Digital peer pressure

“You’re using it wrong.” That’s how culture develops, of course. That’s why no one uses ALL CAPS IN THEIR EMAIL ANY MORE. Culture develops online at the speed of light… | Continue reading


@seths.blog | 7 years ago

What Consciousness Looks Like

Most of the time, it’s easy to tell when someone is consciously aware. But there are many tragic cases when it’s unclear whether a person who is unresponsive after a serious brain injury is truly no longer conscious. That ambiguity can raise ethical questions about how to manage … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 7 years ago

Python and C hybrid programming on a microcontroller for IoT applications

Zerynth allows mixing Python and C, in the same project. So, mix things up - code your high-level logic in Python, and for all those parts where you need more speed you can use C. | Continue reading


@zerynth.com | 7 years ago

The Brain Exceeds the Most Powerful Computers in Efficiency

All of the tasks that AI accomplishes require a certain amount of memory, computational power, and time. We have a good enough understanding of the human brain to measure the same quantities used for the same tasks. Thus, we can measure the difference between what minds and machi … | Continue reading


@mindmatters.ai | 7 years ago

NYPD to Google: Stop revealing the location of police checkpoints

The NYPD is demanding Google yank a feature from its Waze traffic app that tips off drivers to police checkpoints — claiming such warnings could be considered “criminal conduct.” The crowd-sourced … | Continue reading


@nypost.com | 7 years ago

Drag and Resize in React App

QueryPie Development #5: Implementing Query Tabs and a Result Panel | Continue reading


@medium.com | 7 years ago

Yet another plea against using public WiFi

The thoughts I’m going to relate in this post may seem obvious and even trivial to some of you, but my experience with water cooler chats with my workmates s... | Continue reading


@habr.com | 7 years ago

Tencent is lead investor in funding round that may value Reddit at $3bln

Reddit is reportedly raising funds in a round that could value the discussion website at U$3 billion | Continue reading


@scmp.com | 7 years ago

There’s a weird new type of magnet that shouldn't be able to exist

Take a form of uranium that shouldn’t be magnetic, mix it with antimony and cool it down, and you get a new kind of magnet that could speed up computers | Continue reading


@newscientist.com | 7 years ago

The Anatomy of the Urban Dictionary

The first large-scale study of the Urban Dictionary provides unique insights into the way our language is evolving. | Continue reading


@technologyreview.com | 7 years ago

JWT authentication with Micronaut

Micronaut makes creating web applications a breeze. The most interesting thing about it is that it does not use any runtime reflection and still provides a clean and enjoyable API, among others, thanks to compile time annotation based dependency injection. | Continue reading


@blog.98elements.com | 7 years ago

NPM Package Verification – Ep. 2

Minimum Viable Package Verification as a Service (MVPVaaS) | Continue reading


@hackernoon.com | 7 years ago

Generic Methods in Rust: How Exonum Shifted from Iron to Actix-Web

The Rust ecosystem is still growing. As a result, new libraries with improved functionality are frequently released into the developer community, while older... | Continue reading


@habr.com | 7 years ago

The Big DNS Privacy Debate at FOSDEM

This weekend at the excellent FOSDEM gathering there were no less than three presentations on DNS over HTTPs. Daniel Stenberg presented a keynote session “DNS over HTTPS – the good, the bad a… | Continue reading


@blog.powerdns.com | 7 years ago

My Response to Sam Harris on the Apple Encryption Debate

I don't agree with all of it. But this is a very good response to my remarks about encryption. https://t.co/rMl8zgtuWN@danielmiessler— Sam | Continue reading


@danielmiessler.com | 7 years ago

The Decline of Social Traffic and the SEO Renaissance

Recent trends show why SEO should always be the cornerstone of your WordPress traffic acquisition strategy. Everyone wants traffic, and there was a time when one of the best ways to grow it was through social media. However, that particular party may be over. Twitter accounts for … | Continue reading


@torquemag.io | 7 years ago

A Letter to Steven Pinker about Global Poverty

The point of my piece was that the story of global poverty is more complex than you and Gates have been willing to acknowledge, | Continue reading


@resilience.org | 7 years ago

A just culture guide

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@improvement.nhs.uk | 7 years ago

After 43 years in business, Raul Candy Store is closing on Avenue B

EV Grieve is the leading news, entertainment and lifestyle blog about the East Village of New York City. | Continue reading


@evgrieve.com | 7 years ago

Litecoin Foundation and Beam Cooperation Announcement

Litecoin and Beam will work together | Continue reading


@medium.com | 7 years ago

Osaka.rs – rust async without the noise

This is a background story blog for osaka.rs sort of.For a quicker intro of osaka, check out the readme on github instead. | Continue reading


@aep.github.io | 7 years ago

CRISPR babies: a view from the centre of the storm

Towards the end of November 2018, news broke that the Chinese researcher He Jiankui had created the world's first genome-edited babies. This came shortly before the start of the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing, where researchers, ethicists and others concerned … | Continue reading


@dev.biologists.org | 7 years ago

How to Play PUBG on AWS

AWS GPU instances are known for deep learning purposes but they can also be used for running video games. This tutorial goes through how… | Continue reading


@hackernoon.com | 7 years ago

Elasticsearch bucket aggregations and faceted navigation

A step by step tutorial for using Elasticsearch bucket aggregations to implement faceted navigation a.k.a. facets. | Continue reading


@iridakos.com | 7 years ago

Improving your unit tests with help from the X-Men

What if I told you The X-Men can make you a better software tester? Well they can’t but their supervillain, William Stryker, can. | Continue reading


@hackernoon.com | 7 years ago

The storefront that houses St. Mark's Comics is now for rent

EV Grieve is the leading news, entertainment and lifestyle blog about the East Village of New York City. | Continue reading


@evgrieve.com | 7 years ago

Crypto Analyst Predict Bitcoin Price to Touch $1,800

A well-known crypto trader and a twitter commentator who goes by the name "The Crypto Dog” (@TheCryptoDog) has predicted that the Bitcoin touching a price point of $1,800 won’t be surprising. However, the Crypto Dog was quick to point out that the price prediction is not backed b … | Continue reading


@btcwires.com | 7 years ago

Flexport is hiring software engineers in our new Chicago office

Flexport is a technology and data-driven freight forwarder and customs broker. We provide visibility and control over your entire supply chain. | Continue reading


@flexport.com | 7 years ago

A call this morning for the city to take action on the former P.S. 64

EV Grieve is the leading news, entertainment and lifestyle blog about the East Village of New York City. | Continue reading


@evgrieve.com | 7 years ago

A deep dive on the zkSNARK trusted setup and zero-knowledge proof setup phase

Zero-Knowledge Proofs are based on three algorithms, Setup, which generates the keys, Prove, which generates a proof of some statement, and Verify, which verifies the proof. There are many factors to take into account when considering the trade-offs of the existing schemes. The m … | Continue reading


@community.zkproof.org | 7 years ago

Sushi coming to the former 10Below Ice Cream space on St. Mark's Place

EV Grieve is the leading news, entertainment and lifestyle blog about the East Village of New York City. | Continue reading


@evgrieve.com | 7 years ago

169 and 171 1st Ave. (home to Momofuku) are for sale

EV Grieve is the leading news, entertainment and lifestyle blog about the East Village of New York City. | Continue reading


@evgrieve.com | 7 years ago

RIAA Lawyers Botched a Big One Against FLVTO.biz – So What’s Next?

The RIAA received a stunning defeat at the hands of Russian stream-ripper FLVTO.biz. That could have far-reaching implications for copyright litigation. | Continue reading


@digitalmusicnews.com | 7 years ago

What is the real palaeo diet, and who invented bread? Archaeological findings on eating and drinking in the past.

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@blog.europeana.eu | 7 years ago

Slate’s Use of Your Data | Continue reading


@slate.com | 7 years ago

Jetson Image Processing: ISP Libargus and Fastvideo SDK

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@fastcompression.com | 7 years ago

Bees can solve math problems with addition and subtraction now

Absolutely buzzing about mathematics. | Continue reading


@cnet.com | 7 years ago

Helping to Build Cloudflare

This is the text I prepared for a talk at Speck&Tech in Trento, Italy. I thought it might make a good blog post. It originally appeared as… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 7 years ago

We Tripled Our Search Traffic with These 7 Link Building Techniques

We’ve tried almost all white hat techniques out there, and after months of experiments, we’ve decided to share what we’ve learnt. So, if you are looking for the proven techniques which actually work and can be replicated to your link building strategy, you are in the right place. | Continue reading


@blog.nightwatch.io | 7 years ago

How to auto delete Mongodb records after certain time with Mongoose

I have a requirement where I need to remove some records from a collection. Let’s see how to do that in Mongoose. I use Mongoose: 5.4.9 and MongoDB v4.0.3. | Continue reading


@albertgao.xyz | 7 years ago

First dexterous hand prosthesis implanted

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@rtoz.org | 7 years ago

Coda 1.0 launches

Coda is a new doc that grows with your ideas. We built it so the next generation of makers can build docs as powerful as apps. What will you Coda? | Continue reading


@coda.io | 7 years ago

Here’s a Fascinating Look at How Globes Were Once Made

"While the rest of the mankind does its best to blow the world up, they like building a new one." | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 7 years ago

Sheriff’s use of courtroom camera to view juror’s notes sparks dismissal of case

Charges were thrown out in a San Juan assault case after it was revealed the county sheriff had been using the court security camera to focus on defense notes and a juror's notebook. | Continue reading


@seattletimes.com | 7 years ago

Event Innovation Lab™: New Dates Announced

In 2018, we announced a series of advanced training programs for event professionals from around the world: the Event Innovation Lab™. We are glad to release a new schedule of events for 2019.   The Event Innovation Lab™ made waves last year after its first event in Los Angeles a … | Continue reading


@eventmanagerblog.com | 7 years ago

The Curious Case of Convexity Confusion

Posted by Ivan Fratric, Google Project Zero Intro Some time ago, I noticed a tweet about an externally reported vulnerability in S... | Continue reading


@googleprojectzero.blogspot.com | 7 years ago

Impossible Cookware and Other Triumphs of the Penrose Tile - Issue 69: Patterns

In 1974, Roger Penrose, a British mathematician, created a revolutionary set of tiles that could be used to cover an infinite plane… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 7 years ago

How Supermassive Black Holes Were Discovered - Issue 69: Patterns

An Introduction to the Black Hole InstituteFittingly, the Black Hole Initiative (BHI) was founded 100 years after Karl Schwarzschild… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 7 years ago