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New best story on Hacker News: Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results

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Scant Evidence of Power Laws Found in Real-World Networks

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Real time SFO airport surveillance

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Pro-gun Russian bots flood Twitter after parkland shooting

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How to Study Mathematics

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Brussels court condemns Facebook for violation of privacy [translation]

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FCC Inspector General to Investigate Ajit Pai Over Sinclair Deal

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Put Driverless Cars Back in the Slow Lane

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Show HN: OpenBSD Email Service, self-hosted free-email alternative for ~$2.50/mo

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Missing data hinder replication of artificial intelligence studies

Article URL: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/02/missing-data-hinder-replication-artificial-intelligence-studies Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16392517 Points: 14 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2o9zCpA via

Just what does “code as data” mean anyway?

Article URL: https://adambard.com/blog/what-is-homoiconicity/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16392502 Points: 34 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/24DIzsJ via

Belgian court finds Facebook guilty of violating privacy (Dutch)

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Just what does “code as data” mean anyway?

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Missing data hinder replication of artificial intelligence studies

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A man who got away with $242M using ‘black magic’

Article URL: http://www.bbc.com/news/stories-42878021 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16389463 Points: 69 # Comments: 25 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2HkeeGW via

New best story on Hacker News: Why I don't use my real photo when messaging with customers on my website

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A man who got away with $242M using ‘black magic’

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OpenSCHUFA – Crack the Scoring Algo of the German Credit-Scoring Agency SCHUFA

Article URL: https://okfn.de/blog/2018/02/openschufa-english/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16391260 Points: 6 # 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/2o4DuJn via

The Breakup Museum: Archiving the Way We Were

Article URL: http://www.vqronline.org/essays-articles/2018/02/breakup-museum Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16390992 Points: 10 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2o9OAvN via

The Risks of Knowing Your Risk

Article URL: https://points.datasociety.net/the-risks-of-knowing-your-risk-46e913c811dc?gi=210c29db70c8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16390302 Points: 5 # 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/2C32UzJ via

The Jim Roskind C/C++ Grammar

Article URL: http://blog.robertelder.org/jim-roskind-grammar/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16389624 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2sB6Wem via

OpenSCHUFA – Crack the Scoring Algo of the German Credit-Scoring Agency SCHUFA

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The Jim Roskind C/C++ Grammar

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The Risks of Knowing Your Risk

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ZeroCater Is Hiring a Director of Engineering in SF- Foodies Welcome

Article URL: https://zerocater.com/about/careers/?gh_jid=980527 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16391244 Points: 1 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2DhRTbp via

The Breakup Museum: Archiving the Way We Were

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While the Media Panicked About Campus Leftists, the Far Right Surged

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ZeroCater Is Hiring a Director of Engineering in SF- Foodies Welcome

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New best story on Hacker News: Rust 1.24

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Ask HN: Which stack do you use at your startup?

Article URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16390851 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16390851 Points: 17 # Comments: 12 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2odZukj via

Your ISP is probably spying on you

Article URL: https://harrisonsand.com/your-isp-is-spying-on-you/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16390731 Points: 16 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2F79a8h via

How Isaac Asimov shaped robotics and space exploration and predicted the Internet

Article URL: https://rossdawson.com/blog/best-futurists-ever-isaac-asimov-shaped-robotics-space-exploration-predicted-internet/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16390681 Points: 7 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2BApSga via

Ask HN: Which stack do you use at your startup?

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Your ISP is probably spying on you

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How Isaac Asimov shaped robotics and space exploration and predicted the Internet

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Universal Basic Income of £10,000 proposed for everyone under 55

Article URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43078920 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16390503 Points: 26 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2Gh4BaC via

Universal Basic Income of £10,000 proposed for everyone under 55

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54% of US counties in 2014 had zero murders, 2% have 51% of the murders

Article URL: https://crimeresearch.org/2017/04/number-murders-county-54-us-counties-2014-zero-murders-69-1-murder/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16390358 Points: 6 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2svt2ux via

54% of US counties in 2014 had zero murders, 2% have 51% of the murders

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New best story on Hacker News: MPEG-2 Patents Have Expired

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New best story on Hacker News: Facebook spamming users via their 2FA phone numbers

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New best story on Hacker News: CSS Grid for UI Layouts

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New best story on Hacker News: What I wish I knew when I became CTO

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New best story on Hacker News: The Case for the “Self-Driven Child”

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Scale API is hiring engineers and ML practitioners

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The Benjamin Franklin method for learning more from programming books

Article URL: http://www.pathsensitive.com/2018/01/the-benjamin-franklin-method-of-reading.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16390046 Points: 89 # Comments: 21 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2BiNXVe via

Sum Types Are Coming (2015)

Article URL: https://chadaustin.me/2015/07/sum-types/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16389961 Points: 33 # Comments: 24 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/2b15Hat via

Why I don't use my real photo when messaging with customers on my website

Article URL: https://www.kapwing.com/blog/why-i-dont-use-my-real-photo/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16389666 Points: 111 # Comments: 81 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2ErA5hD via

Show HN: Bookmarklet to view full size photos from Google Images

Article URL: https://d3vr.github.io/viewimage/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16389609 Points: 57 # Comments: 8 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2BZEJ4U via

Federal Judge Says Embedding a Tweet Can Be Copyright Infringement

Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/federal-judge-says-embedding-tweet-can-be-copyright-infringement Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16389608 Points: 81 # Comments: 54 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2EuxOCu via

Instagram submits to Russia censor's demands

Article URL: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43070555 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16389492 Points: 57 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2Bwcqdl via

The unnecessary demise of Barnes and Noble

Article URL: http://audreyii-fic.tumblr.com/post/170886347853/the-entirely-unnecessary-demise-of-barnes-noble Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16389342 Points: 281 # Comments: 202 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2Evi1Dq via

Robonaut Has Been Broken for Years, and Now NASA Is Bringing It Home

Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/space-robots/robonaut-has-been-broken-for-years-and-now-nasa-is-bringing-it-home Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16389116 Points: 38 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2C12jON via

Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/15/17017864/google-removes-view-image-button-from-search-results Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16388833 Points: 156 # Comments: 74 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2HfXfp8 via

Synthesizing Obama: Learning Lip Sync from Audio

Article URL: http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/AudioToObama/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16388768 Points: 36 # Comments: 18 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2t22Xrn via

The Horse Helped Shape Our World at Great Expense to Itself

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/how-the-horse-helped-shape-our-world--at-great-expense-to-itself/2018/02/09/550b649c-0078-11e8-8acf-ad2991367d9d_story.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16388755 Points: 10 # Comments: 9 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2Ehvuil via

The Two Faces of AMP

Article URL: https://timkadlec.com/remembers/2018-02-14-the-two-faces-of-amp/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16388331 Points: 97 # Comments: 30 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2szjbbC via

The Benjamin Franklin method for learning more from programming books

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The unnecessary demise of Barnes and Noble

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Show HN: Bookmarklet to view full size photos from Google Images

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Picking Apart the Crashing iOS String

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Sum Types Are Coming (2015)

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Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results

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As we age, cancer rates go up as immune system winds down

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Tractor Hacking: Documentary About Farmers Fighting for the Right to Repair

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Why I don't use my real photo when messaging with customers on my website

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It's Getting Harder to Tell Banks from Tech Companies

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A Brief Glance at How Various Text Editors Manage Their Textual Data (2015)

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Many medical devices on the market have undergone no clinical testing

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Deep reinforcement learning doesn't work yet

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The Horse Helped Shape Our World at Great Expense to Itself

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Scale API is hiring engineers and ML practitioners

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Exquisite Corpse: The Winter of 1947 in Europe

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Launch HN: CoinTracker (YC W18) – Cryptocurrency portfolio and tax manager

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Robonaut Has Been Broken for Years, and Now NASA Is Bringing It Home

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SoYouLearn – A flexible and advanced spaced repetition platform

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‘Lede’ vs. ‘Lead’ (2011)

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The Cuttlefish, a Master of Camouflage, Reveals a New Trick

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Rust 1.24

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Federal Judge Says Embedding a Tweet Can Be Copyright Infringement

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The Two Faces of AMP

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Interpretable Machine Learning Through Teaching

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Instagram submits to Russia censor's demands

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Show HN: Gnomecast – A Linux Chromecast GUI with transcoding and subtitles

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Problems at Singularity University

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WebAssembly First Public Working Drafts

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Synthesizing Obama: Learning Lip Sync from Audio

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Many medical devices on the market have undergone no clinical testing

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/13/opinion/sunday/can-your-hip-replacement-kill-you.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16387610 Points: 112 # Comments: 64 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2mpGU7I via

‘Lede’ vs. ‘Lead’ (2011)

Article URL: http://howardowens.com/lede-vs-lead/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16387567 Points: 60 # Comments: 51 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2EH66lg via

Exquisite Corpse: The Winter of 1947 in Europe

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Rust 1.24

Article URL: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/02/15/Rust-1.24.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16386509 Points: 402 # Comments: 121 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2C0slSu via

Picking Apart the Crashing iOS String

Article URL: https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2018/02/15/picking-apart-the-crashing-ios-string/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16386444 Points: 374 # Comments: 134 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2Gfafdi via

Launch HN: CoinTracker (YC W18) – Cryptocurrency portfolio and tax manager

Hi — we’re Chandan and Jon, co-founders of CoinTracker ( https://www.cointracker.io ). CoinTracker is a cryptocurrency portfolio manager that automatically pulls balances and transactions from top exchanges and wallets, and delivers tax information to users. We built CoinTracker because, as cryptocurrency investors, we were let down by the existing tools for basic performance tracking of our investments. We started by simply creating a spreadsheet that enabled manual entry of transactions, and eventually hacked away with Google Apps scripts to import prices from various exchanges. This quickly got out of hand, so we built our own tool. We casually told a few friends who are into cryptocurrency about it. They found it as useful as we did, and to our surprise started telling their friends about it. We started receiving a steady stream of feature requests, and since then we have been steadily improving CoinTracker. One of CoinTracker’s foundational aspects is that balances and transactio

WebAssembly First Public Working Drafts

Article URL: https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/6838 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16386331 Points: 84 # Comments: 30 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2C030Yv via