A compilation of startup failure post-mortems by founders and investors.

In UGC video verification, one potential important piece of information is the video origin. This service is able to identify logos in videos, drawing from a large number of sources of TV channels, independent media organizations, and informal groups such as militant organizations participating in the Syrian civil war. The service aims to assist investigators by automatically detecting the logo and providing the users with information about it, such as the name of the organization and the corresponding Wikipedia page. Thus, the investigator may be aware of the video provenance, and be aware of potential biases or manipulation of the truth. The logo dataset is expandable, allowing investigators to submit new logos and associated information for inclusion in the system. Press "Known Logos" to see the list of recognizable templates, try out the logo examples below, or submit a new logo to the dataset.

Facebook Graph Search is a powerful search engine that lets everyone play around with Facebooks "big data". It only shows you what is already accessible to you (at least that's what Facebook claims), but in a structured and simple way that has been met by a lot of concerns about privacy. Especially since it can reveal things you might not think you had access to.

OSINT framework focused on gathering information from free tools or resources. The intention is to help people find free OSINT resources. Some of the sites included might require registration or offer more data for $$$, but you should be able to get at least a portion of the available information for no cost.

A definitive guide to verifying digital content for emergency coverage

Authored by leading journalists from the BBC, Storyful, ABC, Digital First Media and other verification experts, the Verification Handbook is a groundbreaking new resource for journalists and aid providers. It provides the tools, techniques and step-by-step guidelines for how to deal with user-generated content (UGC) during emergencies.

The paradox of tolerance is a paradox that states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant.

Karl Popper first described it in 1945—expressing the seemingly paradoxical idea that, "In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance."

Restricting access to knowledge and science is not beneficial for society. So why are scientific results still locked up behind paywalls? Even though the answer to this question is enlightening, the story is quickly told. Much more important is the knowledge on how to change this.

The Precariat: A Disruptive Class for Disruptive Times.
Why and How the Precariat will define the Global Transformation to save our planet.
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Testing in production might seem pretty daunting at first, way above the pay grade of most engineering organizations. While it’s not easy or entirely risk-free, undertaken meticulously, it can greatly help build confidence in the reliability of the sort of complex distributed systems that are becoming increasingly more ubiquitous in this day and age.

jq is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor.

Buck is a build system developed and used by Facebook. It encourages the creation of small, reusable modules consisting of code and resources, and supports a variety of languages on many platforms.

Dokku helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications.

Powered by Docker, you can install Dokku on any hardware. Use it on inexpensive cloud providers.

This report provides information on government requests received.

This is no 4 in a very long series of posts on Stack Overflow’s architecture.

SciPost is a complete scientific publication portal.

It is purely online-based, and offers freely, openly, globally and perpetually accessible science.

Being managed by professional scientists, and making use of editor-solicited and contributed reviews, its Journals aim at the highest achievable standards of refereeing.

SciPost Commentaries allow Contributors to seamlessly comment on all existing literature.

In April the Guardian switched off the Mongo DB cluster used to store our content after completing a migration to PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS. This post covers why and how