**HN:Live | 03.10.2019 | Today's review of HN:Live**

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Samsung ends mobile phone production in China
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-samsung-elec-china/samsung-ends-mobile-phone-production-in-china-idUSKBN1WH0LR

Do you have a problem? Write a compiler
http://oleg.fi/gists/posts/2019-09-26-write-a-compiler.html

No evidence that testosterone reduces cognitive empathy
https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/largest-study-its-kind-no-evidence-testosterone-reduces-cognitive-empathy

Dutch police take down hornets’ nest of DDoS botnets
https://www.zdnet.com/article/dutch-police-take-down-hornets-nest-of-ddos-botnets/

Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/02/apple_hong_kong/

Identifying a person through walls from video footage, using only WiFi
https://techxplore.com/news/2019-10-method-enables-person-walls-candidate.html

The Myth of Commoditized Excellence
http://barryhawkins.com/blog/posts/the-myth-of-commoditized-excellence/

Design patterns for hacking together prototypes: object dictionaries
http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/objectdictionaries.html

Schwab Removes U.S. Stock, ETF and Options Commissions
https://pressroom.aboutschwab.com/press-release/corporate-and-financial-news/conjunction-chuck-schwabs-new-book-invested-schwab-remove

The shared evolution of the Tasmanian tiger and the wolf
https://phys.org/news/2019-09-evolution-tasmanian-tiger-wolf.html

What are the most indispensable books for indie hackers?
https://www.indiehackers.com/post/what-are-the-most-indispensable-books-for-indie-hackers-e2ec3a13e9

John Locke’s Method for Common-Place Books (1685)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/john-lockes-method-for-common-place-books-1685/

Where Is the Sun Located in the Milky Way?
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/where-is-the-sun-located-in-the-milky-way

Iraq blocks Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram, shuts down internet
https://netblocks.org/reports/iraq-blocks-facebook-twitter-whatsapp-and-instagram-amid-civil-unrest-zA4zGlyR

Ackermann Steering Geometry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ackermann_steering_geometry

Monarch Butterflies Evolved to Eat Poison
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/science/monarch-butterflies-milkweed.html

Show HN: My first game, minimal procgen gravity golf inspired by Desert Golfing
http://astro.golf

Show HN: Memos – Search engine for your screenshots and photos
https://memos.org/hn

Tiny Acquires Meteor
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/02/tiny-acquires-meteor/

Notre Dame: a blow-by-blow account of the restoration process
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/analysis/inside-notre-dame-a-blow-by-blow-account-of-work-on-the-fire-ravaged-cathedral

Let me automate that for you: removing pain points from data pipeline setup
http://tech.gc.com/let-me-automate-that-for-you/

The myth of the teacher pay gap?
https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-truth-about-teacher-pay

Brex wants to replace startup bank accounts with Brex Cash
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/02/brex-cash/

How We Justified Piling Debt on Poor Customers
https://newrepublic.com/article/155212/worked-capital-one-five-years-justified-piling-debt-poor-customers

Taichi: A Language for High-Performance Computation on Spatially Sparse Data [pdf]
http://taichi.graphics/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/taichi_lang.pdf

The vultures of Spain skirt around the Portuguese border with uncanny accuracy
https://twitter.com/TurbanMinor/status/1113352919301218304

Gradient Descent: The Ultimate Optimizer
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.13371

Vice Media Acquires Refinery29 in a $400M Deal
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/business/vice-media-refinery29.html

On the Design of Display Processors (1968) [pdf]
http://cva.stanford.edu/classes/cs99s/papers/myer-sutherland-design-of-display-processors.pdf

Researchers Discover the Tallest Known Tree in the Amazon
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/researchers-discover-tallest-known-tree-amazon-180973227/

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

Dropbox Hires New CTO and GM
https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/company/thank-you-quentin--and-welcome-tim-and-bharat

Pathfinder’s priority inversion problem, discovered and fixed on Mars (1998)
https://users.cs.duke.edu/~carla/mars.html

Y Combinator Top Companies List 2019
https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/

Microsoft Offers Windows 7 Extended Update Support to SMBs
https://borncity.com/win/2019/10/02/microsoft-offers-windows-7-extended-update-support-to-smbs/

Microsoft introduces Windows 10 X for dual-screen devices
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/02/microsoft-introduces-windows-10-x-for-dual-screen-devices/

Ocean plastic waste probably comes from ships, report says
https://www.afp.com/en/news/826/ocean-plastic-waste-probably-comes-ships-report-says-doc-1kv8e91

Evaluating the effectiveness of Google’s “Testing on the Toilet” program [pdf]
https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-data/pdf/00e67690ad147ab03479b9ddbc7f242ed85b5133.pdf

RxBar co-founder Peter Rahal on life after becoming a millionaire
https://marker.medium.com/what-really-happens-when-you-become-an-overnight-millionaire-acac42990175

How a double-free bug in WhatsApp turns to remote code execution
https://awakened1712.github.io/hacking/hacking-whatsapp-gif-rce/

New In Postgres 12: Generated Columns
https://pgdash.io/blog/postgres-12-generated-columns.html

Making a RISC-V Operating System Using Rust
http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~smarz1/osblog/

Show HN: Ledonardo, my light painting hardware project
https://www.stavros.io/posts/behold-ledonardo/?

Attachment bonds between domestic cats and humans
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(19)31086-3?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0960982219310863%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

A Counterintuitive Probability Game
https://www.evanward.org/posts/a-counterintuitive-probability-game

Children told lies by parents subsequently lie more as adults
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-10/ntu-ctl100219.php

Car tires biggest likely source of microplastics in California coastal waters
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2019-10-02/california-microplastics-ocean-study

How much faster is Redis at storing a blob of JSON compared to Postgres?
https://www.peterbe.com/plog/redis-vs-postgres-blob-of-json

Applied Category Theory
https://github.com/statebox/awesome-applied-category-theory

The global gag on free speech is tightening
https://www.economist.com/international/2019/08/17/the-global-gag-on-free-speech-is-tightening

A Sleeping Disorder That Turns Life into a Waking Dream
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/magazine/mysterious-sleeping-disorder-diagnosis.html

SpaCy v2.2
https://explosion.ai/blog/spacy-v2-2

A National Privacy Law Is Nowhere in Sight
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/technology/national-privacy-law.html

How ICE Picks Its Targets in the Surveillance Age
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/magazine/ice-surveillance-deportation.html

Small Trial Reverses a Year of Alzheimer’s Cognitive Decline in Just Two Months
https://www.sciencealert.com/small-trial-reverses-a-year-of-alzheimer-s-in-just-two-months-in-seven-patients

Why It’s Hard for Startups to Create Wealth in Europe
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-10-02/why-it-s-so-hard-for-entrepreneurs-to-get-really-rich-in-europe

A.S.M.R. boyfriend role-play
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/style/asmr-boyfriend-sleep-videos.html

The centennial of America’s greatest sports scandal
https://www.city-journal.org/black-sox-1919-world-series

Troubles with Tesla’s automated parking summon safety regulators
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-safety-nhtsa/u-s-auto-safety-agency-notes-tesla-accidents-with-smart-summon-feature-idUSKBN1WH280

Government Plans to Begin DNA Testing on Detained Immigrants
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/us/dna-testing-immigrants.html

Microsoft announces new Surface Duo phone
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/2/20895128/microsoft-surface-phone-foldable-screen-features-specs-price-release-date

GoodbyeDPI – Passive Deep Packet Inspection Blocker / Circumvention Utility
https://github.com/ValdikSS/GoodbyeDPI

The Autumn of the Multitaskers (2007)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/11/the-autumn-of-the-multitaskers/306342/

Key takeaways from the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
http://blas.com/autobiography/

The Evolution of the Hard Hat
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/business/hard-hat-history.html

Geosciences Australia to stop printing and selling topographic maps
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-03/geosciences-australia-stop-printing-and-selling-topographic-maps/11566698

A New R6RS Scheme Compiler
https://weinholt.se/articles/new-r6rs-compiler/

Visa, Mastercard, Others Reconsider Involvement in Facebook’s Libra Network
https://www.wsj.com/articles/visa-mastercard-others-reconsider-involvement-in-facebook-s-libra-network-11569967023?mod=rsswn

Microsoft announces dual-screen Surface Neo
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/2/20887395/microsoft-surface-neo-dual-screen-concept-design-windows-10x

Google – polling like it’s the 90s
https://www.ably.io/blog/google-polling-like-its-the-90s/

In-Memory-Only ELF Execution Without Tmpfs
https://magisterquis.github.io/2018/03/31/in-memory-only-elf-execution.html

US set to impose tariffs on $7.5B of EU exports in Airbus row
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49906815

In-toto: providing farm-to-table guarantees for bits and bytes
https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/10/02/in-toto/

Robots to Cut 200k U.S. Bank Jobs in Next Decade, Study Says
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-02/robots-to-cut-200-000-u-s-bank-jobs-in-next-decade-study-says

Boeing Engineer Complaint Cites Focus on Profit over Safety on 737 Max
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/business/boeing-737-max-crashes.html

Bigslice – Go-based, serverless cluster computing
https://bigslice.io/

Boeing whistleblower: 737 MAX safety upgrades were rejected over cost
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeing-whistleblowers-complaint-says-737-max-safety-upgrades-were-rejected-over-cost/

#Script Lisp
https://sharpscript.net/lisp/

Amid heavy competition, Relativity Space secures $140M in funding
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/amidst-heavy-competition-relatively-space-secures-140-million-in-funding/

Was it worth paying €41.7bn to bail out Irish banks?
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/financial-services/was-it-worth-paying-41-7bn-to-bail-out-irish-banks-1.4036792

Mark Zuckerberg misunderstands the threat of TikTok
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/01/instagram-vs-tiktok/

No guarantee small farms will survive
https://www.nbc26.com/news/state/trump-farm-secretary-no-guarantee-small-farms-will-survive

OpenADK – Open-Source Appliance Development Kit
https://openadk.org

Nature Retracts Ocean Warming Paper After Comments from Mathematician
https://m.phys.org/news/2019-09-journal-nature-retracts-ocean-warming.html

Tardigrade protein binds to nucleosomes and protects DNA from hydroxyl radicals
https://elifesciences.org/articles/47682

Apache Superset is an enterprise-ready business intelligence web application
https://airbnb.io/projects/superset/

Google Faces iPhone Privacy Lawsuit After Court Reinstates Case
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-02/google-faces-iphone-privacy-lawsuit-after-court-reinstates-case

AMD scores a big marketing win with Ryzen-powered Microsoft Surface
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/10/amd-scores-a-big-marketing-win-with-ryzen-powered-microsoft-surface/

Blazor – Build client web apps with C#
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor

The Seven-Year Auto Loan: America’s Middle Class Can’t Afford Its Cars
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-seven-year-auto-loan-americas-middle-class-cant-afford-their-cars-11569941215?mod=rsswn

90 Days Until Python 2 End of Life
https://pythonclock.org/

A San Diego backyard shed is for rent for $1,050 a month
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/02/us/san-diego-backyard-shed-for-rent-trnd/index.html

Dropbox CTO Resigns
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1467623/000146762319000021/a10219form8-k.htm

Tesla Delivers Record 97,000 Vehicles in Q3
https://ir.tesla.com/news-releases/news-release-details/tesla-q3-2019-vehicle-production-deliveries

Jamal Khashoggi’s murder and how the world looked the other way
https://www.insider.com/the-murder-of-jamal-khashoggi-2019-10

The American Corporation Is in Crisis
https://bostonreview.net/forum/lenore-palladino-american-corporation-crisis%E2%80%94lets-rethink-it

NYC housing prices in near ’free fall,’ conditions mirror recession era
https://www.fox5ny.com/news/nyc-housing-prices-in-near-free-fall-conditions-mirror-recession-era-following-tax-hikes

The Ocean Cleanup Successfully Catches Plastic in Great Pacific Garbage Patch
https://theoceancleanup.com/press/press-releases/the-ocean-cleanup-successfully-catches-plastic-in-great-pacific-garbage-patch/

SIMD Made Easy with Intel Implicit SPMD Program Compiler
https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/simd-made-easy-with-intel-ispc

Stepping on Rakes: Terry Eagleton’s “Humour” and Peter Timms’ “Silliness”
https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/eagleton-humour-timms-silliness

In-toto: A framework to secure the integrity of software supply chains
https://in-toto.io/

Learning Vim incrementally (2010)
https://yehudakatz.com/2010/07/29/everyone-who-tried-to-convince-me-to-use-vim-was-wrong/

Why are there no animals with three legs?
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-animals-legs.html

Is “Ass” the Most Complicated Word in English?
https://pudding.cool/2019/10/slang

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: 40 years of parody and predictions
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02969-8

Microsoft Announces ARM-Powered Surface Pro X
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/2/20885572/microsoft-surface-pro-x-2-in-1-sq1-processor-specs-price-release-date

Natural climate change mitigation in Australia
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12176-8

’A direct, toxic chemical injury’: What vaping does to the lungs
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/vaping/direct-toxic-chemical-injury-what-vaping-does-lungs-n1061151

Whatsapp Testing ‘Disappearing’ Messages in New Update
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/whatsapp-update-new-features-disappearing-messages-self-destruct-facebook-telegram-gmail-a9128391.html

Plastic Tea Bags Release Billions of Microplastics into Every Cup
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2019/09/26/fancy-tea-bags-release-billions-of-microplastics-into-each-cup/#.XZVCk-dKjOQ

How Tulsa is persuading digital nomads to settle down
https://www.curbed.com/2019/10/1/20884764/tulsa-remote-work-economic-development

Mega.nz and Openload Blocked in Brazil Following Court Order
https://torrentfreak.com/mega-nz-and-openload-blocked-in-brazil-following-court-order/

Side channel attacks against ECDSA/EdDSA signature generation in smart cards
https://minerva.crocs.fi.muni.cz/

Carbon Design System: By IBM and Supports React, Angular and Vue
http://react.carbondesignsystem.com/?path=/story/form--default

OCaml (and ReasonML) Software Foundation
https://ocaml-sf.github.io

Lessons I learned from releasing video games
http://austinhenley.com/blog/8lessons8games.html

Xilinx rolls out easier-to-use free FPGA programming tools
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/01/xilinx_vitis_fpga_launch/

The People’s Republic of China Was Born in Chains
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/01/the-peoples-republic-of-china-was-born-in-chains/

The New Microsoft Surface Pro X Is Powered by ARM
https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-surface-pro-x-arm-based-laptop-ultra-slim-ultra-light-2019-10

DTN7: Disruption-Tolerant Networking Implementation in Go
https://dtn7.github.io

CMU 15-445/645 Intro to Database Systems (Fall 2019) [video]
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oeYBdghaIjc&list=PLSE8ODhjZXjbohkNBWQs_otTrBTrjyohi&index=1

New app claims it can identify venture capitalists using facial recognition
https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/30/20891669/angelface-new-app-facial-recognition-venture-capitalists-surveillance

The use of the couch in psychoanalysis evolved from asylum-based therapies
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/freud-19th-century-therapeutics/

Microsoft Unveils New Surface Laptop and Pro Lineup, Neo Foldable
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/microsoft-surface-event-pro-laptop-arm-windows,40524.html#xtor=RSS-5

Microsoft Announces a Repairable Surface Laptop
https://www.ifixit.com/News/microsoft-announces-a-repairable-surface-laptop-and-boy-are-we-excited

DeepMind Builds Neural Networks That Spontaneously Replay Past Experiences
https://towardsdatascience.com/recreating-imagination-deepmind-builds-neural-networks-that-spontaneously-replay-past-experiences-9b57a9c08316

Armed Militias Are Taking Trump’s Civil War Tweets Seriously
https://www.lawfareblog.com/armed-militias-are-taking-trumps-civil-war-tweets-seriously

Five Pitfalls to Avoid When Outsourcing Software Development
https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/10/01/pitfalls-avoid-outsourcing-software-development

Where Democrats and Republicans Live in Your City
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/republicans-democrats-cities/

FAA orders urgent inspections on some Boeing 737s for wing-related cracks
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/faa-orders-urgent-inspections-on-some-boeing-737s-for-wing-related-cracks/2019/10/02/e4405056-e522-11e9-b403-f738899982d2_story.html

I hate living in my tiny house
https://www.fastcompany.com/90407740/why-i-hate-living-in-my-tiny-house

Exascale Deep Learning for Scientific Inverse Problems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11150

Stack Exchange and Stack Overflow Have Moved to CC By-SA 4.0
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333089/stack-exchange-and-stack-overflow-have-moved-to-cc-by-sa-4-0

Google will not donate Knative ’to any foundation for the foreseeable future’
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/02/google_knative_will_not_be_donated_to_any_foundation/

In-toto: providing farm-to-table guarantees for bits and bytes
https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/10/02/in-toto/

The Internet’s horrifying new method for installing Google apps on Huawei phones
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/10/the-internets-horrifying-new-method-for-installing-google-apps-on-huawei-phones/

The Failure of 3D Touch (2018)
https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-of-the-most-epic-product-fails/answer/Mills-Baker?share=1

Show HN: Declarative Threejs in React and RN, react-three-fiber 3 released
https://twitter.com/0xca0a/status/1179329637236838401

Reinforcement Learning and Reasoning
https://medium.com/@pchojecki/reinforcement-learning-and-reasoning-1dad5e440690

Why Developers Community Is All Excited About the TensorFlow 2.0 Final Release
https://analyticsindiamag.com/why-developers-community-is-all-excited-about-the-tensorflow-2-0-final-release/

Gradient Descent: The Ultimate Optimizer
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.13371

How I Transitioned from Startup Founder to Product Manager
https://medium.com/swlh/how-i-transitioned-from-startup-founder-to-product-manager-524964f3e366

BFS vs. DFS: Understanding Breadth First Search and Depth First Search
https://algodaily.com/lessons/dfs-vs-bfs

The Cult of Rich Kid Sports
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/harvard-university-and-scandal-sports-recruitment/599248/

Bullying
http://redqueencoder.com/bullying/

New Surface Laptop 3 with a 15-inch model, new aluminum finish and USB-C
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/2/20892144/microsoft-surface-laptop-3-usb-c-features-price-specs-release-date

YouTube demonetizing videos where LGBTQ keywords are said
https://boingboing.net/2019/10/02/youtube-demonetizing-videos-wh.html

Show HN: Streamlit – Turn Python Scripts into Beautiful ML Tools
https://github.com/streamlit/streamlit

Portugal’s navy reveals “tech guerrilla” unit creating tech toys that kill
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/portugals-navy-reveals-tech-guerrilla-unit-creating-tech-toys-that-kill/

Browse and listen to almost 2k musical scales, and more with Scale Heaven 2.0
https://www.reddit.com/r/musictheory/comments/dalzk2/scale_heaven_20_is_here/

Things Aren’t Going Well for Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency Scheme
https://gizmodo.com/sure-sounds-like-things-arent-going-well-for-facebooks-1838689041

A 1964 Earthquake Might Have Unleashed a Deadly Fungus on the Pacific Northwest
https://gizmodo.com/a-1964-earthquake-might-have-unleashed-a-deadly-fungus-1838673443

Trump wins biggest-ever WTO ruling, opening the door $7.5B of tariffs on Europe
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/wto-airbus-ruling-open-door-for-trump-tariffs-on-europe-2019-10-1028571481

IBM Readies Power9 “Bandwidth Beast” Kicker
https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/10/01/ibm-readies-power9-bandwidth-beast-kicker/

Hong Kong: sit-in staged at school of teenager shot by ’trigger-happy’ police
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/02/hong-kong-protests-police-teenager-shooting-students-violence-

Meta Intelligence – Writing Programs That Write Programs
https://towardsdatascience.com/meta-intelligence-writing-programs-that-write-programs-part-1-genetic-evolution-679b65c37c5f

Streamlit – Turn Python Scripts into Beautiful ML Tools
https://towardsdatascience.com/coding-ml-tools-like-you-code-ml-models-ddba3357eace

Reminiscences on 5.25″ floppy drives of the early 1980’s
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20191001-00/?p=102946

Facing Extinction
https://www.catherineingram.com/facingextinction/

Google Says Mysterious Wave of Unbootable Macs Is Their Bad
https://gizmodo.com/whoops-google-says-mysterious-wave-of-unbootable-macs-1838430057

Y Combinator Top Companies – 2019
https://blog.ycombinator.com/y-combinator-top-companies-2019/



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