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Whole Foods Will Cut Health-Care Benefits for Nearly 2k Employees
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Grub Street
Whole Foods Will Cut Health Care for Nearly 2,000 Employees
The Amazon-owned company will no longer provide benefits for employees who work less than 30 hours per week.
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AgileFall – When Waterfall Sneaks Back into Agile
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Steve Blank
Steve Blank AgileFall – When Waterfall Sneaks Back Into Agile
This article previously appeared in the Harvard Business Review AgileFall is an ironic term for program management where you try to be agile and lean, but you keep using waterfall development techn…
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New Query Language for Graph Databases to Become International Standard
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Neo4j Graph Data Platform
New Query Language for Graph Databases to Become International Standard
Neo4j Backs Launch of GQL Project: First New ISO Database Language Since SQL SAN MATEO, Calif. – September 17, 2019 – Neo4j, the leader in graph databases, announced today that the international committees that develop the SQL standard have voted… Read more →
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Egypt’S 1.8 Gigawatt Benban Solar Park Nears Completion
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IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News
Egypt’s Massive 1.8-Gigawatt Benban Solar Park Nears Completion
Sun-soaked Egypt’s first utility-scale PV power plant—one of the world’s largest solar installations—is coming online
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Announcing Yugabyte DB 2.0 GA: Jepsen Tested, High-Performance Distributed SQL
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Yugabyte
Announcing the General Availability of YugabyteDB 2.0
YugabyteDB 2.0 released. Read to learn about production-ready YSQL, performance benchmarks, Jepsen results, and Beta feature previews
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KaiOS
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A Better Lesson
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Microsoft AirSim: open-source simulator for autonomous vehicles
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GitHub
GitHub - microsoft/AirSim: Open source simulator for autonomous vehicles built on Unreal Engine / Unity, from Microsoft AI & Research
Open source simulator for autonomous vehicles built on Unreal Engine / Unity, from Microsoft AI & Research - microsoft/AirSim
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Banks, Arbitrary Password Restrictions and Why They Don't Matter
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Troy Hunt
Banks, Arbitrary Password Restrictions and Why They Don't Matter
Allow me to be controversial for a moment: arbitrary password restrictions on banks such as short max lengths and disallowed characters don't matter. Also, allow me to argue with myself for a moment: banks shouldn't have these restrictions in place anyway.
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In JavaScript, it's faster to parse JSON than to initialize the Object directly
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v8.dev
The cost of JavaScript in 2019 · V8
The dominant costs of processing JavaScript are download and CPU execution time.
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GoCardless launches US debit payments solution
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TechCrunch
GoCardless launches US debit payments solution and opens San Francisco office
GoCardless, the London fintech that aims to become the one-stop shop globally for businesses that want to let customers pay via recurring bank payments, has launched a U.S. debit solution. The company has also opened an office across the pond in San Francisco’s…
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The American Brain
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Wait But Why
The American Brain
One neuron’s take on how 300 million people can think as one.
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IBM will soon launch a 53-qubit quantum computer
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TechCrunch
IBM will soon launch a 53-qubit quantum computer
IBM continues to push its quantum computing efforts forward and today announced that it will soon make a 53-qubit quantum computer available to clients of its IBM Q Network. The new system, which is scheduled to go online in the middle of next month, will…
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Millions of Americans’ Medical Images and Data Are Available on the Internet
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ProPublica
Millions of Americans’ Medical Images and Data Are Available on the Internet. Anyone Can Take a Peek.
Hundreds of computer servers worldwide that store patient X-rays and MRIs are so insecure that anyone with a web browser or a few lines of computer code can view patient records. One expert warned about it for years.
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How Long Before These Salmon Are Gone? ‘Maybe 20 Years’
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Nytimes
How Long Before These Salmon Are Gone? ‘Maybe 20 Years’
Warming waters and a series of dams are making the grueling migration of the Chinook salmon even more deadly — and threatening dozens of other species.
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Show HN: I made a jobs board for developers without degrees
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How we hacked Blackboard and changed our grades (2018)
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How we hacked Blackboard and changed our grades
How we hacked Blackboard and changed our grades | BustByte
A technical walk-through of how we hacked Blackboard and changed our grades.
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India bans e-cigarettes, citing youth health concerns
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TechCrunch
India bans e-cigarettes citing youth health concerns
India’s government has announced an immediate ban on e-cigarettes — citing youth-focused public health concerns. In a news statement following a cabinet meeting today, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the ban covers production, manufacturing, import…
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How China Unleashed Twitter Trolls to Discredit Hong Kong’s Protesters
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Nytimes
How China Unleashed Twitter Trolls to Discredit Hong Kong’s Protesters (Published 2019)
Twitter took down nearly 1,000 accounts that it said were part of a state-directed effort to undermine protests. Here is a look at their activities.
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Modern C, Second Edition
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Jens Gustedt's Blog
Modern C, Second Edition
A new edition of the book Modern C and much more are now available under a CC license via the following page This edition is the result of a collaboration with Manning, and improves a lot ove…
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Going Fast Slowly
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