Why I never finish my Haskell programs (part 2 of ∞)

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@blog.plover.com | 5 years ago

This little robot swims through pipes and finds out if they’re leaking

Lighthouse, U.S. winner of the James Dyson Award, looks like a badminton birdie and detects the suction of water leaving pipes–which is a lot of water that we could put to better use. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

15 Most Common Types of Data Visualisation

There is a plethora of options when it comes to data visualisation, and these 15 common types are only the tip of the iceberg. | Continue reading


@info.datalabsagency.com | 5 years ago

Tidying One’s Room

Previously (Compass Rose): Culture, Interpretive Labor, and Tidying One’s Room Epistemic Status: A bit messy “She’s tidied up and I can’t find anything! All my tubes and wir… | Continue reading


@thezvi.wordpress.com | 5 years ago

First-party isolation in Firefox: what breaks if you enable it?

Instead of modifying and blocking page contents; Firefox optionally lets users modifies the browser to become harder to track across websites. | Continue reading


@ctrl.blog | 5 years ago

Scientists discover how to turn light into matter after 80-year quest

Imperial College London physicists have discovered how to create matter from light - a feat thought impossible when the idea was first theorised 80 years ago. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 5 years ago

Going Fast and Cheap: How We Made Anna Autoscale

Background: In an earlier blog post, we described a system called Anna, which used a shared-nothing, thread-per-core architecture to achieve lightning-fast speeds by avoiding all coordination mechanisms. Anna also used lattice composition to enable a rich variety of coordination- … | Continue reading


@rise.cs.berkeley.edu | 5 years ago

Tor Browser for Android (Alpha)

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@play.google.com | 5 years ago

Plant-based eating, made easy and delicious

Big changes start with incremental choices. Live healthier, learn delicious options, and build better habits, one greener plate at a time | Continue reading


@greenerplate.com | 5 years ago

Data thef on British Airways web site under investigation

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@britishairways.com | 5 years ago

Pretty Bird: Sherri McMullen

McMullen has been in business nearly 11 years, which is no small feat for an independently-owned specialty store. | Continue reading


@alltheprettybirds.com | 5 years ago

Making the Case Against Google AMP

Have you heard of Google AMP? Check out this explanarant (that's part explanation, part rant) on AMP making the case not to adopt it. | Continue reading


@macobserver.com | 5 years ago

The Singularity Is Already Here

According to the common understanding (and Wikipedia), the technological singularity refers to a point in time when artificial superintelligence will abruptly trigger runaway technological growth, … | Continue reading


@martinhiesboeck.com | 5 years ago

Asia Argento & der Mythos vom „perfekten Opfer“

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@thisisjanewayne.com | 5 years ago

Frecciabianca: da dicembre il collegamento con Roma

Il Sindaco Umberto de Augustinis é lieto di informare che, a partire dall’entrata in vigore dell’orario invernale (10 dicembre prossimo), il collegamento con Roma sarà assicurato anche da una coppia di Frecciabianca (8851/8852), che partiranno da Spoleto alle ore 9.14 e da Roma a … | Continue reading


@comunespoleto.gov.it | 5 years ago

The Sisters Brothers

Call it a revisionist or an absurdist Western if you will, but Audiard’s film feels both refreshingly new and nostalgically familiar. | Continue reading


@rogerebert.com | 5 years ago

White Boy Rick

A story half-told. | Continue reading


@rogerebert.com | 5 years ago

JavaFX 11 early access on embedded

The OpenJFX team, which includes developers from companies like Oracle and Gluon, as well as individuals, is working very hard to get the JavaFX 11 release for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux published later this month. While the release is stabilizing (early access builds are availa … | Continue reading


@gluonhq.com | 5 years ago

Sony to source all its energy from renewables by 2040

Move comes as stakeholders go green | Continue reading


@asia.nikkei.com | 5 years ago

How to Specify Time Limit for a Sudo Session

While working with the sudo command for performing administrative tasks in Linux, you might have noticed that even if you have provided sudo password a while ago, you are asked to provide it again after some time. This happens because | Continue reading


@vitux.com | 5 years ago

US Workers Are Striking Again

Halfway through the year, the number of large strikes in the United States is at the highest level in decades. | Continue reading


@jacobinmag.com | 5 years ago

Whose boats is tech really lifting?

A lucrative industry comes to grips with its diversity problem. | Continue reading


@politico.com | 5 years ago

5 Mistakes C/C++ Devs make writing Go

Nyah Check ( @nyah_check , slides ) is a software engineer at Altitude Networks . Nyah comes from a C/C++ background and subsequently… | Continue reading


@about.sourcegraph.com | 5 years ago

How to choose the right free online website security scanner

With the following guide, you might find yourself equipped with a better understanding of what makes a good free website security scanner. | Continue reading


@cystack.net | 5 years ago

The best crowdfunding projects on Indiegogo

This Week in Crowdfunding is a new Article “Series” that we are trying out. It will feature several products that we find on Indiegogo and Kickstarter that use USB-C in some form and have not yet reached the end of their funding period. SirTeen, a renewable eco-friendly charging … | Continue reading


@usbctoday.com | 5 years ago

The Mediterranean will eventually disappear

In the formation of a new Pangea, the Earth will completely change | Continue reading


@amp.economist.com | 5 years ago

What other countries can learn from Singapore’s schools

Rigorous teaching methods and excellent teachers keep the island-state top of the class | Continue reading


@amp.economist.com | 5 years ago

Show HN: Advanced Shell Scripting with Bash Slides

Material for advanced shell scripting with Bash course | Continue reading


@gitlab.com | 5 years ago

2018 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak

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@en.wikipedia.org | 5 years ago

Into a new era by Desire: pouët.net

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@pouet.net | 5 years ago

3D scanning enables amazing translucent sculptures

Trippy work from physicist-mathematician-painter Julian Voss-Andreae: [YouTube] | Continue reading


@jnack.com | 5 years ago

(2016) Autofill: What web devs should know, but don’t

Many people know that you can scan your credit card in Mobile Safari. But how many web developers know how to create a form that supports that feature? Not many I’d bet. Auto-Fill Credit Card… | Continue reading


@cloudfour.com | 5 years ago

The Nebraska senator tweeted about it on Saturday. | Continue reading


@weeklystandard.com | 5 years ago

Saturday's parting shots

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


@evgrieve.com | 5 years ago

Bubble – new android social app

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@play.google.com | 5 years ago

Why data culture matters

Organizational culture can accelerate the application of analytics, amplify its power, and steer companies away from risky outcomes. Here are seven principles that underpin a healthy data culture. | Continue reading


@mckinsey.com | 5 years ago

Life Itself

Life Itself loads up plot line on top of plot line to imitate emotional depth, and that kind of narrative manipulation doesn’t work for everyone. | Continue reading


@rogerebert.com | 5 years ago

There is something about (Elon) Musk

The last month in the life of Tesla and its mercurial chief executive can best be described as a bungee jump from a plane. No surprise, that we have a bull market in opinions about Elon Musk, his b… | Continue reading


@om.co | 5 years ago

TIFF 2018: Destroyer, Boy Erased

A review of two VERY different films starring the wonderful Nicole Kidman, Boy Erased and Destroyer. | Continue reading


@rogerebert.com | 5 years ago

Time to look beyond Oracle's JDK

From Java 11 its time to think beyond Oracle's JDK. Time to appreciate the depth of the ecosystem built on OpenJDK. Here are some of the ke... | Continue reading


@blog.joda.org | 5 years ago

A Star Is Born

This story has been told several times before—and influenced other similar romances—but Cooper and Gaga find a way to make this feel fresh and new. | Continue reading


@rogerebert.com | 5 years ago

TIFF 2018: Table of Contents

An updating table of contents featuring all of our coverage of the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. | Continue reading


@rogerebert.com | 5 years ago

Show HN: Bitcharge – The easiest way to accept crypto for freelancers

The easiest way to accept crypto payments. | Continue reading


@bitcharge.co | 5 years ago

Mexico’s Drug Cartels Are Moving into the Gasoline Industry – Rolling Stone

Mexico’s drug cartels are moving into the gasoline industry — infiltrating the national oil company, selling stolen fuel on the black market and engaging in open war with the military. Can the coun… | Continue reading


@rollingstone.com | 5 years ago

“My father was very strict with us.  His workshop was across...

“My father was very strict with us.  His workshop was across the street from our apartment building, and he’d scream if he saw us peeking out the window.  It was like a prison.  We’d just stay at home, make him tea and food, and watch TV.  Back then it was mostly black and white … | Continue reading


@humansofnewyork.com | 5 years ago

TIFF 2018: Loro, The Front Runner

A review of new films from Paolo Sorrentino and Jason Reitman. | Continue reading


@rogerebert.com | 5 years ago

Probiotics: If you don’t just just poop them out, they may muck up your guts

Standard probiotics may not be risk free. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 5 years ago

Venture Capital Funnel Shows Odds of Becoming a Unicorn Are About 1%

The venture capital funnel highlights the natural selection inherent in the venture capital process. 70% of companies are orphaned or die along the way. | Continue reading


@cbinsights.com | 5 years ago