August 2014 Archive
1531.
Missile Guidance Systems (datagenetics.com)
1532.
UPS: We’ve Been Hacked – May have compromised customer card information (time.com)
1533.
Heartbleed Flaw Said Used in Hospital Hacking (bloomberg.com)
1534.
What We See When We Read (theparisreview.org)
1535.
PersistIQ (YC S14) Hopes to Remove Excel From the Outbound Sales Process (techcrunch.com)
1536.
The Faces of Ultraviolet (slate.com)
1537.
IBM Simon (en.wikipedia.org)
1538.
Reverse-engineering censorship in China [pdf] (gking.harvard.edu)
1539.
An open letter to Adam Shostack, the man who raped my wife (adamshostack.com)
1540.
Show HN: Dump receipts as you get them through the year, recall them at tax time (receiptapp.org)
1541.
Correlation does not even imply correlation (andrewgelman.com)
1542.
The peculiar status of PhD-employees (crookedtimber.org)
1543.
Google's questionnaire response to Article 29 Working Party (docs.google.com)
1544.
Zynga’s first foray into WebGL, and how it runs on IE10 (code.zynga.com)
1545.
It Takes a New Kind of Worker to Make “Instant” Happen (recode.net)
1546.
Kevin Rose Steps Into Part-Time Role at Google Ventures to Build a New Startup (techcrunch.com)
1547.
Ask HN: RubyMotion or Swift?
1548.
Sandboxed applications for Gnome, part 2 (blogs.gnome.org)
1549.
Mixer – A MySQL Proxy powered by Go (github.com)
1550.
The Great Microservices vs. Monolithic Apps Twitter Melee (highscalability.com)
1551.
Deliberate Practice and Performance: A Meta-Analysis [pdf] (scottbarrykaufman.com)
1552.
Unbiased Randomization with the Fisher-Yates Shuffle (spin.atomicobject.com)
1553.
200-Year-Old Alcohol Found in Shipwreck Is Still Drinkable (smithsonianmag.com)
1554.
The U.S. Digital Services Playbook (playbook.cio.gov)
1555.
Targeting Direct Cash Transfers to the Extremely Poor [pdf] (ssg.mit.edu)
1556.
Announcing Transcriptic Platform (transcriptic.com)
1557.
Real-World Haskell: Carnival, a Blog Commenting Service (robots.thoughtbot.com)
1558.
Glove: Global vectors for word representation (socher.org)
1559.
Patent office filters out worst telework abuses in report to its watchdog (washingtonpost.com)
1560.
Classy: Expressive, flexible, and powerful stylesheets for native iOS apps (classy.as)