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31.		Causality in machine learning (unofficialgoogledatascience.com)
		127 points by maverick_iceman on Feb 1, 2017 \| 65 comments
32.		How Australia is stubbing out smoking (bbc.com)
		123 points by happy-go-lucky on Feb 1, 2017 \| 317 comments
33.		Living a Meaningful Life (bbc.com)
		146 points by bootload on Feb 1, 2017 \| 39 comments
34.		Dolphin Progress Report: January 2017 (dolphin-emu.org)
		112 points by dEnigma on Feb 1, 2017 \| 11 comments
35.		Fake News Challenge (fakenewschallenge.org)
		195 points by phreeza on Feb 1, 2017 \| 220 comments
36.		The dipole repeller (nature.com)
		78 points by perseusprime11 on Feb 1, 2017 \| 61 comments
37.		HTTPS adoption has reached the tipping point (troyhunt.com)
		131 points by dhotson on Feb 1, 2017 \| 83 comments
38.		Layoffs Taboo, Japan Workers Are Sent to the Boredom Room (2013) (nytimes.com)
		97 points by milankragujevic on Feb 1, 2017 \| 174 comments
39.		Reuters' position on covering Trump (reuters.com)
		328 points by anjalik on Feb 1, 2017 \| 244 comments
40.		Java 9 Enters First Bug Fixing Round (infoq.com)
		61 points by youknownothing on Feb 1, 2017 \| 52 comments
41.		[dupe] George Orwell – Politics and the English Language (1946) (orwell.ru)
		75 points by samaysharma on Feb 1, 2017 \| 21 comments
42.		Mechanical Turk Lessons Learned (curalate.com)
		90 points by kmano8 on Feb 1, 2017 \| 81 comments
43.		The Making of Future Man (nybooks.com)
		30 points by benbreen on Jan 31, 2017
44.		Ask HN: Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift, etc – how do you deploy your products?
		135 points by BloodKnight9923 on Feb 1, 2017 \| 114 comments
45.		Quantum Bayesianism (wm.edu)
		43 points by abrax3141 on Feb 1, 2017 \| 13 comments
46.		LibreOffice 5.3.0 (documentfoundation.org)
		73 points by ronjouch on Feb 1, 2017 \| 31 comments
47.		Republicans move to sell off 3.3m acres of national land, sparking rallies (theguardian.com)
		103 points by tim_sw on Feb 1, 2017 \| 72 comments
48.		Google Is Battling a Russian Spammer Over the Use of the Letter 'G' (vice.com)
		52 points by bloomca on Feb 1, 2017 \| 58 comments
49.		Show HN: SECCOMP – A Secure Spreadsheet (calctopia.com)
		34 points by davidcerezo on Feb 1, 2017 \| 51 comments
50.		Supporting civic engagement with paid time off (fauna.com)
		54 points by jchrisa on Feb 1, 2017 \| 39 comments
51.		Why some software companies still make you talk to a salesperson (reifyworks.com)
		47 points by mrbbk on Jan 31, 2017 \| 58 comments
52.		Ask HN: When and how should I release my open source tool?
		51 points by flaque on Feb 1, 2017 \| 14 comments
53.		Ask HN: How to answer properly “Why we should hire you” question?
		99 points by neurobot on Feb 1, 2017 \| 119 comments
54.		Silicon Valley is making plans to move foreign-born workers to Canada (techcrunch.com)
		65 points by sply on Jan 31, 2017 \| 68 comments
55.		Troubling chemicals found in wide range of fast-food wrappers (theverge.com)
		39 points by happy-go-lucky on Feb 1, 2017 \| 69 comments
56.		[flagged] Peter Thiel bought his NZ citizenship, documents show (theintercept.com)
		76 points by kafkaesq on Feb 1, 2017 \| 93 comments
57.		1 Funded Immigrant Founder = 159 U.S. Jobs (fundersclub.com)
		63 points by Gaussian on Feb 1, 2017 \| 17 comments
58.		[flagged] New Zealand Is ‘the Future,’ Peter Thiel Said in His Push for Citizenship (nytimes.com)
		68 points by wiredfool on Feb 1, 2017 \| 61 comments
59.		[flagged] Martian Immigration Nightmare (zarkonnen.itch.io)
		54 points by tomjakubowski on Feb 1, 2017 \| 15 comments
60.		[flagged] NHS staff trigger Google cyber-defences (theregister.co.uk)
		30 points by happy-go-lucky on Feb 1, 2017 \| 17 comments
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