The Biggest Difference Between Coding Today and When I Started in the 80s
The Biggest Difference Between Coding Today and When I Started in the 80’sMar 20, 2017I’m a lot older.But seriously, the biggest skill back then was invention, creativity, imagination, whatever you...
View ArticleDeveloper Preview of Android O
Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering Since the first launch in 2008, the Android project has thrived on the incredible feedback from our vibrant ecosystems of app developers and device makers, as...
View ArticleA landslide on a comet
It was 3 a.m., and astronomer Maurizio Pajola had been up for hours looking through images taken by the Rosetta spacecraft of its dumpy, duck-shaped comet. Pajola had just started a new job studying...
View ArticlePSD2 – a directive that will change banking in Europe
In short, PSD2 enables bank customers, both consumers and businesses, to use third-party providers to manage their finances. In the near future, you may be using Facebook or Google to pay your bills,...
View ArticleThe ‘Terminator’ of startups says he’s seeing two to four wind-downs a week
For the last 25 years, Marty Pichinson and the firm he co-founded, Sherwood Partners, have specialized in selling off the assets of startups when they fail, as well as helping them extend their runway...
View ArticleCarlsbad, CA to photograph every car entering city
Carlsbad is expanding its use of automated license plate readers into a system that aims to collect the registration information of every vehicle that enters the city.The $1 million Police Department...
View ArticleLaunch HN: Boxouse (YC W17) – Shipping-container homes
Launch HN: Boxouse (YC W17) – Shipping-container homes78 points by liseman4 hours ago | hide | past | web | 101 comments | favoriteHi HN! We're Luke and Heather, founders of boxouse:...
View ArticleiPad 9.7‑inch
Learn, play, surf, create. iPad gives you the incredible display, performance, and apps to do what you love to do. Anywhere. Easily. Magically.9.7-inch Retina display 8MP and FaceTime HD camerasTouch...
View ArticleAnnouncing Free and Automated SSL Certs
We are happy to announce the general availability of Automated Certificate Management (ACM) for all paid Heroku dynos. With ACM, the cumbersome and costly process of provisioning and managing SSL...
View ArticleAmazon’s Battle to Break into the $800B Grocery Market
“Very wasteful” isn’t a phrase usually associated with Amazon.com Inc., which is so cost-conscious it once removed the light bulbs from its cafeteria’s vending machines. But after spending several...
View ArticleA simple command allows the CIA to commandeer vulnerable Cisco switches
Cisco Systems said that more than 300 models of switches it sells contain a critical vulnerability that allows the CIA to use a simple command to remotely execute malicious code that takes full control...
View ArticleLastPass RCE vulnerability fixed
I noticed this entry in the content_script array from the LastPass manifest: { "matches": [ "https://1min-ui-prod.service.lastpass.com/*" ], "js": [ "1minsignup/chrome/websiteConnector.js" ],...
View ArticleA Visual Guide to What's New in Swagger 3.0
Over the past few years, Swagger 2 has become the de facto standard for defining your API. Since then, it's been moved to the Linux foundation and renamed to Open API. Version 3 has been in the works...
View ArticleAmsterdam Airport Launches API Platform
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol offers a growing range of APIs that enables innovators to explore and use all kinds of airport data for new applications. Applications that can improve the customer...
View ArticleAMD Ryzen Machine Crashes on a Sequence of FMA3 Instructions
An AMD Ryzen 7-1800X powered machine was found to be crashing upon execution of a very specific set of FMA3 instructions by Flops version 2, a simple open-source CPU benchmark by Alexander "Mystical"...
View ArticlePaxos in 25 Lines
--- Paxos Proposer --- 1 proposer(v): 2 while not decided: 2 choose n, unique and higher than any n seen so far 3 send prepare(n) to all servers including self 4 if prepare_ok(n, na, va) from...
View ArticleJSCaml: A compile-time transformation from JavaScript to OCaml
README.mdJSCaml is a compiler for typed JavaScript, using OCaml as the target runtime.The compiler is an extension of the Flow static typechecker for JavaScript. To find out more about Flow, check out...
View Article2038: Only 21 years away
Welcome to LWN.net The following subscription-only content has been made available to you by an LWN subscriber. Thousands of subscribers depend on LWN for the best news from the Linux and free software...
View ArticleSellers printing counterfeit books and selling under Amazon's brand
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View ArticleGitHub lets staff own IP developed for personal projects using company resources
If it’s on company time, it’s the company’s dime. That’s the usual rule in the tech industry—that if employees use company resources to work on projects unrelated to their jobs, their employer can...
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