Bid caching, bid shading, consent strings: A guide to understanding Dmexco

Ad tech is riddled with jargon. For those attending the digital marketing conference Dmexco in Cologne this week, here's a primer to help keep up.

Why we buy the things we buy

The mysteries of consumer behavior, explained by ice cream and independent bookstores.

Luther Elkins Petroglyphs in Clear Fork, West Virginia

Some claim this West Virginian rock art was written by Irish monks in the Ogham.

Troy Hunt: The Effectiveness of Publicly Shaming Bad Security

Here's how it normally plays out: It all begins when a company pops up online and makes some sort of ludicrous statement related to their security posture, often as part of a discussion on a public social media platform such as Twitter. Shortly thereafter, the masses descend on…

How Much Energy Can You Store in a Stack of Cement Blocks?

It's not a trick question: You can make a battery out of concrete by storing gravitational potential energy.

Meet the Warby Parker of dishware

"Our lives have modernized in many ways, but bizarrely, we still buy our dishes based on very traditional notions of marriage and wedding registry."

Why I Encourage My Best Employees to Consider Outside Job Offers

Most bosses live in fear that their best employees will leave, so it might seem to be a bad idea to encourage your stars to consider outside offers. But in fact, it sends employees a clear signal that you really care about their learning and development. Openness allows for an…

8 Day Hikes in the U.S. That You'll Love

Because life is better outside.

How Food Holidays and Hashtags Like #NationalCoffeeDay Start Social Movemen

Opinion: Brands are promoting and foodies are consuming.

Comparative Research Done Right

or, Competitive Research the Creative Founder Way For a long time, I’ve been disappointed by competitive research approaches. Most strike me as a bunch of bumbling around and seeing what you see… s…

WordPress, Spam Filtering, and You: From SPF to DKIM to Blocklists

There is no one key to making sure WordPress site emails are sent reliably and stay out of the recipient’s spam folder. A common recommendation is to use a dedicated…

Chanel shoes, but no salary: how one woman exposed the scandal of the French fashion industry

A new book by academic Giulia Mensitieri, laying bare the working conditions of stylists and young designers, has sparked controversy. Will it lead to improved conditions for those forced to work for clothes vouchers instead of cash?

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Why U.S. Grocery Chains Need More (and Better) Store-Brand Products

The U.S. grocery industry has reached an uncertain crossroads, facing competition from many sources, but especially German discount stores ALDI and LIDL, who are aggressively expanding across the United States. Whether U.S. retailers will maintain their market share hinges on…

Blood and Oil

Mexico’s drug cartels are moving into the gasoline industry—infiltrating the national oil company, selling stolen fuel on the black market and engaging in open war with the military.

The founder of Pinboard on why understanding fandom is good for business -

Maciej Cegłowski found fans where they were, and won their hearts

How We Reduced Our Injury Rate by 90% at Campbell Soup Company

Reducing injuries brings down your worker’s compensation costs, but that’s not what’s should drive companies to examine their rate of serious injury. Instead, leaders should do so because they care about the people who work for them. Doug Conant, former CEO of Campbell’s Soup…

A Turbulent Mind

Andrew Goldstein’s crime set in motion a dramatic shift in how we care for the violent mentally ill. Including for himself—when he’s released this month.

DD, DU & DF - The Three Linux Commands You Should Commit To Memory

Over the course of my Linux use, I've found these three commands to be very helpful and they are worth committing to memory. DD , the low-...

Amazon’s Antitrust Antagonist Has a Breakthrough Idea

With a single scholarly article, Lina Khan, 29, has reframed decades of monopoly law.

The enormous lakes in the air

Attempts to conjure water ‘from thin air’ might offer relief for drought-ridden regions – and it could even help the rest of us go off-grid.

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The Ultimate Guide to 12 Dimensionality Reduction Techniques (with Python c

Learn how these 12 dimensionality reduction techniques can help you extract valuable patterns and insights from high-dimensional datasets.

Processing In Memory

Processing In Memory Growing volume of data and limited improvements in performance create new opportunities for approaches that never got off the ground.

OpenStack’s latest release focuses on bare metal clouds and easier upgrades

The OpenStack Foundation today released the 18th version of its namesake open-source cloud infrastructure software. The project has had its ups and downs,

An A-Z of useful Python tricks

By Peter Gleeson Python is one of the world’s most popular, in-demand programming languages. This is for many reasons: it’s easy to learn it’s super versatile it has a huge range of modules and libraries I use Python daily as an integral part of my...

But Rich People Live Here, So We Can't Be Going Broke!

If your growth strategy only works as long as wealthy people live in your town, your growth strategy is deeply fragile.

There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written

Some of the bowhead whales in the icy waters off of Alaska today are over 200 years old

Level up with the Awesome Leadership and Management List

Whether you're an experienced tech manager, a newbie, or an engineer who wants ...

▶ Waypoint - Burning Man Sunrise Set 2018 by Tycho

Version with visuals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEP0Gi8kZhg Tycho Sunrise DJ Set on The Dusty Rhino at Burning Man - Thursday, August 30, 2018 Track Listing: Fila Brazillia - A Zed And Two L's King Of Woolworths - Bakerloo (Main Titles) Squarepusher - Iambic 5 Poetry DJ…

First Listen: John Prine, 'The Tree Of Forgiveness'

The master craftsman returns with his first new tunes in 13 years.

[P] Using T-SNE and word2vec embeddings to create clusters in wordclouds

2.9M subscribers in the MachineLearning community. Beginners -> /r/mlquestions , AGI -> /r/singularity, career advices -> /r/cscareerquestions…

mukund109/word-mesh: A context-preserving word cloud generator

A context-preserving word cloud generator.

‘Michael Clayton’ in the Age of Netflix

Michael Clayton is a great film. I was reminded of this fact a while back on Twitter. Not that I needed to be reminded — I tweet about the…

Losers' Lunch - Longreads

Dining out with courtsiders, a rogue, impish species in the tennis ecosystem.

Riding With the Diplomatic Couriers Who Deliver America's Secret Mail

The little-known Diplomatic Courier Service works like your interoffice mail system, but on a planetary scale, with complex protocols to ensure the safe transport of sensitive material by land, air, and sea.

Welcome to Linux From Scratch!

Worldwide Location of Wafer Fabs – Interactive Map

Wafer fabs are the backbone of every electronic product. Every chip consists of a piece of silicon that is produced in a wafer fab. Wafer fabs play a key role in the customer, medical and automotive markets because the are they enabler of innovative technologies. There are many…

Embedding behaviour into design

This story starts with me shopping in my local hardware supplies store. I was walking into the store and saw a stack of beer coolers. It…

The Best Product Teams Crave Truth and Do Math

How to teach yourself hard things

Meet the table busser who’s worked at the same Wilmette pancake house for 5

An earlier version of this story and headline incorrectly characterized Othea Loggan’s base salary as minimum wage. After 54 years, he makes $2.75 more than the minimum wage before tips. &#82…

How to File a Patent in 8 Easy Steps

Have you invented something so cool, useful and original that the rest of the world just shouldn’t be forced to live without it any longer…

Camp your way | Discover the best camping near you

From seaside campsites to luxury treehouses, we're the most comprehensive guide to camping and glamping across the UK. Camp on farms, beaches and country estates.

Madeleine Peyroux’ Anthem

Madeleine Peyroux has one of the most extraordinary voices in music today. A friend turned me onto Careless Love years ago, and from there I found Half The Perfect World, then Dreamland, and well, everything after those three albums is simply more ways to showoff her marvelous…

5 ways to avoid duplicate content and indexing issues on your e-commerce si

Before a page can rank well, it needs to be crawled and indexed. Contributor Manish Dudharejia shares five tips to give your pages the best chance of getting indexed in the search results.

Robert Finley On World Cafe

He's loved music and performing his whole life. Now, he has finally released his debut album in his early 60s.

Rare Condition Means Blind Woman Can Only See Moving Objects

After suffering a stroke, a woman was left blinded, only able to see movement.

A Gentle Introduction to Algorithm Complexity Analysis

A History of Moscow in 13 Dishes

War, hunger, and some of the world’s great doomed social experiments all changed the way that Moscow eats.