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Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/25/technology/dod-jedi-contract.html
Don Valentine has died
https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/remembering-don-valentine/
Supercritical CO2 is heavy like a liquid, with weird and useful properties
https://popula.com/2019/01/29/saving-the-planet-with-co2/
Indian startups have raised a record $11.3B this year
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/23/india-tech-startups-fundraise/
The dream journal of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, who discovered neurons (2015)
http://nautil.us/issue/77/underworlds/the-dreams-of-the-man-who-discovered-neurons
Pernosco: Fast, Fun, Omniscient Debugging
https://pernos.co/
Resilience is not a DIY endeavour
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-put-down-the-self-help-books-resilience-is-not-a-diy-endeavour/
Please think architecture (2007)
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2007-August/006763.html
Intel SPMD Program Compiler: A Compiler for High-Performance SIMD Programming
https://ispc.github.io/
Perfectly Cropped
https://tyler.io/perfectly-cropped/
Commas in big numbers everywhere: An OpenType adventure
https://blog.janestreet.com/commas-in-big-numbers-everywhere/
Fish: A command line shell for the 90s
https://fishshell.com/
Metamath Zero, a bootstrapping theorem prover
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.10703
Bill Gates on Windows Usability (2003)
https://twitter.com/sriramk/status/1187791335345930240
Airbnb in the Himalayas
https://veridici.com/how-airbnb-is-silently-changing-himalayan-villages/
Recommendations from the first meeting of China’s urban policy unit in 38 years
https://www.citymetric.com/fabric/china-s-urban-policy-unit-just-met-first-time-38-years-here-s-what-it-recommended-1904
Sinclair Zx Spectrum: absolutely better than Commodore 64 (2005)
http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html
Nth commit must have commit hash with N leading zeros
https://github.com/seungwonpark/kudeki-chain/
Mir Books
https://mirtitles.org/
A Visual Introduction to VC Financing (2015)
https://dlopuch.github.io/venture-dealr/
Using Deep Learning to Predict the Olfactory Properties of Molecules
https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/10/learning-to-smell-using-deep-learning.html
Why Graphiti?
https://www.graphiti.dev/guides/why
Android’s messaging mess is about to get even worse?
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/25/20931699/
Dagen H: the day Sweden switched from driving on the left to the right (2018)
https://drivemag.com/news/dagen-h-the-day-sweden-switched-from-driving-on-the-left-to-the-right
Notes on Superhuman’s Acquisition Loops
https://kwokchain.com/2019/10/24/notes-on-superhumans-acquisition-loops/
Metternich’s strength in law
https://newcriterion.com/issues/2019/11/metternichs-strength-in-law
Show HN: Aim and Shoot – A game where your opponents are neural networks
https://github.com/victorqribeiro/aimAndShoot
We tested Europe’s new lie detector for travelers and triggered a false positive
https://theintercept.com/2019/07/26/europe-border-control-ai-lie-detector/
Reflections on My Career at Microsoft
https://medium.com/@docjamesw/speaking-truth-to-power-reflections-on-a-career-at-microsoft-90f80a449e36
Who Killed the Scrollbar?
https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/0hgfswmoti3fi5zgftjecq
Artists Hijack MoMA with AR Art Exhibition
https://www.artnome.com/news/2019/10/25/artists-hijack-moma-with-ar-art-exhibition
Non-Green Plants (2013)
https://plantsandprejudice.wordpress.com/2013/08/07/how-do-non-green-plants-work/
Auto-brewery syndrome: probably an under-diagnosed medical condition
https://bmjopengastro.bmj.com/content/6/1/e000325
Is Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) the Concrete of the Future?
https://www.archdaily.com/922980/is-cross-laminated-timber-clt-the-concrete-of-the-future
Back from the Blender Conference
https://valdyas.org/fading/hacking/krita-hacking/back-from-the-blender-conference-2019/
Uber receives more foreign-worker visas as it lays off hundreds of employees
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/10/17/h-1b-uber-snatches-up-more-foreign-worker-visas-as-it-lays-off-hundreds-of-employees/
Beating C with Futhark Running on GPU
https://futhark-lang.org/blog/2019-10-25-beating-c-with-futhark-on-gpu.html
Fair, the SoftBank-backed car startup, lays off 40% of staff, sacks CFO
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/24/fair-the-softbank-backed-car-subscription-startup-lays-off-40-of-staff-sacks-cfo/
Rxdb: A reactive database where you can subscribe to the result of a query
https://github.com/pubkey/rxdb
Applying BERT models to Search
https://blog.google/products/search/search-language-understanding-bert/
Economists are now admitting that they were wrong about globalization
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/22/economists-globalization-trade-paul-krugman-china/
Chart.js 2.9
https://github.com/chartjs/Chart.js/releases/tag/v2.9.0
Penn Jillette’s Surprising Success as a Computer Columnist
https://tedium.co/2019/09/26/penn-jillette-pc-computing-magazine-columnist/
“C is not how the computer works” can lead to inefficient code
https://words.steveklabnik.com/c-is-not-how-the-computer-works-can-lead-to-inefficient-code
PG&E may cut power to 850k California customers this weekend due to fire risk
https://www.pgecurrents.com/2019/10/25/forecasts-indicate-potential-for-historic-wind-event-this-weekend-approximately-850000-customers-notified-that-they-may-be-impacted-beginning-saturday-evening/
In the Halls of the Mountain Kings
http://www.lapsuslima.com/in-the-halls-of-the-mountain-kings/
Firebird: Historical Reference (2011)
https://firebirdsql.org/en/historical-reference/
Woodblocks in Wonderland
https://publicdomainreview.org/2019/09/03/woodblocks-in-wonderland-the-japanese-fairy-tale-series/
HTTP 451 Unavailable for Legal Reasons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451
Ants Are Practically Immune to Traffic Jams
https://www.sciencealert.com/ant-roads-are-practically-immune-to-traffic-jams-even-when-it-gets-crowded
When a Player Gets the Game
https://www.mcdbooks.com/electric_eel/when-a-player-gets-the-game
The Liberty City
https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=771371881
My company sold for $100M and I got zilch – how can that be?
https://medium.com/help-me-heidi/my-company-sold-for-100-million-and-i-got-zilch-how-can-that-be-f7be0563f1f8
CoinTracker (YC W18) is hiring senior engineers to fix the financial system
https://jobs.lever.co/cointracker
Focusmate – Virtual Coworking Helps You Get Things Done
https://www.focusmate.com/
Python and OpenGL for Scientific Visualization
https://www.labri.fr/perso/nrougier/python-opengl/#python-opengl-for-scientific-visualization
Teleconsole: Share Your Unix Terminal
https://www.teleconsole.com/
New 2MW electric vehicle chargers could revolutionise mining industry
https://thedriven.io/2019/10/23/new-2mw-electric-vehicle-chargers-could-revolutionise-mining-industry/
DeepSORT: Deep Learning to Track Custom Objects in a Video
https://nanonets.com/blog/object-tracking-deepsort/
Zen and the Art of Software Maintenance
https://www.sicpers.info/2019/10/zen-and-the-art-of-software-maintenance/
Will.i.am’s AI Startup hasn’t paid staff in 7 weeks
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/25/20932055/wink-smart-home-problems-iamplus-william-black-eyed-peas
Here at the End of All Things (2017)
https://longreads.com/2017/08/24/fantasy-maps-game-of-thrones/
Gentle Introduction to Blockchain with Lisp
https://github.com/bor0/gibl
Blurring the Line Between User and Programmer
https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/042
Panopticlick 3.0
https://panopticlick.eff.org/
Red quits the smartphone business after a single, terrible phone
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/10/red-quits-the-smartphone-business-after-a-single-terrible-phone/
Dark.fail: Is a darknet site online?
https://dark.fail/
Australia’s Darling River is running dry
https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/thirst-turns-to-anger-as-australias-mighty-river-runs-dry
Would aliens understand lambda calculus? (2018)
http://tomasp.net/blog/2018/alien-lambda-calculus/
We Can’t Find One Leftist Mark Zuckerberg Invited to Dinner
https://theintercept.com/2019/10/25/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-dinners/
قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic
http://nas.sr/%D9%82%D9%84%D8%A8/
Indonesia 737 Max Final Report Blames Boeing Design and FAA Cert
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/indonesias-investigation-of-lion-air-737-max-crash-faults-boeing-design-and-faa-certification-as-well-as-airlines-maintenance-and-pilot-errors/
Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook Can Help the News Business
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/25/opinion/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-news.html
Emanuel Goldberg, Electronic Document Retrieval and Vannevar Bush’s Memex (2007)
http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~buckland/goldbush.html
Fast · Patrick Collison
https://patrickcollison.com/fast
The 2010s Have Broken Our Sense of Time
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katherinemiller/the-2010s-have-broken-our-sense-of-time
Improving maintenance of your Jenkins(file) pipelines
https://robertnorthard.com/improving-maintenance-jenkins-pipelines/
Moodymann on Rollerskating in Detroit
https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/3544
Return-oriented programming-based CSGO, BF3, BF4 cheat
https://github.com/Speedi13/ROP-COMPILER
Losing Confidence in Quality: Unspoken Evolution of Computer Vision Services
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07328
Research Based on the .NET Runtime
https://mattwarren.org/2019/10/25/Research-based-on-the-.NET-Runtime/
Lessons from Research into Buttons
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2019/02/04/five-lessons-about-pressing-buttons/
The One Who Created Elixir
https://www.welcometothejungle.com/en/articles/btc-elixir-jose-valim
Offshore wind to become a $1T industry
https://www.iea.org/newsroom/news/2019/october/offshore-wind-to-become-a-1-trillion-industry.html
SUVs second biggest cause of emissions rise, figures reveal
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2019/oct/25/suvs-second-biggest-cause-of-emissions-rise-figures-reveal
Teen designs Hong Kong-inspired shoe only to have it dropped from Vans contest
https://www.cbc.ca/kidsnews/post/Vans-step-on-Toronto-teens-freedom-of-expression
Bruce Schneier on how insecure electronic voting could break the United States
https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/bruce-schneier-security-secrets-and-surveillance/
As Streaming Costs Rise, Torrenting Makes an Unlikely Comeback
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/joker-movie-download-torrent-free-pirate-bay
Mass Driver
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_driver
Dear Comcast, I Noticed Your Email About My Tweet and Wanted You to Have This
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a35qpe/dear-comcast-i-noticed-your-email-about-my-tweet-and-wanted-you-to-have-this-blog
Six Nines in Pi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_nines_in_pi
Bowling with Melville
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/10/24/bowling-with-melville/
Myths of Color Contrast Accessibility
https://uxmovement.com/buttons/the-myths-of-color-contrast-accessibility/
Why Texas Has Its Own Power Grid (2003)
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2003/08/why-texas-has-its-own-power-grid.html
New Hampshire Lawmaker Kills Repair Bill Because ’Cellphones Are Throwaways’
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43kp8j/lawmaker-kills-repair-bill-because-cellphones-are-throwaways
A Health Care Algorithm Offered Less Care to Black Patient
https://www.wired.com/story/how-algorithm-favored-whites-over-blacks-health-care/
The Fall of WeWork: How a Startup Darling Came Unglued
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fall-of-wework-how-a-startup-darling-came-unglued-11571946003?mod=rsswn
Evolution of the Scrollbar
https://scrollbars.matoseb.com/
Sshuttle – VPN over SSH
https://www.terminalbytes.com/sshuttle-vpn-over-ssh-vpn-alternative/
Somehow, Android’s messaging mess is about to get even worse
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/25/20931699/android-messaging-ccmi-rcs-mess-isis-google-fiascotastrophe
Task-based effectiveness of basic visualizations
https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/10/25/task-based-effectiveness-of-basic-visualizations/
Satellite captures rare images of atmospheric gravity waves
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/24/australia/gravity-wave-australia-intl-hnk-scli/index.html
Chrome Is Scanning Files on Your Computer (2018)
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wj7x9w/google-chrome-scans-files-on-your-windows-computer-chrome-cleanup-tool
Man kept getting drunk without drinking. Docs found brewer’s yeast in his guts
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/man-charged-with-dwi-after-alcohol-fermenting-yeast-in-his-gut-got-him-wasted/
IKEA Will Be Entirely Meat-Free This Christmas
https://swedesinthestates.com/ikea-will-be-entirely-meat-free-this-christmas/
Google is improving searches by using BERT and understanding language context
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/25/20931657/google-bert-search-context-algorithm-change-10-percent-langauge
Chemotherapy may spread cancer and trigger more aggressive tumours
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/07/05/chemotherapy-may-spread-cancer-trigger-aggressive-tumours-warn/
LastPass Disaster: Personal Account Data “Exported” to Enterprise Shared Folders
https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/dmo8r3/lastpass_disaster_linked_personal_account_data/
Brain ’Shields’ Itself from the Existential Threat of Death
https://www.livescience.com/brain-shields-idea-death.html
Boosting the Real Time Performance of Gnome Shell 3.34 in Ubuntu 19.10
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/boosting-the-real-time-performance-of-gnome-shell-3-34-in-ubuntu-19-10/13095
AMD’s 64-Core EPYC CPU Stripped: A Detailed Inside Look – Tom’s Hardware
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-64-core-epyc-cpu-die-design-architecture-ryzen-3000
The Kindle is fine, but could’ve been much more
https://sixcolors.com/post/2019/08/the-kindle-is-fine-it-couldve-been-much-better-than-that/
3D ASCII Game
https://thenextweb.com/shareables/2019/09/19/asciicker-ascii-3d-game-text/
SkipTheDishes denies wrongdoing as more billing fraud cases come forward
https://globalnews.ca/news/6079509/skipthedishes-denies-wrongdoing-as-more-billing-fraud-cases-come-forward/
Data Modeling with GridDB
https://griddb.net/en/blog/data-modeling-with-griddb/
Show HN: A CLI Minecraft modpack installer/builder
https://github.com/jaredallard/modpacker
Photographer uses drone with thermal camera to find missing 6-year-old boy
https://m.dpreview.com/news/1907862357/photographer-uses-drone-with-thermal-camera-to-find-missing-6-year-old-boy
Apple lawyer responsible for fighting insider trading busted for insider trading
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/24/apple-lawyer-indicted-for-insider-trading.html
Black Swan Farming
http://www.paulgraham.com/swan.html
Bias in a medical algorithm favors white patients over sicker black patients
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/10/24/racial-bias-medical-algorithm-favors-white-patients-over-sicker-black-patients/
Why wonder is the most human of all emotions
https://aeon.co/essays/why-wonder-is-the-most-human-of-all-emotions
Fed Ups Its Wall Street Bailout to $690B a Week as Media Snoozes
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2019/10/fed-ups-its-wall-street-bailout-to-690-billion-a-week-as-media-snoozes/
Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine)
http://releases.ubuntu.com/19.10/
Dutch MoD appoints 72 citizens to cyber-military reserve force
https://www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerstukken/brieven_regering/detail?id=2019Z20386&did=2019D42637
The Phone Company Secretly Run by Drug Traffickers
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjwbmm/inside-the-phone-company-secretly-run-by-drug-traffickers
Ransomware and hospital data breaches linked to uptick in fatal heart attacks
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/ransomware-and-other-data-breaches-linked-to-uptick-in-fatal-heart-attacks
The Kafkaesque Reality of Selling on Amazon
https://medium.com/@kingazaslona/squashed-by-a-giant-amazon-reality-95dac9f66953
SpaceInk: Making Space for In-Context Annotations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbPD5_wPapQ
Mindfulness Meditation Enhances Positive Effects of Psilocybin
https://www.alphagalileo.org/en-gb/Item-Display/ItemId/185333?returnurl=https://www.alphagalileo.org/en-gb/Item-Display/ItemId/185333
Public keys are not enough for SSH security
https://blog.cloudflare.com/public-keys-are-not-enough-for-ssh-security/?hn
ML paper – Why does deep and cheap learning work so well?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.08225
Bill Nye: It’s Space Settlement, Not Colonization
https://www.space.com/bill-nye-space-settlement-not-colonization.html
What if we measured the thing that matters most: “carbon productivity”
https://theconversation.com/what-if-we-measured-the-thing-that-matters-most-carbon-productivity-124902
White House guts infosec team, lead resigns
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/white-house-guts-infosec-team-posturing-itself-to-be-compromised-again/
Unpopular opinion? I don’t do puzzle coding tests
https://dev.to/rodrigojuarez/unpopular-opinion-i-don-t-do-puzzle-coding-tests-1fha
What is it with the price of Bitcoin and avocados?
https://decrypt.co/10764/what-is-it-with-the-price-of-bitcoin-and-avocados
Dilbert’s Career Advice
https://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/07/career-advice.html
Intel Posts Record Earnings, Desktop PC Volume Down 10 Percent YoY
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-posts-record-earnings-desktop-pc-volumes-down-10-percent-yoy-first-dg1-gpu-power-on
Achieving Low-Latency in the Cloud with OSS
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/low-latency-cloud-oss/
First drug that can slow Alzheimer’s dementia
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-50137041
Elon Musk Set Up His Shanghai Gigafactory in Record Time
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-23/elon-musk-opened-tesla-s-shanghai-gigafactory-in-just-168-days
A Guide to the Big Ideas and Debates in Corporate Governance
https://hbr.org/2019/10/a-guide-to-the-big-ideas-and-debates-in-corporate-governance
PG&E is shutting off power in Northern California again
https://www.pge.com/en_US/safety/emergency-preparedness/natural-disaster/wildfires/psps-service-impact-map.page
Maybe It’s Not YouTube’s Algorithm That Radicalizes People
https://www.wired.com/story/not-youtubes-algorithm-radicalizes-people/
Growing My $12K MRR SaaS from Solo Founder to Plus 1 Employee
https://medium.com/hostifi/growing-my-saas-from-solo-founder-to-1-employee-bf367061f578
Russian Open Speech to Text (STT/ASR) Dataset
https://github.com/snakers4/open_stt
A 100x Investment (Part 1)
https://medium.com/@comma_ai/a-100x-investment-part-1-6c858bbe72ef
Google brings in BERT to improve its search results
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/25/google-brings-in-bert-to-improve-its-search-results/
Rats taught to drive tiny cars to lower their stress levels
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50167812
The Tipping System Is Immoral
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/opinion/tipping.html
WeWork Employee Options Underwater as Ex-CEO Reaps
https://www.wsj.com/articles/wework-employees-feel-sting-as-ex-ceo-stands-to-reap-11571870011
Why do people hate vegans?
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/oct/25/why-do-people-hate-vegans
Trump confirms US will leave Paris climate accord
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50165596
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Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/25/technology/dod-jedi-contract.html
Don Valentine has died
https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/remembering-don-valentine/
Supercritical CO2 is heavy like a liquid, with weird and useful properties
https://popula.com/2019/01/29/saving-the-planet-with-co2/
Indian startups have raised a record $11.3B this year
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/23/india-tech-startups-fundraise/
The dream journal of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, who discovered neurons (2015)
http://nautil.us/issue/77/underworlds/the-dreams-of-the-man-who-discovered-neurons
Pernosco: Fast, Fun, Omniscient Debugging
https://pernos.co/
Resilience is not a DIY endeavour
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-put-down-the-self-help-books-resilience-is-not-a-diy-endeavour/
Please think architecture (2007)
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2007-August/006763.html
Intel SPMD Program Compiler: A Compiler for High-Performance SIMD Programming
https://ispc.github.io/
Perfectly Cropped
https://tyler.io/perfectly-cropped/
Commas in big numbers everywhere: An OpenType adventure
https://blog.janestreet.com/commas-in-big-numbers-everywhere/
Fish: A command line shell for the 90s
https://fishshell.com/
Metamath Zero, a bootstrapping theorem prover
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.10703
Bill Gates on Windows Usability (2003)
https://twitter.com/sriramk/status/1187791335345930240
Airbnb in the Himalayas
https://veridici.com/how-airbnb-is-silently-changing-himalayan-villages/
Recommendations from the first meeting of China’s urban policy unit in 38 years
https://www.citymetric.com/fabric/china-s-urban-policy-unit-just-met-first-time-38-years-here-s-what-it-recommended-1904
Sinclair Zx Spectrum: absolutely better than Commodore 64 (2005)
http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html
Nth commit must have commit hash with N leading zeros
https://github.com/seungwonpark/kudeki-chain/
Mir Books
https://mirtitles.org/
A Visual Introduction to VC Financing (2015)
https://dlopuch.github.io/venture-dealr/
Using Deep Learning to Predict the Olfactory Properties of Molecules
https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/10/learning-to-smell-using-deep-learning.html
Why Graphiti?
https://www.graphiti.dev/guides/why
Android’s messaging mess is about to get even worse?
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/25/20931699/
Dagen H: the day Sweden switched from driving on the left to the right (2018)
https://drivemag.com/news/dagen-h-the-day-sweden-switched-from-driving-on-the-left-to-the-right
Notes on Superhuman’s Acquisition Loops
https://kwokchain.com/2019/10/24/notes-on-superhumans-acquisition-loops/
Metternich’s strength in law
https://newcriterion.com/issues/2019/11/metternichs-strength-in-law
Show HN: Aim and Shoot – A game where your opponents are neural networks
https://github.com/victorqribeiro/aimAndShoot
We tested Europe’s new lie detector for travelers and triggered a false positive
https://theintercept.com/2019/07/26/europe-border-control-ai-lie-detector/
Reflections on My Career at Microsoft
https://medium.com/@docjamesw/speaking-truth-to-power-reflections-on-a-career-at-microsoft-90f80a449e36
Who Killed the Scrollbar?
https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/0hgfswmoti3fi5zgftjecq
Artists Hijack MoMA with AR Art Exhibition
https://www.artnome.com/news/2019/10/25/artists-hijack-moma-with-ar-art-exhibition
Non-Green Plants (2013)
https://plantsandprejudice.wordpress.com/2013/08/07/how-do-non-green-plants-work/
Auto-brewery syndrome: probably an under-diagnosed medical condition
https://bmjopengastro.bmj.com/content/6/1/e000325
Is Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) the Concrete of the Future?
https://www.archdaily.com/922980/is-cross-laminated-timber-clt-the-concrete-of-the-future
Back from the Blender Conference
https://valdyas.org/fading/hacking/krita-hacking/back-from-the-blender-conference-2019/
Uber receives more foreign-worker visas as it lays off hundreds of employees
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/10/17/h-1b-uber-snatches-up-more-foreign-worker-visas-as-it-lays-off-hundreds-of-employees/
Beating C with Futhark Running on GPU
https://futhark-lang.org/blog/2019-10-25-beating-c-with-futhark-on-gpu.html
Fair, the SoftBank-backed car startup, lays off 40% of staff, sacks CFO
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/24/fair-the-softbank-backed-car-subscription-startup-lays-off-40-of-staff-sacks-cfo/
Rxdb: A reactive database where you can subscribe to the result of a query
https://github.com/pubkey/rxdb
Applying BERT models to Search
https://blog.google/products/search/search-language-understanding-bert/
Economists are now admitting that they were wrong about globalization
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/22/economists-globalization-trade-paul-krugman-china/
Chart.js 2.9
https://github.com/chartjs/Chart.js/releases/tag/v2.9.0
Penn Jillette’s Surprising Success as a Computer Columnist
https://tedium.co/2019/09/26/penn-jillette-pc-computing-magazine-columnist/
“C is not how the computer works” can lead to inefficient code
https://words.steveklabnik.com/c-is-not-how-the-computer-works-can-lead-to-inefficient-code
PG&E may cut power to 850k California customers this weekend due to fire risk
https://www.pgecurrents.com/2019/10/25/forecasts-indicate-potential-for-historic-wind-event-this-weekend-approximately-850000-customers-notified-that-they-may-be-impacted-beginning-saturday-evening/
In the Halls of the Mountain Kings
http://www.lapsuslima.com/in-the-halls-of-the-mountain-kings/
Firebird: Historical Reference (2011)
https://firebirdsql.org/en/historical-reference/
Woodblocks in Wonderland
https://publicdomainreview.org/2019/09/03/woodblocks-in-wonderland-the-japanese-fairy-tale-series/
HTTP 451 Unavailable for Legal Reasons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451
Ants Are Practically Immune to Traffic Jams
https://www.sciencealert.com/ant-roads-are-practically-immune-to-traffic-jams-even-when-it-gets-crowded
When a Player Gets the Game
https://www.mcdbooks.com/electric_eel/when-a-player-gets-the-game
The Liberty City
https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=771371881
My company sold for $100M and I got zilch – how can that be?
https://medium.com/help-me-heidi/my-company-sold-for-100-million-and-i-got-zilch-how-can-that-be-f7be0563f1f8
CoinTracker (YC W18) is hiring senior engineers to fix the financial system
https://jobs.lever.co/cointracker
Focusmate – Virtual Coworking Helps You Get Things Done
https://www.focusmate.com/
Python and OpenGL for Scientific Visualization
https://www.labri.fr/perso/nrougier/python-opengl/#python-opengl-for-scientific-visualization
Teleconsole: Share Your Unix Terminal
https://www.teleconsole.com/
New 2MW electric vehicle chargers could revolutionise mining industry
https://thedriven.io/2019/10/23/new-2mw-electric-vehicle-chargers-could-revolutionise-mining-industry/
DeepSORT: Deep Learning to Track Custom Objects in a Video
https://nanonets.com/blog/object-tracking-deepsort/
Zen and the Art of Software Maintenance
https://www.sicpers.info/2019/10/zen-and-the-art-of-software-maintenance/
Will.i.am’s AI Startup hasn’t paid staff in 7 weeks
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/25/20932055/wink-smart-home-problems-iamplus-william-black-eyed-peas
Here at the End of All Things (2017)
https://longreads.com/2017/08/24/fantasy-maps-game-of-thrones/
Gentle Introduction to Blockchain with Lisp
https://github.com/bor0/gibl
Blurring the Line Between User and Programmer
https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/042
Panopticlick 3.0
https://panopticlick.eff.org/
Red quits the smartphone business after a single, terrible phone
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/10/red-quits-the-smartphone-business-after-a-single-terrible-phone/
Dark.fail: Is a darknet site online?
https://dark.fail/
Australia’s Darling River is running dry
https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/thirst-turns-to-anger-as-australias-mighty-river-runs-dry
Would aliens understand lambda calculus? (2018)
http://tomasp.net/blog/2018/alien-lambda-calculus/
We Can’t Find One Leftist Mark Zuckerberg Invited to Dinner
https://theintercept.com/2019/10/25/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-dinners/
قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic
http://nas.sr/%D9%82%D9%84%D8%A8/
Indonesia 737 Max Final Report Blames Boeing Design and FAA Cert
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/indonesias-investigation-of-lion-air-737-max-crash-faults-boeing-design-and-faa-certification-as-well-as-airlines-maintenance-and-pilot-errors/
Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook Can Help the News Business
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/25/opinion/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-news.html
Emanuel Goldberg, Electronic Document Retrieval and Vannevar Bush’s Memex (2007)
http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~buckland/goldbush.html
Fast · Patrick Collison
https://patrickcollison.com/fast
The 2010s Have Broken Our Sense of Time
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katherinemiller/the-2010s-have-broken-our-sense-of-time
Improving maintenance of your Jenkins(file) pipelines
https://robertnorthard.com/improving-maintenance-jenkins-pipelines/
Moodymann on Rollerskating in Detroit
https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/3544
Return-oriented programming-based CSGO, BF3, BF4 cheat
https://github.com/Speedi13/ROP-COMPILER
Losing Confidence in Quality: Unspoken Evolution of Computer Vision Services
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07328
Research Based on the .NET Runtime
https://mattwarren.org/2019/10/25/Research-based-on-the-.NET-Runtime/
Lessons from Research into Buttons
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2019/02/04/five-lessons-about-pressing-buttons/
The One Who Created Elixir
https://www.welcometothejungle.com/en/articles/btc-elixir-jose-valim
Offshore wind to become a $1T industry
https://www.iea.org/newsroom/news/2019/october/offshore-wind-to-become-a-1-trillion-industry.html
SUVs second biggest cause of emissions rise, figures reveal
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2019/oct/25/suvs-second-biggest-cause-of-emissions-rise-figures-reveal
Teen designs Hong Kong-inspired shoe only to have it dropped from Vans contest
https://www.cbc.ca/kidsnews/post/Vans-step-on-Toronto-teens-freedom-of-expression
Bruce Schneier on how insecure electronic voting could break the United States
https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/bruce-schneier-security-secrets-and-surveillance/
As Streaming Costs Rise, Torrenting Makes an Unlikely Comeback
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/joker-movie-download-torrent-free-pirate-bay
Mass Driver
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_driver
Dear Comcast, I Noticed Your Email About My Tweet and Wanted You to Have This
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a35qpe/dear-comcast-i-noticed-your-email-about-my-tweet-and-wanted-you-to-have-this-blog
Six Nines in Pi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_nines_in_pi
Bowling with Melville
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/10/24/bowling-with-melville/
Myths of Color Contrast Accessibility
https://uxmovement.com/buttons/the-myths-of-color-contrast-accessibility/
Why Texas Has Its Own Power Grid (2003)
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2003/08/why-texas-has-its-own-power-grid.html
New Hampshire Lawmaker Kills Repair Bill Because ’Cellphones Are Throwaways’
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43kp8j/lawmaker-kills-repair-bill-because-cellphones-are-throwaways
A Health Care Algorithm Offered Less Care to Black Patient
https://www.wired.com/story/how-algorithm-favored-whites-over-blacks-health-care/
The Fall of WeWork: How a Startup Darling Came Unglued
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fall-of-wework-how-a-startup-darling-came-unglued-11571946003?mod=rsswn
Evolution of the Scrollbar
https://scrollbars.matoseb.com/
Sshuttle – VPN over SSH
https://www.terminalbytes.com/sshuttle-vpn-over-ssh-vpn-alternative/
Somehow, Android’s messaging mess is about to get even worse
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/25/20931699/android-messaging-ccmi-rcs-mess-isis-google-fiascotastrophe
Task-based effectiveness of basic visualizations
https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/10/25/task-based-effectiveness-of-basic-visualizations/
Satellite captures rare images of atmospheric gravity waves
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/24/australia/gravity-wave-australia-intl-hnk-scli/index.html
Chrome Is Scanning Files on Your Computer (2018)
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wj7x9w/google-chrome-scans-files-on-your-windows-computer-chrome-cleanup-tool
Man kept getting drunk without drinking. Docs found brewer’s yeast in his guts
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/man-charged-with-dwi-after-alcohol-fermenting-yeast-in-his-gut-got-him-wasted/
IKEA Will Be Entirely Meat-Free This Christmas
https://swedesinthestates.com/ikea-will-be-entirely-meat-free-this-christmas/
Google is improving searches by using BERT and understanding language context
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/25/20931657/google-bert-search-context-algorithm-change-10-percent-langauge
Chemotherapy may spread cancer and trigger more aggressive tumours
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/07/05/chemotherapy-may-spread-cancer-trigger-aggressive-tumours-warn/
LastPass Disaster: Personal Account Data “Exported” to Enterprise Shared Folders
https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/dmo8r3/lastpass_disaster_linked_personal_account_data/
Brain ’Shields’ Itself from the Existential Threat of Death
https://www.livescience.com/brain-shields-idea-death.html
Boosting the Real Time Performance of Gnome Shell 3.34 in Ubuntu 19.10
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/boosting-the-real-time-performance-of-gnome-shell-3-34-in-ubuntu-19-10/13095
AMD’s 64-Core EPYC CPU Stripped: A Detailed Inside Look – Tom’s Hardware
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-64-core-epyc-cpu-die-design-architecture-ryzen-3000
The Kindle is fine, but could’ve been much more
https://sixcolors.com/post/2019/08/the-kindle-is-fine-it-couldve-been-much-better-than-that/
3D ASCII Game
https://thenextweb.com/shareables/2019/09/19/asciicker-ascii-3d-game-text/
SkipTheDishes denies wrongdoing as more billing fraud cases come forward
https://globalnews.ca/news/6079509/skipthedishes-denies-wrongdoing-as-more-billing-fraud-cases-come-forward/
Data Modeling with GridDB
https://griddb.net/en/blog/data-modeling-with-griddb/
Show HN: A CLI Minecraft modpack installer/builder
https://github.com/jaredallard/modpacker
Photographer uses drone with thermal camera to find missing 6-year-old boy
https://m.dpreview.com/news/1907862357/photographer-uses-drone-with-thermal-camera-to-find-missing-6-year-old-boy
Apple lawyer responsible for fighting insider trading busted for insider trading
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/24/apple-lawyer-indicted-for-insider-trading.html
Black Swan Farming
http://www.paulgraham.com/swan.html
Bias in a medical algorithm favors white patients over sicker black patients
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/10/24/racial-bias-medical-algorithm-favors-white-patients-over-sicker-black-patients/
Why wonder is the most human of all emotions
https://aeon.co/essays/why-wonder-is-the-most-human-of-all-emotions
Fed Ups Its Wall Street Bailout to $690B a Week as Media Snoozes
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2019/10/fed-ups-its-wall-street-bailout-to-690-billion-a-week-as-media-snoozes/
Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine)
http://releases.ubuntu.com/19.10/
Dutch MoD appoints 72 citizens to cyber-military reserve force
https://www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerstukken/brieven_regering/detail?id=2019Z20386&did=2019D42637
The Phone Company Secretly Run by Drug Traffickers
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjwbmm/inside-the-phone-company-secretly-run-by-drug-traffickers
Ransomware and hospital data breaches linked to uptick in fatal heart attacks
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/ransomware-and-other-data-breaches-linked-to-uptick-in-fatal-heart-attacks
The Kafkaesque Reality of Selling on Amazon
https://medium.com/@kingazaslona/squashed-by-a-giant-amazon-reality-95dac9f66953
SpaceInk: Making Space for In-Context Annotations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbPD5_wPapQ
Mindfulness Meditation Enhances Positive Effects of Psilocybin
https://www.alphagalileo.org/en-gb/Item-Display/ItemId/185333?returnurl=https://www.alphagalileo.org/en-gb/Item-Display/ItemId/185333
Public keys are not enough for SSH security
https://blog.cloudflare.com/public-keys-are-not-enough-for-ssh-security/?hn
ML paper – Why does deep and cheap learning work so well?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.08225
Bill Nye: It’s Space Settlement, Not Colonization
https://www.space.com/bill-nye-space-settlement-not-colonization.html
What if we measured the thing that matters most: “carbon productivity”
https://theconversation.com/what-if-we-measured-the-thing-that-matters-most-carbon-productivity-124902
White House guts infosec team, lead resigns
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/white-house-guts-infosec-team-posturing-itself-to-be-compromised-again/
Unpopular opinion? I don’t do puzzle coding tests
https://dev.to/rodrigojuarez/unpopular-opinion-i-don-t-do-puzzle-coding-tests-1fha
What is it with the price of Bitcoin and avocados?
https://decrypt.co/10764/what-is-it-with-the-price-of-bitcoin-and-avocados
Dilbert’s Career Advice
https://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/07/career-advice.html
Intel Posts Record Earnings, Desktop PC Volume Down 10 Percent YoY
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-posts-record-earnings-desktop-pc-volumes-down-10-percent-yoy-first-dg1-gpu-power-on
Achieving Low-Latency in the Cloud with OSS
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/low-latency-cloud-oss/
First drug that can slow Alzheimer’s dementia
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-50137041
Elon Musk Set Up His Shanghai Gigafactory in Record Time
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-23/elon-musk-opened-tesla-s-shanghai-gigafactory-in-just-168-days
A Guide to the Big Ideas and Debates in Corporate Governance
https://hbr.org/2019/10/a-guide-to-the-big-ideas-and-debates-in-corporate-governance
PG&E is shutting off power in Northern California again
https://www.pge.com/en_US/safety/emergency-preparedness/natural-disaster/wildfires/psps-service-impact-map.page
Maybe It’s Not YouTube’s Algorithm That Radicalizes People
https://www.wired.com/story/not-youtubes-algorithm-radicalizes-people/
Growing My $12K MRR SaaS from Solo Founder to Plus 1 Employee
https://medium.com/hostifi/growing-my-saas-from-solo-founder-to-1-employee-bf367061f578
Russian Open Speech to Text (STT/ASR) Dataset
https://github.com/snakers4/open_stt
A 100x Investment (Part 1)
https://medium.com/@comma_ai/a-100x-investment-part-1-6c858bbe72ef
Google brings in BERT to improve its search results
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/25/google-brings-in-bert-to-improve-its-search-results/
Rats taught to drive tiny cars to lower their stress levels
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50167812
The Tipping System Is Immoral
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/opinion/tipping.html
WeWork Employee Options Underwater as Ex-CEO Reaps
https://www.wsj.com/articles/wework-employees-feel-sting-as-ex-ceo-stands-to-reap-11571870011
Why do people hate vegans?
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/oct/25/why-do-people-hate-vegans
Trump confirms US will leave Paris climate accord
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50165596
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