top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-08-15

Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo

https://blog.ycombinator.com/ask-a-female-engineer-thoughts-on-the-google-memo/

9 years ago

Show HN: A stop-motion video of an engine

https://www.howacarworks.com/engine

9 years ago

SVG can do that?

http://slides.com/sdrasner/svg-can-do-that#/

9 years ago

APIs as infrastructure: future-proofing Stripe with versioning

https://stripe.com/blog/api-versioning

9 years ago

Ask HN: Is Georgia Tech's Online Master in CS Worth It?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15018002

9 years ago

I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of the Links Worked

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/paabgg/i-bought-a-book-about-the-internet-from-1994-and-none-of-the-links-worked

9 years ago

Gates Makes Largest Donation Since 2000 with $4.6B Pledge

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-14/gates-makes-largest-donation-since-2000-with-4-6-billion-pledge

9 years ago

I’m 35 and I may suddenly have lost the rest of my life

https://medium.com/@sgriddle/im-35-and-i-may-suddenly-have-lost-the-rest-of-my-life-i-m-panicking-just-a-bit-35d6a28dcbc

9 years ago

Intel CEO leaves American Manufacturing Council

http://blogs.intel.com/policy/2017/08/14/intel-ceo-leaves-manufacturing-council/

9 years ago

Rustgo: Calling Rust from Go with near-zero overhead

https://blog.filippo.io/rustgo/

9 years ago

Researchers unravel the biosynthesis of psilocybin

http://cen.acs.org/articles/95/web/2017/08/Magic-mushroomenzyme-mystery-solved.html

9 years ago

Writing parsers like it is 2017

https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/08/15/writing-parsers-like-it-is-2017/

9 years ago

Bezos should put his billions in public libraries

https://www.wired.com/story/jeff-bezos-should-put-his-billions-into-libraries/

9 years ago

Rust for the Web

https://thefullsnack.com/en/rust-for-the-web.html

9 years ago

Plans for partitioning in PostgreSQL v11

http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2017/08/plans-for-partitioning-in-v11.html

9 years ago

MongoDB has filed confidentially for IPO

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/15/database-provider-mongodb-has-filed-confidentially-for-ipo/?ncid=rss

9 years ago

Learnings from One Year of Building an Open Source Elixir Application

http://achariam.com/elyxel/

9 years ago

Dung Beetles Navigate via the Milky Way

https://voices.nationalgeographic.org/2013/01/24/dung-beetles-navigate-via-the-milky-way-an-animal-kingdom-first/

9 years ago

Text Messages Between Travis Kalanick and Anthony Levandowski

http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self-driving/28-revealing-text-messages-between-travis-kalanick-and-anthony-levandowski

9 years ago

Why Some U.S. Ex-Spies Don't Buy the Russia Story

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-10/why-some-u-s-ex-spies-don-t-buy-the-russia-story

9 years ago

An Introduction to Quantum Computing, Without the Physics

https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.03684

9 years ago

What I believe II

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3389

9 years ago

The HDFS Juggernaut

https://blog.shodan.io/the-hdfs-juggernaut/

9 years ago

China's Plan for World Domination in AI Isn't So Crazy

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-14/china-s-plan-for-world-domination-in-ai-isn-t-so-crazy-after-all

9 years ago

The Rising Return to Non-Cognitive Skill [pdf]

http://ftp.iza.org/dp10914.pdf

9 years ago

Pakistani province plants one billion trees to slow down global warming effects

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/pakistan-plant-billion-trees-global-warming-effects-climate-change-imran-khan-khyber-pakhtunkhaw-a7892176.html

9 years ago

Teaching an AI to play a simple game using Q-learning

http://www.practicalai.io/teaching-ai-play-simple-game-using-q-learning/

9 years ago

Real-time 3D visualization of geospatial data with Blender

https://github.com/ptabriz/FOSS4G_workshop

9 years ago

★ 315 HTML

Show HN: One hostname to rule them all

https://onehostname.com/

9 years ago

Ev Williams helped create the open web, now he’s betting against it (2016)

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/06/ev-williams-is-the-forrest-gump-of-the-internet/486899/?single_page=true

9 years ago

On Melissa O’Neill’s PCG random number generator

http://lemire.me/blog/2017/08/15/on-melissa-oneills-pcg-random-number-generator/

9 years ago

FTC says Uber took a wrong turn with misleading privacy, security promises

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/business-blog/2017/08/ftc-says-uber-took-wrong-turn-misleading-privacy-security

9 years ago

MoviePass wants to let you go to the theater once a day for $10 a month

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-15/netflix-co-founder-s-crazy-plan-pay-10-a-month-go-to-the-movies-all-you-want

9 years ago

The Dao Programming Language

http://daoscript.org/

9 years ago

Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760-1761: A Cartographic Narrative (2012)

http://revolt.axismaps.com/project.html

9 years ago

What Goldman Is Telling Big Money Clients About Bitcoin

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-09/here-s-what-goldman-is-telling-big-money-clients-about-bitcoin

9 years ago

High-process-count support added to master

http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2017-August/313552.html

9 years ago

The e-mail Larry Page should have written to James Damore

https://www.economist.com/news/21726276-last-week-paper-said-alphabets-boss-should-write-detailed-ringing-rebuttal

9 years ago

Amazon Is Seeking $16B Bond Sale for Whole Foods

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-15/amazon-is-said-to-sell-bonds-to-finance-whole-foods-acquisition

9 years ago

Blockchain 101 – Elliptical Curve Cryptography

https://eng.paxos.com/blockchain-101-elliptical-curve-cryptography

9 years ago

The Daily Stormer, Online Speech, and Internet Registrars

https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2017/08/daily-stormer-online-speech-and-internet-registrars

9 years ago