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<< 2014-04 >>

• 2014-04-30: List processing in real time on a serial computer.
• 2014-04-30: A few notes on book design.
• 2014-04-30: The people who saw evolution in action.
• 2014-04-30: Behind the scenes of Cards Against Humanity's PWNMEAL prank at PAX East.
• 2014-04-30: What is a photocopier? A reconstruction of a court deposition. (Video)
• 2014-04-29: Fifty years of BASIC, the programming language that made computers personal.
• 2014-04-29: Safe shell-like sub-commands and pipelines in Julia.
• 2014-04-29: The hackers who recovered NASA's lost lunar photos.
• 2014-04-29: Numbers from 1 to 10 in over 5000 languages.
• 2014-04-29: Sweden's great welfare heist.
• 2014-04-28: Not All Men: a brief history of every dude's favorite argument.
• 2014-04-28: BGP stats up to the end of 2013.
• 2014-04-28: Internet passes 500,000 address prefixes.
• 2014-04-28: OpenSSL: The Internet is being protected by two guys named Steve.
• 2014-04-28: Omnibus: a word for all.
• 2014-04-28: NetBSD filesystem drivers compiled to Javascript and run in browser.
• 2014-04-28: Highly available transactions: virtues and limitations.
• 2014-04-28: Spot the question.
• 2014-04-27: Fred Brownell: The man who made South Africa's flag.
• 2014-04-27: Nigel Farage is a phoney. Scrutinise him and he'll crumble. Don't expect the BBC to.
• 2014-04-27: Rollin' Wild: what if animals were round?
• 2014-04-27: The curse of the excluded middle: mostly-functional programming does not work.
• 2014-04-27: Old aerial photos of Britain.
• 2014-04-27: 101 illustrated mathematical analysis bedtime stories: epsilon red riding hood.
• 2014-04-27: $10,000 security bug bounty for Mozilla's new certificate verification code.
• 2014-04-27: What's your Honeywell bubble count?
• 2014-04-27: Bras in Space: Playtex and the Apollo spacesuits.
• 2014-04-27: The twelve-factor app.
• 2014-04-27: Golang frequent comments from code reviews.
• 2014-04-27: Golang best practices for production environments.
• 2014-04-27: Stanford allows fewer classes of character in longer passwords.
• 2014-04-27: Syntax extensions and regular expressions for Rust.
• 2014-04-27: Bicycle-friendly cobblestones.
• 2014-04-27: Groningen: cycling city.
• 2014-04-26: The Kindle wink to Neal Stephenson.
• 2014-04-25: It is insanely easy to hack hospital equipment.
• 2014-04-25: Amazon's Glacier secret: BDXL.
• 2014-04-25: F* (a dependently-typed variant of F# for program verification) re-released under Apache 2.0.
• 2014-04-25: 11 simple truths from Buddhism.
• 2014-04-25: Google to end forced G+ integration, drastically cut division resources.
• 2014-04-25: Hasklig: Ligatures for Haskell code.
• 2014-04-24: 64-bit ARM emulation status in QEMU 2.0.0.
• 2014-04-24: Andreas Gal is the new CTO of Mozilla.
• 2014-04-24: Boycott systemd.
• 2014-04-24: Kea: ISC continuing to develop the DHCP server part of the BIND 10 project.
• 2014-04-24: Microsoft OneDrive for Business quietly modifies the files it syncs.
• 2014-04-24: Elsevier journals — some facts.
• 2014-04-24: Deadlines and the IT industry: Y2K, XP, IPv4, ...
• 2014-04-24: Projecting images onto scent-filled bubbles.
• 2014-04-24: Factcheck: Are we really getting less violent?
• 2014-04-24: Using automatic language analysis to apply the Bechdel test to movie scripts and conversations on Twitter.
• 2014-04-24: A reappraisal of validation in the RPKI.
• 2014-04-23: How strtod() works (and sometimes doesn't).
• 2014-04-23: Humans replacing robots at Toyota, to learn how to improve their manufacturing processes.
• 2014-04-23: "Sell me this pen:" The real answer to The Wolf of Wall Street's challenge.
• 2014-04-23: Link-time optimization in gcc: compiling Firefox.
• 2014-04-23: Link-time optimization in gcc: a brief history.
• 2014-04-23: Worst common denominator programming.
• 2014-04-23: ISC stops work on BIND-10, and renames the orphaned code to Bundy.
• 2014-04-23: AOL follows Yahoo! in setting DMARC p=reject. Death of mailing lists to follow.
• 2014-04-23: Causal consistency: don't settle for eventual consistency.
• 2014-04-23: Gogs: git repository hosting implemented in Golang.
• 2014-04-23: Gitblit: git repository hosting implemented in Java.
• 2014-04-22: NIST belatedly removes Dual_EC_DRBG from its recommendations.
• 2014-04-22: Copyright is out of control
• 2014-04-22: First completed trial ends with total loss for patent troll Intellectual Ventures.
• 2014-04-22: Economic policy in a post-Piketty world.
• 2014-04-22: Macmillan's Trident sell-out is a vital lesson for Scotland.
• 2014-04-22: Leap seconds: a public dialogue in the UK.
• 2014-04-22: After every crash in the Netherlands, intense scrutiny.
• 2014-04-22: The case for formal verification.
• 2014-04-22: Tiny Docker images with musl libc and no package manager.
• 2014-04-22: Lead poisoning and Rome.
• 2014-04-21: This guy's revolutionary idea for a sign for gender neutral toilets.
• 2014-04-21: High frequency rentseeking: when 3ms is worth $300 million.
• 2014-04-21: Fighting McDonald's to end gendered Happy Meal toys.
• 2014-04-21: Did removing lead from petrol spark a decline in crime?
• 2014-04-21: How to do UPSERT in Postgres.
• 2014-04-21: Home entertainment implementations are pretty appaling: region-free DVD by hacking embedded Linux.
• 2014-04-20: TrueType Instruction Compiler: compile a C-like language into a font file.
• 2014-04-20: Java: real class names or Markov chain fakes?
• 2014-04-20: Easter Hack: RSA padding bugs in Java's SSL/TLS implementation.
• 2014-04-20: More on Apple and OpenSSL.
• 2014-04-20: How to exploit home routers for anonymity.
• 2014-04-20: Patents, greed, and the Wright Brothers.
• 2014-04-20: Fairy tales in password hashing with scrypt.
• 2014-04-19: The problems of high frequency trading.
• 2014-04-19: How Apple dodged the Heartbleed bullet.
• 2014-04-19: Filesystem namespaces in Plan 9 and Inferno.
• 2014-04-19: Where to find stock photos that don't suck.
• 2014-04-19: You don't read code, you explore it.
• 2014-04-19: Linux /dev/urandom and (lack of) concurrency.
• 2014-04-19: Hi-LAB: A powerful, precise language aptitude test is entering civilian life.
• 2014-04-19: A bit of XENIX history.
• 2014-04-19: America is an oligarchy not a democracy.
• 2014-04-17: Why are diamonds clear, but coal black?
• 2014-04-17: OpenSSL Valhalla rampage.
• 2014-04-17: Proving and quantifying institutional sexism.
• 2014-04-17: The arrow of time is caused by quantum entanglement.
• 2014-04-16: Performance effects of architectural complexity in the i432.
• 2014-04-16: Barrelfish research OS architecture overview.
• 2014-04-16: Das Kapital for the Twenty-First Century? A review of Thomas Piketty’s new book by James K. Galbraith.
• 2014-04-16: Powers of ten for clocks.
• 2014-04-16: The graffiti drone: an interview with KATSU.
• 2014-04-16: Confessions of a full-stack DevOps coder.
• 2014-04-16: Diffie-Hellman and TLS with nonsense parameters: 15 is a prime number?
• 2014-04-16: A summary of Golang's flaws.
• 2014-04-16: Quantiles on streams.
• 2014-04-16: How it took 10 years to publish the Boyer-Moore MJRTY algorithm.
• 2014-04-16: Valve publishes detailed Steam game usage data on its community profile pages.
• 2014-04-16: Data skeletons: simultaneous estimation of multiple quantiles for massive streaming datasets with applications to density estimation.
• 2014-04-16: The P^2 algorithm for dynamic calculation of quantiles and histograms without storing observations.
• 2014-04-16: Shuffle Sharding: massive and magical fault isolation.
• 2014-04-16: A new metric for Internet performance.
• 2014-04-15: Raising a moral child.
• 2014-04-15: Occupy was right: capitalism has failed the world. (Thomas Piketty)
• 2014-04-15: Shared Space and other bad junction designs lead to crashes and injuries.
• 2014-04-15: Heartbleed disclosure timeline.
• 2014-04-15: Did a date calculation bug cost the Co-op Bank £110m?
• 2014-04-15: A better way to enfoorce anti-harassment policies than zero tolerance.
• 2014-04-15: MEPs approve rules for safer lorry designs in EU.
• 2014-04-15: The lock-picking controversy of 1851.
• 2014-04-15: The MIT lockpicking guide.
• 2014-04-15: GitHub cheat sheet.
• 2014-04-15: The benefits of EU membership have been underestimated.
• 2014-04-15: America, Afghanistan and opium: Ten billion wasted in the war on some drugs.
• 2014-04-15: More on Akamai's flawed secure allocation patch.
• 2014-04-14: Sarah Wollaston asks: Why am I being blamed for the Nigel Evans sex case?
• 2014-04-14: Akamai secure allocation patch failed to protect all private key components from Heartbleed.
• 2014-04-14: UK trying to block US Senate report on torture.
• 2014-04-14: sayI: trusted user authentication at Internet scale; efficient PKI.
• 2014-04-14: Stalled SCP and hanging TCP connections: stupid middlebox breaks SACK.
• 2014-04-14: Why Varnish does not support TLS.
• 2014-04-14: Untie the mavericks: the stifling effect of peer review.
• 2014-04-14: Apple claims Mogenerator's methods / lack of namespacing in Objective C.
• 2014-04-14: Timekeeping in VMWare virtual machines.
• 2014-04-13: The perils of dynamic scope.
• 2014-04-13: The OpenSSL Foundation: of money, responsibility, and pride.
• 2014-04-13: Egg: a culinary exploration of the most versatile ingredient.
• 2014-04-13: Private keys should be isolated from server processes.
• 2014-04-13: How does Akamai's "secure heap" patch to OpenSSL work?
• 2014-04-13: Rise of the right: eurosceptics and teapartiers, cross-Atlantic extremism.
• 2014-04-13: Interrogate: a proof-of-concept tool for identification of cryptographic keys in binary data.
• 2014-04-13: Transcribing piano rolls with Python.
• 2014-04-13: Project Pluto: nuclear-powered ramjet.
• 2014-04-13: Seven cylinders that each touch all the others.
• 2014-04-12: Recreating the THX deep note.
• 2014-04-12: What if the moon were a disco ball? (YouTube)
• 2014-04-12: Why you hate Comic Sans.
• 2014-04-12: Visual explanations of mathematical concepts.
• 2014-04-12: The username is a relic. Here's how to fix it.
• 2014-04-12: Menstruation: What is the evolutionary or biological purpose of having periods?
• 2014-04-12: Google finds centralized control, distributed data architectures work better than fully decentralized systems.
• 2014-04-12: How Walter Bright came to write D.
• 2014-04-12: Ants build complex structures with a few simple rules.
• 2014-04-12: Comic Neue: polishing a turd.
• 2014-04-12: When two-factor authentication is not enough.
• 2014-04-12: Is the Oculus Rift sexist?
• 2014-04-11: Looking for Tom Lehrer, comedy's mysterious genius.
• 2014-04-11: What the Tamiflu saga tells us about drug trials and big pharma.
• 2014-04-05: The Study of Anglophysics. (A short story.)
• 2014-04-05: Google lifts the veil on its "Andromeda" virtual networking.
• 2014-04-04: FAQ: The "snake fight" portion of your thesis defense.
• 2014-04-04: Hacked Prius runs on SF Muni trolleybus power lines.
• 2014-04-04: Blizzard: fast, cloud-scale block storage for cloud-oblivious applications.
• 2014-04-04: Hackers are using ssh tunnels to send spam.
• 2014-04-04: NIST launches new time standard: NIST-F2 caesium fountain atomic clock.
• 2014-04-03: Better database index performance with Roaring Bitmaps.
• 2014-04-03: 11 hour GLONASS outage due to bad ephemerides upload.
• 2014-04-03: Cloud computing companies ranked by their use of renewable energy.
• 2014-04-03: The Supercombiner, a peculiar Unicode smoke-test.
• 2014-04-03: Using routers to build logic circuits: BGP is Turing complete.
• 2014-04-03: The dollar-and-cents case against Hollywood's exclusion of women.
• 2014-04-03: Writing code that runs on Python 2 and 3.
• 2014-04-02: Bad governance in the civil service: short-term jobs and no operational expertise.
• 2014-04-02: The inexplicable rise of open floor plans in tech companies.
• 2014-04-02: Redis new data structure: the HyperLogLog.
• 2014-04-02: Stand-up comics who steal jokes can face escalating repercussions.
• 2014-04-01: Generational GC has landed in Mozilla.
• 2014-04-01: US stock markets are rigged to the advantage of HFT.