background preloader

To Be Sorted 2

Facebook Twitter

Tshering Tobgay: This country isn't just carbon neutral. Best Hacking Books ~ The Phones GSM. This is a list of the best books to start hacking things like software or web apps.The Basics of Hacking and Penetration Testing Hacking with Kali: Practical Penetration Testing Techniques The Web Application Hacker's Handbook Hacking: The Art of Exploitation Hacking is the art of creative problem solving, whether that means finding an unconventional solution to a difficult problem or exploiting holes in sloppy programming.

Best Hacking Books ~ The Phones GSM

Many people call themselves hackers, but few have the strong technical foundation needed to really push the envelope.Rather than merely showing how to run existing exploits, author Jon Erickson explains how arcane hacking techniques actually work. We’re in a Bot Gold Rush. Kik tells you how to strike it rich. Quinn Brenner was living a nightmare.

We’re in a Bot Gold Rush. Kik tells you how to strike it rich.

Her mother passed away. She was rejected from drama school. Then, as she was leaving an audition, she was hit by a car. After flat-lining, Quinn managed to survive, waking up in the hospital with two broken legs. Throughout this grueling recovery, her phone was her only connection to the outside world. These Afghans wrote a kilometer long letter of thanks to Google Translate. Last week, Kabul International Cricket Stadium witnessed a heart-warming “Thank You” to Google for adding Pashto to Google Translate.

These Afghans wrote a kilometer long letter of thanks to Google Translate

People gathered in the stadium to display “Thank You” posters about one kilometer long. These were gathered by activists from various regions of Afghanistan including Kabul, Nangarhar, Kandahar, Helmand, Zabul, Balkh, Baghlan and Kunduz. Speaking to Azadi Radio, Saeed Zabuli, one of the activists who gathered the posters, said, “Children from age 8 to 14 wrote these posters for us. They thanked Google. RL Course by David Silver - Lecture 1: Introduction to Reinforcement Learning. What is Perfectionism and How to Cure It.

My problem is that I’m a perfectionist – Everbody As I finished writing the title for this post I thought about quitting.

What is Perfectionism and How to Cure It

Uk.businessinsider. Computer program that learns to play classic NES games. The Periodic Table of WordPress Plugins. The seven secrets of successful data scientists. At O’Reilly’s “Making Data Work” seminar earlier this summer, I teamed up with a few other folks (data diva Hilary Mason, R extraordinaire Joe Adler, and visualization guru Ben Fry) to talk about data.

the seven secrets of successful data scientists

What follows is a blog-ified and amended version of that talk, originally entitled “Secrets of Successful Data Scientists.” 1. Choose The Right-Sized Tool. PyCharm. U.S. Team Takes First Place at International Mathematical Olympiad. Chiang Mai, Thailand: The six-person team representing the United States took first place at the 56th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO).

U.S. Team Takes First Place at International Mathematical Olympiad

The 2015 IMO was held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, from July 4 to 13. IMO Team with their USAMO MedalsBack Row: Michael Kural, Yang Liu, Ryan Alweiss, Shyam NarayananFront Row: Allen Liu, David Stoner IMO scores are based on the number of points scored by individual team members on six problems. The problems are taken in sets of three in 4.5 hour sessions over two days. The U.S. team’s combined score of 185 edged out the Chinese team’s score of 181 and the Republic of Korea’s third-place score of 161. Members of the U.S. team included Ryan Alweiss, Allen Liu, Yang Liu, Shyam Narayanan, and David Stoner, all of whom were awarded gold medals, and Michael Kural, who earned a silver medal, just one point away from the gold.

UW Regents Approve Tenure Changes. University of Wisconsin’s Board of Regents voted in a new set of tenure policies for the system Thursday, despite faculty objections.

UW Regents Approve Tenure Changes

The changes allow for tenured faculty layoffs when academic programs are discontinued, and creates a standard policy for post-tenure job reviews across the system. The review policy includes a process for remediation, and eventually, termination of underperforming professors. Board members adopted minor amendments to the new policy, disappointing faculty who had lobbied for changes like removing financial priorities as a reason for shuttering an academic program, more faculty control over program changes, and additional protections for laid-off colleagues. Faculty leaders have argued that what they see as reductions to tenure protections will put the UW System at a competitive disadvantage. Until 2015, tenure policies were written into Wisconsin state law. José Vásquez, who will finish his term on the board later this spring, disagreed.

The mindset of the software developer. The mindset of the software developer How developers think Disclaimer: every software developer is of course completely unique; each one thinks in a very different way about the world.

The mindset of the software developer

I have included this disclaimer because every developer believes this to be true. That said, many developers think about the world in similar ways. Js-must-watch/readme.md at 329d38ef37af5e162e5d74f6d0ac5fa0630f5a2d · bolshchikov/js-must-watch. 90 percent of U.S. bills carry traces of cocaine. A Walking City for the 21st Century. In a world where people live more mobile lifestyles than they have for centuries, cities are facing a problem they rarely planned for: their citizens move away.

A Walking City for the 21st Century

When jobs and resources start to decline, modern cities, such as Detroit, suffer difficult and often wasteful processes of urban contraction. Why FinTech is the WORST. — Listen To My Story. Why FinTech is the WORST. ♬ Listen to this Story or Read it I’m a fintech entrepreneur and investor.

Why FinTech is the WORST. — Listen To My Story

I’ve been amazed how much interest this space has had over the last year. Hard Problems - The Road to the World's Toughest Math Contest. The Advantages of a VR-Based College Education — Adventures in Consumer Technology. The Advantages of a VR-Based College Education What if we decouple the goal of getting diplomas from college experience altogether by using VR? What will be the social and economic implications of VR in higher education? Imagine a world where students spend $600 to $1500 for buying the most premium quality of VR tools and devices to replace the in-class learning with remote learning instead of spending thousands of dollars per year for getting physical seats in classes for a diploma. VR could take home schooling to a whole new level.

Students learn from their teachers, ask questions, collaborate and engage with their peers and do assignments in a virtual classroom at a fraction of the price they pay to do the same things in a physical classroom. Hard Problems - The Road to the World's Toughest Math Contest. The First Micropayments Marketplace. The First Micropayments Marketplace by John Granata, Ali Fathalian, Michael Goldstein, Eli Haims, Saivann Carignan, Matt Storus, and Balaji S. Srinivasan Marketplaces and currencies tend to go well together. Paypal famously got to scale by becoming the currency of choice for eBay buyers and sellers.

The US dollar grew to its current international predominance in part on the back of the large, integrated US market. But the exact nature of the products being sold in such a marketplace is important. Taking these constraints into account, we’ve built what we think of as the first micropayments marketplace: a marketplace that allows buyers and sellers to trade in digital goods using micropayments, initially specifically focused on APIs for developer use. Programming Transcriptic · Biowebtronics. 11 Mar 2016 Today we are going to instruct a completely automated robotic cloud lab to grab a genetically modified strain of bacteria from a library of common reagents, innoculate some bacterial growth media and finally watch how that culture grows over 8 hours by seeing how the bacteria scatter 600nm light.

Let's get started. After you sign up for a Transcriptic account you need to install some dependencies, we'll be working with Python today so pip is your friend. First let's install the Transcriptic CLI tool. Sesame Street Version. How to Learn Advanced Mathematics Without Heading to University - Part 1 - QuantStart. I am often asked in emails how to go about learning the necessary mathematics for getting a job in quantitative finance or data science if it isn't possible to head to university. This article is a response to such emails. How to Learn Advanced Mathematics Without Heading to University - Part 1 - QuantStart. Getting Into a Competitive Boot Camp. Despite the proliferation of boot camps—including those devoted to solely recruiting female developers—the competition to get into one can be fierce. Improve your chances of nailing a slot with the following tips: The Ultimate Cheat Sheet For Starting And Running Your Business.

Editor’s note: James Altucher is an investor, programmer, author, and several-times entrepreneur. His latest book, “Choose Yourself!” 27 Mind-Blowing Differences Between Winners and Losers. Speechless Corporate Shows and Corporate Training. Start Right: 8 Things to Do in the First 5 Minutes of an Interview - StartupCVs Blog. How to Impress When Starting a New Job - StartupCVs Blog. GitHub - stoeffel/awesome-fp-js: A curated list of awesome functional programming stuff in js. Keezel: Online Freedom for every device everywhere. The Future of Marijuana Is Mobile. As access to marijuana continues to open up, attitudes surrounding it are shifting, and it's showing up in more places than ever. While responding to questions from The KIND regarding the relevance of digital currency in cannabis, Marshall Hayner, an entrepreneur in both the legal weed industry and bitcoin space, defined the future of weed retail—and most other aspects of the industry—as relying on mobile apps.

A Linguistic Analysis Of Donald Trump Shows Why People Like Him So Much. The Scrap Value of a Hacked PC, Revisited. A few years back, when I was a reporter at The Washington Post, I put together a chart listing the various ways that miscreants can monetize hacked PCs. Microchurn. Volley. Free Online Animated GIF Maker & Video Maker - Make A GIF or Video Easily. Craft by InVision LABS. Google put 14 robot arms in a room together; they worked out how to pick things up from scratch. What Slack is doing to our offices—and our minds. Walking into the Slack offices in downtown San Francisco feels like walking into a Slack channel online.

Uk.businessinsider. Short Men, Overweight Women Face Lower Pay. What Makes Software Good? State of the Art JavaScript in 2016 — JavaScript and Opinions. Quiet.js by brian-armstrong. This is a javascript binding for libquiet, a library for sending and receiving data via sound card. It can function either via speaker or cable (e.g., 3.5mm). Good Free Photos - Free Public Domain Stock Photos. Don’t Play With Your News - A Puzzle Game based on NPR News. Video Course: Getting started with Webflow - Webflow Help. Hello, Product Hunters! - Vooza. The Robots Are Coming … to Take Your Job. Coding Defined: Free Bug & Issue Tracking Applications for Developers. Ed-Tech, WTF. Exercises. X-Lite Tutorial. New MIT Code Makes Web Pages Load 34 Percent Faster in Any Browser.

Marginal Revolution University. Data Structures in JavaScript posts - Ben's Blog. Most Popular Coding Languages of 2016 — CodeEval. The Artificially Intelligent Doctor Will Hear You Now. CoCycles. Disconnect: coders, the robots will be coming for your jobs before mine. Coding Defined: Free Bug & Issue Tracking Applications for Developers. PokeMMO - No Bullshit, Just Games. Hillary Clinton lying for 14 minutes straight. (SFW Version) The future of work is 5 billion customers looking for a good job. A Simple Routine to Become a Better Public Speaker.

Move fast: it’s your biggest competitive advantage. The world's most intelligent toaster. Please Don’t (Just) “Learn to Code” Anand Prakash (@sehacure) Gophish - Open Source Phishing Framework. Trump University. Middle-School Dropout Codes Clever Chat Program That Foils NSA Spying. Bitcoin and Diversity. Battery Hackers Are Building the Future in the Garage. 5 tips your future self will thank you for… Newrepublic. How to pool mine Ethereum. How to mine Ethereum on a Windows PC? - Mining Tutorial. Yes, It Matters What You Wear to an Exam. What does hearing loss sound like? Y Combinator startup list. High Scalability - How to pass a programming interview - Triplebyte. Twibble.io - A Better RSS feed to Twitter Service.

Using your phone outside the U.S. - Project Fi Help. Forbes Welcome. IoT: Internet Of Threats – Part 1. The JavaScript Playground. Computer Programmer Admits Under Oath He Coded Computers to Rig Elections – Awareness Act. The Most Dangerous Writing App. Netflix Roulette. CloudReady (Chromium OS) // NeverWare Review and How To.

Tech Companies, New and Old, Clamor to Entice Cloud Computing Experts. HackerRank Solutions. Code golf - Permutation Square Root. Spinal KitKat Implantation in a 3 Musketeers.