February 2019 Archive
2431.
Japanese women push back against Valentine's tradition of 'obligation chocolate' (theguardian.com)
2432.
People love Facebook so much they wouldn’t quit unless we paid them a lot (washingtonpost.com)
2433.
Converting objects to hash signatures in JavaScript (kuby.ca)
2434.
Schumer and Sanders: Limit Corporate Stock Buybacks (nytimes.com)
2435.
Can Big Science Be Too Big? (nytimes.com)
2436.
House Votes to Halt Aid for Saudi Arabia’s War in Yemen (nytimes.com)
2437.
Amazon Is the Invisible Backbone Behind ICE’s Immigration Crackdown (technologyreview.com)
2438.
Digital exchange loses $137M as founder takes passwords to the grave (arstechnica.com)
2439.
Uber released Ludwig, a deep learning toolbox where hardly any coding skill (uber.github.io)
2440.
Biological sex shapes tumour evolution across cancer types (nature.com)
2441.
Trump likely to sign executive order banning Chinese telecom equipment next week (politico.com)
2442.
Surveillance Capitalism as Threat to Democracy (nymag.com)
2443.
Ask HN: How did you improve your problem-solving skills?
2444.
Letter of Recommendation: Color Blind Pal (nytimes.com)
2445.
Intel Confirms Non-Volatile MRAM Is Being Produced with High Yield (techspot.com)
2446.
Book Summary: Blitzscaling, by Reid Hoffman (allencheng.com)
2447.
New-Age Bullshit Generator (2014) (sebpearce.com)
2448.
Anand Giridharadas on the fallacy of billionaire philanthropy (ft.com)
2449.
Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950) [pdf] (academic.oup.com)
2450.
The Junk Science of the Abortion Lobby (mindmatters.ai)
2451.
Manipulating an Indian politicians’s tweets is worryingly easy to do (techcrunch.com)
2452.
A Visit to the Site of Plato's Academy (nytimes.com)
2453.
Wisconsin’s Disastrous $4.5B Deal with Foxconn (bloomberg.com)
2454.
Lessons Learned for Project Managers (llis.nasa.gov)
2455.
Jeff Bezos says National Enquirer is threatening to publish his nude photos (theverge.com)
2456.
Bad Words for Describing Software Products (gkogan.co)
2457.
Relevant Xkcd (thomaspark.co)
2458.
Parents at centre of measles outbreak didn't vaccinate children (cbc.ca)
2459.
Race, Genes, and IQ (1995) (bostonreview.net)
2460.
What's the right amount of swap space for a modern Linux system? (opensource.com)