Truly native C++ cross-platform framework for Android and iOS development

Truly native C++ cross-platform framework for Android and iOS development

With Boden you can create native mobile cross-platform applications from one codebase. Boden uses the real user interface controls of the target platform, so users won’t recognize any difference to the look and feel they are already used to. Boden uses Facebook’s Yoga Layout engine accross all platforms.

Source: www.boden.io

An Exercise Program for the Fat Web

An Exercise Program for the Fat Web

We simultaneously have a very real web obesity crisis, and a looming crackdown on ad blockers, seemingly the only viable weight loss program for websites. If you disable the DHCP server on your router, and let the Pi-Hole become your primary DHCP server, you get automatic DNS based blocking of ads for every single device on your network. Once you’re happy with the basic setup and web interface:

Once you do this, all your network devices will start to grab their DHCP leases from your Pi-Hole, which will also tell them to route all their DNS requests through the Pi-Hole, and that’s when the ✨ magic ✨ happens!

Source: blog.codinghorror.com

YC Work at a Startup Expo on 6/29: Meet with 40 YC founders and find your next role

YC Work at a Startup Expo on 6/29: Meet with 40 YC founders and find your next role

The Work at a Startup Expo is a special, invite-only event for the founders of YC companies and prospective hires to meet each other in person. After keynote talks on working at a startup, about 40 YC companies will deliver rapid fire presentations to an audience of engineers. If you’re watching online, you can see the presentations and apply below to any jobs that interest you.

Source: www.workatastartup.com

CIA’s Latest Layer: An Onion Site

CIA’s Latest Layer: An Onion Site

Secure, anonymous, untraceable—traits ever-present in CIA’s intelligence collection mission—and the same is true for our onion site, which is now available at: over the Tor network. Creating an onion site is just one of many ways we’re going where people are,” said Brittany Bramell, CIA’s Director of Public Affairs. Our onion site is one of several ways individuals can contact CIA.

Source: www.cia.gov

US energy department rebrands fossil fuels as ‘molecules of freedom’

US energy department rebrands fossil fuels as ‘molecules of freedom’

Mark W Menezes, the US undersecretary of energy, bestowed a peculiar honorific on our continent’s natural resources, dubbing it “freedom gas” in a release touting the DoE’s approval of increased exports of natural gas produced by a Freeport LNG terminal off the coast of Texas. “Increasing export capacity from the Freeport LNG project is critical to spreading freedom gas throughout the world by giving America’s allies a diverse and affordable source of clean energy,” he said. “With the US in another year of record-setting natural gas production, I am pleased that the Department of Energy is doing what it can to promote an efficient regulatory system that allows for molecules of US freedom to be exported to the world,” said Steven Winberg.

Source: www.theguardian.com

UTF-8 String Indexing Strategies

UTF-8 String Indexing Strategies

One issue to consider is that strings typically feature random access indexing of code points with a time complexity resembling constant time ( ). Slices are still over bytes, but they “round up” to the end of the current code point:

Iterating over a string requires helper functions which keep an internal “bookmark” so that each access is constant time:

So Julia doesn’t pretend, it makes the problem explicit. A further case of the language favoring UTF-8 is that casting a string to decodes strings into code points, like UCS-4, again using :

So, like Julia, there’s no pretending, and the programmer explicitly must consider the problem.

Source: nullprogram.com

Public DNS in Taiwan the Latest Victim of BGP Hijack

Public DNS in Taiwan the Latest Victim of BGP Hijack

Earlier this month (8 May), traffic going through a public DNS run by the Taiwan Network Information Center (TWNIC) was rerouted to an entity in Brazil for about three and a half minutes. MANRS is a community initiative of network operators and Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) that creates a baseline of security expectations for routing security. If most network operators and IXPs implement the MANRS actions — including filtering — BGP hijacking events would not propagate across the Internet, and we could avoid outages, traffic inspection, and DoS attacks.

Source: blog.apnic.net

Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist (2012)

Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist (2012)

Earth’s physical resources—particularly energy—are limited and may prohibit continued growth within centuries, or possibly much shorter depending on the choices we make. But two points before we continue: First, I’ll just mention that energy growth has far outstripped population growth, so that per-capita energy use has surged dramatically over time—our energy lives today are far richer than those of our great-great-grandparents a century ago [economist nods]. At that 2.3% growth rate, we would be using energy at a rate corresponding to the total solar input striking Earth in a little over 400 years.

Source: dothemath.ucsd.edu

A castle where people live rent-free

A castle where people live rent-free

Today, not only is Jaisalmer the last inhabited ancient fortress in India, but it serves as something of a living monument, where life goes on among the narrow lanes and crowded courtyards in much the same manner as it did in the 12th Century. Today, seven centuries and 23 generations later, Gopa’s extended Brahmin family owns 42 homes inside these ancient walls. Apart from Brahmins, the other dominant community living inside Jaisalmer’s fort is the Rajputs, a clan of northern Indian Hindu warriors who were responsible for the safety of the city that surrounds the citadel, as well as the walled fortress.

Source: www.bbc.com