August 2018 Archive
6841.
Blue diamonds come from ocean floor that is pushed nearly to Earth’s core (arstechnica.com)
6842.
Location-Aware Distribution: Configuring servers at scale (code.fb.com)
6843.
Lightning Talk on Zcash Foundation Governance (sonyaellenmann.com)
6844.
Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: 'No Experience Necessary' (wsj.com)
6845.
An introduction to webpack and it's need (wisdomgeek.com)
6846.
Why All Engineers Must Understand Management: The View from Both Ladders (hackernoon.com)
6847.
Guys, REST APIs Are Not Databases – Thiago Marini – Medium (medium.com)
6848.
One line of JavaScript made FT.com 10 times slower (medium.com)
6849.
FB Censors US Activists and Falsely Claiming They 'Unwittingly' Planned Protest (gizmodo.com)
6850.
Solutions to Extract Data from Ethereum (madewithtea.com)
6851.
China Is Still Sorting Through Its Colorful Bike-Share Graveyards (theatlantic.com)
6852.
Minor changes to tarball release format (kernel.org)
6853.
The biggest problem for Facebook and Netflix is they are running out of humans (marketwatch.com)
6854.
Stumbles? What Stumbles? Big Tech Is as Strong as Ever (nytimes.com)
6855.
Canada's Ontario government cuts basic income project short (bbc.co.uk)
6856.
ML Application system that learn, predict, and potentially operate autonomously (slideshare.net)
6857.
MAC Addresses, UDIDs, and Privacy (adamdrake.com)
6858.
EOS raised $4B but booked everything as non-dilutive revenue (offthechain.substack.com)
6859.
FBI charges 3 Ukrainians with hacking U.S. chains, stealing credit card data (washingtonpost.com)
6860.
Exposed – minimal high performance RPC framework (github.com)
6861.
Reddit user data compromised in sophisticated hack (theguardian.com)
6862.
Dynamic Programming for Brute-Forcers (hackernoon.com)
6863.
Method of Action is a collection of tools, games and articles to learn design (method.ac)
6864.
America just won the world’s hardest math contest. Again (washingtonpost.com)
6865.
Saltpack: a modern crypto messaging format, a NaCL-based replacement for PGP (saltpack.org)
6866.
The 5-Hour Rule Used by Bill Gates, Jack Ma and Elon Musk (entrepreneur.com)
6867.
Facebook’s security chief is leaving, and no one’s going to replace him (theverge.com)
6868.
He hugged Tim Cook, then was homeless by the roadside, asking for a job (mercurynews.com)
6869.
Report: Google plans to re-enter China with government-approved search app (searchengineland.com)
6870.
Google's cloud-hosted virtual desktops (queue.acm.org)