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In the moment, when you have power, no matter how momentarily, how will you choose to act? Jerk comes from the idea of pulling hard on the reins, suddenly and without care. Horses don't like i…

Peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol. Contribute to ipfs/ipfs development by creating an account on GitHub.

I’ve recently been working my way through the fantastic book Software Foundations, primarily written by Benjamin C. Pierce, which focuses on how to build rel...

We're about to start seeing attacks against our digital assistants, and one of the methods we'll see being used is people issuing commands to assistants

If you've been around security for any amount of time you've been drilled that obscurity is bad. Basically, anyone talks about hiding something, or

All systems operational

In a new paper in Progress, Oxford economist Vuk Vukovic argues that the key to re-election in local politics is to be just corrupt enough: giving lucrative contracts and other benefits to special …

As we think about how to modify the ACA (aka Obamacare) into something different (aka Trumpcare) I would encourage everyone involved to think about one central tenet – put the person/consumer/patient at the center of the system, not the employer, not the insurer, and not the doctor. I have written a few times about consumer […]

One would think that we're the only ones struggling with Linux CLI (read: bash). Seems like cyber security professionals might be in the same boat according to the nice summary of dozens of Linux/bash commands collected by Robert Graham.

Donald Trump’s press secretary Sean Spicer inaugurated his first day on the job by telling easily falsifiable lies about the relative sizes of the Trump inauguration crowds and those of the O…

As an engineer for the U.S. Digital Service, Marianne Bellotti has encountered vintage mainframes that are still being used in production — sometimes even powering web apps. Last month she entertained a San Francisco audience with tales about some of them, in a talk called "7074 says Hello World," at Joyent's "Systems We Love" conference. Created under the…

CMD+F in your text editor can only get you so far! In this course, we will learn to use grep and find, two powerful command-line utilities, to search through and explore our codebase. Learn to search specific files and folders, using regular expressions to look for -- or ignore! -- particular phrases. We'll cover how to search recursively, get more context on your results, and some simple tricks to make your searches faster and more targeted. Once you're familiar with grep and find, you'll be able to quickly answer questions such as: Do I use this function anywhere other than my tests? Where does this file get imported? Whether you're working on a new feature, reading a codebase for the first time, or refactoring existing code, grep and find can help you work faster and more effectively.

In 1857 The Leisure Hour tried to imagine life in London a century in the future, that is, in 1957. Many of the predictions seem sadly optimistic (for instance, the eradication of crime), but one in particular stands out: I observed that from each of these district shops innumerable electric wires branched off in all directions, communicating with several houses in the district to which it belonged. Thus, no sooner did a house-keeper stand in need of any article than she could despatch the order instantaneously along the wire, and receive the goods by the very first railway carriage that...

At the end of 2016, Amazon Web Services announced it would be making high-end Xilinx FPGAs available via a cloud delivery model, beginning first in a

Understanding public data

Nothing feels as good as checking something off a to-do list. In fact, I have added completed tasks to my to-do list purely to enjoy the feeling of checking them off a moment…

Ravi Mistry has recently got into Life Logging. He was inspired by the “Dear Data” project which featured hand illustrations of daily life that became a book. Ravi decided to use an IFT…

A collection of "Old Blood and Guts’" unapologetic musings on duty, action, and the brutal art of war.

Nice project from Dejan Nedelkovski up on HowToMechatronics. The alarm activates in 10 seconds after pressing the A button. For detecting objects it uses an ultrasonic sensor, and once the alarm de…

We may dream of the mass market, but the mass market doesn't dream of us. Almost no one visits your restaurant, almost no one buys your bestselling book, almost no one watches the Tonight Show…

It turns out there is a whole set of skills that Millennials are lacking and holding them back. Find out what they are and how to get them.