August 2020 Archive
1861.
Bitcoin-collateralized loans coming to Coinbase (coinbase.com)
1862.
Prevent person-to-person transmission of SARS-CoV-2 (thelancet.com)
1863.
Shadow traffic: site visits that are not captured by typical analytics providers (blog.parse.ly)
1864.
Learn Functional Programming Design from Redux (pitayan.com)
1865.
How to Start A Niche Content Site (simonblogs.com)
1866.
Internal USPS Documents Outline Plans to Hobble Mail Sorting (vice.com)
1867.
ARX, Arthur and RISC OS (2012) (rougol.jellybaby.net)
1868.
Effective Airflow Development (curology.com)
1869.
UFC Pirate Ordered to Pay $32m in Damages Says He Was Bullied and Paid Nothing (torrentfreak.com)
1870.
New Jersey police are pressing felony charges for retweeting an officer’s photo (theverge.com)
1871.
Datasaurus: Never trust summary statistics; visualize your data (2016) (thefunctionalart.com)
1872.
Lucid – the origin story (billwadge.wordpress.com)
1873.
Robotic Manipulation (Online Textbook) (manipulation.csail.mit.edu)
1874.
Scale-Free Vertical Tracking Microscopy, a.k.a. Gravity Machine (gravitymachine.org)
1875.
Ann Syrdal, Who Helped Give Computers a Female Voice, Dies at 74 (nytimes.com)
1876.
SpaceX: Good Splashdown of Dragon Confirmed (twitter.com)
1877.
A guide to Semantic Segmentation (nanonets.com)
1878.
Ubuntu Snap auto updates broke my development setup, can't turn them off (raymii.org)
1879.
“Japanese Lindberghs” Made a 10k Mile-Flight in 1937 (airspacemag.com)
1880.
An Anecdote About ML Type Inference (1994) (web.archive.org)
1881.
The Mega-Tsunami of July 9, 1958 in Lituya Bay, Alaska (1999) (drgeorgepc.com)
1882.
Setting out for calls and conferences (dino.im)
1883.
Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a prank (1989) (stokely.com)
1884.
Windows new feature: Access your Android phone’s apps directly from your PC (blogs.windows.com)
1885.
U.S. Government Contractor Embedded Software in Apps to Track Phones (wsj.com)
1886.
If nearly 40% of Americans aren’t working, what are they doing? (2015) (qz.com)
1887.
Adding a metre between meals boosts vegetarian appeal – study (cam.ac.uk)
1888.
App stores, trust and anti-trust (ben-evans.com)
1889.
Ask HN: Is it legal for US companies to hire remote non-US contractors?
1890.
AI Assistants Have Poor Usability: Study of Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri (2018) (nngroup.com)