The Wright brothers are timeless examples of how private entrepreneurs can outperform heavily financed government backed organizations.

We can admit our knowledge gaps without devaluing our expertise.

When big multinational shipping companies opt for shipbreaking on South Asian beaches in order to maximize profits, one can be outraged, but will not be surprised. But what should we make of the news that Greenpeace’s iconic Rainbow Warrior II ended up on…

A new data analysis by ProPublica and the Urban Institute shows more than half of older U.S. workers are pushed out of longtime jobs before they choose to retire, suffering financial damage that is often irreversible.

This is what I get for opening my big mouth in Twitter threads with people far my senior. Let’s just hope I don’t get in trouble, here…!

C++14: bringing in those expressions that you wish you had, Lazily evaluated, compossible generators, maps, filters, ranges and more... - SaadAttieh/lazyCode

At its core was an algorithm so powerful that you could give it the rules of humanity’s richest and most studied games and, later that day, it would become the best player there has ever been.

No, castoreum is not a cheap substitute for strawberries; it’s luxe, artisanal secretions from a beaver's rear end.

Penetration testing tools cheat sheet, a high level overview / quick reference cheat sheet for penetration testing.

At $2 million per job, do the employment opportunities pay off for cities? 

Artificial Intelligence gives us a uniquely fascinating and clear perspective at the nature of our minds and our relationship to reality....

A renowned e-waste innovator is going to prison for producing 25-cent discs that could’ve saved thousands of computers from the landfill Eric Lundgren built the first “electronic hybrid recycling” facility in the United States, which turns discarded cellphones…

That's so much frustrating. @PayPal has permanently banned all of our accounts without mentioning any reason and hold wallet funds wrongly for 180 days. Upon asking, @AskPayPal also refused to share any details.

A brief denoscription As a Symfony developer, it's always been hard to get a stable/fast development environment. My current setup is a Ubuntu running under VirtualBox (using vagrant). While page...

A C library for parsing/normalizing street addresses around the world. Powered by statistical NLP and open geo data. - openvenues/libpostal

Data sync, Pub/Sub, Remote procedure calls, Reactive programming, Optimistic updates, Time-travel debugging, State management, Unidirectional data flow, Real time apps.

From the Thirty Years War to the ancient civilisation of Iran, from Anglo-American rivalries in the desert to the persecution of indigenous peoples, historians select their favourite books of the

Connected components implementation in Python and pyspark