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<h1 style="text-align: center;">best of hacker news</h1>
<h1 style="text-align: center;">2016-06-24</h1>
<h2>[WHAT]</h2>
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<li>] by Don Sagrott founder@sospep.com - a selection of the best posts from the hacker news(HN) community (<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com" target="_blank">news.ycombinator.com</a>)&nbsp;during this period,&nbsp;</li>
<li>]&nbsp;<strong>best of</strong>&nbsp;is determined by community ranking (how many member upvotes the article got) and then curation ( manual selection&nbsp;of {<span style="text-decoration: underline;">interesting&nbsp;topics</span>} by&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline;">me</span>&nbsp;)</li>
<li>] the listed&nbsp;<strong>article title</strong>&nbsp;is linked to the original(source) article,&nbsp;</li>
<li>] the&nbsp;<strong>comments</strong>&nbsp;are linked to the hacker news comments section for each article.&nbsp;These comments/discussions are typically a&nbsp;cut above most website comments sections and are definetely worth checking out for the topics that you are interested int</li>
<li>] The&nbsp;<strong>date</strong>&nbsp;is linked to the&nbsp;<a href="http://jonathandub.in/" target="_blank">Jonathan Dubin's</a>&nbsp;site,&nbsp;<a href="http://waybackhn.com/" target="_blank">Wayback HN</a>&nbsp;which keeps &nbsp;a listing of the top 30 stories by date from the hacker news website.&nbsp;</li>
<li>] The&nbsp;<strong>numbers</strong>&nbsp;beside the comments link, include the # upvotes the article recieved and the number of comments on the article</li>
<li>] the&nbsp;<strong>initials</strong>&nbsp;beside the article title indicate the category the article belongs, too, see the [categories legend] linked below&nbsp;to decipher what categories the initials represent</li>
<li>] SUMMARY, ANALYSIS, REVIEW ... - links are articles that Summarize, Analyze, Review the content</li>
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<h2>[WHY]</h2>
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<li>] a curated selection of&nbsp;<strong>the most interesting/relevant content*</strong>&nbsp;(for {subject}) , organized by date and category</li>
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<h2>[WHERE]</h2>
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<li>] #&nbsp;5154 -&nbsp;<a href="/view/article?id=5154" target="_blank">LEGENDS-article-links</a>&nbsp;- the CATEGORIES&nbsp;LEGEND&nbsp;defines the CATEGORY initials, example the initials&nbsp;'td' = technology-developer, ] the hightlighted colors legend tells you what the variously highlighted color items mean and the STATUS LEGEND defines what actions have/will be taken with the article</li>
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<h2>[WHEN]</h2>
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<li>] 2016-09-05</li>
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<h2>[EXAMPLE]</h2>
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<li><strong>[<a href="http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2016-06-24" target="_blank">2016-06-24</a>]</strong></li>
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<li>poli] <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/06/24/the-british-are-frantically-googling-what-the-eu-is-hours-after-voting-to-leave-it/?campaign_id=A100&amp;campaign_type=Email" target="_blank">The British are Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it</a><span class="sitebit comhead"> (washingtonpost.com)</span>, SRC=hn(413)/<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11970344" target="_blank">comments</a>(568)&nbsp;</li>
<li>&gt; td] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11971491" target="_blank">Ask HN: What is your go-to example for a good REST API?</a> SRC=hn(401)/<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11971491" target="_blank">comments</a>(182)&nbsp;</li>
<li>tb] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11972135" target="_blank">I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA</a>, SRC=hn(352)/<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11972135" target="_blank">comments</a>(365)&nbsp;</li>
<li>td] <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/finding-atm-skimmer-pays-paranoid-benjamin-tedesco-gcih-pmp" target="_blank">Finding an ATM Skimmer: It pays to be paranoid</a><span class="sitebit comhead"> (linkedin.com) </span>, SRC=hn(241)/<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11973491" target="_blank">comments</a>(138)&nbsp;</li>
<li>tb td] <a href="https://www.mirantis.com/blog/infrastructure-software-is-dead/" target="_blank">Infrastructure Software is Dead</a><span class="sitebit comhead"> (mirantis.com)</span>, SRC=hn(228)/<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11974922" target="_blank">comments</a>(134)&nbsp;] Boris Yensk @mirantis.com comments on the state of infrastructure software, which he feels is generally bad, shares his thoughts on how his company is able to succeed by delivring "solutions"</li>
<li>&gt; life] <a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/06/24/481859662/invisibilia-is-your-personality-fixed-or-can-you-change-who-you-are" target="_blank">Is your personality fixed, or can you change who you are?</a><span class="sitebit comhead"> (npr.org) </span>, SRC=hn(206)/<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11973888" target="_blank">comments</a>(124)&nbsp;</li>
<li>td] <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/06/from-file-sharing-to-prison-a-megaupload-programmer-tells-his-story/" target="_blank">From file-sharing to prison: A Megaupload programmer tells his story</a><span class="sitebit comhead"> (arstechnica.com)</span>, SRC=hn(176)/<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11969686" target="_blank">comments</a>(80)&nbsp;</li>
<li>td] <a href="http://ronjeffries.com/articles/016-0607/yaks/" target="_blank">My God, it's full of yaks</a><span class="sitebit comhead"> (ronjeffries.com), SRC=hn(184)/<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11971721" target="_blank">comments</a>(113) - jeffries experience setting up a simple web app on google app engine.</span></li>
<li>&gt; diet] <a href="http://petergiuliano.tumblr.com/post/22177089634/why-you-should-stop-cold-brewing-and-use-the" target="_blank">The Japanese Iced Coffee Method (2012)</a><span class="sitebit comhead"> (tumblr.com) </span>, SRC=hn(170)/<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11969938" target="_blank">comments</a>(127)&nbsp;</li>
<li>poli tb] <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-24/doom-gloom-and-unease-london-s-tech-scene-reacts-to-brexit" target="_blank">Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit</a><span class="sitebit comhead"> (bloomberg.com) </span>, SRC=hn(155)/<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11971917" target="_blank">comments</a>(384)&nbsp;</li>
<li>poli] <a href="https://medium.com/mosquito-ridge/brexit-wins-an-illusion-dies-b60b6efad2d7#.crbik48mx" target="_blank">Brexit wins. An illusion dies</a><span class="sitebit comhead"> (medium.com)</span>, SRC=hn(129)/<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11968573" target="_blank">comments</a>(223)&nbsp;</li>
<li>poli] <a href="https://medium.com/@RachelHeller/https-medium-com-rachelheller-why-i-renounced-my-us-citizenship-e1f77b1969ce#.ml4ags1ed" target="_blank">I renounced my US citizenship</a><span class="sitebit comhead"> (medium.com)</span>, SRC=hn(128)/<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11973401" target="_blank">comments</a>(81)&nbsp;Rachel Heller, an American citizen living in the Netherlands for the past 18 years, who&nbsp;still loves to be "American", &nbsp;explains her reasoning on renouncing her US citizenship&nbsp;&nbsp;- ] Because of unjust, onerous US laws that treat me like a suspected criminal: entitled to fewer rights than other Americans. ] by living abroad, we are automatically suspected of breaking federal laws to avoid taxes. The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), passed in 2010 and in effect since 2014, was intended to catch &ldquo;tax cheats&rdquo;: billionaires living in the US who send their money abroad to hide it from the IRS. The problem is that people like me, who have moved abroad for jobs or for love, are persecuted as a consequence of that effort</li>
<li>td] <a href="https://www.online.net/en/c14" target="_blank">C14 &ndash; Cheap, secure long term cloud storage</a><span class="sitebit comhead">&nbsp;(online.net) , SRC=hn(116)/<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11969541" target="_blank">comments</a>(108)</span></li>
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<h2>[HOW-TO]</h2>
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<h2>[REFERENCE]</h2>
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<li>]&nbsp;<a href="/view/chapters?id=314" target="_blank">BOOK-technology-stories-2016</a>&nbsp;-&nbsp;<a href="/view/articles?id=1073" target="_blank">best-of-hacker-news-2016-06</a></li>
<li>] CREATE-article# # -&nbsp;<a href="/view/task?id=6167" target="_blank">best-of-hacker-news-2016-06-dd</a></li>
<li>] , SRC=hn(#)/<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11859395" target="_blank">comments</a>(#)&nbsp;</li>
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