GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code
GitLab, a startup that provides open source and premium source code repository software that people use to collaborate on software, is announcing today that it has acquired Gitter, a startup that...
View ArticleCoreOS's rkt and Docker's containerd jointly donated to CNCF
Today CoreOS and Docker made a combined proposal to add rkt and containerd as new projects for inclusion in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). During today's CNCF Technical Oversight Board...
View ArticleLaunch HN: Wifi Dabba (YC W17) – Low Cost Wifi in India
Launch HN: Wifi Dabba (YC W17) – Low Cost Wifi in India20 points by mildlyclassic1 hour ago | hide | past | web | 22 comments | favoriteWifi Dabba provides super cheap, super fast internet at...
View ArticleShow HN: FaunaDB, a strongly consistent, globally distributed cloud database
I’m excited to announce that today we are opening FaunaDB Serverless Cloud to the public.Even though we only starting talking about ourselves a few months ago, we have been blown away by the response,...
View ArticleDropbox disabled all links to Public-folder files today
Important changes to the Dropbox public folderDropbox accounts created after October 4, 2012 won't have a Public folder. If you'd like to quickly share files you can use a shared link. Shared links...
View ArticleA primer on designing better cameras for games [video]
What makes for a great in-game camera system?As part of the GDC 2017 Animation Bootcamp, Robotoki's Simon Unger tried to help fellow game makers answer that question by hitting the stage to present an...
View ArticleIf War Can Have Ethics, Wall Street Can, Too
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View ArticleInvite only Linux servers
StackLinux hosting features fully-managed, fast SSD Linux servers! Configured from the Kernel up after consulting with you. All servers are proactively monitored and maintained. Our servers are best...
View ArticleHTTPS Interception Weakens TLS Security
TLS and its predecessor, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), are important Internet protocols that encrypt communications over the Internet between the client and server. These protocols (and protocols that...
View ArticleAs Japan's population falls, bears and boars roam where schools once existed
The red-roofed temple at the top of the hill closed about a decade ago, and now Yoshihiro Shibata can’t even remember its name, though the 54-year-old dairy farmer has lived in this picturesque village...
View ArticleNim Language Draws from Best of Python, Rust, Go, and Lisp …
New languages emerge to fill niches that the existing ones don’t satisfy. Google’s Go combined the speed of C with the rapid development cycles of interpreted languages like Python. Rust came about...
View ArticleLearning to Communicate with Deep Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
readme.mdJakob N. Foerster, Yannis M. Assael, Nando de Freitas, Shimon WhitesonWe consider the problem of multiple agents sensing and acting in environments with the goal of maximising their shared...
View ArticleNetlify CMS – An open-source CMS for Git workflows
Netlify CMS | Open-Source Content Management SystemAs seen on...Writers can focus on writing. Editors can approve content and publish with ease. Developers can use their favorite tools and libraries....
View ArticleBasque and Georgian – are they related? (2015)
Basque, the only non-Indo European language in Western Europe, is an isolate, a language unrelated to any other living or dead. Nonetheless attempts have been made to demonstrate a relationship with a...
View ArticleHow to Clear a Path Through 60 Feet of Snow, Japanese Style
Mt. Tateyama rises 9,892 feet in Japan’s Hida Mountains and is considered one of the country’s Three Holy Mountains. It also may be one of the snowiest mountains in Japan, and perhaps one of the...
View ArticleLockheed Martin completes new battle laser for U.S. military
"We have shown that a powerful directed energy laser is now sufficiently light-weight, low volume and reliable enough to be deployed on tactical vehicles for defensive applications on land, at sea and...
View ArticleNetflix Replacing Star Ratings With Thumbs Ups and Thumbs Down
Get ready to say goodbye to star ratings on Netflix: The company is getting ready to replace stars with Pandora-like thumbs ups and thumbs downs in the coming weeks.Previously-given star rating will...
View ArticleSilk Road evolved as 'grass-routes' movement
Shifting lines in this animation of the Pastoralist Participation Model show the routes predicted to be most likely used by herders descending from highland pastures (white shading) to an array of...
View ArticleHigh quality graphics for Latex documents: The Matlab route
You use LaTeX instead of a WYSIWYG word processing program because they can’t cope with the high quality required for publication. But your nice professional looking documents can be ruined because you...
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