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CodeStar – Quickly Develop, Build, and Deploy Applications on AWS
It wasn’t too long ago that I was on a development team working toward completing a software project by a release deadline and facing the challenges most software teams face today in developing...
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Pattern Matching for Java
Gavin Bierman and Brian Goetz, April 2017This document explores a possible direction for supporting pattern matching in the Java Language. This is an exploratory document only and does not constitute a...
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Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser
April 19, 2017 7:07 p.m. ETAlphabet Inc.’s Google is planning to introduce an ad-blocking feature in the mobile and desktop versions of its popular Chrome web browser, according to people familiar...
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Ex-Googlers left secretive AI unit to form Groq with Palihapitiya
Google has slowly been pulling back the curtain on homegrown silicon that could define the future of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Some key creators of that project -- the Tensor...
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Uber opensources Focuson for Python static analysis
README.mdOverviewFocuson is an experimental tool to find security bugs in flask-based python web applications. It will emit a list of places for a security engineer to investigate with a reasonable...
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220,000 cores and counting: largest ever public cloud job
Finding suitable genus 3 curves “is like searching for a needle in a fifteen-dimensional haystack,” Sutherland said. “Sometimes I like to describe my work as building telescopes for mathematicians.”It...
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Planet enlists machine learning experts to parse Amazon basin data
Planet, the satellite imaging company that operate the largest commercial Earth imaging constellation in existence, is hosting a new data science competition on the Kaggle platform, with the specific...
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Bitcoin Mining is NP-hard (2014)
This post is (mostly) a theoretical curiosity, but a discussion last week at CITP during our new course on Bitcoin led us to realize that being an optimal Bitcoin miner is in fact NP-hard. NP-hardness...
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Google Home now supports multiple users
So how does it work? When you connect your account on a Google Home, we ask you to say the phrases "Ok Google" and "Hey Google" two times each. Those phrases are then analyzed by a neural network,...
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Proposal to start a new implementation of Thunderbird based on web technologies
Proposal to start a new implementation of Thunderbird based on web technologiesBen Buckschben.bucksch at beonex.comFri Mar 24 17:04:39 UTC 2017Summary: * Our base goes away. Gecko will change...
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Ask HN: How to actually “talk to your customers”?
I find this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14146850 very insightful and stressing some important common points in comments.The most precious advice as I see is to “talk to your...
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Cachier: Persistent, stale-free local/cross-machine caching for Python functions
README.rstPersistent, stale-free, local and cross-machine caching for Python functions.from cachier import cachierimport datetime@cachier(stale_after=datetime.timedelta(days=3))deffoo(arg1,...
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No heat ultrasonic clothes dryer
Lead Performer: Oak Ridge National Laboratory – Oak Ridge, TNPartners: General Electric Appliances – Louisville, KYDOE Funding: $880,000Cost Share: $98,000Project Term: October 1, 2014 to September 30,...
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A big patch of plastic garbage has been discovered in the Arctic
Scientists have discovered a new garbage patch — this time floating in the remote, frozen reaches of the Arctic. Plastics discarded in Europe and the East Coast of North America slowly drift to a...
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Ubuntu on AWS Gets Serious Performance Boost with AWS-Tuned Kernel
Canonical and Amazon Web Services have been working closely together to create the best experience of the world’s most popular cloud OS, on the world’s most popular public cloud. Official Ubuntu guest...
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JavaScript performance, WebAssembly, and Shared Memory in Microsoft Edge
JavaScript performance is an evergreentopic on the web. With each new release of Microsoft Edge, we look at user feedback and telemetry data to identify opportunities to improve the Chakra JavaScript...
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Raw Linux Threads via System Calls
May 15, 2015 nullprogram.com/blog/2015/05/15/This article has been translated to Japanese.This article has a followup.Linux has an elegant and beautiful design when it comes to threads: threads are...
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Docker is transitioning to Moby
A new upstream project to break up Docker into independent components by shykes · Pull Request #32691 · moby/moby · GitHub experimental Jenkins build Docker-PRs-experimental 33102 is runningDetails...
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Status – A Mobile Ethereum OS
Status is more than a messenger. Send payments and smart contracts to friends from within chats, and enjoy end-to-end encryption by default using a peer-to-peer protocol that doesn’t rely on...
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