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https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/21/all-59-startups-that-launched-today-at-y-combinators-s18-demo-day-2/
Being the editor of a newspaper in Eve Online
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/08/20/whats-it-like-being-the-editor-of-a-newspaper-in-eve-online/
Commons Clause
https://redislabs.com/community/commons-clause/
vTaiwan: An experiment in participatory governance
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611816/the-simple-but-ingenious-system-taiwan-uses-to-crowdsource-its-laws/
The Packard Merlin: How Detroit Mass-Produced Britain’s Hand-Built Powerhouse
https://www.tested.com/art/makers/492418-packard-merlin-how-detroit-mass-produced-britains-hand-built-powerhouse/
Algo: A set of Ansible scripts that simplify the setup of a personal IPSEC VPN
https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
Why OpenCV uses BGR color space (2015)
https://www.learnopencv.com/why-does-opencv-use-bgr-color-format/
CodeSandbox
https://codesandbox.io/
Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows Games on Linux
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Valve-Steam-Play-Proton-Linux
A breakdown of a GIF decoder (2012)
http://commandlinefanatic.com/cgi-bin/showarticle.cgi?article=art011
PolarFS: Alibaba Distributed File System for Shared Storage Cloud Database [pdf]
http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol11/p1849-cao.pdf
What to Do After Finding Hot Connectors on Overhead Power Lines (2017) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piQpLL5nD18
Is Pop Music Evolving, or Is It Just Getting Louder? (2012)
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/is-pop-music-evolving-or-is-it-just-getting-louder/
Bullshit jobs and the yoke of managerial feudalism
https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/06/29/bullshit-jobs-and-the-yoke-of-managerial-feudalism
Ice confirmed at the Moon’s poles
https://phys.org/news/2018-08-ice-moon-poles.amp
How to Hire Your First Engineer
https://blog.ycombinator.com/how-to-hire-your-first-engineer/
IMAP4 Extension for Returning MYRIGHTS Information in Extended List
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8440
PowerShell Remoting
https://www.sconstantinou.com/powershell-remoting/
Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data during wildfire
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/verizon-throttled-fire-departments-unlimited-data-during-calif-wildfire/
How Gusto Built Scalable Hiring Practices Rooted in Tradition
http://firstround.com/review/how-gusto-built-scalable-hiring-practices-rooted-in-tradition/
Introducing Ghost 2.0
https://blog.ghost.org/2-0/
Catching integer overflows in C
https://www.fefe.de/intof.html
Ann Arbor’s Duo Security sold for $2B: What it teaches us
https://www.freep.com/story/money/business/john-gallagher/2018/08/19/duo-security-cisco-ann-arbor/999379002/
National prison strike launches over underpaid labor and prison conditions
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/08/national-prison-strike-launches-over-underpaid-labor-and-prison-conditions.html
TerrAvion (YC W14) seeks embedded software eng to develop remote sensing fleet
http://www.terravion.com/embedded-system-engineer
Beta release of PHP 7.2 in the Google App Engine standard environment
https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/php7/
Twenty-two states ask appeals court to bring back net neutrality
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/21/twenty-two-states-ask-appeals-court-to-bring-back-net-neutrality/
My Experience and Advice for Using GPUs in Deep Learning: Which GPU to get
http://timdettmers.com/2018/08/21/which-gpu-for-deep-learning/
Meeting the W-15 Electric Pickup Truck
https://cleantechnica.com/2018/08/15/workhorse-w-15-surefly-electric-vehicles-take-new-york-city-by-storm/
Startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s S18 Demo Day 1
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/20/here-are-the-63-startups-that-launched-today-at-y-combinators-s18-demo-day-1/
Greek island to run on wind, solar power
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-08-renewable-resort-greek-island-solar.html
A Parasitic Vine That Slowly Sucks the Life Out of Wasps
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/parasite-vine-wasp-tumor/567823/?single_page=true
Google created a fake pizza brand to test creative strategies for YouTube ads
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/20/google-doctor-fork/
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good
http://learnyouahaskell.com/
Textual Strategies in Infographics: Observing Minard Observing Napoléon
https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/2018/observing-minard
New T3 Instances – Burstable, Cost-Effective Performance
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-t3-instances-burstable-cost-effective-performance/
You should really stop worrying about how much energy Bitcoin uses
https://www.iafrikan.com/2018/08/22/you-should-really-stop-worrying-about-how-much-energy-bitcoin-uses/
TxFS: Leveraging File-System Crash Consistency to Provide Transactions [pdf]
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/%7Evijay/papers/atc18-txfs.pdf
Guide to Python Import Statements
https://chrisyeh96.github.io/2017/08/08/definitive-guide-python-imports.html
Rural suicides among farmers
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/21/health/rural-suicides-among-farmers/index.html
Kenya burial site shows community spirit of herders 5,000 years ago
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/aug/20/kenya-burial-site-shows-community-spirit-of-herders-5000-years-ago
Backpage.com’s Founders Speak for the First Time
https://reason.com/archives/2018/08/21/backpage-founders-larkin-and-lacey-speak
Stop Payment: A homeowner’s revolt against the banks (2012)
https://harpers.org/archive/2012/01/stop-payment-a-homeowners-revolt-against-the-banks/
Improving MapReduce Performance in Heterogeneous Environments (2008)
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/osdi08/tech/full_papers/zaharia/zaharia_html/index.html
The Art and Science of Being on Hold
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180817-the-art-and-science-of-being-on-hold
Video Tuesday: Robot Film Festival Highlights
https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/video-tuesday-robot-film-festival-highlights
Frédéric Chopin and George Sand Go to Majorca
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/there-are-no-pianos-be-had-here
The Secrets of the Wave Pilots (2016)
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/magazine/the-secrets-of-the-wave-pilots.html
Virtual Star Trek TNG Enterprise
https://stage-9.co.uk/
Valve’s “Steam Play” Uses Vulkan to Bring More Windows Games to Linux
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/08/valves-steam-play-uses-vulkan-to-bring-more-windows-games-to-linux/
Just Read the Book Already
https://slate.com/culture/2018/08/reader-come-home-by-maryanne-wolf-reviewed.html
Companies shouldn’t give candidates homework assignments
http://www.gayle.com/blog/2013/09/18/companies-who-give-candidates-homework-assignments-knock-it-off
Jack Dorsey on deleting tweets
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/charliewarzel/11-things-twitters-ceo-told-us-about-sean-hannity-deleting
A Web Design Crash Course: From Developer to Developer
https://zen-of-programming.com/design
Resistance to the Use of Anesthesia in the Mid-19th Century (2005) [pdf]
https://www.docdroid.net/V0s9uDp/meyer2015.pdf
Clicker Diet: Tracking Diet with Tally Counter
https://clickerdiet.com/
Titan launches its mobile ‘not a hedge fund’
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/20/titan-invest/
Massachusetts gives workers new protections against noncompete clauses
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/massachusetts-gives-workers-new-protections-against-noncompete-clauses/
Show HN: A single command terminal configuration installer
https://noobs-term.com
Memristor – The fictional circuit element
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.05982
China Invests Big in Clean and Cheap Energy from Thorium
http://www.thoriumenergyworld.com/press-release/china-invests-big-in-clean-and-cheap-energy-from-thorium
Internal documents reveal the grueling way Tesla hit its 5,000 Model 3 target
https://www.thisisinsider.com/tesla-hit-model-3-target-by-reworking-thousands-of-cars-2018-8
Inaccurate Images of Colonial America Made by European Printmakers
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/inaccurate-images-america-delighted-18th-century-europe-180969992/?no-ist
The peppered moth and melanism: testing an iconic example of evolution in action
https://natureecoevocommunity.nature.com/users/116153-martin-stevens/posts/37989-the-peppered-moth-and-industrial-melanism-testing-an-iconic-example-of-evolution-in-action
Farmers in Niger are nurturing gao trees to drive environmental change in Africa
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/16/regreening-niger-how-magical-gaos-transformed-land
Usability and Key Management (2009) [pdf]
https://csrc.nist.gov/CSRC/media/Presentations/Usability-and-Key-Management/images-media/Usability_and_Key_Mgmt.pdf
Exception Handling in Programming Languages [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4t-2TI5Qvc
A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages
https://thenewstack.io/a-look-at-vim-a-text-editor-for-the-ages/
Seed Financing, Cap Table and Terms Walk-Through
http://www.zachpfeffer.com/single-post/Seed-Financing-Cap-Table-and-Terms-Walk-Through
Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to one
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/08/21/facebook-is-rating-trustworthiness-its-users-scale-zero-one/
A costume fit for a centaur
http://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2018/08/a-costume-fit-for-a-centaur.html
Introducing a new version of Steam Play
https://steamcommunity.com/games/221410/announcements/detail/1696055855739350561
Aerial photos reveal the stark divide between rich and poor
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-45257901
The History of Greco-Roman Vegetarianism (2010)
http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy/2010/08/the-hidden-history-of-greco-roman-vegetarianism/
Paul Singer, Doomsday Investor
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/08/27/paul-singer-doomsday-investor
Google, Apple and others no longer require employees to have a college degree
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/16/15-companies-that-no-longer-require-employees-to-have-a-college-degree.html
Slack confirms it has raised $427M at a post-money valuation of over $7B
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/21/slack-confirms-it-has-raised-427m-at-a-post-money-valuation-of-over-7-1b/
Google Assistant’s latest feature: “Tell me something good”
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/21/google-assistants-latest-feature-delivers-just-the-good-news/
Panic Attacks
https://avc.com/2018/08/panic-attacks/
Small Assets without the Headache in Elm 0.19
https://elm-lang.org/blog/small-assets-without-the-headache
Study: Association of Maternal Insecticide Levels with Autism in Offspring
https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2018.17101129
Kinesis Data Streams HTTP/2 Support
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/kds-enhanced-fanout/
Premature brain aging linked to cannabis, schizophrenia, alcohol
https://www.biospace.com/article/massive-study-reveals-secrets-about-the-aging-brain/
Theft: A History of Music
https://law.duke.edu/musiccomic/
Using the Edwards-Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA) in IKEv2
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8420
Rohingya turn to blockchain to solve identity crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/21/rohingya-turn-to-blockchain-to-solve-identity-crisis
Kotlin 1.2.60 comes with native compiler binaries
https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/releases/tag/v1.2.60
Primality Testing Under Adversarial Conditions
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/749
JPMorgan unveils free trading
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/21/jp-morgan-to-unveil-new-investing-app-with-an-eye-catching-disruptive-price-free.html
A Versatile Computer-Generated Dynamic Flight Display (1976)
https://archive.org/details/AVersatileComputerGeneratedDynamicFlightDisplay
US inmates stage nationwide prison labor strike over ’modern slavery’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/20/prison-labor-protest-america-jailhouse-lawyers-speak
This American Life: NUMMI
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/403/transcript
Bill Gates Noticed a Economy Trend No One Is Paying Attention To
http://observer.com/2018/08/bill-gates-global-economy-trend-epiphany/
A GPU-based neural network was the only way to handle a garage full of Lego
https://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/how-i-built-an-ai-to-sort-2-tons-of-lego-pieces
After the Bitcoin Boom: Hard Lessons for Cryptocurrency Investors
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/technology/cryptocurrency-investor-losses.html
Show HN: Self-organizing map learning visualization in WebGL
https://j4nw.github.io/three-js-som/
Swiss Household Debt Is Now Higher Than the US at the Peak of the Housing Bubble
http://thesoundingline.com/swiss-households-are-now-the-most-indebted-in-the-world/
FCK DRM
https://fckdrm.com/
Pipes in Python
http://sulami.github.io/posts/pipes-in-python/
Meet the ‘Change Agents’ Who Are Enabling Inequality
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/books/review/winners-take-all-anand-giridharadas.html
There are too many mediocre artists
https://quillette.com/2018/08/21/my-unpopular-opinion-theres-too-many-mediocre-artists/
Tinder is rolling out a college-only service, Tinder U
https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/21/17763862/tinder-u-feature-app-university
Tesla expands solar roof tile installations to the Northeast
https://electrek.co/2018/08/21/tesla-solar-roof-tile-expand-installation-northeast/
Teachers Are Using Airbnb and Uber to Supplement Pay
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/08/teachers-in-the-sharing-economy/567772/?single_page=true
How to create erc20 token of your own -step by step process
https://www.cryptoexchangescript.com/erc20-token-creation
This Burrito Includes an Arbitration Clause
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/08/this-burrito-includes-an-arbitration-clause
Introduction to Data Mining (Second Edition)
https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kumar001/dmbook/index.php
ROM sites are falling, but a legal loophole could save game emulation
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/08/can-a-digital-lending-library-solve-classic-gamings-piracy-problem/
My Startup is failing – What should I do?
https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/my-startup-is-failing-what-should-i-do-4a0144975d
Facebook will remove 5,000 ad targeting categories to limit discrimination
https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/21/17764480/facebook-ad-targeting-options-removal-housing-racial-discrimination
Listen to Her: Gender on This American Life (2017)
https://pudding.cool/2017/09/this-american-life/
Facebook Fueled Anti-Refugee Attacks in Germany, New Research Suggests
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/world/europe/facebook-refugee-attacks-germany.html
We’re in a new age of obesity. How did it happen?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/15/age-of-obesity-shaming-overweight-people
Models Will Run the World
https://www.wsj.com/articles/models-will-run-the-world-1534716720
What Is FPGA and Project Brainwave?
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/service/concept-accelerate-with-fpgas
Logic Production Systems runtime implemented in JavaScript
https://github.com/mauris/lps.js
Live map of London Underground trains
https://traintimes.org.uk/map/tube/schematic/
Indonesia woman irked by mosque noise convicted of blasphemy
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/indonesia-woman-irked-mosque-noise-convicted-blasphemy-57303218
The undertakers of Silicon Valley: how failure became big business
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/21/the-undertakers-of-silicon-valley-how-failure-became-big-business
Show HN: Color Icon – Distinguish tabs with the same favicon in your browser
https://github.com/tiagonbotelho/color-icon
MakerGirl hires its first CEO
https://business.illinois.edu/news/defaultnews/2018/08/makergirl-thrives-expands-new-heights/
China, World’s Biggest Polluter, Hits Carbon Goals – 12 Years Early
https://www.thedailybeast.com/china-worlds-biggest-polluter-hits-carbon-goals12-years-early
Elm in Production: Surprises and Pain Points
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZj_1qVURL0
Some Thoughts about Productivity and the 40 Hour Work Week
https://medium.com/better-things-digital/some-thoughts-about-productivity-and-the-40-hour-work-week-b70f86362d86
A day in the life of a waymo self driving taxi
https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/21/17762326/waymo-self-driving-ride-hail-fleet-management
LocustDB: Massively parallel, high performance analytics database
https://github.com/cswinter/LocustDB
Coiled Snake: A vim plugin for automatically folding Python code
https://github.com/kalekundert/vim-coiled-snake
Y Combinator is funding a nonprofit that advocates for meat alternativ
https://www.fastcompany.com/90221400/y-combinator-is-funding-a-nonprofit-that-advocates-for-meat-alternatives
Instant GraphQL on AWS RDS
https://blog.hasura.io/instant-graphql-on-aws-rds-1edfb85b5985
Creationism and conspiracism share a common teleological bias
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)30863-7
Twelve Views of Mark Jason Dominus (2003)
http://perl.plover.com/yak/12views/samples/notes.html
Tesla Factory Tour with Elon Musk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr9kK0_7x08
YouTube creators reinvented diss tracks to make millions
https://www.polygon.com/2018/8/21/17761956/logan-paul-jake-paul-ksi-deji-ricegum-diss-track-youtube
Why Puerto Rico Is Perfect for Digital Nomads
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2018/08/21/why-puerto-rico-is-perfect-for-digital-nomads/
Prime factors of the first 1e6 integers, laid out using UMAP
https://twitter.com/jhnhw/status/1031829726757900288
Bootstrapping the Industrial Age (2007)
https://medium.com/@kevin2kelly/bootstrapping-the-industrial-age-dc8a100b351d
Skype’s End-To-End Encryption Goes Live
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/skypes-end-to-end-encryption-goes-live/
I Just Hacked a State Election. I’m 17. And I’m Not Even a Very Good Hacker
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/21/i-just-hacked-a-state-election-17-not-a-good-hacker-219374
Machine Learning – in Terms of Linear Algebra, Probability and Calculus
https://medium.com/@pranoyradhakrishnan/a-short-machine-learning-explanation-in-terms-of-linear-algebra-probability-and-calculus-f7660aa4b06c
Google Web Designer
https://www.google.co.uk/webdesigner/
Show HN: Solidity cheat sheet
https://topmonks.github.io/solidity_quick_ref/
Lessons Learned: Switching from CircleCI to Google Cloud Build
https://medium.com/@hexsprite/what-i-learned-switching-from-circleci-to-google-cloud-build-b4405de2be38
A new Mac mini and a Retina MacBook Air are imminent, report says
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/08/a-new-mac-mini-and-a-retina-macbook-air-are-imminent-report-says/
Show HN: Palx – Automatic UI Color Palette Generator
https://palx.jxnblk.com/
Meet ’Intrusion Truth,’ the Mysterious Group Doxing Chinese Intel Hackers
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wjka84/intrusion-truth-group-doxing-hackers-chinese-intelligence
Show HN: Podcast search and database API
https://www.listennotes.com/developers/?ref=hn2
Russian hackers targeted U.S. conservative think-tanks, says Microsoft
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-hackers/russian-hacking-of-conservative-groups-sites-thwarted-microsoft-idUSKCN1L60I0
“What is a cryptocurrency?”
https://medium.com/@osolmaz/what-is-a-cryptocurrency-by-the-central-bank-of-turkey-549e4832be55
Google’s data collection is hard to escape, study claims
https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/21/technology/google-data-collection/index.html
South African Govt approves First farm seizures from leaked list of 190
https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/south-africa-begins-seizing-whiteowned-farms/news-story/8937f899bd3f131bfc4ffb648ea5c53b
Getting Started with Django
https://medium.com/@siddharthshringi/how-i-made-my-first-django-app-4ede65c9b17f
Pseudo constant time implementations ofTLS are only pseudo secure
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/747
South Africa begins seizing white-owned farms
https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/south-africa-begins-seizing-whiteowned-farms/news-story/8937f899bd3f131bfc4ffb648ea5c53b
A Rare E.R. that Treats Opioid Addiction on Demand
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/18/health/opioid-addiction-treatment.html
We are taking new steps against broadening threats to democracy
https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2018/08/20/we-are-taking-new-steps-against-broadening-threats-to-democracy/
Top geneticist loses 3.5M grant in first test of landmark bullying policy
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06009-9
Microsoft discovers new Russian hacking operation targeting US groups
https://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-discovers-new-russian-hacking-operation-targeting-us-groups/
Show HN: SlidesUp API – Quickly build custom experiences for your conference
https://apidocs.slidesup.com/
Ice confirmed at the Moon’s poles
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2018-195&rn=news.xml&rst=7218
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Startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s S18 Demo Day 2
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/21/all-59-startups-that-launched-today-at-y-combinators-s18-demo-day-2/
Being the editor of a newspaper in Eve Online
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/08/20/whats-it-like-being-the-editor-of-a-newspaper-in-eve-online/
Commons Clause
https://redislabs.com/community/commons-clause/
vTaiwan: An experiment in participatory governance
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611816/the-simple-but-ingenious-system-taiwan-uses-to-crowdsource-its-laws/
The Packard Merlin: How Detroit Mass-Produced Britain’s Hand-Built Powerhouse
https://www.tested.com/art/makers/492418-packard-merlin-how-detroit-mass-produced-britains-hand-built-powerhouse/
Algo: A set of Ansible scripts that simplify the setup of a personal IPSEC VPN
https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
Why OpenCV uses BGR color space (2015)
https://www.learnopencv.com/why-does-opencv-use-bgr-color-format/
CodeSandbox
https://codesandbox.io/
Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows Games on Linux
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Valve-Steam-Play-Proton-Linux
A breakdown of a GIF decoder (2012)
http://commandlinefanatic.com/cgi-bin/showarticle.cgi?article=art011
PolarFS: Alibaba Distributed File System for Shared Storage Cloud Database [pdf]
http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol11/p1849-cao.pdf
What to Do After Finding Hot Connectors on Overhead Power Lines (2017) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piQpLL5nD18
Is Pop Music Evolving, or Is It Just Getting Louder? (2012)
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/is-pop-music-evolving-or-is-it-just-getting-louder/
Bullshit jobs and the yoke of managerial feudalism
https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/06/29/bullshit-jobs-and-the-yoke-of-managerial-feudalism
Ice confirmed at the Moon’s poles
https://phys.org/news/2018-08-ice-moon-poles.amp
How to Hire Your First Engineer
https://blog.ycombinator.com/how-to-hire-your-first-engineer/
IMAP4 Extension for Returning MYRIGHTS Information in Extended List
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8440
PowerShell Remoting
https://www.sconstantinou.com/powershell-remoting/
Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data during wildfire
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/verizon-throttled-fire-departments-unlimited-data-during-calif-wildfire/
How Gusto Built Scalable Hiring Practices Rooted in Tradition
http://firstround.com/review/how-gusto-built-scalable-hiring-practices-rooted-in-tradition/
Introducing Ghost 2.0
https://blog.ghost.org/2-0/
Catching integer overflows in C
https://www.fefe.de/intof.html
Ann Arbor’s Duo Security sold for $2B: What it teaches us
https://www.freep.com/story/money/business/john-gallagher/2018/08/19/duo-security-cisco-ann-arbor/999379002/
National prison strike launches over underpaid labor and prison conditions
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/08/national-prison-strike-launches-over-underpaid-labor-and-prison-conditions.html
TerrAvion (YC W14) seeks embedded software eng to develop remote sensing fleet
http://www.terravion.com/embedded-system-engineer
Beta release of PHP 7.2 in the Google App Engine standard environment
https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/php7/
Twenty-two states ask appeals court to bring back net neutrality
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/21/twenty-two-states-ask-appeals-court-to-bring-back-net-neutrality/
My Experience and Advice for Using GPUs in Deep Learning: Which GPU to get
http://timdettmers.com/2018/08/21/which-gpu-for-deep-learning/
Meeting the W-15 Electric Pickup Truck
https://cleantechnica.com/2018/08/15/workhorse-w-15-surefly-electric-vehicles-take-new-york-city-by-storm/
Startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s S18 Demo Day 1
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/20/here-are-the-63-startups-that-launched-today-at-y-combinators-s18-demo-day-1/
Greek island to run on wind, solar power
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-08-renewable-resort-greek-island-solar.html
A Parasitic Vine That Slowly Sucks the Life Out of Wasps
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/parasite-vine-wasp-tumor/567823/?single_page=true
Google created a fake pizza brand to test creative strategies for YouTube ads
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/20/google-doctor-fork/
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good
http://learnyouahaskell.com/
Textual Strategies in Infographics: Observing Minard Observing Napoléon
https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/2018/observing-minard
New T3 Instances – Burstable, Cost-Effective Performance
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-t3-instances-burstable-cost-effective-performance/
You should really stop worrying about how much energy Bitcoin uses
https://www.iafrikan.com/2018/08/22/you-should-really-stop-worrying-about-how-much-energy-bitcoin-uses/
TxFS: Leveraging File-System Crash Consistency to Provide Transactions [pdf]
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/%7Evijay/papers/atc18-txfs.pdf
Guide to Python Import Statements
https://chrisyeh96.github.io/2017/08/08/definitive-guide-python-imports.html
Rural suicides among farmers
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/21/health/rural-suicides-among-farmers/index.html
Kenya burial site shows community spirit of herders 5,000 years ago
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/aug/20/kenya-burial-site-shows-community-spirit-of-herders-5000-years-ago
Backpage.com’s Founders Speak for the First Time
https://reason.com/archives/2018/08/21/backpage-founders-larkin-and-lacey-speak
Stop Payment: A homeowner’s revolt against the banks (2012)
https://harpers.org/archive/2012/01/stop-payment-a-homeowners-revolt-against-the-banks/
Improving MapReduce Performance in Heterogeneous Environments (2008)
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/osdi08/tech/full_papers/zaharia/zaharia_html/index.html
The Art and Science of Being on Hold
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180817-the-art-and-science-of-being-on-hold
Video Tuesday: Robot Film Festival Highlights
https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/video-tuesday-robot-film-festival-highlights
Frédéric Chopin and George Sand Go to Majorca
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/there-are-no-pianos-be-had-here
The Secrets of the Wave Pilots (2016)
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/magazine/the-secrets-of-the-wave-pilots.html
Virtual Star Trek TNG Enterprise
https://stage-9.co.uk/
Valve’s “Steam Play” Uses Vulkan to Bring More Windows Games to Linux
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/08/valves-steam-play-uses-vulkan-to-bring-more-windows-games-to-linux/
Just Read the Book Already
https://slate.com/culture/2018/08/reader-come-home-by-maryanne-wolf-reviewed.html
Companies shouldn’t give candidates homework assignments
http://www.gayle.com/blog/2013/09/18/companies-who-give-candidates-homework-assignments-knock-it-off
Jack Dorsey on deleting tweets
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A Web Design Crash Course: From Developer to Developer
https://zen-of-programming.com/design
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https://www.docdroid.net/V0s9uDp/meyer2015.pdf
Clicker Diet: Tracking Diet with Tally Counter
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Titan launches its mobile ‘not a hedge fund’
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Massachusetts gives workers new protections against noncompete clauses
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/massachusetts-gives-workers-new-protections-against-noncompete-clauses/
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https://noobs-term.com
Memristor – The fictional circuit element
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.05982
China Invests Big in Clean and Cheap Energy from Thorium
http://www.thoriumenergyworld.com/press-release/china-invests-big-in-clean-and-cheap-energy-from-thorium
Internal documents reveal the grueling way Tesla hit its 5,000 Model 3 target
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Inaccurate Images of Colonial America Made by European Printmakers
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The peppered moth and melanism: testing an iconic example of evolution in action
https://natureecoevocommunity.nature.com/users/116153-martin-stevens/posts/37989-the-peppered-moth-and-industrial-melanism-testing-an-iconic-example-of-evolution-in-action
Farmers in Niger are nurturing gao trees to drive environmental change in Africa
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https://csrc.nist.gov/CSRC/media/Presentations/Usability-and-Key-Management/images-media/Usability_and_Key_Mgmt.pdf
Exception Handling in Programming Languages [video]
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A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages
https://thenewstack.io/a-look-at-vim-a-text-editor-for-the-ages/
Seed Financing, Cap Table and Terms Walk-Through
http://www.zachpfeffer.com/single-post/Seed-Financing-Cap-Table-and-Terms-Walk-Through
Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to one
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/08/21/facebook-is-rating-trustworthiness-its-users-scale-zero-one/
A costume fit for a centaur
http://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2018/08/a-costume-fit-for-a-centaur.html
Introducing a new version of Steam Play
https://steamcommunity.com/games/221410/announcements/detail/1696055855739350561
Aerial photos reveal the stark divide between rich and poor
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The History of Greco-Roman Vegetarianism (2010)
http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy/2010/08/the-hidden-history-of-greco-roman-vegetarianism/
Paul Singer, Doomsday Investor
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/08/27/paul-singer-doomsday-investor
Google, Apple and others no longer require employees to have a college degree
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Slack confirms it has raised $427M at a post-money valuation of over $7B
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Google Assistant’s latest feature: “Tell me something good”
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/21/google-assistants-latest-feature-delivers-just-the-good-news/
Panic Attacks
https://avc.com/2018/08/panic-attacks/
Small Assets without the Headache in Elm 0.19
https://elm-lang.org/blog/small-assets-without-the-headache
Study: Association of Maternal Insecticide Levels with Autism in Offspring
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Kinesis Data Streams HTTP/2 Support
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Premature brain aging linked to cannabis, schizophrenia, alcohol
https://www.biospace.com/article/massive-study-reveals-secrets-about-the-aging-brain/
Theft: A History of Music
https://law.duke.edu/musiccomic/
Using the Edwards-Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA) in IKEv2
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8420
Rohingya turn to blockchain to solve identity crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/21/rohingya-turn-to-blockchain-to-solve-identity-crisis
Kotlin 1.2.60 comes with native compiler binaries
https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/releases/tag/v1.2.60
Primality Testing Under Adversarial Conditions
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/749
JPMorgan unveils free trading
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A Versatile Computer-Generated Dynamic Flight Display (1976)
https://archive.org/details/AVersatileComputerGeneratedDynamicFlightDisplay
US inmates stage nationwide prison labor strike over ’modern slavery’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/20/prison-labor-protest-america-jailhouse-lawyers-speak
This American Life: NUMMI
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Bill Gates Noticed a Economy Trend No One Is Paying Attention To
http://observer.com/2018/08/bill-gates-global-economy-trend-epiphany/
A GPU-based neural network was the only way to handle a garage full of Lego
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After the Bitcoin Boom: Hard Lessons for Cryptocurrency Investors
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/technology/cryptocurrency-investor-losses.html
Show HN: Self-organizing map learning visualization in WebGL
https://j4nw.github.io/three-js-som/
Swiss Household Debt Is Now Higher Than the US at the Peak of the Housing Bubble
http://thesoundingline.com/swiss-households-are-now-the-most-indebted-in-the-world/
FCK DRM
https://fckdrm.com/
Pipes in Python
http://sulami.github.io/posts/pipes-in-python/
Meet the ‘Change Agents’ Who Are Enabling Inequality
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/books/review/winners-take-all-anand-giridharadas.html
There are too many mediocre artists
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Tinder is rolling out a college-only service, Tinder U
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Tesla expands solar roof tile installations to the Northeast
https://electrek.co/2018/08/21/tesla-solar-roof-tile-expand-installation-northeast/
Teachers Are Using Airbnb and Uber to Supplement Pay
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/08/teachers-in-the-sharing-economy/567772/?single_page=true
How to create erc20 token of your own -step by step process
https://www.cryptoexchangescript.com/erc20-token-creation
This Burrito Includes an Arbitration Clause
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/08/this-burrito-includes-an-arbitration-clause
Introduction to Data Mining (Second Edition)
https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kumar001/dmbook/index.php
ROM sites are falling, but a legal loophole could save game emulation
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My Startup is failing – What should I do?
https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/my-startup-is-failing-what-should-i-do-4a0144975d
Facebook will remove 5,000 ad targeting categories to limit discrimination
https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/21/17764480/facebook-ad-targeting-options-removal-housing-racial-discrimination
Listen to Her: Gender on This American Life (2017)
https://pudding.cool/2017/09/this-american-life/
Facebook Fueled Anti-Refugee Attacks in Germany, New Research Suggests
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/world/europe/facebook-refugee-attacks-germany.html
We’re in a new age of obesity. How did it happen?
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Models Will Run the World
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Logic Production Systems runtime implemented in JavaScript
https://github.com/mauris/lps.js
Live map of London Underground trains
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Indonesia woman irked by mosque noise convicted of blasphemy
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The undertakers of Silicon Valley: how failure became big business
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MakerGirl hires its first CEO
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China, World’s Biggest Polluter, Hits Carbon Goals – 12 Years Early
https://www.thedailybeast.com/china-worlds-biggest-polluter-hits-carbon-goals12-years-early
Elm in Production: Surprises and Pain Points
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZj_1qVURL0
Some Thoughts about Productivity and the 40 Hour Work Week
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A day in the life of a waymo self driving taxi
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LocustDB: Massively parallel, high performance analytics database
https://github.com/cswinter/LocustDB
Coiled Snake: A vim plugin for automatically folding Python code
https://github.com/kalekundert/vim-coiled-snake
Y Combinator is funding a nonprofit that advocates for meat alternativ
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Instant GraphQL on AWS RDS
https://blog.hasura.io/instant-graphql-on-aws-rds-1edfb85b5985
Creationism and conspiracism share a common teleological bias
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Twelve Views of Mark Jason Dominus (2003)
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Tesla Factory Tour with Elon Musk
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YouTube creators reinvented diss tracks to make millions
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Why Puerto Rico Is Perfect for Digital Nomads
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Prime factors of the first 1e6 integers, laid out using UMAP
https://twitter.com/jhnhw/status/1031829726757900288
Bootstrapping the Industrial Age (2007)
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Skype’s End-To-End Encryption Goes Live
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I Just Hacked a State Election. I’m 17. And I’m Not Even a Very Good Hacker
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/21/i-just-hacked-a-state-election-17-not-a-good-hacker-219374
Machine Learning – in Terms of Linear Algebra, Probability and Calculus
https://medium.com/@pranoyradhakrishnan/a-short-machine-learning-explanation-in-terms-of-linear-algebra-probability-and-calculus-f7660aa4b06c
Google Web Designer
https://www.google.co.uk/webdesigner/
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https://topmonks.github.io/solidity_quick_ref/
Lessons Learned: Switching from CircleCI to Google Cloud Build
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A new Mac mini and a Retina MacBook Air are imminent, report says
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Show HN: Palx – Automatic UI Color Palette Generator
https://palx.jxnblk.com/
Meet ’Intrusion Truth,’ the Mysterious Group Doxing Chinese Intel Hackers
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wjka84/intrusion-truth-group-doxing-hackers-chinese-intelligence
Show HN: Podcast search and database API
https://www.listennotes.com/developers/?ref=hn2
Russian hackers targeted U.S. conservative think-tanks, says Microsoft
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-hackers/russian-hacking-of-conservative-groups-sites-thwarted-microsoft-idUSKCN1L60I0
“What is a cryptocurrency?”
https://medium.com/@osolmaz/what-is-a-cryptocurrency-by-the-central-bank-of-turkey-549e4832be55
Google’s data collection is hard to escape, study claims
https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/21/technology/google-data-collection/index.html
South African Govt approves First farm seizures from leaked list of 190
https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/south-africa-begins-seizing-whiteowned-farms/news-story/8937f899bd3f131bfc4ffb648ea5c53b
Getting Started with Django
https://medium.com/@siddharthshringi/how-i-made-my-first-django-app-4ede65c9b17f
Pseudo constant time implementations ofTLS are only pseudo secure
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/747
South Africa begins seizing white-owned farms
https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/south-africa-begins-seizing-whiteowned-farms/news-story/8937f899bd3f131bfc4ffb648ea5c53b
A Rare E.R. that Treats Opioid Addiction on Demand
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/18/health/opioid-addiction-treatment.html
We are taking new steps against broadening threats to democracy
https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2018/08/20/we-are-taking-new-steps-against-broadening-threats-to-democracy/
Top geneticist loses 3.5M grant in first test of landmark bullying policy
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06009-9
Microsoft discovers new Russian hacking operation targeting US groups
https://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-discovers-new-russian-hacking-operation-targeting-us-groups/
Show HN: SlidesUp API – Quickly build custom experiences for your conference
https://apidocs.slidesup.com/
Ice confirmed at the Moon’s poles
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2018-195&rn=news.xml&rst=7218
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