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Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Commercials a Year (exstreamist.com)

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A High School Student Building Integrated Circuits (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Harvey – An effort to provide a modern, distributed, 64-bit operating system (harvey-os.org)

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A Zero-Math Introduction to Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods (medium.com)

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Bitcoin and almost every other cryptocurrency crashed hard today (techcrunch.com)

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That time I got locked out of my Google account for a month (techcrunch.com)

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On the Darknet, Reputation Is Everything (nautil.us)

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“Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught” by Gian-Carlo Rota [pdf] (www.math.tamu.edu)

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Belarus – the first government in the world to offer full blockchain regulation [pdf] (media.dev.by)

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AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan (www.phoronix.com)

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Three Delusions: Paper Wealth, a Booming Economy, and Bitcoin (www.hussmanfunds.com)

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Learn CSS Grid through interactive screencasts (scrimba.com)

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How Nvidia's Least Likely Cult Hit, a Ruler, Measures Up (blogs.nvidia.com)

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Blink has been acquired by Amazon (blinkforhome.com)

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Why Sitting May Be Bad for Your Heart (www.nytimes.com)

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Victory on “The Price Is Right” Made Them Change Their System (www.urbo.com)

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By ditching usernames, OKCupid is removing a crucial protective barrier (www.theverge.com)

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Haven: Snowden's New App Turns Your Phone into a Home Security System (www.wired.com)

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Banker confessed to running a Ponzi scheme, but was he hiding a bigger crime? (www.bloomberg.com)

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Why I also find IOTA deeply alarming (medium.com)

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Ask HN: Why is Docker so popular in comparison to other containerization tech? (item?id=15992664)

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Making Millions by Distributing Pirated Movies (thehftguy.com)

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Coinbase says buying and selling temporarily disabled amid price rout (www.cnbc.com)

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'Alien Alloys' in The New York Times' UFO Story (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Acoustic Denial of Service Attacks on HDDs (arxiv.org)

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Haven: Keep Watch (guardianproject.github.io)

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Please Don't Show Us Another “Typical Family Earning $270,000 a Year” (www.slate.com)

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What Would It Take to Fix New York’s Subway? (www.nytimes.com)

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How the Rohingya Escaped (www.nytimes.com)

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Ocaml / functional programming abuses (gist.github.com)

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Novogratz Halts Hedge Fund, Says Bitcoin May Drop to $8,000 (www.bloomberg.com)

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GitPlex – browse code in Git repository like in IDE (https://www.gitplex.com)

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Proofs of Useful Work [pdf] (eprint.iacr.org)

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AVX-512, what’s useful for us (obe.tv)

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Multiplayer Tron in your terminal (sshtron.zachlatta.com)

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BIDS Receives Sloan Foundation Grant to Contribute to NumPy Development (bids.berkeley.edu)

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Deep Learning Hardware Limbo (timdettmers.com)

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Bitcoin Traders Claim There’s Method to Their Madness (www.bloomberg.com)

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DBCLI – Modern Suite of Database CLIs (www.dbcli.com)

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Distributed count distinct vs. HyperLogLog in Postgres (www.citusdata.com)

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Someone Is Selling a Genuine FBI Surveillance Van on EBay (www.geek.com)

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Amazon apologises for 'threats' to customer (www.bbc.co.uk)

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While teaching in Japan, it took an enemy to make me feel at home (catapult.co)

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Project Fi will take your Google Voice number (davywybiral.blogspot.com)

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Meet the Counter Strike e-sports team where everyone is over 60 (www.theverge.com)

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A RISC V Based Linear Algebra Accelerator for SoC Designs [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Bitcoin, I've Been Here Before (medium.com)

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Jupyter-radare2 – A simple Radare2 Jupyter kernel for tutorials or taking notes (github.com)

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Why We're Updating the Minimum BitPay Payment Amount to $100 (blog.bitpay.com)

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How we use big data can reinforce our worst biases, or help fix them (nautil.us)

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Swedish Police Set to Take Over Pirate Bay Domains (torrentfreak.com)

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A Key Lesson from the 1918 Flu Pandemic? 'Tell the Truth,' One Historian Says (www.wbur.org)

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Max Ogden steps down as Dat project lead over sex abuse allegations (blog.datproject.org)

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Musk's Tesla Roadster mounted on Falcon Heavy Payload Adapter (i.imgur.com)

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DND Shades – “Horse Blinkers for Knowledge Workers” (masonsimon.com)

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Humans vs. Machines: When to Hire and When to Automate [video] (www.heavybit.com)

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On the growing risk of the 51% attack against BCash (notehub.org)

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Can someone tell me where my decentralized/blockchain theory breaks? (item?id=15988709)

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HQ Trivia App Puts On-Demand Generation on a Strict Schedule (www.wsj.com)

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Triggering Video Playback with Bots and Crawlers (mux.com)

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Learn: Ancient troff sources vs. modern-day groff (virtuallyfun.com)

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Cadavers in the ballroom: Drs practice their craft in America’s favorite hotels (www.reuters.com)

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CA employers may not ask for salary history any more as of Jan 1 2018 (CA-168) (webcache.googleusercontent.com)

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Disheartened EPA Officials Are Leaving in Droves (www.nytimes.com)

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Demonstration of Two-Qubit Algorithms with a Quantum Processor (2009) (arxiv.org)

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Exploiting Vector Instructions with Generalized Stream Fusion [pdf] (www.microsoft.com)

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28 co-sponsors to overturn #NetNeutrality vote (twitter.com)

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When and why did popcorn become a popular and common movie snack? (www.reddit.com)

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Ask HN: What are you hacking these holidays? (item?id=15991074)

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Cannabis reverses aging processes in the brain (medicalxpress.com)

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Why hasn’t the Year of the Linux Desktop happened yet? (blogs.gnome.org)

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40 Highest Fiber foods ranked by Fiber density per calorie (kale.world)

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Ask HN: What are the implications of being a consultant? (item?id=15993213)

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Apple Encouraging Progressive Web Apps by Rejecting Apps (love2dev.com)

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OKCupid will make people use real names on their dating profiles (www.theverge.com)

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Get ready for a wave of Bitcoin forks (arstechnica.com)

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Ask HN: Have you seen a UFO? (item?id=15991522)

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Ask HN: What are the best scholarly papers you read in 2017? (item?id=15991373)

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SingularityNET: A decentralized, open market and inter-network for AIs [pdf] (public.singularitynet.io)

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Ask HN: What is stopping you from becoming a freelancer? (item?id=15990308)

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Listed economists supporting tax plan include ghosts, felons, office assistants (theintercept.com)

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5 Cryptocurrency Resources That Will Help You Get Up to Speed (hackernoon.com)

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Kubernetes releases machine learning toolkit Kubeflow (sdtimes.com)

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Elon Musk: A Red Car for the Red Planet (www.instagram.com)

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“On Storytelling” by Evan Czaplicki (www.deconstructconf.com)

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Ask HN: What tools do you use to monitor your “data stack”? (item?id=15992447)

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Bitcoin, Bitcoin cash, ethereum and litecoin crash on Friday December 22 (uk.businessinsider.com)

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Basecoin: A Robust, Price-Stable Cryptocurrency with an Algorithmic Central Bank (www.getbasecoin.com)

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Theranos is gearing up for a rebound with $100M to get it through 2018 (www.businessinsider.de)

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How to Grow as a Data Scientist (hackernoon.com)

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Tutanota enables first-ever search on encrypted data, code published open source (tutanota.com)

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SimplePythonCNN – NN and CNN using only python and numpy (item?id=15992830)

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US ambassador to Netherlands describes own words as 'fake news' (www.theguardian.com)

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Snowden's new app uses a smartphone to physically guard your laptop (theintercept.com)

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Scaling Stack Overflow: Keeping It Vertical by Obsessing Over Performance (www.infoq.com)

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Nick Leeson: Bitcoin – it's not all good (www.nickleeson.com)

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Free Software (www.fsf.org)

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Better to stay away from Bitcoin (www.dailysabah.com)

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The Principles of Quantum Team Management (firstround.com)

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Brazilian police uses drones to catch drivers using mobile phones (translate.google.com)

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Ask HN: Do the new tax laws cause you to change your corporation type? (item?id=15990710)

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At Google, Eric Schmidt Wrote the Book on Adult Supervision (www.wired.com)

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How Facebook’s Secret Political Unit Enabled India's Troll Armies (twitter.com)

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Team Internet Far from Done: What's Next for Net Neutrality and How You Can Help (www.eff.org)

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Creating the Next Bechdel Test – FiveThirtyEight (projects.fivethirtyeight.com)

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BuildZoom (YC W13) is hiring an engineering manager (jobs.lever.co)

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