top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-03-14

Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/opinion/why-i-am-leaving-goldman-sachs.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

14 years ago

896 upvotes – 249 comments

Dear "Landlord"

http://raganwald.posterous.com/dear-landlord

14 years ago

325 upvotes – 148 comments

Man finds his way home using Google Earth - after 25 years

http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2012/03/10/308081_tasmania-news.html

14 years ago

275 upvotes – 67 comments

88% there: "Don't Mess With The Internet" billboard in Lamar Smith's district

https://www.crowdtilt.com/campaigns/dont-mess-with-the-internet-billboard-in-lamar-smiths-home-district#openinternet

14 years ago

274 upvotes – 57 comments

Django's future, and Python 3

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2012/mar/13/py3k/

14 years ago

243 upvotes – 75 comments

Arch Linux turns 10

http://www.archlinux.org/news/arch-linux-turns-10/

14 years ago

227 upvotes – 83 comments

Peter Norvig to teach 'Design of Computer Programs' at Udacity

http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs212

14 years ago

194 upvotes – 51 comments

The Markdown Mark by Dustin Curtis

http://dcurt.is/the-markdown-mark

14 years ago

193 upvotes – 73 comments

Yammer CEO won't hire anyone from Yahoo who doesn't quit in next 60 days

http://venturebeat.com/2012/03/14/yammer-ceo-says-he-wont-hire-anyone-from-yahoo-who-doesnt-quit-in-next-60-days/

14 years ago

188 upvotes – 192 comments

No, really, pi is wrong: The Tau Manifesto

http://tauday.com/tau-manifesto

14 years ago

186 upvotes – 110 comments

Learning From Data - Online Course

http://work.caltech.edu/telecourse.html

14 years ago

175 upvotes – 45 comments

Milk Inc. to shut down Oink on March 31st

http://www.oink.com

14 years ago

173 upvotes – 136 comments

Double Fine Adventure Kickstarter finishes at $3,335,250

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/66710809/double-fine-adventure/?

14 years ago

172 upvotes – 48 comments

Intro to Data Science at UC Berkeley taught by Jeff Hammerbacher

http://datascienc.es/schedule/

14 years ago

165 upvotes – 24 comments

Blueseed: Visa-free startup platform on a ship 30 minutes from Silicon Valley

http://www.slideshare.net/Blueseed/blueseed-visafree-startup-incubator-on-a-ship-12-miles-from-silicon-valley

14 years ago

140 upvotes – 99 comments

Copyright wars heat up: US wins extradition of college kid from England

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/copyright-wars-heat-up-us-wins-extradition-of-college-kid-from-england.ars?comments=1#comments-bar

14 years ago

140 upvotes – 67 comments

European Parliament Blocks Copyright Reform With 113% Voter Turnout

http://falkvinge.net/2012/03/14/european-parliament-blocks-copyright-reform-with-113-voter-turnout/

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 13 comments

Minix 3.2.0: One step closer to the promise of highly reliable OS

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/minix3/LZvqtjhMTas/7kDbH7PYoUYJ

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 87 comments

Efficiently Browsing Text or Code (esp. with Emacs)

http://www.kirubakaran.com/articles/efficiently-browsing-text-or-code.html

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 49 comments

An Anti-Reverse Engineering Guide

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/30815/An-Anti-Reverse-Engineering-Guide

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 56 comments

Developer Tools in Firefox 11 - 3D DOM Inspector and Live Style Editor

http://browserfame.com/385/firefox-developer-tools-style-css-editor

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 27 comments

Pinterest founder kept going to avoid embarassment of failure

http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/13/tech/web/pinterest-sxsw/index.html?

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 13 comments

FBI, stumped by pimp's Android pattern lock, serves warrant on Google

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/fbi-stumped-by-pimps-androids-pattern-lock-serves-warrant-on-google.ars

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 75 comments

The Economics of Anime

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2012-03-05

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 33 comments

Natural: Natural Language Processing in Node JS

https://github.com/NaturalNode/natural

14 years ago

★ 10.8k JavaScript MIT
85 upvotes – 23 comments

Go 1 Release Candidate 1

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-nuts/mHyYDSynkPk/9uB-FY9KXngJ

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 70 comments

How to Avoid Being Pushed Out of the Company You Founded

http://www.betabeat.com/2012/03/14/defoundering-naveen-selvadurai-foursquare/?show=all

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 23 comments

Guide to YC now available as a free download on Hyperink

http://www.hyperink.com/Guide-To-Yc-b1093

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 11 comments

Firefox in 2011 – Firefox plans for 2012

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/03/firefox-in-2011-firefox-plans-for-2012/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 18 comments

Chrome shows off recent additions: web components, remote android debug, & more

http://www.chromium.org/developers/meet-the-web-platform-companion

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 10 comments

Everywhere I've Been in the last 3 years - GPS points

https://geoloqi.com/blog/2012/03/data-portraits-powered-by-3-5-years-of-data-and-2-5-million-gps-points/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 11 comments

Lessons I've Learned as a Patient Building a Vision Most Said Was Crazy

http://crohnology.com/blog/12-believing-in-the-patient-revolution

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 18 comments

Elements of a Clean Web Design

http://sixrevisions.com/web_design/elements-clean-web-design/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 17 comments

"Order of the Stick" comic seeks $58K on KickStarter; raises $1.2M

http://singularityhub.com/2012/03/06/the-crowd-funding-phenomenon-continues-%E2%80%93-comic-raises-1-2m-on-kickstarter/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 20 comments

Pivotal Labs Acquired?

http://gigaom.com/2012/03/13/pivotal-labs-is-in-takeover-talks/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 17 comments

OpenCV vs. Matlab vs. SimpleCV

http://simplecv.tumblr.com/post/19307835766/opencv-vs-matlab-vs-simplecv

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 24 comments

Introducing key/value data storage in Heroku Postgres

https://postgres.heroku.com/blog/past/2012/3/14/introducing_keyvalue_data_storage_in_heroku_postgres/

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 4 comments

Ubuntu vs RHEL in enterprise computing

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1072

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 23 comments

The laser unprinter

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/122415-the-laser-unprinter

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 26 comments

Using event capturing to improve Basecamp page load times

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3137-using-event-capturing-to-improve-basecamp-page-load-times

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 23 comments

Can someone please stop the infographic madness?

http://om.co/2012/03/12/can-someone-please-stop-the-infographic-madness/

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 15 comments

Stuff Richard Stallman Said on the Linux Action Show

http://lunduke.com/?p=2273

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 59 comments

Looking to Get Creative? Leave the Echo Chamber. Drink. Skip SxSW.

http://www.entrepreneursunpluggd.com/blog/skip-sxs

14 years ago

45 upvotes – 31 comments

The Best Time to Submit to HN Is...

http://hnpickup.appspot.com/

14 years ago

44 upvotes – 13 comments

Chromium DNS performance

https://plus.google.com/103382935642834907366/posts/FKot8mghkok

14 years ago

44 upvotes – 21 comments

WAT Driven Development

http://jrom.net/wat-driven-development

14 years ago

44 upvotes – 19 comments

It’s time to start paying for Android updates

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/122395-its-time-to-start-paying-for-android-updates

14 years ago

43 upvotes – 39 comments
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