August 2015 Archive
1951.
Training Officers to Shoot First, and He Will Answer Questions Later (nytimes.com)
1952.
Uber just closed a $1B round of funding for its China branch (businessinsider.com)
1953.
Chilly at Work? A Decades-Old Formula May Be to Blame (nytimes.com)
1954.
Monorepos (qafoo.com)
1955.
The Kansas Experiment (nytimes.com)
1956.
Shut up and calculate (2007) (arxiv.org)
1957.
Reframing Sexting as a Positive Relationship Behavior [pdf] (apa.org)
1958.
Countries where flying is dangerous (economist.com)
1959.
Community service: Vetting my local library's children's space books (planetary.org)
1960.
The Second Coming of Deep Linking (techcrunch.com)
1961.
Purifying spoiled randomness with spoiled randomness (mittheory.wordpress.com)
1962.
Mark Twain's Memory Builder Game (1891) (twainquotes.com)
1963.
A numerical analysis of Quicksort: How many cases are bad cases? [pdf] (arxiv.org)
1964.
The unquiet past (economist.com)
1965.
RC: a dialect of C that adds safe, region-based memory management (2001) (barnowl.org)
1966.
Show HN: I built an Uber for locksmith (lockedout.io)
1967.
On the detection of quantum insert (tedunangst.com)
1968.
Jeb Bush wants “a new arrangement with Silicon Valley” to ease crypto (arstechnica.com)
1969.
The psychedelic state in light of integrated information theory (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
1970.
A Toolbox for Microbiome Engineering (cell.com)
1971.
Profile of Jonathan Sumption (theguardian.com)
1972.
Apiary.io API Design Stack raised $6.8M (blog.apiary.io)
1973.
The Amoeba Distributed Operating System – A Status Report (1991) [pdf] (cs.vu.nl)
1974.
Au unnaturale: why CGI nudity is here to stay (theverge.com)
1975.
Citizens Against Remote Working (citizensagainstremoteworking.org)
1976.
Free will experiments reveal how little we know about our minds (bbc.com)
1977.
Airbnb Horror Story Points to Need for Precautions (nytimes.com)
1978.
Why Startups Are Making the Expensive Switch to Traditional Employment (time.com)
1979.
Confessions of a Grown-Up Kick-Scooter Rider (wsj.com)
1980.
I just lost my fifth job in six years