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Guidelines for Ethical bot-making

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Rebuttal to John Searle's Chinese Room Argument by Nils Nilsson (1984) [pdf]

Article URL: http://ai.stanford.edu/~nilsson/OnlinePubs-Nils/General%20Essays/OtherEssays-Nils/searle.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18946652 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://stanford.io/2e7A7wW via

People Are Renting Out Their Facebook Accounts for Cash and Free Laptops

Article URL: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-account-rental-ad-laundering-scam Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18947157 Points: 5 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2AUySM7 via

Unsealed docs will detail how Facebook made money off children

Article URL: https://mashable.com/article/unsealed-docs-facebook-money-children/#bJPU_Uc5nmqd Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18947016 Points: 4 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2W2AtIO via

EU Cancels 'Final' Negotiations on EU Copyright Directive

Article URL: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190118/11062441423/eu-cancels-final-negotiations-eu-copyright-directive-as-it-becomes-clear-there-isnt-enough-support.shtml Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18947024 Points: 4 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2TYK2qb via

Windows Subsystem for Linux Proves Linux Is Really GNU/Linux

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Slandering the Unborn (2018)

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/28/opinion/crack-babies-racism.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18938563 Points: 9 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://nyti.ms/2RjLG89 via

Predicting Variable Types in Dynamically Typed Programming Languages

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.05138 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18938497 Points: 55 # Comments: 25 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2U079AU via

Nike’s auto-laced future

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/17/nikes-auto-laced-future/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18936810 Points: 59 # Comments: 46 from Hacker News: Front Page https://tcrn.ch/2HlmFWu via

To Save the Sound of a Stradivarius, a Whole City Must Keep Quiet

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/arts/music/stradivarius-sound-bank-recording-cremona.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18936490 Points: 46 # Comments: 36 from Hacker News: Front Page https://nyti.ms/2Rw0dyC via

To cripple AI, hackers are turning data against itself

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Ask HN: Is there any money in website design for small businesses anymore?

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Windows Subsystem for Linux Proves Linux Is Really GNU/Linux

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Swift-sh

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To cripple AI, hackers are turning data against itself

Article URL: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/artificial-intelligence-hacking-machine-learning-adversarial Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18946853 Points: 11 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2T4U8FW via

Swift-sh

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Ask HN: Is there any money in website design for small businesses anymore?

with all the website builders that are available, is there any money in doing web design for small businesses? I had a prospective customer whom I was offering website design and maintenance service. He ended up doing it all by himself using an online website builder. I suddenly felt like I don't have anything to offer that business. I feel so discouraged. I'm a decent programmer but it seems everything small businesses need is already built and is way polished that I could build. What should I do? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18945658 Points: 11 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Dkn6MK via

Europe’s Most Important River Is Running Dry

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-18/europe-s-most-important-river-is-running-dry Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18946440 Points: 21 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page https://bloom.bg/2ARriSp via

WiFi firmware bug affects laptops, smartphones, routers, gaming devices

Article URL: https://www.zdnet.com/article/wifi-firmware-bug-affects-laptops-smartphones-routers-gaming-devices/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18946292 Points: 25 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://zd.net/2HkLRwr via

MIDI 2.0 Prototyping announced

Article URL: https://www.midi.org/articles-old/the-midi-manufacturers-association-mma-and-the-association-of-music-electronics-industry-amei-announce-midi-2-0tm-prototyping Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18946222 Points: 89 # Comments: 20 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2FAmZPk via

I was mistaken for a call girl

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Europe’s Most Important River Is Running Dry

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MIDI 2.0 announced

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Insurance market for football evaporating, causing major threat for NFL

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WiFi firmware bug affects laptops, smartphones, routers, gaming devices

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Slandering the Unborn (2018)

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Getting Answers

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Night I was mistaken for a call girl

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Perceptions of Randomness: Why Three Heads Are Better Than Four (2009) [pdf]

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Who Is horse_js?

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Who Is horse_js?

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Perceptions of Randomness: Why Three Heads Are Better Than Four (2009) [pdf]

Article URL: http://psych.cf.ac.uk/home2/hahn/Psychological_Review_2009_Hahn.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18939842 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2FB6eUp via

Getting Answers

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Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years

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Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years

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How the Government Shutdown Warps Time Itself

Article URL: https://typesandtimes.net/2019/01/shutdown-warps-time Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18940472 Points: 10 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Mkvdvs via

I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in six days

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Q2VKPT: Fully path traced Quake 2

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Nike’s auto-laced future

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50 Years Ago, the Sugar Industry Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)

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Former IBM exec says company told her to hide layoff age data from government

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L4Linux – Linux running on the L4 microkernel

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Insurance market for football evaporating, causing major threat for NFL

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Gunk: Modern front end and syntax for Protocol Buffers

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MakeCode Arcade: Retro Gaming, Modern Programming

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Future of TypeScript on ESLint

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Pixelbook and “Nami” Chromebooks the First to Get Linux GPU Acceleration

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GNU Octave: A high-level interactive language for numerical computations [pdf]

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To Save the Sound of a Stradivarius, a Whole City Must Keep Quiet

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Why Carmaggedon never comes – Seattle edition

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What People Say Before They Die

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Supporters of Mexico’s Soda Tax Targeted with NSO Exploit Links (2017)

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Twins get different results when they put 5 ancestry DNA kits to the test

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Mainframe, Interrupted

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M.U.L.E. for MSX2

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Twenty legal battles that stand out across Ars’ 20 years of covering them

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Farms, More Productive Than Ever, Are Poisoning Drinking Water in Rural America

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Predicting Variable Types in Dynamically Typed Programming Languages

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To Cover China, There’s No Substitute for WeChat

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Fossilized Insect Discovered Not in Amber, but in Opal

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How the Government Shutdown Warps Time Itself

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The cerebellum is your “little brain”, and it does some pretty big things

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Inkscape launches versions 0.92.4 and 1.0 alpha

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Boris Artzybasheff’s Maps

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Prevent users registering with passwords from data breaches

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Twenty legal battles that stand out across Ars’ 20 years of covering them

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/01/20-legal-cases-across-20-years-these-are-our-favorites/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18939084 Points: 63 # Comments: 25 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2CEoCrF via

Mainframe, Interrupted

Article URL: https://logicmag.io/06-mainframe-interrupted/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18938917 Points: 28 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2HdfUWC via

Twins get different results when they put 5 ancestry DNA kits to the test

Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/dna-ancestry-kits-twins-marketplace-1.4980976 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18938750 Points: 476 # Comments: 249 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2QTS8Pb via

Boris Artzybasheff’s Maps

Article URL: https://makingmaps.net/2019/01/17/boris-artzybasheffs-maps/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18938241 Points: 43 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2sHqcEB via

Gunk: Modern front end and syntax for Protocol Buffers

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Insurance market for football evaporating, causing major threat for NFL

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Former IBM exec says company told her to hide layoff age data from government

Article URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/18/ibm_government_lying_claims/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18945574 Points: 38 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2RUk9dN via

Pixelbook and “Nami” Chromebooks the First to Get Linux GPU Acceleration

Article URL: https://www.aboutchromebooks.com/news/pixelbook-and-nami-chromebooks-the-first-to-get-linux-gpu-acceleration-in-project-crostini/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18945311 Points: 15 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2QT7OSJ via

Fossilized Insect Discovered Not in Amber, but in Opal

Article URL: https://entomologytoday.org/2019/01/18/fossilized-insect-discovered-amber-opal/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18945083 Points: 20 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2W2yFzu via

M.U.L.E. for MSX2

Article URL: https://www.carpeludum.com/m-u-l-e-for-msx2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18945051 Points: 15 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2RE5sMP via

Q2VKPT: Fully path traced Quake 2

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MakeCode Arcade: Retro Gaming, Modern Programming

Article URL: https://makecode.com/blog/arcade/01-18-2019 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18944846 Points: 38 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2T7k4B6 via

GNU Octave: A high-level interactive language for numerical computations [pdf]

Article URL: https://octave.org/octave.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18944617 Points: 37 # Comments: 18 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2FBuXbg via

Prevent users registering with passwords from data breaches

Article URL: https://jordanhall.co.uk/prevent-users-registering-with-passwords-from-data-breaches Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18944187 Points: 26 # Comments: 50 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2CtWHu7 via

L4Linux – Linux running on the L4 microkernel

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50 Years Ago, the Sugar Industry Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18944011 Points: 405 # Comments: 171 from Hacker News: Front Page https://n.pr/2zYcp0U via

I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in six days

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Future of TypeScript on ESLint

Article URL: https://eslint.org/blog/2019/01/future-typescript-eslint Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18942260 Points: 190 # Comments: 64 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2AVlqaK via

Farms, More Productive Than Ever, Are Poisoning Drinking Water in Rural America

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/farms-more-productive-than-ever-are-poisoning-drinking-water-in-rural-america-11547826031 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18941729 Points: 232 # Comments: 91 from Hacker News: Front Page https://on.wsj.com/2sz4KkM via

Supporters of Mexico’s Soda Tax Targeted with NSO Exploit Links (2017)

Article URL: https://citizenlab.ca/2017/02/bittersweet-nso-mexico-spyware/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18941672 Points: 101 # Comments: 17 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2ua19fb via

What People Say Before They Die

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To Cover China, There’s No Substitute for WeChat

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/09/technology/personaltech/china-wechat.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18941134 Points: 138 # Comments: 190 from Hacker News: Front Page https://nyti.ms/2SGDJYa via

Costco opening a $440M chicken farm to escape America's chicken monopoly

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/05/costco--chickens-tyson-perdue-monopoly-america-agriculture-farming.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18940802 Points: 353 # Comments: 253 from Hacker News: Front Page https://cnb.cx/2Fqi2b8 via

Why Carmaggedon never comes – Seattle edition

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The cerebellum is your “little brain”, and it does some pretty big things

Article URL: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-cerebellum-is-your-little-brain-and-it-does-some-pretty-big-things/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18940572 Points: 93 # Comments: 9 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2QXw4Tv via

Inkscape launches versions 0.92.4 and 1.0 alpha

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New best story on Hacker News: 50 Years Ago, the Sugar Industry Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)

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New best story on Hacker News: I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in six days

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New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How to self-study mathematics from the undergrad through graduate level?

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New best story on Hacker News: Twins get different results when they put 5 ancestry DNA kits to the test

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New best story on Hacker News: My dog was killed on a walk with a walker ordered through Wag

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New best story on Hacker News: Networking on AWS (2018)

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New best story on Hacker News: The Route of a Text Message

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