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Wealth and power may have played a stronger role than 'survival of the fittest'sciencedaily.com
Researchers have discovered a dramatic decline in genetic diversity in male lineages four to eight thousand years ago -- likely the result of the accumulation of material wealth, while in contrast, female genetic diversity was on the rise. This male-sp... -
How We Built Our Stack For Shipping at Scaleproduct.hubspot.com
HubSpot's SaaS platform powers thousands of businesses around the world. Here's how our stack is built to scale speed, reliability, and our culture. -
This Is What Impactful Engineering Leadership Looks Like - First Round Reviewfirstround.com
Jessica McKellar, former founder and now engineering manager at Dropbox, shares the tenets that have made her an effective technical leader. -
The HTTPS-Only Standardhttps.cio.gov
The American people expect government websites to be secure and their interactions with those websites to be private. All browsing activity should be considered private and sensitive. This proposed initiative would require the use of HTTPS on all publi... -
[Folio] | Driving Mr. Albert, by Michael Paterniti | Harper's Magazineharpers.org
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Physicists Find Hints of the Higgs in Superconductivity - IEEE Spectrumspectrum.ieee.org
But don't throw out your giant Swiss particle accelerator yet - brendangregg.com
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Two Former Googlers, Backed by Y Combinator, Want You to Give Kids the Gift of Investingrecode.net
Spark Gift lets you send someone shares of a stock, in denominations as low as $20. -
Lambda Complexity: Why Fast Data Needs New Thinkingvoltdb.com
The Unix Philosophy, summarized by Doug McIlroy in 1994: Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface. This is considered by some to be th... -
Han Solo and Bayesian Priorscountbayesie.com
One of the most memorable errors in statistical analysis is a scene from The Empire Strikes Back! Han Solo, attempting to evade enemy fighters, flies the Millennium Falcon into an asteroid field. The ever knowledgeable C3PO informs Solo that probabi... -
Grand Central Techgrandcentraltech.com
Grand Central Tech is a community of startups and strategic partners that breaks from the traditional accelerator model by providing an unparalleled value proposition. -
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Design, customize and 3D print for play! | Autodesk 123D123dapp.com
Easily design, customize and 3D print your own toys to play with. -
Would Rust have prevented Heartbleed? Another look • Tony Arcieritonyarcieri.com
In case you haven’t heard, another serious OpenSSL vulnerability will be announced this Thursday. It reminded me of about a year ago, when Heartbleed was announced: In December 2014 I gave a talk at Mozilla about cryptography in Rust (slides... | Tony ... -
Blocking The High: One Man’s Quixotic Quest To Cure Addictiondigg.com
If you could take the high out of drugs, what would be the point in taking them? -
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Critical Sharks Part III: Design Fallacieselischiff.com
In order to fortify their position and divert attention away from criticism, modern minimalist apologists have amassed a whole assortment of baseless arguments for dismissing visual design issues. If you find yourself in a discussion with a modern m...
