Moving machine learning from practice to production
With growing interest in neural networks and deep learning, individuals and companies are claiming ever-increasing adoption rates of artificial intelligence into their daily workflows and product...
View ArticleAnnotated version of an original Deus Ex design doc surfaces
Back in 2013, Eurogamer published a look at what Ion Storm Austin's seminal game Deus Ex could have been, replete with excerpts of an original design document annotated by game director Warren Spector....
View ArticleInsight for GitHub and GitLab
If you are learning about GitSense for the first time, you can think of it, as a supercharger for GitHub and GitLab. And with it, you can do all of the following, without ever having to leave your...
View ArticleMalloc Challenge
Welcome to the malloc challenge. The task is to implement an application level memory allocator in C that outperforms provided implementations according to specified evaluation criterias; using the...
View ArticleShow HN: JavaScript books, free online
All of my books are free to read online and will remain so forever! I hope you’ll like them so much that you’ll buy the offline versions. Speaking JavaScript An in-depth guide to JavaScript (up to and...
View ArticleAmazon RDS now supports PostgreSQL 9.6.1
Posted on 2016-11-11Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports the next major release of the PostgreSQL open source database, version 9.6.1. New features include parallel query, phrase search, and...
View ArticleUsing Rust for 'Scripting'
I. Using Rust Instead of PythonA friend asked me today about writing a little script to do a simple conversion of the names of some files in a nested set of directories. Everything with one file...
View ArticleCertiKOS: A breakthrough toward hacker-resistant operating systems
A team of Yale researchers has unveiled CertiKOS, the world’s first operating system that runs on multi-core processors and shields against cyber attacks, a milestone that the scientists say could lead...
View ArticleA Primer on DarkNet Marketplaces
In its investigative efforts against DarkNet marketplaces, the FBI—much like in our other criminal priorities—focuses its resources not on individual criminals but on the most egregious criminal...
View ArticleWhatsapp: Video Calling
Our goal at WhatsApp has always been to help as many people as possible stay in touch with friends, family, and others they care about. That means making a product that’s simple, easy to use, and...
View ArticleJSNice: Statistical renaming, type inference, and deobfuscation
Welcome to JSNice — we make even obfuscated JavaScript code readable. We will rename variables and parameters to names that we learn from thousands of open source projects.Furthermore, often we are...
View ArticleKilling Lara Croft
Andy Sandham says the Tomb Raider developers never really knew how big Lara Croft was. They worked tight timeframes and had virtually no contact with marketing. Core didn’t even hear much from its fans...
View ArticleYouTube has apparently reinstated RSS feeds
Well if there's something I wasn't expecting to find tonight, it was that apparently YouTube has decided to allow users to follow channels via RSS again, and unlike the last few years, this time it...
View ArticleShow HN: Chartify – simple and lightweight charts for React.js
README.mdReact.js plugin for building a linechart. Bar chart, calendar view visualisation. Diagram, graph, pyramid visualisation of large datasets. Showreel. The source for this module is in the main...
View ArticleVisual Studio Code for Chromebooks and Raspberry Pi
Please read this carefully (here be dragons!).These are automated builds of the open-source edition of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code.The latest code is pulled on a nightly basis from Microsoft's...
View ArticleWhy we need the best tools on Chromebooks and Raspberry Pi
I’ve been working lately on preparing nightly builds of Visual Studio Code for ARM and Intel. These are now ready, and can be downloaded at https://code.headmelted.com.These “just work” on Raspberry Pi...
View ArticleShow HN: PgRebase, codebase management for Postgres
README.mdPgRebase is a tool that allows you to easily handle your postgres codebase for functions, triggers, custom types and views.WhyIf you started outsourcing data manipulation to your database...
View ArticleMicrosoft Becomes Linux Foundation Platinum Member
SAN FRANCISCO – November 16, 2016 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit advancing professional open source management for mass collaboration, today announced that Microsoft has joined the organization...
View ArticleAnnouncing .NET Core 1.1
We are excited to announce the release of .NET Core 1.1 RTM. You can start creating .NET Core 1.1 apps, today, in Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio 2017 RC, Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio for...
View ArticleMicrosoft announces the next version SQL Server for Windows and Linux
Microsoft’s announcement that it was bringing its flagship SQL Server database software to Linux came as a major surprise when the company first announced this in March. Until now, the preview was...
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