Each year, US cities give thousands of homeless people one-way bus tickets out of town. An 18-month nationwide investigation by the Guardian reveals, for the first time, what really happens at journey’s end

I once asked an engineer who I greatly admired, how he started building the system that he (successfully) submitted for his PhD. I’m not…

Easily track your spending on mobile & desktop!

The wide frequency range of interaction with EMF is the functional characteristic of a fractal antenna, and DNA appears to possess the two structural characteristics of fractal antennas, electronic conduction and self symmetry. These properties contribute…

A Linux version of the ProcDump Sysinternals tool. Contribute to microsoft/ProcDump-for-Linux development by creating an account on GitHub.

“What is the relationship like between your team and the data scientists?” This is, without a doubt, the question I’m most frequently asked when conducting i...

How strange rocks—and an obscure language—are changing a decades-old academic consensus.

Ezra Glinter surveys the work of Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem....

Hi, I’m John. I use data science to find above-average products that sell for below-average prices (so you can quickly find good stuff on the cheap).

Side-channel leak in Skylake and Kaby Lake chips probably affects AMD CPUs, too.

Get a selection of good threads from Twitter every day

geomagnetic solar storm

The missing linker for the JVM. Contribute to avantgardnerio/depends development by creating an account on GitHub.

A promising SDE job at Amazon turned to be a stressful pain and disappointment. Amazon — good business, just an average place to work at.

An unexpected declaration by whistleblower Edward Snowden filed in court this week adds a new twist in a long-running lawsuit against the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs.

IndieMaker is a curated community marketplace with 17,556+ members where makers sell their side-projects, unused domains and online businesses.

About Daylight Saving Time. United States Law 15 U.S.C. ¶6 (IX) (260-7) Time zones and daylight saving time; United States Code Title 15 - Commerce and Trade; Chapter 6 - Weights and Measures and Standard

A race condition is what happens when the expected completion order of a sequence of operations becomes unpredictable, causing our program logic to end up in an undefined state. This week, let's take a look at a common scenario that can cause race conditions…

What contributes to gender-associated differences in preferences such as the willingness to take risks, patience, altruism, positive and negative reciprocity, and trust? Falk and Hermle studied 80,000 individuals in 76 countries who participated in a Global…