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Exploring portable ratings for gig workers

Article URL: https://medium.com/doteveryone/exploring-portable-ratings-for-gig-workers-5632fd9b262e Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16310263 Points: 10 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2E3vNNB via

African Scribes: Manuscript Culture of Ethiopia

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Is-Vegan find out which ingredients are vegan. It uses a 600+ entries blacklist

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Grammarly shares its tokens with all websites

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Exploring portable ratings for gig workers

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Watch the SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket Launch Today

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/06/science/falcon-heavy-spacex-launch.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16316034 Points: 14 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2GRhjxV via

ReasonML toolchain

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Atrium LTS is Hiring a Mid/Sr ML/NLP Engineer in SF (Onsite, Full-Time)

The corporate legal industry has grown fat and comfortable on the back of poor incentives structured around billable hours. Justin Kan's Atrium ( http://ift.tt/2i6gvxb ) is reinventing the world of corporate legal work and growing incredibly quickly for a company founded just last year. We are looking for experienced NLP (ideally) or ML generalist engineers to build our automation team. The team is an army of one at the moment and has the headcount to rapidly grow throughout the year. We are looking for entrepreneurial, experienced NLP/ML engineers to join and build amazing products with us. More details here http://ift.tt/2jrpNRr from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2EKw4ly via

Making Olympic Snow and Ice

Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/slick-science-making-olympic-snow-and-ice-180968014/?no-ist Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16314610 Points: 4 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2Bb2p5k via

Swatch Internet Time (1998)

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Watch the SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket Launch Today

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ReasonML toolchain

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Making Olympic Snow and Ice

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I deleted WhatsApp for a year

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Do you need a blockchain?

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Revival of Nazism in Europe

Article URL: http://homment.com/Revival-of-Nazism-in-Europe Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16315398 Points: 5 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2Bd8myz via

How Long Is Long Enough? Minimum Password Lengths by the World's Top Sites

Article URL: https://www.troyhunt.com/how-long-is-long-enough-minimum-password-lengths-by-the-worlds-top-sites/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16315378 Points: 12 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2Em7865 via

Introduction to LLVM

Article URL: https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/introduction/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16315265 Points: 22 # Comments: 1 hnrss is a labor of love, but if the project has made your job or hobby project easier and you want to show some gratitude, donations are very much appreciated . Thanks! from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2B9MWT3 via

Napoleon’s Equine Strategy in 1813 (2013)

Article URL: https://www.napoleon-series.org/military/organization/France/Cavalry/Remounts/c_remounts1813.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16314651 Points: 8 # Comments: 0 hnrss is a labor of love, but if the project has made your job or hobby project easier and you want to show some gratitude, donations are very much appreciated . Thanks! from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2nHWtYW via

Do you need a blockchain?

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Atrium LTS|Mid/Sr Machine Learning/NLP Engineer|San Francisco|Onsite|Full-Time

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Bitcoin Miners Fried in Game of Chicken

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Swatch Internet Time (1998)

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How a Single Mechanical Failure Sparked 625 MTA Delays (2016)

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Do you need a blockchain?

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Count Rumford and the History of the Soup Kitchen (2010)

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New best story on Hacker News: Modern CSS Explained

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Interpreting a market plunge

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Cinematic Airs (2017)

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Introduction to LLVM

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How Long Is Long Enough? Minimum Password Lengths by the World's Top Sites

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Napoleon’s Equine Strategy in 1813 (2013)

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Ride Along with the Cow Police (2016)

Article URL: http://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/item/814-ride-along-with-the-cow-police Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16310182 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/26slGXK via

The White Darkness: A Journey Across Antarctica

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Lime: Explaining the predictions of any machine learning classifier

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Strikingly (YC W13) is hiring designers and devs in Shanghai

Article URL: http://www.strikingly.com/s/careers?utm_source=hn&utm_content=designer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16315090 Points: 1 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2rvdc78 via

How I deployed a ReasonML React app with Docker

Article URL: https://blog.hasura.io/how-i-deployed-a-reasonml-react-app-with-docker-29dd2ce6de82 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16314916 Points: 25 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2BGptda via

The White Darkness: A Journey Across Antarctica

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Strikingly (YC W13) is hiring designers and devs in Shanghai

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How I deployed a ReasonML React app with Docker

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OpenPose: Real-time multi-person body, face, and hands estimation

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How to interpret a market plunge

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2018/02/crash-course?fsrc=scn/fb/te/bl/ed/howtointerpretamarketplungecrashcourse Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16314905 Points: 44 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2GRYaMl via

Quantum algorithms: an overview

Article URL: https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/02/06/quantum-algorithms-an-overview/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16314734 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2nFge4m via

The Forgotten Renewable: Geothermal Energy Production Heats Up

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2018/02/04/582132168/the-forgotten-renewable-geothermal-energy-production-heats-up Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16314716 Points: 8 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2GLJDl7 via

How a Blind Doctor's Code Helped Thousands Read Again (2017)

Article URL: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-a-blind-doctors-moon-code-helped-thousands-read-again Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16314461 Points: 5 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2BTVxGg via

Pivot – Rows to Columns

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How to interpret a market plunge

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The marbled crayfish is a mutant species that clones itself

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How a Startup from Krakow Got Mentioned in “The Art of Computer Programming”

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US startups don’t want to go public anymore

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Training an AI to convert design mockups into HTML and CSS

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A C89 compiler that produces executables that are also valid ASCII text files [pdf]

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Apple's Failure to Check Kill Syscall Privilege “Not a Security Issue”

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A Company That Tears Cars Apart to Find Out How They're Built

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AR Planes: Discover nearby planes in augmented reality

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Smart homes and vegetable peelers

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Flyover video of Jupiter’s Europa

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REPL-Driven Development (2017)

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Performance

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String Theory Meets Loop Quantum Gravity (2016)

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The Forgotten Renewable: Geothermal Energy Production Heats Up

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The Untold Story of the Pentagon Papers Co-Conspirators

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Predicting outcomes for games of skill by redefining what it means to win

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Mixpanel analytics accidentally slurped up passwords

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S-Expressions (1997)

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Ōmoto

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How a Blind Doctor's Code Helped Thousands Read Again (2017)

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Modernish: a shell moderniser library

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HappyOrNot terminals look simple, but the information they gather is revelatory

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Measuring Re-Identification Risk in De-Identified Content

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The Parrot Virtual File System

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Cloudflare Terminates Service to Sci-Hub Domain Names

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People.ai (YC S16) Is Hiring Senior Back End Engineers in San Francisco

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Writing eBPF tracing tools in Rust

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Introduction to the Mumps Language (2017) [pdf]

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Safety Numbers on Autonomous Cars Don't Add Up

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New best story on Hacker News: U.S. consumer protection official puts Equifax probe on ice

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People.ai (YC S16) Is Hiring Senior Back End Engineers in San Francisco

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The marbled crayfish is a mutant species that clones itself

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/05/science/mutant-crayfish-clones-europe.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16314211 Points: 110 # Comments: 26 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2EhnZXR via

Apple's Failure to Check Kill Syscall Privilege “Not a Security Issue”

Article URL: https://lists.apple.com/archives/darwin-dev/2017/Oct/msg00006.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16313992 Points: 63 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2BZpDb3 via

Flyover video of Jupiter’s Europa

Article URL: https://kottke.org/18/02/flyover-video-of-jupiters-europa Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16313693 Points: 74 # Comments: 10 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2E7mBmY via

Mixpanel analytics accidentally slurped up passwords

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/05/mixpanel-passwords/?q=1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16313406 Points: 61 # Comments: 26 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2E2Xh5Y via

A C89 compiler that produces executables that are also valid ASCII text files [pdf]

Article URL: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom7/abc/paper.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16312317 Points: 254 # Comments: 42 hnrss is a labor of love, but if the project has made your job or hobby project easier and you want to show some gratitude, donations are very much appreciated . Thanks! from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2noBVTe via

Ōmoto

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Writing eBPF tracing tools in Rust

Article URL: https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/02/05/rust-bcc/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16311090 Points: 98 # Comments: 10 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2nKRMhj via

Cloudflare Terminates Service to Sci-Hub Domain Names

Article URL: https://torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-terminates-service-to-sci-hub-domain-names-180205/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16310230 Points: 371 # Comments: 185 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2se3xlO via

Pivot – Rows to Columns

Article URL: http://modern-sql.com/use-case/pivot Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16310117 Points: 126 # Comments: 40 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/1UhOw6u via

S-Expressions (1997)

Article URL: https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Sexp.txt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16310017 Points: 78 # Comments: 17 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2j2d5fJ via

The Parrot Virtual File System

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Introduction to the Mumps Language (2017) [pdf]

Article URL: https://www.cs.uni.edu/~okane/source/MUMPS-MDH/MumpsTutorial.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16309237 Points: 50 # Comments: 31 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2nKHsFO via

Training an AI to convert design mockups into HTML and CSS

Article URL: https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-you-can-train-an-ai-to-convert-your-design-mockups-into-html-and-css-cc7afd82fed4 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16308550 Points: 26 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2sg58Yr via

AR Planes: Discover nearby planes in augmented reality

Article URL: http://www.calstephens.tech/blog/announcing-ar-planes#main-wrap Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16308360 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2Eh7U4c via

Measuring Re-Identification Risk in De-Identified Content

Article URL: https://cloud.google.com/dlp/docs/compute-risk-analysis Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16308344 Points: 18 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2yzWMvO via

Predicting outcomes for games of skill by redefining what it means to win

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How a Startup from Krakow Got Mentioned in “The Art of Computer Programming”

Article URL: https://www.sinterit.com/how-a-startup-from-krakow-got-mentioned-in-the-art-of-computer-programming/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16307898 Points: 94 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2EjYBQW via

REPL-Driven Development (2017)

Article URL: https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Halloway_Stuart/REPLDrivenDevelopment.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16307882 Points: 35 # Comments: 8 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2FMB9sR via

What We Talk About When We Talk About Performance

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