Peter Denton, Stephen Parke, Xining Zhang, and I have just uploaded to the arXiv the short unpublished note “Eigenvectors from eigenvalues”. This note gives two proofs of a general eige…

Starcity CEO Jon Dishotsky thinks you would, if the price is right

The Berlin Study

In an industry where unit economics and rider utilization are key to running a profitable business, perhaps it’s better to cut your losses early on. Lyft notified employees today that it’s pulling its scooters from six markets: Nashville, San Antonio, Atlanta…

As you gain visibility into system problems, you’ll often experience push back like this: I refactored the code from untested and untestable, to testable with 40% test coverage. The senior ar…

An engineer has developed a computer program that can, in her words, “remove the water” from an underwater photograph. The result is a “physically accurate” image with all of the vibrance, saturation and color of a regular landscape photo.

Any positive integer can be found at the beginning of a factorial. We can say even more, such as how often it appears.

organice is an implementation of Org mode without the dependency of Emacs. It is built for mobile and desktop browsers and syncs with Dropbox, Google Drive and WebDAV. It is free and open source software!

Check out the code here: https://github.com/200ok…

Theory for a gridded inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC) fusion system
is presented that shows a net energy gain is possible if the grid is
magnetically shielded from ion impact. A simplified...

The hacker behind a cyberattack that has crippled Petroleos Mexicanos’s computer systems since the weekend is hoping to squeeze almost $5 million out of the company and appears to have set a deadline of Nov. 30.

A waterfall software process breaks down a large effort into a sequence of activities, usually leaving risks too late.

We are excited to announce the public availability of HashiCorp Vault 1.3. Vault is a tool to provide secrets management, data encryption, and identity management for any infrastructure and application.

Write small blocks of code. How small? Here's how small.

In what looks to be the Chrome team's biggest misstep, companies report massive outages caused by unannounced Chrome experiment.

Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube. Contribute to iv-org/invidious development by creating an account on GitHub.

“Most mathematicians prove what they can, von Neumann proves what he wants”

SoftBank has much riding on Indian hotel company

I received this question from my mathematics professor as a leisure-time logic quiz, and although I thought I answered it right, he denied. Can someone explain the reasoning behind the correct solu...

With the ongoing move towards “infrastructure-as-code” and similar notions, there’s been an ongoing increase in the number and popularity of declarative configuration management tools. This post attempts to lay out my mental model of the conceptual architecture…