Show HN: Transform Google spreadsheets into a ready-to-embed widget table

Show HN: Transform Google spreadsheets into a ready-to-embed widget table

Updatefy table widget type allows you to transform any spreadsheet into a ready to embed table for your website/application. Table widget helps you to embed any spreadsheet on your website/application in seconds. Watch the following video with a step by step of how to transform your spreadsheet into a useful table:

Source: blog.updatefy.co

The sci-fi cities of Bezos’s Blue Origin derive from his teacher Gerard O’Neill

The sci-fi cities of Bezos’s Blue Origin derive from his teacher Gerard O’Neill

The description of O’Neill’s presentation, though, could apply note for note to a talk that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos gave on May 9 in D.C., unveiling his spaceflight company Blue Origin’s design for a lunar lander and a longer-term vision of space habitats. Jeff Bezos was one of Gerard O’Neill’s students at Princeton in the mid-1980s. Before he was designing luxury hotels, Safdie had demonstrated, in his Habitat 67 project in Montreal, that megastructures could produce a human-scaled environment that ordinary people would flock to, and the Geisel is a monument to the memorability of public architecture and public institutions.

Source: www.citylab.com

Why I don’t use React

Why I don’t use React

Even with Vue being one of the 3 dominating UI libraries for quite some time now, it still doesn’t have the same, well-developed ecosystem as React. Even though, it will probably retain its relation with React for a long, long time…

The only thing that I may not like about JSX (and most likely whole JS programming right now) is the need for transpilation. Still, such a scenario is very unlikely with React in mind, as it’s old enough to have a great part of its code contributed by other people, that doesn’t have any association with Facebook.

Source: areknawo.com

Yale’s online class on “The Science of Well-Being”

Yale’s online class on “The Science of Well-Being”

When I asked Santos what she thought of the studies, she replied, “They’re important, but I don’t think they change the message of the class, which is that high wealth has a teeny effect on happiness. Santos continues: “Money doesn’t increase happiness in the way that we think. Be more mindful about how you spend money

Later in the class, Santos interviews Elizabeth Dunn, a happiness researcher and the co-author of “Happy Money.”

Source: www.cnbc.com

A Cisco Router Bug Has Global Implications

A Cisco Router Bug Has Global Implications

The Red Balloon team showed specifically that they could compromise the device’s secure boot process, a function implemented by the Trust Anchor that protects the fundamental code coordinating hardware and software as a device turns on, and checks that it’s genuine and unmodified. FPGA Tour
The researcher group, which also includes Jatin Kataria, Red Balloon’s principal scientist and Rick Housley, an independent security researcher, were able to bypass Cisco’s secure boot protections by manipulating a hardware component at the core of the Trust Anchor called a “field programmable gate array.” Josh Thomas, Atredis

But the Red Balloon researchers found that the way the FPGA was implemented for Cisco’s Trust Anchor, they didn’t need to map the whole bitstream.

Source: www.wired.com

Stack Overflow lets Facebook track users across their sites

Stack Overflow lets Facebook track users across their sites

Most end users are ignorant of what is being done with their data and the risk associated with what these sites view as non-PII (personal identifiable information) and how, in fact, the data can be matched (too long to get into) to reveal specific user details (including PII) without the user being aware. All these sites are data mined for non-PII and put together and this data is utilised and sold. Fun Fact Two: I live in Australia and not only is our internet appalling, but our government shows a flagrant disrespect for basic human rights, including the right to privacy.

Source: meta.stackoverflow.com

Reliability That Works (2018)

Reliability That Works (2018)

Since errors can arise from any interaction, the cost of error prevention is exponential to the investment in the development of the system. For environmental causes of error, this is pretty easily accomplished by aligning the logical isolation with physical segmentation (ie: regions, availability zones, etc.) If you use isolation to contain Environmental errors, you should also use it to contain Self-induced errors. Deploy your code, config and operational data changes one failure domain at a time.

Source: www.linkedin.com

LightSail 2 set to launch next month aboard SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket

LightSail 2 set to launch next month aboard SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket

The Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 spacecraft is ready to embark on a challenging mission to demonstrate the power of sunlight for propulsion. The Planetary Society launched a nearly identical spacecraft called LightSail 1 in 2015 that successfully tested the spacecraft’s sail deployment system. Planetary Society co-founder Louis Friedman led a 1970s NASA solar sail study that would have sent a spacecraft to rendezvous with Halley’s Comet.

Source: www.planetary.org

To Message Bus or Not: Distributed Systems Design (2017)

To Message Bus or Not: Distributed Systems Design (2017)

In an architecture driven by a message bus it allows more ubiquitous access to data. For instance, we have a service that will take commands from a message bus, but are provided a callback URL where they can funnel the responses. All of those perks is because the data wasn’t walled off, anyone with access to the message bus (which is secured) could look at the data without impacting other services.

Source: www.netlify.com