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The genome has thousands of publicly documented, unpatchable security vulnerabilities, previously called "genetic diseases." Because emerging DNA/RNA technologies, including CRISPR-Cas9 and especially those arising from the Cancer Moonshot program, will create straightforward methods to digitally reprogram the genome in free-living humans, malicious exploitation of genomic vulnerabilities will soon be possible on a wide scale.

This presentation shows the breathtaking potential for such hacks, most notably the exquisite targeting precision that the genome supports — in effect, population, and time — spanning annoyance to organized crime to civilization-ending pandemics far worse than Ebola.

Because humans are poor at responding to less-than-immediate threats, and because there is no marketplace demand for defensive technologies on the DNA/RNA platform, the hacker community has an important role to play in devising thought-experiments to convince policy makers to initiate defensive works, before offensive hacks can be deployed in the wild. Hackers can literally save the world... from ourselves.

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Harvard University selected XVIVO to develop an animation that would take their cellular biology students on a journey through the microscopic world of a cell, illustrating mechanisms that allow a white blood cell to sense its surroundings and respond to an external stimulus. This award winning piece was the first topic in a series of animations XVIVO is creating for Harvard's educational website BioVisions at Harvard.

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A step by step explanation of how a debugger uses ptrace to set breakpoints and control the execution of the process being debugged.

Includes a link to a toy debugger source code in C and presentation slides.

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Visual Studio extension that enables you to use the VS UI to connect to CLRDBG, so you can debug .NET Core apps running on Linux from your VS instance on Windows.

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An 85-page PDF from RedHat covering:

Setting up .NET Core on Linux with Vagrant.

Creating a RESTful microservice.

Using Entity Framework.

Creating a Standlone app.

ASP.NET w/ MVC

Building a container with Docker.

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The best article ever about monoids. And here are the next two parts:

https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/monoids-part2/

https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/monoids-part3/

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Apollo 11 source code now on Github

The source for the Apollo 11 guidance computer source code was published on Github.

And here's an article covering some of the more interesting/funny stuff:

The master ignition routine is called burn, baby, burn.

And if you want to explore further, here's a simulation of the guidance computer.

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Hyper-Reality presents a provocative and kaleidoscopic new vision of the future, where physical and virtual realities have merged, and the city is saturated in media.

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“Engineering manager returning from a budget meeting” 

Ilya Repin, 

Oil paint, 1888

(Collaboration from Nate)

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Quantum Levitation with a superconductor

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You can now emulate old DOS viruses on your browser thanks to the Internet Archive.

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Strength Training - It’s Never Too Late

Strength Training - It's Never Too Late from Starting Strength on Vimeo.

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360º videos on Youtube

More of them here: https://www.youtube.com/360

They're made with the GoPro Odyssey: http://gopro.com/odyssey

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Portable flamethrower for $899

http://store.xm42.com/XM42-Flamethrower-p/xm42.htm

If you've ever looked at something and said, "I really want to set that on fire over there, but I'm just too far away!" then this is the product for you.

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Airbnb to add Occupancy Tax line item

Airbnb just updated their terms of service and revealed they're rolling out support for a "Occupancy Tax line item", where guests pay the occupancy tax and the money goes directly to the tax authority or the host.

Customers authorize us to provide a new feature in certain jurisdictions to allow Hosts to opt-in to an Occupancy Tax line item. Hosts who opt-in to this feature can have taxes paid by Guests sent directly to the Host for the Host to remit to the Tax Authority. If you're a Host and we launch this new feature in your jurisdiction, we'll let you know.

https://www.airbnb.com/home/terms-of-service-event

Looks like prices are going up.