We provide evidence that bond fund managers misclassify their holdings, and that these misclassifications have a real and significant impact on investor capital

This is a pedagogical implementation of an animated bar chart race. Read on to learn how it works, or fork this notebook and drop in your data! The data for the race is a CSV with columns date (in YYYY-MM-DD format), name, value and optionally category (which…

Deciding between building a mainstream PC and a high-end desktop has historically been very clear cut: if budget is a concern, and you're interested in gaming, then typically a user looks to the mainstream. Otherwise, if a user is looking to do more professional…

1Password, a profitable Toronto-based password manager, has raised $200 million in a massive Series A funding round.

The water and energy use of the mist shower is so low that the bathroom could be taken off-grid and off-pipe even in an urban context.

There is a reason cats prefer meaty wet food to dry kibble, and disdain sugar entirely

Antigovernment protesters wreaked havoc for a second straight day, with train service disrupted, schools closed and roads blocked.

Turning PostgreSQL into a queue serving 10,000 jobs per second - gist:7585810

We are going to rewrite React from scratch. Step by step. Following the architecture from the real React code but without all the…

This is the mail archive of the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project.

Digital maps might be more practical in the 21st century, but the long tradition of cartography is magical

By 2030, the U.S. offshore wind industry will expend some $70 billion to build the wind farms to meet states’ clean energy commitments, providing good jobs for some 40,000 people, the author writes.

There's a dark side to this wireless-driven revolution in convenience. The danger goes beyond hacking.

When I learned that Google was acquiring the intimate medical records of 50 million patients, I couldn’t stay silent

Bayes’ Theorem is about more than just conditional probability, and Naive Bayes is a flavor of the theorem which adds to its complexity and usefulness.

Most cryptocurrencies rely on Proof-of-Work (PoW) "mining" for resistance to Sybil and double-spending attacks, as well as a mechanism for currency issuance. Hashcash PoW has successfully secured...

The Port of Oslo is electrifying ferries and taking other steps to slash emissions: “It’s what is necessary if we are going to reach the Paris Agreement.”