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Openfood.ch – open access info about barcoded food products sold in Switzerland
Today we are excited to launch openfood.ch - an open access database on information about barcoded food products sold in Switzerland. Is there a need for such a database? Absolutely. Today, there is no...
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Lua: A Guide for Redis Users
You’ve heard that Redis has an embedded scripting language, but haven’t given it a try yet? Here’s a tour of what you need to understand to use the power of Lua with your Redis server.Hello, Lua!Our...
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API Discovery: Can we do better?
Do you remember the last time you searched for a suitable Web API? To put this into context, let’s assume you want to send emails to your users. As always, you start by typing “Email API” in Google and...
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Science fact: Sci-fi inventions that became reality
Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Light speed travel and tractor beams - researchers have toyed with bothThe story of a 14-year-old girl who won a landmark legal battle to be preserved...
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.NET CoreCLR on Linux/armhf
ARM 32-bit progress · Issue #3977 · dotnet/coreclr · GitHubSkip to content You can't perform that action at this time.You signed in with another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session.You signed...
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Attacking discrimination with smarter machine learning
Attack discrimination with smarter machine learning As machine learning is increasingly used to make important decisions across core social domains, the work of ensuring that these decisions aren't...
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Pilots Strike at Cargo Carrier Serving DHL, Amazon.com
Updated Nov. 22, 2016 11:30 a.m. ETA union representing pilots for a cargo carrier that serves Deutsche Post AG’s DHL and Amazon.com Inc. went on strike Tuesday, just days before the peak holiday...
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Sccache, Mozilla’s distributed compiler cache, now written in Rust
We build a lot of code at Mozilla. Every time someone pushes changes to the code that makes up Firefox we build the application on multiple platforms in a variety of build configurations. This means...
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An Unknown Man
After leaving Slater’s, Kyle began walking south towards Florida. He made it only a few miles before he was stopped by two Georgia sheriff’s deputies, who recognized him from Bo Preston’s training on...
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Headphones can be hijacked to surreptitiously record audio
Cautious computer users put a piece of tape over their webcam. Truly paranoid ones worry about their devices’ microphones—some even crack open their computers and phones to disable or remove those...
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MXNet – Deep Learning Framework of Choice at AWS
Machine learning is playing an increasingly important role in many areas of our businesses and our lives and is being employed in a range of computing tasks where programming explicit algorithms is...
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The year you were born predicts flu risk
Caption: Birth years of people in China who contracted H7N9 avian flu from 1997-2015 (left); birth years of people in Cambodia, China, Egypt, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam who contracted H5N1 avian...
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Image-to-Image Translation with Conditional Adversarial Nets
Image-to-Image Translation with Conditional Adversarial NetworksImage-to-Image Translation with Conditional Adversarial NetsWe investigate conditional adversarial networks as a general-purpose solution...
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Algolia Is Hiring Solutions Engineers in SF, NYC, Paris, London and Sydney
Algolia is looking for talented, passionate people to build the world’s best instant search service.Are you ready to challenge the way people think about search?Our customers are demanding, and we are...
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Who’s Hiring? Who’s Firing? Checking in on Tech Jobs
Last month I reported on Trip Chowdry’s dire predictions for the tech workforce. Since then, I’ve seen a few announcements that confirmed his bleak view, but I’ve also seen bright spots in the...
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Katana – Modern Swift framework for creating iOS apps, inspired by React/Redux
README.mdKatana is a modern Swift framework for writing iOS apps, strongly inspired by React and Redux, that gives structure to all the aspects of your app:logic: the app state is entirely described...
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Enterprise Ready SaaS Feature Guides
EnterpriseReady was created for the people who build SaaS products (founders, product managers and engineering team leads).A guide to creating or enhancing a SaaS product with common features that will...
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Great histories written by losers
This post was originally publishedas part of the Thucydides Roundtable project over at Zenpundit. I encourage you to read all of the posts in the roundtable.Meet Sima Qian. I hold him in high regard....
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Webhooks do’s and dont’s: what we learned after integrating APIs
As modern applications are becoming more and more a composite of APIs and the serverless architectures are getting more attention, API providers can’t afford any longer to expose only traditional REST...
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I, Pencil (1958)
I, PencilMy Family Tree as told to Leonard E. Read I am a lead pencil—the ordinary wooden pencil familiar to all boys and girls and adults who can read and write.* Writing is both my vocation and my...
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