top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-07-17

The Limitations of Deep Learning

https://blog.keras.io/the-limitations-of-deep-learning.html

8 years ago

794 upvotes – 260 comments

Employees Who Stay in Companies Longer Than Two Years Get Paid 50% Less

https://www.forbes.com/sites/cameronkeng/2014/06/22/employees-that-stay-in-companies-longer-than-2-years-get-paid-50-less/

8 years ago

708 upvotes – 535 comments

Machine Learning Crash Course: The Bias-Variance Dilemma

https://ml.berkeley.edu/blog/2017/07/13/tutorial-4/

8 years ago

540 upvotes – 60 comments

Two days in an underwater cave running out of oxygen

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-40558067

8 years ago

501 upvotes – 299 comments

Cybersecurity Humble Book Bundle

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/cybersecurity-wiley?mcID=102:5969310af4ab4ee605cf8d98:ot:57628d3c0dca63f1bd6cacd2:1&utm_source=Humble+Bundle+Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2017_07_17_wiley_bookbundle&linkID=&utm_content=cta_button

8 years ago

455 upvotes – 86 comments

A real world guide to WebRTC

https://deepstreamhub.com/tutorials/protocols/webrtc-intro/

8 years ago

391 upvotes – 59 comments

Bitcoin Is Having a Civil War as It Enters a Critical Month

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-10/bitcoin-risks-splintering-as-civil-war-enters-critical-month

8 years ago

371 upvotes – 317 comments

Archiveteam are backing up SoundCloud

http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=SoundCloud&utm_content=bufferb94ff&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer

8 years ago

338 upvotes – 215 comments

In Urban China, Cash Is Rapidly Becoming Obsolete

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/16/business/china-cash-smartphone-payments.html

8 years ago

312 upvotes – 337 comments

A decentralized Bitcoin exchange

https://github.com/bitsquare/bitsquare

8 years ago

★ 5kJavaAGPL-3.0
272 upvotes – 99 comments

How Google Wants to Rewire the Internet

https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/07/17/google-wants-rewire-internet/

8 years ago

250 upvotes – 101 comments

CoinDash’s ICO Website Has Been Hacked

http://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/breaking-coindashs-token-sale-ico-website-hacked/

8 years ago

209 upvotes – 239 comments

Facets: An Open Source Visualization Tool for Machine Learning Training Data

https://research.googleblog.com/2017/07/facets-open-source-visualization-tool.html

8 years ago

181 upvotes – 9 comments

Get eyes in the sky with your Raspberry Pi

https://blog.alexellis.io/track-flights-with-rpi/

8 years ago

171 upvotes – 25 comments

“You’re Not the Customer, You’re the Product”

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/07/16/product/

8 years ago

165 upvotes – 164 comments

Formal verification of the WireGuard protocol

https://www.wireguard.com/formal-verification/

8 years ago

165 upvotes – 17 comments

Concourse CI

https://concourse.ci

8 years ago

163 upvotes – 147 comments

I’ve been a self-employed independent creator for 10 years

https://medium.com/@kadavy/ive-been-a-self-employed-independent-creator-for-10-years-i-don-t-recommend-it-a2ecc92d81a9

8 years ago

156 upvotes – 93 comments

Maryam Mirzakhani’s Pioneering Mathematical Legacy

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/maryam-mirzakhanis-pioneering-mathematical-legacy

8 years ago

154 upvotes – 28 comments

Ask HN: How much are you earning as a freelance app developer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14790406

8 years ago

152 upvotes – 115 comments

Defense of Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop offers case study on how to sell snake oil

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/07/defense-of-gwyneth-paltrows-goop-offers-case-study-on-how-to-sell-snake-oil/

8 years ago

151 upvotes – 174 comments

Redesigning GitLab's navigation

https://about.gitlab.com/2017/07/17/redesigning-gitlabs-navigation/

8 years ago

148 upvotes – 81 comments

Strange Signals from the Nearby Red Dwarf Star Ross 128

http://phl.upr.edu/library/notes/ross128

8 years ago

142 upvotes – 43 comments

Fake Obama created using AI tool to make phoney speeches [video]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/technology-40598465/fake-obama-created-using-ai-tool-to-make-phoney-speeches

8 years ago

141 upvotes – 107 comments

Myspace lets you hijack any account just by knowing the person’s birthday

https://leigh-annegalloway.com/myspace/

8 years ago

140 upvotes – 62 comments

“Spiel des Jahres” Game of the Year 2017 winners

http://spieldesjahres.com/en/game_archive/2017

8 years ago

139 upvotes – 91 comments

Show HN: Unix-like personal webpage

http://theden.sh/

8 years ago

134 upvotes – 54 comments

I cannot consistently write safe C/C++ code

http://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/07/confession-of-cc-programmer.html

8 years ago

133 upvotes – 118 comments

Time Is Contagious

http://nautil.us/issue/45/power/time-is-contagious

8 years ago

131 upvotes – 15 comments

Death of a Pig (1948)

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1948/01/death-pig/309203/?single_page=true

8 years ago

129 upvotes – 44 comments

Announcing RethinkDB 2.3.6: the first release under community governance

https://rethinkdb.com/blog/2.3.6-release/

8 years ago

128 upvotes – 23 comments

Ask HN: Does success in work bring you happiness?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14784755

8 years ago

122 upvotes – 104 comments

The World Bank’s Broken Promise to the Poor (2015)

https://www.icij.org/project/world-bank

8 years ago

122 upvotes – 80 comments

FCC Takes Stronger Aim at Robocalls

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fcc-takes-stronger-aim-at-robocalls-1499966239

8 years ago

116 upvotes – 136 comments

Show HN: Find Remote Work

http://findremote.work

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 50 comments

OpenVMS State of the Port to x86_64 [pdf]

http://vmssoftware.com/pdfs/State_of_Port_20170707.pdf

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 99 comments

DCompute: GPGPU with Native D for OpenCL and CUDA

http://dlang.org/blog/2017/07/17/dcompute-gpgpu-with-native-d-for-opencl-and-cuda/

8 years ago

111 upvotes – 30 comments

Blue Apron Plummets After Amazon Files for Meal-Kit Trademark

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-17/blue-apron-plummets-after-amazon-files-for-meal-kit-trademark

8 years ago

109 upvotes – 130 comments

Show HN: tttfi – Middleware for IFTTT

https://github.com/kamikat/tttfi

8 years ago

★ 347JavaScript
108 upvotes – 52 comments

The state of Mac gaming

https://arstechnica.com/apple/2017/07/the-state-of-mac-gaming/

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 95 comments

Content isn't king

http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2017/7/13/content-isnt-king

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 78 comments

What is Eventual Consistency?

http://concurrencyfreaks.blogspot.com/2017/07/what-is-eventual-consistency.html

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 14 comments

UK plans age verification for porn websites from 2018

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40628909

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 156 comments

Show HN: Thoughtwriter – a digital whiteboard for your thoughts

http://thoughtwriter.org

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 58 comments

Exploiting Alpine Linux

https://www.twistlock.com/2017/07/13/alpine-linux-pt-2-twistlock-security-alert/

8 years ago

91 upvotes – 22 comments

IBM z14 mainframe

https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/z14

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 121 comments

Introducing sphinx-js, a better way to document large JavaScript projects

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/07/introducing-sphinx-js-a-better-way-to-document-large-javascript-projects/

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 30 comments

How Uber's Hard-Charging Corporate Culture Left Employees Drained

https://www.buzzfeed.com/carolineodonovan/how-ubers-hard-charging-corporate-culture-left-employees?utm_term=.vqV45Y6J6#.lcXVl9xpx

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 60 comments

Ask HN: What's the worst thing your code has done?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14792764

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 97 comments

The Hunting of the SNARK – Zero-Knowledge Proofs Introduction

http://qed-it.com/2017/07/the-hunting-of-the-snark/

8 years ago

84 upvotes – 8 comments

Show HN: An etcd backed DHCP server

https://github.com/lclarkmichalek/etcdhcp

8 years ago

★ 261GoGPL-3.0
83 upvotes – 14 comments

Linguistics and Programming Languages

http://250bpm.com/blog:95

8 years ago

77 upvotes – 50 comments
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