.5% over the last year to a...
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Verizon Reduces Yahoo Deal Price by $250 Million in Revised Deal
Verizon Communications Inc. is close to a renegotiated deal for Yahoo! Inc.’s internet properties that would reduce the price of the $4.8 billion agreement by about $250 million after the revelation of...
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Top Hat Raises $22M to Go After Pearson, McGraw-Hill
Top Hat, the Canadian education technology startup, completed a new round of funding to give it more firepower to go after textbook publishers like Pearson Plc.The $22.5 million round is Top Hat’s...
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The Need for a Digital Geneva Convention
Responding to the rise in nation-state cybersecurity attacksThis year’s RSA Conference in San Francisco brings the world’s security professionals together to discuss cybersecurity at a critical time....
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Scientists make huge dataset of nearby stars available to public
The search for planets beyond our solar system is about to gain some new recruits.Today, a team that includes MIT and is led by the Carnegie Institution for Science has released the largest collection...
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Whither Swift?
Whither Swift?By Jeff Johnson, Developer of UnderpassI've been asking myself the question, what is Apple's plan for Swift and Objective-C? When Swift became public in 2014, its creator Chris Lattner...
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