August 2017 Archive
1921.
Total Eclipse (1982) (theatlantic.com)
1922.
Optimy.io: Optimise mathematical expressions (api.optimy.io)
1923.
I'm an Idiot (raywenderlich.com)
1924.
Introducing Bundle Compiler (github.com)
1925.
TiSpark sits Spark SQL on top of a storage engine to answer complex OLAP queries (github.com)
1926.
Gitlab 9.5 released (about.gitlab.com)
1927.
Man spraypaints Twitter office sidewalk with abusive tweets it refuses to delete (boingboing.net)
1928.
Lua code: security overview and practical approaches to static analysis [pdf] (spw17.langsec.org)
1929.
Building Brainfuck with Racket (hashcollision.org)
1930.
Researchers report 4,000 apps that secretly record audio and steal logs (arstechnica.com)
1931.
Simpler explanation of DeepMind's paper on AI playing Atari games (medium.com)
1932.
Airbnb evicts users planning to attend white nationalist event (sfgate.com)
1933.
New Game of Thrones episode appears in the wild (techcrunch.com)
1934.
Houston floods show risks of ignoring science and letting developers run rampant (qz.com)
1935.
Startcom CA applies for inclusion in Mozilla (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
1936.
Skylon: A Plane That Can Fly Anywhere in the World in 4 Hours (futurism.com)
1937.
Tolerance is not a moral precept (extranewsfeed.com)
1938.
Neoliberalism: Oversold? (2016) (imf.org)
1939.
Ask HN: Why are “Google memo” links being flagged and hidden?
1940.
Blockchain could fix a key problem in China’s food industry (qz.com)
1941.
Vitamin B6 and B12 Supplements Appear to Cause Cancer in Men (theatlantic.com)
1942.
How do you tag a jellyfish? (futureoftheocean.wordpress.com)
1943.
New Bill Seeks Basic IoT Security Standards (krebsonsecurity.com)
1944.
Did James Damore really deserve to be fired for what he wrote? (P. Singer) (nydailynews.com)
1945.
Incident Response: The crash of BA38 (medium.com)
1946.
“I Write on Human Skin”: Catherine the Great and the Rule of Law (lareviewofbooks.org)
1947.
Accountants Don’t Use Erasers (2007) (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
1948.
How do I modify a variable in Haskell? (michaelburge.us)
1949.
Venezuela’s descent into dictatorship shows democracy can be lost (latimes.com)
1950.
Amateur Sleuths Aim to Identify Charlottesville Marchers, but Sometimes Misfire (nytimes.com)