December 2017 Archive
1501.
Comcast to Customer Who Noticed Secretly Injected Code: Maybe It’s Your Fault (thenextweb.com)
1502.
You Can Learn Glass Blowing (1938) (blog.modernmechanix.com)
1503.
GNU Guix and GuixSD 0.14.0 released (gnu.org)
1504.
Magnesium batteries could be safer and more efficient than lithium (engadget.com)
1505.
Watson Personal Assistant Beta (watson-personal-assistant.github.io)
1506.
How to start with CP/M (2014) (retrotechnology.com)
1507.
Justin Kan’s Atrium is starting a boot camp to help founders raise money (techcrunch.com)
1508.
DeepVariant: Highly Accurate Genomes with Deep Neural Networks (research.googleblog.com)
1509.
Show HN: Interactive polynomial roots toy (duetosymmetry.com)
1510.
640k Really Is Enough for Anyone (blog.sourcerer.io)
1511.
Rust vector guarantees (doc.rust-lang.org)
1512.
Why didn't Denmark sell Greenland? (2011) (gwern.net)
1513.
Show HN: One year devoted to open source and I've almost made $2 – horrraaaaay (opencollective.com)
1514.
Singapore's electric car-sharing program hits the road (reuters.com)
1515.
How to test a random number generator (2010) (johndcook.com)
1516.
Ranking Some Generals in the History of Warfare (medium.com)
1517.
Cryptocurrency will always be political (nautil.us)
1518.
Congress took $101M in donations from the ISP industry (theverge.com)
1519.
Building a Hacker Space (2007) [pdf] (events.ccc.de)
1520.
The First Unix Port (1998) [pdf] (bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de)
1521.
Upon a diagnosis of brain cancer, Eric Sun set out to achieve some musical goals (newyorker.com)
1522.
Man Who Sent World's First Text Message 25 Years Ago (cbc.ca)
1523.
AlphaSmart (en.wikipedia.org)
1524.
Home in a Can: When Trailers Offered a Compact Version of the American Dream (collectorsweekly.com)
1525.
Software Requirements Errors in Safety-Critical, Embedded Systems (1993) [pdf] (pdfs.semanticscholar.org)
1526.
The AI Guru Behind Amazon, Uber, and Unity Explains What AI Really Is (fastcompany.com)
1527.
Faster Progress Bars: Manipulating Perceived Duration with Augmentations (2010) (chrisharrison.net)
1528.
Why the Shipping Forecast Is So Beloved in the UK (atlasobscura.com)
1529.
Kodi for the Xbox One (kodi.tv)
1530.
Decentralized internet is planned for Dubai, courtesy of startup Moeco (techcrunch.com)