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1.		Why governments have overestimated the economic returns of higher education (economist.com)
		123 points by denzil_correa 1 hour ago \| hide \| 95 comments
2.		Unnecessary medical care is harming patients physically and financially (2015) (newyorker.com)
		237 points by oftenwrong 5 hours ago \| hide \| 200 comments
3.		Understanding word vectors in NLP (github.com)
		121 points by jxub 5 hours ago \| hide \| 31 comments
4.		Wing Commander II (filfre.net)
		12 points by doppp 46 minutes ago \| hide \| discuss
5.		The Role of Luck in Life Success (scientificamerican.com)
		79 points by kevinyen 1 hour ago \| hide \| 44 comments
6.		Icelandic language battles threat of 'digital extinction' (theguardian.com)
		61 points by bertzzie 4 hours ago \| hide \| 39 comments
7.		Shrinking the kernel with a hammer (lwn.net)
		7 points by rbanffy 42 minutes ago \| hide \| discuss
8.		First sustainable Lego pieces to go on sale (theguardian.com)
		21 points by vs2 2 hours ago \| hide \| 16 comments
9.		Norway Used NSA Technology for Potentially Illegal Spying (theintercept.com)
		132 points by georgecmu 3 hours ago \| hide \| 53 comments
10.		The Return of Software Vulnerabilities in the Brazilian Voting Machine (researchgate.net)
		59 points by vitorcoliveira 5 hours ago \| hide \| 2 comments
11.		When CEOs’ Equity Is About to Vest, They Cut Investment to Boost the Stock Price (hbr.org)
		64 points by joeyespo 1 hour ago \| hide \| 15 comments
12.		Scale API is hiring engineers and ML practitioners (scaleapi.com)
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13.		Go best practices, six years in (2016) (bourgon.org)
		189 points by metmirr 5 hours ago \| hide \| 34 comments
14.		Uber, Lyft Drivers Earning a Median Profit of $3.37 per Hour, Study Says (npr.org)
		176 points by javabank 5 hours ago \| hide \| 159 comments
15.		UCLA introductory programming classes should focus more on Python, not C++ (dailybruin.com)
		40 points by hongeez 2 hours ago \| hide \| 45 comments
16.		All HTTP-based services unresponsive (bitbucket.org)
		44 points by artf 1 hour ago \| hide \| 35 comments
17.		A researcher’s tale of defeating traps, tricks, and complex virtual machines (microsoft.com)
		8 points by okket 1 hour ago \| hide \| discuss
18.		Burning Out: What Really Happens Inside a Crematorium (popularmechanics.com)
		24 points by aaronbrethorst 3 hours ago \| hide \| 14 comments
19.		The man who bottled evolution (msu.edu)
		20 points by ramgorur 3 hours ago \| hide \| 5 comments
20.		Cruel and Unusual: The Story of Leandro Andrade (2003) [pdf] (duke.edu)
		18 points by dictum 3 hours ago \| hide \| 1 comment
21.		Sortix: small self-hosting operating-system/clean and modern Posix implementation (sortix.org)
		47 points by ingve 6 hours ago \| hide \| 8 comments
22.		How Modern Art Serves the Rich (newrepublic.com)
		171 points by prismatic 10 hours ago \| hide \| 117 comments
23.		Show HN: WebGL Demo in ReasonML (emnh.github.io)
		53 points by hvidevold 7 hours ago \| hide \| 36 comments
24.		Prepared for Bumps, the Met Starts Charging Non-New Yorkers (nytimes.com)
		5 points by kevinyen 1 hour ago \| hide \| 1 comment
25.		Bitcoin faces regulatory crackdown, Bank of England warns (theguardian.com)
		27 points by oldcynic 1 hour ago \| hide \| 18 comments
26.		Machine Learning Crash Course (developers.google.com)
		1625 points by matant 1 day ago \| hide \| 204 comments
27.		Contributing to OpenMined: Summing up 3 months with the community (metaflow.fr)
		48 points by morgangiraud 3 hours ago \| hide \| 4 comments
28.		Voyages in sentence space (robinsloan.com)
		56 points by bkudria 10 hours ago \| hide \| 11 comments
29.		AI Cheats at Old Atari Games by Finding Unknown Bugs in the Code (theverge.com)
		139 points by mtuncer 6 hours ago \| hide \| 34 comments
30.		Takeaways from Nassim Taleb's New Book “Skin in the Game” (nuggetsofthought.com)
		60 points by eric_cartman 2 hours ago \| hide \| 33 comments
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