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Pair Locking Your iPhone
https://arkadiyt.com/2019/10/07/pair-locking-your-iphone-with-configurator-2/

A dumb reason computer vision apps aren’t working: Exif Orientation
https://medium.com/@ageitgey/the-dumb-reason-your-fancy-computer-vision-app-isnt-working-exif-orientation-73166c7d39da

Small C Compilers
https://bootstrapping.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page#Small_C_Compilers

The Isle of Man is not in the UK
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20191008-the-british-isle-that-doesnt-belong

Show HN: uPlot.js – An exceptionally fast, tiny time series chart
https://github.com/leeoniya/uPlot

Ken Thompson’s Unix Password
https://leahneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2019/10/ken-thompson-s-unix-password.html

String Theory Does Not Win a Nobel, and I Win a Long Bet
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/string-theory-does-not-win-a-nobel-and-i-win-a-bet/

Why is Middle School so hard?
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/10/why-middle-school-and-preteens-are-so-challenging/599542/

Newsrooms, let’s talk about G Suite
https://freedom.press/training/blog/newsrooms-lets-talk-about-gsuite/

A Solar Power Plant designed to deliver 100% of the electricity after sunset
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2019/10/08/the-sun-shines-only-at-night/

PG&E Outage Darkens Northern California Amid Wildfire Threat
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/us/california-power-outage-PGE.html

Designing a COM Library for Rust
https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/10/08/designing-a-com-library-for-rust/

New Device Harvests Energy in Darkness
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/12/science/solar-energy-power-electricity.html

Americans Are Using Less Steel, Paper, Fertilizer, and Energy
https://reason.com/2019/10/09/the-economy-keeps-growing-but-americans-are-using-less-steel-paper-fertilizer-and-energy/

The Future of Mathematics? [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp-mQ3HxgDE

Re-writing the site of Norway’s largest transport provider in Elm
https://blogg.bekk.no/using-elm-at-vy-e028b11179eb

The Passion Economy and the Future of Work
https://a16z.com/2019/10/08/passion-economy/

Lessons from Building Node Apps in Docker
https://jdlm.info/articles/2019/09/06/lessons-building-node-app-docker.html

A Useful Thing in Bash
https://coderwall.com/p/oqtj8w/the-single-most-useful-thing-in-bash

Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store
https://twitter.com/DylanByers/status/1182133441267003392

Coherent OS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherent_(operating_system)

What Saul Bellow Saw
https://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/arts-culture/2019/10/what-saul-bellow-saw/

Kids playground built from discarded wind turbine parts (2017)
https://lifeandsoulmagazine.com/2017/11/12/wikado-playground-kids-playground-built-from-discarded-wind-turbine-parts/

Lessons from Design School for Software Engineers
https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/10/09/lessons-from-design-school-for-software-engineers/

Russia’s Retro Lenin Museum Still Runs on Decades-Old Apple II Computers
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/retro-apple-computers-lenin-museum-russia

In France, Elder Care Comes with the Mail
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/in-france-elder-care-comes-with-the-mail

IRS issues additional guidance on tax treatment for cryptocurrency
https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/virtual-currency-irs-issues-additional-guidance-on-tax-treatment-and-reminds-taxpayers-of-reporting-obligations

Robel: Robotics Benchmarks for Learning with Low-Cost Robots
https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/10/robel-robotics-benchmarks-for-learning.html

Waymo to customers: “Completely driverless Waymo cars are on the way”
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/09/waymo-to-customers-completely-driverless-waymo-cars-are-on-the-way/

Managing by Outcomes
https://www.producttalk.org/2019/10/managing-outcomes/

Hams must remove repeaters from CA mountaintops or pay huge fees [pdf]
http://www.shastadefense.com/FAX-CalFireHamRadio20190923.pdf

The Origin of the Foot Rail
https://imbibemagazine.com/bar-foot-rail/

More on Postgres Performance (2013)
http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2013/01/10/more-on-postgres-performance/

Streak (YC S11), CRM for Gmail, Is Hiring in Vancouver
https://www.streak.com/offices/vancouver

Chemistry Nobel Goes to Lithium Battery Innovators
https://www.quantamagazine.org/chemistry-nobel-goes-to-lithium-battery-innovators-20191009/

China Is Forcing Tech Companies to Choose Between Profits and Free Speech
https://onezero.medium.com/china-is-forcing-tech-companies-to-choose-between-profits-and-free-speech-aed1f4db3a4

Critical Security Issue Identified in iTerm2
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2019/10/09/iterm2-critical-issue-moss-audit/

Show HN: Interviews with open source maintainers and developers
https://sourcesort.com

Survey: Average American Hasn’t Made a New Friend in 5 Years
https://www.studyfinds.org/survey-average-american-hasnt-made-new-friend-in-5-years/

Complexity Is Bad (2017)
https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2017/07/25/complexity-is-bad/

What Can Brown Do for Ag Drones? A Lot
https://www.croplife.com/precision/what-can-brown-do-for-ag-drones-a-lot

Twitter: No, really, we’re sorry we sold your security info for lots od cash
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/09/twitter_data_leak/

Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Banned Pro-Hong Kong Gamer
https://www.thedailybeast.com/blizzard-employees-staged-a-walkout-to-protest-banned-pro-hong-kong-gamer

Simulated infant program in highschools doubled teen pregnancy rate (2016) [pdf]
http://opvoeding-wetenschap.nl/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Brinkman-2016-Lancet-efficacy-of-infant-simulator-programmes-to-prevent-teenage-pregnancy-copy.pdf

She Heard Her Brain in Action (2013)
http://nautil.us/issue/6/secret-codes/pop-pop-pop-she-heard-her-brain-in-action

MVPs and $100k AWS Bills: Reflections on our launch
https://octopus.com/blog/octopus-cloud-1.0-reflections

NixOS 19.09
https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/release-notes.html#sec-release-19.09

Schneier on Australia’s encryption laws and CyberCon speaker bans
https://www.zdnet.com/article/schneier-slams-australias-encryption-laws-cybercon-speaker-bans/

Scientist Behind Navy’s “UFO Patents” Filed One for a Compact Fusion Reactor
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/30256/scientist-behind-the-navys-ufo-patents-has-now-filed-one-for-a-compact-fusion-reactor

The Obvious UI Is Often the Best UI
https://medium.com/google-design/the-obvious-ui-is-often-the-best-ui-7a25597d79fd

WxErlang: Getting_started [pdf]
https://arifishaq.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/wxerlang-getting-started.pdf

Guix Reduces Bootstrap Seed by Half
https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/guix-reduces-bootstrap-seed-by-50/

FBI misused surveillance data, spied on its own, FISA ruling finds
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/unsealed-fisa-ruling-slaps-fbi-for-misuse-of-surveillance-data/

Gravity Model of Trade
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_model_of_trade

In Pursuit of the “Real” Chateaubriand
https://publicdomainreview.org/2019/10/09/our-masterpiece-is-the-private-life-in-pursuit-of-the-real-chateaubriand/

Revolution of Our Times: HK Protest Role-Playing Game Suspended from Google Play
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/10/10/revolution-times-hong-kong-protester-role-playing-game-suspended-google-play-store/

Serverless Architectures (2018)
https://martinfowler.com/articles/serverless.html

The Slave of Seriousness
https://slate.com/culture/2019/10/sontag-benjamin-moser-biography-review.html

Obsessed fan finds Japanese idol’s home by zooming in on her eyes
https://www.asiaone.com/asia/obsessed-fan-finds-japanese-idols-home-zooming-her-eyes

Ex-Nasdaq CEO warns: Recent IPOs unclear profit path reminds him of tech bubble
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/07/ex-nasdaq-ceo-bob-greifeld-recent-ipos-remind-him-of-dot-com-bubble.html

Unrealised Potential
https://www.brettmacfarlane.com/blog/2019/8/10/19

Science papers are getting harder to read (2017)
https://www.nature.com/news/it-s-not-just-you-science-papers-are-getting-harder-to-read-1.21751

The restoration of an old silent classic about Napoleon
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/nov/29/how-we-made-napoleon

Cows painted with zebra-like striping can avoid biting fly attack
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/08/us/cows-painted-zebras-avoid-flies-scn-trnd/index.html

China attacks Apple for allowing Hong Kong crowdsourced police activity app
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/09/china-attacks-apple-for-allowing-hong-kong-crowdsourced-police-activity-app/

The myth of inevitable technological progress
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/10/1/20887003/tech-technology-evolution-natural-inevitable-ethics

China and Taiwan Clash over Wikipedia Edits
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49921173

Apple Removes Quartz News App from Chinese App Store
https://twitter.com/jkeefe/status/1182023843725971457

Researchers Are Making Memes Accessible to the Blind
https://onezero.medium.com/researchers-are-making-memes-accessible-to-the-blind-46b9ef0550da?source=rss----444d13b52878---4&gi=9e4c6a5e69d8

Alibaba to Stop Sales of E-Cigarettes to U.S. Buyers
https://www.wsj.com/articles/alibaba-to-stop-sales-of-e-cigarettes-to-u-s-buyers-11570632981?mod=rsswn

Amazon EKS Windows Container Support Now Generally Available
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-eks-windows-container-support-now-generally-available/

Fallout from Blizzard Hong Kong Incident
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bjw535/blizzards-hong-kong-screw-up-is-officially-an-international-incident

Everything Is Private Equity Now
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-10-03/how-private-equity-works-and-took-over-everything

Epic CEO says it won’t ban Fortnite players for taking a stance on human rights
https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1181946357759844352

Applying deep learning to Airbnb search
https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/10/09/applying-deep-learning-to-airbnb-search/

US Customs Officer Harasses Defense One Journalist at Dulles Airport
https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2019/10/us-customs-officer-harasses-defense-one-journalist-dulles/160380/

Online Map Leads Archaeologist to Maya Discovery
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/science/archaeology-lidar-maya.html

A Visit to the Large Scale Systems Museum
http://www.righto.com/2019/10/a-visit-to-large-scale-systems-museum.html

The Making of the American Gulag
https://bostonreview.net/war-security/stuart-schrader-making-american-gulag

Conquer Your Dotfiles with VCSH and Mr
https://germano.dev/dotfiles/

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2019/summary/

Why did a humpback whale save a seal’s life?
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/07/why-did-humpback-whale-just-save-seals-life

Blizzard has blocked the possibility to remove account
https://twitter.com/Espsilverfire2/status/1182001007976423424

Nietzsche’s Eternal Return
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/14/nietzsches-eternal-return

NBA Events in China Disrupted over Hong Kong Tweet
https://www.wsj.com/articles/nba-events-in-china-disrupted-over-hong-kong-tweet-11570613597?mod=rsswn

Dealing with China Isn’t Worth the Moral Cost
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/opinion/china-houston-rockets.html

Show HN: B2B Partnerships Search Built with NextJS, ELK and GCP
https://www.partneroid.com

I was just subjected to the most credible phishing attempt I’ve experienced
https://twitter.com/digitallawyer/status/1181348689756864513

Project Gnar
https://medium.com/@ic3b3rg/project-gnar-d274165793b6

Oracle Shelves Larry Ellison’s Dream of Cloud Dominance
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-09/oracle-is-no-longer-dreaming-of-cloud-dominance

Beware of Cranks: Misguided attempts to solve impossible mathematical problems
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/beware-cranks

Interchangeable parts revolutionised the way things are made
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49499444

Remember the FBI’s promise it wasn’t abusing the NSA’s data on US citizens?
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/08/fbi_spying_abuse/

Apple removes police-tracking app used in Hong Kong protests from its app store
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/10/apple-removes-police-tracking-app-used-in-hong-kong-protests-from-its-app-store.html

Dog Ownership and Survival
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.119.005554

Ex-World of Warcraft developer’s thread about China and the gaming industry
https://twitter.com/Grummz/status/1181736075775004672

Why doesn’t C++ have networking support?
https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2019/10/09/why-no-networking/

Apple pulls police-tracking app used by Hong Kong protesters
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/apple-pulls-police-tracking-app-used-by-hong-kong-protesters/2019/10/10/4aad5ebe-eb14-11e9-a329-7378fbfa1b63_story.html

They fought alongside the US for five years to be bombed by US NATO ally
https://m.jpost.com/Middle-East/They-fought-alongside-the-US-for-five-years-to-be-bombed-by-US-NATO-ally-604103

Under 34? You’ve never experienced a month of below average temperatures
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/10/if-you-are-under-34-youve-experienced-just-one-month-of-below-average-temperatures

Sixers fans say they were ejected from preseason game for ’Free Hong Kong’ signs
https://ftw.usatoday.com/2019/10/philadelphia-76ers-sixers-fans-hong-kong-signs-ejected-preseason-china

Apple removes ‘Quartz’ news app from App Store at request of the government
https://9to5mac.com/2019/10/09/apple-china-quartz-app-store/

Show HN: React Hook Form – Simple Form Validation
https://react-hook-form.com/

Beijing Takes Aim at Prague After ‘One-China’ Dispute Deepens
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-09/beijing-takes-aim-at-prague-after-one-china-dispute-deepens

Hayao Miyazaki’s Airships [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcXrZHJup88

Time and Relative Dimension in Space
https://pgdba.org/post/2019/10/transactions/

Decades of diesel use in Europe have created a public health crisis
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-08/europe-s-diesel-subsidies-are-causing-a-public-health-crisis

Can a Bit of Electricity Improve Your Brain?
https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-future-brain/201910/can-bit-electricity-improve-your-brain

Mitogen is a Python library for writing distributed self-replicating programs
https://mitogen.networkgenomics.com/

From Shake Shack to Starbucks, the HK-China Standoff Is Proving Bad for Business
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/from-shake-shack-to-starbucks-the-hong-kong-china-standoff-is-proving-bad-for-business/

Stallman insists he’s still Chief GNUisance while 18 maintainers want him out
https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/all/2019/10/07/gnu_stallman_protest/

Thoughts on RMS and GNU
http://wingolog.org/archives/2019/10/08/thoughts-on-rms-and-gnu

Blizzard’s Weibo Account Just Posted an Apology To China
https://reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/dfkmp1/blizzards_official_weibo_account_just_posted_an/

Overwatch’s Mei Is Becoming a Symbol of the Hong Kong Resistance
https://kotaku.com/overwatchs-mei-is-becoming-a-symbol-of-the-hong-kong-re-1838899963

Inland Waterways Europe: Maps and Fleet
http://www.inlandnavigation.eu/what-we-do/maps-fleet/

Bullied children are more likely to think about suicide in their early 20s
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-10/uow-cbb100919.php

GitHub and US Government Developers
https://github.blog/2019-10-09-github-and-us-government-developers/

FEMA Bought 44,000 Flood-Prone Homes. They May Have to Buy Millions More
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-09/fema-may-have-to-buy-millions-of-homes-due-to-climate-crisis

Abandoning a Cat
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/07/abandoning-a-cat

Learn more about iCloud in China mainland
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208351

No Radical Changes in GNU Project
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2019-10/msg00005.html

Visual Studio Code – September 2019 (version 1.39) update
https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_39

How to make a cheap WiFi Temperature/humidity sensor
https://ivan.bessarabov.com/blog/diy-wifi-temperature-humidity-sensor

I compared McDonald’s cheapest burger with its most expensive
https://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-cheapest-burger-and-most-expensive-burger-compared-2019-10

As Trump Administration Downplays Warming, Agencies Chronicle Climate Impacts
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/as-trump-administration-downplays-warming-agencies-chronicle-climate-impacts/

Animations of Machinery
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Animations_of_machinery

FOIA request for NROL-39 surveillance satellite logo
https://twitter.com/palewire/status/1181611182882353152

Researchers completely made up claim about men’s drinking before conception
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/researchers-completely-made-up-claim-about-mens-drinking-before-conception/

Einstein Analytics and Go
https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/10/07/how-salesforce-converted-einstein-analytics-to-go/

Why deep-learning AIs are so easy to fool
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03013-5

Silicon Valley Is Trying Out a New Mantra: Make a Profit
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/technology/silicon-valley-startup-profit.html

Apple removes Quartz news app in China
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/9/20907228/apple-quartz-app-store-china-removal-hong-kong-protests-censorship

Blizzards Has “NoExtraditionToChina” as Profanity in Wow
https://twitter.com/BurlapTV/status/1182013953796390919

Insurer James River shares slide 22% after it cancels policies issued to Uber
https://finance.yahoo.com/m/e84387bd-34d7-37bc-883a-7d2d78324d11/update%3A-insurer-james-river.html

Classrooms in China are equipped with AI cameras and brain-wave trackers
https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1177357178975457285

Revealed: Firms behind a third of all carbon emissions
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/09/revealed-20-firms-third-carbon-emissions

Kubernetes ‘Billion Laughs’ Vulnerability Is No Laughing Matter
https://thenewstack.io/kubernetes-billion-laughs-vulnerability-is-no-laughing-matter/

A Navigator for America’s Deadliest Cold War ICBM
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/30254/this-isnt-a-sci-fi-prop-its-a-doomsday-navigator-for-americas-biggest-cold-war-icbm

Patterns for Practical CSS Custom Properties Use
https://css-tricks.com/patterns-for-practical-css-custom-properties-use/

Tesla owners in CA get a warning to charge their cars before the power goes out
https://www.fastcompany.com/90415333/tesla-owners-in-california-get-a-warning-to-charge-their-cars-before-the-power-goes-out

Show HN: Terraform Kubernetes Multi-Cloud (ACK, AKS, DOK, EKS, GKE, OKE)
https://napo.io/posts/terraform-kubernetes-multi-cloud-ack-aks-dok-eks-gke-oke/

US pushes to fund western rivals to Huawei
https://www.ft.com/content/94795848-e6e3-11e9-b112-9624ec9edc59

US Government Tried to Shutdown Bitcoin
https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2019/10/08/the-us-government-tried-to-shut-down-bitcoin/#3b2a90601966

Apple analyst says AR glasses nearing production
https://www.macrumors.com/2019/10/09/kuo-apple-ar-headset-launch-q2-2020/

Won’t Someone Please Think of Microsoft?
https://gizmodo.com/wont-someone-please-think-of-microsoft-1838917457

Andy Rubin shows off new Essential phone with a unique design
https://twitter.com/Arubin/status/1181688574975983616

Sustainable UX design: saving the environment with smarter websites
https://www.parkersoftware.com/blog/sustainable-ux-design-saving-the-environment-with-smarter-websites/

$3,500/month with a website about playing bar games
https://www.reddit.com/r/Business_Ideas/comments/dd9qv7/3500month_with_a_website_about_playing_bar_games/

Top algorithms and techniques for deep learning inference on small devices
https://heartbeat.fritz.ai/the-5-algorithms-for-efficient-deep-learning-inference-on-small-devices-bcc2d18aa806

Formal Abstracts – express mathematical publications in a computer-readable form
https://formalabstracts.github.io/

Terraforming Cloudflare: in quest of the optimal setup
https://blog.cloudflare.com/terraforming-cloudflare/

2 in 5 Canadians quit their jobs because of bad bosses
https://twitter.com/SoapBoxHQ/status/1181936640480153600

Silicon Valley’s Mantra of Spend Big, Grow Fast? It’s Changing
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/technology/silicon-valley-startup-profit.html

Sony confirms the PlayStation 5 is coming in 2020, reveals new hardware details
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/10/sony-confirms-the-playstation-5-is-coming-in-2020-reveals-new-hardware-details/

Internal Email Shows GitHub Plans to Renew ICE Contract
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjw4az/internal-email-github-plans-to-renew-ice-immigration-customs-enforcement-contract

Watch Out, MIT’s New AI Model Knows What You’re Doing Behind That Wall
https://medium.com/syncedreview/watch-out-mits-new-ai-model-knows-what-you-re-doing-behind-that-wall-a8473420f2d0

Revealed: Firms behind a third of all carbon emissions
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/09/revealed-20-firms-third-carbon-emissions

Seam Carving
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seam_carving

China is destroying Uigher burial grounds
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/09/chinas-destruction-of-uighur-burial-grounds-then-and-now

Humans will not ’migrate’ to other planets, Nobel winner says
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-humans-migrate-planets-nobel-winner.html

World’s super-rich hit by private jet pilot shortage
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/super-rich-private-jet-pilot-shortage-ryanair-british-airways-easyjet-pay-a9145206.html

Blizzard bans pro esports player after he voices support for Hong Kong protests
https://www.businessinsider.com/blizzard-bans-esports-player-blitzchung-supporting-hong-kong-protests-interview-2019-10

Show HN: Wikipedia.rehash – A minimal rehash of Wikipedia design
https://github.com/Krasjet/wikipedia.rehash

Interview with a Pornhub Web Developer
https://davidwalsh.name/pornhub-interview

GitHub will keep selling software to ICE [Leaked Email]
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/9/20906213/github-ice-microsoft-software-email-contract-immigration-nonprofit-donation

EC2 Instances with 18 and 24 TB of Memory
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-high-memory-update-new-18-tb-and-24-tb-instances/

Twitter: No, we’re sorry we sold your security info for [ ] cash
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/09/twitter_data_leak/

Employees ask GitHub to cancel ICE contract
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/09/employees-ask-github-cancel-ice-contract-we-cannot-offset-human-lives-with-money/

Cows painted with zebra-like striping can avoid biting fly attack
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223447

React – A quick cheatsheet for beginners, with examples
https://medium.com/@BenSassiAladin/react-a-quick-cheatsheet-for-beginners-with-examples-b2b04a5ca571

Speakers Censored at AISA Conference in Melbourne (By the ACSC)
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/10/speakers_censor.html

Satellite reveal China destroying Muslim graveyards and replacing with car parks
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7553127/Even-death-Uighurs-feel-long-reach-Chinese-state.html

SCOTUS to Consider If State Legal Texts May Be Copyrighted
https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2019/08/21/scotus-consider-state-legal-texts-may-copyrighted-georgia-v-public-resource-org/id=112409/

FBI violated Americans’ privacy by abusing access to NSA surveillance data
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/8/20905678/fbi-violated-americans-privacy-rights-court-ruling-fisc-surveillance-nsa

DIY Air Purifier
https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-life-hack-that-you-think-everybody-should-know/answer/Thomas-Talhelm?share=1

Pigs observed using tools for the first time
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-pigs-tools.html

76% of US small and medium size businesses suffered a cyberattack in past 12mths
https://www.zdnet.com/article/76-percent-of-us-businesses-have-experienced-a-cyberattack-in-the-past-year/

Meatless meat is becoming mainstream – and it’s sparking a backlash
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/10/7/20880318/meatless-meat-mainstream-backlash-impossible-burger

Post-empirical science is an oxymoron, and it is dangerous
https://aeon.co/essays/post-empirical-science-is-an-oxymoron-and-it-is-dangerous

San Francisco, Hostage to the Homeless
https://www.city-journal.org/san-francisco-homelessness

I Find Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order’s Recommended 32GB of RAM Disturbing
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/10/08/star-wars-jedi-fallen-order-pc-requirements/

Apple Removes App That Tracked Hong Kong Police
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/technology/apple-hong-kong-app.html

In the Beginning Was the Command Line
http://cristal.inria.fr/~weis/info/commandline.html

Apple Rebans Police-Tracking App Used in Hong Kong Protests from Its App Store
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/apple-removes-police-tracking-app-hong-kong-protests_n_5d9ea605e4b06ddfc513856c

Apple finally decided to remove Hong Kong protest map app from its app store
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-protests-apple/apple-removes-police-tracking-app-used-in-hong-kong-protests-from-its-app-store-idUSKBN1WP09U

Salesforce: We Ditched Python for Google’s Go Language in Einstein Analytics
https://www.zdnet.com/article/salesforce-why-we-ditched-python-for-googles-go-language-in-einstein-analytics/

China Says ‘Stay Tuned’ for Retaliation over U.S. Tech Blacklist
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-08/china-says-stay-tuned-for-retaliation-over-u-s-tech-blacklist

China’s One China Policy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-China_policy

PG&E Plans Power Shutoff in Bay Area, Northern California
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/10/08/map-pge-planned-power-shutoff-in-bay-area/

Psychology tells us why older people don’t enjoy new music
https://qz.com/quartzy/1717718/why-do-older-people-hate-new-music/

Blizzard suspends Hong Kong Hearthstone player, pulls prize money
https://twitter.com/Slasher/status/1181442535962632193

macOS Catalina
https://www.apple.com/macos/catalina/

Disney Blocks Winnie the Pooh Page in Hong Kong
https://twitter.com/maryhui/status/1182154322143875072

Tableau Hyper API: SQL-Based API for Extracts
https://help.tableau.com/current/api/hyper_api/en-us/



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