Twitter and Yes, Inc
When we came together to form Yes, we set out to build products to bring people closer to one another. From Frenzy, which brought friends together in real life, to WYD, which has made so many of us...
View ArticleThe Busy Person’s Lies
After hitting hour 8,784 at 5 a.m. on April 20, I started analyzing my logs and adding up the categories. If I wanted to construct a narrative of craziness, the sort professional women in particular...
View ArticleNew – IPv6 Support for EC2 Instances in Virtual Private Clouds
The continued growth of the Internet, particularly in the areas of mobile applications, connected devices, and IoT, has spurred an industry-wide move to IPv6. In accord with a mandate that dates back...
View ArticleCondé Nast Shutters Self Magazine in Print, More Cuts on the Way
Condé Nast is closing Self magazine in print, WWD has learned.The publisher confirmed the news and said it would continue operating Self.com, and that executive digital director Carolyn Klystra would...
View ArticleBlox – Open Source Tools for Amazon ECS
The cluster-state-service consumes events from a stream of all changes to containers and instances across your Amazon ECS clusters, persists the events in a local data store, and provides APIs (e.g.,...
View ArticleHow the Singapore Circle Line rogue train was caught with data
How can signal interference move through a tunnel?At this point, it still wasn’t clear that a single train was the culprit.What we’d established was that there seemed to be a pattern over time and...
View ArticleZenefits ordered to stop offering free insurance software in Washington
Washington State Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has ordered insurance startup Zenefits to stop providing free use of its software in the state. The Commissioner issued a release detailing the...
View ArticleAnnouncing OSS-Fuzz: Continuous Fuzzing for Open Source Software
By Mike Aizatsky, Kostya Serebryany (Software Engineers, Dynamic Tools); Oliver Chang, Abhishek Arya (Security Engineers, Google Chrome); and Meredith Whittaker (Open Research Lead). We are happy to...
View ArticlePeople.ai (YC S16) Is Hiring Sr. Software Engineers
Y Combinator-Backed People.ai is Hiring Engineers to Help Us Build AI for Better Team ManagementPeople don’t quit their jobs, they quit their managers. Everyone has had a manager that makes them not...
View ArticleAsk HN: Who is hiring? (December 2016)
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2016)305 points by whoishiring7 hours ago | hide | past | web | 485 comments | favoritePlease lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE,...
View ArticleAWS X-Ray – Distributed Tracing System
AWS X-Ray works for both simple and complex applications, either in development or in production. You can analyze simple asynchronous event calls, three-tier web applications, or complex microservices...
View ArticleAWS Shield – Managed DDoS Protection
AWS Shield Advanced provides enhanced detection, inspecting network flows and also monitoring application layer traffic to your Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Amazon CloudFront, or Amazon Route 53...
View ArticleFour New Names Officially Added to the Periodic Table of Elements
PhotoJoe Hamilton, left, and A. V. Ramayya, who found the new element Tennessine, autographing a periodic table of the elements for a co-worker at Vanderbilt University in June.Credit Mark...
View ArticleAngelList acquires Product Hunt
AngelList, the LinkedIn for startups, just bought Product Hunt, the platform where people vote up or down on startup products, for an undisclosed amount.Product Hunt was rumored to be raising its next...
View ArticleMaps that show the anatomy of America’s vast infrastructure
Based on the Skytrax World Airport AwardsSingapore ChangiIncheon International AirportMunich AirportTokyo International HanedaHong Kong International AirportCentrair AirportZurich AirportLondon...
View ArticleJq – Work with JSON on the command line
Frustration with slow and manual processes is probably my number one motivator to discover new tooling. Having lately worked with Swagger on a Json API I found myself in need of a tool to work with...
View ArticleOne Dollar Glasses – Help for 150M people
Documentary on OneDollarGlasses Documentary on OneDollarGlasses, filmed by the Siemens Foundation On the occasion of the award ceremony of the “empowering people.Awards” the Siemens foundation has...
View ArticleServerless Comparison: Zappa vs. Chalice
On July 11, 2016, 6 months after the first published version of Zappa, Amazon announced the preview release of Chalice, now the Python Severless Microframework for AWS. This was a fairly big shock to...
View ArticleURL Parsing in WebKit
It’s 2016. URLs have been used for decades now. You would think they would have consistent behavior. You would be wrong.ConformanceA quick visit to the URL constructor conformance test shows that...
View ArticleShow HN: Skov – A visual programming environment
Skov is a visual programming environment based on Factor.Download the version of Skov adapted for your platform:There is no installation process. Just extract the Skov folder from the zip or dmg...
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