The Marked Woman
In the early twentieth century, the members of the Osage Nation became the richest people per capita in the world, after oil was discovered under their reservation, in Oklahoma. Then they began to be...
View ArticleInterview with AMD CEO Lisa Su
AMD held a Tech Day a week before the launch of Zen to go over the details of of the new Ryzen product with the technology press. As part of these talks, we were able to secure Dr. Lisa Su, the CEO of...
View ArticleScientists Say Canadian Bacteria Fossils May Be Earth’s Oldest
But additional specimens from other sites came to light over the past two decades, and many of them have withstood scrutiny. There is now solid evidence of life dating back about 3.5 billion...
View ArticleShow HN: Gutenberg – Modern CSS framework to print the web correctly
README.mdModern framework to print correctlySimply include the right stylesheet(s) in your html and load it only for a printer. Gutenberg.css is the base stylesheet but there is themes available in...
View ArticleConsistent Hashing Explained for High Schoolers
February 28, 2017Consistent hash rings are beautiful structures, yet often poorly explained. Implementations tend to focus on clever language-specific tricks, and theoretical approaches insist on...
View ArticleA Guide to “Getting” Rumi
A guide to “getting” Rumi.A number of my poetry-loving friends have asked me over the years what Rumi’s poetry is really like. They’re all coming from the same place: they want to know if his stuff is...
View ArticleShow HN: fman – file manager for programmers
Launched in 2016, fman is under very active development. We're committed to developing it for years. If progress ever stalls, fman's open source promise guarantees that you will never be locked into...
View ArticleLike startups, most intentional communities fail. Why?
At 16, Martin Winiecki dropped out of school and left his home in the German city of Dresden to live full-time at Tamera, a 300-acre intentional community in the rolling hills of southwestern Portugal....
View ArticleCirru – An editor for AST
Get AST from editorYou may turn get AST tree in normal data type, which is probably a JSON.Show me dataMake language out of it!Such as Sepal.clj and CirruScript. You can also try a lot more languages,...
View ArticleLaunch HN: Armory.io (YC W17) – We Make Deployments Boring and Self-Service
Hi HN, I’m Isaac, co-founder and CTO of Armory in the YC W17 batch. Ever had a deployment fail only to find out it was impossible to rollback to the previous version? Or get paged at 2am when the user...
View Article0patching a 0-day: Windows gdi32.dll memory disclosure
My first 0-day fixed (and I am not even a Microsoft developer)By Luka Treiber, 0patch Team.I've been fishing around the web for my next target to patch when something got caught into my net. Then along...
View ArticleChevrolet to offer unlimited data plan with cars
Image copyrightReutersImage caption Chevy said cars and passengers were becoming big consumers of dataChevrolet has become the first carmaker to offer an unlimited data plan with its cars.The deal, for...
View ArticleDeep Forest: Towards an Alternative to Deep Neural Networks
(Submitted on 28 Feb 2017)Abstract: In this paper, we propose gcForest, a decision tree ensemble approach with performance highly competitive to deep neural networks. In contrast to deep neural...
View ArticleUser-space networking with Snabb
LWN.net needs you!Without subscribers, LWN would simply not exist. Please considersigning up for a subscription and helping to keep LWN publishing High-speed networking was once, according to Andy...
View ArticleContainers Come to Firefox Test Pilot
The Containers feature in Firefox Nightly gives users the ability to place barriers on the flow of data across sites by isolating cookies, indexedDB, localStorage, and caches within discrete browsing...
View ArticleWhy we are not leaving the cloud
Towards the end of 2016 we said we were leaving the cloud for bare metal and shared our hardware proposal. In December 2016, after receiving hundreds of comments and emails filled with advice and...
View ArticleAMD Zen and Ryzen 7 Review: A Deep Dive
For over two years the collective AMD vs Intel personal computer battle has been sitting on the edge of its seat. Back in 2014 when AMD first announced it was pursuing an all-new microarchitecture, old...
View ArticleSnap Jumps in Debut After App Maker Raises $3.4B in IPO
Snap Inc., maker of the disappearing photo app that relies upon the fickle favor of millennials, jumped in its trading debut after pricing its initial public offering above the marketed range.Shares...
View ArticleSummary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption
We’d like to give you some additional information about the service disruption that occurred in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region on the morning of February 28th. The Amazon Simple Storage...
View ArticleEffect of A.I. on banking and finance
Whether your interaction with artificial intelligence (AI) is limited to science-fiction or you spend more time in your day talking to Siri and Alexa than actual humans, you can’t hide from the fact AI...
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