December 2014 Archive
1531.
Minuet: A Scalable Distributed Multiversion B-Tree [pdf] (vldb.org)
1532.
Hey Paul Graham Stop Picking on Programmers (larrysalibra.com)
1533.
My journey into the centre of a dark political world, and how I escaped (mcgilldaily.com)
1534.
The Mechanical Transmission of Power: Stangenkunst (lowtechmagazine.com)
1535.
Italy Now Home to World’s Deepest Swimming Pool (sourceable.net)
1536.
Decoding Floats (raysohn.com)
1537.
Thin Servers with Smart Pipes: Designing SoC Accelerators for Memcached (2013) (research.facebook.com)
1538.
Show HN: A static kd-tree in JavaScript (github.com)
1539.
Ask HN: Have you already made money off Firefox OS apps? ()
1540.
Would you use a Linux based computer, better or equal to a mac in quality? ()
1541.
The Man Behind Common Core Math (npr.org)
1542.
Want to get rich? Don't pay off your student loans (money.cnn.com)
1543.
How Likely Is Someone Accused of Assault by Multiple People to Be Innocent? (obsessionwithregression.blogspot.com)
1544.
There are no good constant-time data structures (wingolog.org)
1545.
Peter Thiel Planning to Live 120 Years (bloomberg.com)
1546.
He was a crook (1994) (m.theatlantic.com)
1547.
Bettir (YC W15) Wants to Chat with You About Your Blood Pressure (techcrunch.com)
1548.
ELI – A System for Programming with Arrays (fastarray.appspot.com)
1549.
The Problem of the Many (plato.stanford.edu)
1550.
Slow bugs (embeddedfool.net)
1551.
Attacks on ECDSA Signatures With Single-Bit Nonce Bias [pdf] (irisa.fr)
1552.
Hackers with Apparent Investment Banking Background Target Biotech (nytimes.com)
1553.
Safe way to upload files to Dropbox from an untrusted computer (github.com)
1554.
Escape from Jonestown (blog.longreads.com)
1555.
Procedural content generation: L-Systems (blog.rabidgremlin.com)
1556.
3D map of Earth shows the weather in real-time (earth.nullschool.net)
1557.
SuperScript – a bot engine for creating human like chat bots (medium.com)
1558.
Paper Tape Images of Eliza in BBN PDP-1 Lisp (github.com)
1559.
Days of the year when Americans are most drunk, visualized (washingtonpost.com)
1560.
Ghost Acquires Roon.io (blog.ghost.org)