Gooooooood morning, Population!!! Hey, this is not a test, this is a tech roundup. Time to rock it from the Delta to the DMZ.
AI, bots and robots
- Fast.ai – Deep Learning from the Foundations
Today we are releasing a new course, Deep Learning from the Foundations, which shows how to build a state of the art deep learning model from scratch. - MarIQ – Q-Learning Neural Network for Mario Kart
- Why Do Neural Networks Need an Activation Function?
- As a system programming language, C still deserves learning today
- Google’s robots.txt parser is now open source
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs. - Cutting through the smog: making an air quality bot with Haskell
- Amazon stores Alexa transcripts indefinitely
- ActiveStereoNet: Deep learning for active stereo systems
- How A.I. Helped Improve Crowd Counting in Hong Kong Protests
- Facebook’s image outage reveals how the company’s AI tags your photos
‘Oh wow, the AI just tagged my profile picture as basic’ - Amazon confirms it keeps your Alexa recordings basically forever
- California law banning bots from pretending to be real people without disclosure
California is the first state to try to reduce the power of bots by requiring that they reveal their âartificial identityâ when they are used to sell a product or influence a voter.
Blockchain and decentralization
- How blockchain takes us back to medieval times
- Deepfake revenge porn distribution now a crime in Virginia
- Lawmakers officially ask Facebook to put Libra cryptocurrency project on hold
- Bitcoin Rally Fuels Market in Crypto Derivatives
- SocialVault – Decentralized and encrypted storage for Facebook data
- Bitcoin’s energy consumption ‘equals that of Switzerland’
A new tool estimates how much electricity Bitcoin uses during the course of a year. - Will Bitcoin Make a Good Investment?
Woman computer scientist of the week
Sheeri Cabral, née Kritzer, is a MySQL community contributor. She was chosen as the first Oracle ACE Director for MySQL. She won the MySQL Community Advocate, Communicator and Facilitator award in 2007 and again in 2008 for her frequent blog posts, community work, and conference/user group presentations; this sparked a keynote presentation for the 2009 MySQL User Conference & Expo on «How to be a Community Superhero». She delivered another community keynote entitled, «Under New Management: Next Steps for the Community» at the same conference in 2010. In 2012, she won the MySQL Community Award again for her work founding and co-hosting the OurSQL podcast.
Cloud and architecture
- Cloudflare Network Performance Issues
- Oracle on why it thinks AWS winning the Pentagon’s $10bn Jedi contract stinks
- Cloudflare outage caused by bad software deploy
- Google Cloud networking issues in us-east1
- Cloudflare outage caused by bad software deploy (updated)
- How iOS 13 redraws your eyes so you’re looking at the camera
- Apple iCloud Experiencing Issues
- How I encrypt my data in the cloud
Development and languages
- Windows Terminal Preview Available
- Windows 3.x looks for 3 occurrences of “CON” 59 bytes apart
- Was OS/2 a viable alternative for daily DOS and Windows tasks?
- GNU Linear Programming Kit
- Microsoft explains the lack of Registry backups in Windows 10
- The Cost of JavaScript in 2019
- Windows keeps automatically adding EN-US keyboard layout
- Non-English-based programming languages
- Google Earth Ported to Browsers with WebAssembly
- Microsoft Issues Warning for 800M Windows 10 Users
- Gitlab.com Running Slow
- The New HAProxy Data Plane API: Two Examples of Programmatic Configuration
Use the HAProxy Data Plane API to manage your load balancer configuration dynamically using HTTP commands. - Senate passes bill to decrease grid digitization, move toward manual control
Lawmakers suggest that moving toward «retro» technology on some strategic points could decrease vulnerabilities, inspired in part by a 2015 blackout in Ukraine. - Scaling from 2k to 25,000 engineers on GitHub at Microsoft
- One Program Written in Python, Go, and Rust
- It’s Time for a Modern Synthesis Kernel
- A Kernel Engineer at Microsoft’s Answer to “What Do You Think about ReactOS?”
- Gitlab ends support for MySQL – here’s why
- Why did moving the mouse cursor cause Windows 95 to run more quickly?
I was playing Hypnospace Outlaw, a game about a retro-themed OS. This OS has a peculiar behavior that when loading a webpage, wiggling the mouse cursor will load the page faster.
That reminded me of
- Matlab vs. Julia vs. Python
- Jump to definition is available on GitHub (Beta)
- Python Ported to WebAssembly
- Genetically modified microbes alert the immune system to cancer in mice
Genetically modified microbes release “nanobodies” that alert the immune system to cancer in mice, scientists report. - Programmable bacteria induce durable tumor regression and antitumor immunity
Local release of an anti-CD47 nanobody from an engineered non-pathogenic Escherichia coli strain is safe and enhances activation of tumor-infiltrating T cells, slowing tumor growth in mice. - Algorithmic Governance and Political Legitimacy
- The Pike Programming Language
Quote of the week
Simplicity carried to the extreme becomes elegance.
— Jon Franklin
Enterprises
- PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services
- Microsoft’s eBook Apocalypse Shows the Dark Side of DRM
Microsoft has closed its ebook store—and will soon make its customers’ libraries disappear along with it. - Microsoft Tells FTC Repair Poses a Cyber Risk. It Doesn’t
- Porting Wine to amd64 on NetBSD, first evaluation report
- Why Google Duplex might make my design job redundant
- America needs to see Amazon’s tax returns
We don’t really know how much Amazon pays in taxes — it’s time to find out - Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence
Jeff Hawkins is the founder of Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience in 2002 and Numenta in 2005. In his 2004 book titled On Intelligence, and in his research before and after, he and his team have worked to reverse-engineer the neocortex and propose artificial intelligence architectures, approaches, and ideas that are inspired by the human brain. These ideas include Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) from 2004 and The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence from 2017. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where - Google internet balloon spinoff Loon still looking for its wings
- Tesla’s head of production is going to EV startup Lucid Motors
- Tesla has a lab trying to build its own battery cells
- ‘Football pitch’ of Amazon forest lost every minute
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Twitter* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)
- Tesla loses three vice presidents in a week
- Tesla Model 3 deliveries beat Wall Street targets, shares up 7%
- KKR has acquired Corel, reportedly for $1B
Only six months after snapping up virtualization specialist Parallels, Canadian software company Corel is itself getting acquired. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed with multiple sources that private equity giant KKR has closed a deal to buy the company from Vector Capital, which has owned some ⦠- How Google Pagespeed works
In this article, we uncover how PageSpeed calculates itâs critical speed score. Itâs no secret that speed has become a crucial factor in⦠- Google’s Jigsaw Was Supposed to Save the Internet
- Deep Dive: Nvidia Inference Research Chip Scales to 32 Chiplets
- Ebooks Purchased from Microsoft Deleted April 2019 as DRM Servers Shutdown
- Amazon can be held liable for third-party seller products: U.S. appeals court
A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled against Amazon.com Inc in a case that… - Microsoft Restores Deleted Technet and MSDN Blogs
- Conflict at Walmart threatens its ecommerce battle with Amazon
- The Thousand Brains Theory: Framework for Building Intelligent Machines
- Wikipedia co-founder slams Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter and the ‘appalling’ internet
- Cue – Validate and define text-based and dynamic configuration
Validate and define text-based and dynamic configuration – cuelang/cue - Amazon Seeks Permission to Launch 3k Internet Satellites
- Why did Intel kill off their modem program?
- Huawei staff CVs reveal alleged links to Chinese intelligence agencies
Other news
- The explosions, reenactments, and animals that made Vauxhall Gardens a hot spot
- CS Unplugged: Teaching material for CS using cards, string and crayons
- Lxss – Fun with the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL/LXSS)
- Baoshang Bank collapse threatens China’s economy and may trigger central bank
- Reducing Wasted Food at Home
Discusses the benefits of reducing food waste and its impact on the environment - Study finds that mindfulness is associated with reduced procrastination
- The Hotel Hackers Are Hiding in the Remote Control Curtains
- China’s banks face cash crunch fears after authorities seize lender
- What Does It Mean That Quantum Gravity Has No Symmetry?
- Microsoft developer reveals Linux is now more used on Azure than Windows Server
- Apple to Pay £3.8m Tax on £1.2bn UK Sales
- Antarctic sea ice – rapid decreases reduced to lowest area in 40 years
- Minnesota Will Pay Residents to Grow Bee-Friendly Lawns
Leaving lawns untreated and allowing flowering plants to grow can help support the endangered rusty patched bumblebee - ANU Quantum Random Number Server
- Renault’s driver UX is a disaster waiting to happen
- YouTube’s ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube
Youtube’s ban on «hacking techniques» threatens to shut down all of infosec Youtube - Ice cream truck makes Instagram ‘stars’ pay double
- Hacking Digital Calipers
A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It’s the all-in-one workspace for you and your team - Partnering with publishers for a better journalism experience
- Lager: Unidirectional data-flow for C++ inspired by Redux and Elm
- New Report/Dataset: Just 10% of Workers Receive Nearly Half of Global Pay
- Japan’s 7-Eleven payment app gives easy access to scammers
- Is this Paypal experience customary?
Ask HN: Is this Paypal experience customary? GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets. - Evolution of the x86 context switch in Linux
- Learn you a Lisp in 0 minutes
ðââï¸Your new best friend built with an artificial neural network – olivia-ai/olivia
âNo one knows what is true anymore.â From threats to everyday citizens to organized crime and national security issues, deepfakes could affect every level of society. The U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee held an open hearing to discuss possible countermeasures with leaders in law, foreign policy, and AI development.
Students who used longhand remembered more and had a deeper understanding of the material
Learn about synthesizers via Abletonâs interactive website. Play with a synth in your browser and learn to use the various parts of a synth to make your own sounds.
IBM researchers published details of a new AI model that can predict the development of malignant breast cancer at rates comparable to human radiologists.
A huge acceleration in the use of robots will affect jobs around the world, Oxford Economics says.
A general-purpose probabilistic programming system with programmable inference – probcomp/Gen
Take away my toolbox and ask me to be a carpenter. This is what Google and Apple are asking of Iranâs budding entrepreneurship sector by barring access to essential platforms and software.
Meaningful control of data in distributed systems. – project-oak/oak
For a small group of bitcoin enthusiasts, the internet is a vulnerability. They’re using satellites, ham radios, and mesh networks to stay current on the cryptocurrency.
A distributed database-system implementing an entity-attribute-value data-model that is time-aware, accumulative, and atomically consistent – Workiva/eva
Earlier this month I met with an enterprise-scale AWS customer. They told me that they are planning to go all-in on AWS, and want to benefit from all that we have learned about setting up and running AWS at scale. In addition to setting up a Cloud Center of Excellence, they want to set up [â¦]
Today we are introducing Service Quotas, a new AWS feature which enables you to view and manage your quotas, also known as limits, from a central location via the AWS console, API or the CLI. Service Quotas is a central way to find and manage service quotas, an easier way to request and track quota increases, [â¦]
Googleâs private Equiano subsea cable will improve connectivity, resilience and latency for the people who live and work in Africa.
Using ARIMA model, you can forecast a time series using the series past values. In this post, we build an optimal ARIMA model from scratch and extend it to Seasonal ARIMA (SARIMA) and SARIMAX modelsâ¦
Teaching-focused digital circuit simulator. Contribute to tilk/digitaljs development by creating an account on GitHub.
Ever since the demise of Google+, many developers have expressed a desire to have a service that would provide a way to create and manage…
With Firefox Preview, weâre combining the best of what our lightweight Focus application and our current mobile browsers have to offer to create a best in class mobile experience. The new application is powered by Firefox’s own mobile browser engine — GeckoView — the same high-performance, feature enabling motor that fuels our Focus app.
Iâm running in to the same issue. After npm install -g npm@latest ⦠any subsequent attempts to re-install npm (downgrade) will fail [2019-06-27T18:17:33.971Z] + npm install -g npm@latest [2019-06-27T18:17:38.093Z] npm ERR! path /var/lib/jenkins/tools/jenkins.plugins.nodejs.tools.NodeJSInstallation/NodeJS-LTS/lib/node_modules/npm [2019-06-27T18:17:38.093Z] npm ERR! code EISGIT [2019-06-27T18:17:38.093Z] npm ERR! git /var/lib/jenkins/tools/jenkins.plugins.nodejs.tools.NodeJSInstallation/NodeJ…
A general-purpose probabilistic programming system with programmable inference – probcomp/Gen
A tech columnist’s latest privacy experiment found Google Chrome ushered more than 11,000 tracker cookies into our browser â in a single week.
Popular novels, technical tomes and self-published books are pirated and sold on Amazon. That may actually be helping the company extend its grip on the book business.
The latest AI algorithms are probing the evolution of galaxies, calculating quantum wave functions, discovering new chemical compounds and more. Is there anything that scientists do that canât be automated?
The latest version of the bot detector reCaptcha is invisible to users and has spread to more than 650,000 websites. Itâs great for securityâbut not so great for your privacy.
Advanced Micro Devices revived its fortunes when it decided to help Chinese partners develop computer-chip technology. The deal sparked a prolonged battle with Washington over national security.
The Trump administration’s decision to charge Julian Assange with 17 counts of violating the Espionage Act has generated significant controversy. One legal expert described it as “crossing a “constitutional Rubicon.” CPJ warned that the indictment could be the opening salvo in a broader attack on First Amendment journalistic protections….
Following an audit by the U.S. Office of the Inspector General, it has been confirmed that the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) network, part of NASA, has been hacked and the Johnson Space Center has yet to restore all communications data because of continuing concernsâ¦
Security researchers say they have uncovered a massive espionage campaign involving the theft of call records from hacked cell network providers to conduct targeted surveillance on individuals of interest. The hackers have systematically broken in to more than 10 cell networks around the world to dâ¦
Hacked by suspected Chinese cyber spies five times from 2014 to 2017, security s…
Study of thousands of players shows a simple online game works like a ‘vaccine’, increasing skepticism of fake news by giving people a âweak doseâ of the methods behind disinformation. 
Hackers working for Western intelligence agencies broke into Russian internet se…
The source for the Linux kernel used in Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) – microsoft/WSL2-Linux-Kernel
The Calibra wallet app is built on blockchain technology to enable people to move Libra, a borderless cryptocurrency, freely, securely and affordably.
Libraâs mission is to enable a simple global currency and financial infrastructure that empowers billions of people. – libra/libra
Facebook says its âstablecoin,â will empower billions and underpin a stunningly ambitious global economy. And it promises to keep its hands off your transactional data.
Despite skepticism and concern about Facebook’s reach, the company envisions an alternative financial system based on a new cryptocurrency called Libra.
Permafrost at outposts in the Canadian Arctic is thawing 70 years earlier than p…
The right to repair battle trudges on despite a record amount of legislative proposals.
What bugs cause production cloud incidents? Liu et al., HotOS’19 Last time out we looked at SLOs for cloud platforms, today we’re looking at what causes them to be broken! This is a stuâ¦
JavaScript gives us a built-in language feature for handling exceptions: tryâ¦catch statements. And they’re better than littering our code with if-statements. But they can be problematic. And they are not the only way to handle errors. In this article, weâll take a look at using the âEither monadâ as an alternative to tryâ¦catch.
In revision r237547 we introduced a new bytecode format for JavaScriptCore (JSC).
First they hijacked my T-Mobile service, then they stole my Google and Twitter accounts and charged my bank with a $25,000 Bitcoin purchase. I’m stuck in my own personal Black Mirror episode. Why will no one help me?
Following news from earlier this month that FedEx was dumping Amazon from its air cargo service, Amazon this morning announced the expansion of its own air delivery network, Amazon Air. The retailer says it’s leasing an additional 15 Boeing 737-800 cargo aircraft from partner GE Capital Aviatâ¦
These results once again highlight why AMD is chipping away at Intel’s market share both in the consumer as well as the server market.
Google Maps is filled with false business addresses created by firms pretending to be nearby. Some are fibbing to get your business. Others are posted by predators seeing what they can take.
The Regulus Cyber researchers found that spoofing attacks on the Tesla GNSS (GPS) receiver could easily be carried out wirelessly and remotely, resulting in controlling the car’s navigation decisions.
When you’re a blonde-haired, blue-eyed woman named LaKiesha, life can get complicated. This Ohio woman with a name that blurs racial boundaries says people often treat her as an imposter.
I was thinking recently that here in the West we take our video game history largely for granted. Look back at the Golden Age of video games, and it’s apparent that we had it pretty good Râ¦
OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 final release is out now! Exciting news! Shortly after the release candidate we are very proud to introduce you the fruit of so much work, some visible and much more behind…
The place is the historic lecture theater of the Royal Institution in London. The date is the 4th of June 1903, and the inventor, Guglielmo Marconi, is about to demonstrate his new wireless system,â¦
Security Bulletins that relate to Netflix Open Source – Netflix/security-bulletins
A technical problem at the company we use to connect to Faster Payments caused issues with bank transfers. To fix it, we’re bringing everything in-house instead.
Using Ramroot, we can run Arch Linux entirely from RAM! Yes, you read right. It loads the entire root filesystem into RAM at boot.
Whether a child finishes first or last will no longer be indicated in primary and secondary school report books from next year in Singapore, – a move
Networks that can already (sort of) perform tasks with random weights.
America is a hideously unequal place with a large propertyless underclass.
not there yet
Flying a drone while drunk is as bad as drink-driving say Japanese politicians who backed the law.
This post discusses six common level design patterns present in 2D videogames that we found from analyzing over thirty 2D games.
Get no-protocol URLs & no-domain URIs & Emails etc. in a string and parse them ! – Andrew-Kang-G/pattern-dreamer
417 votes and 146 comments so far on Reddit
GrapheneOS is a security and privacy focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.
At @jsconfeu, @ceejbot announced a new, fully-open federated package manager and package registry. Here’s the full (unfragmented) thread.
:octocat: GitHub Repository Card for Every Web Site – nwtgck/gh-card
Contribute to matloff/R-vs.-Python-for-Data-Science development by creating an account on GitHub.
An Observable notebook by Observable.
Most of the ills traced to these companies are a direct consequence of their no-cost business models.
The retired senator Mike Gravel gave two young fans his Twitter password and permission to campaign in his name. It might be a stunt — or the future of politics.
Microsoft Flight Simulator has been announced at the Xbox E3 conference.
Our statistical study revealed no evidence of ideological bias in the search engine’s news tab
Amazon’s surprising decision to shutter its restaurant delivery business in the U.S. is a rare retreat from the e-commerce behemoth. The company was battling competitors such as Uber, Grubhub, and DoorDash in a fierce food delivery market. The move comes less than a month after Amazon led a $575 million funding round for Deliveroo, a U.K.-based food delivery company.
âWell this issue (bug?) is going to cause a sh*t storm… ð
According to AMD’s first-party benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 3950X is faster than Intel’s i9-9960X, but as per a new Geekbench score, the 7nm AMD flagship might be even more powerful
Bird is acquiring electric scooter and moped startup Scoot, confirming TechCrunch’s previous report that the two companies were in acquisition talks. “We are thrilled to welcome Scoot to the Bird ecosystem and look forward to working with the Scoot team as we further scale our complemenâ¦
Owning nothing is now a luxury, thanks to a number of subscription start-ups.
A walkthrough for backing up a Linux server to an external storage provider like Amazon S3 automatically.
A Border Patrol database of traveler photos and license plate images was «compromised by a malicious cyber-attack.»
PingCAP training courses. Contribute to pingcap/talent-plan development by creating an account on GitHub.
Radiohead has decided to sell some of its unreleased recording materials after a hacker stole them and threatened to leak them in an extortion scheme.
You can now VLOOKUP the SUMPRODUCT of the Times’ training efforts. It’s SORT of a TREND; even AVERAGE journalists can CONVERT data skills TO_DOLLARS.
Science tells us the human body can only survive for a few minutes without oxygen. But some people are defying this accepted truth.
Which is better: Random Forest or Neural Network? This is a common question, with a very easy answer: it depends 🙂 I will try to show you when it is good to use Random Forest and when to use Neural Network.
In a startling intervention that seeks to limit the emerging litigation analytics and prediction sector, the French Government has banned the publication of statistical information about judgesRâ¦
IntelliCode gives Visual Studio the power of artificial intelligence. Enabling this in Visual Studio is super easy. Here’s how!
What if sleep were considered a continuous infusion of a medication that helped patients heal faster?
How Instacart uses Machine Learning to spot lost demand in its fulfillment chain
The change comes after ProPublica highlighted the deceptive marketing practices of Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, and other major tax prep companies.
The company is using blockchain to shake up the market for used aircraft components, making it easier to check the certification and origin of a part and speeding up transactions.
Facebook is finally ready to reveal details about its cryptocurrency codenamed Libra. It’s currently scheduled for a June 18th release of a white paper explaining its cryptocurrency’s basics, according to a source who says multiple investors briefed on the project by Facebook were told â¦
In South Africa, a right-wing enclave turned to blockchain to cut themselves off from the black-majority state.
Join me as I test-drive the smallest ever Kubernetes distribution k3s. Find out how this runs on Raspberry Pi compared to kubeadm with Docker.
The unbundling of Excel is just as important as the unbundling of Craigslist. Here’s what you need to know about the Excel Economy and how SaaS companies can take advantage of different verticals and use cases that Excel has dominated.
A compiler is just a part of Emscripten. What if we stripped away all the bells and whistles and used just the compiler?
Audrey Tang prefers precise language. During an interview, Taiwan’s minister without portfolio – Tang’s name card simply says “digital minister” – makes a swift correction when we mention the term “fake news.” The preferred term is “disinformation” because, Tang says, it has a legal definition in Taiwan: “That is…
Parsing, analyzing, and comparing source code across many languages – github/semantic
Digital Ocean recently locked out a small startup. I’m scared I could be hit by a faulty abuse algorithm and a broken customer service process too.
If Android becomes more fragmented, Google thinks everybody loses
«More than just a rewrite of Windows Explorer». Contribute to duke7553/files-uwp development by creating an account on GitHub.
The tech giant has figured out a way to get millions of its smart speakers into homes without consumers lifting a finger, as property managers bring in Alexa to manage tenants.
Cloud infrastructure providers — such as Amazon — continue to pose an existential threat to the future of open source.
Support for scrutiny of the tech giants is coming from across the political spectrum. For Google and Amazon, any investigations would be a major distraction, or worse.
Google has confirmed plans to restrict ad blockers, despite complaints. Hereâs what you need to know
Uber executives signaled that they’ll let fares rise to stem operating losses.
With Chargeback Protection, Stripe will cover both the disputed amount and any dispute feesâno evidence submission required.
The perils of a cloud-connected smart home.
A new deal between the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission will see U.S. regulators divide and conquer as they expand their oversight of Apple, Alphabet, Amazon and Facebook, according to multiple reports. New details have emerged of an agreement between the two U.S. regulators tâ¦
It almost certainly doesn’t involve Amazon employees selecting products they think are the best.
Display, extract, and manipulate PSP firmware inside UEFI images – cwerling/psptool
Google to acquire Looker, a unified platform for business intelligence, data applications, and embedded analytics.
Twitter is rejecting posts with JSFiddle URL inside. If a URL shortener is used the unsafe page warning is displayed[1] What is causing that?[2] [1] [2] We've tried to contact Twitter, but no a…
by Christian Jarrett British Psychology Society edited by O Society May 26, 2019 In the era of social media and rolling news thereâs a constant pressure to be in the know, always on hand with an apâ¦
In one of the first empirical studies of the impacts of behaviorally targeted advertising on online publishers’ revenue, researchers at three universities suggest publishers only get about 4% more revenue for an ad impression that has a cookie enabled than for one that doesn’t.
The philosophy of Stoicism can help people reach a level of clear-headed thinking, says cognitive behavioral psychotherapist Donald Robertson.
The array reduce method is really powerful. But people often run into trouble as soon as they step beyond the basic examples. Simple things like addition and multiplication are fine. But as soon as you try it with something more complicated, it breaks. Using it with anything other than numbers starts to get really confusing. I think this is because the examples in most tutorials mask some of what’s going on. This article looks at some of the more interesting things you can do with .reduce() that better show how it works.
The ultimate guide on DDoS protection with IPtables including the most effective anti-DDoS rules. Learn how to protect your Linux server with this in-depth research that doesn’t only cover IPtables rules, but also kernel settings to make your server resilient against small DDoS and DoS attacks.
Findings challenge a popular belief that curiosity in general is the prime driver of learning
Articles in this series Part I. Iterative Servers Part II. Forking Servers Part III. Pre-forking Servers Part IV. Threaded Servers Part V. Pre-threaded Servers Part VI: poll-based server Part VII: epoll-based server Web apps are the staple of consumers and enterprises. Among the many existing protocols that are used to move and make sense of …
Active learning allows us to be smart about picking the right set of datapoints for which to create labels. Done properly, this approach results in models th…
Reports suggest that the latest casualty in the ever-expanding trade war between China and the United States could be Microsoft Windows as the Chinese prepare to drop the operating system like a hot brick…
Statistical Rethinking course at MPI-EVA from Dec 2018 through Feb 2019 – rmcelreath/statrethinking_winter2019
[This is a slightly edited repost of an essay from my old LiveJournal] A friend recently complained about how many people lack the basic skill of believing arguments. That is, if you have a valid aâ¦
A few things I strongly believed when I was a junior developer which turned out to be wrong.
Local governments are facing a growing threat of cyberattacks and escalating ransom demands, as an attack in Baltimore has crippled thousands of computers for a month.
Dependabot, a bot that upgrades software dependencies, was recently acquired by GitHub and is now offered free of charge. We tried it out and were thrilled.
A new CCFC investigation has revealed deeply troubling findings about Amazonâs Echo Dot Kids, including that Amazon keeps childrenâs data even after parents try to delete it. Weâre calling on the FTC 
Arm, the company that designs the basic chip architecture for most of the world’s smartphones, today announced the launch of its next suite of designs for premium phones. It’ll be a while before you’ll see the first phones that use chips based on this design, but typically we see â¦
Chinese developers fear the fallout from the tech war will cost them access to GitHub
âRecycling is NOT good for the world. It is bad for the environment, it is bad for our health, and it is bad for our economy. Iâm not kidding. Recycling is 
The plainly wrong behavior of a ubiquitous Python library echoes a British astronomical report from 1884.
Simple image compression full website code written in node, react and next.js framework. Easy to deploy as a microservice. – eashish93/imgsquash
Round, flat, designer-friendly pseudo-3D engine for canvas and SVG
Search is a deceptively complex field, where competence is hard-won through training, practice, and experience. In that vein dear friends, I’ve exhumed the …
PugSQL is a Python library for interacting with your database the way the gods intended.
âHow @DigitalOcean just killed our company @raisupcom. A long thread for a very sad story.â
It seems that Twitter has lost control of its advertising system. This blog post will show you why it is dangerous to click on any Twitter advertising. Twitter ads have always been a bit crap, but â¦
AMD CEO Lisa Su gave the Computex keynote in Taipei today, the first time the company has been invited to do so (the event officially starts tomorrow). During the presentation, AMD unveiled news about its chips and graphics processors that will increase pressure on competitors Intel and Nvidia, botâ¦
The tech company has long used contractors, but some employees worry that a growing reliance on them represents a shifting, less admirable work culture.
Users of Microsoft’s new Chromium-based Edge browser are now forced to use Chrome for the modern YouTube experience.
Ballot to ban sales of Rekognition system to police attracted less than 3% of investors’ votes.
In a response to negative feedback, Google shared that Chrome’s current ad blocking capabilities for extensions will soon be restricted to enterprise users.
Alphabet Inc’s Google on Wednesday banned apps on its app store that facili…
Description This issue is a heads-up on the proposed Chrome extension manifest version 3, which will have a significant impact on ad-blockers. There is a tracking bug at: https://bugs.chromium.org/…
Amazon.com Inc is interested in buying prepaid cellphone wireless service Boost …
The ‘copyright case of the decade’ is a $9 billion copyright infringement suit Oracle filed against the search giant, Google, nearly 10 years ago. Google is asking for the Supreme Court to hear the case. Will it happen?
The Justice Department is gearing up for an antitrust investigation of Alphabet Inc.’s Google, a move that could present a major new layer of regulatory scrutiny for the search giant.
A former People’s Liberation Army journalist defied a political taboo to describe the bloody crackdown in Beijing and urge a national reckoning.
A collection of my personal knowledge, and tools to manage it. – cf020031308/cf020031308.github.io
In early 2003, Intel launched the new Pentium 4 “HT” processor. This processor was clocked at 3 GHz and had “Hyper-Threading” Technology.
For Elisabetta Matsumoto, knot theory is knit theory.
Tanker client-side encryption SDK for JavaScript. Contribute to TankerHQ/sdk-js development by creating an account on GitHub.
IntroductionâMake the Leap from JavaScript to PureScriptâ takes some of the most popular functional programming (FP) abstractions in JavaScript and demonstrates how to implement them in PureScript. I borrowed the series outline and JavaScript code samples with permis…
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Microsoft rescued GitHub—and it’s back the tools developers always wanted, along with a healthier open source community.
Tips for acquiring Git super powers.
Yet another Lua implementation in pure JavaScript. – hsiaosiyuan0/jlua
Amazon is taking a slice of Europe’s food delivery market after the U.S. e-commerce giant led a $575 million investment in Deliveroo . First reported by Sky yesterday, the Series G round was confirmed in an early U.K. morning announcement from Deliveroo, which said that existing backers, inclâ¦
Canada is not Google’s lab rat, say those protesting against plans to build a smart city in Toronto.
As entertainment and shopping moves online, states and cities are looking to the digital world for potential revenue
Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk told employees on Thursday that he w…
Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk told employees on Thursday that he w…
Alphabet Inc’s Google has suspended business with Huawei that requires the …
Huawei now finds itself in a similar situation to that of rival ZTE last year, which faced a nearly 3-month ban from doing business with US companies.
by Jean-Louis Gassée
Amazon dominates the top ranking positions of Google for tens of thousands of ecommerce queries, but there are plenty of products in newer categories where Amazon has not yet achieved SEO supremacy.
Last month, we announced the first preview builds of the next version of Microsoft Edge for Windows 10. Today, we are pleased to announce the availability of the Microsoft Edge Canary channel for mâ¦
Apple reportedly offered to buy Tesla at around $240 per share back in 2013. The bid from six years ago is now being reported as Tesla’s share price has dipped under the price Apple was allegedly willing to pay. Today, Craig Irwin, senior research analyst at Roth Capital Partners, went on CNBC and talked about …
ZetaSQL – Analyzer Framework for SQL. Contribute to google/zetasql development by creating an account on GitHub.
Mobile phone retailers in some Asian countries are refusing to accept Huawei dev…
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs.
Amazon.com Inc said shareholders rejected proposals to curb and audit its facial…
Today, Irelandâs Data Protection Commission (DPC) has announced a major GDPR probe into âsuspected infringementâ by Googleâs DoubleClick/Authorized Buyers advertising business. The probe was triggered by a formal complaint from Dr Johnny Ryan, Chief Policy Officer at Brave, the private web browser.
Safari tech ready to be ignored by online ad giants like all other privacy proposals
The government will switch the operating system of its computers from Windows to Linux, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety said Thursday.The Interior Ministry said the ministry will be test-running Linux on its PCs, and if no security issues arise, Linux systems will be introduced more widely within the government. (Yonhap)The decision comes amid concerns about the cost of continuing to maintain Windows, as Micr…
Q&A website Stack Overflow has confirmed via its platform that it experienced a security breach over the weekend, but says hackers didn’t access user data.
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Morehouse College seniors got a surprise Sunday when billionaire investor Robert F. Smith announced during his commencement speech that he would pay off the student loan debt for the historically black college’s graduating class. 
To make the workplace safe AND equal, we need more men to mentor and sponsor women.
Here’s how that might save science.
What started as a summertime hobby seven years ago quickly grew into an awesome Linux distribution with an even more awesome community around it.
The bank’s acknowledgment that faulty software had been used to screen transactions for suspicious activity came a day before executives prepared to face restive investors at an annual meeting.
Sometimes the discussion around extended validation certificates (EV) feels a little like flogging a dead horse. In fact, it was only September that I proposed EV certificates are already dead for all sorts of good reasons that have only been reinforced since that time. Yet somehow, the discussion does seem
ZFS on Linux – the official OpenZFS implementation for Linux. – zfsonlinux/zfs
Perceptics confirms intrusion and theft, stays quiet on details
The high cost of low-level crime in the City by the Bay