August 2013 Archive
6811.
API vs Services (sharethis.com)
6812.
Kepler’s Planet-Hunting Days Are Over (nytimes.com)
6813.
In Pandora's Big Data Music Experiments, Listeners Are Lab Rats (fastcolabs.com)
6814.
Show HN: XCIX.co - Licensing DRM-free shareable ebooks to teachers (xcix.co)
6815.
“Weird Machines” in ELF: A Spotlight on the Underappreciated Metadata (usenix.org)
6816.
Reverse engineering a wireless burglar alarm, part 1 (cybergibbons.com)
6817.
Why Debian should or should not make systemd the default - by Lennart Poettering (meetings-archive.debian.net)
6818.
Khan Academy: Introducing the Learning Dashboard (khanacademy.org)
6819.
Area 51 officially acknowledged, mapped in newly released documents (cnn.com)
6820.
3-time is a charm - learning from our pivots and mistakes (venturebeat.com)
6821.
On Bitcoin, Illegal Drugs & First Impressions (cgpgrey.com)
6822.
Cost of PRISM could be "as high as $180 billion" hit to US IT over 3 years (blogs.forrester.com)
6823.
US Government finally admits Area 51 exists (gizmodo.com)
6824.
WaPo Disclosed - Secret NSA Targeting Rationale (s3.documentcloud.org)
6825.
Could Electric Cars Threaten the Grid? (technologyreview.com)
6826.
Obama's Push to Digitize Health Care Boosts Startups (businessweek.com)
6827.
Google cloud storage will now use server-side encryption (googlecloudplatform.blogspot.in)
6828.
Coca-Cola to open startup accelerators in nine cities (venturevillage.eu)
6829.
Super-easy page to mothball your "passwd.txt" files (foolbits.com)
6830.
Ask HN: why Google play's search so suck? ()
6831.
Study: spray-on smart glass filters light and heat on demand (wired.co.uk)
6832.
Prison Computer ‘Glitch’ Blamed for Opening Cell Doors in Maximum-Security Wing (wired.com)
6833.
Rent a textbook on Amazon? Can't leave the state. (insidehighered.com)
6834.
Amazon’s Secret Plan to Sell You Everything (finance.yahoo.com)
6835.
Show HN: Extended Progress Bars for Bootstrap 3 (minddust.github.io)
6836.
San Francisco: 10 things I hate about you (cdn1.uptownalmanac.com)
6837.
Simple Groovy script to keep overly used directories cleaned e.g. temp/downloads (github.com)
6838.
Why can’t email be secure? (silentcircle.wordpress.com)
6839.
Google locked chromecast's DNS servers (support.unblock-us.com)
6840.
Software Sins of Omission (johndcook.com)