New Tech Lets Journalists Find Damning Soundbites
Today, we’re one month away from election day, and the race for the presidency is closing in on the home stretch. Newsrooms around the country are buzzing with activity: interviews, fact checking,...
View ArticleElephants without tusks are a response to the selective pressure of poaching
It takes a moment to register what’s missing from the elephants of Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique: Many of the females don’t have tusks.Usually, both male and female elephants sport two giant,...
View ArticleZcash: Generating a private transaction consumes ~3.2 GB of memory (by design)
Updated on: 2016-09-26Related Documents:SummaryZcash is based on Bitcoin, and has a superset of functionality, both in the protocol and the RPC interface. This document describes Zcash integration into...
View ArticleFossil: A decentralized version control, bug tracking, and wiki software
What Is Fossil?Fossil is a simple, high-reliability, distributed software configuration management system with these advanced features:Integrated Bug Tracking, Wiki, and Technotes - In addition to...
View ArticleA Natural Law for Rotating Galaxies: What Does This Mean for Dark Matter?
Distant galaxies, black holes, exotics worlds…these are not just the stuff of science fiction; they are also the stuff that makes up our reality. Our quest to understand the universe is thrilling,...
View ArticleHugo: A fast and modern static website engine
Hugo is quite possibly the easiest software to install you’ve ever used: simply download and run! Hugo doesn’t depend on administrative privileges, databases, runtimes, interpreters or external...
View ArticleThe P programming language
README.mdP is a language for asynchronous event-driven programming. P allows the programmer to specify the system as a collection of interacting state machines, which communicate with each other using...
View ArticleWhat I’ve learned from seeing 20k company pitches
I just passed my 2 year mark at 500 Startups. The other day, my colleague asked me how many company pitches I’ve personally seen. When we were calculating it out, it came out to about 20k!To be fair,...
View ArticleSamsung temporarily halts production of Galaxy Note 7
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Yonhap) -- Samsung Electronics Co. has temporarily suspended production of the Galaxy Note 7 smartphone, an official at a supplier for Samsung said Monday, amid a series of media...
View ArticlePinterest for Programmers
Arduino Quadcopter – Phase 2 (Mobile Control) – YouTube Just Bought A Raspberry Pi? 11 Things You Need To Know – YouTube Windows IoT Core Breathalyzer – Hackster.io Using Arduino to communicate with...
View ArticleThe Anatomy of a Z80 Gate (2014)
Data bus on the Z80 processor is 8 bits wide. Data bus wires carrying information within the chip itself do not simply connect to package pins and out to the world - the gate circuitry of each bit is...
View ArticleUS carriers halt Samsung Note 7 sales and replacements
Image copyrightAFPImage caption Samsung's flagship phone was only launched in AugustSmartphone giant Samsung has reportedly stopped production of its Note 7 phone amid claims that replacement devices...
View ArticleNommu Linux
NOMMU LinuxMailing ListOur mailing list is nommu@nommu.org, with a mailman subscription/archive page at mailing list.Programming for nommu LinuxA nommu system does not use amemory management unit,...
View ArticleFalsehoods Programmers Believe About Time
Over the past couple of years I have spent a lot of time debugging other engineers’ test code. This was interesting work, occasionally frustrating but always informative. One might not immediately...
View ArticleThe Dutch Reach: Clever Workaround to Keep Cyclists from Getting “Doored”
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View ArticleWhat even is a container: namespaces and cgroups
The first time I heard about containers it was like – what? what’s that?Is a container a process? What’s Docker? Are containers Docker? Help!The word “container” doesn’t mean anything super precise....
View ArticleNew 'Dead Sea Scrolls' Revealed
More than 25 previously unpublished "Dead Sea Scroll" fragments, dating back 2,000 years and holding text from the Hebrew Bible, have been brought to light, their contents detailed in two new books....
View ArticleCode review – is it really useful?
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur.Startup Framework is a website builder for professionals. Startup Framework contains components and complex blocks (PSD+HTML Bootstrap themes and templates) which...
View ArticleWorkplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses
After 20 months in a closed beta under the working title Facebook at Work, (as we predicted it would the other week) today Facebook is finally bringing its enterprise-focused messaging and social...
View ArticleGit-repo – Manage Gitlab, GitHub and Bitbucket from the command line
2016-10-10· /code· { python, code, github, gitlab, bitbucket, git }· :e∨Over the last decade, we’ve seen many online platforms offering repository hosting, like SourceForge, Savannah, Gitorious,...
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