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Cases of COVID-19 in New Brunswick being found less frequently than in other provinces Mother stands by decision to name daycare with positive COVID-19 case And now more winter. Up to 25 cm could blanket the province Thursday Person barricaded with weapon inside Fredericton residence taken into custody N.B. COVID-19 roundup: Testing expands to include people with symptoms who have not travelled COVID-19 task force struck after memo warning of 'excessive use' of masks took 2 weeks to send Higgs 'comfortable' province will have supplies it needs to deal with COVID-19 Organigram lays off 400 workers, cites COVID-19 pandemic Moncton council OKs rezoning for school, but with conditions for province Saint John losing hotel levies, bus fares, parking revenue Toughing it out: Small communities take on COVID-19 challenges Pandemic pushes Moncton toward multi-million deficit, staff aim to avoid tax hike Cape Breton woman in her 70s is Nova Scotia's first death related to COVID-19 COVID-19 prompts ban on at-sea observers from Canadian fishing vessels Court denies request for judge-alone hearing for accused Fredericton shooter Matthew Raymond 295,000 surgical masks from U.S. 'on hold' because of Trump order N.B. COVID-19 roundup: Non-medical masks now recommended for citizens in public New COVID-19 testing drive-thru opens in Moncton Coliseum Celebrating the life of Saint John elder Sheila Croteau, who died in weekend house fire Fredericton daycare has confirmed case of COVID-19
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Hacker News
Jax – Composable transformations of Python and NumPy programs (comments) Show HN: FalsiScan – Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned (comments) A music discovery site used in over 1M videos and games (comments) HPE sets end date for hobbyist licenses for OpenVMS (comments) Zoom sued for overstating, not disclosing privacy, security flaws (comments) Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand? (2007) [pdf] (comments) A Static Future: The magic of compile-time workflows (comments) Mosh (comments) Moving from ReCAPTCHA to HCAPTCHA (comments) Is Firebase Down? (comments) Adding Mainline Arm Frame Buffer Compression Support for Rockchip (comments) Fingerprint Cloning: Myth or Reality? (comments) Natural number game (comments) Toilet paper, hand sanitizer. And now web cams (comments) Unverified.email (comments) Crafting Interpreters Is Complete (comments) We’re working on 1M Covid-19 testing capacity per day (comments) Show HN: A Showcase of OpenType Features (comments) Programming Servo: Workers at your Service (comments) Office noise generator (comments) Apple Faceshield (comments) Wolf Species Rebounds in Southwest (comments) Covid-19 Digital Rights Tracker (comments) Story of the Roku Player (2013) (comments) The art of the hermit (comments) ‘Amazing’ Math Bridge Extended Beyond Fermat’s Last Theorem (comments) Show HN: Rust Implementation of Conway's Game of Life (comments) Governments Introduce Surveillance Under Veil of Coronavirus Control (comments) A Little Clojure (comments)
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Long the Anonymous Cogs in Corporate America's Back Office, Work-From-Home Crises Have Put the IT Department in the Spotlight The Virus Changed the Way We Internet CFOs Looking To Make Remote Work, Telecommuting More Permanent Following COVID-19, Says Gartner Study US Children With COVID-19 Less Likely To Be Hospitalized Than Adults, CDC Study Finds NASA Astronaut's Estranged Wife Charged With Lying About Space Crime Allegation Easy-To-Pick 'Smart' Locks Gush Personal Data, FTC Finds Verizon Is Cancelling Home Internet Installations During the Pandemic Netflix Tightens Its Parental Controls for Cooped-Up Kids Taiwan Tells Agencies Not To Use Zoom On Security Grounds It's a 'Cold War Every Day' Inside Apple's IS&T Group Trump Threatens To Withhold Funding For World Health Organization WeWork Sues SoftBank In Intensifying Crisis Over Canceled $3 Billion Tender Offer Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Sets Aside $1 Billion In Square Equity For Coronavirus Relief PS5's Controller, the DualSense, Revealed Google Backs Apple's SMS OTP Standard Proposal
Paul Graham
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bit-player - by Brian Hayes
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Saint John - Weather - Environment Canada
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT , Saint John Persons in or near this area should be on the lookout for adverse weather conditions and take necessary safety precautions. Issued: 04:47 AM ADT Wednesday 08 April 2020 Current Conditions: Mainly Sunny, 4.7°C Observed at: Saint John Airport 11:00 AM ADT Wednesday 08 April 2020 Condition: Mainly Sunny Temperature: 4.7°C Pressure / Tendency: 100.4 kPa rising Visibility: 24.1 km Humidity: 37 % Dewpoint: -8.6°C Wind: N 15 km/h Air Quality Health Index: 2 Wednesday: Mainly sunny. High 6. Mainly sunny. High 6. UV index 5 or moderate. Forecast issued 11:00 AM ADT Wednesday 08 April 2020 Wednesday night: Clear. Low minus 8. Clear. Wind up to 15 km/h. Low minus 8. Wind chill minus 11 overnight. Forecast issued 11:00 AM ADT Wednesday 08 April 2020 Thursday: Chance of rain showers or flurries. High plus 4. POP 60% Increasing cloudiness. 60 percent chance of rain showers or flurries in the afternoon. Wind up to 15 km/h. High plus 4. Wind chill minus 5 in the morning. UV index 4 or moderate. Forecast issued 11:00 AM ADT Wednesday 08 April 2020 Thursday night: Snow or rain. Low minus 3. Snow or rain. Low minus 3. Forecast issued 11:00 AM ADT Wednesday 08 April 2020 Friday: Snow or rain. High plus 3. Snow or rain. High plus 3. Forecast issued 11:00 AM ADT Wednesday 08 April 2020 Friday night: Chance of flurries. Low minus 3. POP 60% Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. Low minus 3. Forecast issued 11:00 AM ADT Wednesday 08 April 2020 Saturday: A mix of sun and cloud. High plus 3. A mix of sun and cloud. High plus 3. Forecast issued 11:00 AM ADT Wednesday 08 April 2020 Saturday night: Cloudy periods. Low minus 3. Cloudy periods. Low minus 3. Forecast issued 11:00 AM ADT Wednesday 08 April 2020 Sunday: A mix of sun and cloud. High 8. A mix of sun and cloud. High 8. Forecast issued 11:00 AM ADT Wednesday 08 April 2020 Sunday night: Cloudy periods. Low zero. Cloudy periods. Low zero. Forecast issued 11:00 AM ADT Wednesday 08 April 2020 Monday: Showers. High 8. Showers. High 8. Forecast issued 11:00 AM ADT Wednesday 08 April 2020 Monday night: Rain. Low plus 4. Rain. Low plus 4. Forecast issued 11:00 AM ADT Wednesday 08 April 2020 Tuesday: Chance of showers. High 9. POP 60% Cloudy with 60 percent chance of showers. High 9. Forecast issued 11:00 AM ADT Wednesday 08 April 2020