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Issue #380 // December 08, 2017

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# FAVORITES

Things Many People Find Too Obvious to Have Told You Already //threadreaderapp comments

“I fell down a bit of a ruins research rabbit-hole” //twitter comments

As a solo developer, I decided to offer phone support //plumshell comments

Initial Release of Mozilla’s Open Source Speech Recognition Model and Voice Data //mozilla comments

Debugging an evil Go runtime bug //marcan comments

Ciao, Chrome: Firefox Quantum Is the Browser Built for 2017 //wired comments

A Classic Extension Reborn: Tree Style Tab //mozilla comments

Advent of Code 2017 //adventofcode comments

Coinbase: The Heart of the Bitcoin Frenzy //nytimes comments

Postmortem: Every Frame a Painting //medium comments

# ASK HN

CS papers for software architecture and design? //ycombinator

Huge enterprise customer wants to see our source code //ycombinator

Time Management Tricks and Tips //ycombinator

Is there a fitness wristband that is hackable? //ycombinator

# SHOW HN

PostgreSQL Exercises //pgexercises comments

Simplified and community-driven man pages //tldr comments

Discover, Listen and Discuss Classical Music //classicalmusiconly comments

CoderPad – Interviewing Platform for Programmers //indiehackers comments

Vision Kit – An image recognition device that can see and identify objects //withgoogle comments

Gofpdf: Generate PDFs from Go with No Dependencies //github comments

Pixelmator Pro released //pixelmator comments

Echo Podcasts – Goodreads for podcasts //echopodcasts comments

ddgr - search DuckDuckGo from your terminal //github comments

# CODE

Django 2.0 released //djangoproject comments

Parcel – A fast, zero configuration web application bundler //parceljs comments

Clojure Design Patterns //mishadoff comments

Introduction to R Programming //github comments

Golang DNS server, including DNSSEC and DNS-over-TLS //github comments

Git hash function transition plan //github comments

A Year of Developer Journals with jrnl.sh //rickcarlino comments

PHP 7.2.0 Released //php comments

Merchant.js, a state framework for creating idle games //github comments

# DATA

Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinforcement Learning //arxiv comments

Neural Networks in JavaScript with Deeplearn.js //robinwieruch comments

Using Artificial Intelligence to Augment Human Intelligence //distill comments

Amazon Macie: A machine learning service to discover and protect sensitive data //amazon comments

# DESIGN

How Stripe Designs Websites //leejamesrobinson comments

Are statecharts the next big UI paradigm? //slideshare comments

How We’re Designing Channels //stackoverflow comments

# LEARN

A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes English-Speakers to Learn Foreign Languages //openculture comments

The secret world below Chicago //bbc comments

Beer distribution game //wikipedia comments

# BOOKS

Books I read this year //gatesnotes comments

Motel Living and Slowly Dying //lareviewofbooks comments

Algorithm Design: Parallel and Sequential //parallel-algorithms-book comments

The Model Book of Calligraphy (1561–1596) //publicdomainreview comments

Reddit's favorite programming books, from 3.5B comments //redditfavorites comments

Books from Phoenix Inside Out series //shankardevy comments

Free Data Ebook Archive //oreilly comments

Ask HN: Best books you read in 2017? //ycombinator

# WATCHING

Capsule Networks Tutorial //youtube comments

The 77-Year-Old Artist Who ‘Paints’ Japanese Landscapes with Excel //thisiscolossal comments

# WORKING

Ask HN: Who is hiring? //ycombinator

The compelling case for working less //bbc comments

My offer numbers from big companies //teamblind comments

Ask HN: Who hires mathematicians? //ycombinator

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? //ycombinator

# LONGREADS

I Made My Shed the Top Rated Restaurant on TripAdvisor //vice comments

This Dumb Industry: Wilson Boxes //shamusyoung comments

# FUN

Board games are back, thanks to lessons designers learned from computer games //1843magazine comments

Lightbot: Puzzles Game Using Programming Logic //lightbot comments

SCP-3008: An endless Ikea game //itch comments

Order pizza from Vim //github comments

# CUTTING ROOM FLOOR

Asking members to support journalism, The Guardian raises more revenue than ads //niemanlab comments

Judge Tells Uber Lawyer: ‘It Looks Like You Covered This Up’ //nytimes comments

Stanford University data glitch exposes truth about scholarships //sfchronicle comments

Parents now spend twice as much time with their children as 50 years ago //economist comments

The Best Monitor for Programming: A Cheap 40" 4K TV //masonsimon comments

Charging for our product originally hurt but ultimately saved our startup //medium comments

Evolution of <img>: Gif without the GIF //perfplanet comments

Linux Journal Ceases Publication //linuxjournal comments

WeWork is going to acquire Meetup //crunchbase comments

Philadelphia write-in candidate: I won with one vote //thehill comments

$40 road tolls offer insight into commuter psychology //ggwash comments

Yelp Wi-Fi //yelpwifi comments

Off-Main-Thread painting //mozillagfx comments

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