Promise, which is part of Y Combinator's current batch of startups, offers counties and local governments an alternative to holding low-risk people behind bars simply because they can't afford bail.
The third season of "Orange Is The New Black" cements Netflix's prison drama as "the most reliable show on television," and the latest batch of episodes offers more of the character backstories fans love.
However, our experiments also reveal that, with parallelism turned on, the same batch of MapReduce jobs offers lesser performance, slowing down the process by as much as two orders of magnitude.
With the economy the dominant issue in the presidential election, the latest batch of dismal data offered no comfort to the Republican nominee, Senator John McCain of Arizona, who has been running behind the Democratic nominee, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, in polls.
The first batch of 50 Leikrs offered at the lowest pledge rate to receive a watch ($149) has already sold out.
That is, until the following week, when a batch of new medical reports offers up completely contradictory advice about what is good -- or bad -- for us.
The band's latest album, "Lifestyle" (Touch and Go), offers another batch of clangy, engagingly sulky songs for listeners who like to ponder while they rock.
The first batch of applications will be offered a week's course and only after that will students be chosen.
Earlier this year, it managed to sell only 1percentt of a batch of wind power it offered to customers — no doubt because the program would have added $58 a month to the average home electric bill.
And, though there's often new and unfamiliar work performed (and that's often one of the joys of the experience — I've had the privilege of attending premières of pieces by such composers as Elliott Carter and Henri Dutilleux, as well as by younger luminaries, including my colleague Russell Platt), the avid listener is apt to be familiar with a good batch of the music being offered.
