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Drivetribe’s Modern Take on CQRS with Apache Flink

The Architecture And The Developer Experience Posted on Mar 9th, 2017 by Aris KoliopoulosThis is a guest post from Aris Koliopoulos, a senior software engineer at London-based Drivetribe.Drivetribe is...

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Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook

C code is handled a little differently, as it must be compiled and run. This block:#+HEADERS: :includes <math.h> :flags -lm #+HEADERS: :var x=1.0 :var y=4.0 :var z=10.0#+BEGIN_SRC C :exports...

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Pushing Swift to the Server

TranscriptChris: Okay, while we get that set up. Yes, I'm Chris Bailey. I'm part of the Swift @ IBM engineering team. We've been working on Swift since its announcement as open source in December last...

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A Study of MAC Address Randomization in Mobile Devices and When It Fails

(Submitted on 8 Mar 2017)Abstract: MAC address randomization is a privacy technique whereby mobile devices rotate through random hardware addresses in order to prevent observers from singling out their...

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Why Trello Failed to Build a $1B Business

In 2011, Joel Spolsky launched his company Fog Creek’s new product at TechCrunch Disrupt called Trello. It looked a lot like a whiteboard with sticky notes translated into a web browser and an iPhone...

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The Cloud’s Software: A Look Inside Backblaze

When most of us think about “the cloud,” we have an abstract idea that it’s computers in a data center somewhere – racks of blinking lights and lots of loud fans. There’s truth to that. Have a look...

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Id as Super-Ego: The Creation of Duke Nukem 3D (2001) [pdf]

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Mirror grinding

Mirror grinding   How do you turn a chunk of glass into a telescope mirror, with a surface accurate to a couple millionths of a millimeter ? And why do you wish to do so? Printer friendly version of...

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Nomad Task Versioning

Lately I’ve been playing around with a lot of HashiCorp tools including Nomad, their solution to application scheduling. Despite its relative immaturity, there are a few things I really like about it:...

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Unplanned Freefall? Some Survival Tips

By David Carkeet Admit it: You want to be the sole survivor of an airline disaster. You aren't looking for a disaster to happen, but if it does, you see yourself coming through it. I'm here to tell you...

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Neil Green's Response to “How to *never* complete anything”

The following is my response to Ewan Valentine’s blog post “How to never complete anything” that I discovered on Hacker News. Once again, I ask for people’s indulgence for posting a reply on my own...

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How Drive.ai Is Mastering Autonomous Driving with Deep Learning

Among all of the self-driving startups working towards Level 4 autonomy (a self-driving system that doesn’t require human intervention in most scenarios), Mountain View, Calif.-based Drive.ai’s...

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Abstract Algebra (2016) [pdf]

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How to Scale PostgreSQL on AWS: Learnings from Citus Cloud

Citus is a distributed database that extends (not forks) PostgreSQL for large workloads. One challenge associated with building a distributed relational database (RDBMS) is that they require notable...

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Ask HN: How do you set prices?

Ask HN: How do you set prices?231 points by fnbr6 hours ago | hide | past | web | 86 comments | favoriteI'm helping a friend's startup figure out pricing for their products. What are some...

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Planet Explorer Beta

Working to solve some of the world’s toughest social, humanitarian and environmental challenges? Let our data power your next breakthrough. Incorporate Planet’s frequent, high resolution satellite...

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Found: A Colossal Statue of Ramses II Hiding Under a Cairo Street

Head of the bust, pulled from the area of King Ramses II’s temple, at the ancient site of Heliopolis. Ibrahim Ramadan/Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesSteadily, from the muddy ground of a modern Cairo...

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Goodbye Mac App Store

While Jettison and HistoryHound are still supported and sold on the St. Clair Software website, I’ve pulled them from the Mac App Store. The versions that were in the Mac App Store were older...

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Jarvis – A Personal Assistant for Linux

README.mdPersonal Assistant for LinuxWhat is this?A simple personal assistant for Linux which works on terminal.How to use?Just clone the repository and run python main.pyPlease check requirements.txt...

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FBI Used Best Buy's Geek Squad to Increase Secret Public Surveillance

Recently unsealed records reveal a much more extensive secret relationship than previously known between the FBI and Best Buy's Geek Squad, including evidence the agency trained company technicians on...

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