Lamb chop weight enforcers want warrantless access to Australians’ metadata
National Measurement Institute one of 61 agencies seeking to be classed as a ‘criminal law-enforcement agency’ in order to gain access to phone and web data
Scrapy Tips from the Pros: Part 1
Scrapy is at the heart of Scrapinghub. We use this framework extensively and have accumulated a wide range of shortcuts to get around common problems. We’re launching a series to share these Scrapy...
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Posted on 2016-01-20T16:45:03+0000
ISIS cuts its fighters' salaries by 50%
ISIS pays its fighters. But war is expensive. ISIS soldiers are getting a serious pay cut.
Edhi volunteer claims 15 killed in terror attack on Bacha Khan University Charsadda
Eight to 10 terrorists are still inside the school; security forces engaged in operation to clear university.
35 million people didn’t notice a thing… - BBC R&D
35 million people didn’t notice a thing… Posted by BBC Research and Development on 19 Jan 2016, last updated 20 Jan 2016 My name is Justin Mitchell. I’m a principal engineer at BBC R&D and I’m going to tell you about the NICAM Codec replacement project. The BBC national radio services are carried fr…
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Posted on 2016-01-20T16:36:01+0000
“Subject: Urgent Warning” | daniel.haxx.se
cURL and libcurl, Open Source, Technology “Subject: Urgent Warning” January 19, 2016 Daniel Stenberg Leave a comment Back in December I got a desperate email from this person. A woman who said her Instagram had been hacked and since she found my contact info in the app she mailed me and asked for he…
The Lonely Poverty of America's White Working Class
With manufacturing jobs evaporated and friends hard to find, many middle-aged Americans have little left.
Hasnain says:
This is a really depressing article.
"The larger context of this isolation and alienation is America’s culture of individualism. It, too, can worsen the despair. Taken to an extreme, self-reliance becomes a cudgel: Those who falter and fail have only themselves to blame. They should have gotten more education. They should have been more prepared. On this score, too, the U.S. deviates from other wealthy nations. America’s frontier spirit of rugged individualism is strong, and it manifests itself differently by race and education level, too. White Americans, for instance, are more likely to see success as the result of individual effort than African Americans are (though not Hispanics). The less educated, particularly less-educated whites, also share this view to a disproportionate degree."
Posted on 2016-01-20T07:57:34+0000
The Monad Challenges
The guys who wrote the matasano crypto challenges realized that you cannot get a working knowledge of crypto without investing blood, sweat, and tears into playing with and attempting to break crypto. They even say, “But more people ‘know how’ to break it than can actually break it.” Their crypto ch…
Is it still possible to get away with a heist?
The Hatton Garden raid was meticulous in its planning, dazzling in its complexity – yet still the perpetrators were caught. In this interconnected age, has the Hollywood-style heist become a thing of the past?
Hasnain says:
This is really engrossing and quite interesting
"“Hands-on heists are a dying art, because those who have a background in it are literally dying off.”"
Posted on 2016-01-20T07:32:06+0000
Togelius: Why video games are essential for inventing artificial intelligence
togelius.blogspot.com
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"It is crucial for artificial intelligence research to have good testbeds. Games are excellent AI testbeds because they pose a wide variety of challenges, similarly to robotics, and are highly engaging. But they are also simpler, cheaper and faster, permitting a lot of research that is not practically possible with robotics"
Posted on 2016-01-19T01:03:27+0000