December 2018 Archive
1831.
Improving Lua performance using baked functions (tasvideos.org)
1832.
Women were written out of science history – it’s time we put them back in (thenextweb.com)
1833.
Evaluating high availability solutions for TimescaleDB and PostgreSQL (blog.timescale.com)
1834.
Apps, Trackers, Privacy, and Regulators: The Mobile Tracking Ecosystem [pdf] (eprints.networks.imdea.org)
1835.
Data Science Cheatsheets (github.com)
1836.
Phonautograph (en.wikipedia.org)
1837.
Debian's Anti-Harassment Team Is Removing a Package Over Its Name (phoronix.com)
1838.
Nassim Taleb on why IQ is baloney (twitter.com)
1839.
Minneapolis Moves to Eliminate Mandatory Parking (usa.streetsblog.org)
1840.
Differential coding of perception in the world’s languages (pnas.org)
1841.
How Photojournalism Killed Kevin Carter (2015) (all-that-is-interesting.com)
1842.
Not-o-matic Differentiation (ajknapp.github.io)
1843.
Pixar History Revisited: A Corrective (2011) (alvyray.com)
1844.
The Case of Agatha Christie (lrb.co.uk)
1845.
Wi-Fi is an important threat to human health (sciencedirect.com)
1846.
Partitioned consensus and its impact on Spanner’s latency (dbmsmusings.blogspot.com)
1847.
WorkflowCI – IFTTT for developers (workflowci.com)
1848.
Luxembourg to become first country to make all public transport free (theguardian.com)
1849.
DragonFly BSD, version 5.4, has been released (dragonflybsd.org)
1850.
Johnson and Johnson hid findings of asbestos in Baby Powder for decades (cbsnews.com)
1851.
Valve's Proton Improves Further Windows Games' Compatibility on Linux (boilingsteam.com)
1852.
Triton: Cloud management platform with first class support for containers (github.com)
1853.
Cornell University Ergonomics Web (2016) (ergo.human.cornell.edu)
1854.
Dr Nancy Grace Roman Has Died (bbc.co.uk)
1855.
More businesses are not accepting cash (wsj.com)
1856.
Slate's Newly Unionized Writers and Editors Give OK to Strike (bloomberg.com)
1857.
Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?
1858.
The GPS wars have begun (techcrunch.com)
1859.
Australia Encrypted Messaging Bill to Pass After Labor Strikes Deal with Govt (tendaily.com.au)
1860.
The Teddy Bear Effect (harvardmagazine.com)