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We Need to Dream Bigger Than Bike Lanes
https://www.citylab.com/perspective/2019/10/micromobility-urban-design-car-free-infrastruture-futurama/600163/
We are leaving the Apple App Store and all its problems
https://exactscan.com/MAS/
A New Aristocracy: Yale Law School Commencement Address (2015) [pdf]
https://law.yale.edu/sites/default/files/area/department/studentaffairs/document/markovitscommencementrev.pdf
My Transition to an Ubuntu Workstation
https://ryannjohnson.com/writing/my-transition-to-an-ubuntu-workstation/
Geometry, Algebra, and Intuition (2017)
http://www.shapeoperator.com/2017/02/28/geometry-algebra-intuition/
Intro to Database Systems (Fall 2019) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeYBdghaIjc&list=PLSE8ODhjZXjbohkNBWQs_otTrBTrjyohi
Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story [video]
https://www.platformsecuritysummit.com/2019/speaker/chen/
The 5 foot ground rod and its use in the National Electric Code (2018)
https://iaeimagazine.org/magazine/2018/07/30/the-5-ft-ground-rod-and-its-little-known-use-in-the-nec/
Why iOS 13 and Catalina Are So Buggy
https://tidbits.com/2019/10/21/six-reasons-why-ios-13-and-catalina-are-so-buggy/
Pedestrian Bridge Collapse over SW 8th Street in Miami [pdf]
https://www.ntsb.gov/news/events/Documents/2019-HWY18MH009-BMG-abstract.pdf
Don’t Use VPN Services
https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29
New York Times Eliminates Director of Information Security Position
https://twitter.com/runasand/status/1186775481615605760
TechCrunch published Snap earnings before numbers went public
https://twitter.com/alexeheath/status/1186735799338860544
Show HN: Glaze – Illustrations for Products and Presentations
http://glazestock.com
The Limits of Science
https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-limits-of-science
Natural Language Processing (2018) [pdf]
https://github.com/jacobeisenstein/gt-nlp-class/blob/master/notes/eisenstein-nlp-notes.pdf
Firefox 70
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/10/firefox-70-a-bountiful-release-for-all/
More Intuitive Calculator Arithmetic (2018)
https://engineering.desmos.com/articles/intuitive-calculator-arithmetic/
Storing 50M events per second in Elasticsearch
https://datadome.co/store-50-million-event-per-second-in-elasticsearch/
It’s Okay to Store Data in Apache Kafka (2017)
https://www.confluent.io/blog/okay-store-data-apache-kafka/
FTC Brings First Case Against Developers of “Stalking” Apps
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2019/10/ftc-brings-first-case-against-developers-stalking-apps
YARA – A pattern-matching Swiss knife for malware researchers
http://virustotal.github.io/yara/
Finetuning GPT-2 to Generate Beatles Lyrics
https://towardsdatascience.com/generating-beatles-lyrics-with-machine-learning-1355635d5c4e
L.A. is the perpetual dark heart of crime writing
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2019-10-17/crime-books-noir-la-michael-connelly
U.S. tech inventors are highly clustered because of idea spillover
https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/10/technology-inventions-where-work-patents-agglomeration-data/599089/
An Introduction to Real-Time Subsurface Scattering
https://therealmjp.github.io/posts/sss-intro/
Ranked-choice voting is on the ballot in New York City
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/15/opinion/new-york-ranked-choice-voting.html
Slimbook collaborates with the PowerPC laptop
https://slimbook.es/en/noticias-notas-de-prensa-y-reviews/435-slimbook-collaborates-with-the-powerpc-laptop
The Ever-Present Glow of LED Greenhouses
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/10/greenhouse-series/
Dramatically reduced power usage in Firefox 70 on macOS with Core Animation
https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2019/10/22/dramatically-reduced-power-usage-in-firefox-70-on-macos-with-core-animation/
The Demise of Physical Comedy
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/the-demise-of-physical-comedy
Bipolar-Zener Combo Takes On CMOS
https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1335216
Discord is deactivating accounts without phone numbers
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/djyy6v/psa_discord_is_deactivating_accounts_without/
Seventeenth-century Europeans ate mummies (2015)
https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2015/12/why-did-seventeenth-century-europeans.html
Adult Day Cares in the Rio Grande Valley
https://www.texasobserver.org/the-day-shift/
London Ultra Low Emission Zone cuts toxic air pollution by a third
https://www.london.gov.uk/press-releases/mayoral/ulez-reduces-polluting-cars-by-13500-every-day
The Texas Union Project, Texas Oil, and the New Deal
https://local-memory.org/athens-on-the-colorado/narratives/texas-union
Automated Continuous Deployment at Heroku
https://blog.heroku.com/automated-continuous-deployment-at-heroku
Our Dazzling Night Sky When the Milky Way Collides with Andromeda in 4B Years
https://kottke.org/19/10/behold-our-dazzling-night-sky-when-the-milky-way-collides-with-andromeda-in-4-billion-years
Firefox Lockwise – Encrypted Password Manager
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/lockwise/
Cache Poisoned DoS Attack: Shutdown any CDN Website with One HTTP Request
https://cpdos.org/
Ghost 3.0
https://ghost.org/blog/3-0/
AWS Experiencing Intermittent DNS Resolution Errors
https://status.aws.amazon.com#r53
The Google Antitrust Investigations – Learning from Germany’s Facebook Inquiry
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/mergers-and-antitrust/insight-the-google-antitrust-investigations-learning-from-germanys-facebook-inquiry
Under digital surveillance: how American schools spy on millions of kids
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/22/school-student-surveillance-bark-gaggle
Email tracking pixel support
https://rant.gulbrandsen.priv.no/hack/web-fonts-email
Kusumoto Ine: A Remarkable Woman in Meiji Restoration Japan
https://notevenpast.org/kusumoto-ine-a-remarkable-woman-in-meiji-restoration-japan/
Blind auditions and gender discrimination
https://jsmp.dk/posts/2019-05-12-blindauditions/
The Afterlives and Second Acts of America’s Movie Palaces
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/abandoned-movie-theaters
Feeling lonely? You’ve got company
https://www.pri.org/stories/2019-10-22/feeling-lonely-you-ve-got-company
Show HN: Serverless doc writing app built using Cloudflare Workers and KV Store
https://telex.blog
WeWork Needed a Bailout, But Adam Neumann Still Leaves a Billionaire
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-22/neumann-clings-to-billionaire-status-after-wework-gets-a-bailout
Projects to Start Contributing to OpenBSD
http://www.grenadille.net/post/2019/10/21/10-projects-to-start-contributing-to-OpenBSD
Why UTC is used as the acronym for Coordinated Universal Time
https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/nist-time-frequently-asked-questions-faq#cut
McKinsey: Half the World’s Banks Too Weak to Survive Downturn
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-21/banks-must-act-now-or-risk-becoming-a-footnote-mckinsey-says
Node.js 13.0
https://github.com/nodejs/node/releases/tag/v13.0.0
Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/10/22/latest-firefox-brings-privacy-protections-front-and-center-letting-you-track-the-trackers/
How to Scale Distributed SQL to 1M+ Inserts per Second
https://blog.yugabyte.com/how-yugabytedb-scales-to-more-than-1-million-inserts-per-sec/
Tesorio (YC S15) Raised a $10M Series A and Is Hiring
https://www.tesorio.com/careers
No Maintenance Intended
http://unmaintained.tech/
Typography of Neon Genesis Evangelion
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/28760/neon-genesis-evangelion
Oxford Professor Is Accused of Selling Ancient Texts
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/world/europe/oxford-professor-bible-hobby-lobby.html
A Landmark Climate Trial Turns on Whether Exxon Cooked the Books
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-10-22/landmark-climate-trial-turns-on-whether-exxon-cooked-the-books
Terra Nullius
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_nullius
Firefox is getting language translation
https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/firefox-translation-bergamot-mozilla-3948613
Equifax securities fraud class action [pdf]
http://securities.stanford.edu/filings-documents/1063/EI00_15/2019128_r01x_17CV03463.pdf
AWS Route 53 experiencing occasional DNS resolution errors
https://status.aws.amazon.com/
47 Attorneys general now support Facebook antitrust investigation
https://sociable.co/social-media/47-attorneys-general-support-facebook-antitrust-investigation/
Trains reach record speed in Beijing-Zhangjiakou test run
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201910/21/WS5dad249aa310cf3e35571a61.html
Why We’re Drawn into Darkness
http://nautil.us//issue/77/underworlds/why-were-drawn-into-darkness
Ken Loach Says Marvel Films Are “Made as Commodities Like Hamburgers”
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ken-loach-says-marvel-films-are-made-as-commodities-like-hamburgers-1249205
Mailgun Acquires Mailjet
https://www.mailgun.com/blog/mailgun-acquires-european-competitor-mailjet/
Who Benefits from American AI Research in China?
https://macropolo.org/china-ai-research-resnet/
Show HN: Canarybase – Remove feature flag code from your apps
https://canarybase.com
Gmail Hooked Us on Free Storage. Now Google Is Making Us Pay
https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/gmail-hooked-us-on-free-storage-now-google-is-making-us-pay
Avast Antivirus confirms it was hacked
https://blog.avast.com/ccleaner-fights-off-cyberespionage-attempt-abiss
Excessive brain activity linked to a shorter life
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/10/16/excessive-brain-activity-linked-shorter-life/
Simplifying the private cloud: host your private Dropbox at home in one click
https://doc.duple.io/duple-documentation/?ty
The Power and the Gory (1990)
http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2013/10/01/the-power-and-the-gory/
Estonia is running its country like a tech company
https://qz.com/1535549/living-on-the-blockchain-is-a-game-changer-for-estonian-citizens/
Ancient Greek ships in the Black Sea off the coast of Bulgaria
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20191021-the-sea-of-60-ghostly-wrecked-ships
Kubernetes Homelab with Raspberry Pi and K3sup
https://blog.alexellis.io/raspberry-pi-homelab-with-k3sup/
Obfuscating Python
https://gist.github.com/shakna-israel/03172c2c06e1f6622764541dc8b4246b#file-prose-md
The Transformation of Condé Nast
https://newrepublic.com/article/155286/conde-nast-biography-book-review
Google and Facebook Are Reading Your License Plates
https://jalopnik.com/google-is-reading-your-license-plates-1839259494
Securing Apache Airflow UI with DAG Level Access
https://eng.lyft.com/securing-apache-airflow-ui-with-dag-level-access-a7bc649a2821
High pollen counts are associated with lower crime rates
https://journalistsresource.org/studies/government/criminal-justice/allergies-crime-link/
Modeling BBR’s Interactions with Loss-Based Congestion Control [pdf]
http://justinesherry.com/papers/ware-imc2019.pdf
Sorbet · A static type checker for Ruby
https://sorbet.org/?open_sourced
Capitalism, modernity’s most beguiling and dangerous form of enchantment
https://aeon.co/essays/capitalism-is-modernitys-most-beguiling-dangerous-enchantment
Expangine – A Visual Development Framework
https://github.com/expangine/expangine-vue
Software projects written in Haskell
https://serokell.io/blog/top-software-written-in-haskell
Assange in Court
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/10/assange-in-court/
Infosys shares drop to 10-month low as whistle-blowers target CEO
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-21/infosys-whistleblowers-allege-unethical-practices-shares-fall
The Placebo Effect Works and You Can Catch It from Your Doctor
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/10/21/772086920/the-placebo-effect-works-and-you-can-catch-it-from-your-doctor
Taking Mastodon security to the next level
https://dev.to/tanker/taking-mastodon-security-to-the-next-level-part-1-encrypt-your-toots-2p00
California: PG&E warns of fresh power shutoffs for 500k due to fire weather
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/22/california-wildfires-power-shutoffs-pge
A high performance topological machine learning toolbox in Python
https://github.com/giotto-learn/giotto-learn
Why Adam Neumann is getting $1.7B to leave WeWork?
https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/10/22/20927188/wework-adam-neumann-payout-softbank-layoffs
Call Congress and Tell Them Not to Let a Quasi-Court Bankrupt Internet Users
https://act.eff.org/action/call-congress-and-tell-them-not-to-let-a-quasi-court-bankrupt-internet-users
GUI for Neovim
https://github.com/vhakulinen/gnvim
A Power Law Keeps the Brain’s Perceptions Balanced
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-power-law-keeps-the-brains-perceptions-balanced-20191022/
The House Votes in Favor of Disastrous Copyright Bill
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/house-votes-favor-disastrous-copyright-bill
List of websites founded before 1995
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_founded_before_1995
Assange displayed signs of torture in courtroom farce
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/10/22/assange-displayed-signs-of-torture-in-courtroom-farce/
Melting glaciers reveal five new islands in the Arctic
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/22/melting-glaciers-reveal-five-new-islands-in-the-arctic
WeWork postponed thousands of layoffs because it can’t afford to pay severance
https://www.insider.com/wework-reportedly-delayed-layoffs-because-its-short-on-cash-2019-10
Anomalous Properties of Water
http://www1.lsbu.ac.uk/water/water_anomalies.html
How to Get Online Illegally in Cuba
https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/cuba-connectify-connecifai-internet-etecsa.html
Collaborating with Humans Requires Understanding Them
https://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2019/10/21/coordination/
OpenID Connect and OAuth2 Support for OpenFaaS
https://docs.openfaas.com/reference/authentication/#oauth2-support-in-the-api-gateway-alpha
Metacognition: How to Think about Thinking
https://nesslabs.com/metacognition
How to Remove Limiting Beliefs from Your Team
https://medium.dave-bailey.com/how-to-foster-a-growth-mindset-in-your-team-ef21c9decb2d?source=friends_link&sk=6f2b0baea146258298a9f6597db1508a
Preparing for the Future with React Prereleases
https://reactjs.org/blog/2019/10/22/react-release-channels.html
HireVue’s face-scanning algorithm decides whether you deserve the job
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/22/ai-hiring-face-scanning-algorithm-increasingly-decides-whether-you-deserve-job/
Self Driving Cars: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
https://medium.com/@comma_ai/a-100x-investment-part-1-6c858bbe72ef
Xfce 4.16 development phase starting
https://simon.shimmerproject.org/2019/10/19/xfce-4-15-development-phase-starting/
(I-=-1)
https://twitter.com/codepo8/status/1186581782864564224
This is not a 3D drawing, it’s a restaurant in Korea
https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1186458041975066624
Neanderthal glue was a bigger deal than we thought
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/neanderthal-glue-was-a-bigger-deal-than-we-thought/
Habits of Absolutely Ineffective Technology Managers
https://levelup.gitconnected.com/5-bad-habits-of-absolutely-ineffective-technology-managers-b395e85ad289?source=friends_link&sk=deb65711aeae158351d08732cf9c9e8e
An Intern’s Experience with Rust
https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/10/16/an-interns-experience-with-rust/
The demise of Docker and the rise of Kubernetes
https://thehftguy.com/2019/10/22/the-demise-of-docker-and-the-rise-of-kubernetes/
Introducing Pesatime – A Super Simple Online Accounting Software
https://www.pesatime.com
Recurring Events for Calendars – Martin Fowler [pdf]
https://martinfowler.com/apsupp/recurring.pdf
Quantum supremacy from Google? Not so fast, says IBM
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614604/quantum-supremacy-from-google-not-so-fast-says-ibm/
BuilderX: A Design Tool That Codes React and React Native
https://builderx.io/
Organs can be bought via social media in the Philippines
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/kidney-organs-for-sale-on-facebook-in-philippines-12007964
Types of Network Effects and How to Hack Them
https://hackernoon.com/the-5-types-of-network-effects-and-how-to-hack-them-a5b54745eed2
New Windows 10 Secured-Core PCS Block Firmware-Level Attacks
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-windows-10-secured-core-pcs-block-firmware-level-attacks/
Elon Musk tweets using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/22/elon-musk-tweets-using-spacexs-starlink-satellite-internet/
Asynchronous Federated Learning with PySyft and PyTorch
https://blog.openmined.org/asynchronous-federated-learning-in-pysyft/
PostGIS 3.0 just released with major speed improvements
https://carto.com/blog/postgis-3-release/
How Did a Cult Beauty Brand Get in Trouble with the FTC?
https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/ftc-sunday-riley-fake-reviews-federal-trade-commission.html
How to Learn Framer X?
https://twitter.com/lintonye/status/1186628439995908096
On Reading and Books
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/essays/chapter3.html
An application to analyse a database as preparation for designing an ETL
https://github.com/OHDSI/WhiteRabbit
Understand Kubernetes step by step. A simple repo for beginners
https://github.com/knrt10/kubernetes-basicLearning/
How to Develop Go Applications in Kubernetes
https://okteto.com/blog/how-to-develop-go-apps-in-kubernetes/
Chinese concentration camp prisoners subjected to gang rape, medical experiments
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-xinjiang-uighur-muslim-detention-camps-xi-jinping-persecution-a9165896.html
Open Sourcing Mantis: Netflix Platform for Building Realtime Applications
https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/open-sourcing-mantis-a-platform-for-building-cost-effective-realtime-operations-focused-5b8ff387813a
WeWork Accepts SoftBank Takeover Offer
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wework-softbank-group/wework-board-accepts-softbank-rescue-deal-source-idUSKBN1X11JN
Flagstaff Arizona switched to LEDs without giving astronomers a headache
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/how-flagstaff-arizona-switched-to-leds-without-giving-astronomers-a-headache/
Master list of U.S. micro-VC’s
https://medium.com/@Samirkaji/the-master-list-of-us-micro-vcs-aa35d9b294ab
WeWork founder will get $1.7B to let SoftBank take over his company
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/22/20926583/wework-founder-adam-neumann-softbank-takeover-payout
IBM Says Google’s Quantum Leap Was a Quantum Flop
https://www.wired.com/story/ibm-googles-quantum-leap-quantum-flop/
Node.js 12 LTS Released
https://medium.com/@nodejs/node-js-12-to-lts-and-node-js-13-is-here-e28d6a4a2bd
Nikon Small World Microscopy Contest
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/nikon-small-world-microscopy-contest-were-all-winners/
Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-misc-discuss/2019-10/msg00002.html
Juttle – One query language to rule them all
http://juttle.github.io/
UTC is enough for everyone right?
https://zachholman.com/talk/utc-is-enough-for-everyone-right
Seven Reasons We Chose Apache Pulsar over Apache Kafka
https://kafkaesque.io/7-reasons-we-choose-apache-pulsar-over-apache-kafka/
Prison influencers are finding viral success on YouTube
https://www.businessinsider.com/prison-influencers-are-finding-viral-success-on-youtube-2019-10
When the Government Seizes Your Embryos
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/when-the-government-seizes-your-embryos
Crispr upgrade could make genome editing better and safer
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2220476-crispr-upgrade-could-make-genome-editing-better-and-safer/
Marpa, A practical general parser: the recognizer
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.08129
Google Fi will soon connect you to two LTE networks at once
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/10/google-fi-will-soon-connect-you-to-two-lte-networks-at-once/
Faces of Open Source
http://www.facesofopensource.com/
Magic: The Gathering pro uses win to show Hong Kong protest support
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/10/magic-the-gathering-pro-uses-win-to-show-hong-kong-protest-support/
Databricks raises $400M at a $6.2B valuation
https://venturebeat.com/2019/10/22/databricks-raises-400-million-at-a-6-2-billion-valuation/
Knowledge transfer, code reviews in small teams
https://medium.com/@togzhansultan/knowledge-transfer-code-reviews-in-small-teams-27bcda3b44ea
A Top DHS Staffer Who Defended the Muslim Travel Ban Now Works at Google
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/google-miles-taylor-dhs-muslim-travel-ban-nielsen
’Stone-cold crazy’ $1.7b golden parachute for ousted WeWork CEO Adam Neumann
https://www.businessinsider.com/experts-react-softbank-17-billion-wework-buyout-adam-neumann-2019-10
RDS Database Migration with Lambda
https://blog.codecentric.de/en/2019/10/rds-database-migration-with-lambda/
How American schools spy on millions of kids
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/22/school-student-surveillance-bark-gaggle
Can you solve it? The four points, two distances problem
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/oct/21/can-you-solve-it-the-four-points-two-distances-problem
Userland: Creating an integrated dataflow environment for end-user applications
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gla830WPBVU
2019 Ozone Hole Is the Smallest on Record Since Its Discovery
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/2019-ozone-hole-is-the-smallest-on-record-since-its-discovery
Data Changes Everything: Data Visualization and Interface Design Are Different
https://medium.com/multiple-views-visualization-research-explained/data-changes-everything-how-data-visualization-design-and-interface-design-are-different-225145804c09
The Phone Company Secretly Run by Drug Traffickers
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjwbmm/inside-the-phone-company-secretly-run-by-drug-traffickers
Tulsa Race Riot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_riot
“Soft skills” are freaking hard
https://twitter.com/SoapBoxHQ/status/1186624672445685760
YouTube may have suppressed videos of Tulsi Gabbard following Clinton spat
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/youtube-may-have-suppressed-videos-of-tulsi-gabbard-following-clinton-spat
Night Sky Reflections from the World’s Largest Mirror
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191022.html
Wildcard Routing Is an Anti-Pattern
https://blog.praveen.science/wildcard-routing-is-an-anti-pattern/
UK’s disused mine shafts plan to store renewable energy
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/21/how-uks-disused-mine-shafts-plan-to-store-renewable-energy
J.D. Salinger, Unbound
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/books/jd-salinger-ny-public-library-exhibit.html
IBM Says Google’s Quantum Leap Was a Quantum Flop
https://www.wired.com/story/ibm-googles-quantum-leap-quantum-flop/
Managers, You’re More Intimidating Than You Think
https://hbr.org/2019/07/managers-youre-more-intimidating-than-you-think
Google to use fourth-price auction for places on search engine choice screen
https://www.android.com/choicescreen/
Coding will be different soon, and it’s thanks to SaaS
https://medium.com/thron-tech/as-a-service-offering-is-changing-what-a-developer-is-ce56c653b041
Safari Is Experimenting with an API That Could Limit Cookies to Logged-In Users
https://adexchanger.com/privacy/safari-is-experimenting-with-an-api-that-could-limit-cookie-storage-to-logged-in-users/
In China, you can no longer buy a smartphone without a face scan
https://venturebeat.com/2019/10/11/ai-weekly-in-china-you-can-no-longer-buy-a-smartphone-without-a-face-scan/
Avast: No plans to discontinue CCleaner following second hack in two years
https://www.zdnet.com/article/avast-no-plans-to-discontinue-ccleaner-following-second-hack-in-two-years/
Hackers steal secret crypto keys for NordVPN. Here’s what we know so far
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/hackers-steal-secret-crypto-keys-for-nordvpn-heres-what-we-know-so-far/
WeWork’s Adam Neumann offered package worth up to $1.7B to step down from board
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/22/weworks-adam-neumann-to-get-200-million-to-leave-board-report-says.html
Penn Jillette’s Surprising Success as a Computer Columnist
https://tedium.co/2019/09/26/penn-jillette-pc-computing-magazine-columnist/
(US) Green Card vs. Citizenship
https://www.upcounsel.com/green-card-vs-citizenship
Shopify CEO offers internship due to Starcraft accomplishments
https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1183807041678299137
Elon Musk: Sending this tweet through space via Starlink satellite
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1186523464712146944
Think young people are hostile to capitalism now? Wait for the next recession
https://theweek.com/articles/871131/think-young-people-are-hostile-capitalism-now-just-wait-next-recession
Flawed Design, Lax Oversight Led to ‘Astounding’ Miami Bridge Collapse
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/22/us/bridge-collapse-florida-international-university-NTSB.html
Softbank to Take Control of WeWork
https://www.wsj.com/articles/softbank-to-take-control-of-wework-11571746483?mod=rsswn
WeWork ’Accepts Takeover by Softbank’
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50138354
Brains not brawn, matter most in the next war and we aren’t being smart about it
https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/466679-brains-not-brawn-matter-most-in-the-next-war-and-were-not-being
JSON revision: http://hn-live.pub.itunix.eu/news/2019-10-23-9032019102.json
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We Need to Dream Bigger Than Bike Lanes
https://www.citylab.com/perspective/2019/10/micromobility-urban-design-car-free-infrastruture-futurama/600163/
We are leaving the Apple App Store and all its problems
https://exactscan.com/MAS/
A New Aristocracy: Yale Law School Commencement Address (2015) [pdf]
https://law.yale.edu/sites/default/files/area/department/studentaffairs/document/markovitscommencementrev.pdf
My Transition to an Ubuntu Workstation
https://ryannjohnson.com/writing/my-transition-to-an-ubuntu-workstation/
Geometry, Algebra, and Intuition (2017)
http://www.shapeoperator.com/2017/02/28/geometry-algebra-intuition/
Intro to Database Systems (Fall 2019) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeYBdghaIjc&list=PLSE8ODhjZXjbohkNBWQs_otTrBTrjyohi
Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story [video]
https://www.platformsecuritysummit.com/2019/speaker/chen/
The 5 foot ground rod and its use in the National Electric Code (2018)
https://iaeimagazine.org/magazine/2018/07/30/the-5-ft-ground-rod-and-its-little-known-use-in-the-nec/
Why iOS 13 and Catalina Are So Buggy
https://tidbits.com/2019/10/21/six-reasons-why-ios-13-and-catalina-are-so-buggy/
Pedestrian Bridge Collapse over SW 8th Street in Miami [pdf]
https://www.ntsb.gov/news/events/Documents/2019-HWY18MH009-BMG-abstract.pdf
Don’t Use VPN Services
https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29
New York Times Eliminates Director of Information Security Position
https://twitter.com/runasand/status/1186775481615605760
TechCrunch published Snap earnings before numbers went public
https://twitter.com/alexeheath/status/1186735799338860544
Show HN: Glaze – Illustrations for Products and Presentations
http://glazestock.com
The Limits of Science
https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-limits-of-science
Natural Language Processing (2018) [pdf]
https://github.com/jacobeisenstein/gt-nlp-class/blob/master/notes/eisenstein-nlp-notes.pdf
Firefox 70
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/10/firefox-70-a-bountiful-release-for-all/
More Intuitive Calculator Arithmetic (2018)
https://engineering.desmos.com/articles/intuitive-calculator-arithmetic/
Storing 50M events per second in Elasticsearch
https://datadome.co/store-50-million-event-per-second-in-elasticsearch/
It’s Okay to Store Data in Apache Kafka (2017)
https://www.confluent.io/blog/okay-store-data-apache-kafka/
FTC Brings First Case Against Developers of “Stalking” Apps
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2019/10/ftc-brings-first-case-against-developers-stalking-apps
YARA – A pattern-matching Swiss knife for malware researchers
http://virustotal.github.io/yara/
Finetuning GPT-2 to Generate Beatles Lyrics
https://towardsdatascience.com/generating-beatles-lyrics-with-machine-learning-1355635d5c4e
L.A. is the perpetual dark heart of crime writing
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2019-10-17/crime-books-noir-la-michael-connelly
U.S. tech inventors are highly clustered because of idea spillover
https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/10/technology-inventions-where-work-patents-agglomeration-data/599089/
An Introduction to Real-Time Subsurface Scattering
https://therealmjp.github.io/posts/sss-intro/
Ranked-choice voting is on the ballot in New York City
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/15/opinion/new-york-ranked-choice-voting.html
Slimbook collaborates with the PowerPC laptop
https://slimbook.es/en/noticias-notas-de-prensa-y-reviews/435-slimbook-collaborates-with-the-powerpc-laptop
The Ever-Present Glow of LED Greenhouses
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/10/greenhouse-series/
Dramatically reduced power usage in Firefox 70 on macOS with Core Animation
https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2019/10/22/dramatically-reduced-power-usage-in-firefox-70-on-macos-with-core-animation/
The Demise of Physical Comedy
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/the-demise-of-physical-comedy
Bipolar-Zener Combo Takes On CMOS
https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1335216
Discord is deactivating accounts without phone numbers
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/djyy6v/psa_discord_is_deactivating_accounts_without/
Seventeenth-century Europeans ate mummies (2015)
https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2015/12/why-did-seventeenth-century-europeans.html
Adult Day Cares in the Rio Grande Valley
https://www.texasobserver.org/the-day-shift/
London Ultra Low Emission Zone cuts toxic air pollution by a third
https://www.london.gov.uk/press-releases/mayoral/ulez-reduces-polluting-cars-by-13500-every-day
The Texas Union Project, Texas Oil, and the New Deal
https://local-memory.org/athens-on-the-colorado/narratives/texas-union
Automated Continuous Deployment at Heroku
https://blog.heroku.com/automated-continuous-deployment-at-heroku
Our Dazzling Night Sky When the Milky Way Collides with Andromeda in 4B Years
https://kottke.org/19/10/behold-our-dazzling-night-sky-when-the-milky-way-collides-with-andromeda-in-4-billion-years
Firefox Lockwise – Encrypted Password Manager
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/lockwise/
Cache Poisoned DoS Attack: Shutdown any CDN Website with One HTTP Request
https://cpdos.org/
Ghost 3.0
https://ghost.org/blog/3-0/
AWS Experiencing Intermittent DNS Resolution Errors
https://status.aws.amazon.com#r53
The Google Antitrust Investigations – Learning from Germany’s Facebook Inquiry
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/mergers-and-antitrust/insight-the-google-antitrust-investigations-learning-from-germanys-facebook-inquiry
Under digital surveillance: how American schools spy on millions of kids
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/22/school-student-surveillance-bark-gaggle
Email tracking pixel support
https://rant.gulbrandsen.priv.no/hack/web-fonts-email
Kusumoto Ine: A Remarkable Woman in Meiji Restoration Japan
https://notevenpast.org/kusumoto-ine-a-remarkable-woman-in-meiji-restoration-japan/
Blind auditions and gender discrimination
https://jsmp.dk/posts/2019-05-12-blindauditions/
The Afterlives and Second Acts of America’s Movie Palaces
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/abandoned-movie-theaters
Feeling lonely? You’ve got company
https://www.pri.org/stories/2019-10-22/feeling-lonely-you-ve-got-company
Show HN: Serverless doc writing app built using Cloudflare Workers and KV Store
https://telex.blog
WeWork Needed a Bailout, But Adam Neumann Still Leaves a Billionaire
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-22/neumann-clings-to-billionaire-status-after-wework-gets-a-bailout
Projects to Start Contributing to OpenBSD
http://www.grenadille.net/post/2019/10/21/10-projects-to-start-contributing-to-OpenBSD
Why UTC is used as the acronym for Coordinated Universal Time
https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/nist-time-frequently-asked-questions-faq#cut
McKinsey: Half the World’s Banks Too Weak to Survive Downturn
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-21/banks-must-act-now-or-risk-becoming-a-footnote-mckinsey-says
Node.js 13.0
https://github.com/nodejs/node/releases/tag/v13.0.0
Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/10/22/latest-firefox-brings-privacy-protections-front-and-center-letting-you-track-the-trackers/
How to Scale Distributed SQL to 1M+ Inserts per Second
https://blog.yugabyte.com/how-yugabytedb-scales-to-more-than-1-million-inserts-per-sec/
Tesorio (YC S15) Raised a $10M Series A and Is Hiring
https://www.tesorio.com/careers
No Maintenance Intended
http://unmaintained.tech/
Typography of Neon Genesis Evangelion
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/28760/neon-genesis-evangelion
Oxford Professor Is Accused of Selling Ancient Texts
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/world/europe/oxford-professor-bible-hobby-lobby.html
A Landmark Climate Trial Turns on Whether Exxon Cooked the Books
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-10-22/landmark-climate-trial-turns-on-whether-exxon-cooked-the-books
Terra Nullius
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_nullius
Firefox is getting language translation
https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/firefox-translation-bergamot-mozilla-3948613
Equifax securities fraud class action [pdf]
http://securities.stanford.edu/filings-documents/1063/EI00_15/2019128_r01x_17CV03463.pdf
AWS Route 53 experiencing occasional DNS resolution errors
https://status.aws.amazon.com/
47 Attorneys general now support Facebook antitrust investigation
https://sociable.co/social-media/47-attorneys-general-support-facebook-antitrust-investigation/
Trains reach record speed in Beijing-Zhangjiakou test run
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201910/21/WS5dad249aa310cf3e35571a61.html
Why We’re Drawn into Darkness
http://nautil.us//issue/77/underworlds/why-were-drawn-into-darkness
Ken Loach Says Marvel Films Are “Made as Commodities Like Hamburgers”
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ken-loach-says-marvel-films-are-made-as-commodities-like-hamburgers-1249205
Mailgun Acquires Mailjet
https://www.mailgun.com/blog/mailgun-acquires-european-competitor-mailjet/
Who Benefits from American AI Research in China?
https://macropolo.org/china-ai-research-resnet/
Show HN: Canarybase – Remove feature flag code from your apps
https://canarybase.com
Gmail Hooked Us on Free Storage. Now Google Is Making Us Pay
https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/gmail-hooked-us-on-free-storage-now-google-is-making-us-pay
Avast Antivirus confirms it was hacked
https://blog.avast.com/ccleaner-fights-off-cyberespionage-attempt-abiss
Excessive brain activity linked to a shorter life
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/10/16/excessive-brain-activity-linked-shorter-life/
Simplifying the private cloud: host your private Dropbox at home in one click
https://doc.duple.io/duple-documentation/?ty
The Power and the Gory (1990)
http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2013/10/01/the-power-and-the-gory/
Estonia is running its country like a tech company
https://qz.com/1535549/living-on-the-blockchain-is-a-game-changer-for-estonian-citizens/
Ancient Greek ships in the Black Sea off the coast of Bulgaria
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20191021-the-sea-of-60-ghostly-wrecked-ships
Kubernetes Homelab with Raspberry Pi and K3sup
https://blog.alexellis.io/raspberry-pi-homelab-with-k3sup/
Obfuscating Python
https://gist.github.com/shakna-israel/03172c2c06e1f6622764541dc8b4246b#file-prose-md
The Transformation of Condé Nast
https://newrepublic.com/article/155286/conde-nast-biography-book-review
Google and Facebook Are Reading Your License Plates
https://jalopnik.com/google-is-reading-your-license-plates-1839259494
Securing Apache Airflow UI with DAG Level Access
https://eng.lyft.com/securing-apache-airflow-ui-with-dag-level-access-a7bc649a2821
High pollen counts are associated with lower crime rates
https://journalistsresource.org/studies/government/criminal-justice/allergies-crime-link/
Modeling BBR’s Interactions with Loss-Based Congestion Control [pdf]
http://justinesherry.com/papers/ware-imc2019.pdf
Sorbet · A static type checker for Ruby
https://sorbet.org/?open_sourced
Capitalism, modernity’s most beguiling and dangerous form of enchantment
https://aeon.co/essays/capitalism-is-modernitys-most-beguiling-dangerous-enchantment
Expangine – A Visual Development Framework
https://github.com/expangine/expangine-vue
Software projects written in Haskell
https://serokell.io/blog/top-software-written-in-haskell
Assange in Court
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/10/assange-in-court/
Infosys shares drop to 10-month low as whistle-blowers target CEO
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-21/infosys-whistleblowers-allege-unethical-practices-shares-fall
The Placebo Effect Works and You Can Catch It from Your Doctor
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/10/21/772086920/the-placebo-effect-works-and-you-can-catch-it-from-your-doctor
Taking Mastodon security to the next level
https://dev.to/tanker/taking-mastodon-security-to-the-next-level-part-1-encrypt-your-toots-2p00
California: PG&E warns of fresh power shutoffs for 500k due to fire weather
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/22/california-wildfires-power-shutoffs-pge
A high performance topological machine learning toolbox in Python
https://github.com/giotto-learn/giotto-learn
Why Adam Neumann is getting $1.7B to leave WeWork?
https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/10/22/20927188/wework-adam-neumann-payout-softbank-layoffs
Call Congress and Tell Them Not to Let a Quasi-Court Bankrupt Internet Users
https://act.eff.org/action/call-congress-and-tell-them-not-to-let-a-quasi-court-bankrupt-internet-users
GUI for Neovim
https://github.com/vhakulinen/gnvim
A Power Law Keeps the Brain’s Perceptions Balanced
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-power-law-keeps-the-brains-perceptions-balanced-20191022/
The House Votes in Favor of Disastrous Copyright Bill
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/house-votes-favor-disastrous-copyright-bill
List of websites founded before 1995
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_founded_before_1995
Assange displayed signs of torture in courtroom farce
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/10/22/assange-displayed-signs-of-torture-in-courtroom-farce/
Melting glaciers reveal five new islands in the Arctic
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/22/melting-glaciers-reveal-five-new-islands-in-the-arctic
WeWork postponed thousands of layoffs because it can’t afford to pay severance
https://www.insider.com/wework-reportedly-delayed-layoffs-because-its-short-on-cash-2019-10
Anomalous Properties of Water
http://www1.lsbu.ac.uk/water/water_anomalies.html
How to Get Online Illegally in Cuba
https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/cuba-connectify-connecifai-internet-etecsa.html
Collaborating with Humans Requires Understanding Them
https://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2019/10/21/coordination/
OpenID Connect and OAuth2 Support for OpenFaaS
https://docs.openfaas.com/reference/authentication/#oauth2-support-in-the-api-gateway-alpha
Metacognition: How to Think about Thinking
https://nesslabs.com/metacognition
How to Remove Limiting Beliefs from Your Team
https://medium.dave-bailey.com/how-to-foster-a-growth-mindset-in-your-team-ef21c9decb2d?source=friends_link&sk=6f2b0baea146258298a9f6597db1508a
Preparing for the Future with React Prereleases
https://reactjs.org/blog/2019/10/22/react-release-channels.html
HireVue’s face-scanning algorithm decides whether you deserve the job
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/22/ai-hiring-face-scanning-algorithm-increasingly-decides-whether-you-deserve-job/
Self Driving Cars: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
https://medium.com/@comma_ai/a-100x-investment-part-1-6c858bbe72ef
Xfce 4.16 development phase starting
https://simon.shimmerproject.org/2019/10/19/xfce-4-15-development-phase-starting/
(I-=-1)
https://twitter.com/codepo8/status/1186581782864564224
This is not a 3D drawing, it’s a restaurant in Korea
https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1186458041975066624
Neanderthal glue was a bigger deal than we thought
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/neanderthal-glue-was-a-bigger-deal-than-we-thought/
Habits of Absolutely Ineffective Technology Managers
https://levelup.gitconnected.com/5-bad-habits-of-absolutely-ineffective-technology-managers-b395e85ad289?source=friends_link&sk=deb65711aeae158351d08732cf9c9e8e
An Intern’s Experience with Rust
https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/10/16/an-interns-experience-with-rust/
The demise of Docker and the rise of Kubernetes
https://thehftguy.com/2019/10/22/the-demise-of-docker-and-the-rise-of-kubernetes/
Introducing Pesatime – A Super Simple Online Accounting Software
https://www.pesatime.com
Recurring Events for Calendars – Martin Fowler [pdf]
https://martinfowler.com/apsupp/recurring.pdf
Quantum supremacy from Google? Not so fast, says IBM
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614604/quantum-supremacy-from-google-not-so-fast-says-ibm/
BuilderX: A Design Tool That Codes React and React Native
https://builderx.io/
Organs can be bought via social media in the Philippines
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/kidney-organs-for-sale-on-facebook-in-philippines-12007964
Types of Network Effects and How to Hack Them
https://hackernoon.com/the-5-types-of-network-effects-and-how-to-hack-them-a5b54745eed2
New Windows 10 Secured-Core PCS Block Firmware-Level Attacks
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-windows-10-secured-core-pcs-block-firmware-level-attacks/
Elon Musk tweets using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/22/elon-musk-tweets-using-spacexs-starlink-satellite-internet/
Asynchronous Federated Learning with PySyft and PyTorch
https://blog.openmined.org/asynchronous-federated-learning-in-pysyft/
PostGIS 3.0 just released with major speed improvements
https://carto.com/blog/postgis-3-release/
How Did a Cult Beauty Brand Get in Trouble with the FTC?
https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/ftc-sunday-riley-fake-reviews-federal-trade-commission.html
How to Learn Framer X?
https://twitter.com/lintonye/status/1186628439995908096
On Reading and Books
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/essays/chapter3.html
An application to analyse a database as preparation for designing an ETL
https://github.com/OHDSI/WhiteRabbit
Understand Kubernetes step by step. A simple repo for beginners
https://github.com/knrt10/kubernetes-basicLearning/
How to Develop Go Applications in Kubernetes
https://okteto.com/blog/how-to-develop-go-apps-in-kubernetes/
Chinese concentration camp prisoners subjected to gang rape, medical experiments
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-xinjiang-uighur-muslim-detention-camps-xi-jinping-persecution-a9165896.html
Open Sourcing Mantis: Netflix Platform for Building Realtime Applications
https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/open-sourcing-mantis-a-platform-for-building-cost-effective-realtime-operations-focused-5b8ff387813a
WeWork Accepts SoftBank Takeover Offer
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wework-softbank-group/wework-board-accepts-softbank-rescue-deal-source-idUSKBN1X11JN
Flagstaff Arizona switched to LEDs without giving astronomers a headache
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/how-flagstaff-arizona-switched-to-leds-without-giving-astronomers-a-headache/
Master list of U.S. micro-VC’s
https://medium.com/@Samirkaji/the-master-list-of-us-micro-vcs-aa35d9b294ab
WeWork founder will get $1.7B to let SoftBank take over his company
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/22/20926583/wework-founder-adam-neumann-softbank-takeover-payout
IBM Says Google’s Quantum Leap Was a Quantum Flop
https://www.wired.com/story/ibm-googles-quantum-leap-quantum-flop/
Node.js 12 LTS Released
https://medium.com/@nodejs/node-js-12-to-lts-and-node-js-13-is-here-e28d6a4a2bd
Nikon Small World Microscopy Contest
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/nikon-small-world-microscopy-contest-were-all-winners/
Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-misc-discuss/2019-10/msg00002.html
Juttle – One query language to rule them all
http://juttle.github.io/
UTC is enough for everyone right?
https://zachholman.com/talk/utc-is-enough-for-everyone-right
Seven Reasons We Chose Apache Pulsar over Apache Kafka
https://kafkaesque.io/7-reasons-we-choose-apache-pulsar-over-apache-kafka/
Prison influencers are finding viral success on YouTube
https://www.businessinsider.com/prison-influencers-are-finding-viral-success-on-youtube-2019-10
When the Government Seizes Your Embryos
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/when-the-government-seizes-your-embryos
Crispr upgrade could make genome editing better and safer
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2220476-crispr-upgrade-could-make-genome-editing-better-and-safer/
Marpa, A practical general parser: the recognizer
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.08129
Google Fi will soon connect you to two LTE networks at once
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/10/google-fi-will-soon-connect-you-to-two-lte-networks-at-once/
Faces of Open Source
http://www.facesofopensource.com/
Magic: The Gathering pro uses win to show Hong Kong protest support
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/10/magic-the-gathering-pro-uses-win-to-show-hong-kong-protest-support/
Databricks raises $400M at a $6.2B valuation
https://venturebeat.com/2019/10/22/databricks-raises-400-million-at-a-6-2-billion-valuation/
Knowledge transfer, code reviews in small teams
https://medium.com/@togzhansultan/knowledge-transfer-code-reviews-in-small-teams-27bcda3b44ea
A Top DHS Staffer Who Defended the Muslim Travel Ban Now Works at Google
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/google-miles-taylor-dhs-muslim-travel-ban-nielsen
’Stone-cold crazy’ $1.7b golden parachute for ousted WeWork CEO Adam Neumann
https://www.businessinsider.com/experts-react-softbank-17-billion-wework-buyout-adam-neumann-2019-10
RDS Database Migration with Lambda
https://blog.codecentric.de/en/2019/10/rds-database-migration-with-lambda/
How American schools spy on millions of kids
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/22/school-student-surveillance-bark-gaggle
Can you solve it? The four points, two distances problem
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/oct/21/can-you-solve-it-the-four-points-two-distances-problem
Userland: Creating an integrated dataflow environment for end-user applications
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gla830WPBVU
2019 Ozone Hole Is the Smallest on Record Since Its Discovery
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/2019-ozone-hole-is-the-smallest-on-record-since-its-discovery
Data Changes Everything: Data Visualization and Interface Design Are Different
https://medium.com/multiple-views-visualization-research-explained/data-changes-everything-how-data-visualization-design-and-interface-design-are-different-225145804c09
The Phone Company Secretly Run by Drug Traffickers
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjwbmm/inside-the-phone-company-secretly-run-by-drug-traffickers
Tulsa Race Riot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_riot
“Soft skills” are freaking hard
https://twitter.com/SoapBoxHQ/status/1186624672445685760
YouTube may have suppressed videos of Tulsi Gabbard following Clinton spat
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/youtube-may-have-suppressed-videos-of-tulsi-gabbard-following-clinton-spat
Night Sky Reflections from the World’s Largest Mirror
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191022.html
Wildcard Routing Is an Anti-Pattern
https://blog.praveen.science/wildcard-routing-is-an-anti-pattern/
UK’s disused mine shafts plan to store renewable energy
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/21/how-uks-disused-mine-shafts-plan-to-store-renewable-energy
J.D. Salinger, Unbound
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/books/jd-salinger-ny-public-library-exhibit.html
IBM Says Google’s Quantum Leap Was a Quantum Flop
https://www.wired.com/story/ibm-googles-quantum-leap-quantum-flop/
Managers, You’re More Intimidating Than You Think
https://hbr.org/2019/07/managers-youre-more-intimidating-than-you-think
Google to use fourth-price auction for places on search engine choice screen
https://www.android.com/choicescreen/
Coding will be different soon, and it’s thanks to SaaS
https://medium.com/thron-tech/as-a-service-offering-is-changing-what-a-developer-is-ce56c653b041
Safari Is Experimenting with an API That Could Limit Cookies to Logged-In Users
https://adexchanger.com/privacy/safari-is-experimenting-with-an-api-that-could-limit-cookie-storage-to-logged-in-users/
In China, you can no longer buy a smartphone without a face scan
https://venturebeat.com/2019/10/11/ai-weekly-in-china-you-can-no-longer-buy-a-smartphone-without-a-face-scan/
Avast: No plans to discontinue CCleaner following second hack in two years
https://www.zdnet.com/article/avast-no-plans-to-discontinue-ccleaner-following-second-hack-in-two-years/
Hackers steal secret crypto keys for NordVPN. Here’s what we know so far
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/hackers-steal-secret-crypto-keys-for-nordvpn-heres-what-we-know-so-far/
WeWork’s Adam Neumann offered package worth up to $1.7B to step down from board
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/22/weworks-adam-neumann-to-get-200-million-to-leave-board-report-says.html
Penn Jillette’s Surprising Success as a Computer Columnist
https://tedium.co/2019/09/26/penn-jillette-pc-computing-magazine-columnist/
(US) Green Card vs. Citizenship
https://www.upcounsel.com/green-card-vs-citizenship
Shopify CEO offers internship due to Starcraft accomplishments
https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1183807041678299137
Elon Musk: Sending this tweet through space via Starlink satellite
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1186523464712146944
Think young people are hostile to capitalism now? Wait for the next recession
https://theweek.com/articles/871131/think-young-people-are-hostile-capitalism-now-just-wait-next-recession
Flawed Design, Lax Oversight Led to ‘Astounding’ Miami Bridge Collapse
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/22/us/bridge-collapse-florida-international-university-NTSB.html
Softbank to Take Control of WeWork
https://www.wsj.com/articles/softbank-to-take-control-of-wework-11571746483?mod=rsswn
WeWork ’Accepts Takeover by Softbank’
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50138354
Brains not brawn, matter most in the next war and we aren’t being smart about it
https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/466679-brains-not-brawn-matter-most-in-the-next-war-and-were-not-being
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