top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-07-08

Facebook Messenger begins testing end-to-end encryption using Signal Protocol

https://whispersystems.org/blog/facebook-messenger/

10 years ago

U.S. Bans Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes from Operating Labs for Two Years

http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-regulator-bans-theranos-ceo-elizabeth-holmes-from-operating-labs-for-two-years-1467956064?tesla=y

10 years ago

Corrode: C to Rust translator written in Haskell

https://github.com/jameysharp/corrode

10 years ago

★ 2.1k Haskell GPL-2.0

How Trees Calm Us Down

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/what-is-a-tree-worth

10 years ago

Release of IPython 5.0

http://blog.jupyter.org/2016/07/08/ipython-5-0-released/

10 years ago

Chasing Cats

http://myplace.frontier.com/~r.bond/cats/cats.htm

10 years ago

Tech job listings are down 40% on several job boards

https://medium.com/@cameronmoll/tech-hiring-is-down-40-and-nobodys-talking-about-it-3d6f658d9faf

10 years ago

Linux debugging tools I love

http://jvns.ca/blog/2016/07/03/debugging-tools-i-love/

10 years ago

Our nightmare on Amazon ECS

http://www.appuri.com/blog/-our-docker-nightmare-on-amazon-ecs/

10 years ago

Bayesian Analysis of Racial Bias in Police Shootings in the United States

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0141854

10 years ago

Amazon software engineer interview

http://sobit.me/2016/07/08/amazon-software-engineer-interview/

10 years ago

Year-long road trip where it's 70°F every day in North America

http://www.citylab.com/weather/2015/10/a-13235-mile-road-trip-for-70-degree-weather-every-day/411406/

10 years ago

Browsers' bid for relevance is turning them into time-bombs

https://thetech.com/2016/07/06/electronic-frontier-foundation

10 years ago

Facebook ‘glitch’ that deleted the Castile shooting video: It was the police

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/08/castile_shooting_police_deletion/

10 years ago

Securing a travel iPhone

https://blog.filippo.io/securing-a-travel-iphone/

10 years ago

Judges Rely on a Flawed $2 Drug Test That Puts Innocent People Behind Bars

https://www.propublica.org/article/common-roadside-drug-test-routinely-produces-false-positives

10 years ago

Show HN: Free and open source page builder for WordPress

http://gettailor.com

10 years ago

Venezuela Refuses to Default, and Few People Seem to Understand Why

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-04/venezuela-refuses-to-default-few-people-seem-to-understand-why

10 years ago

Oracle and the fall of Java EE

https://techsticles.blogspot.com/2016/07/oracle-and-fall-of-java-ee.html?utm_content=bufferf1a2e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer

10 years ago

The History of the URL: Domain, Protocol, and Port

https://eager.io/blog/the-history-of-the-url-domain-and-protocol/

10 years ago

Symantec's Bad Week

http://blog.appcanary.com/2016/vikhal-symantec.html

10 years ago

Reverse Debugging for Python

https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2016/07/reverse-debugging-for-python.html

10 years ago

Introducing Verve: minimalistic, static, functional language

http://tadeuzagallo.com/blog/introducing-verve/

10 years ago

African wildlife officials appalled as EU opposes a total ban on ivory trade

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/06/african-wildlife-officials-appalled-as-eu-opposes-a-total-ban-on-ivory-trade

10 years ago

Show HN: The SC4-HSM, a fully open USB hardware secure module

https://sc4.us/hsm/

10 years ago

Thrussh: Portable SSH client and server library in Rust

https://pijul.org/thrussh/

10 years ago

In a Remote Part of Utah, Life Alone in a Hangar (2012)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/garden/in-a-remote-part-of-utah-life-alone-in-a-hangar.html

10 years ago

Bluetooth LED bulbs

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/43722.html

10 years ago

MLton with Realtime GC and Threading Features

https://github.com/UBMLtonGroup/RTMLton

10 years ago

★ 103 Standard ML

CMU 15-721 (Spring 2016) Database Systems

http://15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2016/schedule.html

10 years ago

Never a Hippie, Always a Freak

https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/never-a-hippie-always-a-freak/

10 years ago

New haskell-lang.org

https://haskell-lang.org/announcements

10 years ago

Security Flaw in OS X displays all keychain passwords in plain text

https://medium.com/@brentonhenry/security-flaw-in-os-x-displays-all-keychain-passwords-in-plain-text-a530b246e960#.utgmk4k24

10 years ago

The New Prostitution Economy

http://www.vanityfair.com/style/2016/07/welcome-to-the-new-prostitution-economy

10 years ago

Elassandra: Elasticsearch implemented on top of Cassandra

https://github.com/vroyer/elassandra

10 years ago

★ 1.7k Java Apache-2.0

Disruptor: High performance alternative to bounded queues (2011) [pdf]

http://lmax-exchange.github.io/disruptor/files/Disruptor-1.0.pdf

10 years ago

Datastructures for external memory

http://blog.omega-prime.co.uk/?p=197

10 years ago

Facebook to Add End-To-End Encrypted ‘Secret Conversations’ to Messenger App

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/09/technology/facebook-messenger-app-encryption.html

10 years ago

Jailbreaking the Microsoft Fitness Band

http://www.b0n0n.com/2016/04/20/ms-jailbreak/

10 years ago

A Meta-Analysis of Blood Glucose Effects on Human Decision Making (2015) [pdf]

http://www.gwern.net/docs/2016-orquin.pdf

10 years ago

Virtual Reality Aimed at the Elderly Finds New Fans

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/06/29/483790504/virtual-reality-aimed-at-the-elderly-finds-new-fans

10 years ago

Acorn and Amstrad

http://www.filfre.net/2016/06/acorn-and-amstrad/

10 years ago

The Fallacy of Seeing Patterns

https://blog.clevertap.com/the-fallacy-of-seeing-patterns/

10 years ago

Skype protocol dumps

http://skype-open-source2.blogspot.com/2016/06/skype-protocol-dumps.html

10 years ago

Project Malmö – A platform for AI experimentation and research in Minecraft

https://github.com/Microsoft/malmo

10 years ago

★ 4.2k Java MIT