**HN:Live | 19.10.2019 | Today's review of HN:Live**

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Alphabet’s Wing begins making commercial drone deliveries in the US
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/18/alphabets-wing-begins-making-first-commercial-drone-deliveries-in-the-u-s/

Coffee Is Hard
https://www.stilldrinking.org/coffee-is-hard

Earth and Sun
https://ciechanow.ski/earth-and-sun/

Reason Won’t Save Us
http://m.nautil.us/issue/77/underworlds/reason-wont-save-us

New pathfinding algorithm
https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-317

Craftsmanship – The Alternative to the Four Hour Work Week Mindset (2018)
http://dantawfik.com/craftsmanship-the-alternative-to-the-four-hour-work-week-mindset-1

Prewarming PostgreSQL I/O caches
https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/prewarming-postgresql-i-o-caches/

Restoring ancient text using deep learning: a case study on Greek epigraphy
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06262

Are Aerospike Engines Better Than Traditional Rocket Engines?
http://everydayastronaut.com/aerospikes/

Builders Ditch Nest After Google Ties Devices to Digital Assistant
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-17/builders-ditch-nest-as-google-ties-digital-assistant-to-devices

Toru Iwatani, 1986 PacMan Designer
https://programmersatwork.wordpress.com/toru-iwatani-1986-pacman-designer/

Mathematics for Machine Learning [pdf]
https://mml-book.com/

Number of Self-Published Titles Jumped 40% in 2018
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/81473-number-of-self-published-titles-jumped-40-in-2018.html

D at 20: Hits and Misses [pdf]
https://digitalmars.com/articles/hits.pdf

The Wayback Machine: Fighting Digital Extinction in New Ways
https://blog.archive.org/2019/10/18/the-wayback-machine-fighting-digital-extinction-in-new-ways/

CME Group Statement on Vanity Fair Article
https://www.cmegroup.com/media-room/press-releases/2019/10/18/cme_group_statementonvanityfairarticle.html

A Nun’s 450-Year-Old ‘Last Supper’ Makes Its Museum Debut in Florence
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/first-last-supper-woman-painter-florence

Faster Layouts with CSS Grid and Subgrid
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/10/faster-layouts-with-css-grid-and-subgrid/

Show HN: Closest Volcano
https://closestvolcano.com/

Ivan Sutherland: 6 Legged Walker: CMU 1982 and 1983 [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrMfU2FtSBk

My Favourite Git Commit
https://fatbusinessman.com/2019/my-favourite-git-commit

Email marketing regulations around the world
https://github.com/threeheartsdigital/email-marketing-regulations

YC Interview Tips from a Former YC Partner [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfTgzA6iKZc

The V language now compiles itself in 0.09 seconds
https://github.com/vlang/v/wiki/The-V-language-now-compiles-itself-in-0.09-seconds

Show HN: Booste – a cloud-hosted desktop for developers
http://www.devs.booste.io/

Building a Simple Spectroscope (2016)
http://scitoys.com/spectroscope.html

Frank Lloyd Wright Loved to Hate New York
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/urbs/why-frank-lloyd-wright-loved-to-hate-new-york/

Scale AI is hiring engineers to accelerate the development of AI
https://scale.com/careers

The climate of a retrograde rotating Earth
https://www.earth-syst-dynam.net/9/1191/2018/

Four kinds of documentation
https://www.divio.com/blog/documentation/

PG&E Says It Could Impose Blackouts in California for a Decade
https://www.wsj.com/articles/pg-e-ceo-says-it-could-impose-blackouts-in-california-for-a-decade-11571438206?mod=rsswn

List of software that has free tiers for developers
https://free-for.dev/

Can adding an index make a non SARGable query SARGable?
http://sqlservercode.blogspot.com/2019/06/Can-adding-an-index-make-a-non-SARGable-query-SARGable-instead-of-rewriting-sql-query.html

Facebook and Speech
https://continuations.com/post/188425562010/facebook-and-speech-its-all-about-power

Mark Hurd Has Died
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/18/mark-hurd-co-ceo-of-oracle-dies-at-62.html

Mozilla Intends to Deprecate OpenSearch
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/10/15/search-engine-add-ons-to-be-removed-from-addons-mozilla-org/

Dietlibc – a Libc optimized for small size
http://www.fefe.de/dietlibc/

Machines Beat Humans on a Reading Test
https://www.quantamagazine.org/machines-beat-humans-on-a-reading-test-but-do-they-understand-20191017

Revisiting the BlackHat BCard hack of 2018
https://hackaday.com/2019/10/18/revisiting-the-blackhat-hack-how-a-security-conference-was-pwned/

Detecting and Geolocating Jammers and Spoofers
https://insidegnss.com/detecting-and-geolocating-jammers-and-spoofers/

San Francisco Wants to Require Permits Before Rolling Out ’Emerging Technology’
https://reason.com/2019/10/10/san-francisco-wants-to-require-companies-to-get-permits-before-rolling-out-emerging-technology/?amp&__twitter_impression=true

Demikernel: A library OS for kernel-bypass devices, now with Rust TCP/IP stack
https://github.com/iyzhang/demikernel

Discontinuing Support for NSFW Imgur r/subsections Associated with Reddit
https://blog.imgur.com/2019/10/14/discontinuing-support-for-nsfw-reddit-subsections/

Rules for Developing Safety-Critical Code (2006) [pdf]
http://pixelscommander.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/P10.pdf

Highlights from “The Checklist Manifesto” by Atul Gawande
https://www.chestergrant.com/highlights-from-the-checklist-manifesto-by-atul-gawande

Apple’s Newest Store and the Perverse Logic of Philanthro-Capitalism
http://bostonreview.net/class-inequality/benjamin-soskis-apples-newest-store-and-perverse-logic-philanthro-capitalism

FAA says Boeing withheld ‘concerning’ messages about the 737 Max
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/18/boeing-shares-slide-on-report-faa-is-concerned-it-was-misled-about-737-max.html

Boeing 2016 internal messages suggest employees may have misled FAA on 737 MAX
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-airplane-boeing-exclusive/exclusive-boeing-2016-internal-messages-suggest-employees-may-have-misled-faa-on-737-max-sources-idUSKBN1WX25G

Comparison of X Window Managers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_X_window_managers

Really Fixing Getrandom()
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/802360/06e2457983b56edb/

The 2018 Olympics Cyberattack
https://www.wired.com/story/untold-story-2018-olympics-destroyer-cyberattack/

Drones flying in formation acting as a 3D display (2018)
https://twitter.com/MachinePix/status/1184830194323984389

Remove my password from lists so hackers won’t be able to hack me (2017)
https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists/pull/155

Mess Paper Simulator (2015)
http://blog.arrozcru.org/?p=122

Software Test Desiderata
https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/test-desiderata-94150638a4b3

Show HN: Change Python code while it’s running using a reloading loop
https://github.com/julvo/reloading

Practice Sight-Reading Music
https://sightreading.training/

Show HN: Azula – Lightweight GPU Accelerated Electron Alternative
https://github.com/maierfelix/azula

When “naming things” is done right
https://github.com/gruhn/awesome-naming

We moved our servers to Iceland
https://blog.simpleanalytics.com/why-we-moved-our-servers-to-iceland

Executives – why do they always ask the hard questions?
https://www.leaninberlin.de/2019/10/executives-why-do-they-always-ask-hard.html

Options for Saving Yahoo Groups Content
https://researchbuzz.me/2019/10/17/your-options-for-saving-yahoo-groups-content/

Hacker News Digest: A responsive HN with summaries and illustrations
http://hackernews.betacat.io/

Microchip Adds RISC-V Cores to PolarFire FPGAs
https://www.electronicsweekly.com/open-source-engineering/risc-v-day-microchip-adds-risc-v-hard-ip-polarfire-fpgas-2019-10/

The Exquisite Precision of Time Crystals
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-exquisite-precision-of-time-crystals/

Machine learning in UK financial services
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/report/2019/machine-learning-in-uk-financial-services.pdf?la=en&hash=F8CA6EE7A5A9E0CB182F5D568E033F0EB2D21246

Show HN: Serverless Components – Provision Infra with Serverless Framework
https://github.com/serverless-components

Congress Condemns Blizzard for Blitzchung Scandal and Urges That Ban Is Reversed
https://www.dexerto.com/hearthstone/congress-sends-letter-condemning-blizzard-blitzchung-scandal-1157946

Knuth – Estimating the Efficiency of Backtrack Programs(1975) [pdf]
https://www.ams.org/journals/mcom/1975-29-129/S0025-5718-1975-0373371-6/S0025-5718-1975-0373371-6.pdf

Daily blue light shortens lifespan, causes brain neurodegeneration in Drosophila
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41514-019-0038-6

Unpatched Linux bug may open devices to serious attacks over Wi-Fi
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/unpatched-linux-flaw-may-let-attackers-crash-or-compromise-nearby-devices/

My Repo, My House, My Rules
https://hueniverse.com/my-repo-my-house-my-rules-1b2e860914d4

Steve Jobs’ Blueprint for Revolutionary Marketing
https://medium.com/better-marketing/steve-jobs-blueprint-for-revolutionary-marketing-b88ec38f335

Home builders ditch Nest products after Google takeover
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/10/report-home-builders-ditch-nest-products-after-google-takeover/

Show HN: Let your story grow with Skrybe
https://skrybe.me/

The Pixel 4’s face unlock works on sleeping people
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/10/the-pixel-4s-face-unlock-works-on-sleeping-unconscious-people/

Andrew Yang Is Full of It
https://slate.com/business/2019/10/andrew-yang-automation-unemployment-freedom-dividend.html

Is Enlightenment Compatible with Sex Scandals?
https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/10/16/is-enlightenment-compatible-with-sex-scandals/

Europe’s largest meteorite crater home to deep ancient life
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-europe-largest-meteorite-crater-home.html

The Apple TV 4K has a debug Lightning connector hidden in the ethernet port
https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith/status/1184961890772045825

Researchers find bug in Python script may have affected hundreds of studies
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/chemists-discover-cross-platform-python-scripts-not-so-cross-platform/

Ray Dalio says the world is in a ‘great sag’ and echoes the 1930s
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/17/ray-dalio-says-the-world-is-in-a-great-sag-and-echoes-the-1930s.html

Suspected fire on weather radar in Minnesota turns out to be 600k ducks
https://www.sctimes.com/story/news/local/2019/10/17/suspected-fire-weather-radar-northern-minnesota-turns-out-600-000-ducks/4008198002/

Compiler for the C64: Introducing Turbo Rascal SE
https://lemonspawn.com/turbo-rascal-syntax-error-expected-but-begin/

Show HN: Create interactive stories with your kids
https://ikidoo.com/

First Demonstration of a 1 Petabit per Second (1M Gbps) Network Node
https://scitechdaily.com/first-demonstration-of-a-1-petabit-per-second-1000000-gbps-network-node/

California governor gives OK for state, local agencies to destroy emails
https://thedesk.matthewkeys.net/2019/10/governor-gavin-newsom-cpra-email-records/

Apple hid a Lightning connector for debugging in the Apple TV 4K’s ethernet port
https://9to5mac.com/2019/10/17/apple-tv-4k-lightning-port/

Automating Firmware Security with FwAnalyzer
https://medium.com/cruise/firmware-security-fwanalyzer-dcbd95cef717

Electrical Brain Implants Enable Man to Control Prosthetic Limbs with ‘Thoughts’
https://humanbioscience.org/2019/10/electrical-brain-implants-enable-man-to-control-prosthetic-limbs-with-thoughts.html

RealmQL
https://github.com/grkek/realmql

What actually happens if a city gets nuked [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iPH-br_eJQ

It took 10 minutes to convict a 14-year-old and 70 years to exonerate him (2014)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/12/18/the-rush-job-conviction-of-14-year-old-george-stinney-exonerated-70-years-after-execution/

Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman – Premortem to eliminate thinking biases
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzTNMalfyhM

Free Pascal has now a WebAssembly back end
https://lists.freepascal.org/pipermail/fpc-pascal/2019-September/056848.html

A Million People Are Jailed at China’s Gulags. Here’s What Goes on Inside
https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-a-million-people-are-jailed-at-china-s-gulags-i-escaped-here-s-what-goes-on-inside-1.7994216

Too Cool for Rules: Engineering Principles for Software Development Teams
https://medium.com/noom-engineering/too-cool-for-rules-447e7111114e

Air Force finally retires 8-inch floppies from missile launch control system
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/air-force-finally-retires-8-inch-floppies-from-missile-launch-control-system/

The Audio Revolution
https://alexdanco.com/2019/10/17/the-audio-revolution/

Kik app acquired by holding company MediaLab
https://betakit.com/kik-app-acquired-by-holding-company-medialab/

Which Wrist Watches Do Fighter Pilots Wear in Real Life?
https://theaviationist.com/2019/10/18/which-wrist-watches-do-fighter-pilots-actually-wear-in-real-life/

Xubuntu 19.10 vs. Lubuntu 19.10 RAM Comparison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7PZdoWFnic&app=desktop

Freelance Writers Scramble to Make Sense of New California Law
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/everybody-is-freaking-freelance-writers-scramble-make-sense-new-california-law-1248195

Hacker steals CNN Tech Reporter data in front of him
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1185251729643847680

D at 20: Hits and Misses, and what I learned along the way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p22MM1wc7xQ

Qatar now so hot it has started air-conditioning the outdoors
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/qatar-air-conditioning-temperature-weather-heat-climate-change-athletics-world-cup-a9160751.html

Do Cows Have Friends?
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/11/bovine-friends-forever/598417/

Radio Commander review: “WTF is going on out there?”
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/10/18/radio-commander-review/

Explaining how fighting games use delay-based and rollback netcode
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/10/explaining-how-fighting-games-use-delay-based-and-rollback-netcode/

The Eye-Popping Cost of Medicare for All: “According to New Figures: More (Cont)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/10/high-cost-warren-and-sanderss-single-payer-plan/600166/

The outcry over deaths on Amazon’s warehouse floor
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/17/amazon-warehouse-worker-deaths

Writing Safety Critical C++ Software for High Performance AI Hardware
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4GzsA00s5I

GetAwesomeness: A Directory of Lists
https://getawesomeness.herokuapp.com/

Chicago’s Old Post Office, the Largest Building Reuse Project in the US
https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/blair-kamin/ct-biz-old-post-office-review-kamin-20191017-5ajfrnv7ajck7geppzlbnt6tx4-story.html

Can Muslims pray if the sun never sets?
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20191017-a-mosque-in-the-land-of-midnight-sun

How to Design Events to Inspire Girls About Stem Careers
https://www.pcmag.com/article/371213/how-to-design-events-to-inspire-girls-about-stem-careers

REST Is the New Soap
https://medium.com/free-code-camp/rest-is-the-new-soap-97ff6c09896d

Switzerland has the most highly skilled workers in the world. This is why
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/10/switzerland-economy-skills-workforce-competitive

Unpatched Linux bug may open devices to serious attacks over Wi-Fi
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/unpatched-linux-flaw-may-let-attackers-crash-or-compromise-nearby-devices/

NASA Astronauts Spacewalk Outside the International Space Station [Live]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iji5hTQ3CUo

C++20: What’s in it for you? - CppCon 2019 - Marc Gregoire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y652wQqbYEI

Yahoo is deleting all content ever posted to Yahoo Groups
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/yahoo-is-deleting-all-content-ever-posted-to-yahoo-groups/

A country’s third-most spoken language can be surprising
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/10/17/why-do-so-many-australians-speak-arabic

Show HN: Tina, a CMS Builder for React Websites
https://github.com/tinacms/tinacms

Evolution tells us we might be the only intelligent life in the universe
http://theconversation.com/evolution-tells-us-we-might-be-the-only-intelligent-life-in-the-universe-124706

How You Manage These 2 Kinds of Employees Will Define Your Company’s Culture
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-you-manage-2-kinds-employees-define-your-companys-robert-glazer/

The Real Reasons I Don’t Hire You
https://charity.wtf/2019/10/18/the-real-11-reasons-i-dont-hire-you/

OneTravel creates fake booking urgency via random numbers in JavaScript
https://twitter.com/OphirHarpaz/status/1184486445039411201

’Think of your family’: China threatens European citizens over Xinjiang protests
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/17/think-of-your-family-china-threatens-european-citizens-over-xinjiang-protests

A backlash emerges over automated interviewing
https://searchhrsoftware.techtarget.com/news/252472497/A-backlash-emerges-over-automated-interviewing

Hiring Tips for First-Time Engineering Managers
https://blog.dashlane.com/hiring-tips-for-first-time-engineering-managers/

Elon Musk Smoking Joe Rogan’s Weed Somehow Ended Up Costing Taxpayers $5M
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-smoking-joe-rogans-weed-somehow-ended-up-cost-1839116211

How to Contribute to Open Source
https://opensource.guide/how-to-contribute/

LSTM for Time Series Prediction
https://towardsdatascience.com/lstm-for-time-series-prediction-de8aeb26f2ca

Advanced Coding Skills, Techniques, and Ideas
https://medium.com/@maladdinsayed/advanced-techniques-and-ideas-for-better-coding-skills-d632e9f9675

Some of the UK’s phone number infrastructure relies on Yahoo Groups
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/17/20919630/yahoo-groups-uk-ofcom-simwood-numbers

Critical UK telecom infrastructure going down with Yahoo Groups
https://twitter.com/erincandescent/status/1184587323599736837

If You Can Ban Nipples, You Can Ban Nazis
http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2019/10/if-you-can-ban-nipples-you-can-ban-nazis

The Monstrous Intimacy of the Online Self
https://tamarshafrir.com/FT-The-Monstrous-Intimacy-of-the-Online-Self

Venezuela Wins a Seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/venezuela-wins-a-seat-on-the-un-human-rights-council/2019/10/17/e0beeb34-f050-11e9-bb7e-d2026ee0c199_story.html

John Carmack: React has turned out to be a bigger win than I expected
https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/844902854171262977

State of Play: Trends in Games
https://a16z.com/2019/10/16/trends-revolutionizing-games/

Edison’s greatest invention was a way of thinking about technology
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/11/edmund-morris-edison/598357/

A Million People Are Jailed at China’s Gulags
https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-a-million-people-are-jailed-at-china-s-gulags-i-escaped-here-s-what-goes-on-inside-1.7994216

Carlsbad book store owner handed sudden eviction notice
https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/north-county-news/carlsbad-book-store-owner-handed-sudden-eviction-notice

Blizzard punishes college Hearthstone team for supporting Hong Kong protests
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/10/blizzard-belatedly-punishes-college-hearthstone-team-for-hong-kong-protest/

Study reveals how collapse of protein processes is driver of aging and death
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-reveals-collapse-protein-driver-aging.html

The Impossible Whopper is driving steady traffic to Burger King, data shows
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/16/the-impossible-whopper-is-driving-steady-traffic-to-burger-king-data-shows.html



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