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Amazon's Bezos Launches $2B Fund to Help the Homeless
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Millennials and Mainframes: How to Bridge the Gap
Model 9’s cloud-based tapeless backup solution for mainframes is a game-changer. “Game-changer” is not a term often associated with the world of mainframes. However, in a recent interview with two key...
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Insect-inspired robot can fly a kilometer on a charge with flappy wings
The incredible agility of the common house or fruit fly puts every drone and robot to shame, but devices inspired by them are beginning to catch up. A new four-winged flapping robot not only...
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Yarn Plug'n'Play: Getting rid of node_modules
TL;DR: Plug 'N Play is a good idea. .pnp.js is a bad idea. .pnp.json would be a better idea.To preface this, I think Plug 'N Play is a great idea. My concerns come from the dependency analysis side. My...
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Introduction to HAProxy ACLs
When IT pros add load balancers into their infrastructure, of course they’re looking for the ability to scale out their websites and services, get better availability, and gain more restful nights...
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Preserving Outputs Precisely while Adaptively Rescaling Targets
Multi-task learning - allowing a single agent to learn how to solve many different tasks - is a longstanding objective for artificial intelligence research. Recently, there has been a lot of excellent...
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Intent to Implement: Display Locking
Title:Intent to Implement: Display LockingBody:Contact emailsvmpstr@chromium.org, chrishtr@chromium.orgExplainerShort version: https://github.com/chrishtr/display-locking/blob/master/README.mdLong...
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Remote Code Execution in Alpine Linux
tl;dr I found several bugs in apk, the default package manager for Alpine Linux. Alpine is a really lightweight distro that is very commonly used with Docker. The worst of these bugs, the subject of...
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Driverless Hype Collides with Merciless Reality
Mercedes-Benz unveiled its dream of a fully autonomous multipurpose vehicle this week. The announcement was full of buzzwords—the modular Vision Urbanetic“enables on-demand, sustainable and efficient...
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SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating from distant galaxy
The perennial optimists at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI, have joined the rest of the world in deploying AI to help manage huge data sets— and their efforts almost instantly...
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$250 Trillion in Debt: The World’s Post-Lehman Legacy
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Chrome 70 beta: shape detection, web authentication, and more
Unless otherwise noted, changes described below apply to the newest Chrome Beta channel release for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, macOS, and Windows. View a complete list of the features in Chrome 70 on...
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Bullshit Job Notes
Scott talks about a bit of medical theater, in which companies demand doctors notes to allow people to bring in their own chairs to work; he is often the person in best position to provide that note,...
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Host Your Blog on DigitalOcean with Docker, Nginx and Let’s Encrypt
This post summarizes the steps needed to setup a blog like this, using Ghost on DigitalOcean with CoreOs, Docker, Nginx and Let's Encrypt.During this tutorial we are using a (recent) Ubuntu Linux...
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Thousands of scientists publish a paper every five days
Authorship is the coin of scholarship — and some researchers are minting a lot. We searched Scopus for authors who had published more than 72 papers (the equivalent of one paper every 5 days) in any...
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Advice from a Geographer: Put Away the Map
Our lives are saturated with maps. We see them in cars, subways, and airplanes. We access them with our phones, computers, and GPS devices. There are maps of deep space and of the topography of the...
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U.S. Spies Rush to Protect Defectors After Skripal Poisoning
The Russians, according to former officials, have used a variety of means to track the former informants.Many, including the one in Florida, were relocated to the United States along with their family...
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Sony Finally Admits It Doesn’t Own Bach
Here’s the thing about different people playing the same piece of music: sometimes, they’re going to sound similar. And when music is by a composer who died 268 years ago, putting his music in the...
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Teaching foreign policy majors to code
Sample code from STIA 315 at Georgetown University (Spring 2018).This spring I taught a class on low-cost air quality sensors at Georgetown University. As I’ve described elsewhere, the class was a fun...
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The Most Notorious Towing Company in Chicago Gets the Boot
CHICAGO—In a city known for gangsters, bootleggers and corrupt politicians, residents will tell you the most reviled actor on the North Side is a tow-truck company.For more than half a century,...
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