August 2016 Archive
1531.
Apple and the Gun Emoji (blog.emojipedia.org)
1532.
Meme pages plan mass revolt against alleged Facebook bias (dailydot.com)
1533.
Insurance Startup Oscar Quits Two Markets, Rethinks Obamacare Plans (bloomberg.com)
1534.
NAACP members call for ban on privately managed charter schools (washingtonpost.com)
1535.
“Culture fit” craze is turning tech from innovators to ideological fiefdoms (imgur.com)
1536.
Silicon Valley CEO who allegedly kicked girlfriend 117 times gets 1 year in jail (theguardian.com)
1537.
The Unfortunate Physics of Male Urination (priceonomics.com)
1538.
Jazz in the 21st century: Playing outside the box (economist.com)
1539.
The lambdaway project, a small and coherent language dedicated to the web (epsilonwiki.free.fr)
1540.
The Concept of ‘Cat Face’ (lrb.co.uk)
1541.
Albuquerque program hires panhandlers to work in maintenance jobs (washingtonpost.com)
1542.
Wagon Acquired by Box (wagonhq.com)
1543.
How Long Should I Make My API Key? (blog.learnphoenix.io)
1544.
The Mesmerizing Math of a Wind Turbine on Fire (wired.com)
1545.
Introducing iOS Web Debugging for VS Code on Windows and Mac (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
1546.
Codemoji (codemoji.org)
1547.
Flip Feng Shui: A new cross-VM exploitation vector (vusec.net)
1548.
Announcing TypeScript 2.0 RC (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
1549.
New York to bar sex offenders on parole from playing Pokemon Go (reuters.com)
1550.
I Lived Like a Baller for a Month in Venezuela on Just £75 (2015) (vice.com)
1551.
PC-BSD becomes TrueOS (trueos.org)
1552.
Welcome Sharon (blog.ycombinator.com)
1553.
Show HN: Simple express-like routing for front-end (github.com)
1554.
Salsa20 design [pdf] (cr.yp.to)
1555.
An Elementary Proof of Wallis’ Product Formula for Pi (2005) (fermatslibrary.com)
1556.
Microsoft acquires Beam interactive livestreaming service (blogs.microsoft.com)
1557.
We found over 10000 bugs in various open source projects (viva64.com)
1558.
British woman held after being seen reading book about Syria on plane (theguardian.com)
1559.
PatientBank (YC S16) Is Creating a Unified Medical Record System (themacro.com)
1560.
E-paper is making it's way into museums (visionect.com)