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Fullstack Academy (YC S12) is hiring a part-time junior instructor in Chicago
Fullstack Academy is a premier software development school located in New York and Chicago. Y Combinator backed and named “Best Coding Bootcamp of 2015” by SkilledUp, our school has garnered the...
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How I learned to program
How I learned to programHow I learned to programTavish Armstrong has a great document where he describes how and when he learned the programming skills he has. I like this idea because I’ve found that...
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How the New York Times critic writes the reviews that make and break restaurants
Pete Wells, the restaurant critic of the Times, who writes a review every week—and who occasionally writes one that creates a national hubbub about class, money, and soup—was waiting for a table not...
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A lost study of Buddhist art reveals a hidden side of a great literary critic
The Great Buddha of Kamakura, Japan. (Wikimedia)When William Empson took a job as a university lecturer in Tokyo in 1931, his star was rising. The previous year he had published his first book, Seven...
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Google’s Self-Driving Car Project Is Losing Out to Rivals
Chris Urmson, the mild-mannered robotics expert who ran Google’s self-driving car project, used to say that when his son reached driving age in 2019 the technology would be available so the teenager...
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Chemistry says Moon is proto-Earth’s mantle, relocated
Two recent models for the formation of the moon, one that allows exchange through a silicate atmosphere (top), and another that creates a more thoroughly mixed sphere of a supercritical fluid (bottom),...
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Fighting Corruption in Brazil with Machine Learning
Fighting corruptions in a massive and effective way🇧🇷 Ir para versão em PortuguêsThe idea of automating the analysis of public accounts is unprecedented: engaging the population on training our...
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Weirdly broken wifi access points
I've stayed in my share of accommodations with questionable internet setups and wifi failure modes—mainly B&Bs and AirBnBs equipped with consumer-level access points that don't really work. Of...
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FreeBSD: a lesson in poor defaults
######################################################################### # FreeBSD - a lesson in poor defaults # # Published on 3/18/2016 # # Last updated 9/05/2016 # # https://twitter.com/blakkheim #...
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Don't Start Big, Start a Little Snowball
Little SnowballsWhen myself and my co-host interviewed Travis Kalanick on our podcast, he had recently co-founded a little snowball called UberCab. It was so early in Uber’s existence he didn’t even...
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Golang concepts from an OOP point of view
IntroductionObjectives of this documentEase golang learning by associating golang-specific concepts with previously known concepts in the OOP field.Promote golang usage by easing language understanding...
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An OS 9 odyssey: Why some Mac users won’t abandon 16-year-old software
Enlarge/ Andrew Cunningham isn't the only one who's been dabbling in OS 9 within the last five years.Andrew CunninghamBack when Ars Senior Products Editor Andrew Cunningham was forced to work in Mac OS...
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World's oldest snowshoe found on a glacier in Italy's Dolomites
Since nicknamed Oetzi after a local mountain range, the mummified corpse has revealed a wealth of information on what people of the period wore and ate, how they hunted and armed themselves and how...
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Restoring YC's Xerox Alto, Day 6: Fixed a chip, data read from disk
In today's Xerox Alto restoration session we investigated why the disk drive isn't working and found a failed chip. With this chip repaired, we were able to read a block from disk, although the system...
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BlazingDB uses GPUs to manipulate huge databases in no time
Gathering petabytes of data about your customers is cool, but how can you take advantage of this data? BlazingDB lets you run high-performance SQL on a database using a ton of GPUs. The company is...
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For 25 years, Carl Malamud has been fighting to make public information public
On August 8, Carl Malamud wakes up early. He usually does. Most days, from the moment his eyes open, he is fixated on the mission. Early morning offers great hours to get work done, though afternoons...
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A tale of an impossible bug: big.LITTLE and caching
When someone says multi-core, we unconsciously think SMP. That worked out well for us until recently when ARM announced big.LITTLE. ARM’s big.LITTLE architecture is the first mass producedAMP...
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Libtiff goes offline
The Libtiff library, which has been a reference implementation of TIFF for many years, has disappeared from the Internet. It was located at remotesensing.org, a domain whose owner apparently was...
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Microsoft Pix
Hover Zoom ComparisonMicrosoft Pix prioritizes people when faces are detected, so it auto-adjusts exposure to correct for backlight, and tries to keep colors as true to life as possible. Compare the...
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When Things Go Wrong
We believe the highest performing engineering teams have a process to identify, triage, fix and learn from service degradations and downtime. At Localytics, we build highly available and scalable...
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