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PepsiCo Wants to Sell Healthy Food, Consumers Want Chips
Dec. 11, 2016 1:44 p.m. ETAn array of new products at a trade show in Atlanta this fall told the story of two PepsiCos.Anchoring one part of the display was a fiber-filled nut and fruit bar called...
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How I use Anki to learn mathematics
Here is my first less wrong post (after years spent blogging in French). I discovered Anki on this blog. I'm now sharing the tips I've been using for months to learn mathematics with Anki.I'm a French...
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What It Takes to Build True FPGA as a Service
December 2, 2016Nicole HemsothAmazon Web Services might be offering FPGAs in an EC2 cloud environment, but this is still a far cry from the FPGA-as-a-service vision many hold for the future....
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Register-based VMs have a higher performance than stack-based VMs
(Submitted on 2 Nov 2016)Abstract: Virtual machines have been widely adapted for high-level programming language implementations and for providing a degree of platform neutrality. As the overall use...
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Run Unix processes inside your browser
Processes Unmodified C, C++, Go, and Node.js programs run as processes on Web Workers, executing in-parallel with the main browser thread – no need to worry about long-running computations blocking...
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uBlock Origin for Microsoft Edge
I have been side loading this extension for awhile now, watching nikrolls work on porting the extension from Chrome to Edge and it's finally here! Props to nikrolls for porting and gorhill for the...
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Function multi-versioning in GCC 6
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Fastrange: A fast alternative to the modulo reduction
README.mdA common operation in software is to take a machine word and map it to an integer value in a range [0,p) as fairly as possible. That is, you want that if all values of the machine word are...
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Hotel Stays, Especially in Inclement Weather
I hate the shelter system and have never used it. I once started the intake process at one when there was an incoming snow storm. Ultimately, we just asked for a change of clothes for each of us and a...
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Verifying Software with Timers and Clocks
Posted on December 12, 2016 by Sagar Chaki in Verification By Sagar ChakiPrincipal ResearcherSoftware Solutions DivisionThis blog post is coauthored by Dionisio de Niz.Software with timers and clocks...
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MacBook Pro Launch: Perplexing
by Jean-Louis GasséeCredit: iphonehacks.comOnce upon a time, Apple was known for its top-tier storytelling skills and the industry’s best Supply Chain Management. But the recent MacBook Pro launch,...
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Bitcoin Startup Adds Former Barclays Chief Antony Jenkins
Dec. 12, 2016 5:21 p.m. ETOne of Europe’s most prominent former bankers is joining a bitcoin startup.Antony Jenkins, the ex-chief executive of Barclays PLC, said he has joined the board of directors...
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Indus OS: India's multi-lingual operating system
Media captionIndia has more than twenty languages and hundreds more dialects.Indus OS - a mobile phone operating system built in India - has become the country's second-most popular smartphone...
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Opendoor, a startup worth emulating
I suppose I appreciate the efficiency with which Techcrunch expressed its skepticism for tech’s latest unicorn, Opendoor; it’s right there in the headline: Online real estate service Opendoor raises...
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Pebble CEO explains why he sold to Fitbit
This is the last in a continuing series following the fortunes and foibles of Pebble.If the myth of Silicon Valley is to be believed, Eric Migicovsky should be ebullient. After all, he has failed. For...
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Resolve simple merge conflicts on GitHub
You can now resolve simple merge conflicts on GitHub right from your pull requests, saving you a trip to the command line and helping your team merge pull requests faster.The new feature helps you...
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Self-Healing Transistors for Chip-Scale Starships
Working with the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), NASA is pioneering the development of tiny spacecraft made from a single silicon chip that could slash interstellar exploration...
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VimWiki – A personal wiki for Vim
Vimwiki is a personal wiki for Vim – interlinked, plain text files written in a markup languageorganize notes and ideas and quickly create links between themmanage todo-listswrite a diaryFeaturesthree...
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Ask HN: Hiring managers, what tech skills will you be hiring for in 2017?
So given that I may likely be hiring in the web and mobile application security spaces again next year (I've _somehow_ filled all of my open positions this year; appsec is difficult to fill with...
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