You asked questions, we've got the answers! Christine Peterson is a long-time futurist who co-founded the nanotech advocacy group the Foresight Institute in 1986. One of her favorite tasks has been contacting the winners of the institute's annual Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology … | Continue reading
According to thousands of users, Instagram website and app are facing technical issues. Users attempting to visit the website are seeing a "5xx Server Error", while on the app, they are getting "Couldn't refresh feed." According to DownDetector, a service which monitors outages o … | Continue reading
First let me say that I don't have anything against short selling in general. People bet on stocks going up, they should be allowed to bet on stocks... | Continue reading
The process of designing Shovel Knight to fit a retro NES aesthetic while maintaining modern design philosophies: here are a few technical rules of the NES we broke and why we did it! | Continue reading
In the first decision (available in German only) applying the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a German court held that data collection that exceeds what is necessary to achieve le | Continue reading
Here is the old thread I started 2 1/2 years ago. -- Yes, two and a half years later we're now on an entirely new operating system and still facing the exact same issue. Quick recap: On older versions | Continue reading
In which I discuss TDD in the context of opinion and academic papers.
| Continue readingSIMPLER, STRONGER AUTHENTICATION FIDO is the World's Largest Ecosystem for Standards-Based, Interoperable Authentication What is FIDO? . . . | Continue reading
Interactive periodic table with dynamic layouts showing names, electrons, oxidation, trend visualization, orbitals, isotopes, and compound search. Full descriptions from write-up sources. | Continue reading
Newley Purnell, reporting for WSJ: For millions of people buying inexpensive smartphones in developing countries where privacy protections are usually low, the convenience of on-the-go internet access could come with a hidden cost: preloaded apps that harvest users' data without … | Continue reading
sombragris writes: Stylish, a popular extension available for Chrome and Firefox which allows for easy customization of any website, now phones home and shares its users' browser history with its corporate parent, according to blogger Robert Heaton. This prompted Firefox to ban … | Continue reading
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When tackling a machine learning problem, there are a lot of decisions that need to be made along the way. To name a few: choosing evaluation metrics, training & test set construction, model v… | Continue reading
"Suddenly, calls and texts went unreturned," writes LinkedIn's editor at large, describing a recruiter who suddenly discovered the candidate she'd wanted to hire failed to respond to 12 messages, including emails like "Please let me know that you have not been kidnapped by aliens … | Continue reading
The State of Testing 2018 report provides insights into the adoption of test techniques, practices, and test automation, and the challenges that testers are facing. It shares results from this year’s testing survey. InfoQ held an interview with the organizers of the State of Test … | Continue reading
One of the joys of writing Elm apps is the many ways the compiler catches our mistakes, and the useful error messages it gives us when it does. It’s a two-way street though, meaning that the degree to... | Continue reading
Despite persistent rumors Mir is not dead: We’ve now tagged and released Mir 0.32.0 Last year Canonical withdrew entirely from Unity8 and dramatically reduced its investment in Mir. Both projects continued with UBports (and for a while Yunit) working on Unity8 and Canonical conti … | Continue reading
Thousands of people from across the country are reporting that they are facing connectivity issues with Comcast on Friday. Comcast is yet to acknowledge and address the outage, hence it is unclear how long the widespread outage may last. According to DownDetector, a service that … | Continue reading
Introduction I have been writing about a simple example shell based on Mir: egmde. This shell is just the code needed to illustrate these articles and, maybe, inspire others to build on it but it is not intended to be a product. At the end of the last article we could run egmde … | Continue reading
"Thoughts on Urban Survival" is a long essay I wrote a few years ago. While long, this is not my book, “The Modern Survival Manual: Survi... | Continue reading
"Sorry, something went wrong. Try again in a few seconds." That's the response that Google smart speaker users around the world heard Wednesday when they asked their devices to play music, get the weather or even respond to its "Hey, Google" prompt. From a report: Google confirme … | Continue reading
Resources for real-time and historical information about the Slack service. | Continue reading
Resources for real-time and historical information about the Slack service. | Continue reading
I train neural networks, a type of machine learning algorithm, to write unintentional humor as they struggle to imitate human datasets. Well, I intend the humor. The neural networks are just doing... | Continue reading
Just got Venmo. It's like my phone and my wallet had a beautiful baby! | Continue reading
"Open source maintainers are exhausted and rarely paid," writes TechCrunch's editorial manager. "A new generation wants to change the economics." An anonymous reader quotes their report:[Patreon] is increasingly being used by notable open source contributors as a way to connect w … | Continue reading
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I recently stumbled upon Azeria’s blog post The Importance of Deep Work & The 30-hour Method For Learning a New Skill, and it seriously struck a chord with me. Over the past year or so, I’ve struggled with a lack of personal satisfaction in my life and my work. I... | Continue reading
U.S. states can now require online retailers to collect local sales taxes, according to a recent Supreme Court ruling that could affect thousands of third-party sellers on top tech sites. An anonymous reader quotes The Verge:In fact, Amazon, which last year started collecting sa … | Continue reading
JiffyTest - Intelligent Test Automation, JiffyRPA - Cognitive Robotic Process Automation, Docube - Unlocking Insights @ Option3 | Continue reading
This story map was created with the Story Map Journal application in ArcGIS Online. | Continue reading
There are Windows laptops as thin or thinner than the MBP.This. Don't hear them having issues either but if they did, a keyboard replacement would... | Continue reading
Google’s non-Linux-based Fuchsia OS has added an emulator for running Debian Linux apps. Like its upcoming Linux emulator for Chrome OS, Fuchsia’s “Guest” app will offer tighter integration than typical emulators. Google has added a Guest app to its emergent and currently open so … | Continue reading
Starting in 2016 BuzzFeed began a re-architecture project moving from a single monolithic application written in Perl to a set of microservices. The main reason for the move was that the Perl application was proving hard to scale, essential given that buzzfeed.com alone serves a … | Continue reading
Erlang/OTP 21.0 was just released and work on the upcoming Elixir v1.7 release is ongoing. In this post, we highlight some of the features that have already landed in the Elixir master branch.Elixir will now provide hints of where a mistake may have happened when you forget a do … | Continue reading
In this contributed article, Andrew Vaziri, a Senior Artificial Intelligence Engineer at Bonsai, highlights how we are now entering the age of profit-making Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL), and why it took so long for this technology to make the leap from board games to the boa … | Continue reading
"It wasn't the first time my key card failed, I assumed it was time to replace it." So began a sequence of events that saw Ibrahim Diallo fired from his job, not by his manager but by a machine. From a report: He has detailed his story in a blogpost which he hopes will serve as … | Continue reading
Keith Porteous Wood writes: The stranglehold of oppressive countries over the United Nations Human Rights Council has slightly intensified as a result of elections held on 21 May 2008 at the UN General Assembly. The number of “free” countries in the 47 member Council has dropped … | Continue reading
Download pH7 Social Dating CMS (pH7Builder) for free. Professional Social Dating Web App Builder (pH7CMS, basic version) pH7CMS is a Professional, Free & Open Source PHP Social Dating Builder Software (primarily designed for Webmasters and Developers ...). This Social Dating Web … | Continue reading