Baidu File System – A distributed file system for real-time applications
README.mdThe Baidu File System (BFS) is a distributed file system designed to support real-time applications. Like many other distributed file systems, BFS is highly fault-tolerant. But different from...
View ArticleIntroduction to Cyber Security
About the Course SeriesThe course series consists of multiple smaller courses, each centered around a specific theme. These themes include a brief introduction to cyber security and operational...
View ArticleLetsencrypt security = secrecy of eternal “account key”
The growth of Let’s Encrypt is phenomenal – 7 million certificates in last four months. The remaining hurdle for automation is verification of domain ownership. Well, actually it is NOT true. We were...
View ArticleGoogle buys Eyefluence eye-tracking startup
Google wants to know everywhere that you’re looking.Today, Eyefluence announced that it has been acquired by Google. The eye-tracking interface startup founded in 2013 had raised $21.6M in funding from...
View ArticleMicrosoft releases beta of Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit
Microsoft has released an updated version of Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit, a system for deep learning that is used to speed advances in areas such as speech and image recognition and search relevance on...
View ArticleCPP: A Standardized Alternative to AMP
It’s no secret that I have reservations about Google’s AMP project in its current form. I do want to make it clear, though, that what bothers me has never been the technical side of things—AMP as a...
View ArticleHacker News
Hacker Newshttps://news.ycombinator.com/Links for the intellectually curious, ranked by readers.Eve: Programming designed for humanshttp://programming.witheve.com/Fri, 28 Oct 2016 16:05:32...
View ArticleWordPress creator slams Wix: ‘Your app editor is built with stolen code’
WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg has taken exception to the editor used in Wix’s mobile app, alleging that the do-it-yourself web building service has copied his platform’s editor and failed to give...
View ArticleWhy It Took So Long to Invent the Wheel (2012)
Wheels are the archetype of a primitive, caveman-level technology. But in fact, they're so ingenious that it took until 3500 B.C. for someone to invent them. By that time — it was the Bronze Age —...
View ArticleUniversal adversarial perturbations
(Submitted on 26 Oct 2016)Abstract: Given a state-of-the-art deep neural network classifier, we show the existence of a universal (image-agnostic) and very small perturbation vector that causes natural...
View ArticleA Learned Representation for Artistic Style
(Submitted on 24 Oct 2016)Abstract: The diversity of painting styles represents a rich visual vocabulary for the construction of an image. The degree to which one may learn and parsimoniously capture...
View ArticleVirtualBox 5.1.8
This page lists all changes of the VirtualBox 5.1 releases.All branches: 5.1· 5.0· 4.3· 4.2· 4.1· 4.0· 3.2· 3.1· 3.0· 2.2· 2.1· 2.0· 1.6 For 5.0.26 changes, please go here.VirtualBox 5.1.8 (released...
View ArticleCRISPR hacks expand uses of gene-editing toolbox
Altered fate: Using CRISPR to switch on specific genes makes mouse skin cells morph into neurons. The gene editor CRISPR is as versatile as it is precise. By tweaking the tool or deploying it in novel...
View ArticleAcademia, Love Me Back
My name is Tiffany Martínez. As a McNair Fellow and student scholar, I’ve presented at national conferences in San Francisco, San Diego, and Miami. I have crafted a critical reflection piece that was...
View ArticleStep-by-step tutorial to build a modern JavaScript stack from scratch
README.mdWelcome to my modern JavaScript stack tutorial: JavaScript Stack from Scratch.This is a minimalistic and straight to the point guide to assembling a JavaScript stack. It teaches you how to...
View ArticleIntel driven MacBook Pros have secondary ARM processor for Touch ID and security
When will Apple ship a MacBook with an ARM processor? This is a question that has been top of mind for observers of the company ever since it started designing and building its own chips from the...
View ArticleEasyMVP – Android library with annotation processing and bytecode weaving
README.mdA powerful, and very simple MVP library with annotation processing and bytecode weaving.EasyMVP eliminates the boilerplate code for dealing with MVP implementation.FeaturesEasy...
View ArticleShow HN: React-decoration – A collection of decorators for React Components
Release Debounce and Throttle · mbasso/react-decoration · GitHubSkip to content2 new decorators are included in this release: You can't perform that action at this time.You signed in with another tab...
View ArticlePhotographers of 1870s London Documented Their Disappearing City
Alfred and John Bool, no. 1, “The Oxford Arms, Warwick Lane” (1875), carbon print mounted on card, from ‘Relics of Old London’ (Society for Photographing Relics of Old London, 1875–1886, courtesy Yale...
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