The Adaptive Radix Tree: ARTful Indexing for Main-Memory Databases

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Tries are an unloved third data structure for
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The collapse of a shadow bank has sparked fear and financial contagion

Criticism of Pichai came from Facebook’s former security chief and a Google software engineer.

We have built an efficient and persistent log structured merge (LSM) tree based key-value store, purely in Go language. It is based upon WiscKey paper included in USENIX FAST 2016.

A story about quality from the development of the Multics operating system.

Jeremy Currier and Seth Stephens should be the cybersecurity workers of tomorrow. Instead, they’re at the center of a possible criminal investigation.

From the archives: They don't make them like they used to.

A thread on Reddit has hundreds of comments from users complaining about Apple's prices for iCloud storage, dongles, and other examples of added costs.

Since we launched our most recent campaign for Traveler on Indiegogo a lot of people have asked me why we chose Indiegogo (IGG) instead of Kickstarter (KS). I thought I would detail the reasons we had for making the choice we did and some of the considerations…

Learn how to design awesome UIs by yourself using specific tactics explained from a developer's point-of-view.

A Google Brain engineer explains how to land a job in ML engineering that makes AI safe, aligned and robust.

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It's yet another sign of declining product quality at Apple. The good news? Apple will fix the issues for free.

Techies, Devs, Boffins and Geeks.

Switching fully to card and app payments would put access to our money in the hands of private organizations for the first time in history.