August 2015 Archive
2611.
Tying ecosystems through browsers (dbaron.org)
2612.
EFF releases Privacy Badger an addon that algorithmically blocks online trackers (eff.org)
2613.
A Traffic Analysis of Windows 10 (localghost.org)
2614.
How to See Invisible Infrastructure (theatlantic.com)
2615.
Porting Guix to GNU/Hurd (lists.gnu.org)
2616.
Why We Hate Cheap Things (thebookoflife.org)
2617.
Warlords of Documentation: A Proposed Expansion of Stack Overflow (meta.stackoverflow.com)
2618.
NASA Releases Detailed Global Climate Change Projections (nasa.gov)
2619.
ScratchABit – Interactive Disassembler with IDAPython-Compatible Plugin API (github.com)
2620.
One Class to Rule Them All: 0-Day Deserialization Vulnerabilities in Android [pdf] (usenix.org)
2621.
The State of the Art of Application Restrictions and Sandboxes (2012) [pdf] (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
2622.
Mozilla Makes Private Browsing More Private in Firefox (techcrunch.com)
2623.
A/B Testing with Hierarchical Models in Python (blog.dominodatalab.com)
2624.
Portia (open source visual scraper) introduces JavaScript support (blog.scrapinghub.com)
2625.
Ligra: A Lightweight Graph Processing Framework for Shared Memory (cs.cmu.edu)
2626.
Google Deep Mind (deepmind.com)
2627.
The Food Timeline – History of Restaurants (foodtimeline.org)
2628.
A Venture Capital History Perspective from Jack Tankersley (feld.com)
2629.
US TV journalists shot dead on air (bbc.co.uk)
2630.
Quantum Game of Life (2012) (arxiv.org)
2631.
Garrett Camp is taking over StumbleUpon (businessinsider.com)
2632.
Benchmarking a Java UnsafeArrayList (blog.bramp.net)
2633.
Ask HN: Do you use an antivirus?
2634.
Ask HN: Programmer Unions?
2635.
Ask HN: If you had 15-20k to take a 2-4 week trip, solo, what would you do?
2636.
Show HN: Happy Scale – Use moving averages for accurate weight loss predictions (happyscale.com)
2637.
Show HN: Lavagna, an open-source issue/project management tool (lavagna.io)
2638.
Gogo's on-flight internet: Why airlines put up with its slow internet service (slate.com)
2639.
Show HN: 6 days until broke/homeless: here is my hack (askjemima.com)
2640.
Startup buys porn ads to try to reach Sam Altman (wired.com)