August 2017 Archive
14341.
Speech Intellegibility in Naval Aircraft Radios (1972) (dtic.mil)
14342.
Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) – An In-Memory Cache for DynamoDB (aws.amazon.com)
14343.
Hijacking Control of Wireless Mice and Keyboards (toshellandback.com)
14344.
These Tricks Make Virtual Reality Feel Real (2016) (nautil.us)
14345.
CrashPlan is shutting down its cloud backup service for consumers (theverge.com)
14346.
CNN Launches a Daily Snapchat News Show to Reach a Younger Audience (adweek.com)
14347.
Show HN: Fuck Nazis Virtual Lapel Pin (fucknazis.us)
14348.
Benchmark vs. Kalanick (featuring Pishevar):A modern Silicon Valley morality play (pando.com)
14349.
Mic’s drop (theoutline.com)
14350.
Blue Apron Loses Human Resources Chief and Starts Hiring Freeze (bloomberg.com)
14351.
10 interesting initiatives in democracy and participation (sitra.fi)
14352.
Day 13 – Writing code is easy, launching the project is not (distinctplace.com)
14353.
WebGL at the new THX (thx.com)
14354.
DEC64: Decimal Floating Point (dec64.com)
14355.
Ask HN: Any possibility of a high schooler getting a web development internship?
14356.
Tampa Electric knew the procedure was dangerous. It sent workers in anyway (tampabay.com)
14357.
COBOL12: COBOL 16-bit Compiler for Video Mode 12H (homepages.paradise.net.nz)
14358.
Californians: Exactly how and why housing costs are killing us (calmatters.org)
14359.
Orange is the new green: How orange peels revived a Costa Rican forest (eurekalert.org)
14360.
Stanford vs. Rice Live Stream (alabamavclemson.org)
14361.
Lisp and QML (Qt5) on Android (common-lisp.net)
14362.
CrashPlan Discontinues Consumer Backups (tidbits.com)
14363.
James Damore is proving the alt-right playbook can work in Silicon Valley (qz.com)
14364.
Africa’s Richest Man Has a Plan: Cement, Then Oil–Then Arsenal FC (bloomberg.com)
14365.
Getting NASA to Comply with Simple FOIA Requests Is a Nightmare (motherboard.vice.com)
14366.
A 15-Year-Old Has Saved an 80GB Archive of Apple Videos from YouTube’s Censors (motherboard.vice.com)
14367.
The Silicon Valley Suicides (2015) (theatlantic.com)
14368.
Physics Factbook: acceleration, area, density, mass of (almost) everything (hypertextbook.com)
14369.
Brian Kernighan on the Typesetting of “The Go Programming Language” Book (rkrishnan.org)
14370.
Vigorous Public Debates in Academic Computer Science (queue.acm.org)