November 2015 Archive
1231.
A new history asks: Has all the progress of the past 100 years come undone? (slate.com)
1232.
2,000% price hike for infant seizure drug called 'absurd' (cbc.ca)
1233.
Berlin social housing winning the residential race (thesaturdaypaper.com.au)
1234.
Welsh village adopts multinational tax tactics (independent.co.uk)
1235.
Smaller Overseas Entrepreneurs Find China Too Frustrating (nytimes.com)
1236.
Instagram-Famous Teen Shows the Dark Backstory of Her Perfect Selfies (teenvogue.com)
1237.
Nokia Tries to Reinvent Itself, Again, by Taking Over Alcatel-Lucent (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
1238.
Resurrecting Duckhunt (hackaday.com)
1239.
The Many Ways of WeChat (techcrunch.com)
1240.
Porting Go to Linux on IBM Z Architecture (groups.google.com)
1241.
Congress Says Yes to Space Mining, No to Rocket Regulations (wired.com)
1242.
NeuralTalk2: Efficient Image Captioning code in Torch, runs on GPU (github.com)
1243.
Experience with the Mergenthaler Linotron 202 Phototypesetter (1980) [pdf] (cs.princeton.edu)
1244.
Topology looks for the patterns inside big data (theconversation.com)
1245.
MBrace: .NET engine for large-scale data processing (mbrace.io)
1246.
Neural Networks with Few Multiplications (arxiv.org)
1247.
ColorBrewer: Color Advice for Maps (colorbrewer2.org)
1248.
Archaeologists Find 22 Ancient Greek Shipwrecks (news.nationalgeographic.com)
1249.
The Rise of Airbnb's Full-Time Landlords (bloomberg.com)
1250.
The 16-bit v/s 8-bit Blind Listening Test, Part 2 (audiocheck.net)
1251.
China's Money Exodus (bloomberg.com)
1252.
If Lisp Is So Great (2003) (paulgraham.com)
1253.
Zenefits CEO responds to rumors of company's struggles (businessinsider.com)
1254.
Barren islands that countries never stop fighting over (bbc.com)
1255.
What programmers can learn from economists: fundamentals and models (blog.darknedgy.net)
1256.
Lyft looking to raise $500M in new funding at valuation of about $4B (nytimes.com)
1257.
Young People Are Happier Than They Used to Be (theatlantic.com)
1258.
Jawbone Lays Off 60, 15% of Staff Globally, Closes NY Office (techcrunch.com)
1259.
How the Wright Brothers Blew It (2003) (forbes.com)
1260.
Turing Tarpit (en.wikipedia.org)