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best of hacker news

2017-03-06 -draft

[WHAT]

  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

[WHEN]

  1. ] published: 2017-03-07

[EXAMPLE]

  1. [2017-03-06]
    1. ] Snakisms (github.io),SRC=hn(907)/comments(129) 
      1. ] unique little in browser game, choose your -ism, aka capital-ism, stoic-ism, ideal-ism
    2. >tb] Startup School – YC’s Online Class (ycombinator.com) ,SRC=hn(399)/comments(62) 
      1. ] our new online Startup School, with classes beginning on April 5. Anyone can sign up at StartupSchool.org for the 10-week massively open online course (MOOC)(its FREE). We want to teach everyone how to start a startup and help them along the way with guidance from people who’ve started companies. Our goal is to replicate much of the YC experience.
    3. >tb] Snap Tumbles Below IPO Opening Price as Analysts Say Sell (bloomberg.com) ,SRC=hn(332)/comments(202) 
      1. ] On its 3rd day of trading snap share price dropped 12% from the days opening price and fell below the $24 price that it opened at on day 1., Also includes video interview with a stock analyst() assigned to the snap who does not recommend buying it ( the same as all the other analysts assigned to this stock.)
    4. td] Hydrogen – An advanced drum machine for Linux (hydrogen-music.org) ,SRC=hn(#)/comments(#) 
    5. tb] World’s richest doctor gave away millions, then steered the cash to his company (statnews.com) ,SRC=hn(#)/comments(#) 
    6. >td] Ask HN: Who really gives your personal info to Intelius, Instant Checkmate, etc?,SRC=hn(#)/comments(#) 
      1. ] the ? is who is providing the data to these (and other ) data aggragators, that are building huge profiles of information on individuals. 
    7. td] Introducing Google Cloud Container Builder (googleblog.com),SRC=hn(#)/comments(#) 
    8. >tb] ConvertKit: How Nathan Barry Bootstrapped an Email Marketing Business (indiehackers.com),SRC=hn(#)/comments(#) 
    9. tb] German institute successfully tests underwater energy storage sphere (arstechnica.com),SRC=hn(#)/comments(#) 
    10. >td] Some Reflections on Being Turned Down for a Lot of Data Science Jobs (tdhopper.com),SRC=hn(#)/comments(#) 
    11. td] /usr/bin/time: not the command you think you know (hackernoon.com),SRC=hn(#)/comments(#) 
    12. health poli] America’s opioid epidemic is worsening (economist.com),SRC=hn(#)/comments(#) 
    13. tb] Prenda Saga Update: John Steele Pleads Guilty, Admits Entire Scheme (popehat.com),SRC=hn(#)/comments(#) 
    14. tb] Zcoin implementation bug enabled attacker to create over 500K Zcoins (wordpress.com),SRC=hn(#)/comments(#) 
    15. >tb] A right to repair: Why Nebraska farmers are taking on John Deere and Apple (theguardian.com),SRC=hn(#)/comments(#) 
    16. td] Resources about programming practices for writing safety-critical software (github.com),SRC=hn(#)/comments(#)  
    17. td] Spammers expose their entire operation through bad backups (csoonline.com),SRC=hn(#)/comments(#)  
    18. >td] Who controls your computer? and how to make sure it's you (tunes.org),SRC=hn(#)/comments(#)
    19. >tb] Justin Kan: I'm starting a new startup incubator, Zero-F (twitter.com),SRC=hn(#)/comments(#)
      1. ] Kan, formerly founder of twitch,leaving yc partner role, to start a startup incubator. ( small scale, inucbator NOT accelorator/...), will do only a  handful of startups, that have ideas that he is personally interested in pursuing, only 2 people (justin, nick), SRC = askwhale/{id})
      2. ] ALSO = ] betaworks, ] expa, ] 
    20. >tb] Promising Startups (bloomberg.com) ,SRC=hn(#)/comments(#)
      1. ] While venture capitalists often try to assess startups’ potential one by one—at the moment they hear a pitch—some market researchers such as Quid are trying to crunch data on tens of thousands of startups to come up with their own set of best bets. This is the list for 2017.
      2. ] AD invest in canadian startups - > brightspark - 
    21. >td] Ask HN: What books fundamentally changed the way you think about the world?,SRC=hn(198)/comments(135)
      1. ] EX u/MichaelGG - The Selfish Gene. -Getting a solid grounding in how life can arise without, well, magic, shifted my thinking quite a bit. At a low level, life has no inherent meaning, so it's whatever we make of it. For many this is probably obvious, but if you grew up in a rather fundamentalist religious environment, it's quite the change!
    22. tb] Inside the TalkTalk 'Indian scam call centre' (bbc.co.uk),SRC=hn(#)/comments(#)
    23. >td] Design Books for Inspiration (repick.co),SRC=hn(#)/comments(#)

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  1. ] BOOK-technology-stories-2017 - best-of-hacker-news-2017-03 
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