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Issue #312 // August 05, 2016

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# FAVORITES

Why we lost Uber as a user //postgresql comments

Crystal: Fast as C, Slick as Ruby //codeship comments

Show HN: Noms – A new decentralized database based on ideas from Git //medium comments

Why aren’t we using SSH for everything? //medium comments

The Inner Json Effect //thedailywtf comments

Why I stopped hacking the Amazon Dash button and learned to solder //medium comments

List of IPython Notebooks by Peter Norvig //norvig comments

Solar Shed Summary: My Off Grid Office //syonyk comments

Paint drip people, a successor to T-shaped people //facebook comments

The headless web //kinlan comments

# ASK HN

What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment? //ycombinator

How do I write a resume after five years of a startup? //ycombinator

What's on your RSS reader? //ycombinator

# SHOW HN

Docker for Mac and Windows Is Now Generally Available and Ready for Production //docker comments

Sharingbuttons.io – Fast and easy social media sharing buttons //sharingbuttons comments

Interactive Dynamic Video //interactivedynamicvideo comments

Apple – Every Second //everysecond comments

Amium – A better way to collaborate //amium comments

Sublime Enhanced //github comments

Gesture controlled Smart Mirror //github comments

Heartbeat – Transform REST Endpoints to Streaming APIs //appbase comments

Behind the Tower: New Histories of the UT Tower Shootings //behindthetower comments

# CODE

MNIST Handwritten Digit Classifier – beginner neural network project //github comments

Using Code Snippets in Chrome Developer Tools //alexkras comments

Example-Driven Development //wilfred comments

FastText – Library for fast text representation and classification //github comments

Image-diff – Create an image differential between two images //github comments

# LEARN

The Diolkos: an ancient Greek paved trackway enabling boats to be moved overland //wikipedia comments

The History of Email //eager comments

Closed city //wikipedia comments

# BOOKS

How to Read a Book [pdf] //umich comments

Haskell Data Analysis and Machine Learning Cookbook //haskelldata comments

Tips from the Pragmatic Programmer (2000) //pragprog comments

Why Economic Growth Will Fall //nybooks comments

# WATCHING

Raw footage of the Japanese games industry //gamasutra comments

Bret Victor, Inventing on Principle (2012) //youtube comments

Skydiver jumps from 25,000ft without a parachute, lands in a net //youtube comments

# WORKING

Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About Previous Pay //nytimes comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? //ycombinator

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? //ycombinator

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? //ycombinator

Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer //freecodecamp comments

# FUN

Scythe, the most-hyped board game of 2016, delivers //arstechnica comments

Tom Hanks on Typewriters //nytimes comments

# CUTTING ROOM FLOOR

We Should Not Accept Scientific Results That Have Not Been Repeated //nautil comments

Habits of highly mathematical people //medium comments

Alan Kay on AI, Apple and Future //factordaily comments

Google’s QUIC protocol: moving the web from TCP to UDP //ttias comments

The vanishing civility: The game of jerks, bozos and assholes //stactivist comments

FreeBSD Myths //freebsd comments

When tenure never comes //thewalrus comments

More microbursts are coming //bloomberg comments

What It’s Like to Live in the World’s Most Polluted City //nationalgeographic comments

A curated list of AWS resources to prepare for all AWS Certifications //github comments

23andMe Pulls Off Massive Crowdsourced Depression Study //technologyreview comments

Food Startup Ran Undercover Project to Buy Up Its Own Products //bloomberg comments

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