A portable programming language with a compact intermediate representation - adam-mcdaniel/oakc

Dozens of unsecured databases exposed on the public web are the target of an automated 'meow' attack that wipes data without any explanation.

Whether it's the music you're listening to or personal health information, personal data collection is happening right on your headphones.

Code and exercises from Bartosz Milewski's Basics of Haskell Tutorial - raviksharma/bartosz-basics-of-haskell

ProPublica obtained these police records from New York City’s Civilian Complaint Review Board. NYPD unions are suing to halt the city from making the data public.

What follows are 17 questions that have dramatically changed my life. Each one is time-stamped, as they entered the picture at precise moments.

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We compare the relative contribution of grit and intelligence to educational and job-market success in a representative sample of the American population. We fi...

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It takes Gavin Munro six years to grow a full crop of willow furniture on his Derbyshire furniture farm.

An international team led by researchers at Princeton University has uncovered a new class of magnet that exhibits novel quantum effects that extend to room temperature.

Why are we always assuming a distributed workforce is a good thing for the worker?

Introduction As most people know by know we do a lot of upstream kernel development. This stretches over multiple areas and of course w...

In the previous post we have written code to change the amplitude of wave files.
Now we’ll take a look at how we can turn a mono wave file into a stereo wave file with optional panning, and explore how this is represented internally by the WAVE file format.…

See the updated 80 author version. I've been playing around with re-reading favorite science fiction short stories while also seeing if the...

An American teen with cancer went to Moscow in 1988 hoping to meet Gorbachev and rid the world of nukes.

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Only a small fraction of research misconduct ever comes to light. Independent investigative bodies could remedy that.