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I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in six days
https://blog.usejournal.com/i-interviewed-at-six-top-companies-in-silicon-valley-in-six-days-and-stumbled-into-six-job-offers-fe9cc7bbc996

Q2VKPT: Fully path traced Quake 2
http://brechpunkt.de/q2vkpt

Nike’s auto-laced future
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/17/nikes-auto-laced-future/

50 Years Ago, the Sugar Industry Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat

Insurance market for football evaporating, causing major threat for NFL
http://www.espn.in/espn/story/_/id/25776964/insurance-market-football-evaporating-causing-major-threat-nfl-pop-warner-colleges-espn

L4Linux – Linux running on the L4 microkernel
http://l4linux.org/overview.shtml

Former IBM exec says company told her to hide layoff age data from government
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/18/ibm_government_lying_claims/

Pixelbook and “Nami” Chromebooks the First to Get Linux GPU Acceleration
https://www.aboutchromebooks.com/news/pixelbook-and-nami-chromebooks-the-first-to-get-linux-gpu-acceleration-in-project-crostini/

MakeCode Arcade: Retro Gaming, Modern Programming
https://makecode.com/blog/arcade/01-18-2019

Gunk: Modern front end and syntax for Protocol Buffers
https://github.com/gunk/gunk

Why Carmaggedon never comes – Seattle edition
http://cityobservatory.org/seattle_carmaggedon/

Future of TypeScript on ESLint
https://eslint.org/blog/2019/01/future-typescript-eslint

GNU Octave: A high-level interactive language for numerical computations [pdf]
https://octave.org/octave.pdf

To Save the Sound of a Stradivarius, a Whole City Must Keep Quiet
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/arts/music/stradivarius-sound-bank-recording-cremona.html

What People Say Before They Die
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/01/how-do-people-communicate-before-death/580303/

Supporters of Mexico’s Soda Tax Targeted with NSO Exploit Links (2017)
https://citizenlab.ca/2017/02/bittersweet-nso-mexico-spyware/

Twins get different results when they put 5 ancestry DNA kits to the test
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/dna-ancestry-kits-twins-marketplace-1.4980976

Mainframe, Interrupted
https://logicmag.io/06-mainframe-interrupted/

M.U.L.E. for MSX2
https://www.carpeludum.com/m-u-l-e-for-msx2/

How the Government Shutdown Warps Time Itself
https://typesandtimes.net/2019/01/shutdown-warps-time

Twenty legal battles that stand out across Ars’ 20 years of covering them
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/01/20-legal-cases-across-20-years-these-are-our-favorites/

Predicting Variable Types in Dynamically Typed Programming Languages
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.05138

Farms, More Productive Than Ever, Are Poisoning Drinking Water in Rural America
https://www.wsj.com/articles/farms-more-productive-than-ever-are-poisoning-drinking-water-in-rural-america-11547826031

Fossilized Insect Discovered Not in Amber, but in Opal
https://entomologytoday.org/2019/01/18/fossilized-insect-discovered-amber-opal/

To Cover China, There’s No Substitute for WeChat
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/09/technology/personaltech/china-wechat.html

The cerebellum is your “little brain”, and it does some pretty big things
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-cerebellum-is-your-little-brain-and-it-does-some-pretty-big-things/

Inkscape launches versions 0.92.4 and 1.0 alpha
https://inkscape.org/news/2019/01/17/inkscape-launches-version-0924/

773M Password ‘Megabreach’ Is Years Old
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/01/773m-password-megabreach-is-years-old/

Prevent users registering with passwords from data breaches
https://jordanhall.co.uk/prevent-users-registering-with-passwords-from-data-breaches

Boris Artzybasheff’s Maps
https://makingmaps.net/2019/01/17/boris-artzybasheffs-maps/

Costco opening a $440M chicken farm to escape America’s chicken monopoly
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/05/costco--chickens-tyson-perdue-monopoly-america-agriculture-farming.html

Getting Answers
https://www.mikeash.com/getting_answers.html

Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46918859

FDA is considering drugs to help kids quit vaping
https://lite.cnn.io/en/article/h_66afc59fee1feb0f28b5944c6a8b2384

The Acid3 Test (2008)
http://acid3.acidtests.org/

The Art of Unix Programming (2003)
https://arp242.net/the-art-of-unix-programming/

Using Bots to Solve Developer Drudgery
https://www.kensodev.com/posts/2019/01/18/using-bots-to-solve-developer-drudgery/

Distributed Technologies Research
https://dtr.org/

50 shades of C++ - Nicolai Josuttis - Meeting C++ 2018 Closing Keynote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-_TLTdLGtc

Object Detection: An End-to-End Theoretical Perspective
https://mlwhiz.com/blog/2018/09/22/object_detection/

Freno – Cooperative, highly-available throttler service
https://github.com/github/freno

Google VP told employees to stop using the word “family” after staff complaints
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6605539/Google-staff-complained-word-FAMILY-offensive-homophobic-referring-children.html

RACK: a time-based fast loss detection algorithm for TCP (2018)
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tcpm-rack-04

PG&E: The First Climate-Change Bankruptcy, Probably Not the Last
https://www.wsj.com/articles/pg-e-wildfires-and-the-first-climate-change-bankruptcy-11547820006

CNC milling with open source software
https://opensource.com/article/19/1/cnc-milling-open-source-software

DeepLabCut: Deep learning based markerless pose estimation of user-defined parts
https://www.mousemotorlab.org/deeplabcut/

I Took a Couple Years Off of Work to Swing Trade. Here’s What Happened
https://theascent.pub/i-took-a-couple-years-off-of-work-to-swing-trade-heres-what-happened-fbaa53087f3

Show HN: Musish – Web client for Apple Music
https://musi.sh

Only Race Cars Should Burnout
https://brettshavers.com/brett-s-blog/entry/only-race-cars-should-burnout

Study Identifies Effective Mental Strategies for Aversive Challenges
https://digest.bps.org.uk/2019/01/14/study-identifies-the-most-effective-mental-strategies-that-people-use-to-get-through-aversive-challenges/

Crapularity Aesthetics
https://makingandbreaking.org/article/crapularity-aesthetics/

Building CockroachDB on top of RocksDB
https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/cockroachdb-on-rocksd/

The Art of Snaring Dragons (1975) [pdf]
http://harveycohen.net/papers/TheArtOfSnaringDragons-MIT-AI-Memo338.pdf

China’s Looming Crisis: A Shrinking Population
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/01/17/world/asia/china-population-crisis.html

MySQL client allows MySQL server to request any local file by default
https://twitter.com/gwillem/status/1086275952915533828

Dutch Startup Converts Heat into Cold via a Stirling Engine
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2019/01/18/this-dutch-startup-converts-heat-into-cold-via-a-stirling-engine-and-could-just-save-the-planet/#433e23566744

From City of Blight to City of Light
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/from-city-of-blight-to-city-of-light/

Human Interest (401(k) Provider for SMBs) Is Hiring a Partner Marketing Manager
https://humaninterest.com/careers

Show HN: HTML5 Video Player in TypeScript
https://github.com/matvp91/indigo-player

Tiny animal carcasses found in buried Antarctic lake
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00106-z

Boeing’s radical wing design unveiled
http://www.cnn.com/travel/article/boeing-transonic-wing-scli-intl/

What It Costs to Maintain an Older House
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/urbs/what-it-actually-costs-to-maintain-an-older-house/

An overflow error costing 500M dollars (1996)
https://around.com/ariane.html

Police, Computing, and Nationalism
http://kamaubobb.com/2019/01/police-computing-and-nationalism/

Standard library for JavaScript and Node.js
https://github.com/stdlib-js/stdlib

Elon Musk: Moving to Mars would cost about $200,000
https://bigthink.com/technology-innovation/elon-musk-cost-spacex-ticket

A Go Custom Flutter Engine Embedder for Desktop
https://github.com/Drakirus/go-flutter-desktop-embedder

LibGyro – Low-Level Multimedia API
https://github.com/libgyro/libGyro

Judge unseals trove of internal Facebook documents from 2012 legal action
https://www.revealnews.org/blog/a-judge-unsealed-a-trove-of-internal-facebook-documents-following-our-legal-action

Hey Google When did I ask you to read my purchase details
https://kanoki.org/2019/01/01/data-privacy/

Openrsync – a clean-room implementation of rsync with a BSD (ISC) license
https://github.com/kristapsdz/openrsync

Marie Kondo, Fast Fashion, and the Thrift-Store Boom
https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/01/tidying-up-with-marie-kondo-netflix-where-to-donate/580396/

Show HN: Hacker News 2018, Year in Review
https://chart.ly/stories/hacker-news-2018

Examples and best practices for building recommendation systems
https://github.com/Microsoft/Recommenders

Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs in 2018
https://firstround.com/review/the-30-best-pieces-of-advice-for-entrepreneurs-in-2018/

Being collateral damage in the culture wars of the West
https://medium.com/@therealsexycyborg/shenzhen-tech-girl-naomi-wu-part-2-over-the-wall-and-into-the-fire-5e8efc5c1509

A u-blox GNSS receiver for orienteering mapping
https://github.com/lpechacek/u-blox-gnss-receiver/

GDPR complaints say Amazon, Spotify, and others are breaking EU law
https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/18/18188174/gdpr-complaints-streaming-amazon-apple-spotify-netflix

25% of antibiotics prescribed in the US are unnecessary
https://qz.com/1526329/25-of-antibiotics-prescribed-in-the-us-are-unnecessary/

We need ‘Goldilocks,’ not ‘voodoo,’ urbanism
https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2019/01/16/we-need-%E2%80%98goldilocks%E2%80%99-not-%E2%80%98voodoo%E2%80%99-urbanism

Nigeria has now lost 96% of it’s forest. Here is an animated map to demonstrate
https://i.imgur.com/vtZ3dor.gif

Computer People for Peace
https://eli.naeher.name/computer-people-for-peace/

Netflix is burning through cash. This can’t last forever
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/18/investing/netflix-cash-burn-stock/index.html

Company Update
https://www.tesla.com/blog/tesla-company-update

Facebook employees caught leaving 5-star Amazon reviews for Portal
https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-employees-caught-leaving-5-star-amazon-reviews-for-portal-2019-1

Utah Shows How Labor-Force Growth Fuels Economic Growth
https://www.wsj.com/articles/utah-shows-how-labor-force-growth-fuels-economic-growth-11547809200

Why Jeff Bezos’ Divorce Should Worry Amazon Investors
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/18/business/bezos-divorce-amazon-stock.html

Rails 6.0.0 beta1 is released
https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2019/1/18/Rails-6-0-Action-Mailbox-Action-Text-Multiple-DBs-Parallel-Testing/

Chinese drone maker DJI uncovers corruption, sees $150M loss
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/chinese-drone-maker-dji-expects-150-million-loss-112154253--finance.html

Operable Software
https://ferd.ca/operable-software.html

Texas Death Row Inmates’ Last Statements
https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/death_row/dr_executed_offenders.html

Is C++ fast?
https://zeuxcg.org/2019/01/17/is-c-fast/

Investing Prophet Jeremy Grantham Takes Aim at Climate Change
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-17/jeremy-grantham-s-1-billion-plan-to-fight-climate-change

Tiny Indian state proposes world’s biggest experiment with guaranteed income
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/01/17/tiny-indian-state-proposes-worlds-biggest-experiment-with-guaranteed-income/

Simone Giertz brain tumor is back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x5XRQ07sjU

Amazon is becoming more powerful than we realize
https://medium.com/s/2069/amazon-is-becoming-more-powerful-than-you-realize-2093d6860886

Q2VKPT: Fully path-traced Quake 2 fork using RTX
http://brechpunkt.de/q2vkpt/

Microsoft recommends switching to iPhone, Android as it kills off Windows phones
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/18/microsoft-ending-windows-10-mobile-says-switch-to-iphone-or-android.html

Google faces renewed protests and criticism over China search project
https://theintercept.com/2019/01/18/google-dragonfly-project-protests/

Deep Learning State of the Art (2019) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53YvP6gdD7U

Strangeness of Black Holes
http://nautil.us/issue/68/context/the-strangeness-of-black-holes

US Cartographers Inadvertently Created a House of Horrors in South Africa
https://gizmodo.com/how-cartographers-for-the-u-s-military-inadvertently-c-1830758394

Is a Serial-Killer Gang Murdering Young Men Across the U.S.?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/is-a-serial-killer-gang-murdering-young-men-across-the-us

I deleted my 118k-follower, verified Instagram account
http://blog.yobenlee.com/uncategorized/fuck-social-media/

Scientists Finally Know What Time It Is on Saturn
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7316

Federal Court Rules That Patent Troll Can’t Hide Its Machinations
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/federal-court-orders-patent-troll-cant-hide-its-machinations

Show HN: A Golang library to build Turing machine
https://made2591.github.io/posts/golang-turing-machine

Anonymous Amazon worker says they listen to unrecognized Alexa recordings
https://twitter.com/girlziplocked/status/1085945913003118595

Verizon will offer free spam protection to all of its customers
https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/18/18188140/verizon-free-spam-robocall-protection

No. 1 state for female entrepreneurs is Texas: Study
https://www.dallasnews.com/business/business/2019/01/15/texas-no-1-us-forfemale-entrepreneurs-new-study

HyPerledger Fabric–the 20 most important terms made simple
https://hackernoon.com/hyperledger-fabric-the-20-most-important-terms-made-simple-2753f925db4

Print out your code. On paper
https://medium.com/@tashian/print-out-your-code-on-paper-7c760a376bca

On Weaponised Design
https://ourdataourselves.tacticaltech.org/posts/30-on-weaponised-design/

You can see through frosted glass by using clear tape
https://twitter.com/sehnaoui/status/1086315467160072192

Netflix says Fortnite is bigger competition than HBO or Hulu
https://www.polygon.com/2019/1/17/18187400/netflix-vs-fortnite-hbo-hulu-competition

Show HN: London Underground journey depths
http://www.michalpaszkiewicz.co.uk/blog/tubedepths/?from=Amersham&to=Tower+Hill

Python Steering Council Nomination: Peter Wang
https://discuss.python.org/t/steering-council-nomination-peter-wang/694

How OpenBSD is secure compared to other operating systems?
https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/af1s00/how_openbsd_is_secure_compared_to_other_operating/

AngelList Year in Review, 2018
https://angel.co/2018

Elwood, Il Has Become a Vital Hub of America’s Consumer Economy. And It’s Hell
https://newrepublic.com/article/152836/elwood-illinois-pop-2200-become-vital-hub-americas-consumer-economy-its-hell

Remote Workers Are Outperforming Office Workers
https://www.inc.com/brian-de-haaff/3-ways-remote-workers-outperform-office-workers.html

Operating System in 2018
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/modern-operating-systems

To Honor Murder Victims, Stop Fixating on the Race of Their Killers
https://quillette.com/2019/01/14/to-honor-murder-victims-stop-fixating-on-the-race-of-their-killers/

MIT researchers use Bayesian inference, a form of AI, to make computer programs
https://www.zdnet.com/article/mit-aims-to-help-data-scientists-by-having-ai-do-the-heavy-lifting/

Tesla to cut more than 3,000 jobs because cars ’still too expensive’
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/18/tesla-to-cut-more-than-3000-jobs-because-cars-still-too-expensive-elon-musk

Rare ’Super Blood Wolf Moon’ will be visible this weekend
https://mashable.com/video/blood-wolf-moon/

Research Paper Abstract Mad Lib from MIT
https://twitter.com/MIT_CSAIL/status/1086308737957220353

Malign incompetence of the British ruling class
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/opinion/sunday/brexit-ireland-empire.html

This is what Google says search will look like under EU copyright laws
https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/17/18186879/google-eu-copyright-laws-search-news-link-tax

Is C++ fast?
https://zeuxcg.org/2019/01/17/is-c-fast/

ZFS on Linux Landing Workaround for Linux 5.0 Kernel Support
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ZFS-On-Linux-5.0-Workaround

Inspiration to Reality: Exploring Generative Art
http://blog.gskinner.com/archives/2019/01/inspiration-reality.html

Networking While Introverted: It Can Be Done
https://fee.org/articles/networking-while-introverted-it-can-be-done/

Dark markets have evolved to use encrypted messengers and dead-drops
https://boingboing.net/2019/01/14/drone-serviced-dead-drops.html

My Desire to Learn from My Customers and How It Led to a New Business
https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/a0c56e2d96

A high-carb diet may explain why Okinawans live so long
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190116-a-high-carb-diet-may-explain-why-okinawans-live-so-long

Researchers Turn Breast Cancer Cells into Fat to Stop Them from Spreading
https://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-convert-breast-cancer-to-harmless-fat-cells-to-try-to-stop-cancer-s-spread

Firefox removes UI dark pattern from Screenshot tool after months of complaints
https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-to-remove-ui-dark-pattern-from-screenshot-tool-after-months-of-complaints/

Americans trust the military more than Big Tech to develop AI
https://diginomica.com/2019/01/17/americans-trust-the-military-more-than-big-tech-to-develop-ai/

Shutdown is breaking government websites, one by one
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/01/17/shutdown-is-steadily-devouring-us-government-websites/

A dirty secret that everybody in your industry knows about
https://twitter.com/girlziplocked/status/1086029171468484609

Shareholders tell Amazon to stop selling Rekognition facial recognition to govt
https://sociable.co/business/shareholders-amazon-rekognition-facial-recognition-govt/

Journalist in Ghana who helped expose FIFA corruption shot dead
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/soccer/2019/01/17/journalist-ghana-who-helped-expose-fifa-corruption-shot-dead/2604783002/

Developer Ecosystem Survey 2019
https://surveys.jetbrains.com/s3/sh-developer-ecosystem-survey-2019

Oracle exec: Open-source vendors locking down licences proves ’they were never
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/17/oracle_exec_opensource_vendors_locking_down_licenses_proves_they_were_never_really_open/

Cybersecurity Labs and Resource Knowledgebase
https://clark.center/home

Porting 140K lines of code to Flow
https://engineering.wework.com/adventures-in-static-typing-react-redux-flow-oh-my-284c5f74adac

Get started with WTF, a dashboard for the terminal
https://opensource.com/article/19/1/wtf-information-dashboard

Natural Language Preprocessing
https://prakhartechviz.blogspot.com/2019/01/preprocessing-techniques-nlp.html

Top 50 Programming Blogs and Websites for Programmers in 2019
https://blog.f