February 2016 Archive
2461.
Ghost Words and Mountweazels: Mistakes in Dictionaries and Encyclopedias (laphamsquarterly.org)
2462.
A private company is selling 2.2B photos and locations of auto license plates (theatlantic.com)
2463.
Hundreds of Windows 3.1 Programs Join the Internet Archive (blog.archive.org)
2464.
Anonymous: Hacker releases 17.8GB of data from a Turkish national police server (ibtimes.co.uk)
2465.
Umberto Eco: “Macintosh Is Catholic and MS-DOS Is Protestant” (pcuf.fi)
2466.
The $16M offer letter Yahoo sent to poach its CRO from Amazon (businessinsider.com)
2467.
Maryland Attorney General: If You Don't Want to Be Tracked, Turn Off Your Phone (motherboard.vice.com)
2468.
When Addiction Has a White Face (nytimes.com)
2469.
Billing for SaaS – first $50k free tier for startups (chargebee.com)
2470.
What History Gives, the Sea Steals (hakaimagazine.com)
2471.
To Anyone Who Thinks They're Falling Behind in Life (huffingtonpost.com)
2472.
Revealing letters in rolled Herculaneum papyri by X-ray phase-contrast imaging (nature.com)
2473.
Show HN: Spatial data analysis and visualization in Excel (gisxl.com)
2474.
GATTACA fears real: You can be denied life insurance based on a genetic test (fastcompany.com)
2475.
Bitcoin Mints New Words (spectrum.ieee.org)
2476.
OCaml love, by gina (gina.codes)
2477.
Introducing Vega-Lite 1.0: a high-level visualization language (medium.com)
2478.
Journalists as ‘hit squad:’ Connecting the dots on Adelson and Review-Journal (pressthink.org)
2479.
Cross-Cultural Studies of Toddler Awareness (digest.bps.org.uk)
2480.
16 Tips to Organize the Best Tech Meetups (tech.stylight.com)
2481.
Some Good News for Dementia: Rates Might Be Going Down (nbcnews.com)
2482.
The Epic Story of Maximum Likelihood (arxiv.org)
2483.
An Open Letter to My CEO: I pay 80% of my income to afford rent in Bay Area (medium.com)
2484.
Interactive guide to Git branching (pcottle.github.io)
2485.
The joy of covering video games for 25 years (venturebeat.com)
2486.
APL Demonstration – Professor Bob Spence, Imperial College London (1975) [video] (youtube.com)
2487.
Demystifying the Demise of Suite B, but Failing to Explain One Important Detail (pomcor.com)
2488.
Using Scala to Build an AI-Powered Personal Assistant: X.ai Engineers Tell All (x.ai)
2489.
Eradicating Earth’s Mosquitoes to Fight Disease Is Probably a Bad Idea (motherboard.vice.com)
2490.
Show HN: Herodotus – An IRC bot that logs a channel's activity to JSON (github.com)