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Gates Foundation spent $200M funding toilet research
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-06/bill-gates-aims-to-save-233-billion-by-reinventing-the-toilet

VirtualBox E1000 Guest-to-Host Escape
https://github.com/MorteNoir1/virtualbox_e1000_0day

Facebook’s GraphQL gets its own open-source foundation
https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/06/facebooks-graphql-gets-its-own-open-source-foundation/

WireGuard for iOS
https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2018-November/003526.html

Show HN: TabNine, an autocompleter for all languages
https://tabnine.com/

Ozone: The Earth’s protective shield is repairing
https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-46107843

The history of humans trying to reduce one another to a personality profile
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/meet-yourself

Swift Intermediate Language Ownership Model Proposal
https://forums.swift.org/t/sil-ownership-model-proposal-refreshed/16872

Linux compatibility in IncludeOS
https://www.includeos.org/blog/2018/musl.html

Easy-To-use, FPGA-Accelerated Hardware Simulation of RISC-V Systems in the Cloud
https://fires.im/

Swift String’s ABI and UTF-8
https://forums.swift.org/t/string-s-abi-and-utf-8/17676

Reddit AMA on a free alternative to Photoshop used by 1.5M people
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9urjmg/i_made_a_free_alternative_to_photoshop_that_is/

Using Wi-Fi to “see” behind closed doors is easier than anyone thought
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612375/using-wi-fi-to-see-behind-closed-doors-is-easier-than-anyone-thought/

Who Killed Prolog? (2010)
https://vanemden.wordpress.com/2010/08/21/who-killed-prolog/

Mundane: Rust cryptography library backed by BoringSSL
https://github.com/google/mundane

A Lisp Way to Type Theory and Formal Proofs (2017) [pdf]
https://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/static/2017/peschanski.pdf

Designing an Engineering Performance Management System from Scratch
https://blog.gitprime.com/designing-performance-management-systems/

Novel Quantum Emitter Provides Key Building Block for a Quantum Internet
https://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/materials/novel-onchip-quantum-emitter-provides-key-building-block-for-a-quantum-internet

SoftBank’s debt obsession
https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/06/softbanks-debt-obsession/

Math for common angle and tipping points of branching valley networks. (2012)
http://news.mit.edu/2012/river-networks-mathematics-1205

Neutrino tomography of Earth
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-018-0319-1

Raku Perl 6.d
https://marketing.perl6.org/id/1541379592/pdf_digital

The relationship between age and wisdom-related performance
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1080/016502599383739?journalCode=jbda

A List of Open Questions
https://www.gwern.net/Notes#open-questions

Artificial Intelligence Hits the Barrier of Meaning
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/05/opinion/artificial-intelligence-machine-learning.html

Impostor syndrome strikes men just as hard as women in technical interviews
http://blog.interviewing.io/impostor-syndrome-strikes-men-just-as-hard-as-women-and-other-findings-from-thousands-of-technical-interviews/

2018 was a terrible year for Swiss glaciers
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/european-glaciers-have-been-coming-and-going-for-tens-of-thousands-of-years-now-theyre-just-going

Girl Scouts file trademark lawsuit as Boy Scouts plan to rename to Scouts BSA
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-boy-scouts-girl-scouts-lawsuit/girl-scouts-sues-boy-scouts-over-trademark-as-boys-welcome-girls-idUSKCN1NB2JN

Compartmentalized computing with CLIP OS
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/768819/39d9692ec9f1ae54/

New Lower-Cost, AMD-Powered M5a and R5a EC2 Instances
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-lower-cost-amd-powered-ec2-instances/

Series A Fundraising Guide
https://marathon.vc/blog/series-a-fundraising-guide

The Mysteries of Animal Movement
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/05/science/hu-robotics.html

AMD Announces 7nm Rome CPUs and MI60 GPUs
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-new-horizon-7nm-cpu,38029.html

Principles for a Contract for the Web
https://contractfortheweb.org/

Google Sheets Query Function (2016)
https://www.benlcollins.com/spreadsheets/google-sheets-query-sql/

Lessons Learned from 2 Years Marketing AI Bots
http://blog.talla.com/14-lessons-learned-from-2-years-of-marketing-enterprise-ai-bots-and-knowledge-bases-for-support-teams

The first domesticated foxes [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dwjS_eI-lQ

Instant runoff voting is the system we need
http://chuckgreenman.posthaven.com/instant-runoff-voting-is-the-system-we-need

Three European Countries Block Tax on Tech Giants
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-06/french-push-for-eu-tech-tax-falters-as-italy-vows-to-go-it-alone

MemSQL is now free to use for databases with up to 128GB of RAM usage
https://www.memsql.com/blog/announcing-memsql-free-tier

Programming Quotes
http://quotes.cat-v.org/programming/

CDC director warns that Congo’s Ebola outbreak may not be containable
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2018/11/05/cdc-director-warns-that-congos-ebola-outbreak-may-not-be-containable/

Operation Luigi: How I hacked my friend without her noticing (2017)
https://mango.pdf.zone/operation-luigi-how-i-hacked-my-friend-without-her-noticing

VMware acquires Heptio, the startup founded by 2 co-founders of Kubernetes
https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/06/vmware-acquires-heptio-the-startup-founded-by-2-co-founders-of-kubernetes/

China’s Gait Recognition Can Identify People by Walk and Body Shape
https://yellrobot.com/china-gait-recognition-surveillance-walk-and-body-shape/

The Complete JavaScript Handbook by Flavio Copes
https://link.medium.com/reGcIrbVDR

Backblaze’s Custom Data Center PDU
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblazes-custom-data-center-pdu/

How to explain the KGB’s amazing success identifying CIA agents? (2015)
https://www.salon.com/2015/09/26/how_to_explain_the_kgbs_amazing_success_identifying_cia_agents_in_the_field/

Engineer.ai raises $29.5M Series A for its AI+Humans software building platform
https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/06/engineer-ai-raises-29-5m-series-a-for-its-aihumans-software-building-platform/

A Recipe for Flies and Frogs
https://daily.jstor.org/a-recipe-for-flies-and-frogs/

Deadlines, lies and videotape: The tale of a gRPC bug
https://blog.hostedgraphite.com/2018/10/30/deadlines-lies-and-videotape-the-tale-of-a-grpc-bug/

2018 Mac Mini Review
https://marco.org/2018/11/06/mac-mini-2018-review

11 techniques to fit large neural networks on edge devices
https://heartbeat.fritz.ai/how-to-fit-large-neural-networks-on-the-edge-eb621cdbb33

Intel announces Cascade Lake Xeons: 48 cores and 12-channel memory per socket
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/11/intel-announces-cascade-lake-xeons-48-cores-and-12-channel-memory-per-socket/

Out of all major energy sources, nuclear is the safest (2017)
https://ourworldindata.org/what-is-the-safest-form-of-energy

Creating Effective Job Adverts
https://blog.honest.work/creating-effective-job-adverts/

Re-affirming Long-Term Support for Java in Amazon Linux
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/re-affirming-long-term-support-for-java-in-amazon-linux/

Microsoft built its new campus in Minecraft [video]
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2018/11/05/microsoft-built-its-new-campus-in-minecraft.html

Existing laser tech could be used for “porch light” to attract alien astronomers
http://news.mit.edu/2018/laser-attract-alien-astronomers-study-1105

Fifteen Years of Fedora
https://fedoramagazine.org/celebrate-fifteen-years-fedora/

Can Hong Kong Sell Its Residents on Watery Graves?
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/sea-burial-hong-kong

A technical report on convolution arithmetic in the context of deep learning
https://github.com/vdumoulin/conv_arithmetic

’Almost all’ Pakistani banks hacked in security breach, says FIA cybercrime head
https://www.dawn.com/news/1443970

Writing network drivers in Go (Thesis) [pdf]
https://www.net.in.tum.de/fileadmin/bibtex/publications/theses/2018-ixy-go.pdf

Florida passes Amendment Four, restoring voting rights to convicted felons
https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-passes-amendment-4-restoring-voting-rights-convicted-felons-020912594.html

At least it wasn’t Oracle
https://chrisshort.net/one-fish-two-fish-blue-fish-sporting-new-red-hat/

Scylla 3.0 announced – Secondary Indexes, Cassandra 3.0 compatibility and more
https://www.scylladb.com/press-release/scylladb-major-release-nosql-database-support-concurrent-oltp-and-olap/

SCMUTILS Reference Manual
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946/refman.txt

Show HN: DiagramJS – Create beautiful node diagrams using JavaScript
https://github.com/slothking-online/diagram

Untagging Tor: A Formal Treatment of Onion Encryption [pdf]
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/162.pdf

How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2018: NLL edition
https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2018/11/06/how-to-speed-up-the-rust-compiler-in-2018-nll-edition/

Thoughts on the Cpp Graphics Proposal
https://www.jeremyong.com/c++/graphics/2018/11/05/thoughs-on-the-cpp-graphics-proposal.html

Getafix: How Facebook tools learn to fix bugs automatically
https://code.fb.com/developer-tools/getafix-how-facebook-tools-learn-to-fix-bugs-automatically/

Coordination-Free Consistent Transactions Using In-Network Concurrency Control [pdf]
https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~lijl/papers/eris-sosp17.pdf

Why I Am Switching to Secure ProtonMail
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tjmccue/2018/10/31/why-i-am-switching-to-secure-protonmail-from-insecure-google-gmail

Migrating away from Google Maps and cutting costs
https://www.eventsofa.de/campus/migrating-away-from-google-maps-and-cutting-costs-by-99/

’Conservative Move’: A relocation service for conservatives fleeing blue states
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-november-1-2018-1.4887105/fed-up-with-their-liberal-home-states-u-s-conservatives-find-a-place-they-can-belong-in-texas-1.4888277

Who called 1688 a “Glorious Revolution”? (2016)
http://www.irishphilosophy.com/2016/11/05/glorious-revolution/

Show HN: The Feed Directory
https://pine.blog/search

The Mad Rush to College Is Killing Our Children’s Entrepreneurial Spirit
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-mad-rush-to-college-is-killing-our-childrens-entrepreneurial-spirit/

Fishing for Hackers: Analysis of a Linux Server Attack (2014)
https://sysdig.com/blog/fishing-for-hackers/

Algorithms Designed to Fight Poverty Can Actually Make It Worse
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/algorithms-designed-to-fight-poverty-can-actually-make-it-worse/

25% of Employees at Amazon, Apple, and Others in Tech Regret Taking Their Jobs
https://www.inc.com/christine-lagorio/snapchat-other-tech-employees-regret-accepting-their-jobs.html

The Problem Behind a Viral Video of a Persistent Baby Bear
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/problematic-viral-video-persistent-baby-bear/574990/?single_page=true

Is Space a Human Place? [audio]
https://www.sapiens.org/technology/space-colonization/

TRE: A Regex Engine with Approximate Matching
http://ducktape.blot.im/tre-a-regex-engine-with-approximate-matching

Children’s screen time has little effect on sleep, says study
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46109023

FCC pushes carriers to implement caller ID authentication by 2019
https://www.engadget.com/2018/11/06/fcc-caller-id-authentication-2019/

AMD outlines its future: 7nm GPUs with PCIe 4, Zen 2, Zen 3, Zen 4
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1407669

A Model to Predict Effectiveness and Cost of Software Security Assurance Tools
https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/sei_blog/2018/11/cost-effective-software-security-assurance-workflows.html

What can I do about climate change?
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20181102-what-can-i-do-about-climate-change

Energy cost of mining Bitcoin more than twice that of copper or gold
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/05/energy-cost-of-mining-bitcoin-more-than-twice-that-of-copper-or-gold

Apple’s new iPad Pro is not compatible with any external storage devices
https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-ipad-pro-not-compatible-with-external-storage-2018-11

Logic, Explainability and the Future of Understanding
https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2018/11/logic-explainability-and-the-future-of-understanding/

Researchers train AI to spot Alzheimer’s disease ahead of diagnosis
https://www.engadget.com/2018/11/06/researchers-train-ai-spot-alzheimers-disease/

Researchers have busted the encryption in several Crucial and Samsung SSDs
https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/05/crucial-samsung-solid-state-drives-busted-encryption/

Facebook now adds fbclid query string to URLs, busting CloudFlare’s cache
https://community.cloudflare.com/t/facebook-now-adds-fbclid-query-string-to-urls-busting-cloudflares-cache/40355

Automated visual testing in Nightmare with Percy
https://blog.percy.io/automated-visual-testing-nightmare-percy-e5c335eac4da

The Linux Foundation Announces Intent to Form New Foundation to Support GraphQL
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press-release/2018/11/intent_to_form_graphql/

CppCon 2018: “Modern C++ in Embedded Systems – The Saga Continues”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfRLQ7IChtg

How I made a micro startup in less than 10 hours
https://medium.com/@julienvallini/how-i-shipped-a-micro-startup-in-less-than-10-hours-fbbe34819f21

Curated collection of CSS snippets
https://30-seconds.github.io/30-seconds-of-css/

Apple Abandons the Mass Market, as the iPhone Turns Luxury
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-abandons-mass-market-as-iphone-turns-luxury/

The rules of racing (2014)
https://f1metrics.wordpress.com/2014/08/28/the-rules-of-racing/

Google Workers Reject Silicon Valley Individualism in Walkout
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/06/business/google-employee-walkout-labor.html

Ted Cruz is still using a blacklisted Cambridge Analytica app developer
https://www.fastcompany.com/90262252/ted-cruz-still-using-blacklisted-cambridge-analytica-app-developer

The Potentiometer Handbook (1975) [pdf]
https://www.bourns.com/pdfs/OnlinePotentiometerHandbook.pdf

Interstellar object may have been an alien probe, Harvard paper claims
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/06/health/oumuamua-alien-probe-harvard-intl/index.html

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo

Nervous system manipulation by electromagnetic fields from monitors [pdf]
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/e2/4e/f9/3d4d57e738f8c2/US6506148.pdf

The 2018 Retina Macbook Air
https://daringfireball.net/2018/11/the_2018_retina_macbook_air

Bitcoin Will Burn the Planet Down. The Question: How Fast?
https://www.wired.com/story/bitcoin-will-burn-planet-down-how-fast/

Show HN: Curated list of best niche job boards
https://100jobboards.com

Traitorous Eight
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traitorous_eight

I paid $300 for DNA-based fitness advice and all I got was junk science
https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/20/16613650/helix-dna-testing-kit-fitness-genes-results-dnafit

Sandboxed execution of native code with GraalVM
https://medium.com/graalvm/safe-and-sandboxed-execution-of-native-code-f6096b35c360

Supply-chain attack on cryptocurrency exchange gate.io
https://www.welivesecurity.com/2018/11/06/supply-chain-attack-cryptocurrency-exchange-gate-io/

’Almost all’ Pakistani banks hacked in security breach
https://www.dawn.com/news/1443970/almost-all-pakistani-banks-hacked-in-security-breach-says-fia-cybercrime-head

How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016 (2016)
https://hackernoon.com/how-it-feels-to-learn-javascript-in-2016-d3a717dd577f

Our Nightmare with Etihad Airways
https://medium.com/@sanket_63057/our-nightmare-with-etihad-airways-fe5aa34cfb4d

Graceful upgrades in Go
https://blog.cloudflare.com/graceful-upgrades-in-go/

Avoidable career mistakes (and how to conquer them)
https://opensource.com/open-organization/18/11/avoidable-career-mistakes

Building a Serverless “Voter Ipsum” API as Quick as Voting #noservernovember
https://medium.com/@leemartin/building-a-serverless-voter-ipsum-api-as-quick-as-voting-d16c19b0e668

Microsoft unveils a paid-for distro for WSL
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/11/05/whats-new-for-wsl-in-the-windows-10-october-2018-update/

Calculator.PDF (even works in Google Chrome)
https://pspdfkit.com/blog/2018/how-to-program-a-calculator-pdf/

Front-End: Web Components TDD/DDD Tool that works with components of any library
https://github.com/eavichay/showroom/wiki

U.S. domestic Internet traffic misrouted through China Telecom
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/11/strange-snafu-misroutes-domestic-us-internet-traffic-through-china-telecom/

Facebook’s attention economy delivers traffic but no money for media orgs
https://www.iafrikan.com/2018/11/06/facebook-media-advertising-business-social-media/

Russia: Now everyone who uses a messaging app must be identifiable
https://www.zdnet.com/article/russia-now-everyone-who-uses-a-messaging-app-must-be-identifiable/

The EU’s border control ‘lie detector’ AI is hogwash
https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2018/11/06/the-eus-border-control-lie-detector-ai-is-hogwash/

Thoughts on C++ Graphics proposal
https://www.jeremyong.com/c++/graphics/2018/11/05/thoughs-on-the-cpp-graphics-proposal.html

TypeScript Cheat Sheet
https://www.sitepen.com/blog/2018/10/10/typescript-cheat-sheet

Apple forgot to lock Intel Management Engine in laptops, so get patching
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/03/intel_management_engine_hole/

Is it time to rewrite the operating system in Rust?
https://www.slideshare.net/bcantrill/is-it-time-to-rewrite-the-operating-system-in-rust

Predictably, online media go nuts over ‘Oumuamua and Harvard scientists
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/ignore-all-the-stories-about-oumuamua-the-harvard-paper-and-aliens/

Imperative Loop or Functional Stream Pipeline? Beware of the Performance Impact
https://blog.jooq.org/2018/10/29/imperative-loop-or-functional-stream-pipeline-beware-of-the-performance-impact/

Trolls struggle to get Twitter disinformation campaigns off the ground
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/secret-chats-trolls-struggle-get-twitter-disinformation-campaigns-ground-n931756

Thousands of Swedes Are Inserting Microchips Under Their Skin
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/22/658808705/thousands-of-swedes-are-inserting-microchips-under-their-skin?t=1541418621868

Microsoft and Walmart to open joint engineering office in Austin
https://venturebeat.com/2018/11/05/microsoft-and-walmart-to-open-joint-engineering-office-in-austin-as-part-of-cloud-partnership/

Seagate’s Roadmap Shows How We Can Expect 100 TB HDDs in 2025
https://www.techpowerup.com/249271/seagates-roadmap-shows-how-we-can-expect-100-tb-hdds-in-2025

Show HN: Start IntelliJ projects with an XKCD comic
https://github.com/DylanMeeus/IntelliJ-Xkcd-Startup

PostgreSQL Performance Tuning Tutorial
https://stackify.com/postgresql-performance-tutorial/

Cigar-shaped interstellar object may have been alien probe, Harvard paper claims
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/11/06/health/oumuamua-alien-probe-harvard-intl/index.ht