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Why isn’t the internet more fun and weird?
https://jarredsumner.com/codeblog/

U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-changes-visa-process-for-high-skilled-workers-11548879868

Why some Japanese pensioners want to go to jail
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-47033704

Some Fundamental Theorems in Mathematics
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08416

Like a son but cheaper: harried South Koreans pamper pets instead of having kids
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-economy-pets/like-a-son-but-cheaper-harried-south-koreans-pamper-pets-instead-of-having-kids-idUSKCN1PI029

Facebook shares shoot up after strong Q4 earnings despite data breach
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/facebook-earnings-q4-2018/

Statistics Done Wrong
https://www.statisticsdonewrong.com

Data Structures for coding interviews
https://www.interviewcake.com/article/java/data-structures-coding-interview

Rigetti launches the public beta of its Quantum Cloud Services
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/rigetti-launches-the-public-beta-of-its-quantum-cloud-services/

Gödel’s Theorem
http://bactra.org/notebooks/godels-theorem.html

Google’s also peddling a data collector through Apple’s back door
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/googles-also-peddling-a-data-collector-through-apples-back-door/

Google+ for consumers will shut down on April 2nd
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/google-for-consumers-will-shut-down-on-april-2nd/

Lidar Is a Crutch
https://lidarmag.com/2019/01/27/elon-musk-is-right-lidar-is-a-crutch/

Coloured Petri Nets: Modelling and Validation of Concurrent Systems (2009) [pdf]
https://artamonoviv.ru/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Coloured_Petri_Nets_modeling_and_validation_of_concurrent_systems__2009.pdf

8bit Workshop
https://8bitworkshop.com/

This is Your Brain Off Facebook - study offers glimpse of unplugging
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/30/health/facebook-psychology-health.html

Superior Testing: Stop Stopping
https://arturdryomov.online/posts/superior-testing-stop-stopping/

The first synthetic element
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00236-4

Time Running Out for Beloved Mechanical Horse-Race Game in Vegas
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-sigma-derby

Jean-Paul Sartre Had a Bad Mescaline Trip (2018)
http://www.openculture.com/2018/07/jean-paul-sartre-bad-mescaline-trip-hallucinated-years-followed-crabs.html

Ending our Medium integration
https://write.as/blog/ending-our-medium-integration

GiveCampus (YC S15) Hiring Experienced Rails Engineers in DC
https://www.givecampus.com/careers#engineering

Foxconn Is Reconsidering Plan for Manufacturing in Wisconsin
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/30/business/foxconn-wisconsin-manufacturing.html

Use DuckDuckGo to improve your privacy online (2018)
https://spreadprivacy.com/privacy-simplified/

Scripting in Common Lisp
https://ebzzry.io/en/script-lisp/

What is the space overhead of Base64 encoding?
https://lemire.me/blog/2019/01/30/what-is-the-space-overhead-of-base64-encoding/

Steganographic Packets
https://vimist.github.io/2019/01/30/Steganographic-Packets.html

NY Insurers Can Evaluate Social Media Use If They Can Prove Why It’s Needed
https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-insurers-can-evaluate-your-social-media-useif-they-can-prove-why-its-needed-11548856802

Boeing 787 Suffers Rare Dual Engine Failure on Landing
https://thepointsguy.com/news/boeing-787-suffers-rare-dual-engine-failure-on-landing/

Show HN: ASCII Art with Overstrike
https://github.com/hughpyle/ASR33/blob/master/asciiart/README.md

Mozilla developer fixes Chromium bug caused by Google breaking the spec
https://twitter.com/zcorpan/status/1090719253379104779

Arthur C. Clarke: Communications in the Second Century of the Telephone (1977)
https://paleotronic.com/2019/01/30/arthur-c-clarke-communications-in-the-second-century-of-the-telephone-1977/

Notes from the Architect (2006)
http://varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/phk/notes.html

Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) Is Now Live on Ethereum
https://blog.kyber.network/wbtc-is-now-live-on-ethereum-4b4e2d1ef76f

’Karma’: A hack used by the UAE to break into iPhones of foes
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-spying-karma/

Google is discontinuing their free weather API
https://research.eligrey.com/status/1090696844944932864

Microsoft Project Rome 1.0.0
https://github.com/Microsoft/project-rome

India’s largest bank SBI leaked account data on millions of customers
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/state-bank-india-data-leak/

Roll Your Own Ngrok with Nginx, Letsencrypt, and SSH Reverse Tunnelling
https://jerrington.me/posts/2019-01-29-self-hosted-ngrok.html

Show HN: A Image Editor in JavaScript Canvas
https://github.com/victorqribeiro/photoEditor

Amiga Music Tracker in JavaScript
https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/

The Scripto App Became a Fixture of Late-Night Comedy News (2018)
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/how-scripto-the-app-that-stephen-colbert-helped-build-became-a-fixture-of-late-night-comedy-news

’Fuck ethics. Money is everything’: Facebook employees react to scandal
https://mashable.com/article/facebook-employees-react-teen-spying-app-blind/

On Concurrency in Go HTTP Servers
https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2019/on-concurrency-in-go-http-servers/

A Primer on Type Systems
https://www.cs.uaf.edu/users/chappell/public_html/class/2018_spr/cs331/docs/types_primer.html

Lock-Free Rust: Crossbeam in 2019
https://stjepang.github.io/2019/01/29/lock-free-rust-crossbeam-in-2019.html

A Study on Driverless-Car Ethics
https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/a-study-on-driverless-car-ethics-offers-a-troubling-look-into-our-values

OpenChird – An Open Source Platform for IoT with Support for LoRaWAN
https://openchirp.io/

The Unsung Heroes of Modern Software Development
https://towardsdatascience.com/the-unsung-heroes-of-modern-software-development-561fc4cb6850

Nintendo Makes It Clear That Piracy Is Only Way to Preserve Video Game History
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wjm5kw/nintendo-makes-it-clear-that-piracy-is-the-only-way-to-preserve-video-game-history

’Fuck ethics. Money is everything’ FB employees react to scandal on gossip app
https://mashable.com/article/facebook-employees-react-teen-spying-app-blind/#X5hGityLeaqd

Prisons Are Quietly Building Databases of Incarcerated People’s Voice Prints
https://theintercept.com/2019/01/30/prison-voice-prints-databases-securus/

Google Feels the Brunt of GDPR Enforcement
https://www.saiglobal.com/en-au/news_and_resources/industry_news/google_feels_the_brunt_of_gdpr_enforcement/

When Was the First Handshake?
https://daily.jstor.org/when-was-first-handshake/

Apple’s Business Beyond the iPhone
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-30/apple-shares-rally-as-company-outlines-life-beyond-the-iphone

The FL Project: The Design of a Function Language (1989) [pdf]
https://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/publications/trs/FLProject.pdf

Tesla Q4 2018 Earnings Letter
http://ir.tesla.com/static-files/0b913415-467d-4c0d-be4c-9225c2cb0ae0

The Topography of Disease
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-topography-of-disease/#googDisableSync

What China Threat?
https://harpers.org/archive/2019/02/what-china-threat/

No training required: Exploring random encoders for sentence classification
https://code.fb.com/ml-applications/random-encoders/

Add limits to amount of JavaScript that can be loaded by a website
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194028

Future AI: The Explorer and the Philosopher
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2019/01/29/future-ai-the-explorer-and-the-philosopher/

Building decentralized blockchain webpages
https://blockstack.org/

Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps
https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/30/18203551/apple-facebook-blocked-internal-ios-apps

Alpine Linux 3.9.0 Released
https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.9.0-released.html

When a Memory Allocator Hides Security Bugs
https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/65-When-your-Memory-Allocator-hides-Security-Bugs.html

Pwn the LIFX Mini white
https://limitedresults.com/2019/01/pwn-the-lifx-mini-white/

The Intel Xeon W-3175X Review: 28 Unlocked Cores, $2999
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13748/the-intel-xeon-w-3175x-review-28-unlocked-cores-2999-usd

’Metallic wood’ has the strength of titanium and the density of water
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190128125314.htm

New tapes reveal Cambridge Analytica CEO’s boasts of voter suppression
https://www.opendemocracy.net/brexitinc/paul-hilder/they-were-planning-on-stealing-election-explosive-new-tapes-reveal-cambridg

Pathfinding Laboratory
https://github.com/rvhuang/pathfinding-lab

Michigan electric, gas capacity down significantly during polar vortex
https://www.freep.com/story/weather/2019/01/30/consumers-energy-dte-usage-polar-vortex/2724017002/

Our Never Ending ’Scam Season’
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/30/arts/fyre-festival-billy-mcfarland-elizabeth-holmes-anna-delvey.html

Napster: A New Killer Internet App (1999)
https://evolt.org/node/564

YouTube Strikes Now Being Used as Scammers’ Extortion Tool
https://torrentfreak.com/youtube-strikes-now-being-used-as-scammers-extortion-tool/

I Tried to List All Linux Networking Commands and Scripts
https://haydenjames.io/linux-networking-commands-scripts/

Americans got 26.3B robocalls last year, up 46 percent from 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/01/29/report-americans-got-billion-robocalls-last-year-up-percent/

Exclusive Design
https://exclusive-design.vasilis.nl/

Tor’s Open Research Topics (2018)
https://blog.torproject.org/tors-open-research-topics-2018-edition

Hackers Are Passing Around a Megaleak of 2.2B Records
https://www.wired.com/story/collection-leak-usernames-passwords-billions/

Apple employee accused stealing ‘Titan’ trade secrets for a Chinese competitor
https://9to5mac.com/2019/01/30/jizhong-chen-charged-theft-project-titan-trade-secrets/

My blog can’t keep up: 500 errors all over
https://lemire.me/blog/2019/01/31/my-blog-cant-keep-up-500-errors-all-over/

Consciousness as a State of Matter (2015)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.1219

Reducing the pain of developing apps
https://medium.com/@christianalfoni/reducing-the-pain-of-developing-apps-cd10b2e6a83c

Can China Turn the Middle of Nowhere into the Center of the World Economy?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/01/29/magazine/china-globalization-kazakhstan.html

CEOs of Seattle area’s biggest companies: We need more middle-class housing
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/ceos-of-seattle-areas-biggest-companies-we-need-more-housing-for-the-middle-class/

Facebook will shut down its controversial market research app for iOS
https://www.theverge.com/facebook/2019/1/30/18203349/facebook-research-app-apple-shutdown

Mind-Altering Cat Parasite Linked to Schizophrenia in Largest Study Yet
https://www.sciencealert.com/mind-altering-cat-parasite-linked-to-schizophrenia-in-largest-study-yet

Sheryl Sandberg defends Facebook data-collecting app: Users ’knew’
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/30/facebooks-sheryl-sandberg-defends-research-app-says-users-opted-in.html

Facebook doesn’t want to talk about how many people use its app anymore
https://mashable.com/article/facebook-will-stop-disclosing-metrics-for-main-app/#wrBjaaQghaqs

The Roomba lawnmower is finally happening
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/01/the-roomba-lawnmower-is-finally-happening/

Elon Musk wants Teslas to automatically call a tow truck when something breaks
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/elon-musk-wants-teslas-to-automatically-call-a-tow-truck-when-something-breaks/

Lyft and Juno are suing New York City after new minimum wage requirements
https://www.businessinsider.com/lyft-juno-sue-new-york-city-minimum-wage-law-for-drivers-2019-1

Everything You Need to Know About SVG
https://css-tricks.com/lodge/svg/

Show HN: Notable – The markdown-based note-taking app that doesn’t suck
https://github.com/fabiospampinato/notable#readme

Facebook keeps growing despite scandals and privacy outrage
https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/30/18204186/facebook-q4-2018-earnings-user-growth-revenue-increase-privacy-scandals

Show HN: Faker – Struct Data Fake Generator in Go
https://github.com/bxcodec/faker

New Pinebook Pro Will Challenge Google Chromebooks for $199
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/01/30/the-new-pinebook-pro-will-challenge-google-chromebooks-for-199/

BoltDB vs. Badger: A Comparison of Go Key-Value Databases
https://tech.townsourced.com/post/boltdb-vs-badger/

FB soars after hours after beating top and bottom line for Q4 earnings
https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-q4-2018-earnings-2019-1

Microsoft announces record earnings on strong cloud growth
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/FY-2019-Q2/press-release-webcast

Show HN: Quid – try micropayments instead of ads or subscriptions
https://quid.works

Facebook Hires Up Three of Its Biggest Privacy Critics
https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-hires-privacy-critics/

Faucet-pipeline – a framework-independent, pluggable asset pipeline
https://www.faucet-pipeline.org/

Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms (2005) [pdf]
http://www.inference.org.uk/itprnn/book.pdf

Learn How to Listen – One of the hardest parts of being a data scientist
https://towardsdatascience.com/learn-how-to-listen-edaea38fb276

Show HN: Nummberr a random number generator PWA
https://nummberr.com

Docker tutorial for beginners
https://hashnode.com/post/docker-tutorial-for-beginners-cjrj2hg5001s2ufs1nker9he2

Become CEO of this sexy startup for just $1 a month
https://medium.com/@louisbarclay/become-ceo-of-this-sexy-startup-for-just-1-a-month-6f3db6828410

An AI crushed two human pros at StarCraft–but it wasn’t a fair fight
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/01/an-ai-crushed-two-human-pros-at-starcraft-but-it-wasnt-a-fair-fight/

Boffins debunk study showing some languages can be more buggy than others
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/30/programming_bugs/

Google disables app that monitored iPhone usage in violation of Apple’s rules
https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/30/18204350/google-screenwise-app-ios-apple-violation

AMD Talks Datacenter Share Gains as EPYC’s 2X Uplift per Socket Drives Revenue
https://hothardware.com/news/amd-lisa-su-q4-7nm-strength-epyc-double-performance

Why Chicago train tracks are being set on fire
https://www.cnn.com/videos/weather/2019/01/30/chicago-train-tracks-fire-newsource-orig.cnn

Benchmarking 1M C# tasks vs. Go goroutines
https://medium.com/@karl.pickett/benchmarking-a-toy-c-task-vs-a-go-goroutine-is-there-any-difference-248f73f7f7b7

MATCH_RECOGNIZE: Where Flink Sql and Complex Event Processing Meet
https://www.da-platform.com/blog/match_recognize-where-flink-sql-and-complex-event-processing-meet

Most Beautiful Places to Visit in France 2019 France Travel
https://rythere.com/best-most-beautiful-places-visit-france/

All-in-one transparent transistors
https://phys.org/news/2019-01-all-in-one-transparent-transistors.html

Warning Everything Is Going Deep: ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/29/opinion/artificial-intelligence-surveillance.html

How to Walk 100,000 Steps in One Day
https://betterhumans.coach.me/how-to-walk-100-000-steps-in-one-day-5087adbd4569

Intel Open Image Denoise: High-Performance Denoising Library for Ray Tracing
https://openimagedenoise.github.io/

Steam rises off Lake Michigan in Chicago as temps plunge to –23 degrees
https://abc7chicago.com/weather/watch-live-steam-rises-off-lake-michigan-in-chicago-as-temps-plunge/5113047/

The Blazing World
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blazing_World

The UAE’s hacking team of U.S. mercenaries
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-spying-raven-specialreport/special-report-inside-the-uaes-secret-hacking-team-of-u-s-mercenaries-idUKKCN1PO1A6

East Bay Biochemist Sells ‘Gene-Editing Kit’ for the Masses
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/01/29/east-bay-biochemist-sells-gene-editing-kit-for-the-masses/

To Type or Not to Type: Quantifying Detectable Bugs in JavaScript [pdf]
http://ttendency.cs.ucl.ac.uk/projects/type_study/documents/type_study.pdf

The History and Politics of Boredom
https://iai.tv/articles/the-history-and-politics-of-boredom-auid-1208

Bookwheel, the 16th Century Forerunner to the EBook Reader
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/01/bookwheel-16th-century-forerunner-to.html

Chinese spy allegedly caught stealing self-driving car secrets from Apple
http://www.cultofmac.com/603708/chinese-spy-allegedly-caught-stealing-self-driving-car-secrets-from-apple/

Instagram’s new TV service recommended videos of potential child abuse
https://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-tv-service-igtv-recommended-potential-child-abuse-2018-9

Amazon will oppose unionization bids in New York City
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-pol-amazon-city-council-union-workers-20190130-story.html

Simulating blobs of fluid
https://peeke.nl/simulating-blobs-of-fluid

Facebook is predicting if you’ll kill yourself. That’s wrong
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/30/facebook-is-predicting-if-youll-kill-yourself-thats-wrong

Show HN: HFT-Like Trading Algo in 300 Lines of Python
https://medium.com/automation-generation/hft-like-trading-algorithm-in-300-lines-of-code-you-can-run-now-983bede4f13a

Another Apple Engineer Accused of Stealing Autonomous Vehicle Trade Secrets
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Another-Apple-Engineer-Accused-of-Stealing-Autonomous-Vehicle-Trade-Secrets-505055701.html

Tuning Out: What Happens When You Drop Facebook?
https://siepr.stanford.edu/news/drop-facebook

Stanford Course: Computers, Ethics, and Public Policy
http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs181/

Amazon gets Harrison Ford to reveal the grim future of Alexa
https://www.zdnet.com/article/amazon-gets-harrison-ford-to-reveal-the-grim-future-of-alexa/

The FaceTime Bug and the Dangers of Implicit State Machines
https://medium.com/@DavidKPiano/the-facetime-bug-and-the-dangers-of-implicit-state-machines-a5f0f61bdaa2

Show HN: Pimod – Reconfigure Raspberry Pi Images with Docker-Like Configuration
https://github.com/nature40/pimod

An Anti-Facebook Manifesto, by an Early Facebook Investor
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/29/books/review/roger-mcnamee-zucked.html

Lawyer sues Apple, claims FaceTime bug “allowed” recording of deposition
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/01/lawyer-sues-apple-claims-facetime-bug-allowed-recording-of-deposition/

The Rebirth of Groove
https://www.groovehq.com/blog/rebirth-of-groove/?r

CES 2019 Question and Answer Session with AMD CEO, Dr. Lisa Su
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13909/ces-2019-amd-ceo-dr-lisa-su

Show HN: Leave Me Alone – A privacy focused email unsubscription service
https://leavemealone.xyz

Show HN: Remote Presence – faking your presence on Slack
http://www.remotepresence.io

A thread by Stanford Computer Science lecturer regarding Facebook spying methods
https://threader.app/