Why I’m selling some Twitter shares
If you’re not a Twitter shareholder or employee (or reporter who covers such things), this is exceedingly uninteresting — check out the Medium homepage instead. If you are, I wanted to provide some...
View ArticleLibreboot: Open Letter to the Free Software Community
LibrebootFAQ– Download– Install– Documentation– Support (IRC)– Report a bug– Send patches– AuthorsLibreboot is a free and Open Source BIOS or UEFI replacement, initialising the hardware and booting...
View Article(Chrome/Blink) Intent to Ship: SharedArrayBuffer
Contact emailsbinji@chromium.org, aseemgarg@chromium.org, bradnelson@chromium.org, seththompson@chromium.orgSpecMerged into ECMAscript spec:https://tc39.github.io/ecma262/(Sections referencing Atomics...
View ArticleA Thank-You Note to the Hacker News Community from Ubuntu
A huge THANK YOU to the entire HackerNews community, from the Ubuntu community! Holy smokes...wow...you are an amazing bunch! Your feedback in the thread, "Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu...
View ArticleTwitter refuses US order to disclose owner of anti-Trump account
The logo for the parody immigration Twitter account @alt_uscis, the subject of administrative summons from the U.S. government to social media company Twitter, is seen in a screenshot taken April 6,...
View ArticleFDA Authorizes Ten 23andme Genetic Health Risk Reports
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted 23andMe authorization to offer ten genetic health risk reports including late-onset Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, celiac disease, and a...
View ArticleAn off-grid social network
Scuttlebutt is slang for gossip, particularly among sailors. It is also the name of a peer-to-peer system ideal for social graphs, identity and messaging. Scuttlebutt was created by Dominic Tarr, a...
View ArticleMachine learning without centralized training data
To make Federated Learning possible, we had to overcome many algorithmic and technical challenges. In a typical machine learning system, an optimization algorithm like Stochastic Gradient Descent...
View ArticleUnsupervised sentiment neuron
Our system beats other approaches on Stanford Sentiment Treebank while using dramatically less data.The number of labeled examples it takes two variants of our model (the green and blue lines) to match...
View ArticleAnomalous keys in Tor relays
Anomalous keys in Tor relays Countingalmost 7,000 relays,the Tor network is one of the largest volunteer-run anonymity networks operating today. Most of the volunteers who operate these relays choose...
View ArticleShenzhen is a hothouse of innovation
ON A RECENT weekend several hundred academics and lawyers gathered in a hotel ballroom in Shenzhen for a discussion on “Innovation, inclusion and order”, an event jointly organised by the law schools...
View ArticleWhy Distribution Still Matters in the Digital Age
Ben Thompson, founder of Stratechery. (Nordiske Mediedager / CC by-SA 2.0)There is no escapingBen Thompson’s aggregation theory in today’s world. Perhaps the world’s most sought-after technology...
View ArticleWhere the Apple accounts hackers are threatening to wipe came from
The tech news recently has seen quite a lot of chatter about an alleged haul of Apple credentials, apparently about 250 million of them in all. Allegedly. Maybe. Or was it 300 million?. No - wait - it...
View ArticleOpen sourcing Sonnet – a new library for constructing neural networks
The library uses an object-oriented approach, similar to Torch/NN, allowing modules to be created which define the forward pass of some computation. Modules are ‘called’ with some input Tensors, which...
View ArticleIn love with the BBC micro:bit
I finally got my hands on the micro:bit, the BBC’s new educational computer and spiritual successor to the legendary BBC Micro, and I’m absolutely in love with its potential as a platform for learning...
View ArticleRadiance: a flexible web-application environment for Common Lisp
If you are instead interested in deploying an existing application that uses Radiance on one of your servers, you can take a short-cut that doesn't require you to set up a development environment. You...
View ArticleTwitter drops lawsuit, saying summons has been withdrawn
By David Ingram| SAN FRANCISCO Twitter Inc on Friday dropped a lawsuit it filed the previous day against the U.S. Homeland Security Department, saying the government had withdrawn a summons for records...
View ArticleNixon's Speech Should Armstrong and Aldrin Become Stranded on the Moon
On July 18 of 1969, as the world waited anxiously for Apollo 11 to land safely on the surface of the Moon, speechwriter William Safire imagined the worst case scenario as he expertly wrote the...
View ArticleAsk HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
I don't use browser bookmarks but I do use bookmarks through pinboard.in: https://pinboard.in/u:jcritesWith a paid feature called an archival account, Pinboard stores an actual copy of each bookmarked...
View ArticleMarc Andreessen: “Take the Ego Out of Ideas”
You are hereInsights by Stanford Business› Marc Andreessen: “Take the Ego out of Ideas”Marc Andreessen: “Take the Ego out of Ideas”LeadershipWrittenMarc Andreessen: “Take the Ego out of Ideas”The...
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