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You could take that one step further. CS has, in it's modern incarnation, only been around for ~90 years. CS, as it is taught at the undergraduate level, has changed dramatically i…

I thought of this problem from a different perspective. A lot of disadvantaged people, and middle class people in developing nations, already have 'dumbphones'. How could we allow …

According to the WHO, malaria kills almost 500,000 children under 5 each year globally, though the vast majority (~90%) of these deaths are in Africa. [1] In the US, 3,000-49,000 p…

This seems like a wonderful language for game development. I wonder if there will be some kind of graphics support, or if I can use the C API (when it is finished).

This is a great walkthrough of Raft: http://thesecretlivesofdata.com/raft/

Login to https://www.icloud.com/ and use "Find My iPhone" to track your MacBook and iPad. If the thieves are stupid enough, they'll turn the devices on at some point, giving you a …

This just feels like an advertisement for Brewster.

"We also think these breakouts aren’t necessarily a good way to judge accelerators." Is Y Combinator a bit arrogant to say that the success of its startups is a bad a metric for ev…

The New York Times actually broke the story. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/magazine/what-an-uncensore...

The article never actually specifies whether the "mostly black and Latino" women who digitize the books are treated as independent contractors. It implies it, by launching into a s…

What topic were you googling? Also, its interesting that this account was created so recently... maybe this is Google itself.

"Straight people don't go around declaring their sexuality, nor ever feel the need to" Straight people don't declare their sexuality because everyone is assumed to be straight unti…

I actually just wrote an add-on for Google Sheets (It allows you to run neural networks in a spreadsheet). While I resented being forced to use Google's Apps Script Editor, I was i…

YikYak is sweeping our high school. It's mostly used to make fun of school administrators and bully other students. It seems much more popular with kids than Secret. http://www.yik…

"Conventional beliefs only ever come to appear arbitrary and wrong in retrospect; whenever one collapses, we call the old belief a bubble." I couldn't help but feel that, in 10 yea…

According to the Department of Transportation Commissioner, “the chances of a person being killed is cut in half when you reduce the speed limit of the moving vehicle from 30 to 25…

Don't all people have an equal right to education?

I love this! My favorite part was 'discovering' my own 'cords'. So far, my ear prefers AEF, AWF, ECG, AEG, and AFY. Also, you can make a key stay down by holding down Control (Comm…

"The team behind a social network being used by Islamic State (IS) militants has admitted it cannot prevent the spread of extremist material." "admitted"? What's with the tone of t…

Right now, it appears to be through referral on Twitter. I wonder how they define "woman"... can a transgender or genderqueer person join?

I'm not sure I understand how Women.com "verfies" that you are a woman. It seems a bit presumptuous to ask someone to "verify" their gender.

Absolutely. I hope that every year of my life, I look back, and laugh at the things I 'knew' 10 years ago. Is it the same for you? The oft-repeated idea of an "underdeveloped" teen…

I'm actually quite hurt by this comment. Firstly, I have worked for the past three years as a software developer. I've had to deliver things to a manager, figure out exactly what a…