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Deadlines, lies and videotape: The tale of a gRPC bug
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Hostedgraphite
Deadlines, lies and videotape: The tale of a gRPC bug
If you use gRPC in your services, you’ll want to make sure you set a reasonable deadline for your RPC calls, upgrading to gRPC 1.16 as soon as possible is highly recommended. You should also enable client-side keepalive, and adjust the kernel setting for…
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Swift Intermediate Language Ownership Model Proposal
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Swift Forums
SIL Ownership Model Proposal (Refreshed)
This is a refreshed proposal for the SIL ownership model that attempts to take what is currently in tree and rephrase the concepts into higher level concepts that are not based on the needs of the internal implementation details of the SIL ownership verifier.…
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A cure for cancer: how to kill a killer
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A cure for cancer: how to kill a killer
Revolutionary work on the body’s immune system and a host of new drug trials mean that beating cancer may be achievable
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What if the Placebo Effect isn't a trick?
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What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick?
New research is zeroing in on a biochemical basis for the placebo effect — possibly opening a Pandora’s box for Western medicine.
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Facial recognition system risks 'chilling effect' on freedoms, rights groups say
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the Guardian
Facial image matching system risks 'chilling effect' on freedoms, rights groups say
System dubbed ‘the capability’ processes Australians’ information whether they are crime suspects or not
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“A Horrifically Bad Idea”: Smartphone Voting Is Coming
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Vanity Fair
“A Horrifically Bad Idea”: Smartphone Voting Is Coming, Just in Time for the Midterms
A Boston-based start-up promises to let West Virginians vote via app. Critics call it “the Theranos of voting.”
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Show HN: Predict how well people will react to your writing
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IBM pays $34B for a Red Hat that was founded by a guy working in a closet
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CNBC
Red Hat's co-founder was unemployed and working in a closet when he started the company IBM is buying for $34 billion
"It's, no question, an out of body experience."
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The Irresistible Urge to Build Cities from Scratch
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Bloomberg
The Irresistible Urge to Build Cities From Scratch
Master-planned cities are all the rage in the developing world. Reality may get in the way of their ambitions.
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Getting ‘screeched in’ in Newfoundland
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Bbc
A strange welcome in Canada
Getting ‘screeched in’, which turns a visitor into an honorary Newfoundlander, involves doing jigs with an ugly stick, kissing a codfish and a shot or two of rum.
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How to implement a multi-CDN strategy
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Streamroot Blog
How to implement a multi-CDN strategy: everything you need to know
Learn how to plan and implement a multi-CDN strategy, and how to choose the best solution for your video delivery needs. This guide discusses the business and quality goals to take into consideration, the types of CDN switchers out there and how to get the…
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Ask HN: What are some hacks of real founders who did things that don't scale?
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The Strong Free Will Theorem (2009) [pdf]
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Ads just work, no matter what you think
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Hackernoon
Ads just work, no matter what you think.
We’re surrounded by advertising. Every single day, no matter where we are,<strong> </strong>thousands of auditive & visual stimuli are<strong> force-fed to our brains</strong>.
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AT&T to cut off some customers' service in piracy crackdown
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Axios
Scoop: AT&T to cut off some customers' service in piracy crackdown
The copyright infringers are often illegally pirating hundreds of hours of stolen content.
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Owl: Parser generator for visibly pushdown languages
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GitHub
GitHub - ianh/owl: A parser generator for visibly pushdown languages.
A parser generator for visibly pushdown languages. - ianh/owl
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The Potentiometer Handbook (1975) [pdf]
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We Should Teach Media Literacy in Elementary School
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Scientific American Blog Network
We Should Teach Media Literacy in Elementary School
Helping children distinguish fake from real news will give them a lifelong benefit
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Why There Will Never Be Another RedHat: The Economics of Open Source (2014)
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TechCrunch
Why There Will Never Be Another RedHat: The Economics Of Open Source
Open source software powers the world’s technology. In the past decade, there has been an inexorable adoption of open source in most aspects of computing. Without open source, Facebook, Google, Amazon, and nearly every other modern technology company would…
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How Did Insect Metamorphosis Evolve? (2012)
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Scientific American
How Did Insect Metamorphosis Evolve?
The evolution of metamorphosis remains somewhat mysterious, but biologists have gathered enough evidence to plausibly explain its origins
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Zulip 1.9: Open source, on-prem Slack alternative
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The Zulip Blog
Zulip 1.9: Open source team chat
We're excited to announce the release of Zulip Server 1.9, containing hundreds of new features and bug fixes. Especially relevant for users migrating from the recently discontinued HipChat is our new HipChat data import tool. img.image-wide-only { float:…
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