The Go low-level calling convention on x86-64

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@science.raphael.poss.name | 8 years ago

The Fundamental Problem of the Data Economy Nobody Is Talking About

This is part 1 of the Data Deep Dive series which focuses on data as an asset, data marketplaces and how blockchain technology is making… | Continue reading


@towardsdatascience.com | 8 years ago

A New Device Can Hear Your Thoughts

In early April, MIT research assistant Arnav Kapur, 24, uploaded a short video on YouTube. The clip showed him moving around campus in various settings wearing a white plastic contraption wrapped… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 8 years ago

Acetyl-L-Carnitine Deficiency in Patients with Major Depressive Disorder

Identifying biological targets in major depressive disorder (MDD) is a critical step for development of effective mechanism-based medications. The epigenetic agent acetyl-l-carnitine (LAC) has rapid and enduring antidepressant-like effects in LAC-deficient rodents. Here, we found … | Continue reading


@pnas.org | 8 years ago

Letsencrypt needs a backup domain and a better registrar

Due to today’s incident I propose to move the domain letsencrypt.org to a safe registrar for high profile domains like Cloudflare Registrar or others. You can read the benefits here: You can check the domain security here: Also, a backup domain should be created and h … | Continue reading


@community.letsencrypt.org | 8 years ago

Kumo – A Compact Mechanical Keyboard

A customizable, portable mechanical keyboard. Snap together engineering - great for enthusiasts and learners alike. | Continue reading


@kickstarter.com | 8 years ago

Finally, a product that eCommerce Entrepreneurs love

Data! Data! Data! Where is all this data coming from?? | Continue reading


@medium.com | 8 years ago

India’s biggest biometric data Aadhaar hacked in couple of hours after challenge

Alleged personal details of Trai chairman R S Sharma were leaked after he threw a challenge and tweeted his 12-digit Aadhaar number | Continue reading


@business-standard.com | 8 years ago

Fond Is Hiring Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) in Portland

Fond (formerly AnyPerk) is a perks and rewards platform used by over 500 companies across the U.S. from startups competing for top talent to Fortune 500 companies strengthening their employer brands. Fond helps customers build cultures of appreciation and recognition, knowing tha … | Continue reading


@jobs.lever.co | 8 years ago

Getting the most from OneNote, part I: A hidden Office gem – TechRepublic

The more information you put into OneNote the more useful it is. You can tag, flag, recognize, record and search just about anything. | Continue reading


@techrepublic.com | 8 years ago

SF plastic straw ban has bubble tea shops worried

San Francisco may become the next U.S. city to ban plastic straws. The city's board of supervisors approved the ban on a preliminary basis last week | Continue reading


@keranews.org | 8 years ago

Fact Checking the Galaxy Song – Monty Python’s Astronomy Lesson

Pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space, 'cause there's bugger all down here on Earth! | Continue reading


@blogs.discovermagazine.com | 8 years ago

10 physics facts you should have learned in school but probably didn’t

[Image: Dreamstime.com ] 1. Entropy doesn’t measure disorder, it measures likelihood. Really the idea that entropy measures disorder i... | Continue reading


@backreaction.blogspot.com | 8 years ago

Measuring the Quality of Life

Objectively things are generally better than ever. The problem is, life is by definition a subjective experience | Continue reading


@medium.com | 8 years ago

Analyze Articles on Hacker News Using NLP

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@nbviewer.jupyter.org | 8 years ago

Pentest Proving Grounds

Developer and Author from Austin, TX. | Continue reading


@joecmarshall.com | 8 years ago

It's time to transform our government—and you can help! Volunteer to talk to voters when it matters most, on #TheLastWeekend before the midterms. Sign up to hear about things you can do, now through Election Day. | Continue reading


@thelastweekend.org | 8 years ago

A Way to Benchmark Your Deep Learning Framework On-Premise

MXNet Makes Us Faster And Stronger! | Continue reading


@medium.com | 8 years ago

Story: Writing Scripts with Go

Story: Writing Scripts with Go | Continue reading


@gist.github.com | 8 years ago

What Do You Think About Facebook's “Competitor Spy”?

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@capitalandgrowth.org | 8 years ago

This AI will slap a bikini on your naughty bits

Researchers at a Catholic university in Brazil say their “image to image translation approach” could add more seamless censorship to adult content. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 8 years ago

There Is No Right Decision

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@raptitude.com | 8 years ago

Cryptocurrency Fundamentalism

At the start of every ambitious undertaking, you need a diverse collection of determined and dedicated pioneers to help lay the groundwork… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 8 years ago

Why Parallelization Is So Hard

Experts at the Table, part 1: Are we looking to solve the wrong problems? Where does parallelization work best and why. | Continue reading


@semiengineering.com | 8 years ago

Public libraries in British Columbia are evolving beyond spaces of quiet contemplation, equipped with card catalogues and encyclopaedias. In a time of increased Internet use and communication via social media, the way we access knowledge and use the library is changing. We are se … | Continue reading


@policynote.ca | 8 years ago

#lang rackjure – Clojure-inspired ideas in Racket

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@docs.racket-lang.org | 8 years ago

Russian Electronic Jamming Poses a Growing Threat to U.S. Troops in Syria

But this type of warfare also gives the United States a chance to learn about the latest Russian technology. | Continue reading


@foreignpolicy.com | 8 years ago

Out of the frying pan and into the fire

You cannot base a public good on a normalised systemic violation of human rights. English | Catalan Mariana Mazzucato1 has an article in MIT Technology Review titled Let’s make private data into a public good.Let’s not.While Mariana’s criticisms of surveillance capitalism are s … | Continue reading


@ar.al | 8 years ago

Application-Level Optimization of Big Data Transfers [pdf]

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@cse.buffalo.edu | 8 years ago

Logitech’s Mic’ing Up with Blue

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@blog.logitech.com | 8 years ago

Which Companies Generate the Highest Revenue per Employee?

Which industries generate the most revenue per employee and how do tech companies stack up? | Continue reading


@priceonomics.com | 8 years ago

First do no harm: Fly-by Architecture Reviews and How to avoid them?

Imagine a fly-by architecture review. An architect walks in, looks over, glosses over, though his binoculars. He provide comments that are… | Continue reading


@hackernoon.com | 8 years ago

NeuroMorph: A Toolset for 3D Analysis of Neurite Morphology and Connectivity

The geometries of axons, dendrites and their synaptic connections provide important information about their functional properties. These can be collected directly from measurements made on serial electron microscopy images. However, manual and automated segmentation methods can a … | Continue reading


@frontiersin.org | 8 years ago

No Laughing Gray Matter: Laughter, the Brain, and Evolution (2014)

“Consumers are jaded about advertising in a way they weren’t several decades ago.” | Continue reading


@brainfacts.org | 8 years ago

Defense Distributed Sues New Jersey, Los Angeles Over Legal Threats

The authorities threatened the gun-making software and hardware company. Now the company is striking back, citing its First and Second Amendment rights. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 8 years ago

Newsroom employment dropped by nearly 1/4 in 10 years

This decline in overall newsroom employment was driven primarily by one sector – newspapers, where newsroom jobs dropped 45% from 2008 to 2017. | Continue reading


@pewresearch.org | 8 years ago

Australian firm Meriton fined $3M for misleading consumers on TripAdvisor

The Federal Court today ordered serviced apartments accommodation provider Meriton Property Services Pty Ltd, trading as ‘Meriton Serviced Apartments’, to pay penalties of $3 million for manipulating TripAdvisor reviews, in breach of the Australian Consumer Law. | Continue reading


@accc.gov.au | 8 years ago

TensorFuzz: Debugging Neural Networks with Coverage-Guided Fuzzing

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@arxiv.org | 8 years ago

Arlo Technologies S1

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@sec.gov | 8 years ago

Please add ZRTP-like “auxiliary secrets” – Signal Community

Hi. I have been studying the Signal protocol, and it looks pretty good. But there is one feature I really like that appears to be missing. The ZRTP protocol includes something called an “auxiliary secret”. See https://philzimmermann.com/docs/zrtp/ietf/rfc6189.html#SharedSecretDe … | Continue reading


@community.signalusers.org | 8 years ago

It's even worse than it appears. | Continue reading


@scripting.com | 8 years ago

Van driver fired after being caught splashing pedestrians

The driver of a van who was filmed splashing pedestrians on King Edward Avenue has been fired, according to Ottawa police and the company the driver worked for. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 8 years ago

Curiosity's organics on Mars

What does it mean that the Mars rover Curiosity found organics in Martian rocks? Emily Lakdawalla translates the science. | Continue reading


@planetary.org | 8 years ago

Scientists suggest octopuses might actually be aliens

Normally when you see a story about someone claiming that aliens are hanging out here on Earth, its origins can be traced to a misguided conspiracy theorist or crackpot ranting on YouTube. So when … | Continue reading


@nypost.com | 8 years ago

Anisotropic filtering

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@en.wikipedia.org | 8 years ago

The president is running his re-election campaign precisely the way he governs—playing three opposing power centers off each other, and listening mainly to his own instincts. It’s going to get ugly, and soon. “We’re going to call them out,” says Steve Bannon. “Kirsten Gillibrand, … | Continue reading


@vanityfair.com | 8 years ago

Microsoft Is Updating Bing Maps with Customized Itineraries

Bing Maps is not as widely used as some other mapping services like Google Maps, but Microsoft's still investing resources into it in order to develop new features. Today, for instance, the company has added the ability to customize itineraries of popular travel destinations. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 8 years ago

Volta is more than just an ebike, or a motor, it’s the seamless integration of all things “go”. The unique design makes your two-wheeled life as simple, a | Continue reading


@purecycles.com | 8 years ago