August 2016 Archive
2731.
PS4 hack: PS4 3.55 OFW unsigned code execution PoC released (webkit exploit) (github.com)
2732.
Yelp CEO Accuses Google of Manipulating Search Results (twitter.com)
2733.
Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure (fordfoundation.org)
2734.
Selfycart (YC S16) Turns Your Smartphone into a Self-Checkout Machine (themacro.com)
2735.
Some thoughts on Elm Development (medium.com)
2736.
Zynga to Sell Its San Francisco Headquarters (wsj.com)
2737.
What the world will look like in a hundred years (2116) (futurism.com)
2738.
EpiPens – Drugs vs Chairs (slatestarcodex.com)
2739.
A 37yo Olympian web developer (teamusa.org)
2740.
Robots will soon replace human fruit pickers (spectrum.ieee.org)
2741.
Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports Elasticsearch 2.3 (aws.amazon.com)
2742.
An AI-Driven Hedge Fund (bloomberg.com)
2743.
Our Nearest Star Has a Planet, and These Are the Ways It Could Be Habitable (nautil.us)
2744.
The Unexpected Internet of Things (medium.com)
2745.
Uber's move away from PostgreSQL (rhaas.blogspot.com)
2746.
Some news from LWN (lwn.net)
2747.
Open Letter to David Kalisch of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (thoughtworks.com)
2748.
Meet Parsey’s Cousins: Syntax for 40 languages, plus new SyntaxNet capabilities (research.googleblog.com)
2749.
Psychology of the Phantom Vanish Magic Trick (journal.frontiersin.org)
2750.
Ephemeral Databases with ZFS (medium.com)
2751.
How likely are chance resemblances between languages? (2002) (zompist.com)
2752.
Make Algorithms Accountable (nytimes.com)
2753.
Achieving Rapid Response Times in Large Online Services (2012) [pdf] (static.googleusercontent.com)
2754.
What likely happened with the Bitfinex “hack” (steemit.com)
2755.
Using GitHub releases to distribute libraries (medium.com)
2756.
Cool jQuery plugin for notifications, prompts and confirmations (github.com)
2757.
Letter of Resignation from the Palo Alto Planning and Transportation Commission (medium.com)
2758.
Brendan Dassey's Conviction Overturned After 'Making a Murderer' Tells His Story (huffingtonpost.com)
2759.
I’m deleting Snapchat, and you should too (medium.com)
2760.
Peter Thiel: The Online Privacy Debate Won’t End with Gawker (nytimes.com)