November 2015 Archive
1651.
Flashcards the Stasi used for facial recognition (atlasobscura.com)
1652.
A billionaire targeting contrarian, underappreciated causes (bloomberg.com)
1653.
We need a better way to get to space (theconversation.com)
1654.
iPad Pro Has an App Store Problem (theverge.com)
1655.
Not Even Twitter Understands Twitter (baekdal.com)
1656.
What's Behind the Exodus from Rent the Runway? (fortune.com)
1657.
Cheap, clean stoves were supposed to save millions of lives – what happened? (washingtonpost.com)
1658.
Pharma's Bizarre Pricing Shrug (bloomberg.com)
1659.
Leaky Ships: Ocean Carriers and the Age of Profitless Shipping (flexport.com)
1660.
The Most Militarized Universities in America (news.vice.com)
1661.
Grace Hopper Academy (gracehopper.com)
1662.
Human-in-the-loop computing is the future (computerworld.com)
1663.
Physicists use photons to carry messages from electrons 1.2 miles apart (news.stanford.edu)
1664.
Computability: The Greatest Law of Physics (researchblogs.cs.bham.ac.uk)
1665.
Nuclear-Powered Cardiac Pacemakers (osrp.lanl.gov)
1666.
Packet copies: Expensive or cheap? (github.com)
1667.
The 85 ways to tie a tie (tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk)
1668.
In 1975 a Kodak employee invented the digital camera (brw.com.au)
1669.
Problems that warrant Docker orchestration (railsadventures.wordpress.com)
1670.
Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems (cl.cam.ac.uk)
1671.
Recursion, Tail Calls and Trampolines (datchley.name)
1672.
Notes on indexes and index-like structures (dbms2.com)
1673.
Learning to Read, Again (2013) (fredgibbs.net)
1674.
In California, Stingy Water Users Are Fined in Drought, While the Rich Soak (nytimes.com)
1675.
Asia Struggles for a Solution to Its ‘Missing Women’ Problem (wsj.com)
1676.
Should Custom Software Developers Be Generalists or Specialists? (blog.apterainc.com)
1677.
Large analysis finds that low-fat diets have low impact (nature.com)
1678.
What's the best way to die? (wilsonquarterly.com)
1679.
Japanese Company Makes Low-Calorie Noodles Out of Wood (bloomberg.com)
1680.
21.co Bitcoin Computer Now on Sale (21.co)