0 What’s the first thing that should scare you? There’s three. And the next? The label ‘46’. They’ve got so many in the field criminals need to number them just to keep track.

All the values that Silicon Valleyprofesses are the values of the 60s. The big tech companies present themselves as platforms for personal liberation. Everyone has the right to speak their mind on social media, to fulfil their intellectual and ...

Abstract:State-of-the-art password guessing tools, such as HashCat and John the Ripper (JTR), enable users to check billions of passwords per second against password hashes. In addition to straightforward dictionary attacks, these tools can expand ...

It started with the $329 iPad back in April, a compelling tablet that’s both good and cheap enough to entice upgraders and people who have never bought a tablet before. And it continued in June, with new 10.5- and 12.9-inch iPad Proswith high-end ...

The main goal of Fresh is to make programming in assembly as fast and efficient as in other visual languages, without sacrificing the small application size and the raw power of assembly language. 我有一个梦想, 就是出一个中文的版本. 这样会在中国相当火爆, 我也愿意为我的朋友推荐 ...

A group of 22 medical experts convened by Johns Hopkins University and The Lancet have called today for the decriminalization of all nonviolent drug use and possession. Citing a growing scientific consensus on the failures of the global war on drugs, ...

HTTP compression: choose DEFLATE over GZIP because most browsers accept raw DEFLATE output without a header or checksum so it's shorter/faster. #yolo send response immediately after TCP session init: avoids 1 round trip (not to spec, seems to ...

Welcome to the Internet Movie Cars Database. You will find here the most complete list on the web about cars, bikes, trucks and other vehicles seen in movies and TV series, image captures and information about them. To start your visit on the site, ...

The water is disappearing in San Felipe Ecatepec, an Indigenous town three miles outside of San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, in southern Mexico. People sometimes walk two hours a day to get water. Others have to buy their water. Copyright, Truthout. ...

“Every so often I get like the odd sort of flashback where it jolts me a little bit, but it’s only ever a snippet, that fraction of a second before I actually hit the car. I don’t really remember much about the actual accident”.

In July, the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium overruled dozens of members' objections to publishing a DRM standard without a compromise to protect accessibility, security research, archiving, and competition.

Last month, I wrote about the hype surrounding a new paper about the much-studied tablet Plimpton 322. This ancient Mesopotamian tablet, which has been the subject of many academic papers over the course of the last few decades, has columns of numbers ...

Here's a ranking you don't see all that often: the 20 U.S. publicly traded corporations with the biggest income tax bills. It amounts to a pretty fair who's who of corporate America's giants, with some interesting absences. Of ...

For the full interactive version, use a larger device. Interactive by Andrew Kahn. Background image by Tim Jones. Usually, when we say “American slavery ”or the “American slave trade, ”we mean the American colonies or, later, the United States. ...

Oculus Medium is an immersive VR experience designed for Touch that lets you sculpt, model, paint, and create tangible objects in a VR environment. We recently added the Move Tool,which allows users to grab, move, and reproportion parts of their sculpt. ...

After a historic buildup of its bond portfolio to support the collapsing U.S. economy following the financial crisis, the central bank plans to shrink its holdings. Financial markets are taking this prospect in stride so far, but this is uncharted territory.

In this post we'll cover a couple techniques in Javascript that are common among functional languages: currying and partial application. You don't need a background in functional programming to understand these, so don't worry.

I was tempted to write this review under the conceit that there was no such thing as the iPhone X. Just don ’t even mention the iPhone X, and consider the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus as though they were the only two new phones coming from Apple this year. ...

The control room of one of the Navy’s most advanced submarines is filled with sophisticated computers, flat-screen monitors and sailors who grew up in a digital world. At times it can look a bit like a video game arcade, and not just ...

To type or not to type: quantifying detectable bugs in JavaScript Gao et al., ICSE 2017 This is a terrific piece of work with immediate practical applications for many project teams. Is it worth the extra effort to add static type annotations to a JavaScript project? Should I use Facebook's Flow ...

One of the most important things for us about the HIDIOT was to make it a piece of Open Source Hardware. That means that it's possible for you to study it, learn how it's made, modify it, build your own and pretty much do anything you want with it. This freedom might seem a little strange, but ...

“You seem to believe in fairies.” Photo of the Cottingley Fairies, 1917, by Elsie Wright via Wikipedia. Aficionados of open access should know about the Journal of Machine Learning Research ( JMLR), an open-access journal in my own research field ...

The goal of net metering is to offset all or part of the customer's energy use at the customer's metered service account. Systems should not be sized so large that energy produced by the renewable generator is expected to exceed 115% ...

Marlinspike directly addressed the controversy that Telegram Messenger founder Pavel Durov stirred up earlier this year when he basically accused Signal of collaborating with the U.S. government.

Weebly Engineers enjoy a unique opportunity to work with a wide array of technologies. Engineers are actively encouraged to explore different sectors of the tech stack and delve into specific areas of interest. As a Weebly Engineer you will have the ...

Hi all, finally, an official version of PilBox is out - and a Wiki article: https://picolisp.com/wiki/?PilBoxPilBox ("PicoLisp Box") is a generic Android App which allows to write Apps in pure PicoLisp, without touching Java, and without ...

We are pleased to announce CoffeeScript 2! This new release of the CoffeeScript language and compiler aims to bring CoffeeScript into the modern JavaScript era, closing gaps in compatibility with JavaScript while preserving the clean syntax that is CoffeeScript ...

Equifax Inc. learned about a major breach of its computer systems in March -- almost five months before the date it has publicly disclosed, according to three people familiar with the situation.

Today we're launching the alpha of Keybase teams. It's the most important project in Keybase's history, and it brings together all of our work. A Keybase team is a named group of people, with flexible membership. Let's say you ...

Two teams of scientists have found the strongest evidence yet that intestinal bacteria play a role in  multiple sclerosis, an incurable disease in which the body ’s immune system attacks the myelin coating on neurons, causing tremors, fatigue, cognitive ...