2018 Archive
9481.
A group of techies is using data skills to alter Seattle's housing affordability (politico.com)
9482.
Restaurants are figuring out how to do without servers (nytimes.com)
9483.
Could Microsoft release a desktop Linux? (zdnet.com)
9484.
Ask HN: Can engineers from Google or Facebook solve whiteboard questions easily?
9485.
F-35 Program Cutting Corners to “Complete” Development (pogo.org)
9486.
Bankruptcy Booms Among Older Americans (nytimes.com)
9487.
Google vs. Google: How Nonstop Political Arguments Rule Its Workplace (wsj.com)
9488.
‘Moderate’ drinking guidelines are too loose, study says (washingtonpost.com)
9489.
What’s So Dangerous About Jordan Peterson? (chronicle.com)
9490.
Why standard Indonesian is not spoken throughout Indonesia (bbc.com)
9491.
Germany plans €3B in AI investments (reuters.com)
9492.
Why the Future of Data Storage Is Still Magnetic Tape (spectrum.ieee.org)
9493.
Adobe to Acquire Magento (magento.com)
9494.
Mistakes to avoid when asking for a raise (hpe.com)
9495.
In a society obsessed with success, how do we come to terms with failure? (theglobeandmail.com)
9496.
The Meta-Problem of Consciousness [pdf] (philpapers.org)
9497.
NASA is bringing cryosleep chambers out of fiction (syfy.com)
9498.
Leslie Lamport Tells Mathematicians How to Write Proofs (2014) (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
9499.
The intolerable rise of perfectionism (theguardian.com)
9500.
Parents in poorer countries devote more time to their kids' homework (economist.com)
9501.
American companies are suppressing wages for many workers (mobile.nytimes.com)
9502.
Real world 4G vs. 5G test shows 14x bandwidth increase (react-etc.net)
9503.
People’s egos get bigger after meditation and yoga, says a new study (qz.com)
9504.
GCC 8.2 Released (gcc.gnu.org)
9505.
Tesla Accused of Deception in Promoting Autopilot (bloomberg.com)
9506.
The Most Effective Weapon on the Modern Battlefield Is Concrete (2016) (mwi.usma.edu)
9507.
When banks abandoned American Samoa, the islands found a solution: public banks (washingtonpost.com)
9508.
How Europeans evolved white skin (2015) (sciencemag.org)
9509.
CIA new nominee director Gina Haspel ran a torture site and destroyed evidence (qz.com)
9510.
Lax regulation made it cheaper for China to outsource pork production to the US (rollingstone.com)