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When you say “Free Speech,” you likely mean “Rights and Responsibilities”
Banning somebody from a social network is not a violation of Free Speech, it’s simply civics in action. The concept of “rights and responsibilities” has been been lost in our times. Read on for an...
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Sending Springer Home
Elena Passarello’s column is about famous animals from history. This week: Springer the Orca.Design by Kristen Radtke.Shit, it’s A-73!—The biologist Graeme EllisHer calls were so loud they practically...
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ASUS Tinker Board’s Debian and Kodi Linux Images, Schematics and Documentation
We discovered ASUS Tinker Board powered by Rockchip RK3288 processor earlier this year via some slides hidden in a dark corner of the Internet… ASUS has been incredibly quiet about it, but as the board...
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Fullstack Academy (YC S12) is hiring devs in CHICAGO who love teaching
Fullstack Academy is the premier software development school located in New York City and Chicago. Y Combinator-backed, our school has garnered the attention of Forbes, TechCrunch, and Business...
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Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. (2007)
By Michael PollanThe New York Times Magazine, January 28, 2007Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing...
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Ways we harden our KVM hypervisor at Google Cloud: Security in plaintext
By Andy Honig, Technical Lead Manager and Nelly Porter, Senior Product ManagerGoogle Cloud uses the open-source KVM hypervisor that has been validated by scores of researchers as the foundation of...
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Lessons Learned from “On Writing Well”
As a software engineer you will come to a point where writing matters. Perhaps you want to leave your fellow developers a note, you have to write an e-mail to a customer or you have to sum up the...
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Robotic Fabricator Could Change the Way Buildings Are Constructed
But the building industry is trickier than many others. Construction sites are complex environments that are constantly changing. Any robot would have to be powerful enough to handle heavy material but...
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The Heroism of Incremental Care
We devote vast resources to surgeons and the like, while starving the physicians whose steady, intimate care helps many more.CreditIllustration by Todd St. JohnBy 2010, Bill Haynes had spent almost...
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The Steam Controller Configurator's Untapped Power
The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutra’s community.The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent...
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Meet the woman who put 50M stolen articles online so you can read them for free
Alexandra Elbakyan is a highbrow pirate in hiding.The 27-year-old graduate student from Kazakhstan is operating a searchable online database of nearly 50 million stolen scholarly journal articles,...
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Show HN: Invite friends to SSH into your laptop using their GitHub handle
Jan 25, 2017 by Taylor WakefieldInstant SSH EverywhereWouldn’t it be great to allow a fellow developer to quickly and securely SSH into your laptop when you’re in the middle of a debugging session...
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The internals of PostgreSQL
In this document, the internals of PostgreSQL for database administrators and system developers are described. PostgreSQL is an open source multi-purpose relational database system which is widely...
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Deep learning algorithm diagnoses skin cancer as well as seasoned dermatologists
January 25, 2017Deep learning algorithm does as well as dermatologists in identifying skin cancerIn hopes of creating better access to medical care, Stanford researchers have trained an algorithm to...
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IPv6 Support for AWS Extended to 15 Regions
We’ve been working to add IPv6 support to many different parts of AWS over the last couple of years, starting with Elastic Load Balancing, AWS IoT, Amazon Route 53, Amazon CloudFront, AWS WAF, and S3...
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Tesla sues ex-Autopilot director for taking proprietary info, poaching employees
Tesla has sued former employee Sterling Anderson, who acted as Director of its Autopilot Programs for just over a year, for breach of contract. The suit accuses Anderson of having tried to recruit away...
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Launch HN: Voodoo Manufacturing (YC W17) – AWS for Manufacturing
MarketingAlt1Created with Sketch. Marketing & Advertising Make unique 3D printed displays, gifts and promotional items for corporate events, tradeshows, marketing campagins, weddings, parties, and...
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Show HN: Ship 2.0 – A macOS Native Interface to GitHub Issues
We just released Ship 2.0, a fast and comprehensive macOS native interface to GitHub Issues. You can download it here.A year ago, when we released Ship 1.0, we knew that GitHub was the most popular...
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For this metal, electricity flows, but not the heat
Vanadium dioxide (VO2) nanobeams synthesized by Berkeley researchers show exotic electrical and thermal properties. In this false-color scanning electron microscopy image, thermal conductivity was...
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Craig Newmark donates $500k to reduce harassment on Wikipedia
Photo by Daniel McKay, CC BY-SA 2.0.Today, the Wikimedia Foundation announced the launch of a community health initiative to address harassment and toxic behavior on Wikipedia, with initial funding of...
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