top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-10-16

Cops are asking Ancestry.com and 23andMe for their customers’ DNA

http://fusion.net/story/215204/law-enforcement-agencies-are-asking-ancestry-com-and-23andme-for-their-customers-dna/

11 years ago

Google Wins Appeals Court Approval of Book-Scanning Project

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-16/google-wins-appeals-court-approval-of-book-scanning-project-iftpwxl3

11 years ago

From Python to Go and Back Again

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LO_WI3N-3p2Wp9PDWyv5B6EGFZ8XTOTNJ7Hd40WOUHo/mobilepresent?pli=1#slide=id.g70b0035b2_1_168

11 years ago

Don’t Feed the Beast – The Great Tech Recruiter Infestation

https://mocko.org.uk/b/2015/10/14/dont-feed-the-beast-the-great-tech-recruiter-infestation/

11 years ago

Different Brain Regions Are Infected with Fungi in Alzheimer’s Disease

http://www.nature.com/articles/srep15015

11 years ago

Red Hat is buying Ansible

http://venturebeat.com/2015/10/15/source-red-hat-is-buying-ansible-for-more-than-100m/

11 years ago

TPP could thwart computer security research and tinkering

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/10/15/trans_pacific_partnership_could_thwart_computer_security_research_and_tinkering.html

11 years ago

How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/how-to-protect-yourself-from-nsa-attacks-1024-bit-DH

11 years ago

Soviet PCs

http://rbth.co.uk/multimedia/pictures/2014/04/07/before_the_internet_top_11_soviet_pcs_35711

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Markdeep

http://casual-effects.com/markdeep/

11 years ago

Be Suspicious of Online Movie Ratings

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/fandango-movies-ratings/

11 years ago

Apache 2.4.17 with HTTP/2 support

https://icing.github.io/mod_h2/howto.html

11 years ago

Why Red Hat Acquired Ansible

http://www.redhat.com/en/about/blog/why-red-hat-acquired-ansible

11 years ago

Ask HN: What visa do foreign YC founders use to stay in US beyond 3 months?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10400912

11 years ago

Libraries Used in the Top 100 iOS Apps

https://medium.com/ios-os-x-development/libraries-used-in-the-top-100-ios-apps-5b845ad927b7

11 years ago

What is Electricity?

https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/what-is-electricity

11 years ago

The Danger of E-Books

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/the-danger-of-ebooks.html

11 years ago

A $2 photo from a California junk shop is the ‘holy grail of Western Americana’

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/10/15/why-experts-say-a-2-photo-from-a-california-junk-shop-is-the-holy-grail-of-western-americana/?postshare=4301444920218864

11 years ago

What Do We Really Know About Osama Bin Laden’s Death?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/magazine/what-do-we-really-know-about-osama-bin-ladens-death.html?_r=0

11 years ago

Document Clustering with Python

http://brandonrose.org/clustering

11 years ago

Hacker Who Sent Me Heroin Faces Charges in U.S

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/10/hacker-who-sent-me-heroin-faces-charges-in-u-s/

11 years ago

To save on weight, a detour to the moon is the best route to Mars

http://news.mit.edu/2015/mars-mission-save-weight-fuel-on-moon-1015

11 years ago

Stanford, Michael Bloomberg Now Back Every Y Combinator Startup

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/10/15/stanford-michael-bloomberg-now-back-every-y-combinator-startup/

11 years ago

The spreadsheet as a minimum viable CMS

https://medium.com/@jkalven/wait-you-write-in-a-spreadsheet-814272c02ff8

11 years ago

What is a core dump and how do you parse one?

http://backtrace.io/blog/blog/2015/10/03/whats-a-coredump/

11 years ago

Chrome DevTools extension for ClojureScript

https://github.com/binaryage/cljs-devtools

11 years ago

★ 1.1k Clojure

The most disruptive technology of the last century was home appliances

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/14/the-most-disruptive-technology-of-the-last-century-is-in-your-house/

11 years ago

UK firm's surveillance kit 'used to crush Uganda opposition'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34529237

11 years ago

Where did the principle of secrecy in correspondence go?

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/aug/12/where-did-the-principle-of-secrecy-in-correspondence-go

11 years ago

Cron in production is a double-edged sword

https://orchestrate.io/blog/2014/03/31/cron-in-production-that-is-a-double-edged-sword/

11 years ago

Theranos Dials Back Lab Tests at FDA’s Behest

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CB8QqQIwAGoVChMItc_vrfjFyAIVStRjCh3A6AGZ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%2Fhot-startup-theranos-dials-back-lab-tests-at-fdas-behest-1444961864&usg=AFQjCNEQljk9gMya5WDjQPg1V_HRFDRuRA

11 years ago

Braess' paradox: adding a new road to a city can slow down traffic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27_paradox

11 years ago

Morpheus Linux

http://morpheus.2f30.org/

11 years ago

Hacking Servo for Noobs

https://gist.github.com/paulrouget/2f00941e6e82aeecad23

11 years ago

How to Shuffle and Sample on the Command-Line

http://blog.jpalardy.com/posts/how-to-shuffle-and-sample-on-the-command-line

11 years ago

The World's Most Inspirational Iceberg Is a Fake

http://nautil.us/blog/the-worlds-most-inspirational-iceberg-is-a-fake

11 years ago

German parliament votes for new data retention law

http://www.dw.com/en/german-parliament-votes-for-new-data-retention-law/a-18786345

11 years ago

Show HN: A Platform For Self-Experimentation

http://doubleblinded.com/

11 years ago

MIPS in Space: Inside NASA’s New Horizons Mission to Pluto

http://blog.imgtec.com/mips-processors/mips-in-space-inside-nasa-new-horizons-mission-to-pluto

11 years ago

The Fall of Intrade and the Business of Betting on Real Life (2014)

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewrice/the-fall-of-intrade-and-the-business-of-betting-on-real-life

11 years ago

William Gibson, the Art of Fiction No. 211 (2011)

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6089/the-art-of-fiction-no-211-william-gibson

11 years ago

Solu - Social Computer

http://www.solu.co/

11 years ago

The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing (1956)

https://archive.org/stream/RapeOfTheMind-ThePsychologyOfThoughtControl-A.m.MeerlooMd/RapeOfTheMind-ThePsychologyOfThoughtControl-A.m.MeerlooMd_djvu.txt

11 years ago

The Galaxy That Got Too Big

http://nautil.us/issue/29/scaling/the-galaxy-that-got-too-big

11 years ago

Netflix's $12M Gamble on “Beasts of No Nation”

http://www.fastcompany.com/3052347/behind-the-brand/inside-netflixs-12-million-oscar-seeking-gamble-on-beasts-of-no-nation

11 years ago

The Deployment Age

http://reactionwheel.net/2015/10/the-deployment-age.html

11 years ago

Bayes Factors to Get the Most Out of Linear Regression: Practical Guide Using R

https://thewinnower.com/papers/278-using-bayes-factors-to-get-the-most-out-of-linear-regression-a-practical-guide-using-r

11 years ago

Adobe confirms major Flash vulnerability

http://bgr.com/2015/10/15/adobe-flash-player-security-vulnerability-warning/

11 years ago

Understanding Andre the Giant, Wrestling’s Massive, Indefinable Contradiction

http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/the-biggest-man-understanding-andre-the-giant-wrestlings-massive-indefinable-contradiction/

11 years ago

Researchers find neural switch that turns dreams on and off in mice

http://news.berkeley.edu/2015/10/15/researchers-find-neural-switch-that-turns-dreams-on-and-off/

11 years ago

Record and share terminal sessions – A lightweight, purely text-based approach

http://www.asciinema.org

11 years ago

Why Russia’s Alternate History of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 Matters

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/13/magazine/why-russias-alternate-history-of-malaysia-airlines-flight-17-matters.html

11 years ago

#FFFFFF Diversity

https://medium.com/this-is-hard/ffffff-diversity-1bd2b3421e8a

11 years ago

Traffic Jam, a program that helps track prostitution rings by using public data

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/the-young-woman-who-created-a-new-way-to-bust-sex-trafficking-rings

11 years ago

Sleep is just the same as ever, say scientists

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/oct/15/modern-life-is-rubbish-sleep-is-just-the-same-as-ever-say-scientists

11 years ago

Real-Time Expression Transfer for Facial Reenactment

http://graphics.stanford.edu/~niessner/thies2015realtime.html

11 years ago

How Bad Will It Get for American Express?

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-how-amex-lost-costco/

11 years ago

How tinkerers brought PID temp control to espresso machines

http://home.lamarzoccousa.com/history-of-the-pid/

11 years ago

An African Startup Using Phones to Spot Counterfeit Drugs

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-07-31/the-african-startup-using-phones-to-spot-counterfeit-drugs

11 years ago

Intel has 1,000 people working on chips for the iPhone

http://venturebeat.com/2015/10/16/intel-has-1000-people-working-on-chips-for-the-iphone/

11 years ago

Show HN: `diff arc0 arc3.1`

https://cdn.rawgit.com/laarc/notebook/757f7eff5cb26d2ae98dc732252d66fd0e6507c6/arc0-3.1.html

11 years ago