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  1. Experiential Reinforcement Learning (arxiv.org)
    3 points 0
  2. Generating graphs from the marcel command line (marceltheshell.org)
    1 points 1
  3. Marcel, the pythonic shell, now has workspaces (marceltheshell.org)
    2 points 1
  4. San Francisco’s Millennium Tower is still sinking (theguardian.com)
    33 points 10
  5. Show HN: Marcel – A Modern Shell

    Marcel is a shell. It is intended to be familiar to anyone who knows bash, but it emphasizes piping objects between commands, instead of strings. E.g., to explore the current directory recursively and find files changed…

    6 points 0
  6. Leak of New MBP Specs (zdnet.com)
    2 points 0
  7. Reality Distortion Field 2.0 (github.com)
    1 points 0
  8. Ask HN: Working environment with Mac and Linux

    I have an MBP with a Linux VM. My monitor is a Thunderbolt display. I would like to change to the following environment: - Add a Linux laptop (looking seriously at a System 76 Galago Pro). - Keep the MBP for Mac…

    1 points 3
  9. Ask HN: Old CS lecturer looking for advice from current and recent students

    I am 61, with an academic background in computer science, and many years in industry, mostly startups. I taught many years ago, and have resumed teaching, a database course: data modeling, relational algebra, SQL,…

    392 points 182
  10. Use of dependency theory and normal forms in the real world

    I have many years of experience as a software engineer, and have worked extensively with databases, mostly Oracle and Postgres. I use what might charitably be called an informal design methodology for database schemas.…

    1 points 0
  11. What privacy does a VPN actually provide?

    I am an American, and dismayed (but not surprised) that the US Congress voted to allow ISPs to cash in on data derived from my usage of the internet. Supposedly VPNs solve this problem. What does this hide other than my…

    2 points 6
  12. Manhattan DA Wants Apple to Remove iPhone Encryption (mashable.com)
    3 points 2
  13. End of the line for MacBook Pro

    For nearly ten years, my entire computing environment has been a MBP with a Linux VM. OSX was an excellent end user (non dev) environment (music, photos, video), Linux is my preferred dev environment, and VMWare…

    21 points 8
  14. 5th amendment loophole: fingerprint != passcode (dailyherald.com)
    8 points 1
  15. Snail mail DOS attack

    So I'm going to be traveling for a few days, and I want my snail mail held by the post office. I found that the USPS has an extremely convenient website for stopping mail: https://holdmail.usps.com/holdmail. I entered…

    4 points 0
  16. SHA-1 may be vulnerable (docs.google.com)
    2 points 0
  17. Tres Comas Tequila (tequilatrescomas.com)
    1 points 0
  18. New NSA Whistleblower Reveals Legal Basis for NSA Spying on Citizens (theatlantic.com)
    9 points 1
  19. Nader Engheta (en.wikipedia.org)
    1 points 0
  20. The NRAs database of gun owners (buzzfeed.com)
    1 points -1
  21. SpaceSuit: Spatial queries for any SQL database (github.com)
    2 points 0
  22. Erdo: A new Java key/value store (github.com)
    1 points 0
  23. Possible explanation of speed of light (arxiv.org)
    2 points 0
  24. Object Shell (github.com)
    1 points 0
  25. What about the traditional MacBook Pros

    We all know that the Retina-enabled MBPs are not upgradable. What about the more traditional model? I believe that, for the first time, there are no RAM options. It's 4 or 8GB depending on the model. Is this a sign that…

    1 points 3