• Police Warn People Overdosing On Synthetic Meth Made From Wasp Spray...

• Cops: Colombian drug smuggler had cocaine hidden under towering toupee...

• NKorea warns it may start testing missiles again...

• How Kim Gets His Luxury Cars...

• Neighbors Face Off Over Texas' Other Lucrative Resource: Water...

• LeBron James Jr. Is 14. He Already Draws Curious Crowds...

• Robbers' New Weapon: Fake Marijuana To Make Victims Pass Out...

• HEATWAVE BUILDS IN NORTHEAST...

• Congress orders Pentagon to reveal if it used diseased ticks for biological warfare...

• STUDY: Petting Dog, Cat Lowers Stress...

• UBERLYFT pays drivers to protest bill making them employees...

• Tech giants on defensive at antitrust hearing...

• GOOGLE attacked over rule that limits internet company liability...

• INSTAGRAM Fights To Remove Bloodied Images Of Murdered Teen Influencer...

• MAYOR PETE LEADS DEM FUNDRAISING...

• Trump Reunited the Democrats to Further His Narrative.

• Donald Trump's Stupid Smart Attack on 'the Squad'

• Mexico's Not Paying for Wall. It Has Become Trump's Wall.

• Dems Losing the American Middle Due to Border Crisis

• Inside Trump's Feud With Paul Ryan

• Democrats Can Delay Mueller Hearings, but It Won't Help

• Google Isn't Biased, Doesn't Censor Conservative Speech

• Biased Big Tech Discriminates Against Pro-Life Message

• Trump Inspires House Democratic Unity--Was That His Goal?

• It's Beyond Debate That Trump's Sunday Tweets Were Racist

• Will Racial Identity Politics Destroy Democratic Party?

• Am I an American?

• Trump's Immigration Deal With Mexico Is Working

• Republicans Are Ready to Dive Off a Cliff on Obamacare

• Three Obamacare Myths That Refuse to Die

Hacker News

Links for the intellectually curious, ranked by readers.

• Bitmovin (YC S15) Hires a Video Solutions Architect / Software Engineer in Brazil

• Balloons 60,000ft over Peru

• How to Find Hidden Cameras in Your Airbnb

• Ballista: Distributed Compute with Rust, Apache Arrow, and Kubernetes

• Neuralink Live Stream [video]

• Show HN: Turn your fzf into a live REPL

• Going Down the Pipes (1996)

• The PGP Problem

• Film of Inside the Ilford Factory to See How B&W Film Is Made

• Deadly Cargo Still Rides the Rails

• Declined Proposal: A built-in Go error check function, “try”

• Inaccurate chart led to unwarranted fears of 5G wireless technology

• Cobol Still Powers the Global Economy

• Ask HN: How to deal with constantly getting cut off in work discussions?

• What every computer science major should know (2011)

• Iran denies Pompeo’s announcement

• Pompeo: Iran is ready for the first time to discuss its missile program

• MK Shelly Yachimovich quits politics

• Iran-Syria rift: Tehran calls on Assad to explain his contacts with “Iran’s enemies”

• Khamenei threatens to punish the UK for “piracy”

• Missing UAE tanker suspected taken to Iranian port

• EU calls Iran’s nuclear pact breaches “insignificant.” DEBKAfile: US & Iran testing ground for talks

• New Iranian drone delivery to Syria – report

• Secret deal with Israel rescues Palestinian Authority from economic collapse

• Rouhani: If US sanctions lifted, talks can begin

Daily Alert by the JCPA

Prepared for the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations

• Iranian "Bomb Boat" Found in Path of British Warship Sailing to Gulf

• Comparisons of Police Shooting in Israel with U.S. Are Dishonest and Unhelpful

• Insurance Rates Increase 10-Fold after Attacks on Oil Tankers in Strait of Hormuz

• Two More F-35 Planes Land in Israel, Bringing Total to 16

• EU Says Iran Exceeding Nuclear Deal Limits Is "Not Significant"

• European Academic Association Bends to the Will of the Anti-Israel BDS Movement

• U.S., Israel Monitor Iranian Military Base in Syria

• Israeli President on State Visit to South Korea

• Israeli NGO Asks to Seize Iranian Oil Tanker in Gibraltar to Compensate Terror Victims

• Appeasing Iran Isn't an Option

• In Iran, Some Women Take Off Their Hijabs

• Rising Anti-Arab Hate Reported in Turkey

• U.S. Education Secretary: Campus Efforts to Boycott Israel Are a "Pernicious Threat"

• Can Ilhan Omar Overcome Her Prejudice?

• Sustainable development will falter without data

• A saga of extinction, Tesla in his time, and explorations under the surface of skin: Books in brief

• From the archive

• Going organic for a better camera

• Diversity and international collaboration should not become casualties of anti-espionage policies

• How fast is the Universe expanding? Cosmologists just got more confused

• Royal Society president stands up for Chinese scientists in the United States

• Explosions, floods and hurricanes: dealing with a lab disaster

• Farmers need independent and holistic advice

• Daily briefing: Leonardo da Vinci’s voracious explorations of fluid dynamics

• Leonardo da Vinci’s laboratory: studies in flow

• AI solves the Rubik’s cube

• Engineered bacterium fuels evolution debate

• Author Correction: Genomic characterization of metastatic breast cancers

• Scientists must boost input into Sustainable Development Goals

• Sudan’s military council, opposition coalition agree political accord

• Iranian bread permanent guest at Kuwaiti tables

• Adelkhah’s arrest risks increasing tension between Paris and Tehran

• UK to send third warship to Gulf

• Could foreign Daesh suspects be tried in northeast Syria?

• Palestinian refugees protest Lebanese Labor Ministry restrictions

• Donald Trump tells Iran to ‘get out of Yemen’

• France, Britain, Egypt, UAE, United States, Italy call for immediate end of hostilities in Libya

• US ‘suspects’ Iran seized UAE-based oil tanker in Strait of Hormuz

• 13 killed as minibus plunges into gorge in Iran

A quarterly magazine of urban affairs, published by the Manhattan Institute, edited by Brian C. Anderson.

• Bring Back Boomtown

  New York needs to think like a growth city again.

• In Defense of Houses

  Single-family homes are the backbone of American aspiration—so why do so many people oppose them?

• Dark Days Ahead?

  Saturday night’s Manhattan blackout could be a harbinger of things to come.

• Our James Harden Economy

  Wins without broader benefits, in sports and in the marketplace

• Giving In to Big Corn

  Consumers will suffer the hangover from the feds’ ethanol binge.

• What works of art define our age? The New York Times asks artists and critics an impossible question

• Iris Murdoch has fallen out of fashion, but her work is worth retrieving as a moral philosophy with a steely-eyed suspicion of intellectual confidence

• We flinch in the face of the Bible's misery and violence, chauvinism and misogyny, idealism and generosity, forgiveness and humaneness

• Bob Dylan fans can be insufferable obsessives, with a surfeit of trivia and a dearth of understanding. What about Dylan scholars?

• Big books remind us how hard the work of understanding can be. Aphorisms offer "a micro-model of empirical inquiry"

• Defense of the hipster. The mid-2000s aesthetic is much loathed, but its critics miss a crucial point: Even superficial movements matter

• Arson, self-mutilation, vandalism, perhaps even terrorism — Pyotr Pavlensky’s guerrilla art has landed him in jail. If that won’t stop him, what will?

• Elon Musk’s Neuralink shows how we could connect brains to computers

• Instagram under fire over gory images of murdered teen Bianca Devins

• Donald Trump’s new EU foil: another ‘strong female German leader’

• Jailed British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe taken to psychiatric ward

• Accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein says phoney passport was to fend off hijackers

• Did US military turn ticks into secret bioweapons?

• Nato silent as six secret locations of US nuclear weapons in Europe accidentally revealed in report

• Busted: inside the fake Ferrari factory that sold ‘Shamborghinis’ for US$45,000

• Donald Trump denies being racist as House condemns tweets in extraordinary rebuke

• Flushing drugs down toilet could create dangerous ‘meth-gators’, US police warn

Brain candy for Happy Mutants

• Drug smuggler busted with half a kilo of cocaine under his bad toupée

• Many of the key Googler Uprising organizers have quit, citing retaliation from senior management

• Watch CBS News coverage of the Apollo 11 moon launch from 50 years ago today

• Turn your drone into a flying flamethrower

• Florida homes invaded by scurrying onslaught of land crabs

• Did the US try to weaponize ticks?

• VIDEO: Activists vow to 'shut down' ICE headquarters in Washington, DC

• Onion becomes reality: '82-Year-Old New Jersey Congressman Bill Pascrell Quietly Asks Ilhan Omar If He Can Be Part Of The Squad'

• Did Donald Trump's racist tweets violate federal laws against workplace discrimination?

• Kickstarting "The Decline of Mall Civilization," a sequel to the long-out-of-print "Malls Across America" book

• How F Scott Fitzgerald conjugated the verb "To cocktail"

• Great deal on a 6.5-inch Lodge cast iron skillet

• When Trump's #TaxScam meant that affluent people no longer had to use the paid version of Turbotax, Turbotax started charging poor people, disabled people, students and elderly people

• How Wechat censors images in private chats

• Pessoa, *Philosophical Essays*

• That was then, this is now

• Foreign exchange and correspondent banking bleg

• What is the America-China trade war all about?

• Tuesday assorted links

• India’s Tallest Building Cut Down To Size

• The health care public option in Washington state

• William Darity Jr. and Darrick Hamilton advising the Democratic Party

• Han Kuo-yu has won the Kuomintang primary in Taiwan

• British naval commanders were somewhat rational in avoiding battles

• Some points from Peter Thiel (?)

• Monday assorted links

• What is an optimal number of Pamplona bull gorings?

• Sunday assorted links

• Compensating Kidney Donors

Designer News

Where the design community meets.

• Find Elements With Link Text & Partial Link Text In Selenium

• Is There Such a Thing as a 10x Product Manager?

• Really Good Emails 2.0

• StarWars voxel ships – free download

• Improve Your Email Campaigns with These Fantastic Tools

• Intro to SVG and GreenSock Animations

• Figma Users: How do you handle micro-animations (without hard files)?

• Editor Squire by Baron Fig

• Extending atomic design

• 8 simple UI design tricks for more dynamics in static prototypes

• Zombie Invasion! Animated GIF zombie theme, any feedback is welcome :)

• The Evolution of UI/UX and the Rise of Product Design

• How Are Smart Devices and Technology Changing Browsing Behavior?

• How come everybody loves to hate self-checkouts?

• UX Design Process: Choosing & Scaling Methods

Rumors and news on everything Apple since 1997

• YouTuber reveals iPhone 11 models, claims few changes

• DOJ asks appeals court to pause enforcement of Qualcomm antitrust ruling

• Hands on: The 2019 MacBook Air is a bargain, but SSD speeds fall

• Two Apple ads get nominations for Outstanding Commercial Emmys

• Apple previews 'holding hands,' other emoji updates planned for this fall

• Video demonstrates Hackintosh potential, but still isn't the Mac Pro

• Apple may fund original podcasts exclusive to its own services

• DuckDuckGo announces new Apple MapKit fueled search improvements

• Amazon quietly knocks up to $350 off Apple's latest 12.9-inch iPad Pros

• Review: Moment's new bags are great for photographers & non-photographers alike

• Apple distributes seventh iOS 12.4, sixth watchOS 5.3 developer betas

• Apple seeds fourth developer beta of macOS 10.15 Catalina

Opinions on corporate and brand identity work.

• Spotted: New Logo for Royal Military College of Canada Athletics

• Spotted: New Logo and Identity for First National Bank of Manchester by Austin McKinney

• Linked: Reimagining Pepsi

• Noted: New Logo and Packaging for Omura by Safari Sundays

• Reviewed: New Logo, Identity, and Packaging for The Flower Collective by Cast Iron Design

• Linked: Opening at Matchstic

• Spotted: New Logo for Yext

• Spotted: New Logo and Identity for Big Nerd Ranch by Matchstic

• Linked: Bird Misrepresentation

• Noted: New Logo and Identity for Cheetah by Moving Brands

• Reviewed: New Logo and Identity for FAO Schwarz by Mattson Creative

• Spotted: New Logo and Packaging for ColaCao by Batllegroup

• Linked: Hot Takes on 2020 Candidate Logos

• Noted: New Logo and Identity for UPL OpenAg by Venturethree

• Reviewed: Friday Likes 292: From Office of SPGD, Blok Design, and Marina Goñi Estudio

Biting the hand that feeds IT

• Turning it off and on again IN SPAAACE! ISS animal-tracker kit needs oldest trick in the book

• Brit consumers still holding off on buying new PCs until that Brexit thing is over and done with

• Share your story: Continuous Lifecycle 2020 call for papers is open NOW – what are you waiting for?

• Bad news: Earth is not going to be walloped by asteroid 2006 QV89. Good news: Boffins have lost sight of it, so all hope is not yet lost

• Chrome on, baby, don't fear The Reaper: Plugin sends CPU-hogging browser processes to hell where they belong

• Experts: No need to worry about Europe's GPS satellites going dark for days. Also: What the hell is going on with those satellites?!

• If malware wants to bury deep inside your Lenovo or Gigabyte servers, they can just ask Vertiv's insecure BMC firmware

• It was totally Samsung's fault that crims stole your personal info from a Samsung site, says Samsung-blaming Sprint

• Let's open the Mystery Data Security Blunder box, and see what's inside today... Ah! Hotel reservations and more

• Google nuked tech support ads to kill off scammers. OK. It also blew away legit repair shops. Not OK at all

• SpaceX reveals chain of events that caused the unplanned disassembly of Crew Dragon capsule

• Awkward! Bernie tells Bezos-sponsored event he'd break up Amazon and other tech titans

experiments in refactored perception

• Mediocratopia: 6

  My philosophy of mediocrity really started coming together last week, in the form of two tweets. First, a graph attributed to artist Marc Dalessio floated by my feed and I tweeted this modified and annotated version: Second, a passing tweet by me seemed helpful enough to people that I did a double-take myself to see […]

• Pleasure as an Organizing Principle

  The organizing principle of the modern world is pain.  Avoiding it, yes. But also trading in it, taking refuge in it, and using it to justify our actions. Pain has so many uses. Why would you ever give up such a versatile tool? We trade in pain when we use it to bargain for progress. […]

• Predictable Identities: 13 – Totalizing Ideologies

  Every philosophy tries to become an all-encompassing totalizing ideology, a process that ultimately brings misery.

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