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Challenges to Adopting Stronger Consistency at Scaleresearch.facebook.com
There have been many recent advances in distributed systems that provide stronger semantics for geo-replicated data stores like those underlying Facebook. At Facebook we are excited by these lines of research, but fundamental and operational challenges... -
Woman recruited by Google four times and rejected, joins suitcomputerworld.com
There was something about Cheryl Fillekes that Google really liked. Over a seven-year period, Fillekes was contacted by Google recruiters four different times for jobs. In each case, she did well enough in the phone interviews to get an invitation for... -
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The Screens Issue - If You Liked This, Sure to Love That - Winning the Netflix Prize - NYTimes.comnytimes.com
Basement hackers and amateur mathematicians are competing to improve the program that Netflix uses to recommend DVDs and to win $1 million in the process. -
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Y Combinator-Backed IxChel Predicts How Cancer Drugs Will Behave In Humans Before You Even Swallow A Pilltechcrunch.com
Biotech startup Ixchel Scientific hopes to bring higher success rates to trialed cancer drugs using an environment that better represents the human body... -
These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could Be Worth Billionsbloomberg.com
Drug companies are exploiting rare mutations that make one person nearly immune to pain, another to broken bones - jacquesmattheij.com
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Paul Krugman: "I may have overestimated the competence of the Greek government"cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com
The following transcript is of an interview by host Fareed Zakaria with economist and The New York Times columnist, Paul Krugman. They discussed how a Grexit would impact the European Union, if a Grexit is probable, if the Greek crisis is over, and how... -
New York Prisoner’s Keys to Escape: Lapsed Rules, Tools and Lucknytimes.com
David Sweat’s statements to investigators, according to several people briefed on his account, have provided extraordinary detail of how he and another killer were able to escape from the Clinton Correctional Facility. - bhoey.com
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Car hack uses digital-radio broadcasts to seize control - BBC Newsbbc.com
A UK-based security company shows the BBC how a digital-radio broadcast can be used to seize control of a car's computer systems. -
This Bizarre Criminal Case Shows the Danger of Prosecutors Who Won’t Admit They’re Wrongslate.com
Three years ago, one of the strangest criminal cases in recent memory began in Charlottesville, Virginia, where I live, when a young woman sent a series of text messages telling her boyfriend that a man had abducted her, followed by a series of texts, ... -
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8 Unconventional Ways to Put Yourself into a Successful Marketer's Mindsetzapier.com
After working alongside some of the best marketers in the world at Facebook, Mint, AppSumo, and SumoMe—companies who have reached a combined 1.5 billion people—I've learned one very important thing: Great marketing isn't so much about strategy and tact... -
Limits at Gawker? Rules at Reddit? Wild West Web Turns a Pagenytimes.com
The digital media companies are struggling with a tough transition — from underfunded start-ups to mature businesses.