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Berkeley Removes 20,000 Free Online Videos to Comply with DOJ Ruling
Public DomainThis story has been updated. See below.The handicappers general in the Department of Justice strike again: the University of California, Berkeley, is deleting a massive amount of free,...
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The Jet Engines with 'Digital Twins'
Jet engines are some of the most complex technologies on the planet. They’re so difficult to make, in fact, the companies that build aircraft don’t make their own engines.They outsource the job to just...
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Why Facts Don't Change Our Minds
The vaunted human capacity for reason may have more to do with winning arguments than with thinking straight.CreditIllustration by Gérard DuBoisIn 1975, researchers at Stanford invited a group of...
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Africa's most misunderstood country
The next morning, Zand and his fellow travellers head to the ancient city of Meroë. Once a wealthy Kushite metropolis on the east bank of the Nile, Meroë is now a Unesco World Heritage site marked by...
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Security 101 for SaaS startups
So you are working at a startup, and you have been wondering at what point should you start looking into security considerations and compliance? Which technical debt should be postponed for a later...
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Neural Machine Translation and Sequence-To-sequence Models: A Tutorial
(Submitted on 5 Mar 2017)Abstract: This tutorial introduces a new and powerful set of techniques variously called "neural machine translation" or "neural sequence-to-sequence models". These techniques...
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AMD Prepares 32-Core Naples CPUs for 1P and 2P Servers: Coming in Q2
For users keeping track of AMD’s rollout of its new Zen microarchitecture, stage one was the launch of Ryzen, its new desktop-oriented product line last week. Stage three is the APU launch, focusing...
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Better Compression with Zstandard
I think I first heard about the Zstandard compression algorithm at a Mercurial developer sprint in 2015. At one end of a large table a few people were uttering expletives out of sheer excitement. At...
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Functional Language Features in Rust – Iterators and Closures
Rust's design has taken inspiration from a lot of previous work. One of Rust's influences is functional programming, where functions are values that can be used as arguments or return values to other...
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Two frequently used system calls are ~77% slower on AWS EC2
This blog post dives into an interesting finding: two frequently used system calls (gettimeofday, clock_gettime) are much slower on AWS EC2.Linux provides a mechanism for speeding up those two...
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To fix L.A.'s traffic, we need tolls
Los Angeles is fed up with its traffic. Despite billions spent in herculean efforts to expand our roads, our freeways are as clogged as ever. We spent $1.6 billion to widen the 405 Freeway in 2014, and...
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Announcing F# 4.1 and the Visual F# Tools for Visual Studio 2017
Last year, we announced F# 4.1 via a Peek in F# 4.1. As a recap, we mentioned:Alpha support for .NET Core and .NET StandardLanguage features for F# 4.1A big update to the Visual F# tools for Visual...
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CIA malware and hacking tools
Today, Tuesday 7 March 2017, WikiLeaks begins its new series of leaks on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Code-named "Vault 7" by WikiLeaks, it is the largest ever publication of confidential...
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Congress Is Trying to Roll Back Internet Privacy Protections
Call congress now!Back in 2014 over 3 million Internet users told the U.S. government loudly and clearly: we value our online security, we value our online privacy, and we value net neutrality. Our...
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Tails 2.11 is out – fixes many security issues
This release fixes many security issues and users should upgrade as soon as possible.We are very sad to announce that Tails 2.11 will be the last version to include I2P, an alternative anonymizing...
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Travis-Pls: Travis Builds That Don't Timeout
README.mdA little script for keeping very long running jobs online in Travis CI.I run some complicated Packer builds to build AMIs in EC2. It can often take more than 10 minutes for Amazon to assemble...
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Building an API Gateway with Lua and Nginx
When we work on microservices, there are often a number of common concerns / functionalities that should be shared amongst different services.These common functionality include authentication,...
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Marketing made easy: The complete guide to lifecycle marketing
We've put together a complete, actionable and no-BS guide on lifecycle marketing based on what we’ve learnt from managing a database of over 1 million customers and from working with industry leading...
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Global availability of Microsoft Teams
On Tuesday, March 14, we will celebrate the global availability of Microsoft Teams, the chat-based workspace in Office 365. Please join us for an online event to mark the occasion. Office Corporate...
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Roles available at Airware (YC W13)
Roles available at Airware (YC W13)1 hour ago | hideWe're a community of engineers that loves open source, solving interesting problems, and writing beautiful code.DevOps Engineer:...
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