Chinese developers fear the tech war will cost them access to GitHub

Chinese developers fear the tech war will cost them access to GitHub

“For developers, source code is a very important resource,” said Liu Chen, director of operations for Open Source China (OSChina), which calls itself the largest open source community in China. Chinese developers say restricting GitHub would hurt open source communities everywhere. According to Chinese developer Duzy Chan, who has a long history developing open source software on GitHub, government restrictions won’t stop open source development.

Source: www.abacusnews.com

Hybridogenesis in Water Frogs

Hybridogenesis in Water Frogs

esculentus (mostly RL genome), which is a hybridogenetic hybrid of the marsh frog P. ridibundus (RR) and the pool frog P. lessonae (LL), usually excludes the lessonae genome (L) and generates gametes of the P. ridibundus (R). Their mating patterns are classified into several hybridogenetic systems:[2]

All these hybrids contain genome of marsh frog P. ridibundus (R) and genome of second parental species (L, P or B). esculentus (genotype RL) exclude here the P. ridibundus (R) or P. lessonae (L) genome in a 3:1 ratio and make mainly clonal P. lessonae (L), less P. ridibundus gametes (R).

Source: en.wikipedia.org

Why I’m still using jQuery in 2019

Why I’m still using jQuery in 2019

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Many people advocate “just use vanilla JavaScript, you don’t need jQuery”. Pages like You might not need jQuery try to sell the idea that it’s easy to ditch jQuery, but the very first example is a good reason to use jQuery: one line of trivial jQuery code gets replaced with 10 lines of vanilla JS code! Many common operations in the standard JavaScript APIs are awkward; I could include a list here, but that You might not need jQuery (YMNJQ) page actually does a pretty good job at it

You will still need helper functions for various common tasks.

Source: arp242.net

Half of US stock fund assets are now invested in index funds

Half of US stock fund assets are now invested in index funds

It’s (almost) official: Passive funds have just about reached parity with actively managed ones in the US stock market. Investors have put $4.305 trillion into passive US stock market funds as of April 30, only $6 billion shy of the $4.311 trillion overseen by active US equity funds, according to a Morningstar report. Passive fund managers can still make money in multiple ways, such as by cross-selling other products to customers, including higher-fee passive funds that track an innovative index, such as so-called smart beta or factor investing products.

Source: qz.com

The Books of College Libraries Are Turning into Wallpaper

The Books of College Libraries Are Turning into Wallpaper

When Yale recently decided to relocate three-quarters of the books in its undergraduate library to create more study space, the students loudly protested. In a passionate op-ed in the Yale Daily News, one student accused the university librarian—who oversees 15 million books in Yale’s extensive library system—of failing to “understand the crucial relationship of books to education.” Buried in a slide deck about circulation statistics from Yale’s library was an unsettling fact: There has been a 64 percent decline in the number of books checked out by undergraduates from Bass Library over the past decade.

Source: www.theatlantic.com

An experiment shows how to rebuild human compassion

An experiment shows how to rebuild human compassion

In Palo Alto, the nation’s tech epicenter, the number of homeless people has increased by a staggering 26 percent in the past two years, with higher concentrations of children and families among them. In 2007, humanity crossed a remarkable line: For the first time, more people lived in cities than outside of them. At Stanford, Jeremy and I set out to investigate whether we could use immersive technology to make caring about forgotten people easier, more natural, or even inescapable.

Source: nautil.us

We found the source of the mystery signals at Parkes Radio Telescope

We found the source of the mystery signals at Parkes Radio Telescope

When astronomers look for pulses from astrophysical sources (like pulsars or FRBs) we use a few key features to tell the real signals apart from the noise of radio devices on Earth. The RFI monitor data, which hadn’t been available for previous peryton discoveries, revealed something important: at the time of each peryton event, there was also a period of radio emission at the frequency 2.5 GHz, out of the range we were observing with the telescope. We found that we could generate perytons in our data by simply having a direct line of sight between the microwave oven and the telescope receiver (without the telescope surface itself in the way) and stopping the microwave oven by opening the door.

Source: theconversation.com

Ask HN: I want to build a company. How can I work towards that while employed?

Ask HN: I want to build a company. How can I work towards that while employed?

– continue learning while on the job – prepare for interviews so that I can apply to companies that are friendly to side projects (stripe, gitlab, github and a bunch of other such companies. Please mention companies that are ok with remote workers and are side project friendly, even startups paying $30,000 work for me) – build side projects in my free time that demonstrate my skills – maybe participate in Pioneer.app tournaments so I can network – basically work on stuff that won’t become a company – once I get a job at a more side project friendly company, I’ll start working on my ideas. As you can see, it’s quite a shitty situation to not be able to pursue my side projects that could become companies, but it is what it is and I want to make the most of the next year or so.

Source: news.ycombinator.com