Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 682 posts.
Debt has always involved institutions that control debt’s potentially catastrophic social consequences. It is only in the current era that we have seen the creation of a planetary administrative system that protects the interests of creditors.
In electronics, it is common to talk about single sided circuit boards. The most common type is a circuit board that only has printed wiring on one side, and components on the other side. There are also surface-mount boards, where all the wiring and components sit on one side. But aren’t all of those really just…
Recently, the UK government passed The Digital Economy Act which included many, perhaps draconian, measures to combat online music piracy...
Posted by Peter Norvig, Director, Google ResearchYou know the Google story: small start-up of highly-skilled programmers in a garage grows into a l...
Examines the science and arguments of global warming skepticism. Common objections like 'global warming is caused by the sun', 'temperature has changed naturally in the past' or 'other planets are warming too' are examined to see what the science really says.
An introduction to the Go's defer, panic, and recover control flow mechanisms.
This part of the globalissues.org web site presents some of the hard hitting facts and statistics on poverty.
The scrypt key derivation function and encryption utility
IndexedDB is an evolving web standard for the storage of significant amounts of structured data in the browser and for high performance searches on this data using indexes. Mozilla has ...
If WordPress were a country, our Bill of Rights would be the GPL because it protects our core freedoms. We’ve always done our best to keep WordPress.org clean and only promote things that are compl…
For more information about this, have a look at David Baron's post, the bug and the post on the security blog. For many years the CSS :visited selector has been ...
Manufacturers take a conservative approach and specify the life of Li-ion in most consumer products as being between 300 and 500 discharge/charge cycles.…
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This PEP proposes the merger of the Unladen Swallow project 3 into CPython’s source tree. Unladen Swallow is an open-source branch of CPython focused on performance. Unladen Swallow is source-compatible with valid Python 2.6.4 applications and C extensi...
This PEP introduces a syntax for adding arbitrary metadata annotations to Python functions 1.
The Scheme part of the name PLT Scheme is misleading, and it is often an obstacle to explaining and promoting PLT research and tools.
