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The scooter company that raised 400M in 4 months is what is wrong with SV

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The rich world needs higher real wage growth

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California, Poverty Capital

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A lost secret: How to get kids to pay attention

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Poop Is Raining from the Sky in Canada, and the Government Says It's Not Planes

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Memristive crypto primitive for building highly secure functions (2015)

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Silicon Valley’s Exclusive Salary Database

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Are we stuck with cement?

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Structuring Deep Learning Projects: A Step-By-Step Guide

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Are we stuck with cement?

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Why We Should Say Yes to Drugs

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Structuring Deep Learning Projects: A Step-By-Step Guide

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Zero Knowledge Taxation on Ethereum, QED-It

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Bill to End Patent Office Validity Challenges Introduced in House

Article URL: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/bill-to-end-patent-office-validity-challenges-introduced-in-house Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17435419 Points: 18 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2Nbp3xM via

C++ Just My Code Stepping in Visual Studio

Article URL: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2018/06/29/announcing-jmc-stepping-in-visual-studio/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17435287 Points: 46 # Comments: 10 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2ICmP72 via

Why I use the IBM Model M keyboard that is older than me

Article URL: http://yeokhengmeng.com/2018/07/why-i-use-the-ibm-model-m-keyboard-that-is-older-than-me/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17435213 Points: 61 # Comments: 45 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2IGs0Tu via

Show HN: Send your photos as real postcards to anywhere in the world for $1

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Zero Knowledge Taxation on Ethereum, QED-It

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Bill to End Patent Office Validity Challenges Introduced in House

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Show HN: Google Drive as a file system

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Show HN: Send your photos as real postcards to anywhere in the world for $1

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Why I use the IBM Model M keyboard that is older than me

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C++ Just My Code Stepping in Visual Studio

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An Impostor Cell Line Set Back Breast Cancer Research (2017)

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Sprintly Shutting Down August 1st, 2018

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We may have answered the Fermi Paradox: We are alone in the universe

Article URL: https://qz.com/1314111/we-may-have-answered-the-fermi-paradox-we-are-alone-in-the-universe/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17435097 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2Km5vbv via

In Chile, border collies are sowing seeds, bringing life back to forests (2017)

Article URL: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/chile-three-border-collies-are-planting-seeds-bringing-life-back-forests-destroyed-by-fire-1628737 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17435000 Points: 14 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2zvVZJB via

The Right to Kill

Article URL: https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/04/09/the-right-to-kill-brazil-infanticide/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17434967 Points: 19 # Comments: 11 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2GKMRck via

SiFive to release source code to initialize HiFive Unleashed RISC-V board

Article URL: https://forums.sifive.com/t/ddr-controller-configuration-register-values-for-hifive-unleashed/1334/8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17434819 Points: 57 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2Nf6qJw via

Friedrich Nietzsche: The truth is terrible

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An Impostor Cell Line Set Back Breast Cancer Research (2017)

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Could psychedelics transform mental health?

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Solution: ‘The Slippery Math of Causation’

Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-math-of-causation-puzzle-solution-20180629/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17430335 Points: 7 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2IEBNcL via

SiFive to release source code to initialize HiFive Unleashed RISC-V board

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In Chile, border collies are sowing seeds, bringing life back to forests (2017)

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The Right to Kill

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Friedrich Nietzsche: The truth is terrible

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Using KiwiSDRs to locate HF radio transmitters and numbers stations

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Solution: ‘The Slippery Math of Causation’

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Could psychedelics transform mental health?

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What is this thing, called swing? (2016)

Article URL: http://thehomeofhappyfeet.com/what-is-this-thing-called-swing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17429878 Points: 33 # Comments: 13 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/26fqbon via

A Pioneer in Solar Energy (2006)

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SMS over IRC

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Why We Should Say Yes to Drugs

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Why We Should Say Yes to Drugs

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Lost in Math

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Lost in Math

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Leslie Lamport Tells Mathematicians How to Write Proofs (2014)

Article URL: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/computer-scientist-tells-mathematicians-how-to-write-proofs/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17430577 Points: 122 # Comments: 76 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2KnxIj6 via

Why has Victoria tube station started to smell like roast meat?

Article URL: https://www.citymetric.com/business/why-has-victoria-tube-station-started-smell-roast-meat-3777 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17430149 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 https://ift.tt/2KzMorx via

Getting Ready for Rebble

Article URL: https://rebble.io/2018/06/13/get-ready-to-rebble.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17429959 Points: 3 # Comments: 2 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 https://ift.tt/2yYRJqU via

Grow the Puzzle Around You

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Microsoft Releases 125M Building Footprints in the US as Open Data

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A Note from Cecil Adams about the Straight Dope

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Ask HN: Old CS lecturer looking for advice from current and recent students

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Montreal Moving Day: what happens when a whole city moves house at once

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Azure IoT Edge: Microsoft’s 60k LOC open source Rust code base

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Known Unknowns

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New research a ‘breakthrough for large-scale discrete optimization’

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HyperRogue – a non-Eyclidean roguelike

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Fullstack Academy is looking for developers who love teaching

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The Forgetfulness of Beings (1997) [pdf]

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Netflix is moving television beyond time-slots and national markets

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Patreon Is Suspending Adult Content Creators Because of Its Payment Partners

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The Dipole Drive: A New Concept for Space Propulsion

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An Ohio Startup Rebuilds Lives One Piece of Fried Chicken at a Time

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DjVu, an open PDF alternative

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The Opium of the Intellectuals (2005)

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Leslie Lamport Tells Mathematicians How to Write Proofs (2014)

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Why has Victoria tube station started to smell like roast meat?

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Getting Ready for Rebble

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Unexpected hanging paradox

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How to get away with financial fraud

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A Morning Cola Instead of Coffee? (1988)

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A system to help you remember more of what you read

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Streaming with linear types

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You don't need ML/AI, you need SQL

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What is this thing, called swing? (2016)

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He Died at Pompeii, but His Head Wasn’t Crushed by a Block

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Teefax – A community teletext service

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Fullstack Academy is looking for developers who love teaching

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StumbleUpon is Shutting Down

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No, you don't need ML/AI. You need SQL

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GUN: a realtime, decentralized, offline-first, graph database engine

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The Opium of the Intellectuals (2005)

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A Note from Cecil Adams about the Straight Dope

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New research a ‘breakthrough for large-scale discrete optimization’

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Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution (2015)

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DjVu, an open PDF alternative

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Azure IoT Edge: Microsoft’s 60k LOC open source Rust code base

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HyperRogue – a non-Eyclidean roguelike

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Patreon Is Suspending Adult Content Creators Because of Its Payment Partners

Article URL: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbqwwj/patreon-suspension-of-adult-content-creators Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17432801 Points: 215 # Comments: 118 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2KrxA13 via

The Forgetfulness of Beings (1997) [pdf]

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Grow the Puzzle Around You

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Known Unknowns

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A Morning Cola Instead of Coffee? (1988)

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/20/business/a-morning-cola-instead-of-coffee.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17431737 Points: 18 # Comments: 10 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2tGSb86 via

Ask HN: Old CS lecturer looking for advice from current and recent students

I am 61, with an academic background in computer science, and many years in industry, mostly startups. I taught many years ago, and have resumed teaching, a database course: data modeling, relational algebra, SQL, application programming and architecture (e.g. 2-tier vs. 3-tier, web & mobile), database internals. Student evaluations were pretty good for the most part, but quite a few students found the presentation a bit dry: I prepared every lecture as HTML ahead of time, made it available online, and presented it in class. A couple of times, I would do interactive things, e.g. tuning queries using EXPLAIN and playing with indexes. That proved pretty popular, but of course, it's difficult to capture this material, (I recorded a log of the session, but extemperaneous discussion was not captured). Looking for advice on how to balance prepared material and more spontaneous things. Also, any other advice on how to make material of this sort (theory + practice) easier to absorb. ...

Netflix is moving television beyond time-slots and national markets

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/briefing/2018/06/30/netflix-is-moving-television-beyond-time-slots-and-national-markets Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17430963 Points: 33 # Comments: 18 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2yQcXqH via

The independent researcher

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