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Growing a business is hard and growing the engineering team to support that is arguably harder, but doing both of those without a stable infrastructure is basically impossible. Particularly for high growth businesses, where every engineer must be empowered…
26 January 2016Hacker News
UPDATED TO CLARIFY HOW TO MANAGE PUSH NOTIFICATIONS Firefox for Windows, Mac and Linux now lets you choose to receive push notifications from websites if you give them permission. This is similar to Web notifications, except now you can receive…
26 January 2016Hacker News
Disclaimer: This is a very long piece, much longer than I would normally write on any subject. I have edited it back but on sending it to friends to read they agreed that there was no one bit that should be cut. I hope that you feel the same. If there’s…
25 January 2016Hacker News
The SDK for Jetpac's iOS, Android, Linux, and OS X Deep Belief image recognition framework. This is a framework implementing the convolutional neural network architecture described by Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever, and Geoffrey Hinton. The processing…
25 January 2016Hacker News
The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting here attracts a high-flying set of attendees. This year, Quartz endeavored to discover just how high-flying these Davos men and women are by tracking private helicopter travel in and out of the Alpine town during…
25 January 2016Hacker News
I've been using React.js for about 6 months now. In the grand scheme of things that's not very long at all, but in the ever-churning world of JavaScript frameworks, that just about qualifies you as a bearded elder! I've helped out a few people lately with…
24 January 2016Hacker News
I really like to play CTFs (hacking games), because I always learn something new. But sometimes it's also fun to create a challenge yourself. A couple of days ago a nice NodeJS issue surfaced on my twitter feed and because I didn't have a lot of experience…
24 January 2016Hacker News
23 January 2016Hacker News
Two days ago El Capitan 10.11.3 was released together with security updates for Yosemite and Mavericks. The bulletin available here describes nine security issues, most of them related to kernel or IOKit drivers. The last security issue is about a memory…
23 January 2016Hacker News
It is big. It is cold. It is secure. And now it is empty, because you have gone all-in to the AWS Cloud. So, what do you do with your data center? Once the pride and joy of your IT staff, it is now a stark, expensive reminder that the world has changed. …
22 January 2016