2018 Archive
4021.
We’re Measuring the Economy All Wrong (nytimes.com)
4022.
A new Venezuelan ID, created with China's ZTE, tracks citizen behavior (reuters.com)
4023.
How NoSQL forced the evolution of a scalable relational database (blog.memsql.com)
4024.
Chinese Companies Are Buying Up Cash-Strapped U.S. Colleges (bloomberg.com)
4025.
It’s time for a digital protection agency (bloomberg.com)
4026.
Amazon Is Complicit in Online Sales of Counterfeit Goods: Report (ipwatchdog.com)
4027.
Underestimating the mind-warping potential of fake video (vox.com)
4028.
Plan to replicate 50 high-impact cancer papers shrinks to just 18 (sciencemag.org)
4029.
South Korea has limited a working week to 52 hours, in order to stop overwork (weforum.org)
4030.
The Rise and Contentious Fork of RSS (twobithistory.org)
4031.
Identifying QUIC deliverables (mailarchive.ietf.org)
4032.
Facebook to ask everyone to accept being tracked so they can keep using it (independent.co.uk)
4033.
GitLab is now running on GCP (twitter.com)
4034.
Mozilla working on in-page popup blocker for Firefox (androidpolice.com)
4035.
Ask HN: What topics/subjects are worth learning for a new software engineer?
4036.
Nim 0.19 (nim-lang.org)
4037.
You probably don't want to run Firefox Nightly any more (utcc.utoronto.ca)
4038.
Direct Coupling of the Higgs Boson to the Top Quark Observed (media.uzh.ch)
4039.
Latest Text of EU Copyright Directive Shows It's Even Worse Than Expected (techdirt.com)
4040.
Congress wants to extend the copyright on some sound recordings to 144 years (boingboing.net)
4041.
Machine learning has become alchemy (2017) [video] (youtube.com)
4042.
Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms (smithsonianmag.com)
4043.
Librem 5 dev kits are shipping (puri.sm)
4044.
A Beginner's Guide to Scaling to 11M Users on Amazon's AWS (2016) (highscalability.com)
4045.
Panera Bread did nothing about its customer data vulnerability for eight months (medium.com)
4046.
The EU's Copyright Proposal Is Extremely Bad News for Everyone, Even Wikipedia (eff.org)
4047.
Show HN: Space invaders, but the invaders evolve with genetic algorithm (github.com)
4048.
Show HN: Shortcut Roulette – Dangerous, unhelpful shortcut for iOS 12 (shortcutroulette.com)
4049.
Meltdown patch reduces mkfile(8) throughput to less than 1/3 on OS X (blog.metaobject.com)
4050.
A Tour of the Top Algorithms for Machine Learning Newbies (towardsdatascience.com)