AFAQ RAZA BHATTI: August 2019

The reintroduction of inspections for "outstanding" schools follows concerns about falling standards.

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Picture of the day for September 1, 2019

Window in Fira, Santorini, Greece. Learn more.

I Built a $7K/Month WordPress Plugin Because I Needed the Product

Article URL: https://www.starterstory.com/build-profitable-wordpress-plugin-from-scratch

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20849519

Points: 1

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Show HN: Log File Anomaly Detector

Article URL: https://www.zebrium.com/anom-detector

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20849513

Points: 3

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Ask HN: Why code “post-reviews” isn't a thing?

Regular code-reviews are supposed to catch errors, bad style, or bad architectural decisions early on in the process. For it to work, however, everyone should be super disciplined and spend a lot of brain-power reading through each diff. Usually, it's really hard to dig into someone's code until you're fully int the cotext (read: working on the same piece of code). On the other hand, I often find myself in the situation when I'm dealing with someone else's code and think, "Oh god, how could I even approve this PR?". The next thing I usually want to do is let the team, and specifically, the code author, know that this is how we should NOT DO things. The problem, however, is that the code-review window has closed and there's no other standard place (besides GitHub PRs) to comment on the code.

I'm wondering if commenting on the code AFTER it has been merged is standard practice on some project and if there are any good tools for that.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20849504

Points: 4

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Friday, August 30, 2019

Show HN: Array with Constant Time Access and Fast Insertion and Deletion

Article URL: https://github.com/igushev/IgushArray

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20843857

Points: 2

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Ask HN: "Tell Me about a Time...”

I have interviews next week that I'm very nervous about. I'm excited about the job and know I can do it well. However, I know for a fact that it'll be a very long day of "tell me about a time when you failed" and "what's the worst thing your previous manager would say about you". After a day of that, it'll take a while to recover from the bad feelings, especially if the result is the usual ghosting.

Any advice how to deal best with this awfulness?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20843843

Points: 1

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Microchess

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microchess

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20843836

Points: 1

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Tarnished: Google Responds to Serious Chrome Vulnerability

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/google-responds-blink-chrome-vulnerability,40281.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20843831

Points: 2

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Comcast, beware: New city-run broadband offers 1Gbps for $60 a month

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/08/comcast-beware-new-city-run-broadband-offers-1gbps-for-60-a-month/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20843829

Points: 1

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Protect TypeScript class properties with decorators

Article URL: https://github.com/stewartmcgown/protected

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20843823

Points: 1

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New top story on Hacker News: Enter the dragon on the road to a trade war

Enter the dragon on the road to a trade war
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Raymond Santana was a teen when he was wrongfully jailed with four others.

Raymond Santana was a teenager when he was wrongfully jailed along with four others.

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Air Canada fined for not using French language

A French-speaking couple say the airline violated their "linguistic rights" under Canadian law.

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Idlib ‘double tap’ air strike Russia says never was

An attack kills 39 people in Syria - Russia says it wasn't involved. BBC News Arabic investigates.

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Can you survive on foraged food?

Experts say a range of wild foods can supplement a normal diet - but can you go even further?

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The Amazon in Brazil is on fire - how bad is it?

Thousands of fires are ravaging the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. How bad are they?

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Hampshire paralysed tree surgeon returns to climbing

Callum Kilby was paralysed when a giant oak rolled over him, but a year later he's back climbing trees.

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Week in pictures: 24 - 30 August 2019

A selection of the best news photographs from around the world, taken over the past week.

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Maryam Hamdani: 'I taught myself to play taarab music online'

Maryam Mohammed Hamdani says she is the first woman to play taarab in public in Zanzibar.

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Boy's reunion with lost cat moves him to tears

Nine-year-old Edward sheds tears of joy to be with furry Leo again after a a search by pet detectives.

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American cheese: Does it deserve its bad reputation?

Plastic, orange and tasteless? Why a revolution in the US is trying to tell the world there's more to its cheese.

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Motsi Mabuse: Meet Strictly Come Dancing's newest judge

Motsi Mabuse is set to replace Dame Darcey Bussell on the Strictly Come Dancing panel this year.

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'Finding my dad 30 years after I was taken from him'

Abandoned in Sao Paulo and then adopted by a British couple, Edson thought he'd never see his father again.

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Nanjing Massacre: Denmark honours hero who rescued Chinese

Bernhard Sindberg sheltered many Chinese from the rampaging Japanese army in 1937.

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Poland still counts losses from WW2 invasion

As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the start of World War Two, Poland has reparations on its mind.

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Humour, hobbies and friendships: Your tips for staying positive

Interested in living longer? Here's advice from optimists to make sure your glass is always half full.

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Picture of the day for August 31, 2019

Vestmannaeyjar harbour, Heimaey‎, Westman Islands, Suðurland, Iceland.. Learn more.

Thursday, August 29, 2019

Web Design Rant Things of Interest

Article URL: https://qntm.org/design

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20834992

Points: 1

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Regarding the Pen of Others

Article URL: https://harpers.org/archive/2019/09/sontag-her-life-and-work-benjamin-moser/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20834986

Points: 1

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Even Amazon's own products are getting hijacked by imposter sellers

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/29/20837359/amazon-basics-fake-sellers-imposters-third-party-marketplace

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20834972

Points: 1

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The air conditioning trap: how cold air is heating the world

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/29/the-air-conditioning-trap-how-cold-air-is-heating-the-world

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20834933

Points: 1

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The AppleTV+ Strategy

Article URL: https://www.aboveavalon.com/notes/2019/8/29/the-apple-tv-plus-strategy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20834912

Points: 1

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Firefox Send

Article URL: https://send.firefox.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20834894

Points: 1

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Engineers build advanced microprocessor out of carbon nanotubes

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2019-08-advanced-microprocessor-carbon-nanotubes.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20834885

Points: 1

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Homo Narrativus and the Trouble with Fame

Article URL: http://nautil.us/issue/75/story/homo-narrativus-and-the-trouble-with-fame-rp

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20834881

Points: 1

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Uber, Lyft warn they’ll take the fight over workplace rules to California voters

Article URL: https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2019-08-29/ab5-uber-lyft-newsom-lorena-gonzalez-ballot-tony-west

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20834876

Points: 1

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The Man Trump Wishes He Were

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Trump Authorizes a Space Command. Next, He Wants a Space Force.

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How do blind people enjoy the Mona Lisa?

Museums don't allow people to touch the Mona Lisa or any Van Gogh paintings. With tactile art now you can.

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Netflix's The Dark Crystal prequel: What you need to know

Netflix's prequel is here - you'll want a guide to bring you up to speed on the classic 80s fantasy.

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Quiz of the week: What fuelled Stokes' fairytale innings?

Have you been paying attention to what's been going on over the past seven days?

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Fuse ODG: 'Why we must reject narratives portraying Africans as inferior'

Ghanaian Afrobeat star Fuse ODG says Africans must reject narratives portraying them as 'inferior'.

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'I would not have kept the baby': Fighting depression in pregnancy

Where millions live without access to a psychiatrist, one innovative scheme is trying to plug the gap.

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Mexico missing: The city where 'you can feel the fear'

With gangs using private homes to dispose of bodies, the search for the missing is getting harder.

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Has President Trump's trade war cost China three million jobs?

He said that China has lost at least three million jobs - is this true?

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How playing video games could you get a better job

Gaming has long been stigmatised as the preserve of the socially inadequate, but this is changing.

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Music festivals: What can be done to stop drug deaths?

A 17-year-old's death at Leeds Festival has sparked debate about how to stop others meeting the same fate.

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Do plants have something to say?

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/26/style/can-plants-talk.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20834849

Points: 1

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Carpenter's hand reattached by surgeons after saw accident

Anthony Lelliott's hand was left hanging by skin and bone as he cut floorboards with a circular saw.

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'We live in LS Lowry's house... he might not approve of the colour scheme'

The Salford terrace where Lowry painted many of his famous works is now home to a family of six.

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Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Apple Apologizes over Siri Privacy and Will No Longer Retain Audio Recordings

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-28/apple-apologizes-will-no-longer-retain-siri-audio-recordings

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20825548

Points: 1

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The Entrepreneur who lost his multi-million dollar company in 10 seconds

Article URL: https://www.successvalley.tech/gerald-ratner-company/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20825539

Points: 1

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Infochain: A Decentralized System for Truthful Information Elicitation

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10258

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20825526

Points: 1

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Find lit clubs and bars near you

Article URL: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/litty-club-bar-finder/id1477496213?ref=producthunt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20825524

Points: 1

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Tesla launches its own insurance program, claims up to 30% cheaper

Article URL: https://electrek.co/2019/08/28/tesla-insurance-program-price-cheaper/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20825515

Points: 1

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New bike helmet material claims to reduce concussion risk by 98%

Article URL: https://pelotonmagazine.com/gear/bontragers-new-wavecel-bests-mips-at-concussion-prevention/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20825502

Points: 7

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A Conservative Senator’s Crusade Against Big Tech

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2019/08/28/feature/a-conservative-senators-crusade-against-big-tech

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20825491

Points: 1

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New comment by scarejunba in "Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (1982)"

The comment expresses the view that the whole diamond thing is bollocks. It's just oddly melodramatic in my opinion and takes these wild swings that spam comments on my WordPress blog take.

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Puppy helps boy from Eastleigh cope with autism

Puppy Jesse is being trained to support nine-year-old Jethro, who has autism and ADHD.

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HIV harassment: Bristol man on the abuse strangers send

Aled Osborne faces abuse from strangers because of how open he is about his HIV status.

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Dementia app aims to spark chats about the disease

Virtual reality app Dementia First Hand aims to educate and raise awareness of dementia.

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New top story on Hacker News: New bike helmet material claims to reduce concussion risk by 98%

New bike helmet material claims to reduce concussion risk by 98%
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YOLOrekt is on Fire

Thanks for joining and all your initial support!

What a week it's been, and things are just getting started. We appreciate all who participated and we hope you help spread the word, because YOLO.

As with any new dApp we will be constantly improving the experience and the betting mechanics.

After listening to your feedback we've made a few changes:

1. Increased YOLOrekt's liquidity pool, increasing payouts!

2. Implemented a new time-decay payout incentivisation mechanism.

3. Withdrawals are now 50% faster!

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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20825445

Points: 1

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Testing in Containers. I put all my integration tests in containers

Article URL: https://engineering.kablamo.com.au/posts/2019/hermitic-tests

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20825410

Points: 1

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Magnetofiction – A Reader's Guide

Article URL: https://markusmeister.com/2019/08/28/magnetofiction-a-readers-guide/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20825393

Points: 1

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Riding in Cars with Jacques Lacan

Article URL: https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/08/21/riding-in-cars-with-jacques-lacan/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20825381

Points: 1

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Let's Build a Simple Interpreter. Part 17: Call Stack and Activation Records

Article URL: https://ruslanspivak.com/lsbasi-part17/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20825371

Points: 1

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Tesla Insurance

Article URL: https://www.tesla.com/insurance

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20825347

Points: 2

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Show HN: A Scala service that provides cryptocoin data from several exchanges

Article URL: https://github.com/minaandrawos/cryptoapi

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20825343

Points: 1

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Ask HN: Any experiences flying with a 2015 MacBook Pro after the FAA warning?

I am using a 2015 15-inch MBP for a project and really need to bring it with me on a trip soon. But the FAA recently put out a warning/ban on these due to a battery recall, and some airlines are banning them from planes in various configurations.[1]

According to every news source, the only devices covered by the FAA order are serial numbers eligible for recall per Apple's support page. And the device I have at home isn't one of those. But... I really don't trust the TSA to be willing to type the serial number into a support page to verify that at the airport. It seems more likely that they'd just see the laptop and turn me away at security, which would be an expensive mess.

So, has anyone successfully flown with one of these that has a non-recalled serial number?

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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20825336

Points: 1

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Robert Mueller Wanted the Facts to Speak for Themselves–Bad Move Blog Network

Article URL: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/robert-mueller-wanted-the-facts-to-speak-for-themselves-bad-move/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20825335

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Picture of the day for August 29, 2019

Misumena vatia, white form (female) eating Episyrphus balteatus. Learn more.

Last chance for PPI claims as deadline arrives

Consumers have until 23:59 to make a claim, as the UK's biggest financial mis-selling scandal draws to a close.

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Tuesday, August 27, 2019

The “10 A.M. Policy”: The U.S. Forest Service and Wildfire Suppression

Article URL: https://www.shraboise.com/2017/09/91317-10-m-policy-u-s-forest-service-wildfire-suppression/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20815660

Points: 1

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HubHaus eviction underscores issues with corporate co-living

Article URL: https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/HubHaus-eviction-underscores-issues-with-14375078.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20815637

Points: 1

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Top Docker Security Tips

Article URL: https://towardsdatascience.com/top-20-docker-security-tips-81c41dd06f57?source=friends_link&sk=efeac3577bd9c698d59dfd07c5fef40d

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20815627

Points: 1

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The Libor Change Is Coming

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-27/the-libor-change-is-coming

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20815622

Points: 1

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Is Positive Sentiment in Corporate Annual Reports Informative?

Article URL: http://clsbluesky.law.columbia.edu/2019/08/26/is-positive-sentiment-in-corporate-annual-reports-informative/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20815606

Points: 1

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Free Speech Matters, Even When It’s Not Protected by the First Amendment

Article URL: https://quillette.com/2019/08/18/free-speech-matters-even-when-its-not-protected-by-the-first-amendment/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20815588

Points: 3

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Marketo's munchkin tracker makes sync XMLHTTPRequests by default

Article URL: https://twitter.com/tommoor/status/1166493879471726592

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20815582

Points: 1

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Show HN: Repository of open source space-related software and hardware

Article URL: https://github.com/orbitalindex/awesome-space

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20815558

Points: 1

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Money with an Expiration Date

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/08/27/754323652/the-strange-unduly-neglected-prophet

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20815557

Points: 1

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Ask HN: Tips to automate API integration testing?

It is really tedious to setup automate tests. How do you handle it?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20815540

Points: 1

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Ask HN: Thought experiment..growing food on Moon for Artemis project

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20815533

Points: 1

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'Mushroom foraging saved me from my grief'

When Long Litt Woon lost her husband she was overcome by grief. She rediscovered happiness foraging in the woods.

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Sudan crisis: Activists achieve 'big win' over generals

The junta has agreed to a civilian government after months of protests against its rule.

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How fire shaped humans, and forged the modern economy

If you rule out everything made by fire, we would not be left with much of an economy at all.

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Has Kenya's plastic bag ban worked?

Plastic carrier bags were made illegal, so how has the government enforced the ban?

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Slavery: Could a new museum stop racism in London?

The group behind the idea says the government has a "moral obligation" to help fund it.

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Social workers: 'I had a parent screaming foul names at me'

Social workers say they face serious abuse in the line of duty and are calling to be better protected

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Why this woman decided to knit Trump's tweets

American artist Diana Waymar wanted to find a way of relating to the current political atmosphere. So she began knitting Mr Trump’s words.

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Maria Ressa: 'Rape and death threats won't silence me'

Award-winning journalist Maria Ressa on why arrests, rape and death threats won't silence her.

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Medical Cannabis: “I can get arrested, but I'll keep using it for my pain"

Carly Barton became the first British patient to be legally prescribed with herbal cannabis last year, but fears she will be unable to pay the cost of treatment.

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Blind University of Glasgow student 'faced reading list discrimination'

Gary Copland said he was not given accessible books, and was then penalised for reading too little.

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Plastic waste: Is it time to cut back on holiday inflatables?

One coastal charity says it collected 500 abandoned inflatables in just one village this summer.

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Monday, August 26, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: India Develops the World's First Iron-Ion Battery

India Develops the World's First Iron-Ion Battery
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New top story on Hacker News: Desegregation Plan: Eliminate All Gifted Programs in New York

Desegregation Plan: Eliminate All Gifted Programs in New York
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New top story on Hacker News: Useless Windows 10 Features

Useless Windows 10 Features
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New top story on Hacker News: Credit cards have a privacy problem

Credit cards have a privacy problem
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Supernotes: An Argument for a (Taxed) $1000 Bill

Article URL: https://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2019/04/supernotes.html

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First Customer Cancellation

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Xmake v2.2.8 released, New vs. project generator

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Central Processing Unit

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Bullfrog County, Nevada

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I Am the Cheapest Bastard in Indie Games

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GhidraX64Dbg – Port your debugging notations between x64 Debug and Ghidra

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Udacity Welcomes Gabriel Dalporto as Our New CEO

Article URL: https://blog.udacity.com/2019/08/udacity-welcomes-gabriel-dalporto-as-our-new-ceo.html

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FreeBSD Gains KTLS Support

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Thought of the Day: Perfection Is the Enemy (2008)

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“Anything But This” – NPM install funding

Article URL: https://blog.licensezero.com/2019/08/24/Process-of-Elimination.html

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Porting a face detector written in C to WebAssembly

Article URL: https://dev.to/unqlite_db/porting-a-face-detector-written-in-c-to-webassembly-27p6

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World of Warcraft Classic devs will right the wrongs of the 2004 launch

Article URL: https://www.polygon.com/2019/8/26/20813226/world-of-warcraft-mmorpg-classic-vanilla-servers-social-raiding

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TLS is broken and How to Fix it

Article URL: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1f2k6fsIkDmIS1WyJAT0lXQmDuHIPeo9GDKfP1FY2rVc

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Ferdinand Piech, Who Transformed Volkswagen, Dies at 82

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/ferdinand-piech-who-transformed-volkswagen-dies-11566861010

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Picture of the day for August 27, 2019

Female Nilgiri tahr (Nilgiritragus hylocrius), an endemic goat in the Eravikulam National Park in Kerala, India. There are about 3000 animals left in the wild, all in the Western Ghats. Learn more.

New comment by jeromescuggs in "Ask HN: Best Blogging Platform"

wordpress always felt really overkill for what i wanted, and static site gens are fun for people who like to tinker under the hood. personally i use hugo, but i am still shopping around for something a little less convoluted. stumbled onto a super old package called blazeblogger and it'a been neat, but we will see

when i just want something i can setup with minimal hassle, i have always loved GetSimple (http://get-simple.info/) although i imagine mentioning a flat-file platform will probably elicit some reactions - flat-file meaning it doesn't use a database to store content, but instead simply stores the data, encrypted, in actual textfiles on your webserver. when i was using godaddy as a host, their mysql db's were always a bit laggy, and something like wordpress would always have that extra, noticeable pause during loading that bugged me to no end. getsimple with the blogging plugin was always faster, configuring it was easy, and i didn't have to stray too far outside my limited knowledge of html/css/php to play with the styling and theming.

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Ministers and HS2 bosses knew railway over budget years ago

The public were not given the full picture about the true cost of the high speed railway, documents show.

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Bank of mum and dad 'one of UK's biggest mortgage lenders'

The average parental contribution for homebuyers this year is £24,100, Legal & General finds.

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Sunday, August 25, 2019

Tinbergen's Four Questions

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinbergen%27s_four_questions

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“Is down” messages considered annoying

Let's not post those here, as they are distinct from interesting post-incident analyses.

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Doodling at work could help you be more productive

Article URL: https://www.fastcompany.com/90390656/doodling-at-work-could-help-you-be-more-productive

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Do most startups have an unfair advantage?

Excited to be in the community. My co-founder and I are launching a marketplace this year (too early to share), and initial feedback to idea has been positive. However, I don't know how to answer the question "What's your unfair advantage?". Did any of these companies initially have an unfair advantage: Airbnb, Twitter, Facebook? Their business models are relatively simple, and do not appear to be technically difficult (I'm non-technical).

Can the group share how they answer the question for their startup? Or an example of a good answer they've heard?

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Rory McIlroy Caps Season With a Win at the Tour Championship

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Is the F-35 Stealth Fighter 'Made in China'?

Article URL: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/f-35-stealth-fighter-made-china-76136

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Manufacture of a smartphone creates as much CO2 as ten years of use (2018)

Article URL: https://www.fastcompany.com/90165365/smartphones-are-wrecking-the-planet-faster-than-anyone-expected

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New Artificial intelligence can now see like a human

Article URL: https://humanbioscience.org/2019/05/new-artificial-intelligence-can-see-like-a-human.html

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As Amazon Burns, Fires in Next-Door Bolivia Also Wreak Havoc

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New top story on Hacker News: Life Is Too Short to RTFM (2014)

Life Is Too Short to RTFM (2014)
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Ask HN: What travel sites do you use for research, planning, booking?

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The Cherokee want a representative in Congress, taking up a 200-year-old promise

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/25/politics/cherokee-nation-congressional-delegate-treaty/

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The Software Engineering Cult

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Choice

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Ping Identity Files for IPO

Article URL: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1679826/000104746919004829/a2239513zs-1.htm

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Problems never solved, they transform

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To Promote Inclusivity, Stay Away from Personality Assessments

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/smarter-living/inclusivity-diversity-personality-assessements-myers-briggs.html

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QEMU VM Escape

Article URL: https://blog.bi0s.in/2019/08/24/Pwn/VM-Escape/2019-07-29-qemu-vm-escape-cve-2019-14378/

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Picture of the day for August 26, 2019

Prince Bishop's Castle in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Learn more.

'The bank sent my safe house address to my abusive ex'

Banks are trying to get better at helping victims of economic abuse, where a partner controls access to accounts.

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The Mini at 60: Fans share their pictures of the little car

As the classic vehicle reaches 60, enthusiasts share their stories and pictures.

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Swansea Valley landslides: Living on a 'moving mountain'

Landslides are a feature of life for some but what does the future hold for those determined to stay?

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Colombia's former child rebels try to rebuild their lives

The number of children recruited to fight for Colombia's rebel groups is rising, despite a peace deal.

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Saturday, August 24, 2019

Israel Says It Struck Iranian ‘Killer Drones’ in Syria

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How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers

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Rakuten Wallet Launches Spot Trading Services for BTC, ETH, BCH

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New top story on Hacker News: Why didn't the Romans contribute much to mathematics?

Why didn't the Romans contribute much to mathematics?
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New top story on Hacker News: Wikipedia contributions from IP address 127.0.0.1

Wikipedia contributions from IP address 127.0.0.1
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‘Breaking Bad’ Movie, Starring Aaron Paul, Coming to Netflix in October

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/24/arts/television/breaking-bad-movie-starring-aaron-paul-coming-to-netflix-in-october.html

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Russification

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The Gig Economy

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Prince Andrew Denies Knowing of Sex Trafficking by Epstein

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Fire Displaces 200 Residents of a Halfway House in Paterson, N.J.

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Why didn't the Romans contribute much to mathematics?

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The End of Agile

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Airport security: 3D baggage scanners could end liquid restrictions

Airports must introduce 3D baggage screening before the end of 2022, the government announces.

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New comment by Terretta in "Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection"

On the contrary, you’re now trying to ‘conflate’ the pay-to-publish model into the two you argued meant that model didn't exist.

You weren’t talking about paying cash for publishing/distribution, because both your two options, paid subscription and free ad-supported, you were talking how the consumer pays and also cost money to publish, cancelling that dimension out.

In the pay-to-publish model, someone is deciding it’s worth their own pocket money (or patronage or sponsorship by powers that be) to publish. That makes it free to consume.

We were talking about the perspective of the content consumer, and for them, the pay-to-publish model is free. They are neither paying for the content, nor are they paying with their attention. Some entirely different actor not discussed in your models, is covering it.

That content, content creators support publishing, tends to be different in nature — someone is willing to spend “their own” money to share the ideas in it freely.

Pamphleteers paid the printing presses by cash too, that’s how they didn’t have to sell ads and how they didn’t have to charge a ha’penny a sheet.

> “Content both created and distributed for free is miniscule and you haven’t quoted a single example yet”

You’re both non-responsive to examples with factual data to back them up, and moving the goalposts. To be clear, I’m agreeing there is too much no-value content getting churned out as filler to advertise against. So much volume, so much noise, the valuable content is buried.

Perhaps we agree there’s too much ad-hosting filler content, and not enough inherent value content.

To keep saying “minuscule” perhaps you use a very different internet. Where are the ads on this site? Are you paying for it? No, someone has an interest in this site and its content being available to a special interest audience. It costs almost nothing to host contentful content of mostly plain text conveying information rather than eye candy to drive clicks. With light design but info rich text content, it’s easy for the ROI to work. Companies know this and publish for free without ads.

If you add “corporate” publishing into the mix, all the company product sites and blogs, combining company sites, academic sites, non-profit/public-good sites, government sites, WordPress home pages of everyone homesteading on the web, etc., it’s not minuscule.

But here’s some hard data from 2018:

“Ad-supported media’s share of consumer time will drop to 42.5 percent by 2021. This past year [2017], the number fell to 44.4 percent, its lowest point ever, per the research.” — https://www.pqmedia.com/product/global-consumer-media-usage-...

Ad-supported is less than half of media time and trending down.

In the beginning, profiting off web content was illegal. Is it impossible to imagine course-correcting this race to the bottom?

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TiKV Browser: inspect key-values in a browser

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Wikipedia contributions from IP address 127.0.0.1

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The underground Facebook market for rare meat

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Picture of the day for August 25, 2019

December 1942, view into the Chicago and North Western Railway locomotive shops. Today, 200 years ago, James Watt died, who crucially improved the steam engine, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution. Steam locomotives as special steam engines were an essential part of it.. Learn more.

Ask HN: Looking for coding challenge platform with a specific use-case

Hello,

I am teaching a coding class (middle schoolers) and I have a specific need.

I am looking for a site/system where the site provides the shell of a board game / word game (assume rectangular board) and my students can fill in the game logic or write bots/programs playing against it.

Does such a thing exist?

I am not interested in site that already game-ify programming with their own game.

As an example, imagine a student needs to write a program that plays (or attempts to play), a board game like chess. Much of the grunt work of hosting a site, logic for new game, game rules, how to connect clients etc can be abstracted out and handled by the site.

Any help is appreciated.

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Performance of Webpack vs. modern lazy loading JAMstack approach; & future

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First pentium laptop runs Linux 4.19

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What Companies Are For

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How Guilty Should You Feel About Your Vacation?

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Friday, August 23, 2019

Canadians tortured while ‘red princess’ goes shopping

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Installing Red Star 3.0, North Korea’s Homegrown Operating System

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Is Shopify Making a Big Mistake by Competing Against Amazon?

Article URL: https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/08/21/is-shopify-making-a-big-mistake-by-competing-again.aspx

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In a Quantum Future, Which Starship Destroys the Other?

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Scorpion toxin may help solve the mystery of chronic pain

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Firestorm: An ORM for Firestore

Article URL: https://github.com/lmcq/firebase-firestorm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20784210

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TypeScript/JS Developers for a Non-Profit Scientific Journal for Young People

Hi everyone! We need young people looking to work with an actual production codebase to help create experiences for article authors and editors.

The Journal

The Young Scientists Journal is a non-profit peer-reviewed science journal for under 21's. Completely staffed by young people (~200 editors, ~10 artists, ~2 devs).

I joined the Young Scientists Journal when I was 15. I was the one of the first developers there, and I helped them move from their legacy Annotum stack to a semi-decent Wordpress setup. I also, more recently, wrote an Article Management System to handle all these incoming articles. I'll be turning 21 soon enough, so it's time to start looking for people who can take over the reins for the software I've been developing.

Role

Maintain the Article Management System

Help write front ends for submitting and managing articles

Help maintain the Wordpress website (Optional)

What we need from you

Be a young person

Have at least one project written in JavaScript

Be willing to learn TypeScript

Be willing to learn how to deploy TypeScript apps

Don't worry if any of that sounds intimidating. When I started, I hadn't seriously used a programming language before. The difference is, when you join, I'll be there to get you accustomed to working with this kind of codebase.

If you have any questions about the position, want to help with something different or even want to submit an article, leave a comment or send me a message.

Thanks to everyone for reading this!

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New top story on Hacker News: Some People Pay $30 to Get a Referral for Google

Some People Pay $30 to Get a Referral for Google
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Combating coordinated influence operations on YouTube

Article URL: https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/public-policy/maintaining-integrity-our-platforms/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20784196

Points: 2

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Why this 63-year-old teacher ditched the US to retire in the highlands of Panama

Article URL: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/it-is-an-act-of-insanity-to-stay-in-the-us-why-this-63-year-old-teacher-ditched-massachusetts-to-retire-in-the-highlands-of-panama-2019-08-23

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20784187

Points: 1

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Eggs Successfully Collected from the Last Two Northern White Rhinos

Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/eggs-successfully-collected-last-two-northern-white-rhinos-180972982/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20784165

Points: 1

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Amazon Joins Walmart in Saying Tesla Solar Panels Caught Fire

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-23/amazon-joins-walmart-in-saying-tesla-solar-panels-caught-fire

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20784065

Points: 2

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The new mobile phone scam delivering a problem

Why are fraudsters arranging for a brand new phone to unexpectedly be delivered to your door?

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Picture of the day for August 24, 2019

Sandkrugbrücke is a bridge in Berlin-Moabit. The light trail under the bridge comes from a ship passing by during the exposure.. Learn more.

Their Mothers Chose Donor Sperm. The Doctors Used Their Own

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/21/health/sperm-donors-fraud-doctors.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20784085

Points: 1

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A Bitter Divorce Battle on Earth Led to Claims of a Crime in Space

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/us/nasa-astronaut-anne-mcclain.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20784082

Points: 1

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Chalkboard Scraping

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalkboard_scraping

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20784031

Points: 1

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Show HN: StoryForj – Explain things visually, from concepts to how-to's

Article URL: https://storyforj.com/l/tutorials?shallpass=true

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20784010

Points: 3

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Add Authentication to Your App the Easy Way

Article URL: https://medium.com/simpleid-dev-tools/adding-authentication-to-your-app-the-easy-way-44d182055f91

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20784007

Points: 2

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I’m a Journalist. Why Did I End Up on an FBI Terrorist Watch List?

Article URL: https://www.thenation.com/article/trump-terrorism-travel-watchlist/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20784005

Points: 1

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The Cold War spy technology which we all use

Radio-frequency identification, famously used to bug the US embassy in Moscow, is a cheap way to track objects and data.

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PPI: 'It was a jaw-dropping amount'

The UK's biggest financial mis-selling scandal's led to £36bn in payouts. How has it affected us all?

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Machen student teaches rugby to Peru's high-security prisoners

Jo Penrose has been teaching rugby to high-security prisoners in Peru during her summer break.

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Thursday, August 22, 2019

White supremacy gangs in the US: How and why people join

Why do some people join white supremacy gangs and what does it take to get it one?

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Tokyo Paralympics 2020: Will Tokyo be accessible enough?

Tokyo is set to host the next Paralympic Games in 2020 - but how accessible is the Japanese capital?

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Pigs' emotions could be read by new farming technology

New technology has been developed to detect how happy the animals are.

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Quiz of the week: Did you read about Bowie's bandstand?

Have you been paying attention to what's been going on over the past seven days?

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Facial recognition technology aims to cut passport queue times

The UK Home Office is considering a system which would let you walk through immigration without showing your passport.

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Four-in-one pill prevents third of heart problems

The drug combination has huge potential and would cost just "pennies a day", say the researchers.

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Calling all StoryTellers – Let's make content people love not like

Article URL: https://storyforj.com/s/NXdGnY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20773596

Points: 1

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DNS over HTTPS

Article URL: https://originblog.synology.com/dns-over-https/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20773584

Points: 1

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Applying Netflix DevOps Patterns to Windows

Article URL: https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/applying-netflix-devops-patterns-to-windows-2a57f2dbbf79

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20773576

Points: 1

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Growing smartly: Cerebras unveils the world’s chunkiest AI chip

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/business/2019/08/22/cerebras-unveils-the-worlds-chunkiest-ai-chip

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20773565

Points: 1

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WeWork Is Valued 10 Times Greater Than This Profitable, Public Rival

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/wework-is-valued-10-times-greater-than-this-profitable-public-rival-11566298801?mod=rsswn

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20773562

Points: 2

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There's Life After Death Online

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/social-media-sites-delicately-foster-online-life-after-death-11566311134?mod=rsswn

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20773556

Points: 1

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dc: The RPN arbitrary precision calculator already on your Unix system

Article URL: https://www.gnu.org/software/bc/manual/dc-1.05/html_mono/dc.html#SEC2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20773552

Points: 1

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Should You Do SEO Specifically for Bing and Yahoo?

Article URL: https://capitalandgrowth.org/questions/1804/should-one-spend-any-effort-doing-seo-for-bing-yah.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20773551

Points: 1

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A Pissed Off Tutorial for Google Wave (2010) [video]

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z4RKRLaSug

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20773550

Points: 1

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Pivotal open sources kpack: A K8s-native Docker image build service

Article URL: https://content.pivotal.io/blog/introducing-kpack-a-kubernetes-native-container-build-service

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20773536

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Show HN: Traffic Champ – Beat traffic,find parking spots easily

Hi HN, I am Gilbert co-founder of TrafficChamp https://ift.tt/2HmbNp3 .

Traffic congestion costs the United States $3bn each year and a subset of that is people trying to look for parking. We own a car but after finally making it through traffic, another nightmare of looking for where to park kicks, and we spend money and lots of time looking for spots.

But what if you could instead exchange your car to another driver going somewhere and they return your car on-demand when you need it? That's why we are building Traffic Champ.

How it would work;

List your car on our site and we will find other car-owning drivers who are interested in using it Drivers pick exchange spots which they use to drop off there cars to other drivers and you simply go do whatever you want. In case you need your car back, you simply request it back. Feel free to reach out for any feedback or questions.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20773530

Points: 1

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