Amid pressure, Charlotte police release videos in shooting of Keith Lamont Scott
CHARLOTTE — Police officials here relented amid increasing pressure Saturday and released two videos showing the shooting death of a black man by police five days ago that has sparked several nights of...
View ArticleCppCon 2016: Dan Saks “extern c: Talking to C Programmers about C++”
Offentliggjort den 24. sep. 2016http://www.Cppcon.org—Presentation Slides, PDFs, Source Code and other presenter materials are available at: https://github.com/cppcon/cppcon2016—Most of us have heard...
View ArticleRural Indian Girls Chase Big-City Dreams
Praying for SundayBy the first week of June, the new girls are praying for Sunday to arrive. Their joints hurt. Their backs hurt. They come home from the factory with fingers punctured by needles or...
View ArticleShow HN: InstaPart – Build circuit boards faster with instant parts
What is SnapEDA? SnapEDA is an online CAD library and platform for managing electronics CAD data. Our library consists of millions of orderable parts, exports to all major design tools, and include...
View ArticleInvestigating a malware sample which sometimes fails to behave maliciously
The Sample Recently, I was tasked with investigating a malware sample which sometimes failed to behave maliciously. Unlike normal people, I spend a lot of time trying to run malware and it can be...
View ArticlePython by the C side
Mahmoud’s note: This will be my last post on the PayPal Engineering blog. If you’ve enjoyed this sort of content subscribe to my blog/pythondoeswhat.com or follow me on Twitter. It’s been fun!All the...
View ArticleProbe of leaked U.S. NSA hacking tools examines operative's 'mistake'
The logo of the U.S. National Security Agency is seen during a visit by U.S. President George W. Bush to the agency's installation in Fort Meade, Maryland, January 25, 2006. Bush met with workers and...
View ArticleMy love-hate relationship with LuaJIT
published 2015-06-18Clarification: The title is exaggerated. I have never hated LuaJIT, I just went back to using PUC Lua primarily.I started using Lua in early 2007. I had already been programming for...
View ArticleIn San Francisco, a Sinking Skyscraper and a Deepening Dispute
PhotoThe Millennium Tower, a 58-story luxury residential building in San Francisco, has sunk 16 inches since it was built in 2009.Credit Jim Wilson/The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — The developers of...
View ArticleBidirectional Replication is coming to PostgreSQL 9.6
I’m pleased to say that Postgres-BDR is on its way to PostgreSQL 9.6, and even better, it works without a patched PostgreSQL.BDR has always been an extension, but on 9.4 it required a heavily patched...
View ArticleHow to act as your own certificate authority
This guide demonstrates how to act as your own certificate authority (CA) using the OpenSSL command-line tools. This is useful in a number of situations, such as issuing server certificates to secure...
View ArticleMeet the parents who won’t let their children study literature
When I assigned an 800-page biography of Andrew Carnegie for a new undergraduate course on wealth and poverty at George Mason University a few years ago, I wasn’t sure the students would actually read...
View ArticleAsk HN: What are the best practises for using SSH keys?
Ask HN: What are the best practises for using SSH keys?199 points by TheCustardKing8 hours ago | hide | past | web | 55 comments | favoriteFollowing the recent post about upgrading SSH keys to ED25519,...
View ArticleUnpicking the Gordian knot around blockchain patents
Dr. Justin HillCrunch Network ContributorDr. Justin Hill is a partner at Olswang and co-head of patent prosecution. As a patent attorney, he advises on a broad range of IP matters, covering the...
View ArticleApplying CNN for Urban Sound Classification
In part one, we learnt to extract various features from audio clips. We, also, trained a two layer neural network to classify each sound into a predefined category. Today, we will go one step further...
View ArticleUvloop – Ultra fast implementation of asyncio event loop on top of libuv
README.rstuvloop is a fast, drop-in replacement of the built-in asyncio event loop. uvloop is implemented in Cython and uses libuv under the hood.The project documentation can be foundhere. Please...
View ArticleSilicon Valley Wages Now Double US Average
The Bay Area’s wages are getting higher, far outpacing most of the country, but more residents are finding their paychecks can’t keep up with the region’s skyrocketing cost of living.The typical...
View ArticleTwo years spent spamming spammers back
I created a bot to respond to these types of emails…Sarah: My husband dead two years ago and the family members wants to kill me and my children and seat on the inheritance he left for us with bank...
View ArticleDecline of Stack Overflow: How trolls took over your favorite Q&A site
Stack Overflow was created in 2008 by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky, as a more open alternative to earlier Q&A sites such as Experts-Exchange. The name for the website was chosen by voting in April...
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