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Experiments at Airbnb - Airbnb Engineeringnerds.airbnb.com
Airbnb is an online two-sided marketplace that matches people who rent out their homes (‘hosts’) with people who are looking for a place to stay (‘guests’). We use controlled experiments to learn and make decisions at every step of product development,... -
XCOM: Enemy Unknown coming to Linux this summerpolygon.com
Firaxis Games' turn-based tactical role-playing game XCOM: Enemy Unknown and all its downloadable content launches for Linux this summer, Feral Interactive announced today. Feral Interactive is... -
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Tesla Gets Unsolicited S&P Junk Rating on ‘Niche’ Positionbloomberg.com
Tesla Motors Inc., the electric-car company whose stock climbed fourfold last year, was slapped with a junk credit rating by Standard & Poor’s because of “considerable uncertainty” about its long-term prospects. -
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Crushing Blow for Copyright Trolls: Appeals Court Halts AF Holdings' Extortion Schemeeff.org
Washington, D.C. - Striking a crushing blow against a legal linchpin of the copyright troll business model, a federal appeals court held today that copyright holders may not abuse the legal process to obtain the identities of thousands of Internet users. -
Ruby based ETL pipeline with Iron.io and Redshiftengineering.hoteltonight.com
Extract, Transform, Load. Worker pipeline with Ruby, IronWorker, and Redshift -
Autoscaling with Capistrano, NFS and Runit - Bugsnagbugsnag.com
Bugsnag is architected to deal with huge variations in load - some days we get over 10x more API hits than others. In order to maintain a reasonable processing speed for a reasonable cost, we use... -
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Remember secure passwords: Create a Password Pattern | Hans Andersonha17.com
We all are drowning in passwords. To combat having to know so many, a lot of us use easy to remember passwords. Others use a long, hard, random password -- - hnhiring.me
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Brokers use ‘billions’ of data points to profile Americanswashingtonpost.com
U.S. agency cites danger of errors, abuse as firms create labels based on race, income and religious beliefs -
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How Statisticians Found Air France Flight 447 Two Years After It Crashed Into Atlantic | MIT Technology Reviewtechnologyreview.com
After more than a year of unsuccessful searching, authorities called in an elite group of statisticians. Working on their recommendations, the next search found the wreckage just a week later. -
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