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Rise of the High-Profit Micro Farm (2016)
It's a warmer-than-average December day in Selmer, Tennessee. A diverse group of farmers, from teen-aged to late fifties, are all waiting around patiently, mingling and sipping coffee. Everyone has a...
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Class Breaks
There's a concept from computer security known as a class break. It's a particular security vulnerability that breaks not just one system, but an entire class of systems. Examples might be a...
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Request for Startups: Water
We’re optimistic we will beat climate change. But, at the same time, we need to prepare for things to get worse.One area we think a lot about is water—natural fresh supplies could be at serious risk...
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The Isdalen mystery
Foto: Paul S. Amundsen / NRKA woman lies dead and severely burned in a scree slope outside the centre of Bergen. All clues to who she might be, have been removed. No one has made any progress in this...
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Rescale (YC W12)is Hiring Director of Marketing
Responsibilities:Lead overall marketing strategy for Rescale by anticipating industry trends and directing market research efforts for the companyDevelop the marketing process including inbound,...
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Tor at the Heart: Firefox
During the month of December, we're highlighting other organizations and projects that rely on Tor, build on Tor, or are accomplishing their missions better because Tor exists. Check out our blog each...
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Study: carpooling apps could reduce traffic 3x in NYC
Tue, 01/03/2017By Adam Conner-Simons, MIT CSAILPress InquiriesTraffic is not just a nuisance for drivers: it’s also a public-health hazard and bad news for the economy.Transportation studies put the...
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Open-Sourcing Our Incident Response Documentation
03Jan/17Reliability has always been one of the primary design considerations at PagerDuty. (We even use PagerDuty at PagerDuty!) But what do we do when the unexpected happens and something does go...
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Odo: Shapeshifting for your data
>>> fromodoimportodo>>> importpandasaspd>>> odo('accounts.csv',pd.DataFrame)# Load csv file into DataFrame name balance0 Alice 1001 Bob 2002 Charlie 300>>> # Load...
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Introducing rkt’s ability to detect privilege escalation attacks on containers
Intel's Clear Containers technology allows admins to benefit from the ease of container-based deployment without giving up the security of virtualization. For more than a year, rkt's KVM stage1 has...
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Inflammation halts fat-burning
Prof. Alexander Pfeifer from the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Bonn.Credit: Barbara Frommann/Uni BonnScientists at the University of Bonn have shown in mice that excess...
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An Ancient City Emerges in a Remote Rain Forest
Most of the important archaeological sites in Central America were “discovered” by archaeologists who, in fact, didn’t discover them at all but were led to the ruins by local people. I’ve known several...
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Challenges you’re going to face when building a chatbot
Developing your own chatbot? You're likely to meet these challenges. Continue reading to find out what we've learned from developing a medical bot.Recently we have released Symptomate Bot– one of the...
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DeepMind’s work in 2016: a round-up
In a world of fiercely complex, emergent, and hard-to-master systems - from our climate to the diseases we strive to conquer - we believe that intelligent programs will help unearth new scientific...
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Startup Puts Everything You Need for a Two-Acre Farm in a Shipping Container
It all started with shipping containers. Brandi DeCarli and Scott Thompson were working in Kisumu, Kenya on a youth center meant to provide basic resources like education, health and sport. It was to...
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Study finds more extreme storms ahead for California
On Dec. 11, 2014, a freight train of a storm steamed through much of California, deluging the San Francisco Bay Area with three inches of rain in just one hour. The storm was fueled by what...
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Ticketmaster is a horrible company
January 3, 2017Ticketmaster is my least favorite shopping experiences on the internet. Each screen I click through I feel like I’m being taken advantage of. Just now, during my previous shopping...
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Getting Past C
One of the medium-term possibilities we’re seriously considering for NTPsec is moving the entire codebase out of C into a language with no buffer overruns, and in general much stronger security and...
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Kaspersky: SSL interception differentiates certificates with a 32bit hash
In order to inspect encrypted data streams using SSL/TLS, Kasperky installs a WFP driver to intercept all outgoing HTTPS connections. They effectively proxy SSL connections, inserting their own...
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Gusto is hiring an experienced Data Engineer in SF
U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment Information (Completion is voluntary) Individuals seeking employment at Gusto are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex,...
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