**HN:Live | 01.11.2019 | Today's review of HN:Live**

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The Fantasy of Opting Out
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-fantasy-of-opting-out/

Lack of cdnjs activity
https://github.com/cdnjs/cdnjs/issues/13524

Htop Explained
https://peteris.rocks/blog/htop/

NSO hacked WhatsApp to spy on top government officials at U.S. allies
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-cyber-whatsapp-nsogroup/exclusive-whatsapp-hacked-to-spy-on-top-government-officials-at-u-s-allies-sources-idUSKBN1XA27H

Deep Sleep May Help the Brain Clear Alzheimer’s Toxins
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/10/31/775068218/how-deep-sleep-may-help-the-brain-clear-alzheimers-toxins

Sunset Geometry (2016)
https://www.shapeoperator.com/2016/12/12/sunset-geometry/

The Lx Programming Language (2002)
http://mozart-dev.sourceforge.net/lx.html

Selme – A free tool to find your ideal customer profile data
http://www.selme.me

Restic – Backups Done Right
https://restic.net/

Human-controlled robots shown to make manufacturing safer, more efficient
https://news.wisc.edu/sharing-control-with-robots-may-make-aircraft-manufacturing-safer-more-efficient/

Texas Instruments’ Speak and Spell
https://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/gadgets/the-consumer-electronics-hall-of-fame-texas-instruments-speak-spell

Here Dragons Abound: Exploring procedural generation and display of fantasy maps
https://heredragonsabound.blogspot.com

Million Short
https://millionshort.com/about

We Will Call It Pala: A Story for the Psychedelic Movement
http://aurynfund.org/pala

Twelve-factor app development on Google Cloud
https://cloud.google.com/solutions/twelve-factor-app-development-on-gcp

Quiet.js – Transmit and receive data in the browser at 44.1kHz
https://quiet.github.io/quiet-js/

Typestates in Rust (2018)
https://yoric.github.io/post/rust-typestate/

The Machine Learning Software Engineering Interview
https://eng.lyft.com/how-lyft-designs-the-machine-learning-software-engineering-interview-bbbb9fc8bb28

I’ve Got Nothing to Hide’ and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy (2014)
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565

We need new data books, so we started one: Cloud Data Management
https://chartio.com/blog/cloud-data-management-book-launch/

Frab – free and open conference management system
https://frab.github.io/frab/

Alf.io: open-source ticket reservation system
http://alf.io

Jack London in the Wild
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gold-fever-deadly-cold-and-amazing-true-adventures-jack-london-wild-180973316/

Stop Explaining Black Box Models for High Stakes Decisions
https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1811.10154/

Scikit-Learn’s Defaults Are Wrong
https://ryxcommar.com/2019/08/30/scikit-learns-defaults-are-wrong

The Global Fertility Crash
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-global-fertility-crash

Static analysis of an unknown compression format (2012)
http://blog.lse.epita.fr/articles/8-static-analysis-of-an-unknown-compression-format.html

Woof, Woof
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n21/rosemary-hill/woof-woof

What Is a Nation? (2015)
https://notesonliberty.com/2015/03/30/what-is-a-nation/

The FBI Is Tracking Our Faces in Secret, and We’re Suing
https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/the-fbi-is-tracking-our-faces-in-secret-were-suing/

An Electric Aviation Pioneer Who Aims to Crack the Pilot Shortage
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremybogaisky/2019/10/24/bye-electric-pilot-shortage/#48069f3553ea

Building columnar compression in a row-oriented database
https://blog.timescale.com/blog/building-columnar-compression-in-a-row-oriented-database/

Jackson Pollock’s painting technique
https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/jackson-pollock-painting-technique-scn/index.html

Show HN: Simple command line note taking tool
https://github.com/tomlockwood/dn

Snake game made in Go
https://github.com/tristangoossens/snake-go

The largest methane fountain so far discovered in the Arctic Ocean
https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/first-pictures-and-video-of-the-largest-methane-fountain-so-far-discovered-in-the-arctic-ocean/

Please don’t use Slack for FOSS projects (2015)
https://drewdevault.com/2015/11/01/Please-stop-using-slack.html

K-means clustering using sklearn and Python
https://heartbeat.fritz.ai/k-means-clustering-using-sklearn-and-python-4a054d67b187

Show HN: Command Line Résumé
https://cmd-resume.bbody.io/

Boeing employee raised concern over Max sensor three years before crashes
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/oct/30/boeing-hearings-dennis-muilenburg-737-max-sensor

Piper Announces First GA Aircraft with Autoland Capability
https://www.piper.com/press-releases/piper-announces-new-m600-sls/

New type of black holes – Non interacting low-mass black hole
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6465/637

The first high-resolution map of America’s food supply chain
https://www.fastcompany.com/90422553/the-first-map-of-americas-food-supply-chain-is-mind-boggling

FDA Approves Drug with Potential to Treat 90% of Cystic Fibrosis Patients
https://cysticfibrosisnewstoday.com/2019/10/22/fda-approves-trikafta-1st-vertex-triple-combo-with-potential-to-treat-90-of-cf-patients/

Acetaminophen exposure in pregnancy linked to higher risk of ADHD, autism: study
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-funded-study-suggests-acetaminophen-exposure-pregnancy-linked-higher-risk-adhd-autism

Stop Bashing Bash: A New Open-Source Library and Pattern for Sharing Bash
https://www.conjur.org/blog/stop-bashing-bash/

Why do we think cats are unfriendly?
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191024-why-do-we-think-cats-are-unfriendly

Is Death Reversible?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-death-reversible/

GitHub takes down Catalan app after order by the Spanish Civil Guard
https://www.elnacional.cat/en/news/microsoft-github-spain-civil-guard-catalan-app_436494_102.html

Effective VimScript
https://arp242.net/effective-vimscript.html

Practical Drift Towards Failure
https://risk-engineering.org/concept/Rasmussen-practical-drift

Acquiring Books for the Greatest Libraries in the World (2018)
https://lithub.com/acquiring-books-for-the-greatest-libraries-in-the-world/

Dex (YC S19) is hiring founding engineers to build delightful personal CRM
https://angel.co/company/dex-8/jobs/635625-founding-engineer

I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43k7z3/nationwide-fake-host-scam-on-airbnb

Vim Splits: A Guide to Doing What You Want (2010)
https://technotales.wordpress.com/2010/04/29/vim-splits-a-guide-to-doing-exactly-what-you-want/

FastSpark: A New Fast Native Implementation of Spark from Scratch
https://medium.com/@rajasekar3eg/fastspark-a-new-fast-native-implementation-of-spark-from-scratch-368373a29a5c

A Full List of Bill Gates’ Book Recommendations from 2012 to 2019
https://bookriot.com/2019/07/19/bill-gates-book-recommendations/

BZFlag
https://www.bzflag.org/

Saving the World from Spreadsheets [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyWKxFxyyrQ

U.S. patent board is unconstitutional, but problem can be fixed: appeals court
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-ptab-decision/u-s-patent-board-is-unconstitutional-but-problem-can-be-fixed-appeals-court-idUSKBN1XA2NN

Destroying x86_64 instruction decoders with differential fuzzing
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/10/31/destroying-x86_64-instruction-decoders-with-differential-fuzzing/

Zuckerberg doubles down on Facebook political ads policy after Twitter ban
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/468216-zuckerberg-doubles-down-on-facebook-political-ads-policy-after-twitter-ban

SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son Speaks to an Almost Empty Room at Saudi Summit
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-30/softbank-s-son-speaks-to-an-almost-empty-room-at-saudi-summit

Swift Server Work Group Annual Update
https://swift.org/blog/sswg-update/

“Just-in-time code generation” the coolest language feature you never heard of
https://github.com/manifold-systems/manifold/tree/master/manifold-core-parent/manifold#the-big-picture

End Amazon Style Corporate Welfare: Can We Launch One-Year “Life MBAs” Instead?
https://think-boundless.com/beyond-corporate-welfare-life-mba/

Some Blizzard employees are dreading BlizzCon
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-10-31/blizzard-employees-blizzcon-protests

A Machine Learning Guide to Hierarchical Temporal Memory
https://numenta.com/blog/2019/10/24/machine-learning-guide-to-htm

Chatiton.com – chat with people Real-Time on a 3-D map interface
https://www.chatiton.com/

Amazon will stop sales of used first-party Nintendo products starting November 1
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/10/amazon-no-more-third-party-sales-of-nintendo-products-without-approval/

Protecting Against Code Reuse in the Linux Kernel with Shadow Call Stack
https://security.googleblog.com/2019/10/protecting-against-code-reuse-in-linux_30.html

Notation as a Tool of Thought (1979) [pdf]
http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/%7Ejzhu/csc326/readings/iverson.pdf

Measles erases immune ‘memory’ for other diseases
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03324-7

GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract
https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2019-10-31/github-ice-contract-defense

Cosmic Triangles Open a Window to the Origin of Time
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-origin-of-time-bootstrapped-from-fundamental-symmetries-20191029/

The average color of the universe is "Cosmic latte"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_latte

Location, Privilege and Performant Websites
https://blog.stephaniestimac.com/posts/10-30-2019-performance/

Aaron Sorkin: An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/opinion/aaron-sorkin-mark-zuckerberg-facebook.html

Rob Pike on the reasons for Go’s success
https://changelog.com/posts/5-things-rob-pike-attributes-to-gos-success

The trouble with indiscriminate tree-planting in Africa
https://mg.co.za/article/2019-10-31-00-the-trouble-with-indiscriminate-tree-planting-in-africa

Lots of Job Hunting, but No Job, Despite Low Unemployment
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/business/economy/long-term-unemployed.html

Functional Fortran
https://wavebitscientific.github.io/functional-fortran/

Shape Detection API: a picture is worth a thousand words, faces, and barcodes
https://web.dev/shape-detection/

Messagetap: Who’s Reading Your Text Messages?
https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2019/10/messagetap-who-is-reading-your-text-messages.html

Managing CPU Load in Golang
https://blog.ellation.com/managing-cpu-load-in-golang-515b9356bc5

SameSite Cookie Recipes
https://web.dev/samesite-cookie-recipes/

In Defense of Comic Sans
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/25/i-dont-care-what-others-say-this-is-typeface-me/

Deploying Static VueJS/NuxtJS Site to Cloudflare Worker Sites
https://scotch.io/tutorials/deploying-a-static-nuxtjs-site-to-cloudflare-workers

Uber allegedly paid $100k ransom and had hackers sign NDAs after breach
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/uber-hack-company-allegedly-paid-hackers-ransom-had-them-sign-ndas/

Video and Audio: Codecs and Containers Explained
https://videoprog.com/codecs-and-containers-explained

Fine tuning full text search with PostgreSQL 12
https://rob.conery.io/2019/10/29/fine-tuning-full-text-search-with-postgresql-12/

My Blogging Stack in 2020
https://christianfei.com/posts/2019-10-27-my-blogging-stack-in-2020/

Thin Locks: Featherweight Synchronization for Java (1998) [pdf]
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.90.664&rep=rep1&type=pdf

I got rich on the other hand
https://sivers.org/richand

Legislation Would Require Search Engines to Disclose Algorithms
https://www.wsj.com/articles/legislation-would-require-search-engines-to-disclose-algorithms-11572540266?mod=rsswn

Show HN: The fastest way to run Node code on a schedule
https://pipedream.com/@tod/run-node-code-on-a-schedule-p_LQCBgr/readme

Dependency injection is dynamic scoping in disguise
http://gustavlundin.com/di-frameworks-are-dynamic-binding/

DOJ asks Facebook to halt end-to-end encryption plans
https://www.engadget.com/2019/10/03/doj-facebook-end-to-end-encryption-whatsapp-instagram-messenger/

Ask HN: How do I get a minimal Rust & WebGL Hello World demo running in Browser?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58652319/how-do-i-get-a-minimal-rust-webgl-hello-world-demo-running-in-a-browser

Show HN: K3sup get k3s and helm charts in less then 5 mins – anywhere
https://github.com/alexellis/k3sup

Dylan: A New Language Is Blowin’ in the Wind (1992)
https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/1992/09/dylan_a_new_language.html

Show HN: Pixaven – modern GPU-powered image processing API
https://www.pixaven.com

What Is a Better Call to Action Than “Request a Demo”?
https://capitalandgrowth.org/questions/1539/what-is-a-better-call-to-action-than-request-a-dem.html

A stranger’s TV went on spending spree with my Amazon account
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/31/amazon_account_hacking/

Architecting petabyte-scale analytics by scaling out Postgres with Citus
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Azure-Database-for-PostgreSQL/Architecting-petabyte-scale-analytics-by-scaling-out-Postgres-on/ba-p/969685

Why I’m sort of leaving Linux
https://dev.to/vetswhocode/why-i-m-sort-of-leaving-linux-1oh7

I Miss the OLPC, a Little Laptop That Dreamed Bigger Than It Could Deliver
https://gizmodo.com/i-miss-the-olpc-a-little-laptop-that-dreamed-bigger-th-1839150623

Boeing is facing fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane
https://www.businessinsider.com/boeing-737-ng-qantas-finds-crack-airlines-inspect-fleets-reports-2019-10

Federal Court Says ’Touch DNA’ Analysis Can’t Be Used as Evidence
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191026/12493943266/federal-court-says-touch-dna-analysis-is-mostly-guesswork-that-cant-be-used-as-evidence.shtml

So Long, Wunderground
https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/So-Long-Wunderground

Farmers sue German government over climate change failures
https://www.euronews.com/2019/10/31/farmers-sue-german-government-over-climate-change-failures

Show HN: Inletsctl – self-hosted network tunnels
https://github.com/inlets/inletsctl

Police Owe Nothing to Man Whose Home They Blew Up, Appeals Court Says
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/30/774788611/police-owe-nothing-to-man-whose-home-they-blew-up-appeals-court-says

Texas court upholds “do it on a computer” check-cashing patent
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/texas-court-upholds-do-it-on-a-computer-check-cashing-patent/

‘Sexual’ use of eggplant and peach emojis banned on Facebook, Instagram
https://nypost.com/2019/10/29/sexual-use-of-eggplant-and-peach-emojis-banned-on-facebook-instagram/

The Ransomware Superhero of Normal, Illinois
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-ransomware-superhero-of-normal-illinois

Rise of the Mathematicians
https://antonhowes.substack.com/p/age-of-invention-rise-of-the-mathematicians

How I got rich on the other hand
https://sivers.org/richand

Climate Change: Rail Companies Sign Up to Flight Shame Movement
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-29/climate-change-rail-companies-sign-up-to-flight-shame-movement

The US city preparing itself for the collapse of capitalism
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/oct/31/us-city-preparing-itself-for-the-collapse-of-capitalism

Never Underestimate the Intelligence of Trees
http://nautil.us/issue/77/underworlds/never-underestimate-the-intelligence-of-trees

Electric cars could charge in 10 minutes with a new kind of battery
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2221740-electric-cars-could-charge-in-10-minutes-with-a-new-kind-of-battery/

New Ghost 3.0 with GraphQL (Gatsby)
https://blog.graphqleditor.com/ghost-gatsby-graphql/

The fundamentals of understanding color theory
https://99designs.com/blog/tips/the-7-step-guide-to-understanding-color-theory/

Fiat Chrysler and Peugeot owner PSA agree £35bn merger
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/oct/31/fiat-chrysler-and-psa-peugeot-agree-35bn-merger

Neural network reconstructs human thoughts from brain waves in real time
https://techxplore.com/news/2019-10-neural-network-reconstructs-human-thoughts.html

Identity, Registration and Activation of Non-Packaged Win32 Apps
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2019/10/29/identity-registration-and-activation-of-non-packaged-win32-apps/

Can humans tell pâté from dog food? (2009)
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2009/may/26/improbable-research-pet-food

The perils of security and how I finally resolved my Amazon fraud
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/dpbt3t/the_perils_of_security_and_how_i_finally_resolved/

Sidewalk Labs document reveals company’s early vision
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-sidewalk-labs-document-reveals-companys-early-plans-for-data/

Sub-surface damage when sharpening steel
https://scienceofsharp.com/2019/10/02/grit-scratches-and-sub-surface-damage-part-1/

Orleans 3.0
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/orleans-3-0/

Whistleblower who escaped Chinese ’re-education camp’ reveals horrors
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7599941/Whistleblower-escaped-Chinese-education-camp-reveals-horrors.html

An Extensive List of Everything That Might Be Causing the “Vaping Illness”
https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/vaping-illness-causes-exhaustive-list.html

Gaia-X is Germany’s attempt to break the hold of US cloud providers
https://fortune.com/2019/10/30/europe-cloud-independence-gaia-x-germany-france/

Creates Python Projects from Cookiecutters
https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter

Finding product-market fit: models and frameworks for SaaS companies
https://notion.vc/resources/finding-product-market-fit-models-and-frameworks-for-saas-companies/

Hackers who extorted Uber and LinkedIn plead guilty
https://www.zdnet.com/article/hackers-who-extorted-uber-and-linkedin-plead-guilty/

RPi4: Now Overclocked, Net-Booted, and Power-Sipping
https://hackaday.com/2019/10/30/rpi4-now-overclocked-net-booted-and-power-sipping/

Show HN: Doodledocs – draw on a blank canvas or annotate websites together
https://doodledocs.com/

Cybersecurity adviser Giuliani needed Apple genius help to unlock his iPhone
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/rudy-giuliani-needed-apple-genius-help-unlock-his-iphone-after-n1074241

Microsoft Q&A (Preview)
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/teamblog/introducing-microsoft-qanda

Ubisoft reports 93% drop in DDoS attacks after pushing back against attackers
https://www.zdnet.com/article/ubisoft-reports-93-drop-in-ddos-attacks-after-pushing-back-against-attackers/

Russia Is About to Disconnect from the Internet
https://www.pcmag.com/news/371347/russia-is-about-to-disconnect-from-the-internet-what-that-m

My Tips and Study Notes for AWS Certified Solutions Architect
https://siujoeng-lau.com/2019/10/aws-csa/

System provides cooling with no electricity
https://m.techxplore.com/news/2019-10-cooling-electricity.html

Pack Your Bags – Systemd Is Taking You to a New Home
https://hackaday.com/2019/10/16/pack-your-bags-systemd-is-taking-you-to-a-new-home/

Shh the Secret to Building Great AI
https://towardsdatascience.com/shh-the-secret-to-building-great-ai-c9dc04e94cdd

How to Extend Scikit-Learn and Bring Sanity to Your Machine Learning Workflow
https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/10/extend-scikit-learn-bring-sanity-machine-learning-workflow.html

WireGuard: A Breakthrough in Online Security
https://readwrite.com/2019/10/30/wireguard-a-breakthrough-in-online-security/

Facebook ’scam’ posing as Trump campaign ran political ads, sought donations
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/30/tech/facebook-fake-trump-page/index.html

Why You Might Not Want to Believe Michael Baden on Epstein’s Death
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/10/why-to-be-skeptical-of-michael-baden-on-epsteins-death.html

A380 Photo Session
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsQmuOPOk6o

Big data workflow scheduling with Airflow and orchestration tools (Docker Swarm)
https://medium.com/@akkidx/orchestrating-airflow-tasks-with-docker-swarm-69b5fb2723a7

Most of Deadspin staff resigns in protest
https://ftw.usatoday.com/2019/10/deadspin-rip

Facebook permanently deletes accounts of NSO Group workers
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/facebook-permanently-deletes-the-accounts-of-nso-workers/

Germany’s Giant Windmills Are Unpopular
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-31/germany-s-nationalist-party-has-wind-industry-in-limbo

Lifetime Earnings Are 40-50% Heritable
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10888-019-09413-x

The Cloudflare-Chrome TLS Post-Quantum Experiment
https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-tls-post-quantum-experiment/

‘China is stealing our stuff and they’re not even hiding it’: Tech Protection
https://sociable.co/technology/china-is-stealing-our-stuff-and-theyre-not-even-hiding-it-us-tech-protection-task-force/

Across the Board, Scores Drop in Math and Reading for U.S. Students
https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2019-10-30/across-the-board-scores-drop-in-math-and-reading-for-us-students

House votes to formalize the impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2019/oct/31/trump-news-today-live-impeachment-inquiry-tim-morrison

FAANG employees give most often to Sanders and Warren
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/faang-employees-give-most-often-to-sanders-warren-snub-biden-201253891.html

T-Mobile Now Offers Home Internet for $50 Per Month with No Data Cap
https://www.t-mobile.com/isp/index

AMD Joined the Blender Foundation Development Fund at Patron Level
https://twitter.com/blender_org/status/1187019907768242176

Spain will prevent “digital republic” in Catalonia
https://www.catalannews.com/politics/item/spain-takes-the-fight-against-independence-online

WhatsApp hacked to spy on top government officials at U.S. allies
https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-cyber-whatsapp-nsogroup/exclusive-whatsapp-hacked-to-spy-on-top-government-officials-at-u-s-allies-sources-idUKKBN1XA27H

Google AI beats top human players at strategy game StarCraft II
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03298-6

AlphaStar: Grandmaster Level in StarCraft II
https://deepmind.com/blog/article/AlphaStar-Grandmaster-level-in-StarCraft-II-using-multi-agent-reinforcement-learning

Grandmaster level in StarCraft II using multi-agent reinforcement learning [pdf]
https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/research/alphastar/AlphaStar_unformatted.pdf



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