Friday, August 18, 2017

Hacker Newsletter #365

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Issue #365 // August 18, 2017 // View in your browser

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#Favorites


Ad blocking is under attack
//adguard comments

I Fell Victim to a $1,500 Used Camera Lens Scam on Amazon
//petapixel comments

Show HN: A stop-motion video of an engine
//howacarworks comments

An Intro to Compilers
//nicoleorchard comments

Annual note to self: most of the world exists outside the tech bubble
//steveblank comments

I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of the Links Worked
//vice comments

Side Project Marketing Checklist
//sideprojectchecklist comments

HyperCard On The Archive
//archive comments

Assume positive intent
//rickmanelius comments

Britain's Forgotten Bike Highways
//citylab comments

#Featured


Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo //ycombinator comments

I'm an Ex-Google Woman Tech Leader and I'm Sick of Our Approach to Diversity //medium comments

As a Woman in Tech, I Realized: These Are Not My People //bloomberg comments

An 80s Girl Talks About Computers: A Reminiscence //medium comments

#Ask HN


Is Georgia Tech's Online Master in CS Worth It?

What mistakes in your experience does management keep making?

Which companies give programmers offices?

Have you successfully moved away from Google search?

#Show HN


Essential Phone, available now //essential comments

Extension-blocking domains removed by threat from other blacklists //github comments

Time.gif //hookrace comments

Lambda School – CS education that's free until you get a job //ycombinator

Puppeteer: Headless Chrome Node API //github comments

How to program an NES game in C //nesdoug comments

Mathcha – Online Mathematics Editor //mathcha comments

Wekan: An open-source Trello-like kanban //github comments

Play rock-paper-scissors against your computer via webcam, neural nets //tenso comments

Build your own Linux //buildyourownlinux comments

#Code


APIs as infrastructure: future-proofing Stripe with versioning //stripe comments

How Postgres Makes Transactions Atomic //brandur comments

Afraid of Makefiles? Don't be //matthias-endler comments

A Review of Perl 6 //evanmiller comments

#Data


DeepMind and Blizzard Open StarCraft II as an AI Research Environment //deepmind comments

Ask HN: What free resources did you use to learn how to program ML/AI? //ycombinator

Effective Tensorflow //github comments

Deeplearning.ai: Announcing New Deep Learning Courses on Coursera //medium comments

How I Used Deep Learning to Train a Chatbot to Talk Like Me //github comments

#Longreads


A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her to Work by 7 A.M //nytimes comments

Hard Lessons in Living Off the Grid //longreads comments

#Design


SVG can do that? //slides comments

Bootstrap 4 Beta //getbootstrap comments

#Learn


Four Earth-sized planets detected orbiting the nearest sun-like star //ucsc comments

The Kolmogorov option //scottaaronson comments

Crown shyness //wikipedia comments

Papers I like //fgiesen comments

Why Germans pay cash for almost everything //qz comments

Metallic Glass Gears for NASA Robots //tribonet comments

#Books


Free Classic Books by MIT Press on Archive.org //openculture comments

Galaxy Magazine: Free Texts //archive comments

Worldbuilding //projectrho comments

#Watching


Japan's 'golden coder' making games apps aged 82 //bbc comments

Python Multithreading for Beginners //youtube comments

A trick to visualizing higher dimensions //youtube comments

#Working


A note on programmer salaries //stephaniehurlburt comments

How to Pick Your Next Gig: Evaluating Startups //samvitjain comments

#Fun


The Sims Game Design Documents //donhopkins comments

BYTE Magazine's Lisp issue (1979) [pdf] //archive comments

Dwarf Fortress starting during apt-get upgrade //askubuntu comments

Gorillaz – Andromeda Music Video in WebGL //yagiz comments

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