How Service Workers Saved Our Web App Evan ShawBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Mar 25 All the way back in November 2017, one of my colleagues was working with some others around the office on some work he was doing for our web Sell screen. He noticed something alarming: the updates we were pushing out weren’t…well…updating. The browser wasn’t ever

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Right on cue—it being Apple announcement day and all—the services-oriented tech giant has released the latest version of its iOS operating system. If you don’t already have it, or have yet to receive the notification that an iOS update is available, simply tap on your Settings app > General > Software Update to begin the

An Excess Male, Maggie Shen King (Harper Voyager 9780062662552, $15.99, 416pp, tp) September 2017. Wei-Guo is An Excess Male. One of a huge population of unmarried men in China, Wei-Guo has never slept with a woman apart from his weekly government-allotted sex worker. Finally, at 40, he and his fathers have saved enough money for

Screenshot: Brendan Hesse (Google Maps Android App) The days of relying on Facebook for advertising your events may soon be over, as Google has starting rolling out a new feature that lets users add their own public events to Google Maps. You’ll be able to broadcast big neighborhood events, restaurant openings, art gallery debuts, or

Monday, March 25, 2019 I’ve been talking to a lot of people in different layers of the stack during my funemployment. I wanted to share one of the problems I’ve been thinking about and maybe you can think of some clever solutions to solve it. Conway’s Law states “organizations which design systems … are constrained

I’ve only recently become anywhere decent at crochet. That is, making fabric stuff from yarn with a crochet needle. My stepmother taught me how to do the basic slipknot and chain stitch in finger crochet when I was a little girl, but my attempts at getting any better at it failed for the longest time.

Journalist Joanna Chiu recently witnessed what so many have experienced: A creepy guy making creepy comments to the girl who was stuck next to him on a flight. Advertisement In this case, Chiu says the girl was a teenager who was separated from the rest of her family, which made it all the easier for

We have more details on Apple’s forthcoming credit card with Goldman Sachs after today’s Apple event, and if you were hoping for a rewards card that changes the game, well, this isn’t it. Here are the main features of the Apple Card, some of which were first reported by the Wall Street Journal well before

If the memory center of the human brain can grow new cells, it might help people recover from depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), delay the onset of Alzheimer’s, deepen our understanding of epilepsy and offer new insights into memory and learning. If not, well then, it’s just one other way people are different from

Let’s face it—we take ride-hailing apps like Uber for granted. In less than three minutes’ time, we can hail a ride with a few phone clicks. It’s like magic. But for those who require wheelchairs, scooters, or other mobility-assistance devices, historically, there’s been an enormous gap with regard to fair and equal access to accessible

Image: Pexels When you’re searching for accommodations online you can often find information about how big the place is, what kind of bed you’re sleeping in, and what sorts of restaurants are nearby. However, what you might not be able to find out in a listing is whether or not your hosts are LGBTQ-friendly. Mister

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Photo: Scott Gordon Bleicher Dan Pashman is the host of The Sporkful, a podcast about food and the people who eat it. Over the years, the dad of two has shared many musings about mealtime with kids, including the hierarchy of children’s leftovers (he describes parents as “natural scavengers”), how to disrupt the ice cream

At Apple’s “show time” services event today, it announced a new Apple Card credit card, promising to improve things about the credit card experience with simpler applications, no fees, lower interest rates, and better rewards. To get an Apple Card, users will be able to sign up on their iPhone in the Apple Wallet app

Welcome, outlander. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the first game in The Elder Scrolls franchise (The Elder Scrolls: Arena), Bethesda is giving everyone a free copy of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind—the “Game of the Year” edition, at that. Sure, the game is now 16 years old at this point, but you’re saving a

Hack the WorldThe best tips, tricks and hacks from all over the globe.   It’s great to have a packing list for real world items, to make sure you don’t forget your underwear or your toothbrush, but what about a digital packing list? Make sure you have these electronic essentials before you travel so an internet

Photo: Claire Lower When eating an animal, it’s important to eat as much of that animal as possible, and more often that not those “unusual” pieces are some of the most flavorful. This is true of the pig face, and it’s true of the chicken neck. Use Chicken Feet for The Richest Possible Stock A

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Just before the yuletide of 2018, I arrived in my native Ghana after one of my long spells away. I flipped out my phone, opened Uber, and tried to flag a ride from inside the shiny new terminal of Accra’s international airport. After a couple of false starts I gave up, walked out, and headed

Google has so far refused to take down an app, already barred by Apple, Amazon and Microsoft, that aims to convince people that their same-sex sexual attractions are both sinful and changeable. Why it matters: The app, from Living Hope Ministries, amounts to a form of conversion therapy, say LGBTQ rights groups that have urged

Photo: Michelle Woo Hack the WorldThe best tips, tricks and hacks from all over the globe.   Japan, how are you so smart? When I traveled to Tokyo last week with a few other members of the Lifehacker team, I went to use the restroom at a shopping center. Inside the stall was a contraption that,

Samsung 256GB LRDIMM At both OCP Summit 2019 and GTC 2019 we saw a number of 256GB DIMM demos on the show floors. The rationale behind these DIMMs is simple, more RAM in a server means more capacity to run in-memory applications and get higher virtual machine densities, and those are just examples. The memory

Nobody likes waiting on hold to talk to customer support, but for some reason, waiting for an email reply can be even more frustrating. Angrily smashing that “reply” button before you get a response might feel satisfying in the moment, but it actually decreases your chances of a timely resolution. Here’s Why You Should Mute

Photo: Stas Knop (Pexels It’s an alluring option, especially in the early years of raising children, when everything feels one Jenga piece away from a catastrophic collapse: “I’ll go part-time,” you tell yourself. You decide to talk to your manager and negotiate a plan to scale down the scope of your full-time position—and also your

This is a real-time 3D engine (ray caster) that renders to single-image random-dot stereogram (the images made popular in the Magic Eye books). I wrote this because I was curious if the brain would be able to follow a stereogram in motion. Click on the screen and press 3 after the program starts to render

When you think about how “traditional” enterprise-focused firms – think Microsoft, Oracle and IBM – sell software, it usually follows a well trodden formula: negotiations, long sales cycles and a “checklist” of features demanded by decision makers who seldom use the products they buy. But there is a company that has found a way to

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Photo: Claire Lower I enjoy a molecular technique now and then, but foams have always been a little hard for me get behind. In my estimation, there simply aren’t many foods that benefit from that particular mouthfeel. Processed cheese is, it turns out, one of them. Whip Up a Bespoke Liqueur With Nitrous Oxide  Giving

(Reuters) – Tesla Inc filed a lawsuit on Thursday against a former engineer at the company, claiming he copied the source code for its Autopilot technology before joining a Chinese self-driving car startup in January. FILE PHOTO: A Tesla logo is seen at a groundbreaking ceremony of Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory in Shanghai, China January 7,

Image: Suzy Hazelwood (Pexels) Heartfelt apologies can be tough; admitting you were wrong requires introspection, humbling yourself, being vulnerable. But the gracelessness of the person accepting the apology too often exacerbates an already uncomfortable situation. Redditor u/shakakhon posted in r/LifeProHacks about the worst way to react to an apology: If you’re in an argument with

IMO one of the standout pieces of innovation in mulle-objc, is the pervasive use of and automatic generation of headers with generic names. I think it’s easiest to show by example, what I mean with “generic header-names” and how to achieve the ideal header flow with them. The generic header-names concept is applicable to C

Image: Fezbot2000 on Unsplash The U.S. economy has more or less been in expansion mode since the Great Recession of 2009, but expansions don’t last forever. While no one can say with certainty when the next recession will hit, it is certain that it will come eventually. And when it does, you’ll want to be

Best Deals of the DayThe best deals from around the web, updated daily.    A discount on Philips Hue bulbs, Cuisinart cast iron, and a reader-favorite keyboard lead off Thursday’s best deals. Bookmark Kinja Deals and follow us on Twitter to never miss a deal. Today’s Best Tech Deals Corsair makes our readers’ favorite mechanical

MacOS: We still like Clocker, the free time zone clock for your menu bar. But if you have to track a lot of time zones, you should also look at Menu World Time, another free menu bar world clock with a slightly different interface. Clocker Crams a World Clock into Your Menu Bar Mac: Your Mac

Today, most of us see the internet on some variation of an opaque rectangular screen. Think of them as little digital islands—black mirrors—dwarfed by the real world around them. Then imagine a screen that covers your whole field of vision and is see-through, like a windshield, so that the digital stuff can be convincingly mixed

You know what time it is: that moment when politicians spam your inboxes with requests for money. And gosh darn it, sometimes, they deserve it! Beto, take my money! Warren, here’s my debit card and bank account information! AOC, here’s my life savings! But sometimes, it’s worth being a little more discriminating when it comes

Walmart’s chief technology officer Jeremy King is leaving the company, according to a memo obtained by CNBC.

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Following in the footsteps of PUBG and Fortnite, Activision is bringing Call of Duty’s storied multiplayer gameplay to iOS and Android devices with Call of Duty: Mobile. The game will include classic Call of Duty multiplayer modes such as Team Death Match and Free-For-All, and fan-favorite maps like Nuketown. Call of Duty: Mobile will be

Parents of babies need shortcuts wherever they can get them. Parents do occasionally need to eat or sleep or pee without putting their child in grave danger, after all. But writer Wendy Wisner at Scary Mommy reminds us that propping up your baby’s bottle to feed them hands-free is not a shortcut worth taking. It

Skymind, a Y Combinator-incubated AI platform that aims to make deep learning more accessible to enterprises, today announced that it has raised an $11.5 million Series A round led by TransLink Capital, with participation from ServiceNow, Sumitomo’s Presidio Ventures, UpHonest Capital and GovTech Fund. With this, the company has now raised a total of $17.9

Photo: Getty Images Being a kid is tough. There’s a lot of uncertainty—about tomorrow’s doctor’s appointment, that birthday party they’re supposed to attend, or how long Mom will be on an airplane. Anxiety sometimes surfaces in the form of questions. So many questions. Often the same questions over and over and over. They want to,

XIX (YC W17) Is Hiring a Senior Front End Engineer 2 hours ago | hide As a front end engineer, you’ll be responsible for improving XIX web client using your extensive knowledge of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. You will work with real-time data streams, engineer for performance across browsers, and delight people by making the

Photo: Claire Lower To most, radishes are a salad vegetable, and a good one at that. I really enjoy a raw radish—particularly dipped in butter with a pinch of salt—but a cooked radish is surprisingly delightful. You Should Put Kohlrabi on Your Pizza Life has taught me to expect very little from February, the worst

Today, March 20, is the spring equinox. In the northern hemisphere, days will start getting longer, nights shorter, and warmth will flood the land. To celebrate this shift, go outside tonight and check out the supermoon, which will coincidentally be lighting up the sky. It’s a rare occurrence for a spring equinox to correspond with

British scientists have joined the race to produce meat grown in the lab rather than reared on the hoof. Scientists at the University of Bath have grown animal cells on blades of grass, in a step towards cultured meat. If the process can be reproduced on an industrial scale, meat lovers might one day be

Image: Toa Heftiba on Unsplash Investing for retirement is important, and 401(k)s offer some of the best benefits to entice workers to prioritize contributions. But what happens when your employer plan doesn’t give you the investment choices you want? That’s something Stephen M. has been grappling with. He sent this email: Have you done an

“Read my lips: We want to pay taxes,” Chris Lehane, Airbnb’s global head of public policy, told the nation’s mayors in 2016. In the years since, the home-sharing site has repeated the declaration in press releases, op-eds, emails, and on billboards. On its website, Airbnb says it is “democratizing revenue by generating tens of millions

Photo: Meghan Moravcik Walbert “I need a few new shortcuts in the kitchen,” I told my mom-in-law recently. “I’m tight on time these days and I gotta pick up the pace.” “Grate your butter,” she said. I’m sorry what? “When you need softened butter,” she explained, “but you don’t have time to wait, grate it

Escalator walkers and escalator standers are forever locked in struggle—they are like toilet paper over-the-roll installers and under-the-roll installers, or GIF pronouncers, or one-spacers and two-spacers, only brought head to head every day in the malls, airports, offices, train exits, and sundry moving staircases of the world. And the real-world evidence, it seems, is on

Most of the Americans arrived in Port-au-Prince from the U.S. by private jet early on the morning of February 16. They’d packed the eight-passenger charter plane with a stockpile of semiautomatic rifles, handguns, Kevlar bulletproof vests, and knives. Most had been paid already: $10,000 each up front, with another $20,000 promised to each man after

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Hi Vyacheslav! What’s your background, and what are you currently working on? I’m a 33 years-old software engineer from Latvia, with vast experience in different projects of all shapes and sizes. I am currently working on my next big venture, which I hope will get to the level of success I’m looking for. WantRemoteJob was

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EXAMPLE PROMPT: The NCAA unveiled the 68 college basketball teams that will be dancing this year. It wasn’t short on controversy, as snubbed teams aired out their grievances and blamed a confusing new metric. OUTPUT: The numbers came straight from the NCAA’s website, where they’re being used to calculate the number of national titles, national

You could reasonably call cloud services the crowning achievement in the world of Free and Open Source software. Linux and Free and Open Source software killed proprietary UNIXes in bare metal data centers and went on to dominate cloud services to such a point that it has even caused Microsoft to completely change their stance

Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images Before she was a senator and 2020 presidential candidate, Elizabeth Warren was a professor at Harvard who also happened to write a couple of really good books on personal finance and economic instability in the U.S. In fact, her first book, The Two Income Trap, (co-written with her daughter, Amelia Warren

This post is adapted from ARtillery Intelligence’s latest report, Social AR: Spatial Computing’s Network Effect, Part II. It includes some of its data and takeaways. More can be previewed here and subscribe for the full report. A big part of reaching AR’s potential is to empower developers to build AR experiences. Facebook’s Spark AR platform

I buried my first and only pet when I was 7. His name was Hopper and he was a rabbit. He lived a short life before ending up buried in my backyard. I learned this week that that was probably the wrong move, thanks to a story by veterinary anatomic pathologist Rachel Allevana on The

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One of my most prized possessions is the grease crock I inherited from my grandmother. Every morning she made bacon—which was basically every morning ever—she would remove the strips of fried cured pork, then unceremoniously dump the rendered fat into the crock, along with all the little burnt meaty bits. The crock lived right next

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has reached a historic settlement with Facebook over advertising practices that allegedly discriminated against minorities. Why it matters: As part of five settlements totaling nearly $5 million, Facebook has agreed to make major changes to its ad platform that will help curb discrimination against certain people when it comes

The staff of Kickstarter announced plans to unionize today. If recognized, Kickstarter would be the first major tech company with union representation in the United States. Members of the union, which goes by Kickstarter United, say they want to improve inclusivity and transparency at the company. To unionize, they’re working with the Office and Professional

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More than 1 Billion Google users data is on risk Rajshekhar RajahariaBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Mar 13 In October 2018, Google had announced that they are going to close its service Google Plus. Google had told that because of some bug, their 5 lakh(approx) user’s data got leaked and they had fixed that error. My name is Rajshekhar Rajaharia

Each team is asked to select, explain, and rank their top 8 values in order of importance. Open Communication We hire people that we trust, and that trust comes with responsibility. We expect every member of our team to be proactive in communicating their thoughts, feelings, and challenges. If you aren’t comfortable asking for help

print-edition icon Print edition | Asia Mar 7th 2019 FEW CREATURES can live comfortably on oil-palm plantations. The orderly rows of trees provide scant refuge for mammals trying to avoid predators and hunters. Monkeys struggle to swing on palm branches; birds have few places to nest. But for snakes, the plantations are an earthly paradise.

Will Hunt  | An excerpt from Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet | Spiegel & Grau | January 2019 | 26 minutes (6,748 words) And I stared through that obscurity, I saw what seemed a cluster of great towers, Whereat I cried, “Master, what is this city?” —Dante, Canto XXXI, The Inferno

American and Canadian regulators cited newly available satellite-tracking data in grounding all Boeing 737 Max jets on Wednesday, saying there were similarities between the deadly crash involving the plane in Ethiopia on Sunday and a Indonesian flight in October. The causes of both crashes are still under investigation. But the data cited by regulators points

Racket is a Scheme-like dialect of Lisp that has a powerful cross-platform GUI library built in. Instead of building yet another calculator, let’s build a GUI front end for the Linux command line tool beep that can be used to control the PC speaker. You’ll need beep installed. You’ll also need Racket installed, of course.

Federal prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation into data deals Facebook struck with some of the world’s largest technology companies, intensifying scrutiny of the social media giant’s business practices as it seeks to rebound from a year of scandal and setbacks. A grand jury in New York has subpoenaed records from at least two prominent

I have always had room in my heart for the old-school “edutainment” Carmen Sandiego games, because they taught me a decent bit about geography as a kid. I also loved the awesome television show (with the awesome theme song), although I’m pretty sure I had nightmares about being on the show and getting stuck with

I’ve had one desire since I was born; to see my body ripped and torn. The lyrics of death metal band Bloodbath’s cannibalism-themed track, Eaten, do not leave much to the imagination. But neither this song – nor the gruesome lyrics of others of the genre – inspire violence. That is the conclusion of Macquarie

Mar 13, 2019 by Russell Jones Why do companies ask for “secure” restricted shells? We launched Teleport as an open source library almost three years ago. At the time, we thought of it as just an interesting component of our broader application packaging solution, Gravity. We open sourced Teleport mostly to increase transparency for our

Bill Watterson is the Bigfoot of cartooning. He is legendary. He is reclusive. And like Bigfoot, there is really only one photo of him in existence.  Few in the cartooning world have ever spoken to him. Even fewer have ever met him. In fact, legend has it that when Steven Spielberg called to see if

Many things in life get soggy when wet, like paper, or expensively blow-dried hair. But plants do not work this way. Water makes them plumper, crispier, crunchier. Understand this fact and you’ll never suffer soggy lettuce again. It’s simple physics: plants are made of microscopic cells, and each one has a semi-solid wall around it.

Best Deals of the DayThe best deals from around the web, updated daily.    We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today. Wednesday’s Best Deals: Air Fryers, Elgato Capture Card, Hue Color Bulbs, and More An Eddie Bauer sale, Cuisinart pans, DeWalt Gold

Burgers are good, but burgers with bristles in them are decidedly not. It turns out that the small, coarse, poke-y bristles on BBQ bristle brushes can fall off the brush and get stuck in your food, potentially lodging themselves in your throat and tongue. This is, obviously, not ideal. What Don’t You Clean in Your

Screenshot: Brendan Hesse (Google Chrome) Google announced that the latest update for the Chrome browser, Chrome 73, has begun rolling out to Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms. While these updates normally cover security fixes, system-level changes, and new tools for developers, Chrome 73 also includes a handful of new features for general users as well—including

Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering In 2019, mobile innovation is stronger than ever, with new technologies from 5G to edge to edge displays and even foldable screens. Android is right at the center of this innovation cycle, and thanks to the broad ecosystem of partners across billions of devices, Android’s helping push the

Today is a big day for Brexit negotiations. Members of Parliament are debating the “No Deal” exit, a plan that would have the UK leave the EU on March 29th with no formal organization or coordination whatsoever between the two entities. Should this happen, it would almost certainly cause economic chaos in not only the United

On the One Bad Mother podcast, hosts Biz Ellis and Theresa Thorn end each episode by telling each other, “You’re doing a really good job.” It has always struck me as such a sweet way to encourage each other when you’re in the thick of parenting, everything seems like a struggle and you feel like

Eli Blumenthal USA TODAY Published 5:46 PM EDT Mar 13, 2019 Having trouble accessing Facebook or Instagram on Wednesday afternoon? You weren’t alone.  The massively popular social network started having problems at around noon Eastern time, with issues popping up across Facebook proper, Facebook Messenger and Instagram around the world. The service outage is one

Amy Schumer has thrown up 980 times since she became pregnant, she told a New York Times reporter. She has hyperemesis gravidarum, and just a few years ago, Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, had the condition too. Hyperemesis gravidarum is just what it sounds like, if you know the medical lingo: too much (hyper) vomiting

Your car might seem like a private world where you can fart, argue with your family, or complain about the wait at the drive thru window; in reality, everyone with a headset on inside can hear you. It might seem like communicating with a speaker is difficult, based on how much people yell when they’re

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Remix is on a mission to improve to way cities are shaped, working with more than 300 local governments worldwide to rethink the way they plan and envision their city.  Urban infrastructure impacts everything from economic mobility to CO2 emissions, and our platform(demo) empowers local governments with data and tools to transform their transit, reshape

In his latest announcement, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg embraces privacy and security fundamentals like end-to-end encrypted messaging. But announcing a plan is one thing. Implementing it is entirely another. And for those reading between the lines of Zuckerberg’s pivot-to-privacy manifesto, it’s clear that this isn’t just about privacy. It’s also about competition. The Proof is

Jump to navigation Jump to search Coordinates: 50°37′01″N 4°40′59″W / 50.617°N 4.683°W Camelford Camelford shown within Cornwall. The Camelford water pollution incident involved the accidental contamination of the drinking water supply to the town of Camelford, Cornwall, in July 1988. Twenty tonnes of aluminium sulphate was inadvertently added to the water supply, raising the concentration

i I was always interested in economics. However until a few years ago I never really studied finance. Since I decided to change that, I have learnt finance from reading good and bad books, online courses, newspapers, blog posts and online forums and by executing trades. This post sums up and prioritizes the roadmap I

Screenshot: AFV You remember America’s Funniest Videos, right? That 90s homemade video clip show hosted by Bob Saget that mostly featured people falling and pets doing weird things? Well, guess what? It’s still on ABC, it’s had a slew of hosts in its lifetime (currently Alfonso Ribeiro, otherwise known as Carlton from The Fresh Prince

The smartest animals on my farm aren’t my bees (although they possess the genius of the algorithm). It’s not the horses or the goats or even the dogs. The barn cat is pretty smart, but only in fairly limited circumstances, and the house cats are useless. Obviously it’s not the sheep or the chickens. Nope, the

Not this one.Screenshot: Duck Hunt (Nintendo) As our sister site Kotaku has explained, all video games should let you pet the animals. Sadly, many games include dogs, but no way to pet them. Until Congress gets its act together and outlaws this oversight, a new Twitter account, Can You Pet the Dog?, tells you which

Best Deals of the DayThe best deals from around the web, updated daily.    We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today. Thursday’s Best Deals: Clear the Rack, Sonos One, Smart Light Bulbs, and More  Clear the Rack, Instax cameras, and a toilet

Photo: Claire Lower I grew up in a house of caffeine obsessives. My father drinks a whole pot before anyone else even opens their eyes, and my mother and sisters drink much more throughout the day than their tiny bodies should be able to process (at five-foot-four, I am the tall one). When I’m around

With the proliferation of third-party APIs and microservice architectures, modern web servers can make as many outgoing HTTP requests as the number of incoming HTTP requests they serve. A typical web application can interact with third-party APIs to handle payment processing, send email, track analytics, dispatch text messages, verify mailing addresses, or even deliver physical

As a bookish, curious kid growing up in a rural, working class area in the 90s, my life revolved around three things: my soccer team, the library, and Pizza Hut. The latter two were intrinsically connected for reasons I will explain shortly (and the first certainly helped burn off the calorific aftereffects of the last).

Image: Bruno Abatti on Unsplash Few things are more frustrating than a canceled flight, particularly in the U.S. You can be strung along for hours, waiting with your increasingly agitated fellow travelers, only to be told you’ll have to wait until the next day to actually take your flight. But if you’re traveling in, to

John Ioannidis is like the Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse. When he comes riding in, scientists tremble in fear. This is for good reason. He first burst onto the national scene in 2005 with a groundbreaking paper titled simply “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False.” His statistical analysis and logic are impeccable, and his

Take a look inside Poll Everywhere is a group of very real people who rise to do some pretty unreal things – whether that be changing the nature of presentations, building the world’s largest audience response system, or ensuring that each and every Poll Evian is better off for having had the experience of working

Kids, this is *not* the way you should brush your teeth. Use only a pea-sized amount of toothpaste. Screenshot: YouTube When my daughter was a toddler, she loathed brushing her teeth, but once we found a toothpaste flavor she enjoyed (pink bubble gum, of course), her perspective immediately shifted to “OOOH CANDY!” Every time I

Introduction Last year I published my first book with a publisher, Hands on Bug Hunting For Penetration Testers. Going in, I was determined to set up a workflow that would allow me to: 1) Keep a backup of the book.2) Allow me to easily track my writing progress.3) Work on the book offline.4) Keep my

Why we built our core engineering team outside of Silicon Valley Adam BrecklerBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Mar 7 Building Virtual Bridges Flashback to late 2017: As an early stage startup based in the San Francisco Bay Area, we at Prism Labs, were faced with the following grim reality after leaving the friendly confines of Y Combinator in the fall

Hello everyone, my name is Atomic Artichoke, and I’m the newest employee of the interviewing.io team, having joined a couple months ago as a Data Scientist. Atomic Artichoke isn’t my real name, of course. That’s the pseudonym the interviewing.io platform gave me, right before I took my final interview with the company. If you’ve never

It may seem counterintuitive, but sometimes you need another thing to help yourself get organized, even if you’re feeling fatigue about all the apps and services you’re already wrangling. Notion is an all-in-one workspace app that can help you feel less overwhelmed with all the pieces of a particular project, even if that project is

Photo: Getty Images If you’ve ever worked from home with a young child underfoot, you know it is an unwritten rule that the second you get on an important phone call, your kids will spill something, hurt something or just generally need SOMETHING from you. Even if you tell them—no, especially if you tell them—that

How I WorkThe How I Work series asks heroes, experts, and flat-out productive people to share their shortcuts, workspaces, routines, and more. Have someone you want to see featured, or questions you think we should ask? [Email Nick](mailto:nick.douglas@lifehacker.com).   The Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine is a fertility clinic that helps patients and researches new genetic

The Muse is the most trusted and beloved career platform, connecting individuals and companies on a more authentic level. We support over 75 million people looking to craft meaningful careers through TheMuse.com and our employer partners. Smart companies work with us to attract today’s top talent, giving candidates the information they need to find the

By 2015, Mark Zuckerberg had grown uncomfortable with his messaging history. His old instant messages had gotten him into trouble in the past — people are still tweeting juvenile IMs from his college days — and the 2014 Sony hack had made him more concerned about his potential exposure. And so Facebook’s CEO took a

The Evolution of Managed Marketplaces Anand IyerBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Jun 12, 2017 Some of you may be too young to remember, but the physical Yellow Pages was one of the main ways you could find local businesses. Those meaty books were a mainstay and saw frequent usage in many many households around the world. But since the

It has come to my attention that not everyone is eating their brie rind. This is silly, because brie rind is good, and—if you’re scraping the the gooey center out of a wedge on a communal cheese plate—it’s pretty dang rude. But even beyond brie, a lot of folks shy away from perfectly edible, sometimes

Today I’d like to share an idea. It’s a very simple idea. It’s not fancy and it’s certainly not new. In fact, I’m sure many of you have thought about it already. But if you haven’t—and even if you have!—I hope you’ll take a few minutes to enjoy it with me. Here’s the idea: So simple! But

Mozilla is scheduled to add a new user anti-fingerprinting technique to Firefox with the release of version 67, scheduled for mid-May this year. Called “letterboxing,” this new technique adds “gray spaces” to the sides of a web page when the user resizes the browser window, which are then gradually removed after the window resize operation

As you can see in the diagram above, Stackdriver Trace lets you examine the complete code path and determine the root of the high latency call. Examining application output using Stackdriver Logging The final telemetry component that Istio provides is the ability to direct logs to Stackdriver Logging. By themselves, logs are useful for examining

Best Deals of the DayThe best deals from around the web, updated daily.    We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today. Wednesday’s Best Deals: Sling TV, Uniqlo, Moen Faucets and More A Simplehuman trash can, Thermapen Mk4, and LEGO’s Paris Skyline architecture

Photo: Richard Drury (Getty Images) As a parent, the idea that my kid—or any kid I know—could be thinking about suicide is one I’d like to push far, far away. No. God, no. Not possible. This mindset, however, is dangerous. Because children are killing themselves. Among teens, deaths by suicide increased by 33 percent between

Screenshot: David Murphy I hang my geeky head in shame for never trying this earlier, but I just noticed the other day that you can right-click in Gmail to pull up a useful Gmail-themed context menu. In fact, it’s probably faster to organize your emails this way then to select an email and use the

An Amazon pop-up kiosk in the Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream, N.Y., in July 2016. The company has experimented with the pop-up concept since at least 2014. Photo: Richard B. Levine/Zuma Press 3 Comments By Esther Fung Esther Fung The Wall Street Journal Biography @estherfung Updated March 6, 2019 3:58 p.m. ET Amazon.com Inc.

In March 2009, Uber was born. Over the next few years, the company became not just a disruptive, controversial transportation company, but a model for dozens of venture-funded companies. Its name became a shorthand for this new kind of business: Uber for laundry; Uber for groceries; Uber for dog walking; Uber for (checks notes) cookies.

All the bad press about Facebook might be catching up to the company. New numbers from Edison Research show an an estimated 15 million fewer users in the United States compared to 2017. The biggest drop is in the very desirable 12- to 34-year-old group. Marketplace Tech got a first look at Edison’s latest social

Who can we really trust among Amazon, Yelp, and the countless other review site that depend on customer intel to inform buying decisions? Let’s face it: even if a product has four and a half stars, we can’t help but be swayed by the one- and two-star reviews. Who’s the liar here? And more importantly,

Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images There’s a statistic for everything, especially in investing. Writers and financial experts love to pick out minutiae from the markets and posit that they mean something BIG and EXPLOSIVE about the state of the economy—and now that you know it too, you have some sort of investing edge. (If you were

Regular cleaning of your kitchen requires you to either ignore what’s going on underneath your fridge, or moving it so you can clean properly. Here’s how to do the latter, because eventually the former will catch up with you. It isn’t pretty, what’s going on beneath the average fridge and stove: they are where lost

by Paul Ducklin Chrome users, make sure you’ve got the very latest version. Or, as Justin Schuh, one of Chrome’s well-known security researchers, put it: [L]ike, seriously, update your Chrome installs… like right this minute. We’re not big Chrome fans – we’ve always thought that Firefox is better in both form and function, to be

Nowadays, in order to use a service, you must provide a login and password. In Poland, I got acquainted with a partial password instead of a regular password. A partial password is a mode of password authentication. By asking the user to enter only a few specific characters from their password, rather than the whole

You’re in a rush to get to work when suddenly all hell breaks loose—on your face, that is. While shaving, you manage to cut yourself ever so slightly, only for it to gush blood like an unfixable faucet leak. You’re left with the decision: continue to dab it with toilet paper until the bleeding stops

Able Health is looking for Junior Software Engineers to build clinical care algorithms and delightful features as we rapidly scale our product and organization. We are looking for engineers who understand that simplicity and reliability are aspects of a system that can’t be tacked on but are carefully calculated with every decision made. You’ll have

The first product we launched was analytics and performance monitoring – think “NewRelic for Video” – used by major video streaming companies like PBS, Vimeo, CBS Interactive, and the New York Times to monitor and improve billions of streams. In early 2018, we launched Mux Video, a simple API to video hosting, encoding and streaming

The ChaCha cryptographic random number generator is in the news thanks to Google’s Adiantum project. I’ll discuss what’s going on, but first a little background. The name of the project comes from a genus of fern. More on that below as well. One-time pads The one-time pad is a provably unbreakable way to encrypt things.

Image: Pexels We all have a few shows that we love. When that show is one with seven or eight seasons then choosing which episode to rewatch on a Saturday afternoon can be a bit of a challenge. For me, that typically means watching the same five or six episodes over and over again, but

// TypeScript Fundamentals For JavaScript Developers /* Tutorial for JavaScript Developers wanting to get started with TypeScript. Thorough walkthrough of all the basic features. We will go through the basic features to gain a better understanding of the fundamentals. You can uncomment the features one by one and work through this tutorial. If you have

In 1990, Harvard Business School professor Michael Jensen co-wrote an article making the then-bold claim that CEO compensation should be tied to stock price performance. The point, Jensen and his co-author argued, was to better align incentives and ensure that corporations were able to attract “the best and brightest individuals to careers in corporate management.”

Best Deals of the DayThe best deals from around the web, updated daily.    A bed sheet Gold Box, Dyson vacuum, and a discounted networking switch lead off Sunday’s best deals from around the web. Bookmark Kinja Deals and follow us on Twitter to never miss a deal. Today’s Best Tech Deals Amazon’s Fire TV

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — When a news article revealed that Clarifai was working with the Pentagon and some employees questioned the ethics of building artificial intelligence that analyzed video captured by drones, the company said the project would save the lives of civilians and soldiers. “Clarifai’s mission is to accelerate the progress of humanity

We are facing a EU regulation which may make it impossible to install a custom piece of software on most radio decives like wiki routers, smartphones and embedded devices. You can now give feedback on the most problematic part by Monday, 4 March. Please participate – it’s not hard! In the EU Radio Equipment Directive

Some months ago, I participated in a two-week experiment that involved using a smartphone app to track every morsel of food I ate, every beverage I drank and every medication I took, as well as how much I slept and exercised. I wore a sensor that monitored my blood-glucose levels, and I sent in a

Image: Pexels Whenever I sit down to complete a large task or a good amount of reading, I end up being exceptional susceptible to distractions. Yes, I want to read this 8,000-word article, but also that dress in the ad beside the article looks nice, and what’s that story about there? Maybe I’ll just click

Image: Pexels I’m a tremendous fan of using “dark mode” or ”night mode” on my phone whenever possible. Beyond just being easier to look at, dark modes use less battery power since your phone’s not having to power that bright white screen. At F8 last year Facebook announced plans to roll a dark mode for

Image: Pexels Over the past few years, it’s started to become more and more common for not everyone that works on a team to actually work in the same office. In some cases, a work “team” can also include people that not only don’t live in the same city that you do, but they also

With average highs of –40 degrees Fahrenheit in the winter, the Siberian city of Yakutsk, Russia, is one of the world’s coldest continually inhabited places. In 2008 a visiting journalist wearing multiple layers of winter clothing managed to stay outside in January for just 13 minutes before beginning to experience “severe pain” across his body

A listing of companies (or teams) that don’t do “whiteboard” interviews. “Whiteboards” is used as a metaphor, and is a symbol for the kinds of CS trivia questions that are associated with bad interview practices. Whiteboards are not bad – CS trivia questions are. Using sites like HackerRank/LeetCode probably fall into a similar category. The

@pika/web • Install npm dependencies that run directly in the browser. No Browserify, Webpack or import maps required. npm on Dec 6, 2018 – “JavaScript in 2018 is somewhat notorious for requiring a lot of tooling to get going, which is quite a reversal from the situation in 2014… All of our survey respondents would

Best Deals of the DayThe best deals from around the web, updated daily.    A digital magazine Gold Box, security cameras, bike helmets and a streaming box lead off Saturday’s best deals from around the web. Bookmark Kinja Deals and follow us on Twitter to never miss a deal. Today’s Best Tech Deals While today’s

Rackspace, the hosted private cloud vendor, let go around 200 workers or 3 percent of its worldwide workforce of 6600 employees this week. The company says that it’s part of a recalibration where it is trying to find workers who are better suited to their current business approach. A Rackspace spokesperson told TechCrunch that it

Possible DigiCert in-addr.arpa Mis-issuance Cynthia Revström 26.02.19 11:02 Hello dev.security.policy Apologies if I have made any mistakes in how I post, this is my first time posting here. Anyway: I have managed to issue a certificate with a FQDN in the SAN that I do not have control of via Digicert. The precert is here:

This is a small collection of some tips and tricks which I keep repeating myself in every ASP.NET Core application. There’s nothing ground breaking in this list, but some general advice and minor tricks which I have picked up over the course of several real world applications. Logging Let’s begin with logging. There are many

Summary of important user-visible changes for version 5 (2019-02-23): -------------------------------------------------------------------- ** The determination of an object's dimensions, size, and shape by the functions ndims, rows, columns, isscalar, isvector, isrow, iscolumn, ismatrix, and issquare now fully depends on the function size. Thus, any user-defined object can ensure correct treatment by the aforementioned functions by properly overloading

To preface the article, I primarily work on, and prefer, back-end code. I’ve been involved in both web and software development for over 4 years now and worked with many front-end and back-end frameworks. New Twitter UI Before all of the UI designers that read this go out and riot and champion against me for

Athelas is hiring project managers, SWEs, and MechE’s 16 hours ago | hide Athelas (https://athelas.com) is a fast-growing biotech company based in Mountain View, CA. In the two last month, purchase volume has nearly 5x’d, and we are hiring across the board for sharp project managers, full-stack engineers and mechanical engineers. Please send emails/resumes to

Image: Scholastic If you’ve been waiting for a sign that it’s time to introduce your kids to The Baby-Sitters Club, Netflix has generously decided to oblige. The streaming service announced that it has ordered 10 episodes of the classic 1980s and 90s book series-turned-TV show-turned movie. Even the simplest of descriptions has me excited: In

Image: Jimi Filipovski on Unsplash Show me $1 and I’ll show you 10 “money gurus” who claim they can turn it into $2. These so-called experts are a dime a dozen, and are responsible for a lot of bad money content and financial confusion. I try to avoid mentioning them when I can, which is

With the recycling industry in flux, the rules surrounding recycling plastic aren’t always a given (at least, in the U.S.). For one, you can’t recycle plastic bags or straws and now black plastic is even becoming a problem. How will we ever know the right way to recycle? Given the confusion, it makes sense that

For this month’s fitness challenge, we’re going to take on a staple of travel and at-home workouts: the versatile resistance band. You’ve probably seen them: they’re strips or tubes of rubber, and when you try to stretch them, they put up some resistance. Literally. The thicker the band, the harder you have to work to