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Japan labor shortage prompts shift to hiring permanent workers
Japan’s tightest labor market in decades shows signs of reversing a long shift toward the hiring of temporary workers.The number of full-time, permanent workers is rising for the first time since the...
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My coffeehouse nightmare (2005)
You know that charming little cafe on New York's Lower East Side that just closed after a mere six months in business—where coffee was served on silver trays with a glass of water and a little...
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The psychological importance of wasting time
There will always be an endless list of chores to complete and work to do, and a culture of relentless productivity tells us to get to it right away and feel terribly guilty about any time wasted. But...
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Engineers Investigate a Simple, No-Bake Recipe to Make Bricks from Martian Soil
Researchers compacted Mars simulant under pressure in a cylindrical, flexible rubber tube. This is what the result of the experiment looked like before it was cut into bricks.Explorers planning to...
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VHDL or Verilog?
This question gets asked again and again, by beginners and experienced designers alike. When I saw it posted on the FPGA group at reddit at reddit some time ago, I liked the answer from user fft32, so...
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How to Read Mathematics
How to Read Mathematics This article is part of my new book Rediscovering Mathematics, soon out in paperback! How to Read Mathematics by Shai Simonson and Fernando Gouvea Mathematics is “a language...
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A Closer Look at North Korea’s Ullim Tablet
By Martyn Williams03 March 2017Computer security researchers analyzing a North Korean tablet computer have discovered a level of surveillance and control not previously seen inside electronics from the...
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First introduction to LaTeX
In this guide, we hope to give you your first introduction to LaTeX. The guide does not require you to have any prior knowledge of LaTeX, but by the time you are finished, you will have written your...
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"A closure is a poor man's object; an object is a poor man's closure" (2003)
RE: What's so cool about Scheme? [Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Guy Steele wrote:> Mike Newhall wrote:> At 08:23 PM 2003.06.03 -0400, Anton van...
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How Harvard Business School Has Reshaped American Capitalism
In virtually every instance, McDonald contends, Harvard has obsessively pursued money, sending a disproportionate number of its graduates to consulting firms beginning in the 1950s (it was all but...
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Meta-syntactic programming with Racket: string interpolation
2017-04-21String interpolation is a convenient language feature which makes creating human-readable strings that contain variables easier. The classical approach to this in languages without string...
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Homebrew 1.2.0
Today I’d like to announce Homebrew 1.2.0. The most significant change since 1.1.0 is that most Homebrew taps (package repositories) in the Homebrew GitHub organisation have been deprecated and the...
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Europe’s Famed Bog Bodies Are Starting to Reveal Their Secrets
If you’re looking for the middle of nowhere, the Bjaeldskovdal bog is a good place to start. It lies six miles outside the small town of Silkeborg in the middle of Denmark’s flat, sparse Jutland...
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)453 points by whoishiring15 hours ago | hide | past | web | 704 comments | favoritePlease lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE,...
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Are we underestimating the vulnerability of bridges?
When bridges collapse: Are we underestimating the risk?A team of researchers finds that the current means of assessing bridges may underestimate their vulnerability.When bridges collapse: Are we...
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The fifty shades of Latin
In the bird’s-eye view, one might have the comforting illusion that country borders are also language borders. Especially where the borders follow the ranges of high mountains that separate peoples,...
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Fibonacci and Golden Ratio Madness
The first reviews of my new book Finding Fibonacci have just come out, and I have started doing promotional activities to try to raise awareness. As I expected, one of the first reviews I saw featured...
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LuaJIT 2.0.5 and 2.1.0-beta3 released
This is the common project page for:LuaJIT— a Just-In-Time Compiler for Lua.Coco— a Lua extension for True C Coroutines.DynASM— a Dynamic Assembler for code generation engines.Lua Bitop— a Lua...
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Asynchronous Programming in Python: Asyncio
If for some reason you have decided to comprehend the asynchronous part of Python, welcome to our “Asyncio How-to”.Note: you can successfully use Python without knowing that asynchronous paradigm even...
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Banning exploration in my infovis class
Patent #1,059,281 (Diving Apparatus for Marine Exploration and the Like)I’ve banned the word “explore” from all project proposals in my infovis class. No explore. No exploration. No exploratory. No,...
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