top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-09-05

Google Dataset Search

https://toolbox.google.com/datasetsearch

8 years ago

The #1 Office Perk? Natural Light

https://hbr.org/2018/09/the-1-office-perk-natural-light

8 years ago

Google wants websites to adopt AMP as the default for building webpages

https://www.polemicdigital.com/google-amp-go-to-hell/

8 years ago

A First Course in Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers

http://people.uncw.edu/hermanr/mat361/ODEBook/

8 years ago

‘Five Eyes’ Nations Quietly Demand Government Access to Encrypted Data

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/04/us/politics/government-access-encrypted-data.html

8 years ago

Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/

8 years ago

Is the Lean Startup Dead?

https://steveblank.com/2018/09/05/is-the-lean-startup-dead/

8 years ago

How true hackers write JavaScript

https://news.ycombinator.com/hn.js

8 years ago

YouTube and Netflix ‘Throttled’ by Carriers

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-04/youtube-and-netflix-throttled-by-carriers-research-finds

8 years ago

How Indian Americans Came to Run Half of All U.S. Motels

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture-exploration/2018/09/south-asia-america-motels-immigration/

8 years ago

How to Make a Big Decision

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/opinion/sunday/how-make-big-decision.html

8 years ago

Blood-Testing Firm Theranos to Dissolve

https://www.wsj.com/articles/blood-testing-firm-theranos-to-dissolve-1536115130

8 years ago

Elastic files for an IPO

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1707753/000119312518266861/d588632ds1.htm

8 years ago

Firefox 62.0 Released

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/62.0/releasenotes/

8 years ago

Distrust of Symantec TLS Certificates

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/03/12/distrust-symantec-tls-certificates/

8 years ago

Breaking bad news

http://boz.com/articles/bad-news.html

8 years ago

How to Procrastinate Productively

https://nickwignall.com/productive-procrastination/

8 years ago

But Rich People Live Here, So We Can't Be Going Broke

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/9/5/but-rich-people-live-here-so-we-cant-be-going-broke

8 years ago

How the EU may force all artists to use Youtube forever

https://boingboing.net/2018/09/04/extinction-level-event.html

8 years ago

Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/09/05/americans-are-changing-their-relationship-with-facebook/

8 years ago

“Prestudy”: Learning Chinese Through Reading

http://www.kerrickstaley.com/2018/09/04/chinese-prestudy

8 years ago

B.S. In Artificial Intelligence – Curriculum

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/bs-in-artificial-intelligence/curriculum

8 years ago

Mastodon 2.5 released

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/09/mastodon-2.5-released/

8 years ago

How the Go runtime implements maps efficiently without generics

https://dave.cheney.net/2018/05/29/how-the-go-runtime-implements-maps-efficiently-without-generics

8 years ago

Breakout implemented in JavaScript in a PDF

https://rawgit.com/osnr/horrifying-pdf-experiments/master/breakout.pdf

8 years ago

Robot Operating System – A flexible framework for writing robot software

http://www.ros.org/

8 years ago

EU to move ahead with cultural quotas for streaming services

https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/05/eu-to-move-ahead-with-cultural-quotas-for-streaming-services/

8 years ago

Measuring the memory usage of popular web apps

https://github.com/dominictarr/your-web-app-is-bloated

8 years ago

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Desperate for Data Scientists

https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/tech-careers/desperate-for-data-scientists

8 years ago

Company using Mechanical Turk botches U.S. Senate campaign finance records

https://www.publicintegrity.org/2018/09/04/22214/company-using-foreign-workers-botches-us-senate-campaign-finance-records

8 years ago

You can't contain me: elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in Docker for Windows

https://srcincite.io/blog/2018/08/31/you-cant-contain-me-analyzing-and-exploiting-an-elevation-of-privilege-in-docker-for-windows.html

8 years ago

Turing Tumble – Build Marble-Powered Computers

https://www.turingtumble.com/

8 years ago

Show HN: Snowy – a new image library for Python

https://github.prideout.net/snowy/

8 years ago

When optimising code, never guess, always measure

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/WhenOptimisingCodeMeasure.html?HNri05

8 years ago

Why Aren’t More Users More Happy with Our VMs? Part 1

http://tratt.net/laurie/blog/entries/why_arent_more_users_more_happy_with_our_vms_part_1.html

8 years ago

Fast word vectors with little memory usage in Python

https://github.com/ThoughtRiver/lmdb-embeddings

8 years ago

★ 416 Python GPL-3.0

What is the Kullback-Leibler divergence?

https://saru.science/tech/2018/02/15/kl-divergence-explanation.html

8 years ago

An effort to bring computer science to all US high schools

https://blog.aboutamazon.com/community/mapping-opportunity

8 years ago

Toy Markets

https://blog.ycombinator.com/toy-markets/

8 years ago

Fitbit's 150B hours of heart data

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-fitbits-150-billion-hours-heart-data-reveals-secrets-human-health-133124215.html

8 years ago

Choosing Your First Marketing Hire

https://www.gkogan.co/blog/first-marketing-hire/

8 years ago

Ask HN: I'm 40 this year, and have depression. Any words of wisdom?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17918037

8 years ago

A tree that bleeds metal

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45398434

8 years ago

Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies (BEZOS) Act

https://www.sanders.senate.gov/download/the-stop-bezos-act-summary?inline=file

8 years ago

Scrapping Contracts: a critique of the Go generics proposal

https://blog.merovius.de/2018/09/05/scrapping_contracts.html

8 years ago

Zero overhead deterministic failure: A unified mechanism for C and C++ [pdf]

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2289.pdf

8 years ago

Eight bird species are first confirmed avian extinctions this decade

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/04/first-eight-bird-extinctions-of-the-21st-century-confirmed

8 years ago

How I acquired my first 10 customers

https://blog.cronhub.io/how-i-acquired-my-first-10-customers-for-cronhub/

8 years ago