HN:Live JSON revision - 2018-08-03
We got 127 links!France Bans Street Harassment, Approving Hefty Fines for Catcallers https://www.npr.org/2018/08/02/634866222/france-bans-street-harassment-approving-hefty-fines-for-cat-callers
JPL Open-Source Rover Project Based on the Rovers on Mars https://github.com/nasa-jpl/open-source-rover
A Map of Wireless Passwords from Airports and Lounges https://foxnomad.com/2016/04/26/map-wireless-passwords-airports-lounges-around-world-updated-regularly/
A Ray-Tracing Pioneer Explains How He Stumbled into Global Illumination https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2018/08/01/ray-tracing-global-illumination-turner-whitted
In Pursuit of Production Minimalism https://brandur.org/minimalism
The BASIC Engine https://basicengine.org
GE Engineer Linked to China Stole Power Plant Technology, FBI Says https://www.wsj.com/articles/ge-engineer-linked-to-china-allegedly-stole-power-plant-technology-fbi-says-1533235590
Developments in tech in Toronto over the past seven years https://blog.brainstation.io/how-toronto-became-a-global-tech-leader-in-7-years/
PowerShell and Markdown https://ephos.github.io/posts/2018-8-1-PowerShell-Markdown
FCC sides with Google Fiber over Comcast with new pro-competition rule https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/fcc-gives-google-fiber-and-new-isps-faster-access-to-utility-poles/
PIN number analysis http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/september32012/
Show HN: I trained a neural network to learn Arabic morphology https://github.com/tb0yd/rootfinder
Fred Turner: Silicon Valley Thinks Politics Doesn’t Exist https://032c.com/fred-turner-silicon-valley-thinks-politics-doesnt-exist
How to explain infinity to kids https://blog.plover.com/math/infinity-for-kids.html
Relationship Hero (YC S17) Is Hiring Relationship Coaches – Remote https://relationshiphero.com/careers?role=coach
Walmart stumbles with its ’last mile’ package delivery plan https://www.reuters.com/article/us-walmart-lastmile-workers-insight/walmart-discovers-why-the-last-mile-is-the-hardest-idUSKBN1KK0DD
Show HN: Standup tool that works like Snapchat stories for remote teams https://standups.io/index.html
Braid 10th anniversary critical compilation https://www.critical-distance.com/2018/07/24/braid-10th-anniversary-critical-compilation/
Windows Calculator invalid input with 10^x function https://www.tenforums.com/software-apps/111414-windows-calculator-invalid-input-10-x-function.html
The art of stealing https://www.nrc.nl/kunsthal-en/
What the Luddites Really Fought Against (2011) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-luddites-really-fought-against-264412/?no-ist
Ransom: Routing Around Nation-States https://ransom.cs.princeton.edu/
Sparse matrix representations in SciPy (2017) https://heydenberk.com/blog/posts/sparse-matrix-representations-in-scipy/
Handshake: An experimental peer-to-peer root DNS https://handshake.org
Python’s Meta-Object Protocol (2012) [pdf] http://laser.inf.ethz.ch/2012/slides/vanRossum/laser-mop.pdf
Logic Programming and Compiler Writing (1980) [pdf] http://sovietov.com/tmp/warren1980.pdf
Adventures in vulnerability reporting https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/08/adventures-in-vulnerability-reporting.html
The Hacker’s Diet (2005) https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/
Building a Kickass Portfolio https://zen-of-programming.com/kickass-portfolio
You don’t need standups https://medium.com/@jsonpify/you-dont-need-standup-9a74782517c1
Logitext – An educational proof assistant for first-order classical logic http://logitext.mit.edu/main
A Brief History of the BEAM Compiler http://blog.erlang.org/beam-compiler-history/
Our Logo Looks Like Underpants: A Case Study in Internationalization (2013) https://blog.rjmetrics.com/2013/10/09/our-logo-looks-like-underpants-a-case-study-in-internationalization/
Show HN: DomTerm – a web-based rich terminal emulator and console http://domterm.org/
Linus Torvalds on Wireguard http://lists.openwall.net/netdev/2018/08/02/124
$1T Apple compared to other companies : Visualization https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/02/technology/apple-trillion-market-cap.html
Three Levels of Wealth http://awealthofcommonsense.com/2018/08/the-3-levels-of-wealth/
As Google Maps Renames Neighborhoods, Residents Fume https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/technology/google-maps-neighborhood-names.html
Relation between alcohol consumption in midlife and dementia in late life https://www.bmj.com/content/362/bmj.k3164
Tesla is building its own AI chips for self-driving cars https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/01/tesla-is-building-its-own-ai-chips-for-self-driving-cars/
A material found to carry current in a way never before observed https://phys.org/news/2018-08-material-unique-behavior-current.html
Japanese Medical School Deducted Points from Exam Scores of Female Applicants https://www.npr.org/2018/08/02/634936967/report-japanese-medical-school-deducted-points-from-exam-scores-of-female-applic?ft=nprml&f=1001
Wikipedia bans agenda-driven editor, but punishes the messenger too https://wikipedia.fivefilters.org/banning/
Announcing Rust 1.28 https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/08/02/Rust-1.28.html
Show HN: Life – A secure, blazing-fast, cross-platform WebAssembly VM in Go https://github.com/perlin-network/life
Show HN: Wikipedia2Vec – A tool for learning embeddings of words and entities https://wikipedia2vec.github.io/
CCleaner v5.45 Introduces Data Collection with No Way to Opt-Out https://sensorstechforum.com/ccleaner-v5-45-data-collection/
Regular sauna users may have fewer chronic diseases https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-sauna/regular-sauna-users-may-have-fewer-chronic-diseases-idUSKBN1KM5U0
Opera launches as a snap for Linux users https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2018/08/opera-launches-snap-linux-users/
The Expensive Education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/opinion/the-expensive-education-of-mark-zuckerberg-and-silicon-valley.html
Build a Simple CRUD App with Angular 6 and ASP.Net Core 2.1 https://developer.okta.com/blog/2018/08/02/aspnet-core-angular-crud
Ricoh releases SDKs for Pentax cameras https://www.pentaxuser.com/news/ricoh-releases-sdks-for-pentax-cameras-1373
Is horror the most disrespected genre? http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180614-is-horror-the-most-disrespected-genre
Another Expansion of Copyright https://act.eff.org/action/stop-another-expansion-of-copyright-tell-the-senate-to-vote-no-on-s-2823
Zinc: Introduce minimal cryptography library https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zx2c4/linux.git/commit/?h=zinc
Reverse Engineering A/B Tests (2009) http://www.benchmark-analytics.com/d/?q=Reverse+Engineering+A-B+Tests
What’s the Best App for Making Memes? https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/08/killer-memes/566498/?single_page=true
South Korean cam-hunter squads conduct electronic sweeps of public spaces https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/south-korea-spy-cams-metoo-sexual-harassment-ahn-hee-jung-a8470771.html
CPU cache misconceptions, and the MESI cache coherence protocol https://software.rajivprab.com/2018/04/29/myths-programmers-believe-about-cpu-caches/
An EPYC NixOS build farm https://grahamc.com/blog/an-epyc-nixos-build-farm
Cisco plans to acquire cybersecurity firm Duo Security for $2.35B https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/02/cisco-buys-security-start-up.html
France bans smartphone use in schools https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/1/17640476/france-bans-smartphone-cellphones-school-emmanuel-macron
$50 a Month for 1Mbps: How AT&T and Verizon Rip Off DSL Customers https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/08/50-a-month-for-1mbps-how-att-and-verizon-rip-off-dsl-customers/
Iran’s 2,000-year-old ice cream [video] http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180801-the-birthplace-of-ice-cream
Control government-backed attack alerts in G Suite https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2018/08/control-government-backed-attack-alerts.html
A Twitch channel to learn about creating AI game bots https://www.twitch.tv/serpent_ai_labs
The Market Is Poised For Catastrophic Losses (Part 1) https://medium.com/@vikjindal/the-market-is-poised-for-catastrophic-losses-part-1-70bd90d9a1b7
The Surface Go reviews are in, and… they’re a bit all over the place https://arstechnica.com/?p=1352263
Show HN: Create sketchy, hand-drawn version of image in browser with WebAssembly https://pshihn.github.io/rough-draw/
Tech Firms Surrender Their Crucial Billion-Dollar Tax Deductions https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-02/tech-firms-surrender-their-crucial-billion-dollar-tax-deductions
Nobel Prize-winning economist joins blockchain startup to fix smart contracts https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldelcastillo/2018/08/01/nobel-prize-winner-joins-blockchain-startup-to-fix-smart-contracts/#5c70dc517cc7
Newsrooms must stand up to targeted campaigns of harassment https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/2/17644878/the-verge-new-york-times-sarah-jeong
The Education of Dasmine Cathey (2012) https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/dasmine-cathey
Show HN: Bloqly - write Smart Contracts in JavaScript https://github.com/bloqly/bloqly
Ethnic cleansing makes a comeback – in China https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/ethnic-cleansing-makes-a-comeback--in-china/2018/08/02/55f73fa2-9691-11e8-810c-5fa705927d54_story.html
Monads: A useful tool for the working programmer? https://gitlab.com/QuesterZen/MeaningOfMonads/blob/master/MonadArticle.md
Compiling Lambda Calculus http://t3x.org/clc/index.html
Mysterious dry paths on farms caused by old boundaries / ruins https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1025031861679022080
How to Stand Out in a Crowded Market https://www.helpscout.net/blog/crowded-market/
A Master of Numbers and Shapes Who Is Rewriting Arithmetic https://www.quantamagazine.org/peter-scholze-becomes-one-of-the-youngest-fields-medalists-ever-20180801/
Kolmogorov Complexity and Our Search for Meaning http://nautil.us/issue/63/horizons/kolmogorov-complexity-and-our-search-for-meaning
Intel guts 10nm to get it out the door https://www.semiaccurate.com/2018/08/02/intel-guts-10nm-to-get-it-out-the-door/
How much you have to earn to be in the top 0.01% in every US state https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/02/how-much-you-have-to-earn-to-be-a-top-earner-in-every-us-state.html
Musical.ly shutting down after $1B acquisition https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/musically-shutdown-tiktok-bytedance-1202893205/
Dollar stores are thriving – but are they ripping off poor people? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/28/dollar-store-ripping-people-off-poverty-inequality
Apple shuts App Store affiliate program, imperiling recommendation sites https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/08/apple-shuts-app-store-affiliate-program-imperiling-recommendation-sites/
Scaring Animals Can Help Save Them https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/saving-animals-by-scaring-them/
Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP38Cxve5xY
AWS Cloud Development Kit https://awslabs.github.io/aws-cdk/
Apple becomes the first $1T company https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/08/02/apple-becomes-the-first-1-trillion-company-in-history/
Show HN: View random tweets from the Russian “trolls” http://www.russiansinmy.house/
Cancer Progress: Much More Than You Wanted to Know http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/08/01/cancer-progress-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/
The Python Requests Module http://stackabuse.com/the-python-requests-module/
TensorFlow 1.9 Officially Supports the Raspberry Pi https://medium.com/tensorflow/tensorflow-1-9-officially-supports-the-raspberry-pi-b91669b0aa0
Eden: a Lua-based scripting language in Clojure https://github.com/benzap/eden
The fightback against the Bitcoin energy guzzlers has begun https://www.wired.co.uk/article/bitcoin-mining-energy-consumption-new-york
A Math Theory for Why People Hallucinate https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-math-theory-for-why-people-hallucinate-20180730/
Danes spend two-thirds of their work week doing nothing https://nordic.businessinsider.com/danes-spend-two-thirds-of-their-workweek-doing-nothing--heres-why--
What Those Secret Rubber Flaps Behind Your Rear Bumper Are For https://jalopnik.com/heres-what-those-rubber-flaps-are-hidden-behind-your-re-1828016409
An Emacs major mode for Hledger https://github.com/narendraj9/hledger-mode
It’s impossible to responsibly exist on Twitter https://www.polygon.com/2018/8/2/17596594/twitter-james-gunn-disney-history-delete
Jeff Bezos’s $150B Fortune Is a Policy Failure https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/08/the-problem-with-bezos-billions/566552/?single_page=true
Apple’s Board Says Tim Cook Has to Fly Private from Now On (2017) https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/306710
Winner of top mathematics prize has medal stolen from him minutes later https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/08/02/winner-of-top-mathematics-prize-has-medal-stolen-from-him-minutes-later/
Huawei Cloud FPGA Development Kit https://github.com/Huawei/huaweicloud-fpga
Bridging the gap between low-level and high-level JavaScript Chart libraries https://medium.com/@juned.chhipa/bridging-the-gap-between-low-level-and-high-level-charting-libraries-a8f6c1819ba5
The Cost of JavaScript in 2018 https://medium.com/@addyosmani/the-cost-of-javascript-in-2018-7d8950fbb5d4
Life: A secure, blazing-fast, cross-platform WebAssembly VM in Go https://medium.com/perlin-network/life-a-secure-blazing-fast-cross-platform-webassembly-vm-in-go-ea3b31fa6e09
The Number of Americans Living in Their Vehicles Explodes https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-01/number-americans-living-their-vehicles-explodes-middle-class-collapses
Arithmetica – Decentralized Computational Math Platform https://arithmetica.network
Energy-intensive Bitcoin transactions pose a growing environmental threat https://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/research-and-journals/energy-intensive-bitcoin-transactions-pose-a-growing-environmental-threat
Show HN: I opensourced my distributed cron SaaS when no one signed up https://github.com/dosyago-corp/cronstorm-opensource
The 14KB in the TCP Initial Window https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2016/09/25/the-14kb-in-the-tcp-initial-window/
AAPL hits $1T market cap according to Apple’s own Stocks app, but it is wrong https://9to5mac.com/2018/08/02/apple-becomes-first-company-to-hit-1-trillion-market-cap-according-to-apples-own-stocks-app/
Help a Scientist – Contribute to a scientific project in spare time https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/help-a-scientist/bplkoafhogcpnogadljgjecpnfhhbbpc
LeBron James funds a new STEM-focused public school for at-risk kids https://www.sbnation.com/nba/2018/7/30/17629560/lebron-james-i-promise-school-akron
Almost 70% of Millennials Regret Buying Their Homes https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/18/most-millennials-regret-buying-home.html
FBI charges 3 Ukrainians with hacking U.S. chains, stealing credit card data https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-charges-ukrainians-with-hacking-us-chains-stealing-customers-credit-card-data/2018/08/01/7b74badc-95bc-11e8-a679-b09212fb69c2_story.html
Young people don’t want construction jobs https://www.wsj.com/articles/young-people-dont-want-construction-jobs-thats-a-problem-for-the-housing-market-1533029401
Handshake: An experimental peer-to-peer root DNS https://handshake.org
Apple Is Worth One Trillion Dollars https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/08/apple-1-trillion-market-cap/566672/?single_page=true
Reddit Was Hacked https://np.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/93qnm5/we_had_a_security_incident_heres_what_you_need_to/
Reddit Breach Highlights Limits of SMS-Based Authentication https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/08/reddit-breach-highlights-limits-of-sms-based-authentication/
Steve Jobs’ daughter Lisa’s biography describes cold Steve https://www.news.com.au/finance/money/wealth/apple-founder-steve-jobs-daughter-lisa-brennanjobs-tells-all-in-new-book/news-story/79e31331e1504d8e348109d7abd78e6f
Apple is first public company worth $1 trillion https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45050213
Father has 3 minutes to say goodbye after objecting to daughter’s organ donation https://www.sacbee.com/news/state/article215781030.html