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Thoughts on Fairness in Rowing
Posted on: August 30, 2016 /I’m sure many of you have closely followed the olympic rowing regatta. One of the highlights of the event was the close finish in the men’s single sculls between Mahé...
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Decoding Data from Iridium Satellites
August 31, 2016At this year’s hacker themed Eleventh Hope conference, Stefan “Sec” Zehl and Schneider gave a talk which discusses their latest work on decoding data from Iridium satellites using SDR’s....
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The Cat-And-Mouse Story of Implementing Anti-Spam for Mail.Ru Email Service
Hey guys!In this article, I’d like to tell you a story of implementing the anti-spam system for Mail.Ru Group’s email service and share our experience of using the Tarantool database within this...
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SASM – Simple Crossplatform IDE for Assembly Languages
SASM (SimpleASM) - simple Open Source crossplatform IDE for NASM, MASM, GAS, FASM assembly languages. SASM has syntax highlighting and debugger. The program works out of the box and is great for...
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Atom 1.10 and 1.11 beta
Hot on the heels of the last release, we’ve released Atom v1.10 and v1.11-beta!1.10 StableHere are some of the noteworthy changes that are shipping to Stable in 1.10. Thanks to our diligent beta users...
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The Surprising Story of the First Microprocessors
Photo: IntelThe Die is Cast: Intel’s 4-bit 4004 chip is widely regarded as the world’s first microprocessor. But it was not without rivals for that title. Transistors, the electronic amplifiers...
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Safe Retirement Spending Using TensorFlow
This is not investment advice! This is a historical study/mad science experiment. It is probably not applicable to you, it is a work in progress, and it may contain errors.Certainty equivalent value is...
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Amazon Launchpad for Startups
Why is Amazon launching this program? We often hear from startups that bringing a new product to customers can be just as challenging as building it. At Amazon Launchpad, we’re working with...
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Rclone: rsync for cloud storage
Rclone is a command line program to sync files and directories to and fromGoogle DriveAmazon S3Openstack Swift / Rackspace cloud files / Memset MemstoreDropboxGoogle Cloud StorageAmazon DriveMicrosoft...
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Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard
People are creating, sharing, and storing data at a faster rate than at any other time in history. When it comes to innovating on storing and transmitting that data, at Facebook we're making...
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Reported.ly Says Goodbye
Today is officially the last day of reported.ly. Due to a loss of funding from our parent company, First Look Media, we’re suspending operations today and ending our employment there. Tomorrow,...
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Copenhagen vs. Everett, Teleportation, and ER=EPR
(Submitted on 9 Apr 2016 (v1), last revised 23 Apr 2016 (this version, v2))Abstract: Quantum gravity may have as much to tell us about the foundations and interpretation of quantum mechanics as it does...
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BrowserLab: Automated regression detection for the web
Several years ago, Facebook was largely rendered server-side, and there was only a small amount of JavaScript on the site. To understand loading time, we could apply simple tools that focused solely on...
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Docker Swarm Visualizer
README.md*** note *** Recent import by @DovAmir adds node and container data.Demo container that displays Docker services running on a Docker Swarm in a diagram.This works only with Docker Swarm Mode...
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Speech Is 3x Faster Than Typing for English and Mandarin on Mobile Devices
With the ubiquity of mobile devices like smartphones, two new widely used methods have emerged: miniature touch screen keyboards and speech-based dictation. It is currently unknown how these two...
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Bored with Bluetooth speakers? Check out our new DECT stereo speaker
DECT RadioAudiophile Sound20-hour Play Time3 Sound ProfilesTransformableUser FriendlyNo cloudy channel interference. 2 times longer range than Bluetooth and half radiation power of WiFi.A TRUE stereo...
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The king of smokers
There were plenty of doctors in the nineteenth century who thought that smoking was good for you; so there’s nothing particularly out of the ordinary in this excerpt from an article published in the...
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Octopress on Raspberry Pi
In this article, you’ll be learning how to install the Octopress Framework on your Raspberry Pi. We’ve tried it for some time now, and it is just plain amazing to work on. A blogging framework for...
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Why Luck Plays a Big Role in Making You Rich
Robert Frank was playing tennis one cold Saturday morning in Ithaca, New York, when his heart stopped. Sudden cardiac arrest–a short-circuit in the heart’s electrical signaling—kills 98 percent of its...
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Considerations When Using Plastic Gears
Image courtesy of ThinkstockEngineers and designers can’t view plastic gears as just metal gears cast in thermoplastic. They must pay attention to special issues and considerations unique to plastic...
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