301
I Have No Enemies: My Final Statement (2009)
The Nobel Peace Prize 2010 was awarded to Liu Xiaobo "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China"
New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 663 posts.
302
Australian PM Calls for End-To-End Encryption Ban
"The laws of mathematics are very commendable but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia", said Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull today. He has been rightly mocked for this nonsense claim, that foreshadows moves to require online messaging providers to provide law...
303
The Internet of Things – A Disaster
It's bullshit, no question, let's get past that part. How did Nest screw up this finished product?
304
305
What if AI is a failed dream?
A collection of thoughts, ideas and unsolicited opinion from Made by Many: articles, reflections, talks and interviews from the people doing the work.
306
An introduction to Stoic philosophy and resilience-building [video]
Your free ten-minute introduction to Stoic philosophy and its application to modern living
307
Net Neutrality Day of Action: Help Preserve the Open Internet
Google and many others are joining together to call on the FCC to preserve the open internet. Together, we can make our voices heard and we can make a difference.
308
Net Neutrality Violations: A History of Abuse
Here's what happens when cable and phone companies are left to their own devices.
309
Sixth mass extinction: The era of ‘biological annihilation’
We read, with no small concern, a recent CNN article by John D. Sutter, columnist. He notes several statistics that should not be ignored, such as, “three-quarters of all species could disapp…
310
The Facebook Algorithm Mom Problem
How I temporarily cut my mom out of my social media life to reach a larger audience.
311
312
DRM Is Toxic to Culture
In pursuit of market control now, deployers of DRM are robbing us of our culture in perpetuity by enclosing the future commons. It’s possible that you think that unauthorised use of copyright…
313
314
Gambiarra: repair culture (2015)
Maker culture has gained a lot of ground in the last few years. Maybe too much, in fact. We can of course ignore those people who are only, as always, surfing the current wave of hype. They seldom have any clue of the ideas they are selling themselves with anyway. But it also feels as though everybody else is talking…
315
Research does not say that people produce more when working 40 hours per week
Last week, a debate flared up on twitter on working hours in academia and there was the claim that it is irrational to work over 40 hours as output actually goes down. I do not believe this claim. …
316
Handling attraction in a professional setting
I met my wife at a tech holiday party. I saw her from across the party and the rest of the people in the room disappeared…but this story doesn’t go the way you think. We didn’t ge…
317
318
319
Why I deleted my Facebook account
After being an early adopter of Facebook and using it for over a decade, I decided to delete my account. Here's why.
320
321
I'm not a Woman in Tech
My name is Maria. I happily identify as female. I work as an Agile Coach for a tech company in Cambridge, UK. I am not a woman in tech. I grew up in Pjedsted, a village in Denmark, with my mum and …
322
Stopping the Internet of Noise – A useful internet back again
The internet is getting noisy. Too noisy. Having grown up in the nineties, with 56k dial-up, I sometimes struggle to understand how little I'm accomplishing today with all the bandwidth I can leverage. There were some key factors that made the old internet so productive, by the way,
323
Shedding Light on the “Black Box of Inappropriateness”
From Creepy Comments to Sexual Assault I’m shaking as I write this, not quite knowing where to start. As I’m sure Susan Fowler and Niniane, Susan & Leiti probably did, I’ve struggled long and h…
324
Base-4 fractions in Telugu
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
325
326
O'Reilly's Decision and Its DRM Implication
On Wednesday, I got mail from Laura Baldwin, President of O'Reilly, announcing that "as of today, we are discontinuing fulfillment of indiv...
327
As the U.S. fantasizes, the world builds high speed rail
Tomorrow, two high-speed rail lines open in France, providing new corridors for trains to slice through the countryside at 200 mph (320 km/h). One is a 302-kilometer link that will connect Paris to…
328
Literacy
Being able to read and write opens up the world of education and knowledge. When and why did more people become literate? How can progress continue?
329
Congress Needs to End Warrantless Spying, Not Make It Permanent
Lawmakers are getting serious about renewing the U.S. government’s Internet spying powers, so we need to get serious about stopping their bad proposals. First out of the gate is a bill from Sen. Tom Cotton, an ardent defender of government surveillance. His bill would not just reauthorize, but make...
330
Saved by Alice
In Alice v. CLS Bank, the Supreme Court ruled that an abstract idea does not become eligible for a patent simply by being implemented on a generic computer. This 2014 decision has significantly reduced the harm caused by vague and overbroad software patents. Before Alice, patent owners who had...