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NZ's new prime minister is a champion of evidence-based policy, the "social investment approach" and open government. So why is fellow data-evangelist Keith Ng warning of a data-democracy cargo cult? Bill English is the most data nerdy prime minister we have ever had. An ex-Treasury wonk and a ch

Illustration by Nate Otto The Distance is back from our holiday hiatus with new episodes every other Tuesday! Our new story is about a kind of business you might have thought was pretty much extinc…

We still teach a lot of myths in the intro to economics course, myths that spill over to conventional wisdom.  Human beings make rational decisions in our considered long-term best i…

If you don’t work at a place like Google or 3M—companies celebrated for rewarding innovation—don’t despair. You can still push new ideas through, see them gain traction, and watch your company evol…

There are going to be millions of surprising applications of Machine Learning in coming years and decades, but I believe I've found one of the biggest

After many days of rain one lane of this two lane road collapsed into the canyon. It's been out fo...

Development tool to mock API endpoints quickly and easily (docker image available) - GitHub - iridakos/duckrails: Development tool to mock API endpoints quickly and easily (docker image available)

There’s a palpable sense of excitement in the application development world around container technology. Containers bring a new level of agility and speed to app development, giving developers the ability to break large monolithic apps into small, manageable microservices that can talk to one another, be more easily tested and deployed, and operate more efficiently…

Shiva Krishnamurthy, Sr. Product Manager Amazon API Gateway helps you quickly build highly scalable, secure, and robust APIs. Today, we are announcing an integration of API Gateway with AWS Marketplace. You can now easily monetize your APIs built with API Gateway, market them directly to AWS customers, and reuse AWS bill calculation and collection mechanisms. […]

Rewriting history without a time machine

This post is part of an SRE series grounded in the ideas inspired by the Google SRE book. 2/13 Update: You can hear an INTERACTIVE DISCUSSION based on this post with Eric Wright on his podcast, GC …

A small, fast, native lisp with 'magical' powers

Writing unit tests can be hard. Even for an easy example such as a calculator app. There are unlimited combinations of inputs for a…

How metaphors affect our code.

Object storage is not a new concept, but this type of storage architecture is beginning to garner more attention from large organisations as they grapple

Shane Curran, fifth year student at Terenure College introduced a project called “qCrypt,” a quantum-encrypted data storage solution that is resistant to quantum computers.Over the past two ye

In the prior two articles in this series (What Is SMP Without Shared Memory? and The Essentials Of Multiprocessor Programming), we have gone through the

Cross-platform SQL profiler for Postgres / PostgreSQL 9.3+. View your queries and functions being run in real-time in a simple to use GUI. - GitHub - dantheman213/ocean-sql-profiler: Cross-platform...

Net boffins float RFC to fix the protocol before things turn nasty

MQTT is a machine-to-machine messaging protocol, designed to provide lightweight publish/subscribe communication to 'Internet of Things' devices. Mosquitto is a popular MQTT server (or broker, in MQTT parlance) that has great community support and is

In this article, we take a look at what's new in HTTP/2, how it compares to HTTP/1.1 and what it means for performance best practices.

You only look once (YOLO) is a state-of-the-art, real-time object detection system.

Yes, that dog is moving, but not that tree. Plants don't move. Well, yes, they actually do. Trees grow and then they decay. It's just that we can't see it happening now. It happens o…

Musings on building groundbreaking technology companies. - defstartup/why-rethinkdb-failed.md at master · coffeemug/defstartup