top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-08-12

Machine Learning and Ketosis

https://github.com/arielf/weight-loss

10 years ago

★ 3.3k Python

Machine Learning Exercises in Python, Part 1

http://www.johnwittenauer.net/machine-learning-exercises-in-python-part-1/

10 years ago

Lake Nyos suffocated over 1,700 people in one night

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lake-nyos-the-deadliest-lake-in-the-world

10 years ago

What Danes consider healthy children’s television

http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2016/08/don-t-need-no-education

10 years ago

Bi-Directional Replication for PostgreSQL v1.0

http://blog.2ndquadrant.com/bdr-1-0/

10 years ago

Spaceplan

http://jhollands.co.uk/spaceplan/

10 years ago

RedHat is hiring to make Linux run better on laptops

https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2016/08/12/want-make-linux-run-better-on-laptops/

10 years ago

Automatically closing FIN_WAIT_2 is a violation of the TCP specification

https://blog.cloudflare.com/this-is-strictly-a-violation-of-the-tcp-specification/

10 years ago

Return True to Win

http://alf.nu/ReturnTrue

10 years ago

Happy 10th birthday pandoc

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pandoc-discuss/0rutNJAVKoc

10 years ago

Alphabet is still figuring out how to be a conglomerate

https://backchannel.com/alphabet-learns-that-change-isnt-as-easy-as-abc-e24df2673639#.8ype9626i

10 years ago

Ask HN: How have you achieved financial independence?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12274094

10 years ago

Distributed Logging Architecture in the Container Era

https://blog.treasuredata.com/blog/2016/08/03/distributed-logging-architecture-in-the-container-era/

10 years ago

Ask HN: What is the future of back-end development?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12274150

10 years ago

A Denver Suburb Experiments with Free Lyft Rides to Light Rail

http://www.citylab.com/commute/2016/08/centennial-lyft-transit-partnership/495080/

10 years ago

Streetfoto founder Ken Walton arrested at gunpoint

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154366414123077&set=a.43585593076.53031.641348076&type=3&theater

10 years ago

Rock climber Alex Honnold doesn’t experience fear like the rest of us

http://nautil.us/issue/39/sport/the-strange-brain-of-the-worlds-greatest-solo-climber

10 years ago

Instagram photos reveal predictive markers of depression

https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03282

10 years ago

Ask HN: Did some of you try the digital nomad lifestyle and not like it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12277477

10 years ago

Show HN: Hacker Hall - Virtual Coworking

https://complice.co/room/hackers

10 years ago

Too Poor to Afford the Internet

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/12/opinion/too-poor-to-afford-the-internet.html

10 years ago

Frp: A fast reverse proxy to help you expose a local server to the internet

https://github.com/fatedier/frp

10 years ago

★ 106.1k Go Apache-2.0

Ask HN: Anyone here use a Hackintosh as one of their main machines?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12275385

10 years ago

Ask HN: What keeps you from exercising?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12275315

10 years ago

Kansas couple sues IP mapping firm for turning their life into a “digital hell”

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/08/kansas-couple-sues-ip-mapping-firm-for-turning-their-life-into-a-digital-hell/

10 years ago

Pete Davies: The ‘Invadar’ Arcade Collection

https://arcadeblogger.com/2016/08/06/pete-davies-the-invadar-arcade-collection/

10 years ago

The Problems with Food and Exercise Studies

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/11/upshot/were-so-confused-the-problems-with-food-and-exercise-studies.html

10 years ago

DEF CON 24 Badge Challenge

http://co9.io/post/148716614744/defcon-24-badge-challenge

10 years ago

The brave new world of robots and lost jobs

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-brave-new-world-of-robots-and-lost-jobs/2016/08/11/e66a4914-5fff-11e6-af8e-54aa2e849447_story.html?utm_term=.97619a3e792e

10 years ago

IBM's reputation at risk in wake of census bungle

http://www.smh.com.au/business/ibms-reputation-at-risk-in-wake-of-census-bungle-20160812-gqqxpa.html

10 years ago

Recharts – A composable charting library built on React components

http://recharts.org/

10 years ago

Why professors, pundits, and policy wonks misunderstand the world

http://thesmartset.com/intellectuals-are-freaks/

10 years ago

Hewlett Packard Enterprise to buy SGI

http://fortune.com/2016/08/11/hewlett-packard-enterprise-sgi-supercomputer/

10 years ago

Why some businesses aren't allowed on Stripe

https://stripe.com/blog/why-some-businesses-arent-allowed

10 years ago

Data Exfiltration from Speakerless Air-Gapped Computers via Hard Drive Noise

https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03431

10 years ago

AMP Is What HTML Should Have Been

https://kartick-log.blogspot.com/2016/08/amp-is-what-html-should-have-been.html

10 years ago

Hacker Unlocks ‘High Security’ Electronic Safes Without a Trace

https://www.wired.com/2016/08/hacker-unlocks-high-security-electronic-safes-without-trace/

10 years ago

World Brain: The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopædia (1937)

https://sherlock.ischool.berkeley.edu/wells/world_brain.html

10 years ago

Scaling Rails to 125,000 Requests per Minute on Heroku

https://zeemee.engineering/scaling-rails-to-125-000-requests-per-minute-on-heroku-b4128a10a769

10 years ago

Building a C Compiler Type System – Part 2: A Canonical Type Representation

http://blog.robertelder.org/building-a-c-compiler-type-system-a-canonical-type-representation/

10 years ago

Two tools for quick and easy web application load testing during development

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TwoToolsForQuickAndEasyWebApplicationLoadTestingDuringDevelopment.aspx

10 years ago

A Startup Turns to Saffron to Help Afghanistan Regrow

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/11/business/smallbusiness/a-start-up-turns-to-saffron-to-help-afghanistan-regrow.html

10 years ago

Ask HN: What are the cool life hacks for Developer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12273704

10 years ago

Standup Antipatterns

https://medium.com/@yanismydj/standup-antipatterns-1e9db0d497da

10 years ago