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best of hacker news

2017-01-01 -draft

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  1. ] by Don Sagrott founder@sospep.com - a selection of the best posts from the hacker news(HN) community (news.ycombinator.com) during this period, Read this article for a detailed description of how we curate, categorize, summarize/analyze/review the content. 

[WHY]

  1. ] a curated selection of the most interesting/relevant content* (for {subject}) , organized by date and category

[WHERE]

  1. ] # 5154 - LEGENDS-article-links - the CATEGORIES LEGEND defines the CATEGORY initials, example the initials '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

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  1. ] 2017-01-dd

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  1. [2017-01-01]
    1. td] The moving sofa problem (ucdavis.edu) ,SRC=hn(#)/comments(#) 
      1. ] The mathematician Leo Moser posed in 1966 the following curious mathematical problem: what is the shape of largest area in the plane that can be moved around a right-angled corner in a two-dimensional hallway of width 1? This question became known as the moving sofa problem, and is still unsolved fifty years after it was first asked.
    2. tb] What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2017 (duke.edu) ,SRC=hn(#)/comments(#) 
      1. ] Current US law extends copyright for 70 years after the date of the author’s death, and corporate “works-for-hire” are copyrighted for 95 years after publication. But prior to the 1976 Copyright Act (which became effective in 1978), the maximum copyright term was 56 years—an initial term of 28 years, renewable for another 28 years. Under those laws, works published in 1960 would enter the public domain on January 1, 2017, where they would be “free as the air to common use.” Under current copyright law, we’ll have to wait until 2056.1 And no published works will enter our public domain until 2019. The laws in other countries are different—thousands of works are entering the public domain in Canada and the EU on January 1.
    3. sw] OpenStreetMap plugin for Unreal Engine 4 (github.com),SRC=hn(#)/comments(#) 
      1. ] This plugin allows you to import OpenStreetMap XML data into your Unreal Engine 4 project as a new StreetMap asset type. You can use the example Street Map Component to render streets and buildings.
    4. td] How I Write Tests (nelhage.com) ,SRC=hn(#)/comments(#) 
      1. ] The longer I spend as a software engineer, the more obsessive I get about testing. I fully subscribe to the definition of legacy code as “code without an automated test suite.” I’m convinced that the best thing you can do to encourage fast progress in a test suite is to design for testing and have a fast, reliable, comprehensive test suite.
    5. >td] The Developer Marketing Guide (devmarketingguide.com),SRC=hn(#)/comments(#) 
      1. YOU’VE GOT A GREAT PRODUCT, LET'S GET THE WORD OUT. In this Developer Marketing Guide, you’ll learn about essential content types with Danielle Morrill (Mattermark), distribution plans with Craig Kerstiens (Heroku) and the effectiveness of retargeting with John Sheehan (Runscope).
    6. >diet] [SUMMARY] A Month Without Sugar (nytimes.com) ,SRC=hn(282)/comments(229) *
      1. It is in chicken stock, sliced cheese, bacon and smoked salmon, in mustard and salad dressing, in crackers and nearly every single brand of sandwich bread. It is all around us — in obvious ways and hidden ones — and it is utterly delicious.Our national sugar habit is the driving force behind the diabetes and obesity epidemics and may be a contributing factor to cancer and Alzheimer’s.
    7. poli] New evidence that Nixon sabotaged 1968 Vietnam peace deal (nytimes.com),SRC=hn(#)/comments(#) 
      1. ] 
    8. td] Recreating 3D renderings in real life (skrekkogle.com) ,SRC=hn(#)/comments(#) 
      1. ] 'Still File' is a series of 4 photographs recreating computer renderings as physical scenes. The photos' artifacts, surroundings, camera settings and lighting has been shaped intending to resemble 3d graphics of different types.
    9. tb] Why do traders in investment banks feel their jobs are immune from AI, etc? (quora.com),SRC=hn(#)/comments(#) 
      1. ] This is not entirely true. However, No amount or greater sophistication of the algorithmic structures listed above, can replace genuine human nuance, interaction and trust.
    10. td] Shell scripts to improve your writing (might.net) ,SRC=hn(#)/comments(#) 
      1. ] OP advice to his PHD students on better writing, created in a shell script. Script is addressing the problems of - ] abuse of the passive voice, ] weasel words, and ] lexical illusions. While there are exceptions to every rule, OP wants students to be conscious of these choices when using them.
    11. td edu] Ask HN: How to learn new things better?,SRC=hn(#)/comments(#) 
      1. ] hn discusses learning to learn - recommends include coursera's Learning to learn course, books like ..., apps like duolingo for learning languages, and sage advice from users like adpoe
    12. td] DCCP: a new transport layer protocol which draws from TCP and UDP (anmolsarma.in) ,SRC=hn(#)/comments(#) 
    13. life] Ask HN: If you could live and work somewhere, where would it be?  ,SRC=hn(#)/comments(#) 
    14. hw] Ask HN: Why are flash memory prices going down so much faster than RAM?,SRC=hn(#)/comments(#) 
    15. td] CakeML – A Verified Implementation of ML (cakeml.org),SRC=hn(#)/comments(#) 
    16. poli] $2T in Proceeds of Corruption Removed from China and Taken to US, AUS, CAN, NL (antimoneylaunderinglaw.com), SRC=hn(#)/comments(#)
      1. ] Staggering numbers on the amount of money leaving China, according to the Bank of China. 
    17. td] Daily Sketches in 2016 (medium.com) ,SRC=hn(#)/comments(#)
      1. ] In 2016 I started an experiment of doing daily sketches in the form of short animations posted on instagram. In these sketches I tried out different visual ideas involving geometry, animation, gesture and graphic form. 
    18. trans] NYC's brand new subway is the most expensive in the world (vox.com) ,SRC=hn(#)/comments(#) 
      1. ]  Today, New York City is celebrating the opening of the first phase of the Second Avenue Subway, a project that’s been anticipated for nearly a century and that’s sorely needed to relieve overcrowding on the Lexington Avenue lines and to extend access to some very densely populated neighborhoods. The plan is go go further .... BUT ... even with $1 billion currently allocated in the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s capital budget for phase two, it’s still short of the $6 billion that’s going to be needed. The shame of it is that by the standards of other major world cities, the $1 billion the MTA already has budgeted should be plenty.
    19. td sw] TiDB – A distributed NewSQL database compatible with MySQL protocol (github.com) ,SRC=hn(#)/comments(#)
      1. ] a distributed SQL database. Inspired by the design of Google F1, TiDB supports the best features of both traditional RDBMS and NoSQL. Features include ] horizontal scalability, ] Asynchronious Schema changes, ] Consistent Distributed Transactions, ] MySql protocol compatible, ] multiple storage engin support. 
    20. tb trans] Tesla Rolling Out Autopilot Software Updates to 1000 Cars (bloomberg.com) ,SRC=hn(#)/comments(#)
      1. ] Move brings Elon Musk’s vehicles closer to full self-driving (AutoPilot 1) Company has collected 1.3 billion miles of Autopilot data. All Tesla cars produced since October 2014 have Autopilot hardware
    21. >td] How I converted my React app to VanillaJS (hackernoon.com) ,SRC=hn(#)/comments(#)
      1. ] This is a long and winding tale (with lots of code) of my attempts replicate JSX syntax, component structure, server-side rendering, and React’s update magic with VanillaJS.
    22. >] Five Year Mission (blogspot.com)  ,SRC=hn(#)/comments(#) 
      1. ] Five years ago I started Red Blob Games to help game developers with interactive tutorials and also to make my own games. I had already been interested in interactive tutorials since 2004 and likely even earlier than that, but it wasn't something I had spent much time on. I
    23. tb health] Be Healthy or Else: How Corporations Became Obsessed with Fitness Tracking (backchannel.com)  ,SRC=hn(#)/comments(#) 
      1. ] Employers, which have long been nickel and diming workers to lower their costs, now have a new tactic to combat these growing costs. They call it “wellness.” It involves growing surveillance, in­cluding lots of data pouring in from the Internet of Things?—?the Fitbits, Apple Watches, and other sensors that relay updates on how our bodies are functioning. 

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