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Companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds (www.nytimes.com)

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Prions, Nearly Indestructible and Universally Lethal, Seed the Eyes of Victims (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

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Amazon’s Chips Threaten Intel (www.nytimes.com)

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Tell HN: Aaron Swartz's website is offline (item?id=18648127)

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Nasa's Voyager 2 probe 'leaves the Solar System' (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Tracking leaks on NDA beta Xbox 360s by embedding serial number on-screen (twitter.com)

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The cold start problem: how to build your machine learning portfolio (towardsdatascience.com)

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How the Dreamcast Copy Protection Was Defeated (fabiensanglard.net)

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Just tell me how to use Go Modules (www.kablamo.com.au)

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Google Employees Demand the End of Forced Arbitration Across the Tech Industry (techcrunch.com)

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After landing a lucrative job at a tech startup, I had made a terrible mistake (torontolife.com)

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PracticalAI – A practical approach to learning machine learning (github.com)

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Shutting Down (blog.ycombinator.com)

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Apple Airplay on Raspberry Pi in 7 Easy Steps (appcodelabs.com)

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SIGIL, a New Doom Campaign by John Romero (www.romerogames.ie)

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Google will shut down Google+ four months early after second data leak (www.theverge.com)

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EU Copyright: Block Everything, Never Make Mistakes, but Don't Use Upload Filter (www.techdirt.com)

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House Oversight Committee Report on Equifax Breach [pdf] (oversight.house.gov)

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REXPaint: Powerful, User-Friendly ASCII Art Editor (www.gridsagegames.com)

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Nextcloud introduces social features, joins the fediverse (nextcloud.com)

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Verizon to layoff 10,400 by mid next year (www.reuters.com)

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San Diego's Bird Scooter Hoarding Problem (www.scottresearch.com)

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Evelyn Berezin Has Died, Built the First True Word Processor (www.nytimes.com)

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The Firefox Dilemma (blog.tawhidhannan.co.uk)

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Reflections on DOOM's Development (rome.ro)

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Madoff’s Victims Are Close to Getting Their $19B Back (www.bloomberg.com)

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A CEO's Guide to Emacs (www.fugue.co)

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Ask HN: How to incorporate machine learning into day job? (item?id=18650646)

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The cult of Stanley Kubrick (www.economist.com)

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Forrest Mims, Radio Shack, and the Notebooks That Launched a Thousand Careers (hackaday.com)

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The Most Effective Weapon on the Modern Battlefield Is Concrete (2016) (mwi.usma.edu)

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Qualcomm wins preliminary China import ruling against some iPhone models (www.reuters.com)

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Human-Centric Tools for Navigating Code [pdf] (web.eecs.utk.edu)

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Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles (www.ign.com)

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Adventures in Video Conferencing Part 1: The Wild World of WebRTC (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)

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The complexity trap-think before you leap (danielwestheide.com)

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Designing Headers for HTTP Compression (www.mnot.net)

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GoPro to move U.S.-bound camera production out of China (www.reuters.com)

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Inside the Philly DA’s side hustle –selling seized homes to speculators and cops (planphilly.com)

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A UI That Lets Readers Control How Much Information They See (kayce.basqu.es)

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Show HN: Failory 2.0 – Learn How to Build a Profitable Startup (https://www.failory.com)

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Hook on PG&E Tower Eyed as Cause of Deadly Camp Fire (www.nbcbayarea.com)

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The Largest Vocabulary in Hip Hop (2014) (pudding.cool)

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Warhol’s Bleak Prophecy (www.theatlantic.com)

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Super-solid helium state confirmed in beautiful experiment (arstechnica.com)

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Review of Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny (www.economist.com)

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Using Bayesian Methods to Clean Up Human Labels (blog.dominodatalab.com)

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Scooter mechanic, once homeless, says cheap rides now help him pay rent (www.sfchronicle.com)

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Combining Golang and PHP can solve real-world development challenges (blog.spiralscout.com)

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Memristors for Curious Outsiders (arxiv.org)

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Tableau Software Threatened? Rival Growing at 70% Just Raised $103M (www.forbes.com)

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A Prion Love Story (www.newyorker.com)

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For Home Prices in London, Check the Tokyo Listings (blogs.imf.org)

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Show HN: Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Doug Engelbart's Great Demo (colab.research.google.com)

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Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles (www.highsnobiety.com)

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Multimodal Business Models as a Product Strategy (a16z.com)

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Cmm_of_wasm: From WebAssembly to Native Code via the OCaml Back End (simonjf.com)

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In America's Panopticon (www.thenation.com)

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Undercover Cells: New Estimate of the Microbes Beneath the Continents (deepcarbon.net)

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KLEAK: Practical Kernel Memory Disclosure Detection [pdf] (netbsd.org)

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Why Do Women Earn Less Than Men? Evidence from Bus and Train Operators [pdf] (scholar.harvard.edu)

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Hammer time: fixing the printer on a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe (www.righto.com)

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If hackers attacked the hospital (2017) (www.bostonglobe.com)

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Teaching and Learning with Jupyter (jupyter4edu.github.io)

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Show HN: Rendora – Dynamic server-side rendering for modern JavaScript websites (github.com)

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Show HN: Minimal game with procedural graphics in JavaScript/GLSL (github.com)

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China to force changes to 20 popular games, ban 9 including Fortnite and PUBG (www.resetera.com)

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US undermining 'last chance' climate talks, experts charge (www.cnn.com)

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Show HN: CertMagic – Caddy's automagic HTTPS features as a Go library (github.com)

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The real solution to climate change is in the U.S. tax code (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Unsupervised Learning (www.dropbox.com)

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How Alaska fixed its earthquake-shattered roads in just days (www.theverge.com)

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Palo Alto Networks bets on Google Cloud Platform (researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com)

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Movie genre prediction with the Object2Vec algorithm (github.com)

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The Genes That Make Parrots into the Humans of the Bird World (www.nytimes.com)

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The Rise of Immer in React (www.netlify.com)

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America’s Power Grid Isn’t Ready for Electric Cars (www.citylab.com)

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Samsung Kills Headphone Jack in Latest Smartphone After Years of Mocking Apple (www.macrumors.com)

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Ask HN: What's up with the site being slow? (item?id=18653355)

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Huawei Is China’s Black Mirror Corporation (medium.com)

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The KodakCoin ICO failed, and now everyone wants their money (davidgerard.co.uk)

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Ask HN: What are some practical uses for serverless? (item?id=18651689)

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Ars Technica’s ultimate board game gift guide, 2018 edition (arstechnica.com)

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Ways Streaming Services Are Getting Worse (www.cracked.com)

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Japan to extend copyright period on works including novel, paintings to 70 years (www.japantimes.co.jp)

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Scale by the Bay 2018: Bryan Cantrill, Rust and Other Interesting Things (www.youtube.com)

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A Linotyper for Life (printinghistory.org)

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South America's Other 'Easter Island' (www.bbc.com)

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The Cube Rule of Food Identification (cuberule.com)

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Ask HN: [from a16z article] Why are Chinese business models more sophisticated? (item?id=18651515)

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Tom Lehrer, man ahead of his time (marginalrevolution.com)

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The Infrastructure Long Play (granolashotgun.com)

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In the Universe of Equations, Virtually All Are Prime (www.quantamagazine.org)

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The Problem of Async Programming, and a Crazy Idea for Solving It (medium.com)

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New high temperature superconducting record: LaH10 at -23C and 170 GPa (www.technologyreview.com)

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CVEs on GitHub (github.com)

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Mark Zuckerberg Reached Out to Microsoft President Brad Smith – Bad for Sandberg (www.businessinsider.com)

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Gems of Corrado Böhm (arxiv.org)

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Ulay Remembers the Crime of a Lifetime (2016) (observer.com)

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Ask HN: Finding meaning in what we do everyday (item?id=18651292)

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Netflix – Our learnings from adopting GraphQL (medium.com)

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Powerful computer vision datasets for ML researchers (twitter.com)

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Online Design Courses (medium.com)

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Intro to Big Data (Stanford CS102, Winter 2019) (web.stanford.edu)

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Americans Are Weirdly Obsessed with Paper Towels (www.theatlantic.com)

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Learning to Drive by Imitating the Best and Synthesizing the Worst (arxiv.org)

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2019 Predictions: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI (hackernoon.com)

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On the Importance of Commit Messages (americanexpress.io)

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Princeton’s Ad-Blocking Superweapon May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking Arms Race (motherboard.vice.com)

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50 years ago, 'the mother of all demos' foretold our tech future (www.engadget.com)

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Unix is Dead (nanovms.com)

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Hammer time: fixing the printer on a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe (www.righto.com)

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A Quick Puzzle Sheds Light on Problem Solving (www.nytimes.com)

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Show HN: Catvent – an advent calendar with cats (Https://catvent.jordypereira.be)

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In Remote Villages, Surprising New Measures Save Children with Malaria (www.nytimes.com)

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Buterin thread on non-financial applications of cryptContent-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: Mojolicious (Perl) Status: 200 OK 1o blockchains (twitter.com)

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Microsoft confirms that Chrome extensions will run on new Edge browser (www.zdnet.com)

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Ubiq (YC S17) Is Hiring a Back-End Engineer in Kitchener/Waterloo (ca.indeed.com)

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