August 2014 Archive
4621.
Apparatus for facilitating child birth by centrifugal force [pdf] (freepatentsonline.com)
4622.
Apple bans benzene, n-hexane during final assembly of iPhones, iPads (usnews.com)
4623.
WTF is going on in Ferguson? (wtfinferguson.meteor.com)
4624.
The Leader of the Unfree World (theatlantic.com)
4625.
Baidu Thinks AI Pioneer Andrew Ng Can Help It Challenge Google (technologyreview.com)
4626.
JuliaCon Optimization Presentation Videos (julialang.org)
4627.
Space Shuttle Operational Flight Rules (2002) [pdf] (jsc.nasa.gov)
4628.
C# – Extension Method for Distinct List of Objects (tech.pro)
4629.
Of All Possible Future Worlds: Global Trends, Values, and Ethics (possiblefutureworlds.com)
4630.
The origin of laughter, smiles and tears (aeon.co)
4631.
Energy Harvesting: A Snapshot in Time (mindtribe.com)
4632.
Meeting Manners and Scheduling Etiquette (blog.skej.us)
4633.
The case against pay for performance (haacked.com)
4634.
Show HN: Market Share Visualizer (AngularJS + D3) (gekko.stolarsky.com)
4635.
Microsoft considered renaming Internet Explorer to escape its checkered past (arstechnica.com)
4636.
Any American Can Take Any Police Officer's Photo (theatlantic.com)
4637.
Green Arabia (idlewords.com)
4638.
How Secure is Your Security Badge? (krebsonsecurity.com)
4639.
Workers of the world, log in (economist.com)
4640.
Ten reasons to use Clojure for your next project (adambard.com)
4641.
An Open Letter to the Tech Workers of SF (tintup.com)
4642.
Balancing the load: A Voronoi based scheme for parallel computations (arxiv.org)
4643.
The Beer Bottle Dictator (thedailybeast.com)
4644.
Extended vs. organic memory: Teaching students how to decide which to use (slate.com)
4645.
Vessel – Automates Dockerized Development Environments (awvessel.github.io)
4646.
Asynchronous Programming with Goroutines in Ruby (sndrs.ca)
4647.
Show HN: Proof of concept: Running UglifyJS 2.5 times faster (github.com)
4648.
The Invention of Wireless Cryptography (theappendix.net)
4649.
Replacing 32-bit loop count with 64-bit introduces crazy performance deviations (stackoverflow.com)
4650.
Rise and shine: the daily routines of history's most creative minds (theguardian.com)