**HN:Live | 08.10.2019 | Today's review of HN:Live**

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Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if websites aren’t accessible
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-10-07/blind-person-dominos-ada-supreme-court-disabled

Adobe deactivates all Venezuelan accounts
https://helpx.adobe.com/la/x-productkb/policy-pricing/executive-order-venezuela.html

Compact Disc Structure
https://byuu.net/compact-discs/structure

Twenty New Moons Found Orbiting Saturn
http://dtm.carnegiescience.edu/news/twenty-new-moons-found-orbiting-saturn

Realtime Tokyo 3D train map using open API
https://nagix.github.io/mini-tokyo-3d/

Collapse OS
https://collapseos.org/

A multithreaded fork of Redis that is faster
https://docs.keydb.dev/blog/2019/10/07/blog-post/

macOS Catalina
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/10/macos-catalina-is-available-today/

Elliptic Curve Cryptography Explained
https://fangpenlin.com/posts/2019/10/07/elliptic-curve-cryptography-explained/

Learning How to Prove: From the Coq Proof Assistant to Textbook Style
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.01466

High-energy experiment is generally statistically unsound
https://kirstenhacker.wordpress.com/2019/09/29/the-walrus-and-the-carpenter/

What’s the most asinine technical requirement you’ve had to work into a design?
https://prokopetz.tumblr.com/post/187107725877/heres-one-for-the-techies-whats-the-most

Successful machine learning models: lessons learned at Booking.com
https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/10/07/150-successful-machine-learning-models/

VeraCrypt 1.24
https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Release%20Notes.html

Meat and Three and Ten Dollars’ Worth of Regular
https://bittersoutherner.com/meat-and-three-and-ten-dollars-worth-of-regular

South Park Responds to Being Banned in China for “Band in China”
https://twitter.com/SouthPark/status/1181273539799736320

R is a joy if you treat it like Awk
http://dwrodri.blog/posts/oct-7-Rscript-snippets.html

China’s Breeding Giant Pigs That Are as Heavy as Polar Bears
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-06/china-is-breeding-giant-pigs-the-size-of-polar-bears

AptDeco (YC W14) Hiring Director of Customer Experience, Senior Product Designer
https://www.aptdeco.com/careers

Satellites That Can Pinpoint Methane and Carbon Dioxide Leaks (2018)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/meet-the-satellites-that-can-pinpoint-methane-and-carbon-dioxide-leaks/

Stupid Alexa Trick: Speaking French with a Horrible American Accent
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190902-01/?p=102831

Seattle looks to rein in state policy used to push back on big projects
http://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2019/10/its-rooted-in-the-1970s-era-conception-of-environmentalism-seattle-looks-to-rein-in-state-policy-used-to-push-back-on-big-projects-and-developments/

Artificial blood developed for patients of any blood type, researchers say
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201909290001.html

Evidence-Based Medicine Data Lab, University of Oxford
https://github.com/ebmdatalab/

Cross-Laminated Timber
https://avc.com/2019/10/cross-laminated-timber/

The Dark Side of Light
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/09/light-pollution-destroying-environment/598561/

My application ran away and called home from Redmond
https://medium.com/sensorfu/how-my-application-ran-away-and-called-home-from-redmond-de7af081100d

New Mutations at Different Speeds
https://elifesciences.org/digests/46922/new-mutations-at-different-speeds

Why the NBA Apologized to China over Daryl Morey’s Tweet About Hong Kong
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/07/sports/basketball/nba-china-hong-kong.html

Rockbox – Free music player firmware
https://www.rockbox.org/

Show HN: Managed UniFi Controller Hosting
https://cloudbit.io/

Web Graphics Done Right
https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/images-done-right-web-graphics-good-to-the-last-byte-optimization-techniques

X-ray technique can reverse-engineer an entire chip without damaging it
https://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/design/xray-tech-lays-chip-secrets-bare

We’re Entering the Era of Big Podcasting
https://www.vulture.com/2019/09/podcasting-history-three-eras.html

Norway’s largest pension fund KLP exits oil sands companies
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-norway-klp-investment/norways-largest-pension-fund-klp-exits-oil-sands-companies-idUSKBN1WM0E0

PG&E could shut off power across Bay Area on Wednesday and Thursday
https://www.berkeleyside.com/2019/10/07/pge-could-shut-off-power-across-bay-area-wednesday-and-thursday

A Lidar-Validated Trajectory for a Long Home Run
https://technology.mlblogs.com/a-lidar-validated-trajectory-for-a-long-home-run-f9c716206c8b

What3Words submitting takedown requests against Tweets [pdf]
https://www.owenboswarva.com/misc/W3W_Twitter_20191007.pdf

The Inuit agree on a common writing system
https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2019/10/03/the-inuit-agree-on-a-common-writing-system

Real-Time Web Apps with Zero Lines of JavaScript
https://engineering.instawork.com/real-time-web-apps-with-zero-lines-of-js-d2a3d6dd10d

Notarizing Your Mac Software for macOS Catalina
https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=09032019a

Supreme Court allows retailers to be sued if websites are not accessible
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-10-07/blind-person-dominos-ada-supreme-court-disabled

Yellowstone National Park’s Sound and Video Libraries
https://kottke.org/19/10/yellowstone-national-parks-sound-video-libraries-are-free-for-anyone-to-use

Not long ago, the center of the Milky Way exploded
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-center-milky.html

The economics of streaming is changing pop songs
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2019/10/05/the-economics-of-streaming-is-changing-pop-songs

Street by Street, Amsterdam Is Cutting Cars Out of the Picture
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/10/amsterdam-car-ban-knip-driving-public-transit-zero-emission/599521/

The search for Betsy, bovine escape artist
https://story.californiasunday.com/escape-betsy-the-cow

Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong
https://blog.emojipedia.org/apple-hides-taiwan-flag-in-hong-kong/

Show HN: Spotify for the Terminal Written in Rust
https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui

Is Guy Fieri in Your Node.js Packages? (2016)
https://nodesource.com/blog/is-guy-fieri-in-your-node-js-packages/

Gio: Portable, Immediate Mode GUI in Go
https://git.sr.ht/~eliasnaur/gio

Fractional Brownian Motion for Terrain Generation
http://iquilezles.org/www/articles/fbm/fbm.htm

Foundations of Data Science [pdf]
https://www.cs.cornell.edu/jeh/book%20no%20so;utions%20March%202019.pdf

Court says FCC’s net neutrality repeal can’t stop state laws
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/01/court-says-fccs-unhinged-net-neutrality-repeal-cant-stop-state-laws/

Scribe: Transporting petabytes per hour via a distributed, buffered queueing
https://engineering.fb.com/data-infrastructure/scribe/

Show HN: We built screen recording synced with console logs
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bird-eats-bug-screen-reco/mdplmiioglkpgkdblijgilgebpppgblm

U.S. Blacklists 28 Chinese Entities over Abuses in Xinjiang
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/07/us/politics/us-to-blacklist-28-chinese-entities-over-abuses-in-xinjiang.html

’South Park’ creators issue a mocking ’apology’ to China
https://www.businessinsider.com/south-park-creators-issue-mock-apology-to-china-after-ban-2019-10

Preparing for 25 Years
http://scripting.com/2019/08/06/155950.html

Slog: Cheating the low-latency vs. strict serializability tradeoff
http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2019/10/introducing-slog-cheating-low-latency.html

New chips for machine intelligence
https://www.jameswhanlon.com/new-chips-for-machine-intelligence.html

The privacy trade-offs of cheap Android smartphones
https://www.fastcompany.com/90408472/cheap-smartphones-have-a-disturbing-secret

China’s Millennials
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n19/-shengyun/chinas-millennials

Hong Kong Cabinet member floats internet curbs to contain unrest
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/10/07/asia-pacific/hong-kong-cabinet-member-floats-internet-curbs-contain-unrest

AWS Lambda Firefox
https://github.com/karolistamutis/firefox-aws-lambda

List of open source applications for macOS
https://github.com/serhii-londar/open-source-mac-os-apps

For the first time on record, the 400 wealthiest Americans paid a lower tax rate
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/06/opinion/income-tax-rate-wealthy.html

Show HN: Small Clojure Interpreter
https://github.com/borkdude/sci

Joe Rogan Experience #1361 – Cmdr. David Fravor on UFO Chase
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eco2s3-0zsQ

When Efforts to Eat ’Clean’ Become an Unhealthy Obsession
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/07/766847274/when-efforts-to-eat-clean-become-an-unhealthy-obsession

U.S. Supreme Court rejects Amazon warehouse worker wage appeal
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-amazon-com/u-s-supreme-court-rejects-amazon-warehouse-worker-wage-appeal-idUSKBN1WM1FI

Voat: What Went Wrong?
https://battlepenguin.com/tech/voat-what-went-wrong/

Hong Kong’s Hard-Core Protesters Take Justice into Their Own Hands
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/07/world/asia/hong-kong-protesters-masks-violence.html

Chile’s attempts to move up the lithium value chain are not working
https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2019/10/03/chiles-attempts-to-move-up-the-lithium-value-chain-are-not-working

Reddit, where chaos thrives, tries to clean up to attract ads from big brands
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-10-05/reddit-where-chaos-thrives-tries-to-clean-up-to-attract-dollars-from-big-brands

On TikTok, There Is No Time
https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-time/

Ageing in human cells successfully reversed in the lab (2018)
https://theconversation.com/ageing-in-human-cells-successfully-reversed-in-the-lab-101214

South Park Scrubbed from Chinese Internet
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/south-park-banned-chinese-internet-critical-episode-1245783

Next Housing Recession in 2020, Predicts Zillow
https://www.investopedia.com/investing/next-housing-recession-2020-predicts-zillow/

Muon – A Light(er)weight GPU Based Electron Alternative Using Ultralight and Go
https://github.com/ImVexed/muon

Undeclared Martial Law on the Streets of Hong Kong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyOF54eWHjA&feature=youtu.be

Show HN: I made a website for developers and digital designers
http://www.colorsandfonts.com

〔Coding style〕Reasons to add the curly brackets behind if / for / while in C/C++
https://medium.com/@goblin5417/coding-style-reasons-to-increase-the-brackets-behind-if-for-while-617e6665ca97

In a Perpetual Present (2016)
http://www.wired.com/2016/04/susie-mckinnon-autobiographical-memory-sdam/

The Troubling Economics of Food Halls
https://heated.medium.com/the-troubling-economics-of-food-halls-b301f6563188

Waze Data Can Help Predict Car Crashes and Cut Response Time
https://www.wired.com/story/waze-data-help-predict-car-crashes-cut-response-time/

The pointlessness of daily standups
https://codethrasher.com/post/2019-10-06-the-pointlessness-of-daily-standups/

RaML — Resource Aware ML
http://raml.co/index.html

Hunstable Electric Turbine claims greater output than electric motors
https://www.autoblog.com/2019/10/07/hunsable-electric-turbine/

The Washington Post’s Most Valuable Asset Is Now Its Software, Thanks to Bezos
https://observer.com/2019/10/jeff-bezos-washington-post-publishing-software-arc-licensing-bp-media-revenue/

Rare warming over Antarctica reveals power of stratospheric models
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02985-8

Iraq army fire on unarmed civilians protesting(video, graphic)
https://mobile.twitter.com/Jake_Hanrahan/status/1180965247919820800?s=08

Show HN: I built a way to consult for businesses and earn in your free time
https://getwisdomapp.com

In Which We Were Safe with Yukio Mishima (2017)
https://thisrecording.wordpress.com/2017/06/15/in-which-we-were-safe-with-yukio-mishima/

Can a Machine Learn to Write for the New Yorker?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/14/can-a-machine-learn-to-write-for-the-new-yorker

The Persistent Myth of Repressed Memories
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/women-who-stray/201910/forget-me-not-the-persistent-myth-repressed-memories

$200 Linux Laptop Pinebook Pro Is Available for Purchase
https://itsfoss.com/pinebook-pro/

The great nutrient collapse – key crops are getting less nutritious due to CO2
https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/09/13/food-nutrients-carbon-dioxide-000511

Fancy Believing in the Goblin King (2017)
http://lifeonmagrs.blogspot.com/2017/10/fancy-believing-in-goblin-king-my.html

Trump tariffs are set to cost U.S. households $2k in 2020
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-tariffs-cost-2020-research-151755274.html

GE freezing pensions for 20k employees
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/ge-freezing-pensions-for-20000-employees-2019-10-07

Why Are Rich People So Mean?
https://www.wired.com/story/why-are-rich-people-so-mean/

150 successful machine learning models: 6 lessons learned at Booking.com
https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/10/07/150-successful-machine-learning-models/

Gaugin and Van Gogh’s Social Networks
https://www.newstatesman.com/gaugin-portraits-national-gallery-van-gogh-inner-circle-review

World’s top banks pour $1.9T into fossil fuel financing since 2015
https://www.banktrack.org/article/banking_on_climate_change_fossil_fuel_finance_report_card_2019#_

Supreme Court Rejects Domino’s on Blind Man’s Website Lawsuit
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-07/domino-s-rejected-by-supreme-court-on-blind-man-s-website-suit

Linus Torvalds isn’t worried about Microsoft taking over Linux
https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-isnt-worried-about-microsoft-taking-over-linux/

Is AMD Returning to Open-Source BIOS/Coreboot Support?
https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/09/01/224238/is-amd-returning-to-open-source-bioscoreboot-support

Apple Releases macOS X Catalina
https://www.macrumors.com/2019/10/07/apple-releases-macos-catalina/

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2019
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2019/summary/

Thor’s Stone, Thurstaston Common
https://howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2019/07/28/thors-stone-thurstaston-common/

Perl is dying
https://thehftguy.com/2019/10/07/perl-is-dying-quick-could-be-extinct-by-2023/

PHP Arrays Aren’t Arrays
https://medium.com/7shifts-engineering-blog/php-arrays-arent-really-arrays-57b627a1e46a

From Dec 1, 2019 Chinese govt will have full access to every server in China
https://www.chinalawblog.com/2019/10/chinas-new-cybersecurity-system-there-is-no-place-to-hide.html

Show HN: A Basic-Like Programming Language That Runs in the Browser
https://easylang.online/ide/

Tesla Model 3 = 24% of Small and Midsize Luxury Car Sales in USA
https://cleantechnica.com/2019/10/07/tesla-model-3-24-of-small-midsize-luxury-car-sales-in-usa/

The Rich Do Pay Lower Taxes Than You
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/06/opinion/income-tax-rate-wealthy.html

South Park has reportedly been banned in China after criticizing censorship
https://www.businessinsider.com/south-park-removed-from-china-internet-report-says-2019-10

Let Me Explain This Hilarious Cycling Scandal to You
https://deadspin.com/let-me-explain-this-hilarious-cycling-scandal-to-you-1838856161

GE freezes pension benefits for 20k employees
https://www.businessinsider.com/general-electric-freezes-pension-benefits-for-20000-employees-2019-10

DHH (Rails) and Matt Mullenweg (Wordpress) talk about open source [notes]
https://smashnotes.com/p/rework/e/open-source-and-power-with-matt-mullenweg

Ubuntu installer now supports ZFS on the boot partition
https://git.launchpad.net/ubiquity/commit/?id=3020c47c7a0511a638902925862cc6789628a6df

Navi Goes Mainstream, Mobile: AMD’s Radeon RX 5500 Aims for Smooth 1080p Gaming
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-radeon-5500-series-gpus,40566.html

Capitalism Made This Mess, and This Mess Will Ruin Capitalism
https://www.wired.com/story/capitalocene/

Why does my string consist of this Korean character repeated over and over?
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20191007-00/?p=102968

macOS 10.15 Catalina: The Art Technica Review
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/10/macos-10-15-catalina-the-ars-technica-review/

China Banned South Park After the Show Made Fun of Chinese Censorship
https://reason.com/2019/10/07/china-south-park-ban-censorship/

Mapquest sold for undisclosed amount “not material enough to file paperwork”
https://searchengineland.com/a-eulogy-for-mapquest-322945

California Laws Seek to Crack Down on Deepfakes in Politics and Porn
https://www.cnet.com/news/california-laws-seek-to-crack-down-on-deepfakes-in-politics-and-porn/

Linus Torvalds Shares His Thoughts on Microsoft’s New-Found Love for Linux
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/10/linus-torvalds-doesnt-think-microsoft-is-out-to-hijack-linux

A Federal Privacy Board Is Reviewing DHS’ Airport Facial Recognition Programs
https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2019/10/federal-privacy-board-reviewing-dhs-airport-facial-recognition-programs/160341/

A Free Coding Curriculum for Beginners
https://medium.com/swlh/a-free-coding-curriculum-for-beginners-5f16c948e7b4

Two centuries ago, University of Virginia students abused enslaved servants
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/10/06/two-centuries-ago-university-virginia-students-beat-raped-enslaved-servants-historians-say/

U.S. Agency Reviews Claims Tesla Should Have Recalled 2000 Cars
https://interestingengineering.com/us-agency-reviews-claims-tesla-should-have-recalled-2000-cars

FreeBSD and Custom Firmware on the Google Pixelbook
https://unrelenting.technology/articles/FreeBSD-and-custom-firmware-on-the-Google-Pixelbook

Taboola and Outbrain are merging to create a clickbait giant
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/business/media/online-advertising-chumbox-merger.html

English has been my pain for 15 years (2013)
http://antirez.com/news/61

Huawei’s TinyBERT Is 7X Smaller and 9X Faster Than Bert
https://medium.com/syncedreview/huaweis-tinybert-is-7x-smaller-and-9x-faster-than-bert-2fbe76f03974

Telegram Became White Nationalists’ Go-To Messaging Platform
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59nk3a/how-telegram-became-white-nationalists-go-to-messaging-platform

NIH reveals its formula for tracking foreign influences
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6461/19

Strategy by Design
https://vaughntan.org/strategy-by-design

FSF and GNU (After Stallman’s Departure from FSF)
https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-and-gnu

SCOTUS hands victory to blind man who sued Domino’s over site accessibility
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/07/dominos-supreme-court.html

Bypass Paywalls on Firefox
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox

Flappy Bird as a Mixed Integer Program (2019)
http://www.philipzucker.com/flappy-bird-as-a-mixed-integer-program/

Houston Rockets general manager apologises for Hong Kong protest tweet
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-basketball-nba/chinese-businesses-broadcaster-punish-houston-rockets-over-managers-hk-protest-tweet-idUSKCN1WL04T

12 Months of Bootstraping
https://dev.to/kevinsahin/12-months-3-products-some-mrr-and-one-irrigation-pivot-542f

iPhone 11 Pro: the best small phone available
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/07/iphone-11-pro-the-best-small-phone-available

Million Short – Search for something sans the top million sites
https://millionshort.com

How to install /e/ OS on Android devices and not rely on Google services
https://blog.en.uptodown.com/e-android-open-source-tutorial/

Show HN: RFC Manifesto for Compassionate Services
https://compassionate.services

Where World War III Might Start
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/if-you-wanted-know-where-world-war-iii-might-start-there-are-5-places-look-82691

Insane Clown Makeup Can Help You Dodge Facial Recognition Systems
https://www.sciencealert.com/how-to-fool-facial-recognition-technology-with-juggalo-makeup

Atlanta Asks Google Whether It Targeted Black Homeless People
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/technology/google-facial-recognition-atlanta-homeless.html

Mistakes I Made as a First-Time UX Manager
https://blog.praveen.science/8-mistakes-i-made-as-a-first-time-ux-manager/

“In This Thread: We Pretend We’re on HN”
http://boards.4channel.org/g/thread/73042184

Sun Microsystems founders celebrate legacy
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3441927/sun-microsystems-founders-celebrate-legacy.html

Stop Using the Flesch-Kincaid Test
https://andreadallover.com/2019/02/26/stop-using-the-flesch-kincaid-test/

French Urban Bees
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexledsom/2019/10/06/from-avignons-palais-des-papes-to-notre-dame-de-paris-french-urban-bees-are-having-their-day/#52b7d5f2f051

’Once they’re gone, they’re gone’: the fight to save the giant sequoia
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/06/california-giant-sequoia-grove-alder-grove

Joint Statement on the GNU Project
https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/joint-statement-on-the-gnu-project/

How Much Money Do Parking Lots Make?
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/how-much-money-do-parking-lots-actually-make



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