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Inference of Regular Expressions for Text Extraction from Examples A large class of entity extraction tasks from text that is either semistructured or fully unstructured may be addressed by regular expressions, because in many practical cases the relevant…
23 May 2016Use Your Loaf
I read a story this week about the Uber App knowing when your phone is in power saving mode. Uber found people more likely to pay higher rates when their phone is about to die. The company claims they do not use the data to set prices but it got me…
23 May 2016Hacker News
Virtual machines storage performance is a hot topic – after all, one of the main problem when virtualizing many OS instances is to correctly size the I/O subsystem, both in term of space and speed. Of course performance is not the only thing to consider:…
22 May 2016Hacker News
This repository is an attempt to answer the age old interview question "What happens when you type google.com into your browser's address box and press enter?" Except instead of the usual story, we're going to try to answer this question in as much…
20 May 2016Hacker News
The single biggest obstacle of understanding a piece of code is a lot of variables. Variables introduce state, which in turn increase complexity exponentially. Every single bit of variable information makes reasoning and understanding the code harder. A…
17 May 2016Hacker News
It started with a Facebook post from my brother-in-law: “Okay Facebook, I need your help. How do you deal with A$$hole’s that live on your street and constantly speed (75 in a 25) up and down the road? I’ve called the sheriff and they are under manned.…
17 May 2016Hacker News
Push is currently looking for co-maintainers of the repo. The guy who originally made this library, Tyler Nickerson, while still visiting this repo from time to time, is busy trying to work on his company Linguistic right now. As a result, he may not have…
17 May 2016Hacker News
16 May 2016Google Open Source Blog
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13 May 2016Apple World Today
The Instagram app has been begging for a redesign for quite some time, and today the photoblogging app showed up with an update featuring a new app icon and a UI makeover. The following video provides a fun (but probably quite fictional) look at the…
11 May 2016