Silicon Valley gets a taste for food
A PLANT-BASED hamburger patty that bleeds. Meatless chicken strips with the same fleshy and fibrous texture as cooked poultry. Mayonnaise made without eggs that is...
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Posted on 2015-03-06T02:30:29+0000
Contributor by Google
Introducing Contributor by Google. An experiment in additional ways to fund the web.
Hasnain says:
Kind of old but it's on the top of HN again. A pretty cool initiative that just has people pay directly for sites instead of being bombarded by ads
Posted on 2015-03-06T02:13:22+0000
How we upgrade a live data center - Server Fault Blog
A few weeks ago we upgraded a lot of the core infrastructure in our New York (okay, it’s really in New Jersey now – but don’t tell anyone) data center. We love being open with everything we do (including infrastructure), and really consider it one of the best job perks we have. So here’s how and why…
Exclusive Extract From Jon Ronson Book 'So You've Been Publicly Shamed'
In which Ronson investigates a peculiar case of online retribution
Hasnain says:
An interesting read on the Adria Richards story. I'm kind of conflicted about this.
Not 100% sure I agree with some of the statements going on here
Posted on 2015-03-05T17:19:07+0000
Introducing Airpal - Airbnb Engineering
Airbnb is pleased to announce the launch of Airpal, a web-based query execution tool that leverages Facebook’s PrestoDB to facilitate data analysis. People who spend time using SQL for exploration and investigation know that the workflow is not always smooth. Remembering how a query was written, cop…
Hasnain says:
Some cool data tools. I like how they use Presto and react, though I'm having a hard time figuring out why airbnb has / needs 1.5 peta bytes of data
Posted on 2015-03-05T17:10:32+0000
The Go Programming Language (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
The greatest program ever written
An ode to a small work of programming genius.
Hasnain says:
Back when programming was actually difficult and close to the metal
Posted on 2015-03-05T16:53:15+0000
India’s Daughter: BBC brings forward airing of Delhi rape documentary
Film on brutal attack on Jyoti Singh broadcast in UK on Wednesday night despite being banned by Indian authorities
Hasnain says:
" India’s parliamentary affairs minister M Venkaiah Naidu declared: “We can ban the film in India. But this is an international conspiracy to defame India. We will see how the film can be stopped abroad too.”"
I thought us Pakistanis had the monopoly on claiming any bad press was a foreign conspiracy
Posted on 2015-03-05T16:14:42+0000
One Twin Exercises, the Other Doesn't
Identical twins who shared the same sports and other physical activities as youngsters but different exercise habits as adults soon developed quite different bodies and brains, a new study from Finland found.
EA Shuts Down ‘SimCity’ & ‘The Sims’ Developer Maxis
Maxis Emeryville, the studio responsible for huge PC hits including 'The Sims' and 'SimCity', has been closed by EA after nearly thirty years of operation.