Tech roundup 14: a journal published by a bot

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AI, bots and robots

• Python Pandas: Merging Dataframes Using Inner, Outer, Left and Right Joins
• BookBot: Mountain View library’s newest robot helper
• Python Tutorial for Machine Learning
• How Transformers Work – Model Used by Open AI and DeepMind
  Transformers are a type of neural network architecture that have been gaining popularity. Transformers were recently used by OpenAI in…
• Chinese entrepreneur suddenly vanishes after accusing country
  A dogged investor, missing files, an internet crusader, a disgraced judge — this scandal has drama galore. It’s about business frustration under President Xi Jinping.
• Strans – sed by learning from examples, instead of programming
• Botanical Mixture Stabilizes Cognitive Function in Alzheimer’s Patients
• Mixing WebGL and HTML, Both Rendered Out in React
• Panini AI – A platform to serve ML/DL models at low latency
• Indigenous datasets: A listing to help AI perform better in India
• Amazon’s Alexa Has 80k Apps–and No Runaway Hit
• Stop the Bots: Practical Lessons in Machine Learning
• Reinforcement Learning with Unity 3D
• A $33K robot barista serves 120 cups of coffee an hour
• Why entrepreneurs are leaving the Bay Area for their next startup
  Silicon Valley rents are soaring and talent is increasingly available elsewhere.
• A Robotic Leg, Born Without Prior Knowledge, Learns to Walk

Blockchain and decentralization

• A Generalised Solution to Distributed Consensus
• Cryptographic coin flipping, now in Keybase
• Sundial: Harmonizing Concurrency Control and Caching in a Distributed OLTP DBMS
• Prof Stephen Hawking commemorated on new 50p coin
  The Royal Mint’s tribute reflects the physicist’s pioneering work and making science accessible.
• How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 Not So Easy Steps
• Open, Decentralized, Identity Ecosystem
• Radicle: A decentralized alternative to GitHub built on IPFS
• Dumbest AI + Blockchain Project in 100 lines
  the purest AI + Blockchian project. Contribute to theDumbAssCoin/DUMBASS development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Remembering the burglary that broke Cointelpro
• Build a new way to trade cryptocurrency at Sparkswap (SF)

Cloud and architecture

• Cloud browser – headless Chrome and image maps
• Google Cloud Console Outage 9:58 Am PDT 2019-03-11
• Google’s Larry Page Approved $150M Rubin Payout, Lawsuit Says
• Amazon AWS to Maintain «Open Distro for Elastic Search» due to licensing issues
  At AWS, we focus on solving problems for customers. Over the years, customer usage and dependencies on open source technologies have been steadily increasing; this is why we’ve long been committed to open source, and our pace of contributions to open source projects – both our own and others’ – continues to accelerate. When AWS […]
• Cloudflare Raises $150M and Adds to Board of Directors
  Founder and co-chair of Nike Foundation, Maria Eitel, and Stan Meresman join Cloudflare board
• Failover Architectures: The Infrastructural Excess of the Data Centre Industry
• PrivateStorage.io: A secure and privacy-focused cloud storage solution
  Least Authority was formed in 2011 to create freedom-compatible technologies. We are a small team who believe that freedom matters in Internet technology. You can take advantage of online services while retaining control over your own data. We’re here to make it easy.
• Ubuntu Touch Safety Architecture
• Sabre limited BETA: Enterprise-CMS available as inexpensive SaaS, only 150 slots

Development and languages

• The Guide to JavaScript Fatigue: Realities of Our Industry
• Speedrunning Windows 95
  Speedrunning is the practice of attempting to beat a videogame in as short a time as possible. There are a huge variety of methods and styles. There are 100% completion speedruns, tool-assisted spe…
• GitHub Nomic Game #3
• Programmers Friendly Python Cheatsheet on GitHub Check It Out
• A Programmer’s Take on “Six Memos for the Next Millennium”
• From the Bootloader to the Kernel
• The Jankest Autonomous Drone Built and Programmed from Scratch
  The jankest autonomous drone ever built and programmed from scratch – alexozer/jankdrone
• DTrace on Windows
  Here at Microsoft, we are always looking to engage with open source communities to produce better solutions for the community and our customers . One of the more useful debugging advances that have arrived in the last decade is DTrace. DTrace of course needs no introduction: it’s a dynamic tracing f…
• A JavaScript-Free Front End
• Counting Bugs in Windows Calculator
• Programming in Rust: the good, the bad, the ugly
• GitHub Status – Incident on 2019-03-12 14:27 UTC
• On the Road to WebRTC 1.0, Including VP8
• Next month Microsoft will remind Windows 7 users to upgrade
• Chase bans non-Windows/OS X users
• Monty Python’s Cheese shop sketch transcript
• Visual Studio has offensive picture of a bikerider wearing a green hat changed
• Digital Guide to Low Tech
• New Android adware found in 200 apps on Google Play
• DeepCamera – Turn Camera into AI-Powered with Embedded/Android/Pi etc.
• Android Q Beta
  Today we’re releasing Beta 1 of Android Q for early adopters and a preview SDK for developers. You can get started with Beta 1 today by enrolling any Pixel device (including the original Pixel and Pixel XL, which we’ve extended support for by popular demand!) Please let us know what you think! Read on for a taste of what’s in Android Q, and we’ll see you at Google I/O in May when we’ll have even more to share.
• Calculating a record-breaking 31.4T digits of Pi with GCP
• Krita 4.2.0: First painting application with HDR support on Windows
• Windows Kernel Logic Bug Class: Access Mode Mismatch in IO Manager
• Earliest issues of Tolkien Society publications digitised
• Dynamic Programming for Technical Interviews
  Probably the first in a multi-part series on DP.
• A simple Prolog Interpreter written in a few lines of Python 3
  A simple Prolog Interpreter written in a few lines of Python 3. It runs a limited subset of Prolog and uses backtracking and generators in order to perform its magic. – photonlines/Python-Prolog-In…
• When C extensions crash: easier debugging for your Python test suite
• V Programming Language
• The ATS Programming Language

Quote of the week

IDE features are language smells.

        — Reg Braithwaite

Enterprises

• German Regulators Tell Tesla to Stop Advertising Cars with Gas Savings in Price
• Why does Google prepend while(1); to their JSON responses?
• Tesla to raise prices and keep more stores open
  The electric carmaker says prices will rise by 3% and reverses a decision to close stores.
• Nvidia to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9B
  NVIDIA and Mellanox today announced that the companies have reached a definitive agreement under which NVIDIA will acquire Mellanox.
• 911 calls from Amazon warehouses show emotional distress and suicide threats
• Tesla will raise prices on its cars, reverses plan to close stores
• Another former Tesla security manager says the company spied on employees
• Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks
  F5 and NGINX today announced an agreement under which F5 will acquire NGINX for approximately $670 million. Hear from NGINX CEO Gus Robertson on why NGINX + F5 is a powerful combination that will ‘bridge the divide’ between NetOps and DevOps.
• Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward a Chrome-only Web
• Google’s new voice recognition system works instantly and offline (Pixel only)
  Voice recognition is a standard part of the smartphone package these days, and a corresponding part is the delay while you wait for Siri, Alexa, or Google to return your query, either correctly interpreted or horribly mangled. Google’s latest speech recognition works entirely offline, eliminating t…
• A world of hurt after GoDaddy, Apple, and Google misissue 1M certificates
  Certificates with 63-bit serial numbers touch off mass revocation blitz.
• Gmail, Google Drive down in apparent outage
  Outage reports spiked worldwide on Wednesday.
• When Elon Musk Tried to Destroy a Tesla Whistleblower
• Google has added DuckDuckGo as a search engine option for Chrome users
  In an update to the chromium engine, which underpins Google’s popular Chrome browser, the search giant has quietly updated the lists of default search engines it offers per market — expanding the choice of search product users can pick from in markets around the world. Most notably it h…
• Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet development, cancels products
• Challenges in Search on Streaming Services: Netflix Case Study
• Microsoft, Facebook, Trust and Privacy
• List of Stuff Killed by Google
  Killed by Google is a Free and Open Source list of dead Google products, services, and devices. It serves as a tribute and memorial of beloved services and products killed by Google.
• Google is reportedly shutting down its in-house VR film studio
  Google is shutting down its Emmy Award-winning VR film division, Spotlight Stories, after six years of building out content, Variety reports. We’ve reached out to Google for confirmation. Update: A Google spokesperson responded to TechCrunch with a statement confirming the shutdown. “Since it…
• Google as a search engine is becoming useless
• Amazon Lobbied More Government Entities Than Any Other US Company Last Year
• Amazon’s Latest Supplier Purge Is an Indicator of Price Predation
• DeepMind and Google: the battle to control artificial intelligence
  Demis Hassabis founded a company to build the world’s most powerful AI. Then Google bought him out. Hal Hodson asks who is in charge
• How Google’s Bad Data Wiped a Neighborhood Off the Map
• Amazon Pulls Books That Promote Unscientific Autism ‘Cures’
  The online retailer’s move follows recent efforts by Facebook, YouTube and Pinterest to limit the availability of anti-vaccination and other pseudoscientific material.
• Google Fiber Abandons Louisville
  There’s a glob of stringy, black rubber spilling out of the street at the corner of Speed and Fernwood in Louisville’s Highlands neighborhood. A block away on Rosedale, the same spongy substance that covers most of Google Fiber’s buried lines in the city snakes in and out of the asphalt.
• Post-mortem of March 12 Google outage
• Firefox enables deprecated Fido U2F Support for Google Accounts
• Tesla Model Y
  Model Y has a 300 mile range (EPA est.), 0-60 mph acceleration in 3.5 seconds and best-in-class storage.
• Tesla Model Y
  Model Y has a 300 mile range (EPA est.), 0-60 mph acceleration in 3.5 seconds and best-in-class storage.
• Amazon makes 14 cents from every Lyft ride
• Edge TPU: Hands-On with Google’s Coral USB Accelerator
• Amazon walks back vendor purge
• A new Google Play app and game icon specification

Other news

• Tufts student claims innocence after being expelled for grade hacking
• Tufts student claims innocence after being expelled for grade hacking
• Run full Linux distros or specific applications on top of Android
  Main UserLAnd Repository. Contribute to CypherpunkArmory/UserLAnd development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Best Deep Learning Courses and MOOCs: Updated for 2019
  The list of the best machine learning & deep learning courses and MOOCs for 2019.
• Listening to Quantum Radio
• Teaching an AI to Draft Magic: The Gathering
• Fixing Unix/Linux/Posix Filenames: Control Characters (Such as Newline), 2009
• Angular 5 Crash Course for Free
• Hackers ransack Citrix, make off with 6TB+ of emails, biz docs, secrets
  Remote-desktop giant ‘among more than 200 govt agencies, oil, gas, tech corps’ hit by gang
• Japanese woman confirmed as world’s oldest person aged 116
• Homeland Security Compiling Database of Journalists and ‘Media Influencers’
• The head of luxury at Facebook and Instagram
• The more we learn about Brexit, the more crooked it looks
• Why are hundreds of luxury Vancouver mansions being rented for cheap?
  In Vancouver, where sky-high real estate prices have made ownership impossible for many, it’s suddenly not too difficult to live like a king.
• Meta-Dataset: A Dataset of Datasets for Learning to Learn from Few Examples
• Journali.sm, a Newsfeed for News
• Major bank accidentally published a private package to the public NPM Registry
  “A major international bank accidentally published a private package of their own to the public npm Registry, took *3 years* to notice, and then sent DMCA takedown notices to Amazon and Cloudflare for hosting «stolen code». Now I have to pay a lawyer to explain this to them.”
• I’ve Listened to Loud Rock Music All My Life. Now My Hearing Is Paying the Price
• To lure young talent, banks mimic tech workspaces
• A quantum experiment suggests there’s no such thing as objective reality
• Chinese Data Breach Exposes ‘Breed Ready’ Status of Almost 2M Women
  In the latest surveillance state data breach from China, a database listing the ‘breed ready’ status of 1.8 million women has been found and exposed by Dutch ethical hacker Victor Gevers.
• Marriott CEO shares post-mortem on last year’s hack
• HackerNoon attempts to leave Medium
  “So HackerNoon is quietly leaving Medium, but also trying to take the rights for thousands of people’s work with them and shit’s going down…

  First an unsolicited email asking for license to my work, then Medium explaining that they can’t force you to do that.”

• Chalkscore – Glassdoor for Education
• Rebuilding My Personal Infrastructure With Alpine Linux and Docker
• Lessons learned: writing really long fiction
• Scientists ‘reverse time’ with quantum computer in breakthrough study
• Physicists reverse time using quantum computer
  Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology teamed up with colleagues from the U.S. and Switzerland and returned the state of a quantum computer a fraction of a second into the past. They also calculated the probability that an electron in empty interstellar space will spontaneously travel back into its recent past. The study is published in Scientific Reports.
• A simple reason why there aren’t more women in tech – we’re okay with misogyny
• Arrow of Time and Its Reversal on IBM Quantum Computer
  Uncovering the origin of the arrow of time remains a fundamental scientific
  challenge. Within the framework of statistical physics, this problem was
  inextricably associated with the second law of thermodynamics, which declares
  that entropy growth proceeds from the system’s entanglement with the
  environment. It remains to be seen, however, whether the irreversibility of
  time is a fundamental law of nature or whether, on the contrary, it might be
  circumvented. Here we show that, while in nature the complex conjugation needed
  for time reversal is exponentially improbable, one can design a quantum
  algorithm that includes complex conjugation and thus reverses a given quantum
  state. Using this algorithm on an IBM quantum computer enables us to
  experimentally demonstrate a backward time dynamics for an electron scattered
  on a two-level impurity.
• Dilemmas with React Hooks – Part 1: States and Reducers
• Iranian lawyer who defended women’s right to remove hijab gets 38 years
• Mushrooms may ‘reduce the risk of mild brain decline’
• How Inuit parents teach kids to control their anger
• How I Learned to Love Algebraic Geometry
• Beto O’Rourke’s membership in America’s oldest hacking group
  As Beto O’Rourke starts his run for U.S. president, members of a group famous for “hactivism” come forward for the first time to claim him as a former comrade.
• Beto O’Rourke’s membership in a legendary hacking group
• Experimental rejection of observer-independence in the quantum world
  The scientific method relies on facts, established through repeated
  measurements and agreed upon universally, independently of who observed them.
  In quantum mechanics, the objectivity of observations is not so clear, most
  dramatically exposed in Eugene Wigner’s eponymous thought experiment where two
  observers can experience fundamentally different realities. While
  observer-independence has long remained inaccessible to empirical
  investigation, recent no-go-theorems construct an extended Wigner’s friend
  scenario with four entangled observers that allows us to put it to the test. In
  a state-of-the-art 6-photon experiment, we here realise this extended Wigner’s
  friend scenario, experimentally violating the associated Bell-type inequality
  by 5 standard deviations. This result lends considerable strength to
  interpretations of quantum theory already set in an observer-dependent
  framework and demands for revision of those which are not.
• Beto O’Rourke’s Hacker Days Preview of Millennial Politicians Teen Internet Days

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