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Romania orders investigative journalists to disclose sources under GDPR
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Cloud Computing Without Containers
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Yelp craters 30% as advertisers abandon the site
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The History of Unix, by Rob Pike [video]
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A story about Upwork and freelancers
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How Many Computers Are in Your Computer?
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Using a Keras Long Short-Term Memory Model to Predict Stock Prices
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All U.S. National Parks Are Free to Enter on Sunday
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Why do all websites look the same?
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U.S. Secret Service Warns ID Thieves Are Abusing USPS’s Mail Scanning Service
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Why We Need Innovative Nuclear Power
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Against software development
http://www.rntz.net/post/against-software-development.html
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Healthcare.gov confirms hackers stole income, immigration and tax data
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What Makes .NET Core So Special?
https://www.blog.jamesmichaelhickey.com/What-Makes-NET-Core-So-Special-Why-You-Should-Use-NET-Core/
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Apple has removed us from the App Store
https://blog.rescuetime.com/rescuetime-for-ios-removed/
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Mac mini Late 2018 Teardown
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Mac+mini+Late+2018+Teardown/115210
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‘Remarkable’ global decline in the number of children women are having
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Amazon’s consumer business has turned off its Oracle data warehouse
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-09/-keep-talkin-larry-amazon-is-close-to-tossing-oracle-software?srnd=premium
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Key Papers in Deep Reinforcement Learning
https://spinningup.openai.com/en/latest/spinningup/keypapers.html
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Utah man dies from rabies, the first in the state since 1944
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Ask HN: How should a programming language accommodate disabled programmers?
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Show HN: Graph-based notebook for data scientists and researchers
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ReasonML: Strict, powerful and forgiving
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AMD’s Rome is indeed a monster
https://semiaccurate.com/2018/11/09/amds-rome-is-indeed-a-monster/
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Genetics play less of a role in lifespan than we thought
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Optimal Shard Placement in a Petabyte Scale Elasticsearch Cluster
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Inside the sordid world of America's for-profit colleges
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Specification gaming examples in AI
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Facebook chooses Canada for Dating feature launch
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Badger: A fast key-value store written purely in Golang (2017)
https://blog.dgraph.io/post/badger/
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Application-Layer DDoS Attack Protection with HAProxy
https://www.haproxy.com/blog/application-layer-ddos-attack-protection-with-haproxy/
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ReactOS 0.4.10 released
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Loneliness Is Hard on the Brain
https://mindmatters.today/2018/11/researchers-find-loneliness-is-hard-on-the-brain/
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China's AI news anchors
https://www.inkstonenews.com/tech/xinhua-and-sogou-show-news-anchors-powered-artificial-intelligence/article/2172460
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It Can Be Done (2003)
https://multicians.org/andre.html
The Curse of the Honeycrisp Apple
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-08/the-curse-of-the-honeycrisp-apple
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Cross shard transactions at 10M requests per second
https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2018/11/cross-shard-transactions-at-10-million-requests-per-second/
78
At Doomed Flight’s Helm, Pilots May Have Been Overwhelmed in Seconds
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/08/world/asia/indonesia-plane-crash-last-moments.html
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LMDB – Lightning Memory-Mapped Database Manager
http://www.lmdb.tech/doc/
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Heatmaps Make Ops Better
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First FAA waiver issued to fly a large drone beyond line of sight
https://www.aviationtoday.com/2018/10/19/ge-owned-avitas-granted-first-large-commercial-bvlos-waiver/
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Getting the iPad to “Pro”
https://craigmod.com/essays/ipad_pro/
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Tech C.E.O.s Are in Love with Their Principal Doomsayer
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A Solar Storm Likely Detonated Dozens of Sea Mines During the Vietnam War
https://gizmodo.com/a-powerful-solar-storm-likely-detonated-dozens-of-u-s-1830321540