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I just lost my wallet on the way home from work
https://twitter.com/Timcammm/status/1183782929614409729
Interested in improving your relationships? Try Nonviolent Communication
https://www.clearerthinking.org/single-post/2019/03/06/Want-to-improve-your-relationships-Try-Nonviolent-Communication-1
I hate Xlib and so should you
https://www.remlab.net/op/xlib.shtml
OnionShare makes it easy to publish anonymous, uncensorable websites
https://micahflee.com/2019/10/new-version-of-onionshare-makes-it-easy-for-anyone-to-publish-anonymous-uncensorable-websites/
California’s new law bans schools from starting before 8am
https://qz.com/1727790/californias-new-law-bans-schools-from-starting-before-8am/
Whales Keep Carbon Out of the Atmosphere
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/whales-keep-carbon-out-of-the-atmosphere/
Study in mice explains how brain can turn pain signals up or down
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-study-mice-explains-how-brain-can-turn-pain-signals-or-down
The sudden death and eternal life of Solaris (2017)
http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2017/09/04/the-sudden-death-and-eternal-life-of-solaris/
Beating Decades of Optimized C with 80 Lines of Haskell
https://chrispenner.ca/posts/wc
Ploopy: An Open-Source Trackball
https://www.ploopy.co
Twitter says it will restrict retweeting world leaders who break rules
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/15/twitter-world-leaders-break-rules/
Ionic React
https://ionicframework.com/blog/announcing-ionic-react/
Banning cars on SF’s Market Street, once a radical idea, approved unanimously
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Plan-to-remake-SF-s-Market-Street-without-car-14535887.php
Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/migration-complete-amazons-consumer-business-just-turned-off-its-final-oracle-database/
And ’Lo!’: How the internet was born
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49842681
Dutch family ’waiting for end of time’ discovered in basement
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50054044
Perception of musical pitch varies across cultures
https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/perception-of-musical-pitch-varies-across-cultures
What the Hell Was Modernism?
https://www.vulture.com/2019/10/jerry-saltz-new-moma-modernism.html
Show HN: Assist – Instant terminal sharing from anywhere
https://assist.app/hn
The Triumphs and Tribulations of Towboats on the Mississippi River
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/triumph-tribulations-towboats-mississippi-river
Show HN: Interactive visual solver for the traveling salesman problem
https://tspvis.com
Solving the Rubik’s cube with a robot hand
https://openai.com/blog/solving-rubiks-cube/
Show HN: Policy_sentry, an AWS IAM Least Privilege Policy Generator
https://github.com/salesforce/policy_sentry
A History of Chop Suey
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/historians-cookbook/history-chop-suey
Meetup.com alternatives
https://phacks.dev/meetup-com-alternatives
The Acid Farmers
https://mikejay.net/the-acid-farmers/
Apache Arrow Flight: A Framework for Fast Data Transport
http://arrow.apache.org/blog/2019/10/13/introducing-arrow-flight/
OpenVMS: state of the x86 port
http://vmssoftware.com/updates_port.html
Voyage Around My Cell
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/10/10/voyage-around-my-cell/
Firefox Privacy How-To Guide
https://restoreprivacy.com/firefox-privacy/
The Dream of New York’s Forgotten Elevated Subway
https://jalopnik.com/the-dream-of-new-yorks-forgotten-elevated-subway-1838439070
Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-15/blizzard-cancels-overwatch-event-as-it-tries-to-contain-backlash
Learning to Simulate
https://towardsdatascience.com/learning-to-simulate-c53d8b393a56
How Apple’s Screen Time is outsmarted by kids, frustrating parents
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/15/teens-find-circumventing-apples-parental-controls-is-childs-play/
Firefox’s New WebSocket Inspector
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/10/firefoxs-new-websocket-inspector/
E. M. Forster, The Art of Fiction No. 1 (1953)
https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5219/e-m-forster-the-art-of-fiction-no-1-e-m-forster
Slack Workflow Builder
https://slackhq.com/automate-tasks-in-slack-with-workflow-builder
Mistakes on Our Way to $88k in Revenue
https://beamjobs.com/blog/14-mistakes-our-startup-made
Real-space charge-density imaging with sub-angstrom resolution
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1649-6
Teaching Ethics in Appalachia Taught Me About Bridging America’s Partisan Divide
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/10/13/america-cultural-divide-red-state-blue-state-228111
DuckDuckGo Search Improvements
https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-search-improvements/
Raising severity to serious for some Python 2 leaf packages with no Python 3
https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2019/10/msg00043.html
Google’s new voice recorder app transcribes in Real-Time, even when offline
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/15/googles-new-voice-recorder-app-transcribes-in-real-time-even-when-offline/
How we hit our $30k ARR milestone
https://blog.simpleanalytics.com/how-we-hit-our-30k-annual-recurring-revenue-milestone
My Vision of D’s Future
https://dlang.org/blog/2019/10/15/my-vision-of-ds-future/
Mind the Secret Bunker
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/mind-secret-bunker
The Arrogance of the Anthropocene
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/08/arrogance-anthropocene/595795/
Face-recognition technology is the new norm
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/15/opinion/facial-recognition-police.html
Show HN: Schema.org with GitHub and scripts: A tool to make all data more useful
http://www.ditabase.io/
LeBron James’s Big Miss on China
https://www.wsj.com/articles/lebron-jamess-big-miss-on-china-11571155717?mod=rsswn
Illinois red-light cameras have collected more than $1B from drivers since 2008
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/reports/illinois-red-light-cameras-have-collected-more-than-1b-from-drivers-since-2008/
Sears Hasn’t Fared Better After Bankruptcy
https://www.wsj.com/articles/sears-hasnt-fared-better-after-bankruptcy-as-another-100-stores-will-soon-close-11570959000?mod=rsswn
Hong Kong, Visualized
https://relay.nationalgeographic.com/proxy/distribution/public/culture/topics/reference/hong-kong-history-visualized
We bet you $10K that we will outperform your pricing strategy
https://modernpricing.com/blog/posts/how-to-become-your-companys-growth-hero
Man agrees to pay $25,000 for abusing YouTube’s takedown system
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/man-agrees-to-pay-25000-for-abusing-youtubes-takedown-system/
Google SVP Hardware: I’d disclose smart speakers before guests enter my home
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50048144
.NET Core 3.0 Concludes the .NET Framework API Porting Project
https://github.com/dotnet/announcements/issues/130
Rustup 1.20.0
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2019/10/15/Rustup-1.20.0.html
Analysis of Solitaire Cipher
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.06300
Bjarne Stroustrup Answers C++ Questions
https://news.codecademy.com/bjarne-stroustrup-interview/
5G Mobile Networks: A Systems Approach
https://5g.systemsapproach.org/index.html
One Way to Keep the Sidewalk Clear: Remote-Controlled Scooter-Bots
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/10/self-driving-scooter-tortoise-technology-mobility-sidewalks/600013/
IMF predicts slowest global economic growth since 2008 financial crisis
https://www.axios.com/imf-global-economic-growth-great-recession-financial-crisis-8ce86d7e-698a-4947-bddb-100f8548cf22.html
Awakening from the Meaning Crisis – Episode 6 – Aristotle, Kant, and Evolution
https://kaue.me/posts/2019/06/10/john-vervaeke-awakening-from-the-meaning-crisis-episode-6-aristotle-kant-and-evolution-summary/
DNS Security: Threat Modeling DNSSEC, DoT, and DoH
https://www.netmeister.org/blog/doh-dot-dnssec.html
Ancient artifacts dislodged by climate change
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/2000-artifacts-pulled-edge-norways-melting-glaciers-180967949/
The link between stress and depression and simple words that could help
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/oct/13/the-link-between-stress-and-depression-and-the-10-simple-words-that-could-help
30 years after communism, eastern Europe divided on democracy’s impact
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/15/30-years-after-communism-east-europeans-divided-over-democracys-impact
Show HN: USB PD Stand-Alone Sink Controller
https://blog.oxplot.com/usb-pd-standalone-sink-controller/
Probabilistic Scraping of Plain Text Tables (2013)
https://edinburghhacklab.com/2013/09/probabalistic-scraping-of-plain-text-tables/
$100k/year still might not be enough to buy a home
https://www.wsj.com/articles/so-you-make-100-000-it-still-might-not-be-enough-to-buy-a-home-11571149819?mod=rsswn
What is causing the rise of Remote Work?
https://www.friday.app/rise-remote-work
By Quitting Social Media You Could Read 200 Books a Year
https://qz.com/895101/in-the-time-you-spend-on-social-media-each-year-you-could-read-200-books/
Tech Book Face Off: How to Design Programs vs. SICP
https://sam-koblenski.blogspot.com/2019/10/tech-book-face-off-how-to-design.html
A detailed look at Ubuntu’s new experimental ZFS installer
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/a-detailed-look-at-ubuntus-new-experimental-zfs-installer/
Roomba Maker Sues Upstart SharkNinja
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-15/robot-war-breaks-out-in-living-room-as-roomba-maker-sues-upstart
Evergov: Find All Government Services in a Single Place
https://evergov.com/
Beyond Good and Evil (1886) [pdf]
https://www.holybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/Nietzsche-Beyond-Good-and-Evil.pdf
Elite MBA Programs Report Steep Drop in Applications
https://www.wsj.com/articles/elite-m-b-a-programs-report-steep-drop-in-applications-11571130001?mod=rsswn
Why Switzerland? (2007)
https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/pourquoi_la_suisse/
Docker Hub Registry is down
https://status.docker.com/
Reducers Are Fuzzers
https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1284
Digital dystopia: how algorithms punish the poor
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/14/automating-poverty-algorithms-punish-poor
Association of Neurocognitive and Physical Function with Gait Speed in Midlife
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2752818
Chipotle Will Offer Free College Tuition to All Employees
https://fortune.com/2019/10/15/chipotle-free-college-tuition-employees-business-tech/
Getting started with regular expressions: An example
https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/getting-started-regular-expressions-example
Orchids: An Ugly History of Beautiful Things
https://longreads.com/2019/10/08/ugly-history-beautiful-things-orchids/
Flash Memory Wear Killing Older Teslas Due to Excessive Data Logging: Report
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/flash-memory-wear-killing-older-teslas-due-to-excessive-data-logging-report
Ergotism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergotism
CVE-2019-14287: Sudo Bug Allows Restricted Users to Run Commands as Root
https://sensorstechforum.com/cve-2019-14287-sudo-bug/
Soviet Space Dogs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_space_dogs
The Pixelbook Go Is a Smaller Cheaper Google-Made Chromebook
https://gizmodo.com/the-pixelbook-go-is-a-smaller-cheaper-google-made-chrom-1839059378
Facebook employee says he was fired for speaking out about his colleague suicide
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/15/facebook-employee-i-was-fired-for-talking-about-colleagues-suicide.html
Switzerland vs Silicon Valley for Software Developers
https://swissdevjobs.ch/blog/switzerland-vs-silicon-valley
Zombie debts are hounding struggling Americans
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2019/oct/15/zombie-debt-benefits-overpayment-poverty
Better privacy and more flexibility with Nest devices
https://www.blog.google/products/google-nest/works-with-nest/
World Leaders on Twitter: Principles and Approach
https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2019/worldleaders2019.html
Parsing in Python: Tools and Libraries
https://tomassetti.me/parsing-in-python/
Baltimore Blew Off Ransomware Demand Only to Find Data Had Never Been Backed Up
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191004/19564743128/city-baltimore-blew-off-76000-ransomware-demand-only-to-find-out-bunch-data-had-never-been-backed-up.shtml
How to Change a Mind
https://forge.medium.com/how-to-change-a-mind-1774681b9369
Google Announces Nest WiFi
https://blog.google/products/google-nest/nest-wifi/
Five Reasons the Diet Soda Myth Won’t Die
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/upshot/diet-soda-health-myths.html
Tau is easier than Pi (2014)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/let-s-use-tau-it-s-easier-than-pi/
You may never see Studio Ghibli’s movies on streaming services
https://www.polygon.com/2019/10/15/20828843/studio-ghibli-movies-miyazaki-streaming-netflix-disney-plus
The gig economy’s deepest problem isn’t about tech at all
https://www.fastcompany.com/90413617/the-gig-economys-deepest-problem-isnt-about-tech-at-all
WeWork says it found cancer-causing chemical in its phone booths
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wework-booths-formaldehyde/in-new-headache-wework-says-it-found-cancer-causing-chemical-in-its-phone-booths-idUSKBN1WT2H4
Britains ancient yews – mystical, magnificent, and unprotected
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/28/britain-ancient-yews-mystical-magnificent-and-unprotected
Reverse Engineering Liberates Dash Cam Video
https://hackaday.com/2019/10/15/reverse-engineering-liberates-dash-cam-video/
Firing mods and forced relicensing
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333965/firing-mods-and-forced-relicensing-is-stack-exchange-still-interested-in-cooper
Show HN: Prodo, a framework to simplify web app development
https://github.com/prodo-dev/prodo
Leader of Largest US Organic Food Fraud Gets 10-Year Term
https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2019-08-16/farmers-to-be-sentenced-in-largest-us-organic-fraud-case
Open Source Is Broken
https://dev.to/degoodmanwilson/open-source-is-broken-g60
Google Kills Daydream VR
https://www.engadget.com/2019/10/15/google-daydream-view-smartphone-vr-pixel-4/
Exceptionally Gifted Children: Long-term effects of grade-skipping
https://www.davidsongifted.org/search-database/entry/a10489
Apple Releases iOS 13.1.3
https://www.macrumors.com/2019/10/15/ios-13-1-3-released/
Silicon Valley billionaires are trying to invest in slowing the aging process
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/body/super-rich-investing-immortality
Council rejects plans to build 5G masts
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/15/brighton_and_hove_5g_masts/
Basecamp no longer requires Google for two-factor authentication
https://m.signalvnoise.com/basecamp-no-longer-requires-google-for-two-factor-authentication/
To change your life, learn to write
https://medium.com/p/d0df747e02c8
How Stripe Builds APIs and Teams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEe-5VOv0Js&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTmpGaU1XSXlZVFZsWkRFNSIsInQiOiJHVzNtMmdWVXVYSVdnaEVYSnh5dWh6YlVnWlJENFRVbkRZdW9NZGJkU2tsNUFUb0hkUlBEOERINTA3WVNFN3kxTnk3OEpuQ2hpMEVUbmlkaTlYcytjQ2N1OGlyOGY5eDMzakRUbnhkK2k2czhQd0wwdEVMcUlaRUI2MjcyODJTOCJ9
Climate change activists are focused on all the wrong solutions
https://nypost.com/2019/10/12/climate-change-activists-are-focused-on-all-the-wrong-solutions/
Blizzard cancels Overwatch’s Switch launch event
https://twitter.com/nintendonyc/status/1183940424467173378
YouTube Regrets
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/youtube-regrets/
WeWork Prefers JPMorgan Financing Lifeline to Rescue by SoftBank
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-15/wework-prefers-jpmorgan-financing-lifeline-to-rescue-by-softbank
What IBM Pays H-1B Software Engineers and Developers
https://insights.dice.com/2019/10/15/ibm-h-1b-software-engineer-pay/
SketchUp tweet include link to article with FreeCAD screenshot
https://twitter.com/yorikvanhavre/status/1183888264228417536
The ’glass floor’ keeps the children of the rich at the top
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/the-glass-floor-is-keeping-americas-richest-idiots-at-the-top_n_5d9fb1c9e4b06ddfc516e076?ri18n=true&guccounter=1
‘Abominable’ pulled from Vietnamese cinemas because of a map of China
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2019-10-14/abominable-pulled-from-vietnamese-cinemas-because-of-a-map-of-china
US House Okays Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/3033108/us-house-approves-hong-kong-human-rights-and-democracy-act-senate
War on plastic waste faces setback as cost of recycled material soars
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/13/war-on-plastic-waste-faces-setback-as-cost-of-recycled-material-soars
Fight Club at 20: the prescience and power of David Fincher’s drama
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/oct/15/fight-club-at-20-the-prescience-and-power-of-david-finchers-drama
Software company in accordance with the theory of constraints
https://medium.com/@nemshilov/software-organisation-in-accordance-with-the-theory-of-constraints-part-1-4e9979e0da52
Jennifer Aniston’s Instagram debut sends platform crashing
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/oct/15/jennifer-anistons-instagram-debut-sends-platform-crashing
What Is Predictive Modeling
https://www.theseattledataguy.com/what-is-predictive-modeling/
Mind-reading technology is everyone’s next big security nightmare
https://www.zdnet.com/article/is-mind-reading-tech-your-next-big-security-nightmare-yes-but-not-in-the-way-you-might-expect/
Top Microsoft exec says online privacy has reached ’a crisis point’
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/14/success/microsoft-brad-smith-online-privacy-boss-files/
Apple’s Long, Bumpy Road to Hollywood
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/apples-bumpy-tv-launch-inside-tech-giants-impending-arrival-hollywood-1247577
Are you ready for America’s data protection laws?
https://venturebeat.com/2019/10/12/are-you-ready-for-americas-data-protection-laws/
Nobel Laureates Aim Too Low on Global Poverty
https://www.wsj.com/articles/nobel-laureates-aim-too-low-on-global-poverty-11571093795?mod=rsswn
On Recent Controversial Events – Bradley M. Kuhn
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2019/10/15/fsf-rms.html
US nuclear bombs at Turkish airbase complicate rift over Syria invasion
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/14/us-bombs-at-turkish-airbase-complicate-rift-over-syria-invasion
The Lines of Code That Changed Everything
https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/consequential-computer-code-software-history.html
FreeCodeCamp is building an OSS alternative to Meetup after Meetup’s new pricing
https://twitter.com/ossia/status/1183845054449930241
Google Announces Pixel 4
https://store.google.com/product/pixel_4
SpaceX submits paperwork for 30k more Starlink satellites
https://spacenews.com/spacex-submits-paperwork-for-30000-more-starlink-satellites/
Are China’s Tantrums Signs of Strength or Weakness?
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/10/why-does-china-care-about-daryl-moreys-hong-kong-tweet/600001/
Ohio Was Set to Purge 235,000 Voters. It Was Wrong About 20%
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/us/politics/ohio-voter-purge.html
WeWork is Desperately Squeezing Cash Out of Meetup.com
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-wework-meetup-debacle-and-a-new-chapter/
Ubuntu ZFS support in 19.10: ZFS on root
https://didrocks.fr/2019/10/11/ubuntu-zfs-support-in-19.10-zfs-on-root/
Millennials are about to trigger a major ‘changeover point’ for the US economy
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/14/millennials-to-trigger-changeover-point-for-the-us-economy-bill-smead-says.html
YouTube links no longer allowed on r/Linux
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/deqgg1/meta_youtube_links_no_longer_allowed_on_rlinux/
History of open-source C++ GUI libraries [Reddit]
https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/di3xl9/history_of_opensourcegui_library/
VPNs, how to use them properly and stay anonymous
https://www.minds.com/targeted/blog/vpns-how-to-use-them-properly-and-stay-anonymous-1020961026279587840
C++ Creator Bjarne Stroustrup Answers Our Top Five C++ Questions
https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/10/11/c-creator-bjarne-stroustrup-answers-our-top-five-c-questions/
Google employees are fighting decision to ban a Hong Kong protest video game app
https://www.vox.com/2019/10/15/20915729/google-hong-kong-video-game-revolution-of-our-times
Killing Kafka: The Pitfalls of Over-Architecting
https://medium.com/spaceship/killing-kafka-the-pitfalls-of-over-architecting-c9fe3f1085fb
Hong Kong Protesters Are Targeting Starbucks. Apple Could Be Next
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/15/business/hong-kong-starbucks-vandalism.html
How Times Reporters Proved Russia Bombed Syrian Hospitals
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/13/reader-center/russia-syria-hospitals-investigation.html
Show HN: Mixed Naive Bayes for categorical and continuous data, written in NumPy
https://github.com/remykarem/mixed-naive-bayes
Tencent Cancels ESPN Basketball Show After Host “Likes” Hong Kong Tweet
https://deadspin.com/adrian-wojnarowski-upset-former-espn-reporter-who-helpe-1838922338
A Big Little Idea Called Ergodicity (Or the Ultimate Guide to Russian Roulette)
https://taylorpearson.me/ergodicity/
WeWork set to sack 2,000 staff as anger towards Adam Neumann grows
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/oct/15/wework-sack-staff-workers-adam-neumann
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I just lost my wallet on the way home from work
https://twitter.com/Timcammm/status/1183782929614409729
Interested in improving your relationships? Try Nonviolent Communication
https://www.clearerthinking.org/single-post/2019/03/06/Want-to-improve-your-relationships-Try-Nonviolent-Communication-1
I hate Xlib and so should you
https://www.remlab.net/op/xlib.shtml
OnionShare makes it easy to publish anonymous, uncensorable websites
https://micahflee.com/2019/10/new-version-of-onionshare-makes-it-easy-for-anyone-to-publish-anonymous-uncensorable-websites/
California’s new law bans schools from starting before 8am
https://qz.com/1727790/californias-new-law-bans-schools-from-starting-before-8am/
Whales Keep Carbon Out of the Atmosphere
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/whales-keep-carbon-out-of-the-atmosphere/
Study in mice explains how brain can turn pain signals up or down
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-study-mice-explains-how-brain-can-turn-pain-signals-or-down
The sudden death and eternal life of Solaris (2017)
http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2017/09/04/the-sudden-death-and-eternal-life-of-solaris/
Beating Decades of Optimized C with 80 Lines of Haskell
https://chrispenner.ca/posts/wc
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https://www.ploopy.co
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Ionic React
https://ionicframework.com/blog/announcing-ionic-react/
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Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/migration-complete-amazons-consumer-business-just-turned-off-its-final-oracle-database/
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Dutch family ’waiting for end of time’ discovered in basement
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50054044
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https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/perception-of-musical-pitch-varies-across-cultures
What the Hell Was Modernism?
https://www.vulture.com/2019/10/jerry-saltz-new-moma-modernism.html
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https://assist.app/hn
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https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/triumph-tribulations-towboats-mississippi-river
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https://tspvis.com
Solving the Rubik’s cube with a robot hand
https://openai.com/blog/solving-rubiks-cube/
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https://github.com/salesforce/policy_sentry
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Apache Arrow Flight: A Framework for Fast Data Transport
http://arrow.apache.org/blog/2019/10/13/introducing-arrow-flight/
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Voyage Around My Cell
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/10/10/voyage-around-my-cell/
Firefox Privacy How-To Guide
https://restoreprivacy.com/firefox-privacy/
The Dream of New York’s Forgotten Elevated Subway
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Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-15/blizzard-cancels-overwatch-event-as-it-tries-to-contain-backlash
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https://towardsdatascience.com/learning-to-simulate-c53d8b393a56
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/15/teens-find-circumventing-apples-parental-controls-is-childs-play/
Firefox’s New WebSocket Inspector
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/10/firefoxs-new-websocket-inspector/
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https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5219/e-m-forster-the-art-of-fiction-no-1-e-m-forster
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https://slackhq.com/automate-tasks-in-slack-with-workflow-builder
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1649-6
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https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/10/13/america-cultural-divide-red-state-blue-state-228111
DuckDuckGo Search Improvements
https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-search-improvements/
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https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/15/googles-new-voice-recorder-app-transcribes-in-real-time-even-when-offline/
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https://dlang.org/blog/2019/10/15/my-vision-of-ds-future/
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https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/mind-secret-bunker
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https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/08/arrogance-anthropocene/595795/
Face-recognition technology is the new norm
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/15/opinion/facial-recognition-police.html
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http://www.ditabase.io/
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/lebron-jamess-big-miss-on-china-11571155717?mod=rsswn
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https://relay.nationalgeographic.com/proxy/distribution/public/culture/topics/reference/hong-kong-history-visualized
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https://modernpricing.com/blog/posts/how-to-become-your-companys-growth-hero
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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/man-agrees-to-pay-25000-for-abusing-youtubes-takedown-system/
Google SVP Hardware: I’d disclose smart speakers before guests enter my home
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50048144
.NET Core 3.0 Concludes the .NET Framework API Porting Project
https://github.com/dotnet/announcements/issues/130
Rustup 1.20.0
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2019/10/15/Rustup-1.20.0.html
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https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.06300
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https://news.codecademy.com/bjarne-stroustrup-interview/
5G Mobile Networks: A Systems Approach
https://5g.systemsapproach.org/index.html
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https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/10/self-driving-scooter-tortoise-technology-mobility-sidewalks/600013/
IMF predicts slowest global economic growth since 2008 financial crisis
https://www.axios.com/imf-global-economic-growth-great-recession-financial-crisis-8ce86d7e-698a-4947-bddb-100f8548cf22.html
Awakening from the Meaning Crisis – Episode 6 – Aristotle, Kant, and Evolution
https://kaue.me/posts/2019/06/10/john-vervaeke-awakening-from-the-meaning-crisis-episode-6-aristotle-kant-and-evolution-summary/
DNS Security: Threat Modeling DNSSEC, DoT, and DoH
https://www.netmeister.org/blog/doh-dot-dnssec.html
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https://blog.oxplot.com/usb-pd-standalone-sink-controller/
Probabilistic Scraping of Plain Text Tables (2013)
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$100k/year still might not be enough to buy a home
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https://www.friday.app/rise-remote-work
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Tech Book Face Off: How to Design Programs vs. SICP
https://sam-koblenski.blogspot.com/2019/10/tech-book-face-off-how-to-design.html
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Roomba Maker Sues Upstart SharkNinja
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https://evergov.com/
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https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/pourquoi_la_suisse/
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Chipotle Will Offer Free College Tuition to All Employees
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https://longreads.com/2019/10/08/ugly-history-beautiful-things-orchids/
Flash Memory Wear Killing Older Teslas Due to Excessive Data Logging: Report
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergotism
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Soviet Space Dogs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_space_dogs
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Facebook employee says he was fired for speaking out about his colleague suicide
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Switzerland vs Silicon Valley for Software Developers
https://swissdevjobs.ch/blog/switzerland-vs-silicon-valley
Zombie debts are hounding struggling Americans
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World Leaders on Twitter: Principles and Approach
https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2019/worldleaders2019.html
Parsing in Python: Tools and Libraries
https://tomassetti.me/parsing-in-python/
Baltimore Blew Off Ransomware Demand Only to Find Data Had Never Been Backed Up
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/upshot/diet-soda-health-myths.html
Tau is easier than Pi (2014)
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https://www.polygon.com/2019/10/15/20828843/studio-ghibli-movies-miyazaki-streaming-netflix-disney-plus
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https://www.fastcompany.com/90413617/the-gig-economys-deepest-problem-isnt-about-tech-at-all
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Reverse Engineering Liberates Dash Cam Video
https://hackaday.com/2019/10/15/reverse-engineering-liberates-dash-cam-video/
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https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333965/firing-mods-and-forced-relicensing-is-stack-exchange-still-interested-in-cooper
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https://github.com/prodo-dev/prodo
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https://dev.to/degoodmanwilson/open-source-is-broken-g60
Google Kills Daydream VR
https://www.engadget.com/2019/10/15/google-daydream-view-smartphone-vr-pixel-4/
Exceptionally Gifted Children: Long-term effects of grade-skipping
https://www.davidsongifted.org/search-database/entry/a10489
Apple Releases iOS 13.1.3
https://www.macrumors.com/2019/10/15/ios-13-1-3-released/
Silicon Valley billionaires are trying to invest in slowing the aging process
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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/15/brighton_and_hove_5g_masts/
Basecamp no longer requires Google for two-factor authentication
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Blizzard cancels Overwatch’s Switch launch event
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YouTube Regrets
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/youtube-regrets/
WeWork Prefers JPMorgan Financing Lifeline to Rescue by SoftBank
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-15/wework-prefers-jpmorgan-financing-lifeline-to-rescue-by-softbank
What IBM Pays H-1B Software Engineers and Developers
https://insights.dice.com/2019/10/15/ibm-h-1b-software-engineer-pay/
SketchUp tweet include link to article with FreeCAD screenshot
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The ’glass floor’ keeps the children of the rich at the top
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‘Abominable’ pulled from Vietnamese cinemas because of a map of China
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2019-10-14/abominable-pulled-from-vietnamese-cinemas-because-of-a-map-of-china
US House Okays Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/3033108/us-house-approves-hong-kong-human-rights-and-democracy-act-senate
War on plastic waste faces setback as cost of recycled material soars
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/13/war-on-plastic-waste-faces-setback-as-cost-of-recycled-material-soars
Fight Club at 20: the prescience and power of David Fincher’s drama
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/oct/15/fight-club-at-20-the-prescience-and-power-of-david-finchers-drama
Software company in accordance with the theory of constraints
https://medium.com/@nemshilov/software-organisation-in-accordance-with-the-theory-of-constraints-part-1-4e9979e0da52
Jennifer Aniston’s Instagram debut sends platform crashing
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/oct/15/jennifer-anistons-instagram-debut-sends-platform-crashing
What Is Predictive Modeling
https://www.theseattledataguy.com/what-is-predictive-modeling/
Mind-reading technology is everyone’s next big security nightmare
https://www.zdnet.com/article/is-mind-reading-tech-your-next-big-security-nightmare-yes-but-not-in-the-way-you-might-expect/
Top Microsoft exec says online privacy has reached ’a crisis point’
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/14/success/microsoft-brad-smith-online-privacy-boss-files/
Apple’s Long, Bumpy Road to Hollywood
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/apples-bumpy-tv-launch-inside-tech-giants-impending-arrival-hollywood-1247577
Are you ready for America’s data protection laws?
https://venturebeat.com/2019/10/12/are-you-ready-for-americas-data-protection-laws/
Nobel Laureates Aim Too Low on Global Poverty
https://www.wsj.com/articles/nobel-laureates-aim-too-low-on-global-poverty-11571093795?mod=rsswn
On Recent Controversial Events – Bradley M. Kuhn
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2019/10/15/fsf-rms.html
US nuclear bombs at Turkish airbase complicate rift over Syria invasion
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/14/us-bombs-at-turkish-airbase-complicate-rift-over-syria-invasion
The Lines of Code That Changed Everything
https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/consequential-computer-code-software-history.html
FreeCodeCamp is building an OSS alternative to Meetup after Meetup’s new pricing
https://twitter.com/ossia/status/1183845054449930241
Google Announces Pixel 4
https://store.google.com/product/pixel_4
SpaceX submits paperwork for 30k more Starlink satellites
https://spacenews.com/spacex-submits-paperwork-for-30000-more-starlink-satellites/
Are China’s Tantrums Signs of Strength or Weakness?
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/10/why-does-china-care-about-daryl-moreys-hong-kong-tweet/600001/
Ohio Was Set to Purge 235,000 Voters. It Was Wrong About 20%
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/us/politics/ohio-voter-purge.html
WeWork is Desperately Squeezing Cash Out of Meetup.com
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-wework-meetup-debacle-and-a-new-chapter/
Ubuntu ZFS support in 19.10: ZFS on root
https://didrocks.fr/2019/10/11/ubuntu-zfs-support-in-19.10-zfs-on-root/
Millennials are about to trigger a major ‘changeover point’ for the US economy
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/14/millennials-to-trigger-changeover-point-for-the-us-economy-bill-smead-says.html
YouTube links no longer allowed on r/Linux
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/deqgg1/meta_youtube_links_no_longer_allowed_on_rlinux/
History of open-source C++ GUI libraries [Reddit]
https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/di3xl9/history_of_opensourcegui_library/
VPNs, how to use them properly and stay anonymous
https://www.minds.com/targeted/blog/vpns-how-to-use-them-properly-and-stay-anonymous-1020961026279587840
C++ Creator Bjarne Stroustrup Answers Our Top Five C++ Questions
https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/10/11/c-creator-bjarne-stroustrup-answers-our-top-five-c-questions/
Google employees are fighting decision to ban a Hong Kong protest video game app
https://www.vox.com/2019/10/15/20915729/google-hong-kong-video-game-revolution-of-our-times
Killing Kafka: The Pitfalls of Over-Architecting
https://medium.com/spaceship/killing-kafka-the-pitfalls-of-over-architecting-c9fe3f1085fb
Hong Kong Protesters Are Targeting Starbucks. Apple Could Be Next
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/15/business/hong-kong-starbucks-vandalism.html
How Times Reporters Proved Russia Bombed Syrian Hospitals
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/13/reader-center/russia-syria-hospitals-investigation.html
Show HN: Mixed Naive Bayes for categorical and continuous data, written in NumPy
https://github.com/remykarem/mixed-naive-bayes
Tencent Cancels ESPN Basketball Show After Host “Likes” Hong Kong Tweet
https://deadspin.com/adrian-wojnarowski-upset-former-espn-reporter-who-helpe-1838922338
A Big Little Idea Called Ergodicity (Or the Ultimate Guide to Russian Roulette)
https://taylorpearson.me/ergodicity/
WeWork set to sack 2,000 staff as anger towards Adam Neumann grows
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/oct/15/wework-sack-staff-workers-adam-neumann
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