Gigster (YC S15) Is Looking for Full Stack Engineers
As a Full Stack Software Engineer, you will build and extend communication and management platforms and you will devise intelligent systems that combine algorithms with the crowd to automate project...
View ArticleObituary: Great Barrier Reef
For most of its life, the reef was the world’s largest living structure, and the only one visible from space. Illustration: Andrew Holder The Great Barrier Reef of Australia passed away in 2016...
View ArticleFacebook, Instagram, and Twitter Provided Data Access for a Surveillance Product
The ACLU of California has obtained records showing that Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram provided user data access to Geofeedia, a developer of a social media monitoring product that we have seen...
View ArticleKeras.js – Run trained Keras models in your browser
README.mdRun trained Keras models in your browser, GPU-powered using WebGL. Models are serialized directly from the Keras JSON-format configuration file and associated HDF5 weights.Interactive...
View ArticleRobot Can Do More Push-Ups Because It Sweats
When we use our muscles, they produce heat as a byproduct. When we use them a lot, we need to actively cool them, which is why we sweat. By sweating, we pump water out of our bodies, and as that water...
View ArticleStatic types in Python
Over the last few years, static type checkers have become available for popular dynamic languages like PHP (Hack) and JavaScript (Flow and TypeScript), and have seen wide adoption. Two years ago, a...
View ArticleAn Open Source, Self-Hosted Heroku
Running our own Heroku… It shouldn't be that hard, right?We have a small set of servers we use to run our internal applications. Nothing too complex, just monitoring, our ELK stack, Jenkins, and a few...
View ArticlePHP 7 deployment at Dailymotion
In march 2015, we started to think that code refactoring and architecture improvements, will not be the only way to optimize the response time on dailymotion.com. This is the core problem of websites...
View ArticleHow to speed up the Rust compiler
Rust is a great language, and Mozilla plans to use it extensively in Firefox. However, the Rust compiler (rustc) is quite slow and compile times are a pain point for many Rust users. Recently I’ve been...
View ArticleFlynn: open source PaaS
Flynn is an open source platform (PaaS) for running applications in production.It does everything you need, out of the box:Creates running applications directly from your code so there's no need to...
View ArticleMaslow CNC
Maslow is a large (4'x8') CNC cutting machine designed to let you "print" big, useful things out of wood and other flat materials. Print a tiny house, a kayak, a tree house, some furniture, or anything...
View ArticleKDE 1 Released by KDE Restoration Project
From the Research deps of KDE ProjectThe KDE project is proud to announce his first public release, after 20 years of hard development from a team of multi cultural developers around the world.Was an...
View ArticleKibo Blockchain Lotto
Today, the key problem of any service or product is the need to have a large user base at the start of the project. As we have had this problem in mind since the very start of working on KIBO, we have...
View ArticleCommon prostate cancer treatment linked to later dementia, researcher says
The team looked at deidentified records from Stanford Medicine’s clinical-research data warehouse for nearly 10,000 patients with prostate cancer. Of the 1,829 who received androgen deprivation...
View ArticleSamsung Foundry Announces 10nm SoC in Mass-Production
Today Samsung announced mass production of a SoC built on its third-generation 10nm "10LPE" manufacturing node. It was only this January that Samsung announced mass production of its 14LPP process that...
View ArticleI Won $104M for Blowing the Whistle But Was the Only One Who Went to Jail
Bradley C. Birkenfeld, 51, blew the whistle on the Swiss bank UBS for helping Americans avoid paying taxes, leading to about $15 billion in recovered tax money, fines and penalties. He spent two and a...
View ArticleApple hires CMU professor as director of AI research to smarten up Siri
Apple is making a visible push in the direction of AI today by hiring Carnegie Mellon University professor Ruslan Salakhutdinov for what appears to be a newly minted position: director of AI...
View ArticleNo Man’s Sky – Procedural Content
No Man’s Sky is a space exploration game which uses procedural generation technology in order to create game environment and assets (textures, models, terrains etc). I was very excited since this game...
View ArticleCodebender is closing down
TLDR: The codebender.cc website is being deprecated as we move our focus on new stuff When we started codebender on February 2012, more than 4 years ago, we never expected it to become this popular and...
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