top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-01-23

Learn TensorFlow and deep learning, without a Ph.D.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2017/01/learn-tensorflow-and-deep-learning-without-a-phd

9 years ago

720 upvotes – 43 comments

Announcing Pipenv

https://www.kennethreitz.org/essays/announcing-pipenv

9 years ago

664 upvotes – 162 comments

Galaxy Note7: What We Discovered

https://news.samsung.com/global/infographic-galaxy-note7-what-we-discovered

9 years ago

568 upvotes – 176 comments

Western Union admits to aiding wire fraud, to pay $586M

http://www.reuters.com/article/usa-western-union-settlement-idUSL1N1F91KM

9 years ago

494 upvotes – 324 comments

Paper is the real 'killer app'

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170120-why-paper-is-the-real-killer-app

9 years ago

459 upvotes – 329 comments

Updates to our Google Voice apps

https://blog.google/products/google-voice/ringing-2017-updates-our-google-voice-apps/

9 years ago

457 upvotes – 351 comments

If you don’t trust your employees to work remotely you shouldn’t have hired them

https://qz.com/891537/if-you-dont-trust-your-employees-to-work-remotely-you-shouldnt-have-hired-them-in-the-first-place/

9 years ago

440 upvotes – 257 comments

Google AMP Is Not a Good Thing

https://danielmiessler.com/blog/google-amp-not-good-thing/#gs.IsZQ8YE

9 years ago

423 upvotes – 163 comments

Android permissions and hypocrisy

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/46403.html

9 years ago

395 upvotes – 240 comments

Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget

https://destigogo.com

9 years ago

377 upvotes – 165 comments

Charles Bukowski: The Slavery of the 9 to 5

https://medium.com/personal-growth/charles-bukowski-the-slavery-of-the-9-to-5-ae6778ce3731

9 years ago

309 upvotes – 224 comments

Lane Following Autopilot with Keras and Tensorflow

https://wroscoe.github.io/keras-lane-following-autopilot.html

9 years ago

305 upvotes – 72 comments

China tightens Great Firewall by declaring unauthorised VPN services illegal

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2064587/chinas-move-clean-vpns-and-strengthen-great-firewall

9 years ago

292 upvotes – 81 comments

Cisco: Magic WebEx URL Allows Arbitrary Remote Command Execution

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1096

9 years ago

273 upvotes – 64 comments

Trident whistleblower: nuclear 'disaster waiting to happen' (2015)

https://wikileaks.org/trident-safety/

9 years ago

256 upvotes – 96 comments

Nicotine Normalizes Brain Activity Deficits That Are Key to Schizophrenia

http://neurosciencenews.com/schizophrenia-nicotine-brain-activity-5995/

9 years ago

241 upvotes – 236 comments

What Happens When You Mix Java with a 1960 IBM Mainframe

http://thenewstack.io/happens-use-java-1960-ibm-mainframe/

9 years ago

230 upvotes – 79 comments

Create systems that make it easy for you to succeed

https://qz.com/892247/dont-set-goals-for-yourself-instead-create-systems-that-make-it-easy-for-you-to-succeed/

9 years ago

225 upvotes – 50 comments

Netflix Earnings Are Driven by Investment in Original Content

https://www.wired.com/2017/01/netflix-investing-original-shows-finally-pays-off/

9 years ago

213 upvotes – 266 comments

Changing San Francisco is foreseen as a haven for wealthy and childless (1981)

http://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/09/us/changing-san-francisco-is-foreseen-as-a-haven-for-wealthy-and-childless.html

9 years ago

212 upvotes – 177 comments

Simple Wi-Fi Yagi (2014)

http://ham-radio.com/k6sti/wifiyagi.htm

9 years ago

211 upvotes – 67 comments

Scuba: Diving into Data at Facebook [pdf]

https://research.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/scuba-diving-into-data-at-facebook.pdf

9 years ago

206 upvotes – 41 comments

The US’s Stance on Surveillance Needs a Hard Reset

https://backchannel.com/obamas-parting-gift-to-trump-expanded-surveillance-powers-1c0df058d838#.o9oj35h2j

9 years ago

201 upvotes – 126 comments

Ask HN: What sort of side-projects are useful for getting jobs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13463105

9 years ago

198 upvotes – 163 comments

What does it take to be a good programmer?

https://dimitrov2k.wordpress.com/2017/01/22/what-does-it-take-to-be-a-good-programmer

9 years ago

196 upvotes – 111 comments

CMU's Libratus builds substantial lead in Brains vs. AI competition

http://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2017/january/AI-tough-poker-player.html

9 years ago

193 upvotes – 117 comments

U.S. judge finds that Aetna misled the public about its reasons for quitting ACA

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-aetna-obamacare-20170123-story.html

9 years ago

181 upvotes – 176 comments

A Story of a Fraudulent Coder

https://shakycode.com/the-story-of-the-fraudulent-coder-d4c6fcf273f7#.6c4pnbe4x

9 years ago

176 upvotes – 218 comments

United Airlines Domestic Flights Grounded for 2 Hours by Computer Outage

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/all-united-airlines-domestic-flights-grounded-computer-outage-n710596

9 years ago

163 upvotes – 83 comments

Delete an inline function, save 794 kB

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2017/01/22/delete-an-inline-function-save-794-kb/

9 years ago

163 upvotes – 43 comments

How Bullshitters Not Just Survive But Thrive (2016)

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-bullshitters-just-survive-thrive-until-atul-mathur

9 years ago

156 upvotes – 97 comments

Customers are getting caught up as banks de-risk due to money laundering laws

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/jan/22/barclays-took-my-440000-customers-caught-up-banks-de-risking-money-laundering-laws

9 years ago

155 upvotes – 99 comments

Doomsday Prep for the Super-rich

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-rich

9 years ago

154 upvotes – 173 comments

Track Trump: The First 100 Days

http://www.track-trump.com/

9 years ago

150 upvotes – 197 comments

Inside Rolex's Manufacturing Facilities (2015)

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/inside-rolex

9 years ago

149 upvotes – 151 comments

Jupyter-themes – Custom Jupyter Notebook Themes

https://github.com/dunovank/jupyter-themes

9 years ago

★ 9.8kCSSMIT
131 upvotes – 12 comments

Five States Are Considering Bills to Legalize the 'Right to Repair' Electronics

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/five-states-are-considering-bills-to-legalize-the-right-to-repair-electronics#

9 years ago

129 upvotes – 21 comments

Xiaomi's global vice president Hugo Barra is leaving the company

http://www.gadgetsnow.com/tech-news/xiaomis-global-vice-president-hugo-barra-is-leaving-the-company/articleshow/56729359.cms

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 87 comments

US pulls out of Trans-Pacific Partnership

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/01/trump-withdraws-us-from-trans-pacific-partnership/

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 95 comments

Show HN: Develop your Python applications easily in clean Docker environments

https://github.com/macostea/cage

9 years ago

★ 350PythonMIT
119 upvotes – 58 comments

Intuition in Mathematics (2012) [pdf]

http://www.as.miami.edu/personal/echudnoff/Intuition%20in%20Mathematics.pdf

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 34 comments

Symantec caught once again improperly issuing illegitimate HTTPS certificates

https://www.extremetech.com/internet/243202-symantec-caught-improperly-issuing-illegitimate-https-certificates

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 28 comments

When Their Shifts End, Uber Drivers Set Up Camp in Parking Lots Across the U.S.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-23/when-their-shifts-end-uber-drivers-set-up-camp-in-parking-lots-across-the-u-s

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 138 comments

The Bipolar Lisp Programmer (2007)

http://www.shenlanguage.org/lambdassociates/htdocs/blog/bipolar.htm

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 57 comments

He wrote the future: On Arthur C. Clarke's centenary

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v541/n7637/full/541286a.html

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 46 comments

Ask HN: Any great product onboarding experiences you've had lately?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13463981

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 46 comments
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