August 2016 Archive
1861.
Linode-hosted DNS zones were down (status.linode.com)
1862.
Ask HN: If you found an easy way to factor large numbers, would you tell anyone?
1863.
Tesla Model S battery bursts into flames, car “totally destroyed” in 5 minutes (arstechnica.co.uk)
1864.
HacBook Elite is a fully-functional Mac running OS X. For 1/3 the price (hacbook.com)
1865.
Supersymmetry Bet Settled with Cognac (quantamagazine.org)
1866.
The Limited Role of Utility Calculations in Moral Judgment (journals.plos.org)
1867.
What to use instead of std::set [pdf] (lafstern.org)
1868.
Jacob Appelbaum: What Has This Man Done? (zeit.de)
1869.
Canadian Cops Want a Law That Forces People to Hand Over Encryption Passwords (motherboard.vice.com)
1870.
Can we make consciousness into an engineering problem? (aeon.co)
1871.
Project Tofino – A browser interaction experiment by Mozilla (github.com)
1872.
Detecting Living Eyeballs During Retinal Scan (spectrum.ieee.org)
1873.
Xterm.js 1.1 – Full in-browser terminal with IME support and physical scrolling (github.com)
1874.
In praise of Dewey (aeon.co)
1875.
Revisited: Alan Watts, “This Is It” (theparisreview.org)
1876.
New Update to the Microsoft Services Agreement (microsoft.com)
1877.
The Well-Trodden Art of the Manhole Cover in New York City (hyperallergic.com)
1878.
Realtime funnel analysis using Solr and Cassandra (blog.getjaco.com)
1879.
Categorizing Posts on Tumblr (engineering.tumblr.com)
1880.
The Ultimate Cheat Sheet for Reinventing Yourself (jamesaltucher.com)
1881.
The Java Synchronisers (codurance.com)
1882.
Show HN: Noms – The versioned, forkable, syncable database (github.com)
1883.
This Image Is Also an HTML Webpage (dev.to)
1884.
Mozilla Is Fighting for EU Copyright Law Reform (blog.mozilla.org)
1885.
‘No Empirical Evidence’ for Thomas Piketty’s Inequality Theory (blogs.wsj.com)
1886.
A Lighter and Smaller Laptop (kartick-log.blogspot.com)
1887.
Encryption under fire in Europe as France and Germany call for decrypt law (techcrunch.com)
1888.
Did Our Ancestors Become Bipedal So They Could Throw? (nautil.us)
1889.
Free as in Health Care (exple.tive.org)
1890.
How No Man's Sky Is Like Reading (theatlantic.com)